Olly Hughes
The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Olly Hughes exemplifies the Steward archetype across this interview, consistently framing forestry leadership through the lens of long-term custodianship of both natural and financial capital. He repeatedly anchors his thinking in multi-decade timescales, explicitly advocating a shift from five-year to twenty-year planning horizons.
“Tony Dalwood, your chief executive, was actually an early guest on the Money Maze podcast last year and it's a quoted specialist alternative asset management group investing in forestry, housing, new energy and battery storage and appears to sit at the sweet spot of this real assets opportunity set that is being examined by investors, I g…”
“So we're a significant player. And the benefit of that is that it enables larger scale institutional investment tickets to stop becoming interested in allocating to, for example, the UK, to Europe where we're also active, Australia and New Zealand where we're also active to bring together those portfolios at scale, which becomes interesti…”
“So let's distill this investment proposition because if we think about it from capital allocated standpoint, those that have a long-term timeframe and are less concerned with liquidity can look at this with its correlation to GDP but how would you summarize the investment case so the investment case is summarized by the fact that what we…”
“And so certainly in my current life and my current existence where I'm also involved in the renewables side The business. I'm really pleased to say that we've started to do transactions in the renewables world which are subsidy free, which is really exciting.”
Money Maze Podcast: “Forestry Investing: Growth & Carbon Credits - Olly Hughes of Gresham House”
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