Aim Forest Fund
Cork oak forestry and Verra-certified carbon credits platform in Portugal — fund-level terms and subscription status not publicly disclosed.
Managed by AIM To Invest (AIM Forest) · Rua Cova da Moura 2, 4th floor, 1350-117 Lisbon, Portugal
Key facts
For US investors
- US investors accepted
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- PFIC status
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- Annual QEF statements
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- IRA / 401(k) route
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No public information on US investor acceptance or PFIC/QEF reporting.
Fees & costs
Performance
No audited performance data is publicly available for this fund yet. We only show returns we can trace to fund reporting — never marketing projections presented as track record.
Documents
- Open
AIM Forest — natural capital platform website
Manager website · EN · accessed Jul 7, 2026
Data transparency
Researched Jul 7, 2026 · every fact carries its source
Still researching
- Minimum investment
- Management fee
- Performance fee
- Lock-up period
- Redemption frequency
- CMVM registration
- US investor acceptance
- Golden Visa eligibility
- ISIN
- Legal structure
- Inception date
- Fund term
- NAV frequency
- Hurdle rate
- Subscription fee
- Redemption fee
- Custodian
- Auditor
- Target return
- Distribution policy
- PFIC status
- QEF reporting
- IRA/401(k) eligibility
- Portfolio allocation
Sources
- 1AIM Forest — Natural Capital Platform, Cork Oak & Carbon Credits, Portugal — AIM Forest / AIM To Invest (manager), accessed Jul 7, 2026
- 2D7visa Golden Visa funds page — fund no longer listed as of this access (was in the seed-era 2026 table) — D7visa (aggregator), accessed Jul 7, 2026
Research summary
Compiled from the sources cited on this page — a factual summary, not a recommendation or rating.
AIM Forest positions itself as a natural-capital platform rather than a conventional fund: it acquires and operates cork oak estates in Portugal, monetising both FSC-certified cork production and Verra-certified carbon credits. The manager (AIM To Invest, Lisbon) reports €8M deployed across two estates totalling 680 hectares with more than 30,000 trees planted, and ambitions to scale to 5,000–10,000 hectares with a €40–50M portfolio.
As an investment product, almost nothing is publicly documented. The website discloses no minimum investment, fees, term, target return, CMVM registration or subscription status, and the fund only surfaced in our seed data via d7visa's 2026 Golden Visa table — a page that has since been restructured and no longer lists it. Whether a CMVM-regulated fund vehicle sits behind the platform could not be confirmed.
Golden Visa suitability is therefore unverifiable, and the strategy's reliance on rural land ownership could raise indirect-real-estate questions under the post-October 2023 rules. Treat this profile as a lead for direct due diligence with the manager, not as a vetted Golden Visa option.
Suited for
- ·Impact-oriented investors interested in Portuguese forestry and carbon markets who are prepared to do primary due diligence with the manager
- ·NOT currently recommendable for Golden Visa purposes without written confirmation of CMVM registration and eligibility
Risk factors
- ·No public evidence of CMVM fund registration; the vehicle's regulatory status is unclear
- ·Forestry returns depend on long biological cycles, cork prices and the volatile voluntary carbon credit market
- ·Land-based strategy may constitute indirect real-estate exposure under post-2023 Golden Visa rules
- ·No published terms (fees, term, liquidity, minimum) to evaluate
Listed for completeness, drawn from fund materials and public sources — not an assessment. How much weight any factor deserves depends on your own situation and risk appetite.
Frequently asked questions
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