Phone calls and emails come in waves tied to worries about markets or exuberance related to investment opportunities. Recently, questions often focus...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Tangible and “globally secure” assets attract investors during periods of economic and political uncertainty.
With rising interest rates and stubborn timber prices, investors in timberlands and timber REITs are asking about the durability of current...
Taxes matter in forestry (and in many other areas). And taxes confuse. Even Albert Einstein, the smartest guy most of us never met, said, “The...
Forecasts of business and market conditions support a range of investment decisions in the timber and forest products industries.
Investors make, or don’t make, decisions on how to allocate capital and other resources based on their understanding of the current situation.
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election released the night owls in my iPhone. Once the election results were in, the emails started stacking up at 3 a.m...
Some markets are more important than others for timberland investors and forest managers. While timberland owners sell logs to mills that make poles...
Forecasting has achieved a somewhat mystical status. This is undeserved. High dependence on a third party forecast is simply an exercise in...
Forisk has built hundreds of market-specific, forward-looking models for timber prices, forest industry production, wood bioenergy capacities, and...