Tangible and “globally secure” assets attract investors during periods of economic and political uncertainty.
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D. is President and Founder of Forisk Consulting, a forest industry, timber REIT, bioenergy and timber market research firm. Dr. Mendell has over fifteen years of operating, research, and consulting experience in forest business and finance. Mendell has published over sixty articles and two books on topics related to timber and timberland REITs and markets, forest business management and operations, and communication skills.
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...
In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. He found that trees do not grow on there; as a souvenir, he brought home a rock...