When we feel uncertain about a situation – where things are oscillating and bouncing and hard to control – we may look for and identify patterns in...
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.
Behavioral finance teaches us that we are prone to both emotional error and brilliant insight, and sometimes we confuse the two. For this reason...
Carbon is a nonmetallic chemical (atomic number 6) found in its impure form in soot and coal. Forest carbon refers to the carbon dioxide absorbed...
In 2020, the U.S. economy offered a smorgasbord of mixed signals. Crashing growth and demand in the second quarter led to a massive fiscal stimulus...
Our bottom-up understanding of the timberland transactions and forest industry capital investments tracked in the Forisk Market Bulletin depends on...
In the forest industry, managers and investors continue to balance short term production needs with long-term capital investment decisions. In late...
To track timberland transactions and forest industry capital investments in the U.S. and Canada for the Forisk Market Bulletin, we read press...
Each week, as part of our research for the Forisk Market Bulletin and Wood Fiber Review, our team communicates with dozens of forest industry...
In May 2020, Karen Langley reported on how shareholders in public firms, due to uncertainty about an economic recovery during the current coronavirus...
Generally, discount rates represent the sum of a benchmark “risk-free” rate and a risk “premium.” That means, in forest finance, timberland values...