Each week, as part of our research for the Forisk Market Bulletin and Wood Fiber Review, our team communicates with dozens of forest industry...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
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...
Forisk has tracked and aggregated timberland transaction and ownership data for fifteen years. The ownership data goes back 50 years and the...
In the current coronavirus pandemic and recessionary environment, do traditional reasons for holding timberland investments still apply? In a recent...
For those of us who prefer work over worry, how should we think productively about forest industry disruptions associated with the coronavirus? How...
In a February 2020 post related to timberlands and the coronavirus, I noted, in reference to U.S. Treasuries, that “a low risk-free rate expresses...
Timberland investment vehicles – whether public firms or private funds – vary in performance, liquidity and accessibility. How did these timber firms...
When I was growing up, my Mom taught me that she would be the most important woman in my life, until I married, at which point my wife would become...
At Forisk, our focus is operational, to better understand how things work, and forward-looking, to better help clients make decisions. In Q4 2019, we...