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Timber REITs in 2011: Big Decisions, Key Benchmarks and Final Results

Timber REITs in 2011: Big Decisions, Key Benchmarks and Final Results

Early in my investing career, I bought shares of Crown Pacific Partners, a timberland-owning firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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Farm Land For Sale - Opportunity Alert

Farm Land For Sale – Opportunity Alert

With the recent run-up in row-crop farmland prices, savvy investors should be looking to similar investments that offer many of the same benefits of crop land ownership, without the hefty price tag.

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FDIC

Potential Impacts on Timberland Investors from FDIC Proposals on Risk Retention and Mortgage Markets

Recent comments by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Sheila Blair regarding…

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Which Forest Industry Firms Use the Most Wood in the United States?

Which Forest Industry Firms Use the Most Wood in the United States?

The “80/20 rule” – also called the “Pareto principle” for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto – posits that approximately 80% of your results or effects derive…

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What about all the other land?

What about all the other land?

The amount of press farmland has received in the last year could fill a few bookshelves. It is amazing that a real estate category that typically turns over at rate of about 3% which is now turning at half that has so much exposure and analysis.

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