When analyzing timber markets or wood baskets, paranoia regarding stumpage price data may serve you well.
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Investments in publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs – Potlatch (PCH), Plum Creek (PCL), Rayonier (RYN) and Weyerhaeuser (WY) – have tremendous...
While trees continue to grow, timberland values and a trickle of wood bioenergy projects continue to fall. In the market, timberland investors...
As of April 5th, 2012, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs posted YTD returns of nearly 10%, according to the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index.
Timberland investors and REITs rely on continued demand for wood raw materials from forest product manufacturers to justify their investments in...
How many researchers does it take to change a light bulb? Actually, it just takes one, but you’ll have seven others standing around debating about...
Early in my investing career, I bought shares of Crown Pacific Partners, a timberland-owning firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
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 regarding minimum down-payments of up to 20% for...
The “80/20 rule” – also called the “Pareto principle” for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto – posits that approximately 80% of your results or...
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the rush of investors buying into publicly-traded real estate investment trusts.