Recent comments by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Sheila Blair regarding regarding minimum down-payments of up to 20% for...
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.
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.
How can timber REITs leverage their available capital, given the fact that they must distribute, and cannot retain, earnings?
When tracking wood demand and timber markets, we look not only to the past and to the future for guidance, but we look to the side – peripherally –...
Timber REIT returns depend on strong demand from end-use markets for forest products such as lumber, plywood, pulp and OSB. This explains the...
Questions and comments regarding a study we published with the Schiamberg Group have focused on (1) why a given wood-using transportation fuel...
With uncertainty in Europe, tight credit markets and falling projections for demand for commercial office space and residential construction...
Producing a proper wood-derived biofuel follows a three-step recipe. One, grow trees. Two, break down wood from the trees into its components.
Our research and analysis of publicly-traded, timberland owning real estate investment trusts (REITs) tends to focus on the status of wood markets...