Forest carbon can affect timberland values to the extent that robust markets for carbon support reliable cash flows to investors. With wood, the...
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.
Investor Benjamin Graham, an early teacher to Warren Buffett, introduced the concept of Mr. Market in his 1949 book The Intelligent Investor. Mr...
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...
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...