We learn by doing. This is true for learning to ride a bike, catch a boomerang, and conduct financial analysis. When analyzing current and potential...
Tag - Timberland Investing
According to Forest Finance Simplified, forest finance “is the language and analysis of managing forest resources as investments.” For investors and...
A central concept in conversations about timberland investments and in our annual Applied Forest Finance course relates to opportunity costs...
When localizing forest supplies, mill capacities, forest operations, and pricing, each timberland asset and market produce a unique profile. This...
Recently, I participated on a panel at a timberland investment conference about pulpwood markets in the U.S. South. While the region enjoys abundant...
Crop genes determine a plant’s interaction with the land and their environment (collectively their growing ‘site’). These genes impact the amount of...
Investors prefer assets that do not correlate with the stock market because they lower the risk of their entire portfolio. Uncorrelated assets...
While the US intensively managed timberland investment market is so active and competitive today, it is not really that old. If you went back 100...
Over the past 50 years, major shifts in the regional distribution of lumber capacity across North America followed from natural and legislated...
Land investment returns come from a variety of income streams: appreciation, commodity crop production, development / division, or land use upgrades...