Tangible and “globally secure” assets attract investors during periods of economic and political uncertainty.
Tag - Timberland Investing
With rising interest rates and stubborn timber prices, investors in timberlands and timber REITs are asking about the durability of current...
Taxes matter in forestry (and in many other areas). And taxes confuse. Even Albert Einstein, the smartest guy most of us never met, said, “The...
Investors make, or don’t make, decisions on how to allocate capital and other resources based on their understanding of the current situation.
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election released the night owls in my iPhone. Once the election results were in, the emails started stacking up at 3 a.m...
Some markets are more important than others for timberland investors and forest managers. While timberland owners sell logs to mills that make poles...
Forecasting has achieved a somewhat mystical status. This is undeserved. High dependence on a third party forecast is simply an exercise in...
While the global implications of the British exit – “Brexit” – from the EU remain uncertain, it appears, at a minimum, to complicate trade between...
Led by the Weyerhaeuser/Plum Creek merger and Potlatch’s Q2 2016 timberland divestiture in Idaho, public timberland-owning REITs purchased and...
In 2015, the U.S. consumed about 50 billion board feet of lumber. Softwood lumber used to build homes and made from species such as pine, fir and...