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On February 28th, NCREIF – the National Council for Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries – sent out a note regarding a restatement of the Q4 2018 Timberland Property Index. Timberland investors, investment managers, and industry researchers and analysts (e.g. Forisk) often more…
This post contains an excerpt from the Q1 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly feature article. This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s Q1 2019 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Amanda Lang, Jack more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q1 2019 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Though U.S. housing slowed in the latter half of 2018, housing starts improved year-over-year in all market more…
This post introduces research covered in the Q1 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) and during the February 19th“Applied Forest Finance” course in Atlanta. One reliable way to underperform as an investor is to buy into funds, stocks or assets at more…
We don’t succeed in business or investing by falling in love with our own ideas. We profit through continuously and doggedly comparing our prior decisions to actual results in order to calibrate our “model” of how the world works and more…
Visitor traffic on the Forisk Blog increased 11% in 2018 over 2017, for a sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth. Thank you! Here are the top five posts from 2018, along with a few popular posts by topic: Forest Finance: more…
On September 24, 2018, China implemented additional tariffs on over 5,000 U.S. products worth $60 billion. The levies cover certain logs and chips at either a 5% or 10% rate. These tariffs were in retaliation to the 10% duty placed more…
When Mr. Market speaks, it’s not personal. Your business and investments either generate cash and earn profits, or they don’t. In timber and the forest products industry, the efficiency of how this message gets delivered varies up and down the more…
My first exposure to pallet manufacturing came while working as a harvest manager and log buyer for a pine sawmill in Barnesville, Georgia in the mid-1990s. While procuring pine logs for our mill, I often sold hardwood pallet logs to more…
Early in my wood procurement career, my friend and timber buyer Fred Voyles taught me that, as a forester buying logs for a mill, to really learn and have an impact, to improve a situation or reinforce an expectation, to more…