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What opportunities exist for “getting smart” in forest finance? I field versions of this question regularly from students seeking work in the timberland investment sector and from forestry professionals looking to broaden their skills and offerings to current clients. To more…
This post includes summary comments from Brooks Mendell’s presentation “Evaluating Overseas Timberland Investments and Discount Rates” given on September 20th, 2012 in Portland, Oregon at Who Will Own the Forest? Like NFL quarterbacks with respect to winning and losing football more…
A successful timber market analysis answers the question “what matters, and what does not, in this timber or wood raw material market?” While we care about forest inventories and supplies, wood demand and competition, and stumpage prices and forecasts, we more…
Regardless the policy mandates and investor interests, regional analysis of US bioenergy markets highlights how specific geographies provide superior access to raw material and infrastructure resources for supporting high growth investment opportunities. The costs associated with locating and building wood bioenergy more…
The costs associated with citing and building wood bioenergy projects can exceed those to build and operate natural gas or coal plants (in terms of dollars per unit of electricity output). As such, factors determining the success and failure of more…
From the desk of Amanda Lang, who attended and spoke at the Forest Landowner’s Association National Conference last week in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “Forest certification” generated lots of questions from those attending the 2012 Forest Landowner’s Association national meeting. more…
This is the second in a two-part series related to the analysis of wood baskets and timber markets for investments in forest industry mills, wood-using bioenergy projects and timberland. Part I of Wood Market Realities (Stumpage Price Paranoia) addressed real more…
This is the first in a two-part series related to the analysis of wood baskets and timber markets for investments in forest industry mills, wood-using bioenergy projects and timberland. When analyzing timber markets or wood baskets, paranoia regarding stumpage price more…
A fundamental mismatch exists between clean energy projects and venture capital funds. This conclusion, in a Harvard Business School working paper “Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector” by Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda, emphasized investor expectations of extraordinary more…
This is the third in a three-part series related to the financial performance, current trends and changing structure of the timberland investment sector. Newspaper headlines scream distractions. They make us forget that investments in timberland assets are somewhat insulated from more…