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Managing the risk of forestry and timberland investments fits with the “circular flow of funds” approach to financial management, which focuses on two fiduciary objectives. One, raising and supplying the funds required for timber-related investments on favorable terms. Two, using more…
Institutional and individual investors often ask, “what is the difference between investing in timberlands directly and buying stock in publicly-traded timberland-owning real estate investment trusts (timber REITs)?” In brief, one is direct ownership of a hard asset while the other more…
Forisk’s market cap weighted FTR (“footer”) Index of publicly-traded, timberland-owning real estate investment trusts (timber REITs) fell 0.48% over the past week as Plum Creek (PCL), Potlatch (PCH), and Rayonier (RYN) released earnings information and absorbed new assessments from ratings more…