Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (1.3mb PDF) As a follow up to the interest generated by “Timberland Investments: A Primer,” Hong has written a new white paper entitled “An Introduction to Global Wood Product Markets and Trade for Timberland Investors.” This paper examines how timber moves up the value chain from [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (1.2mb PDF) Timberland and farmland are among the real asset categories that have garnered significant attention from investors. What makes an institutional investor choose farmland, timberland, or both? Given their similarities and key investment attributes, it can be challenging for an investor to decide which best [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (1.1mb PDF) In “A Look at the New NCREIF Timberland Fund and Separate Account Index (TFSAI)”, Chung-Hong Fu, TIR’s Director of Economic Research, provides insight on the new data that is now available to investors with the release of the NCREIF TFSAI Index. Until now, the [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (1.1mb PDF) As global interest in renewable energy grows, a string of new investments have been made in recent years in power and biofuel plants and wood pellet mills that require large quantities of wood fiber. For timberland investors, this emerging market for woody fuel stocks [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (2.3mb PDF) The link between new homebuilding and timberland investment is an obvious one, but the correlation between these two economic sectors is not well understood. How important is new homebuilding to timberland investment success? What has been the impact of the housing downturn on timberland [...]