Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (1.3MB PDF) Spurred by a desire to reduce carbon emissions footprints, many companies have begun purchasing forest carbon offsets. Naturally, this growing market for carbon has led many financial actors to offer products to institutional investors. These products seek to provide a competitive financial return through [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (2Mb PDF) Since its emergence as an asset class in the early 1980s, timberland has undergone evolution and transformation – with a number of key events and market forces shaping its history and growth. A watershed event for the timberland asset class came with the large-scale divestiture [...]

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Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (2Mb PDF) Over the course of 2021, the investment community saw one major announcement after another of institutional investment funds or organizations committing funds to the natural capital features of timberland assets.  In many cases, these investments were made in the carbon sequestration potential of forests and their capacity [...]

Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (2Mb PDF) Global climate change has reached the forefront of the public’s consciousness in recent years and investors that hold natural assets, like timberland, in their portfolios are particularly interested in understanding the challenges and opportunities it may pose for them in an investment context. Forests, like [...]