About TIR
Timberland Investment Resources, LLC (TIR), is an independently owned and operated, registered investment advisor dedicated to producing superior risk-adjusted timberland returns for its clients. We were founded in 2003 by a leadership team that set out to build a client-oriented enterprise that would be nimble and entrepreneurial in its approach to creating and capturing value. Since then we have achieved success for our clients by employing a highly disciplined and uniquely differentiated investment strategy that focuses on identifying and capitalizing on market inefficiencies.
TIR is a disciplined and focused organization. We operate with strategic intent and in accordance with well-defined vision and mission statements. Our operating principles are also aligned with our core values and together these foundational conceptions are reflected in our investment philosophy, our investment strategy and our commitment to practicing Alpha-Driven Forestry™.
Core Foundational Statements
Vision
We exist to unlock the value of the world’s forests.
Mission
We provide our clients with innovative, forest-based investment offerings that optimize long-term performance while contributing to community resilience and environmental sustainability.
Strategy
We identify forest-based market inefficiencies and position our clients to capitalize on them.
Core Values and Operating Principles
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Fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities to our clients by always putting their interests first.
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Operate with integrity, transparency and accountability.
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Recruit and retain talented, self-motivated people and leverage their diverse backgrounds and perspectives to achieve thought leadership.
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Embrace an innovative, entrepreneurial and inclusive mindset in support of our business and investment objectives.
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Serve our clients and society by practicing sustainable forest management and responsible corporate citizenship.
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Tap the creativity of our employees and prioritize and reward teamwork and collaboration.
- Fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities to our clients by always putting their interests first.
- Operate with integrity, transparency and accountability.
- Recruit and retain talented, self-motivated people and leverage their diverse backgrounds and perspectives to achieve thought leadership.
- Embrace an innovative, entrepreneurial and inclusive mindset in support of our business and investment objectives.
- Serve our clients and society by practicing sustainable forest management and responsible corporate citizenship.
- Tap the creativity of our employees and prioritize and reward teamwork and collaboration.
Investment Philosophy
TIR believes the key to achieving long-term success in the timberland investment sector is identifying and capitalizing on market and operating inefficiencies that produce exploitable supply, demand and pricing dislocations.
Investment Strategy
TIR embraces a value-orientation to timberland investment. We focus primarily on:
- Making and managing acquisitions in the middle-market segment, which includes transactions in the $10 million to $75 million range.
- Investing in segments of the market where there is less competition, where per-acre pricing tends to be lower and where TIR is able to identify market and operating inefficiencies by engaging in fuller and more comprehensive due diligence.
- Operating each asset in a portfolio context but as a standalone business – the emphasis being to optimize near-term cash flow and to increase long-term capital appreciation by using enhanced, stand-level silvicultural practices
- Selling assets, in whole or in part, on an opportunistic basis in response to clients’ holding term and performance expectations – the goal always being to obtain premium pricing for core timberland assets and for lands that may be more suitable for alternative uses, including conservation, recreation or development.
- Practicing Alpha-Driven Forestry™, which entails consistently focusing on generating biological and financial alpha for our clients.