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 [...]
The timberland investment sector is showing increasing strength after a stagnant period following the global financial crisis and the collapse of the domestic housing market.
Dr Chung-Hong Fu, Managing Director of Timberland Investment Resources Europe, predicted: “The overhang of properties from 2007/2008 has been eliminated and we expect a recovery in the US property market in the next three years.
