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Book Synopsis Timberland Investments by : F. Christian Zinkhan
Download or read book Timberland Investments written by F. Christian Zinkhan and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common stock. Corporate bonds. Stock mutual funds. Call and put options. Commercial and residential real estate. Municipal bonds. These and others are the alternatives many individual and institutional investors consider when constructing their investment portfolios. This is the first book to investigate how another investment alternative--timberland--can fit into the portfolios of individuals and such institutions as pension funds. Timberland supplies the basic raw material for a critical global industry--forest products. Timber can be managed economically as a renewable crop on hundreds of millions of acres in the United States. Given the forces supporting conservation of forests in their natural state on many public and some private lands in the Unites States and other nations, there is increasing pressure on the remaining privately owned forests to supply the needed timber output. This represents an opportunity for patient, long-term investors. Using insights and graphic examples supplied by experienced institutional investors, professional foresters, forestry and financial researchers, and others, the authors address such questions as the following: How do timberland's investment characteristics compare to those associated with other portfolio alternatives? In addition to direct investments in forests, in what other ways can investors participate in the timberland market? Can the addition of timberland to some investors' diversified portfolios improve overall performance? What personal financial planning goals can be served by timberland? What acquisition, forest management, and sale strategies can be adopted by individual and institutional investors so that objectives are better achieved? In the course of addressing such questions, the authors attempt to bridge the communications gap between the investment and forestry communities. The authors provide valuable perspectives not only for individual and institutional investors, but also for personal financial advisors; forestry practitioners, policymakers and researchers; and students of forestry, real estate, and investments.
Book Synopsis International Timberland Investments by : William R. Turner
Download or read book International Timberland Investments written by William R. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis World Wood Resources by : Montgomery Wall Alves
Download or read book World Wood Resources written by Montgomery Wall Alves and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :University of Washington. Center for International Trade in Forest Products Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :2 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (316 download)
Book Synopsis Global Investments in Timberland & Manufacturing , International Trade and Southern Timber Supplies by : University of Washington. Center for International Trade in Forest Products
Download or read book Global Investments in Timberland & Manufacturing , International Trade and Southern Timber Supplies written by University of Washington. Center for International Trade in Forest Products and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing Risk in the Evolving World of Timberland Investments by : Mikkel Brings Nielsen
Download or read book Managing Risk in the Evolving World of Timberland Investments written by Mikkel Brings Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assessing Commercial Timberland Assets in the United States by : Bin Mei
Download or read book Assessing Commercial Timberland Assets in the United States written by Bin Mei and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timberland ownership in the United States has changed dramatically in the past several decades. Integrated forest products firms have been divesting their timberlands, whereas timberland investment management organizations (TIMOs) have been active acquirers. Timberland return has three drivers, the biological growth, timber price, and land price. Biological growth can be consistently estimated, land price is correlated with inflation, while timber price remains most unpredictable. The first part of this book models and forecasts timber prices in 12 southern timber regions via different time series models. The second part examines the financial performance of private- and public-equity timberland investments in the US using both parametric and nonparametric asset ricing approaches. The last part investigates the option values of investment, mothballing, reactivation, and abandonment in a hypothetical southern pine plantation using the contingent claims approach. The results can help investors better understand commercial timberland assets in the US.
Book Synopsis From Backwoods to Boardrooms by : Daowei Zhang
Download or read book From Backwoods to Boardrooms written by Daowei Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 100-plus years, forestland ownerships have gone through two structural changes in the US and other parts of the world: the accumulation of industrial timberlands between 1900s and 1980s and the transformation of industrial timberlands to institutional ownerships afterwards. This book is about the history and economics of these two structural changes with the emphasis on the latter. The scale of both changes is unprecedented and truly revolutionary, impacting tens of millions of acres of private landholdings and billions of dollars of investment and affecting industrial structure, forest management and policy, research and development, community welfare, and forest sustainability. Looking though a historical count of key events, players, prevailing management philosophies, public policy, and institutional factors, the author of this book searches for an economic explanation and assesses the impact of these two changes. Its main contributions are three folds. First, it explains why industrial firms were able to profit from owning large areas of forest lands in the first place and how institutional investors could purchase these lands later. Many details of the history that could have otherwise been lost are revealed in this book for the first time. Second, it compares private and public equity timberland investments with respect to risk-adjusted returns as well as such other dimensions of interest to investors and forest managers including alignment of interests, capacity to exploit market inefficiencies, and their forest management and conservation records. Finally, it provides thoughtful commentary into the future of institutional timberland investments and global forest sustainability. This book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the workings of the modern forest sector in the U.S. and elsewhere, forest investment, and forest sustainability.
Book Synopsis Financial Evaluation of Timberland Investments by : Clark Shepard Binkley
Download or read book Financial Evaluation of Timberland Investments written by Clark Shepard Binkley and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Models for Analyzing Alternative Timberland Investments by : Claudia Luminita Codrescu
Download or read book Models for Analyzing Alternative Timberland Investments written by Claudia Luminita Codrescu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forestland Investment written by Bin Mei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forestland investment has surged in the past few decades as a result of land ownership change in the forestry industry. Timberland investment and management organizations and real estate investment trusts have bought up land and resources that were divested by vertically integrated forest products companies. This book provides a seminal coverage of this seismic shift in the industry, exploring the philosophy, driving factors, valuation, theory, research, implementation, practice, and effects of forestland investment. Across 15 chapters the book reviews the history of forestland investment; discusses the optimal forest rotation; explains timberland appraisal; examines the return drivers of forestland; analyzes timberland index construction methods and results; prices timberland assets; reviews financial and real options; investigates real option values in forestland management; evaluates timber harvest contracts; examines new opportunities in the emerging woody bioenergy market; and eventually offers prospects on forestland investment in the future. It also discusses how forest carbon can be used as a nature-based climate solution. This book is essential reading for forestry business students and scholars, as well as practitioners and policymakers in the industry.
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Book Synopsis On the Economic Impacts, Returns and Risks of Timberland Investments by : Weiyi Zhang
Download or read book On the Economic Impacts, Returns and Risks of Timberland Investments written by Weiyi Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We apply the hedonic pricing method to analyze the effects of conservation easements (CEs) on surrounding vacant land parcel prices within the Metropolitan Atlanta Statistical Area (MASA). First, we collected data on forest related CEs in 30 counties in MASA and randomly sampled 312 land parcels from these same counties for information related to land parcels. The distance between each property and the nearest CE, and between each pair of properties, are calculated and used to find spatial dependence. Results show that the proximity to CE-protected open space after the CEs are established have positive price effects on the surrounding properties, and this effect diminishes with distance.
Book Synopsis Investing in Nature by : William Ginn
Download or read book Investing in Nature written by William Ginn and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we reverse the direction of such powerful economic forces? A group of dedicated business-people-turned-environmental-entrepreneurs is pioneering a new set of tools for land conservation deals and other market-based strategies. These pragmatic visionaries have already used these methods to protect millions of acres of land and to transform the practices of entire industries. They are transforming the very nature of conservation by making it profitable. Drawing on his vast experience in both business and land conservation at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), William Ginn offers a practical guide to these innovative methods and a road map to the most effective way to implement them. From conservation investment banking, to emerging markets for nature's goods and services, to new tax incentives that encourage companies to do the "right" thing, Ginn goes beyond the theories to present real-world applications and strategies. And, just as importantly, he looks at the lessons learned from what has not worked, including his own failed efforts in Papua New Guinea and TNC's controversial compatible development approach in Virginia. In an era of dwindling public resources and scarce charitable dollars, these tools reveal a new, and perhaps the only, pathway to achieving biodiversity goals and protecting our lands. Conservation professionals, students of land conservation, and entrepreneurs interested in green business will find Ginn's tales of high-finance deals involving vast tracts of pristine land both informative and exciting. More than just talk, Investing in Nature will teach you how to think big about land conservation.
Book Synopsis Using Real Option Theory to Value Abandonment Options on Northern Hardwood Timberland Investments by : Shane Christopher Conway
Download or read book Using Real Option Theory to Value Abandonment Options on Northern Hardwood Timberland Investments written by Shane Christopher Conway and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timberland investments in northern hardwood forests are generally at lower per acre values as a result of slower growth rates and less frequent harvest activity. This creates an opportunity for competing land use values to exceed timberland values, and presents a portfolio manager the opportunity to increase their return by capitalizing on arbitrage. The goal of this thesis is to attempt to determine the value of this optionality by using real options analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. Combining historical data on timber prices and land values in the state of Wisconsin with a simulation technique will allow for a robust valuation of this real option as well as the illustration of the value's sensitivity to key variables. A successful outcome will result in additional support for the use of real options in practice, particularly in the timberland investment industry.
Book Synopsis Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals by : Donald R. Chambers
Download or read book Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals written by Donald R. Chambers and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals provides an overview of alternative investments for institutional asset allocators and other overseers of portfolios containing both traditional and alternative assets. It is designed for those with substantial experience regarding traditional investments in stocks and bonds but limited familiarity regarding alternative assets, alternative strategies, and alternative portfolio management. The primer categorizes alternative assets into four groups: hedge funds, real assets, private equity, and structured products/derivatives. Real assets include vacant land, farmland, timber, infrastructure, intellectual property, commodities, and private real estate. For each group, the primer provides essential information about the characteristics, challenges, and purposes of these institutional-quality alternative assets in the context of a well-diversified institutional portfolio. Other topics addressed by this primer include tail risk, due diligence of the investment process and operations, measurement and management of risks and returns, setting return expectations, and portfolio construction. The primer concludes with a chapter on the case for investing in alternatives.
Book Synopsis Private Financing for Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Products in Developing Countries ? Trends and Drivers by : Tuukka Castren
Download or read book Private Financing for Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Products in Developing Countries ? Trends and Drivers written by Tuukka Castren and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to finance sustainable forest management (SFM) has been a question of perennial interest and concern for the forestry community. It has been estimated that the required funding for SFM is in the order of US$70-160 billion per year globally. At present, official development assistance disbursements to forestry cover about 1 percent of the estimated total financing needs for SFM, and other available public sector financing sources barely double that amount. To scale up SFM, to create value-added economic growth and employment and protect forests from competing unsustainable land uses, domestic and foreign private financing and investments need to increase significantly.Despite the importance of the private sector, information on private forest financing is scarce and inadequate at all levels. Studies related to finance flows in the private sector have begun to emerge in recent years, and data of varying quality--especially on international private investments in wood processing--have become available in selected public statistics. However, there is no coordinated and systematic effort to collect and synthesize information on private investment flows in the forest sector. Also, none of the ad hoc studies have tried to provide a comprehensive, global picture of these flows. The objective of the study is to provide updated, comprehensive information to inform global dialogue on the role of private financing for SFM, including forest plantation development, and to the production of forest products. This report (i) reviews what private forest sector financing data are available, (ii) provides a snapshot of different financing flows in the forest sector, (iii) improves our understanding of challenges related to forest financing, and (iv) presents a roadmap for better information and improved access to finance. The scope of the report is forestry and forest industry investments in developing and emerging countries, with more focus on foreign direct investment than on domestic investments, mainly due to data constraints. The target audience includes the national governments in developing countries, donor agencies, international finance institutions with particular reference to the World Bank Group, other stakeholders of the United Nations Forum on Forests, and other forest finance practitioners.
Book Synopsis Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry by : Brooks Mendell
Download or read book Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry written by Brooks Mendell and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry highlights the key obligations, risks and metrics for owning and managing timberland investments. The book serves any investor, from individual to institution, interested in a tight and entertaining tutorial for prioritizing what matters and what does not when managing their timber assets as an investment.
