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Forestry Investments
Why this is an excellent investment opportunity
“Timber has outperformed every other commodity for the last 100 years.”
“Timber has outperformed every other commodity for the last 100 years.”
- For ninety eight of the last hundred years prices of teak have outperformed the stock market and it has also delivered a better return than property year on year. The average return is 9.7% and is currently 16.4%, (last year the IPD Foresty index returned 32%). Teak prices have risen by 300% over the last 4 years (ITTO).
- Demand for timber will increase per capita as population and emerging economies continue to grow.
- Supply continues to be under pressure from environmental restraints and consumers increasingly
- demanding timber from sustainable resources i.e. China is the biggest market for teak in the world due to demand for building materials.
- Only 1% of the worlds teak comes from FSC-approved forestry plantations.
- A combination of the value of a naturally growing commodity and the underlying land provides investors
- with a low risk asset creating a long term capital appreciation in a sustainable and environmentally beneficial medium.
- Harvard University invested US$500m of their total endowment fund into forestry last year
