TREE: One of the most precious investment

A few months ago, I come across one investment article which I research the whole world about the best investment vehicle. One of the professional investor urged potential sophisticated investors to look at tree as one of the best investment.

First I laugh and wonder why on earth we want to invest in trees. It’s just trees and we in Brunei have a lot of untouched trees, except for Rambutan trees, Mango trees and the like. And it took time to grow a tree.

Well, after I read further and continue my search about trees then I understand the high investment values of tree. In today’s rapidly growing population and economies, people need to expand and occupied land that was once before populated by the animal kingdoms. Hence, we need to cut down a lot of trees. We need trees as one of the world eco-system and we need trees to provide shelters. Most wood furniture derived from trees.

If you have a deep pocket you can start a company, look for vast vacant land and start planting trees as many as possible. Have a good estate programs to manage the business or you can possibly start outdoor leisure activities as part of the business development. It took considerable amount of time frames to realize the investment return for this sort of business. Maybe 10 or more years before you can cut down the trees and start selling it to the saw mill factory or furniture factory.

Alternatively, you can (for the average or small investor) buy a share in a company that do the similar business. When you choose this path, don’t expect for immediate income like sell the shares when the share prices increase in value. This is a long-term investment and look for only dividends.

Make your own research over the web, look for good stock brokers that will help you enter the stock exchange and make your way for good investment. Most of the companies engage in the tree business are listed in the NYSE.