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Thomas Bentzen, CFA
Managing Director, Portfolio Management of International Woodland CompanyThomas joined IWC in November 2013 and is heading IWC’s Timberland Investment Advisory business unit (TIA) together with Lars Holm Simonsen.
Thomas has the overall responsibility for the financial aspects of TIA clients’ current and future investments and serves as a member of the ITP Investment Committee.
Prior to his current role, Thomas was directing TIAs due diligence and financial analysis efforts.
Thomas holds an MSc in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School and is a CFA charterholder.
Before joining IWC, Thomas spent more than six years in the Danish pension fund industry at Nordea Life and Pension, AP Pension and FSP Pension working with financial analysis, financial modeling, performance evaluation and risk management.
Tobias Elf-Pedersen
Portfolio Manager at VellivSe mere på Tobias' LinkedIn profil ovenfor
Chung-Hong Fu, Ph.D.
Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis of Timberland Investment Resources, LLCHong oversees all economic and market analysis and forecasting for TIR and plays a key role in the development of the firm’s investment strategies. He was a founding member of TIR and also was instrumental in establishing the firm’s research-driven investment ethic.
Hong began his career at Temple-Inland where he served as a Resource Utilization Specialist and Business Analyst. In these roles, he provided economic and research analysis services, which were utilized by senior executives to make strategic decisions involving a broad range of opportunities and challenges, including asset securitization, acquisitions, resource management and business optimization. Prior to joining TIR in 2003, Hong served as Senior Investment Analyst with Global Forest Partners, where he performed global timber acquisition assessments, created a variety of decision support models, and directed the firm’s currency risk management function. Hong is recognized in the timberland investment arena for his measured and comprehensive analyses of the trends and events that drive investment performance and influence the long-term risk and return profile of the asset class. He writes extensively on these and related issues and is frequently consulted by market participants and analysts, including the news media, for his unique and well-informed perspectives. Hong is a graduate of Northwestern University where he received a BS in Biology. He also earned an MS in Environmental Management at Duke University and an MBA at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Forest Economics at North Carolina State University.