Fastmarkets RISI

If you need a near-term outlook of the market dynamics impacting your business, learn more about our short-term forecasts. Subscribers receive these through our monthly monitor service, getting economic analysis and two-year forecasts of global markets.

If you need an outside perspective on a longer time horizon, consider Fastmarkets RISI’s long-term forecasts. These five- and fifteen-year outlooks provide expanded insight on markets and include even more analysis and statistical data.

If you want to uncover and explain current and potential dynamics of specific market trends, our grade-focused experts around the world produce Special Studies.

We release new studies every year to address the most relevant topics. These can be requested by our clients or discovered by our analysts.

For a quick and easy way to get an overview of markets within the pulp and paper industry, learn about our Outlook Briefings. Presented by Fastmarkets RISI’s leading economists, our briefings provide a summary of pulp and paper market changes with a two year outlook.

Fastmarkets RISI Economists and Analysts are stationed worldwide to offer regional insight of the markets in which you operate. We have decades of experience of building valuable relationships within the industry. Our extensive network of resources enables us to deliver high quality information that is verified and balanced—insight you can trust and use.

For over 30 years, Fastmarkets RISI economists have combined in-depth market knowledge with sophisticated econometric models, to analyze and forecast global forest products markets.

The models are tools that assist our regionally-based, grade-specific economists in interpreting data to produce their short-, medium- and long-term forecasts quarterly. Fastmarkets RISI maintains 15 distinct models, containing over 5,000 equations.

Each model is fully integrated across product areas and geographic regions to simulate the structure of the global forest products industry and capture its many complex interactions.

The accuracy of the models is tested over time by ‘forecasting history’ to see how the models would have predicted the past. The models are continually refined and adjusted as the structures of the various sectors evolve.