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Charles Gross
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West Fraser Will Face Narrower Margins in 2019 Despite Our Bullish Housing Outlook

Increasing headship and homeownership rates among millennials remain a key tenet of our housing outlook. More millennials are indeed forming households and buying homes, but we've been repeatedly disappointed by the rate of headship and homeownership gains for this large age cohort. While we previously expected a sharper increase in home purchasing as millennials seized upon favorable ownership conditions, factors such as student debt and underemployment have proved more stubborn than we origina...
Underlying
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

West Fraser Timber is an integrated wood products company producing lumber, newprint, wood chips, plywood, panels and pulp and paper products.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Charles Gross

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