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The Illusion of Knowledge (Audio)

Howard Marks has long questioned the value of macro forecasts, but in his latest memo, he explains why creating profitable forecasts is so difficult.
Sea Change (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks writes that the investment world may be experiencing the third major sea change of the last 50 years.
Ruminating on Asset Allocation (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks outlines the need to base asset allocation decisions around an established risk target.
The Seven Worst Words in the World

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Seven Worst Words in the World I have a new book coming out next week titled Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side., Thus the idea for this memo came from the seven worst words in the investment world: “too much money chasing too few deals, But these are my conclusions, and they’re the reason for this memo at this time, This memo can be recapped simply: there’s a race to the bottom going on, reflecting a widespread reduction in the level of prudence on the part of investors and capital providers.
Bull Market Rhymes

They’ll be the topic of this memo., I want to mention up front that this memo has nothing to do with assessing the markets’ likely direction from here., And updating a question I asked in my memo The Happy Medium (July 2004), why has its annual return been between 8% and 12% just six times during this period?, In my 2007 memo The Race to the Bottom, I explained that when there’s too much money in the hands of investors and providers of capital and they’re too eager to put it to work, they bid too aggressively for securities and the chance to lend.
The Folly of Certainty

 Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: The Folly of Certainty The impetus for my memos can come from a wide variety of sources., And, with that, I had the subject of this memo: not whether Biden will continue campaigning or drop out – or whether he’ll win if he continues – but rather how anyone can be without doubt., Back in mid-2020, when the pandemic seemed to have become a more or less understood phenomenon, I slowed the pace of my memo writing from the one-a-week pattern of March and April., A L L R I G H T S R E S E R V E D P.S.: Last summer’s Grand Slam tennis tournaments provided the inspiration for my memo Fewer Losers, or More Winners?, Similarly, this past Saturday’s women’s final match at Wimbledon has provided a snippet for this memo.
"Risk in Today's Markets" Revisited

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo To: Clients From: HowardS.Marks,TCW Re: "RiskinToday's Markets" Revisited Seven weeks ago, we put out a memorandum entitled "Risk in Today's Markets.", It is the purpose of this follow-up memo to review the developments of the intervening time period, attempting to make sense out of what has happened and searching for lessons that can be drawn., Hedge funds occupied a meaningful part of our February 17 memo because they were felt to exemplify (to a power of ten) the risk-tolerant behavior of investors in general.
Bull Market Rhymes

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Bull Market Rhymes While I employ a great many adages and quotes in my writings, my main go-to list consists of a relatively small number., They’ll be the topic of this memo., I want to mention up front that this memo has nothing to do with assessing the markets’ likely direction from here., And updating a question I asked in my memo The Happy Medium (July 2004), why has its annual return been between 8% and 12% just six times during this period?, In my 2007 memo The Race to the Bottom, I explained that when there’s too much money in the hands of investors and providers of capital and they’re too eager to put it to work, they bid too aggressively for securities and the chance to lend.
Transcript - The Insight Conversations - Howard Marks and Annie Duke

Howard’s 2020 memo, Yo u B e t !, This idea also features quite prominently in Howard’s memo, Yo u B e t !, I took a look at the memo, Yo u B e t !, Howard I was going to say it was the last memo before lockdown., What I said in the memo was, it’s easy to predict what you think is going to happen.
Coming into Focus

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Coming into Focus Roughly two months have passed since my last memo, Time for Thinking, and still not much has changed in the economy or the markets., Thus, I’m going to use this memo to go into greater detail on a few topics., I touched on a few of them in my last memo, but I’m going to undertake a fuller treatment of the subject here., Further Exposing Inequality Especially in this environment of heightened attention to social and racial justice, I can’t end this memo without touching on some of the many ways in which the recent experience has shed additional light on inequality in our society: • People further down the economic ladder have had less in terms of financial resources to fall back on during the lockdown, and they generally haven’t benefitted from the increase in asset prices that’s been driven by the reduction of interest rates