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Doesn't Make Sense

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : Doesn’tMakeSense Academics have their theories about market efficiency., In a memo several years ago, I listed a few phrases that have sunk into obscurity over the course of my career.

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.

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.

Nobody Knows (Yet Again) (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard discusses how the recent events surrounding tariffs can have a seismic but unpredictable impact on the global economy.

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

Knowledge of the Future

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Knowledge of the Future As I showed by using it again in last week’s memo, I was impressed by the observation of Marc Lipsitch, Harvard epidemiologist, that there are (a) facts, (b) informed extrapolations from analogies to other viruses and (c) opinion or speculation., I chose the title of this memo because it’s such an oxymoron: there’s practically no such thing as meaningful knowledge regarding the future investment environment., Thus, this memo will be about some things people think they know but may not.

No Different This Time – The Lessons of ‘07

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : NoDifferentThisTime – The Lessons of ‘07 On July 16, I published a memo called “It’s All Good.”, The bullish balloon remained unpunctured as of July 16, and some may have thought my memo unduly pessimistic., I don’t doubt that it is, and for that reason his statement calls to mind a 2005 memo titled “Hindsight First, Please (or, What Were They Thinking?).”, In August 1996, I wrote a memo showing that in the Wall Street Journal’s semi-annual poll of economists, on average the predictions are an extrapolation of the current condition.

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.