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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.
Investment Miscellany
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Investment Miscellany Because I've been encouraged by the response to my “bubble. com” and venture capital memos, I'm going to keep writing., Glassman's name may be familiar to you, because my memo of May 1, 2000 took issue with “Dow 36,000,” a book he co-authored., As I wrote in my May memo, investors rapidly incorporate new information into their estimates of security values, and the market rapidly reflects the consensus view of values,...but that doesn't mean the consensus is right.
Mr. Market Miscalculates
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Mr., I referred them to my 2016 memo On the Couch., I wrote over 33 years ago, in only my second memo: The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum. . . ., It’s highly applicable to the market tremor that inspired this memo.
The Best of . . .
Howard Marks October 12, 2025 The Route to Performance October 12, 1990 The Route to Performance is the first memo I wrote., The Realist’s Creed May 31, 2002 This memo serves as an acknowledgement that “I don’t know” is often the only reasonable refrain., This memo reflects my thoughts on how investment management clients might best pursue superior results., All That Glitters December 17, 2010 This memo incorporated all my thoughts about investing in gold., This memo explains that buying at a fair price doesn’t generate alpha – it’s buying at an unreasonably low one that does.
Growing the Pie
Most of my January memo, Political Reality Meets Economic Reality, was devoted to fretting over the rise of populism from the left and the resulting anti-capitalist sentiment, and it has risen further since., In the January memo, I set forth my view that in the last 10-20 years, the rising economic tide had stopped lifting all boats., Ray Dalio and Bridgewater actually beat my memo by two days, publishing on January 28 an excellent note titled Populism + Weakening Economy + Limited Central Bank Power to Ease + Elections = Risky Markets and Risky Economies., In my January memo, I argued at length that capitalism can be credited with much of what made the United States what it is today., A lot of readers enjoyed the story in my January memo about the ten men who drank beer in a bar every night, with each paying according to his ability.
More on Repealing the Laws of Economics
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: More on Repealing the Laws of Economics Last September, I wrote a memo titled Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics?, Rent Control A prime example discussed in my September memo was rent control., On April 9, in my memo Nobody Knows (Yet Again), I guessed at President Trump’s goals in enacting them as follows: • support U.S. manufacturing • discourage imports • encourage exports • shrink or eliminate our trade deficit • make supply chains more secure through onshoring • deter unfair trade practices aimed at the U.S
Dare to Be Great
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : DaretoBeGreat Inoneofthemost colorful vignettes of the early 1970s, Glenn Turner, the head of Koscot Interplanetary, would fly into a small Midwestern town in his Learjet (when that was a huge deal)., This memo stems from an accumulation of thoughts on the subject of how investment management clients might best pursue superior results., Typically my thoughts pile up, and then something prompts me to turn them into a memo., * * * I hope this memo won’t come across as preachy.
It’s All Good . . . Really?
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard Marks Re: It’s All Good . . ., UThe Seed This memo isn’t about the events of July 2007, but rather how recent events exemplify the time-honored pattern that kicks off the swing back of the pendulum., But what we do know is that the bull-market excesses I decried in my memo of two weeks ago (and in “The New Paradigm” in October and “The Race to the Bottom” in February) have reversed for the moment, with profound effects on asset prices.