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Latest Thinking

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Latest Thinking Travel to clients abroad and preoccupation with my coming book on cycles (final draft submitted just the other day) have combined to keep me from writing a memo since September, but fortunately not from thinking., , some readers of my July memo, “There They Go Again . . ., In September I observed that the cautionary July memo hadn’t said much with respect to what people actually should do about the markets, and I tried to remedy that., All Rights Reserved Follow us:  As a result, we see a lot of the reaction that greeted my July memo: “the market’s expensive, but I think it has further to go.”, I wrote that in 1997, in a clients-only memo entitled “Are You an Investor or a Speculator?”
Risk and Return Today

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a rks Re: RiskandReturn Today A single word is enough to describe the overall investment world today: lackluster., In response, I wrote a piece called “The Cat, the Tree, the Carrot and the Stick” as part of my memo “What’s Going On?”, In my memo “What’s Your Game Plan” on investing and sports (September 5, 2003), I mentioned the importance of “playing within yourself,” or “not trying to do things you’re not capable of, or things that can’t be accomplished within the environment as it exists.”
On the Other Hand

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: On the Other Hand It often happens that just as I’m about to release a memo, I come across something that absolutely has to be incorporated., I think the topic is very important, so much so that I’m now going to devote a memo to the subject of Fed interest-rate management
A Look Under the Hood

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: A Look Under the Hood Over the last 56 years, I’ve spent a lot of time making suggestions to clients regarding their investment processes and portfolios, and I’ve been on the client side as a member of various investment committees., The content of the consultant’s session impressed me so much that I decided to write a memo about it., I’m not disclosing the names of the state and its consultant, for obvious reasons, but I’m very pleased that they agreed to let me use the content of the meeting as raw material for this memo.
Is It a Bubble? (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks addresses the much-asked question, “Is there a bubble in AI?”
Cockroaches in the Coal Mine (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks examines the recent string of well-publicized credit problems.
Gimme Credit (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard addresses a common question he’s been receiving over the last few months: “what about credit spreads?”
Whodunit

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 : Whodunit w h o · d u n · i t – ( h ō ō d u n ´ i t ) n . a n a r r a t i v e dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal (The Random House Dictionary of the English Language) The subprime crisis, credit crunch and possible recession are subjects of daily conversation., It’s the purpose of this memo to say where I think responsibility lies.,  William Conway of Carlyle Group attracted a lot of attention – but perhaps not all he deserved – for a January 2007 memo to his Carlyle colleagues, in which he wrote: As you all know (I hope), the fabulous profits that we have been able to generate for our limited partners are not solely a function of our investment genius, but have resulted in large part from a great market and the availability of enormous amounts of cheap debt. . . ., My wife Nancy says she likes this memo more than most, because the lesson is so easy to understand.
Risk Revisited

All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Risk Revisited In April I had good results with Dare to Be Great II, starting from the base established in an earlier memo (Dare to Be Great, September 2006) and adding new thoughts that had occurred to me in the intervening years., Also in 2006 I wrote Risk, my first memo devoted entirely to this key subject., This memo adds to what I’ve previously written on the topic., What Risk Really Means In the 2006 memo and in the book, I argued against the purported identity between volatility and risk., While writing the original memo on risk in 2006, an important thought came to me for the first time.
BTM Fewer Losers or More Winners

 1 Transcript Insights Behind the Memo: Fewer Losers, or More Winners?, Anna Szymanski Hello, and welcome to Behind the Memo with Howard Marks., And in the memo, you explain it through tennis., And that’s where the title of the memo comes from., Anna So as always, do you have any final thoughts about this memo?