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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.

More on Repealing the Laws of Economics

In his latest memo, Howard Marks discusses the implications of governmental intervention in economies.

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.

There They Go Again

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo t o : O a k t r e e C l i ents F r o m: Howard M a r k s R e : ThereTheyGoAgain Contributingto...euphoriaaretwofurtherfactorslittlenotedinourtime orinpasttimes., * * * Lately I’ve been speaking a lot from my last general memo, “Risk and Return Today” (October 27, 2004)., I was pleased to get a letter from Peter Bernstein in response to my memo, in which he said something wonderful: “The market’s not a very accommodating machine; it won’t provide high returns just because you need them, ” * * * If you look back at the recurring mistakes listed at the beginning of this memo, you’ll see some common threads.

Lines in the Sand

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Lines in the Sand In my 2016 year-end review, which went only to clients, I included a discussion of the use of subscription lines by closed-end funds in areas such as private equity, real estate, distressed debt and private credit., Thus I decided to write this memo on the topic for general circulation., Remember, as I wrote in a 2006 memo with the same title, you can’t eat IRR., My basic point in that memo was that what really matters is how much money an LP makes as a result of having committed to a fund.

Not Enough

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Not Enough Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly., I’ve struggled to write this memo, and for that reason it’s late in coming.

Fewer Losers More Winner

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: Fewer Losers, or More Winners?, This time, in my fourth decade of memo -writing, I’m going to devote a few more paragraphs to tennis., In my memo Liquidity (March 2015), I included an insight from my son Andrew., The Role of Risk Bearing I’m going to conclude this memo using my favorite graph., In my memo What Really Matters?

There They Go Again...Again

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: There They Go Again . . ., As I tell it, after ten years without a single response, that one made my memo writing an overnight success., Ditto In January 2013, I wrote a memo entitled “Ditto.”, The Seeds for a Boom My son Andrew worked extensively with me in preparing this memo., Most of what remains for the meat of this memo will consist of descriptions of things afoot in the markets today.