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The Complete Collection
And that’s the point of this memo., That’s what this memo is about., But I think it’s worth a memo., And thus this section of my memo., 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.
Walking into the Unknown_Transcript
Looking over that year of memo writing, does anything jump out at you?, David The biggest theme, I think, of this year and the thing that I think people are going to look back on a year or so from now and talk about how amazing it was, and I’ll steal the theme from Howard’s Sea Change memo, but really, you have the ability to buy debt with an equity-like prospective return.
Dare to Be Great II
All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Dareto Be Great II In September 2006, I wrote a memo entitled Dare to Be Great, with suggestions on how institutional investors might approach the goal of achieving superior investment results., Most importantly for the purposes of this memo, how will you define success, and what risks will you take to achieve it?, In the memo I mentioned my favorite fortune cookie: “the cautious seldom err or write great poetry.”, This goes all the way back to the beginning of this memo, and each organization’s need to establish its creed., Some of this comes from my last memo, on the role of luck
The Lessons of Oil
All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Lessons of Oil I want to provide a memo on this topic before I – and hopefully many of my readers – head out for year- end holidays.
Plan B
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 : Plan B O v e r t h e l a s t d e c a d e o r t w o , P l a n A c o n s i s t e d o f r e l ying on the free market to maximize economic growth and efficiency (as described in “The Aviary,” May 2008)., * * * The trouble with memo writing at times like these is that there’s always more.
The Folly of Certainty
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., , has supplied an interesting tidbit for this memo on the subject of economists’ conclusions: I use the Philly Fed’s Anxious Index (the probability of a decline in real GDP in the upcoming quarter) as an indicator that a recession has ended., 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., 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 Indispensability of Risk
That’s why I’ve written a memo comparing investing to sports in each of the four decades I’ve been writing memos and one connecting investing and card playing in 2020., The motivation for this memo comes from an article in The Wall Street Journal of April 12 that my partner Bruce Karsh sent me entitled “Chess Teaches the Power of Sacrifice” by Maurice Ashley, a chess grandmaster who has been inducted into the U.S., Few people know that Bruce is a chess player, and I hadn’t thought about this fact for years, but the article provided a good reminder and moved me to dash off this memo., Relevant lessons from sports (included in past memos) are easily accessed and also very helpful: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky, NHL Hall of Famer “You have to give yourself a chance to fail.” – Kenny “The Jet” Smith, two-time NBA champion I’ll sum up with a paragraph from my memo of last September, Fewer Losers, or More Winners?
Taking the Temperature
Thus, I said so in the memo bubble.com, which was published as 2000 began., In July 2007, I published the memo It’s All Good, in which I was more emphatic (and had better timing): Where do we stand in the cycle?, Here’s how I put it in a memo I wrote that day: Skepticism and pessimism aren’t synonymous., This is how things stood in March 2012, when I wrote the memo Déjà Vu All Over Again., As I wrote in that same memo: What do we know?
Hows the Market
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: How's the Market?