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Hemlines
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a rks Re: Hemlines While the details change, the pendulum-like fluctuation of investment styles is a constant., This memo will be about recurring patterns, the history of stocks and bonds as I know it, and the adage’s applicability to that history., (Given that I average a memo every couple of months, I find the very idea daunting.)
The Roundup: Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters - June 2023 Edition
As a bonus, we’ve also included an excerpt from Howard Marks’s recent memo to clients. 1 Market Outlook: Tug-of-War Howard Marks Co-Chairman The overarching theme of my sea-change thinking is that, largely thanks to highly accommodative monetary policy, we went through unusually easy times in a number of important regards over a prolonged period, but that time is over., Thus, after decades of accommodative monetary policy, cheap debt, and robust equity returns, we may now be entering a new era, as our co-chairman Howard Marks eloquently described in his 2022 memo Sea Change.
The Best of. . .
Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Best of . . ., I described in my last memo, "What Lies Ahead?, ” That prompted this memo in response., In my memo What Really Matters?, What was I to do but start in on a memo?
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?
Nobody Knows (Yet Again)
I thought I should comment on these developments and the outlook, and the result was a memo called Nobody Knows, published four days later., In March 2020, I reused the title of the 2008 memo for Nobody Knows II, my first memo during the Covid-19 pandemic., The Uncertain Outlook In my February memo 2024 in Review, which went only to clients, I said the word to describe the Trump administration was “uncertainty.”, Truly nobody knows, and a lot of this memo will be about things we can’t know for sure., Note that in my March 2022 memo, The Pendulum in International Affairs, I observed that between 1995 and 2020, U.S. consumer durable prices declined by 40% in real terms and total inflation averaged only 1.8% per year.
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.
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?
Will It Be Different This Time
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients and Friends From: Howard Marks Re: WillItBeDifferentThisTime?, Nevertheless, 51 of the 53 "top economists" surveyed by Blue Chip newsletter (my favorite experts and the subject of my July 22, 1996 memo) predict growth next year of 1.5% or more.
Down to the Wire
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : DowntotheWire Here are the ingredients in the plot: A problem everyone’s aware of., I’ve decided to devote a memo to the debt issue and its significance.
Gimme Credit
Ever since interest rates got up off the floor in 2022, there’s been increased interest in credit, and that’s why I’m devoting this memo to it., I’ve written so much about this that I’m not going to belabor it further (see my memo Ruminating on Asset Allocation, October 2024), but I’m always available to talk., Credit Versus Equities I’ve written about equity valuations – primarily referencing the Standard & Poor’s 500 – as recently as this January in my memo On Bubble Watch.