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2008-05-16-the-aviary

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 : The A v i a r y R a t h e r t han dwell this time on a single subject, I want to cover a few., My December memo “No Different This Time” included the following among the key lessons of ‘07: Investment survival has to be achieved in the short run, not on average over the long run.

2001-11-20-you-cant-predict-you-can-prepare

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d For the title of this memo I’ve borrowed the tagline from Mass Mutual’s advertising campaign., Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : YouCan't Predict., I described in my last memo, "What Lies Ahead?, In April 1991 , in just my second general memo to clients, I described the market as follows: The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum.

Conversation-Conference-2024

I don’t think it should be. 2 Now, the memo focuses on the period from ‘09, at the beginning of which, the Fed took the fed funds rate to zero for the first time in history to fight the Global Financial Crisis, to the end of ‘21 when it gave up on inflation being transitory and decided to raise interest rates, which it did in early ‘22., The memo I put out in January entitled Easy Money was actually inspired by an English financial historian named Edward Chancellor and a book he wrote called The Price of Time.

1991-04-11-first-quarter-client-performance

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: Clients From: Howard M a r k s T r u s t C o mpany of the West Re: FirstQuarter Performance The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum.

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Apr 10, 2025 Celebrating Oaktree’s 30th Anniversary Watch memos Apr 9, 2025 Nobody Knows (Yet Again) Read View All Press View All May 6, 2025 CNBC: Oaktree’s Howard Marks – Markets in ‘Limbo’ Waiting on Finalization on Tariffs Watch May 5, 2025 Debtwired: Credit Opportunities During Market Volatility with Oaktree’s Hinchman and Parker Listen May 2, 2025 Bloomberg: Oaktree's Co-CEO on Tariff Impact, Private Credit, Bankruptcies Watch Tweets View All Jun 18, 2025 Read the latest memo

2002-03-14-learning-from-enron

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 : LearningFrom Enron The investigation was not completed until June . . ., The article, and particularly the last sentence quoted above, prompted me to write a year- end memo to Oaktree' s staff stressing the importance of taking "the high road" and describing Enron as "a pretty good example of what Oaktree doesn't want to be, Sherron Watkins might be the closest thing thus far, and she certainly did raise red flags in her memo of August., Before I do so, I'll have to get over the large number of references in her memo not to what was right or wrong, but to what might be found out., I apologize for the length of this memo, but the Enron matter is so sweeping and multi- faceted that I found it inescapable.

Investing Without People

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Investing Without People Over the last twelve months I’ve devoted three memos to discussing macro developments, market outlook, and recommendations for investor behavior., This memo covers three ways in which securities markets seem to be moving toward reducing the role of people: (a) index investing and other forms of passive investing, (b) quantitative and algorithmic investing, and (c) artificial intelligence and machine learning., In this memo I’ll use the first of those., Wolf, a former CIO and consultant to some of our clients’ boards, asking which memo contained a quote she likes to use., The Impact on Investing It’s only taken me until page fourteen to get to the issue that prompted me to start in on this memo: what these things imply for the future of our profession.

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

2010-07-19-its-greek-to-me

 Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : It’sGreekto Me In the early part of this decade, I reviewed a few books for the Sunday Los Angeles Times., It’s been challenging to organize all I’ve learned and boil it down for a memo, but here it is, was the title of a memo I wrote on March 5, 2009, discussing whether the Obama administration’s rescue plan would be successful., My purpose in writing this memo was to summarize and explain the developments in Europe, and that’s the vein in which I started.