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Expert Opinion

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Expert Opinion In August, I mentioned that I had chosen the title “Political Reality” for my memo in part because of my liking for oxymorons., This memo was inspired by a thought that popped into my head when the outcome of the election settled in., You may point out that at the end of my November 14 memo “Go Figure!, Anyway, this memo isn’t about politics, it’s about opinions., I’ll start this memo by reflecting on them.
I Beg to Differ

The Essential Difference In 2006, I wrote a memo called Dare to Be Great., Talk about simple – in the memo, I reduced the issue to a single sentence: “This just in: You can’t take the same actions as everyone else and expect to outperform.”, Thus, in 2014, I followed up on 2006’s Dare to Be Great with a memo creatively titled Dare to Be Great II., And yet, as I mentioned in my January memo, Selling Out, the S&P 500 has returned about 10½% a year on average over that century-plus., Ever since I quoted Bill Miller in that memo, I’ve been impressed by his formulation that “it’s time, not timing” that leads to real wealth accumulation.
What Really Matters

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: What Really Matters?, I’ve gathered a few ideas from several of my memos this year – plus some recent musings and conversations – to form the subject of this memo: what really matters or should matter for investors.
Now It’s All Bad?

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: NowIt’sAllBad?, It all reminds me of a point I made in my second memo, “First Quarter Performance” (April 1991): Although the midpoint of its arc best describes the location of the pendulum “on average,” it actually spends very little of its time there.
On Uncertain Ground

Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : OnUncertainGround Theworld seems more uncertain today than at any other time in my life., I’m going to devote this memo to the uncertainty in the world and the investment environment and then offer my take on the appropriate strategy response., Each one deserves a memo, but – as I said – I’m trying to be economical with your time and attention, On January 10 of this year, I sent out a “clients-only” memo called “What Can We Do For You?”, I said in that memo that I had come up with three questions that might help in setting strategy
Ruminating on Asset Allocation

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Ruminating on Asset Allocation When I travel to see clients and spend entire days discussing investing and the markets, memo ideas often pop up., B efore I proceed, I want to mention that, from time to time in this memo, I’ll say “generally,” “usually,” or “everything else being equal.”, For the purposes of this memo, however, it might help to think of it as “fixed outcome” investing., The Essential Choice At the outset of this memo, I listed some of the decisions that comprise the asset allocation process., So, in a memo in 2006, I took the same line and superimposed on it some bell-shaped curves representing probability distributions turned on their side.
I Beg to Differ

The Essential Difference In 2006, I wrote a memo called Dare to Be Great., Many years have passed since I wrote that memo, and the investing world has gotten a lot more sophisticated, but the message conveyed by the matrix and the accompanying explanation remains unchanged., Talk about simple – in the memo, I reduced the issue to a single sentence: “This just in: You can’t take the same actions as everyone else and expect to outperform.”, Thus, in 2014, I followed up on 2006’s Dare to Be Great with a memo creatively titled Dare to Be Great II., And yet, as I mentioned in my January memo, Selling Out, the S&P 500 has returned about 10½% a year on average over that century-plus.
The Outlook for Equities

Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard Marks Re: The Outlook for Equities It doesn‟t take much to get me started on a memo., Valuing Stocks Today The underlying reason it took so little from FierceFinance to get me going on this memo is that I had a lot of pent-up thoughts about equities and their current valuation., I‟m not going to drag you through it again, but I will copy over parts of that memo from a year ago: . . . people have been throwing in the towel and selling stocks., Those low expectations, when combined with modest fundamental and psychological improvement, gave the S&P 500 a return of about 13% over the year since that memo was written.
All That Glitters

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d 1 Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : AllThatGlitters In 1952, Noah S., Thus it serves well to introduce the topic of this memo: gold.
You Can’t Eat IRR

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: YouCan’tEatIRR Untilratherrecently – certainly up to the early 1980s – “investing” was largely synonymous with “stocks and bonds.”, – Real-Life Example #3 Just as this memo was about to go to print, a friend showed me the 2005 report of a fund of funds and asked what I thought of its performance.