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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.

What Worries Me

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 : What Worries M e E s p e c i a l l y i n t i mes like these, people often ask what keeps me up at night., I’m not going to spend this memo discussing things as mundane as investment cycles, or as cosmic as environmental deterioration, global warming or terrorism., I hope this memo will be well received., But I hope this memo will raise some questions in readers’ minds and contribute to constructive debate., * * * I hope you’ll consider this memo constructive, and that it’ll inform or inspire debate.

Returns and How They Get That Way

 Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Returns and How They Get That Way "Where do babies come from?", The Role of Luck To end this memo on returns, I want to spend a few pages discussing the part played by randomness (or luck or chance).

What's Behind the Downturn

Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : What’sBehindtheDownturn?, Thus I decided to take the occasion of my summer vacation to write a memo parsing the recent events and touching on the outlook.

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.

Gimme Credit (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard addresses a common question he’s been receiving over the last few months: “what about credit spreads?”

Cockroaches in the Coal Mine (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks examines the recent string of well-publicized credit problems.

Is It a Bubble? (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks addresses the much-asked question, “Is there a bubble in AI?”

The Insight Conversations - On the Lookout

Harry We l l , l o o k i n g a t t h e e q u i t y ’s point again, we must mention Howard’s latest memo, Calculus of Va l u e , o u t We d n e s d a y, the 14th of August., Harry Howard does say in the memo, basically, anybody under the age of 35 hasn’t seen a proper crisis.

Cockroaches in the Coal Mine

As I mentioned in my memo Gimme Credit in March, the thing people have asked me about most often over the last few years is private credit., As I pointed out in my memo What Does the Market Know?, Investors’ risk tolerance grows, and they tend to focus less on due diligence and more on bidding aggressively for deals (see my memo The Race to the Bottom, February 2007)., One I haven’t mentioned since my memo The Long View in 2009 is the “bezzle,” a concept Galbraith introduced in his book The Great Crash 1929.