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The Anatomy of a Rally
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Anatomy of a Rally The background is well known to all, The possible reasons for the markets’ recovery are many and, as I write this memo, the list is growing as people find more things to take positively., In my memo, On the Couch (January 2016), I wrote that: That’s one of the crazy things: in the real world, things generally fluctuate between “pretty good” and “not so hot.”
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.
What's Your Game Plan
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’sYourGame Plan?, UFinding Your Role Model An article in the Wall Street Journal of August 8, entitled “Greatness in Our Midst,” supplied the immediate impetus for this memo., A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d UBack to Tennis for the Wrap-up Just as this memo was going into the home stretch, the Wall Street Journal’s Allan Barra greeted the start of the U.S.
Etorre's Wisdom
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Etorre's Wisdom My memos evoke a wide variety of reactions., This memo will serve as a good example: it was inspired by a ride I took this summer with my son Andrew.
Commemorating 25 Years of Mastering the Market Cycle
.• 1988 marks the peak in S&L failures, part of a slow-moving crisis that would see more than 1,000 institutions fail. 1990 Oaktree • 1990: Howard writes his first investment memo, The Route to Performance , stating that “if you can avoid the losers (and losing years), the winners will take care of themselves.”, In particular, they’re rattled once again in 1998 when prominent hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management melts down. 2000 Oaktree • 2000: In his first memo of the new century, Howard expresses caution regarding the dot-com bubble: “To say [tech stocks] have benefited from a boom of colossal proportions and should be examined very skeptically is something I feel I owe you.”• Starting in late 2004, Oaktree begins to invest in smaller amounts and more cautiously, as its portfolio managers detect “too much trust and too little worry” in the markets.• 2007: Oaktree begins to gear up for an expanded opportunity for distressed debt investing.• Late 2008: In the last 15 weeks of 2008, in the face of widespread fear of a systemic collapse of financial markets, Oaktree invests ~$600 million per week following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.• 2009:
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.
Volatility Leverage Dynamite
The last few years have provided a great demonstration of how dangerous it can be to combine leverage with risky assets, and that’s the subject of this memo., It’ll also pick up on some ideas from my last memo, “The Limits to Negativism.”, My memo “Plan B” on the bailout proposal went out on September 24, and as I lay in bed later that night, I realized that I hadn’t taken one part of it nearly far enough., That’s true as far as it goes, but I’m going to devote this memo to things which could have followed that paragraph., This memo calls on investors to gauge risk and use only appropriate leverage.
What's Going on in Private Credit
© 2026 Oaktree Capital Management, L.P All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: What’s Going on in Private Credit?, As Armen, Bob, and Craig wrote in a recent internal memo: 6 © 2026 Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., As I wrote in my 2016 memo What Does the Market Know?, As I mentioned a year ago in my memo, Gimme Credit, whereas for a few years the most popular question has been “can we talk about private credit?”, In December 2022, I wrote a memo called Sea Change.
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.