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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.
Political Reality
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a rks Re: Political R e a lity My last memo, in May, was on the subject of “Economic Reality.”, I have no interest in writing a memo about Brexit itself., Economic Reality: Choices and Consequences The May memo described the ways in which economics defines and constrains reality in business, investing and everyday life., All Rights Reserved Follow us: Topull this part of the memo together, I can’t overstate my appreciation for the way Thomas Friedman described the UK’s situation in The New York Times on June 29: A major European power, a long-time defender of liberal democracy, pluralism and free markets, falls under the sway of a few cynical politicians who see a chance to exploit public fears of immigration to advance their careers., All Rights Reserved Follow us: * * * I wrote this memo to explain what happened in the UK this year and what I think is happening in the U.S.
The Winds of Change
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: The Winds of Change The last 20 months have been a most unusual period, thanks primarily to the pandemic, yet many things feel like they haven’t changed over that time span., Yet there are changes taking place, and they’ll be the subject of this memo., All Rights Reserved Follow us: In my January memo, Something of Value, I described some of the changes technology is making in the business world., But it has to be part of a memo that purports to discuss important changes that are underway., Senior economics consultant Neil Irwin summed up our situation very well in The New York Times on April 16, 2020 (I borrowed this quote for inclusion in my May 2020 memo Uncertainty.): The world economy is an infinitely complicated web of interconnections.
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.
Dare to Be Great II
All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Dareto Be Great II In September 2006, I wrote a memo entitled Dare to Be Great, with suggestions on how institutional investors might approach the goal of achieving superior investment results., Most importantly for the purposes of this memo, how will you define success, and what risks will you take to achieve it?, In the memo I mentioned my favorite fortune cookie: “the cautious seldom err or write great poetry.”, This goes all the way back to the beginning of this memo, and each organization’s need to establish its creed., Some of this comes from my last memo, on the role of luck
Taking the Temperature
Thus, I said so in the memo bubble.com, which was published as 2000 began., In July 2007, I published the memo It’s All Good, in which I was more emphatic (and had better timing): Where do we stand in the cycle?, Here’s how I put it in a memo I wrote that day: Skepticism and pessimism aren’t synonymous., This is how things stood in March 2012, when I wrote the memo Déjà Vu All Over Again., As I wrote in that same memo: What do we know?
Gimme Credit
Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Gimme Credit The questions I get from clients enable me to understand in real time what’s on their minds., 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 Ve rsus Equities I’ve written about equity valuations – primarily referencing the Standard & Poor’s 500 – as recently as this January in my memo On Bubble Wa tch.
Further Thoughts on Sea Change
In May, I wrote a follow-up memo to Sea Change (December 2022) that was shared exclusively with Oaktree clients., This memo was originally sent to Oaktree clients on May 30, 2023.1 This Time It Really Might Be Different On October 11, 1987, I first came across the saying “this time it’s different.”, As I mentioned in my December memo, the 13 years in question were a difficult, dreary, low-return period for credit investors, including Oaktree., When I got home, I wrote the memo and began to discuss its thesis., October 11, 2023 Endnotes 1 All market data cited in this memo is as of May 30, 2023.
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.