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Microeconomics
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 Re: Microeconomics 101: Supply, Demand and Convertibles Two principal factors determine whether an investment will be successful.
You Bet
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: You Bet!, All Rights Reserved Follow us: Thinking in Bets In a past memo, I told a story from my days as a buy-side analyst following the business equipment industry for First National City Bank., And that brings me to the source of the inspiration for this memo: a book called Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke., That brings me to the subject of investing . . . and this memo., All Rights Reserved Follow us: Since her book provided the impetus for this memo, I’ll let Annie Duke sum up.
35 Years of Memos - Transcript
But anyway, that caused me to write the memo., Harry So bubble.com put the memos on the map, the next big crisis, seven or eight years later, the global financial crisis, again, I’ll read an excerpt from quite a timely memo Race to the Bottom, written in February 2007., Did you set out thinking, “Every memo should focus on risk, I should be the expert?”, Howard No, I think, Harry, that the themes, common threads that have developed, were never an intention to, “Let’s mention risk in every third memo,” or something like that., And I wrote a memo 25 years ago, plus or minus, called Us and Them talking about there are two schools of thought.
The Winds of Change
Yet there are changes taking place, and they’ll be the subject of this memo., In my January memo, Something of Value, I described some of the changes technology is making in the business world., In August 2008, on the way to ending my memo What Worries Me, I included a passage from the 2004 book Running on Empty by Pete Peterson (for those who weren’t in the business world in the 20th century, Pete held important positions in government and co-founded Blackstone with Steve Schwarzman): . . . while our problems are not yet intractable, both political parties are increasingly incorrigible., 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.
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.
You Can't 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.
Now What
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 : Now W h a t ?, And there you have it: five pages devoted to the past in a memo about the future.
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.
Risk in Todays Markets
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo To: Clients From: HowardS.Marks,TCW Re: RiskinToday's Markets The ability of the stock market to react so harshly on February 4 to a small, Fed- mandated rise in interest rates, pushing the Dow down 96 points, suggests a lack of preparedness for negative developments.
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.