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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.
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.
Investing Without People
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Investing Without People Over the last twelve months I’ve devoted three memos to discussing macro developments, market outlook, and recommendations for investor behavior., This memo covers three ways in which securities markets seem to be moving toward reducing the role of people: (a) index investing and other forms of passive investing, (b) quantitative and algorithmic investing, and (c) artificial intelligence and machine learning., In this memo I’ll use the first of those., Wolf, a former CIO and consultant to some of our clients’ boards, asking which memo contained a quote she likes to use., The Impact on Investing It’s only taken me until page fourteen to get to the issue that prompted me to start in on this memo: what these things imply for the future of our profession.
Coming Into Focus
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Coming into Focus Roughly two months have passed since my last memo, Time for Thinking, and still not much has changed in the economy or the markets., Thus, I’m going to use this memo to go into greater detail on a few topics., I touched on a few of them in my last memo, but I’m going to undertake a fuller treatment of the subject here., Further Exposing Inequality Especially in this environment of heightened attention to social and racial justice, I can’t end this memo without touching on some of the many ways in which the recent experience has shed additional light on inequality in our society: • People further down the economic ladder have had less in terms of financial resources to fall back on during the lockdown, and they generally haven’t benefitted from the increase in asset prices that’s been driven by the reduction of interest rates
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.
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.
Assessing Performance Records a Case Study
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : AssessingPerformance Records – A Case Study What are the non-negotiable requirements for accurately assessing investment performance?, in my memo Pigweed, from December 7, 2006
It's Greek to Me
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : It’sGreekto Me In the early part of this decade, I reviewed a few books for the Sunday Los Angeles Times., It’s been challenging to organize all I’ve learned and boil it down for a memo, but here it is, was the title of a memo I wrote on March 5, 2009, discussing whether the Obama administration’s rescue plan would be successful., My purpose in writing this memo was to summarize and explain the developments in Europe, and that’s the vein in which I started.
The Realists Creed
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: TheRealist's Creed Early this year, I was asked to write an article for "Trusts & Estates" magazine.