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Performing Credit Quarterly 3Q2023: Tails, You Lose?
But, of course, such performance is only possible if managers avoid (or limit) defaults and losses, which is why we believe credit expertise, experience over multiple cycles, and risk control are essential for successful CLO managers. (5) The risk/return calculus for credit versus equity investment may be shifting We’ll give Howard the last word, with an excerpt from his recent memo Further Thoughts on Sea Change: Will asset ownership be as profitable in the years ahead as in the 2009-21 period?
Nobody Knows
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 : Nobody K n o w s T h e t i t l e o f t h i s m emo isn’t a joke; I mean it.
The Roundup: Top Takeaways From Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters - 4Q2022
(See Howard’s memo The Illusion of Knowledge for Oaktree’s view on the usefulness of macro forecasting.)
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.
2020 in Review
Thus, you might end up feeling this memo should have been titled Preview of 2021 rather than 2020 in Review.
Are You An Investor or a Speculator
Memo to: Oaktree Clients and Friends From: Howard Marks Re: Are You An Investor or a Speculator?, In an April 1991 memo entitled "The Pendulum," we discussed the market's usual oscillation between euphoria and depression, and thus between overpriced and underpriced.
Implications of the Election_11716
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Implications of the Election I’m starting this memo a week before Election Day., But after a post-election memo in 2012 that proved far too optimistic, I say, “why quit now?”
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.
A Fresh Start Hopefully
Memo t o : O a k t r e e C l i e nts F r o m: Howard M a rks Re: AFreshStart (Hopefully) For years I kept these memos away from anything related to politics.