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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.

The Feeling's Mutual

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo To: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: TheFeeling's Mutual Throughout the recent, seemingly endless series of scandals, complaints, settlements, indictments and meltdowns involving corporations, auditors, brokerage firms, investment banks and hedge funds, the mutual fund industry remained untouched.

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.

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.

March 2024 Edition Roundup

Oaktree Co-Chairman Howard Marks discussed this view in detail in his recent memo, Easy Money. 4.

We're Not in 1999 Anymore

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: We're Not In 1999 Anymore, Toto In "The Wizard of Oz," a tornado carried Dorothy and her dog, Toto, to a land ruled by a mysterious despot in whom people had vested extraordinary powers.

Leaning Toward Value: Emerging Markets Equities After the Pandemic

Howard Marks, our co-chairman, penned these lines in his recent memo “Something of Value” (January 11, 2021), critiquing the often oversimplified distinction between value and growth investing.

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.