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The Tide Goes Out
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s Re: TheTideGoesOut Foreveryperiod,there’saquotationwhichservesperfectlytoexplainwhat’s going on, and I often find myself borrowing it., In my December memo “No Different This Time” I listed twelve lessons of 2007.
Touchstones
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 : Touchstones I n t h e t w o - p l u s y e a r s s i n c e t h e o n set of the financial crisis, it’s been a regular theme of mine that we should look back, identify the causes and learn from them., “It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out That You Find Out Who’s Been Swimming Naked” When I came across the above quotation from Warren Buffett, I borrowed it for “It’s All Good” (July 16, 2007) and later devoted an entire memo to it (“The Tide Goes Out,” March 18, 2008).
The Outlook for Equities
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard Marks Re: The Outlook for Equities It doesn‟t take much to get me started on a memo., Valuing Stocks Today The underlying reason it took so little from FierceFinance to get me going on this memo is that I had a lot of pent-up thoughts about equities and their current valuation., I‟m not going to drag you through it again, but I will copy over parts of that memo from a year ago: . . . people have been throwing in the towel and selling stocks., Those low expectations, when combined with modest fundamental and psychological improvement, gave the S&P 500 a return of about 13% over the year since that memo was written.
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.
All That Glitters
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d 1 Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : AllThatGlitters In 1952, Noah S., Thus it serves well to introduce the topic of this memo: gold.
Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics – Part III
© 2026 Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. 1 A ll Rights Reserved Memo to: Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics – Part III In September 2024 and June 2025, I wrote memos that were critical of governments’ attempts to override the laws of economics, based on my conviction that trying to do so is likely to prove ineffective and potentially harmful., You can easily turn a 1,000 mark note into a 1,000,000 mark note, but it’s likely to still buy just one goat (as I wrote in my memo The Limits to Negativism in 2008).
First Quarter Client Performance
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 T r u s t C o mpany of the West Re: FirstQuarter Performance The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum.
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 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.
On the Couch
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: On the Couch I woke up early on Saturday, December 12 – the morning after a day of significant declines in stocks, credit and crude oil – with enough thoughts going through my mind to keep me from going back to sleep., Thus I moved to my desk to start a memo that would pull them together., This memo is my attempt to send the markets to the psychiatrist’s couch, and an exploration of what might be learned there. 2012-14: An Uncertain World In September 2012, I wrote a memo called “On Uncertain Ground.”, Almost 25 years ago, in my second memo (“First Quarter Performance,” April 1991), I introduced the concept of the investment pendulum: Although the midpoint of its arc best describes the location of the pendulum “on average,” it actually spends very little of its time there., Case In Point – Oil On December 12, as I began to write this memo, the Financial Times provided several examples of the negative thinking being applied.