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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Liquidity
All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Liquidity My wife Nancy’s accusations of repetitiveness notwithstanding, once in a while I think of something about which I haven’t written much., But I think it’s worth a memo., (Several years ago I cited Wikipedia in a memo, and Oaktree co-founder Richard Masson – a stickler for correctness – told me in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t a respectable source., * * * I started this memo by saying liquidity might not be a profound topic.