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What Worries Me

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 : What Worries M e E s p e c i a l l y i n t i mes like these, people often ask what keeps me up at night., I’m not going to spend this memo discussing things as mundane as investment cycles, or as cosmic as environmental deterioration, global warming or terrorism., I hope this memo will be well received., But I hope this memo will raise some questions in readers’ minds and contribute to constructive debate., * * * I hope you’ll consider this memo constructive, and that it’ll inform or inspire debate.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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?”