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Conversation Conference 2024
I don’t think it should be. 2 Now, the memo focuses on the period from ‘09, at the beginning of which, the Fed took the fed funds rate to zero for the first time in history to fight the Global Financial Crisis, to the end of ‘21 when it gave up on inflation being transitory and decided to raise interest rates, which it did in early ‘22., The memo I put out in January entitled Easy Money was actually inspired by an English financial historian named Edward Chancellor and a book he wrote called The Price of Time.
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 Calculus of Value (Audio)
In his latest memo, Howard Marks sets forth the essence of value and price, as well as the critical relationship between the two.
Assessing Performance Records a Case Study
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : AssessingPerformance Records – A Case Study What are the non-negotiable requirements for accurately assessing investment performance?, in my memo Pigweed, from December 7, 2006
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.
The Roundup: Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters - March 2023 Edition
In Howard's recent memo Sea Change, he wrote, “We've gone from the low-return world of 2009-21 to a full-return world, and it may become more so in the near term….
The Roundup: Top Takeaways from Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters – September 2025 Edition
Plus, we’ve included an excerpt from Howard Marks’s latest memo. 1 Market Outlook:Worrisome Equity Valuations Howard Marks Co-Chairman A bit over half of the S&P 500’s jaw-dropping 58% two-year total return in 2023-24 was attributable to the spectacular performance of just seven stocks, those of the so-called “Magnificent Seven” – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook), Nvidia, and Tesla.2 These are great companies – some are the best companies ever – and these seven stocks have grown to represent a startling one-third of the total market value of the 500-stock index.
2020 in Review
Thus, you might end up feeling this memo should have been titled Preview of 2021 rather than 2020 in Review.