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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.
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.
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.
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.
Genius Isn't Enough
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClientsandFriends From: HowardMarks Re: GeniusIsn't Enough (and Other Lessons from Long-Term Capital Management) On September 24, The Wall Street Journal carried an excellent front-page article regarding the inability of the "crack team" of economic policy makers led by Messrs., Our memo entitled "Risk In Today's Markets" (February 17, 1994) asked the following about 'til-then successful hedge funds: With the average stock or bond returning 10-15% last year, how did some hedge funds make 70% or more?
Hindsight First, Please (or, What Were They Thinking?)
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: HindsightFirst,Please(or,What Were They Thinking?), My May memo “There They Go Again” discussed the residential real estate boom in depth, and I’m not going to repeat its message., (Most apropos of this memo, but less famously, he also said, “Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.”)
The New Paradigm
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 : TheNewParadigm When I was a kid, no one ate kiwi fruit or heirloom tomatoes – or had ever heard of them, for that matter., As I mentioned in a memo earlier this year, I’d heard a buyout mogul say, “It’s our job to buy good companies at fair prices and make them better.”, In my memo on hedge funds of two years ago, I cited an insightful piece from Byron Wien of Morgan Stanley called “In Praise of Hedge Fund Volatility.”
Tell Me I'm Wrong
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Tell Me I’m Wrong My readers treat me well., This memo won’t be about the future in general, just the elements I find worrisome., My goal in this memo isn’t to express a forecast.