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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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.)
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.”)