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I Beg to Differ (Audio)

Howard Marks’s latest memo argues that investors seeking superior performance must have the courage to depart from the pack, even though doing so means accepting the risk of being wrong.
Risk Revisited Again

Also in 2006 I wrote Risk, my first memo devoted entirely to this key subject., This memo adds to what I’ve previously written on the topic., What Risk Really Means In the 2006 memo and in the book, I argued against the purported identity between volatility and risk., While writing the original memo on risk in 2006, an important thought came to me for the first time., Beginning on page 9, you’ll find a section borrowed from a memo I wrote back in 2007.
Whats Going on in Private Credit

 © 2026 Oaktree Capital Management, L.P All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: What’s Going on in Private Credit?, As Armen, Bob, and Craig wrote in a recent internal memo: 6 © 2026 Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., As I wrote in my 2016 memo What Does the Market Know?, As I mentioned a year ago in my memo, Gimme Credit, whereas for a few years the most popular question has been “can we talk about private credit?”, In December 2022, I wrote a memo called Sea Change.
Inspiration from the World of Sports

All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Inspiration from the World of Sports I’m constantly intrigued by the parallels between investing and sports., In the latter memo, I listed five ways in which investing is like sports:  It’s competitive – some succeed and some fail, and the distinction is clear, It was Yogi’s passing in late September that inspired this memo., This memo gives me a chance to discuss an invaluable clipping on the subject that I collected nine months ago and have been looking for an occasion to mention., The Victor’s Mindset It often seems that just as I’m completing a memo, a final inspiration pops up.
The Archive: You Bet!

In his 2020 memo You Bet!, , the first release from The Memo by Howard Marks: The Archive, an audio library we're creating of the memos Howard has published over the last 34 years.
I'd Rather Be Wrong

 Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : I’dRatherBeWrong Just a few weeks ago, I published “Tell Me I’m Wrong,” my latest list of things in the investment environment that I find worth worrying about., I’m going to devote a few pages here – I promise this’ll be the shortest memo in years – to a point I touched on in “What Worries Me” (August 28, 2008) but omitted from the more recent piece., This memo will be about one of the inarguably most depressing topics of our time: the seeming inability of governments and politicians to solve – or even tackle – the financial problems we face., This memo is inspired by two excellent newspaper articles that appeared within the last month: “Party Gridlock Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis,” by Jackie Calmes (The New York Times, February 17) * and “Perils of the California Model” by David Wessel (The Wall Street Journal, March 4)
The Impact of Debt

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Impact of Debt My partner Bruce Karsh recently supplied me with a newspaper article about chess that inspired me to write a brief memo called The Indispensability of Risk., The response to the memo was favorable, hopefully because people found the content valuable, but quite possibly because it was only three pages long versus the usual ten to twelve., Thus encouraged, I’m following up with another short memo., (Unless otherwise indicated, this memo is the source of the quotations that follow; in all cases, emphasis is in the original.), In that memo, I used a series of simple graphics to show that the lower a company’s debt load is, the greater the decline in fortune it could survive.
Performing Credit Quarterly 1Q2023

As part of the discussion, they explore Howard’s memo Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank.
Taking the Temperature (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks discusses five market calls he’s made during his career.
Fewer Losers, or More Winners? (Audio)

In his latest memo, Howard Marks discusses the essential choice in both investing and sports.