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A Case in Point

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 : ACaseinPoint Lastmonth, my memo “There They Go Again” discussed investors’ propensity to repeat certain classic mistakes., Needing a new “gig,” Thorp turned his attention to another field in which subjective judgment could be improved upon through computer simulation: convertible arbitrage (I’ll bet you were wondering what blackjack had to do with the subject of this memo)., Anyway, this isn’t a memo about convertible arbitrage, but about investors’ persistent mistakes.

The Insight: The Roundup – June 2023 Edition

Explore these and many other questions, and hear an excerpt from Howard Marks’s recent memo to clients.

Ruminating on Asset Allocation

In his latest memo, Howard Marks outlines the need to base asset allocation decisions around an established risk target.

The Illusion of Knowledge

Howard Marks has long questioned the value of macro forecasts, but in his latest memo, he explains why creating profitable forecasts is so difficult.

Sea Change

In his latest memo, Howard Marks writes that the investment world may be experiencing the third major sea change of the last 50 years.

High Yield Bonds Today

Memo to: OaktreeHighYieldBondClients From: HowardMarksandSheldonStone Re: HighYieldBondsToday Clientsoftenaskforourviewsonthehighyieldbondmarket: “Do we think prices are too high?”, (This is in essence what Howard concluded in his most recent memo, “Ditto.”)

Easy Money

I received excellent feedback on the memo from clients – encouragement that prompted the many memos that have followed., I thank Zach Kessler, a regular memo reader, for sending it., The relevance of The Price of Time to the trends I’ve been discussing for the last year occasions this memo, As I asked at the time in my memo There They Go Again . . ., Thus, I wrote as follows in my memo You Can’t Predict.

The Value of Predictions, or Where'd All This Rain Come From?

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: Clients From: HowardMarks,TCW Re: TheValueof Predictions, or Where'd All This Rain Come From?, The motivation for this memo came as I considered the extraordinary amount of precipitation the West has experienced this year -- and newspaper articles of a couple of months ago.

Risk

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Risk T h e r e a d i n g materials for a meeting of a corporate board on which I sit – and what turned out to be an eight-hour meeting of the audit committee (thank you, Messrs., But I think that tells so little of the story that I’ve decided to devote an entire memo to the subject of risk. 0BUWhy Does Risk Matter?, Rick Funston said in the article that prompted this memo, “. . . you need comfort that the . . .

Will It Work?

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 : Will It Work?, As has happened before, his question elicited a fatherly response that grew into this memo., The “I know” school (which first appeared in a memo in 2001) is still making predictions.