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Mr. Market Miscalculates

I referred them to my 2016 memo On the Couch., As I wrote over 33 years ago, in only my second memo: The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum. . . . between euphoria and depression, between celebrating positive developments and obsessing over negatives, and thus between overpriced and underpriced., It’s highly applicable to the market tremor that inspired this memo.
Political Reality

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a rks Re: Political R e a lity My last memo, in May, was on the subject of “Economic Reality.”, I have no interest in writing a memo about Brexit itself., Economic Reality: Choices and Consequences The May memo described the ways in which economics defines and constrains reality in business, investing and everyday life., All Rights Reserved Follow us: Topull this part of the memo together, I can’t overstate my appreciation for the way Thomas Friedman described the UK’s situation in The New York Times on June 29: A major European power, a long-time defender of liberal democracy, pluralism and free markets, falls under the sway of a few cynical politicians who see a chance to exploit public fears of immigration to advance their careers., All Rights Reserved Follow us: * * * I wrote this memo to explain what happened in the UK this year and what I think is happening in the U.S.
The Winds of Change

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: The Winds of Change The last 20 months have been a most unusual period, thanks primarily to the pandemic, yet many things feel like they haven’t changed over that time span., Yet there are changes taking place, and they’ll be the subject of this memo., All Rights Reserved Follow us: In my January memo, Something of Value, I described some of the changes technology is making in the business world., But it has to be part of a memo that purports to discuss important changes that are underway., Senior economics consultant Neil Irwin summed up our situation very well in The New York Times on April 16, 2020 (I borrowed this quote for inclusion in my May 2020 memo Uncertainty.): The world economy is an infinitely complicated web of interconnections.
Ruminating on Asset Allocation

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Ruminating on Asset Allocation When I travel to see clients and spend entire days discussing investing and the markets, memo ideas often pop up., B efore I proceed, I want to mention that, from time to time in this memo, I’ll say “generally,” “usually,” or “everything else being equal.”, For the purposes of this memo, however, it might help to think of it as “fixed outcome” investing., The Essential Choice At the outset of this memo, I listed some of the decisions that comprise the asset allocation process., So, in a memo in 2006, I took the same line and superimposed on it some bell-shaped curves representing probability distributions turned on their side.
The Lessons of Oil

All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: The Lessons of Oil I want to provide a memo on this topic before I – and hopefully many of my readers – head out for year- end holidays.
What's It All About Alpha

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: What's It All About, Alpha?, With apologies to Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick, whose 1966 rendition for the movie "Alfie" was much more artistic, I couldn't resist adapting their title for a memo on investment theory., Rather than reinvent my own wheel, I'll lift parts of my memo "Irrational Exuberance" from May 2000.
What's Going On

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 : What's Going On?, The process of thinking about those subjects has given rise to this memo., UThe Market Cycle at Its Wildest In a memo on cycles entitled "You Can't Predict.
The Limits to Negativism

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 : TheLimits to Negativism The markets acted on Monday as if the credit crisis is behind us – how incredible it is to be able to even write those words, whether true or not., (I developed these thoughts last week but just wasn’t quick enough to turn them into a memo., As Bruce Karsh and I wrote ten days ago in a memo to investors in our Opportunities Funds for distressed debt, “. . . in a few years we’ll reminisce together about how easy it was to take advantage of the bargains of 2008-09.”
It's All a Big Mistake

Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : It’sAllaBigMistake Mistakes are a frequent topic of discussion in our world., Hearing Bob put it that way gave me the immediate inspiration for this memo., I’ve mentioned before the frequency with which I feel I come across a particularly apt quote just when I need it for a memo in the making.
Which Way Now

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Which Way Now?, I will borrow from others for the purposes of exposition in this memo, but not because I have reason to believe they’re correct): • The earliest countries to contract the virus have shown good progress., Last June, in my memo This Time It’s Different, I discussed Modern Monetary Theory, which – to simplify – says federal deficits and debt don’t matter.