Memos from Howard Marks
The Memo by Howard Marks

Behind the Memo - The Indispensability of Risk with Howard Marks, Bruce Karsh, and Maurice Ashley

In this episode of Behind the Memo, Howard Marks is joined by two special guests: Oaktree cofounder Bruce Karsh and Maurice Ashley, the chess Grandmaster and author of Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard.  In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss Howard’s recent memo The Indispensability of Risk as well as the inspiration for that memo: Maurice’s Wall Street Journal article, Chess Teaches the Power of SacrificeThey consider the many parallels between chess and investing, including the lesson that not taking enough risk may be one of the riskiest strategies of all. 

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