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Mr. Market Miscalculates (Audio)
In his latest memo, Howard Marks discusses the reasons for the recent market volatility using one of finance’s classic metaphors: Mr.
Conversation at Panmure House
In the late ’90s, I wrote a memo called What's It All About, Alpha?, In the spring of 2007, I wrote a memo called The Race to the Bottom., PS: I’d like to talk more about the memo Investing Without People., In the memo Investing Without People, there are three sections., The conversation on pp. 7-8 of this memo is for illustrative purposes only.
Open and Shut
Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : OpenandShut MarkTwain is described as having said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”, I’m willing to try an experiment along those lines for this memo., The above citations provide the themes for this memo., In short, whereas economies fluctuate a little and profits a fair bit, the credit window opens wide and then slams shut . . . thus the title of this memo., The Ramifications In 2003, my memo “What’s Going On?”
The Illusion of Knowledge
It was that lunch that started me thinking about writing yet another memo on the futility of macro forecasting., Shortly after starting on this memo, I received my regular weekly edition of Morgan Housel’s always-brilliant newsletter., I found Ferguson’s article so relevant to the subject of this memo that I’m including a link to it here., At the lunch described at the beginning of this memo, people were asked what they expected in terms of, for example, Fed policy, and how that influenced their investment stance., * * * In a 2001 memo called What’s It All About, Alpha?
The Illusion of Knowledge
It was that lunch that started me thinking about writing yet another memo on the futility of macro forecasting., Shortly after starting on this memo, I received my regular weekly edition of Morgan Housel’s always-brilliant newsletter., I found Ferguson’s article so relevant to the subject of this memo that I’m including a link to it here., – Mark Twain As I mentioned in my recent memo Thinking About Macro, in the 1970s we used to describe an economist as “a portfolio manager who never marks to market.”, All Rights Reserved Follow us: * * * In a 2001 memo called What’s It All About, Alpha?
Notes from New York
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Notesfrom New York Maybe you've already read enough about last week's events, in which case you should feel free to discard this memo., I had no plans for a memo on this subject., This memo may not include much that is new to you but, as usual, I will attempt to pull together my own thoughts and what I've heard and read elsewhere.
Irrational Exuberance
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Irrational Exuberance Recent years have witnessed great excesses in the stock market., Thus I will attempt below to combine a number of ideas and bits of empirical data I've stored up over recent weeks in a memo which expresses my views and hopefully is of value to you., That being the case, I'm not going to miss the opportunity to celebrate the correctness to date of my last memo, “bubble. com.”, The table below lists the stocks mentioned in that memo and their declines from its publication at year end, and from the highs reached since then, to the April trough
The Insight Conversations - Reflections on Oaktree Conference 2026
And I wrote a memo a year ago called Gimme Credit., And Bob said essentially what we do is take advantage of the mistakes of others, and that caused me to write a memo shortly after entitled It’s All a Big Mistake., And I put out a memo called leverage plus volatili-ty equals dynamite., I’ve thought so much and I’ve written so much, I have another memo in the works right now, Harry, the tentative title is Fans and Fancies., I’m sure you’ll all be on the lookout for Howard’s next memo.
The Folly of Certainty
Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks R e: The Folly of Certainty The impetus for my memos can come from a wide variety of sources., And, with that, I had the subject of this memo: not whether Biden will continue campaigning or drop out – or whether he’ll win if he continues – but rather how anyone can be without doubt., Back in mid-2020, when the pandemic seemed to have become a more or less understood phenomenon, I slowed the pace of my memo writing from the one-a-week pattern of March and April., A L L R I G H T S R E S E R V E D P.S.: Last summer’s Grand Slam tennis tournaments provided the inspiration for my memo Fewer Losers, or More Winners?, Similarly, this past Saturday’s women’s final match at Wimbledon has provided a snippet for this memo.
Everyone Knows
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: EveryoneKnows _____________________________________________________________________________ par·a·doxn1aseemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that is or may be true . . . 4 an opinion that conflicts with common belief., I’ve been saving up ideas for a memo about how often the investing herd is wrong and accepted wisdom should be bet against.