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It Is What It Is
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: ItIsWhat It Is My first exposure to the phrase that serves as the title for this memo came in 1995, a few days before Oaktree opened its doors., I took Peter’s use of the phrase in 1995 – and I’m using it in this memo – to mean something very different: recognition and acceptance of today’s givens . . . but not necessarily of the end result., In November 2004 I wrote a memo entitled “Risk and Return Today.”, Mark Cutis of Shinsei Bank sent me his memo entitled, “Market of no fear!”, I think a few of them – plus some comments from Warren Buffett’s latest annual report – can be woven into something of relevance to this memo and of interest to you.
Bull Market Rhymes
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Bull Market Rhymes While I employ a great many adages and quotes in my writings, my main go-to list consists of a relatively small number., They’ll be the topic of this memo., I want to mention up front that this memo has nothing to do with assessing the markets’ likely direction from here., And updating a question I asked in my memo The Happy Medium (July 2004), why has its annual return been between 8% and 12% just six times during this period?, In my 2007 memo The Race to the Bottom, I explained that when there’s too much money in the hands of investors and providers of capital and they’re too eager to put it to work, they bid too aggressively for securities and the chance to lend.
Yet Again
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Yet Again?, As I said in the memo, “it’s not real” – there is no intrinsic value behind it., It’s time for caution, as I wrote in the memo, not a full-scale exodus., Thus I’ve realized the memo was diagnostic but not sufficiently prescriptive., If you believe what I said in the memo about the presence of risk today, you might want to opt for #3.
Transcript - The Insight Conversations - Howard Marks and Annie Duke
Howard’s 2020 memo, Yo u B e t !, This idea also features quite prominently in Howard’s memo, Yo u B e t !, I took a look at the memo, Yo u B e t !, Howard I was going to say it was the last memo before lockdown., What I said in the memo was, it’s easy to predict what you think is going to happen.
The Role of Confidence
That’s what this memo is about., Confidence Today Back in September, I wrote a memo entitled “On Uncertain Ground.”, In mid-2007 I was working on a memo with the projected title “The Mother of All Cycles.”, In the memo I complained that every asset class, every asset and every region was appreciating., Thus that memo was followed by “It’s All Good . . .
Knowledge of the Future
All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Knowledge of the Future As I showed by using it again in last week’s memo, I was impressed by the observation of Marc Lipsitch, Harvard epidemiologist, that there are (a) facts, (b) informed extrapolations from analogies to other viruses and (c) opinion or speculation., I chose the title of this memo because it’s such an oxymoron: there’s practically no such thing as meaningful knowledge regarding the future investment environment., Thus, this memo will be about some things people think they know but may not.
No Different This Time – The Lessons of ‘07
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 : NoDifferentThisTime – The Lessons of ‘07 On July 16, I published a memo called “It’s All Good.”, The bullish balloon remained unpunctured as of July 16, and some may have thought my memo unduly pessimistic., I don’t doubt that it is, and for that reason his statement calls to mind a 2005 memo titled “Hindsight First, Please (or, What Were They Thinking?).”, In August 1996, I wrote a memo showing that in the Wall Street Journal’s semi-annual poll of economists, on average the predictions are an extrapolation of the current condition.
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.
Investment Miscellany
A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: Investment Miscellany Because I've been encouraged by the response to my “bubble. com” and venture capital memos, I'm going to keep writing., Glassman's name may be familiar to you, because my memo of May 1, 2000 took issue with “Dow 36,000,” a book he co-authored., As I wrote in my May memo, investors rapidly incorporate new information into their estimates of security values, and the market rapidly reflects the consensus view of values,...but that doesn't mean the consensus is right.
Gimme Credit
In his latest memo, Howard addresses a common question he’s been receiving over the last few months: “what about credit spreads?”