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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.

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.”)

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.

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 . . .

Easy Money

I received excellent feedback on the memo from clients – encouragement that pro mpted 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.

Selling Out (Audio)

Howard Marks’s latest memo considers one of investing’s most fundamental questions: when to sell.

The Winds of Change (Audio)

Howard Marks’s latest memo examines paradigm shifts that could reshape the economy, markets and the world for many years to come. 

The Rewind - Dare to Be Great II

Howard reflects on this memo originally published on April 8, 2014.