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Howard Marks Memo: Getting Lucky
Sometimes these memos are inspired by a single event or just one thing I read. This one – like my first memo 24 years ago – grew out of the juxtaposition of two observations. I’ll introduce one here and the other on page seven. Contrary to my wife Nancy’s observation that my memos are “all the same,” the subject here is one I’ve rarely touched on.
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Howard Marks Memo: Inspiration From The World Of Sports
Link to Memo: Inspiration from the World of Sports I’m constantly intrigued by the parallels between investing and sports. They’re illuminating as well as fun, and thus they’ve prompted two past memos: “How the Game Should Be Played” (May 1995)...
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Howard Marks Memo: Risk Revisited Again
Link to Memo: Risk Revisited Again In April 2014, I had good results with Dare to Be Great II, starting from the base established in an earlier memo (Dare to Be Great, September 2006) and adding new thoughts that had occurred to me in the intervening...
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Howard Marks' Crystal Ball Proved Accurate
Link to article: Howard Marks' Crystal Ball Proved Accurate Ten years ago, veteran investor and writer Howard Marks sent a contrarian -- and prescient -- memo to clients of his firm, Oaktree Capital Management, assessing the state of the hedge...
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Howard Marks Memo: Dare To Be Great Ii
Link to: Howard Marks Memo: Dare to Be Great IIIn September 2006, I wrote a memo entitled Dare to Be Great, with suggestions on how institutional investors might approach the goal of achieving superior investment results. I’ve had some additional...
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Howard Marks: Oaktree Capital Memos 1990 – 2009
This is a GREAT find from Tariq at Street Capitalist. Thank you Tariq! From his blog: Yesterday, as far as I know, Oaktree Capital decided to make all of their existing memos from Howard Marks available. Marks is a great writer and has a knack for forming...
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