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In his recent interview on The Wall Street Lab Podcast, Howard Marks provided a great example of how to be a smart contrarian. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Marks: Most people associate investing, high quality investing with scepticism. That is to say you don’t necessarily believe everything you’re told … Read More

In his latest interview with The Ivey Business School, Oaktree’s Howard Marks recalls the story of the time he was speaking with a famous value investor who did well in 1999, when value investors were getting crushed, and the lesson he took away from that meeting. Here’s an excerpt from … Read More

In his recent interview on The Korea Economic Daily Global Edition, Howard Marks discussed why he believes value investors should think bigger, and consider investing in fast growing companies. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: The essence of value investing is getting good value for your money. Now value investing … Read More

In his latest memo titled – 2020 in Review, Howard Marks discusses the extremes compiled in financial markets in 2020, and emphasises the point of the difficulty in finding good returns in the current environment without taking on additional risk and being lucky enough to do so in an environment … Read More

In his most recent memo titled – Something of Value, Howard Marks discusses the false dichotomy of value and growth investing, which is best summarized by his quote from Warren Buffett, “We don’t consider ourselves to be value investors. . . . Discounted cash proceeds is the appropriate way to … Read More

In his latest interview on The Howard Marks Investor Series with Finance Professor Chris Geczy, Howard Marks discussed a number of topics including his five options for pursuing high returns in a low return world. Here’s an excerpt from that interview: Marks: How do you pursue a high return in … Read More

In his latest memo titled – Coming Into Focus, Howard Marks included a great piece on comparing today’s tech goliaths with the Nifty Fifty. Marks makes the point that while the FAAMG’s may be larger, faster growing, and have greater growth potential than the Nifty Fifty, no one’s valuing them … Read More

Howard Marks recently released his latest memo titled – Time For Thinking – in which he discussed: The Current Health Crisis Failure To Fix It Not A Cycle What Shape Are We In The Markets And The Fed The Bull Case He also provided investors with some closing thoughts on … Read More

In his recent interview with CFA Chile Howard Marks highlighted the impact that passive investing strategies are having on driving stock prices to absurdly expensive levels while also driving out active investors, which keep prices fair. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: When you see the way the markets have … Read More

In his recent Real Vision interview Howard Marks discussed how understanding the market cycle can tell investors what’s likely to happen next. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: I think the the key to understanding the business cycle is… and the market cycle is that you know most behavior is … Read More

Howard Marks has released his latest memo titled – Uncertainty, in which he discusses the uncertainty associated with investing and the difficulty of trying to forecast the future. Included in the memo are eight of the best quotes from some of the greatest minds on forecasting: We have two classes … Read More

In a recent interview with CNBC Howard Marks provided his thoughts on the short term future for the stock market saying: “We’re only down 15% from the all-time high of Feb. 19,” Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, said Monday on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” But “it seems to me the … Read More

In Howard Marks’ latest memo he discusses the futility of trying to predict what’s likely to happen in the future in the world of investing saying: 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 … Read More

Howard Marks has written yet another memo recently titled Calibrating in which he discusses his views on why investors should consider a change in their portfolio’s positioning over time, in response to what’s going on in the current environment saying: As the environment becomes more precarious, (with prices high, risk … Read More

Howard Marks recently released a memo to his clients titled – Which Way Now, in which he discusses the bull and bear cases for the current environment, oil, and the government programs. He finishes his memo with the following quote: The most important thing is to be ready to respond … Read More

Here’s a great discussion with Howard Marks and his team at Oaktree discussing the credit markets and relative value in today’s market. During the discussion Marks provides a key insight into what he’s been speaking about over the past few months which is while no one could have predicted this … Read More

Here’s a great short interview with Howard Marks speaking on CNBC in which he discusses the dilemma that ever investor faces in a falling market. When do you pull the trigger when you see stocks that look cheap? Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Q. What do you think is … Read More