Howard Marks: A Layman Thinks About AI
by Howard Marks, Co-Chair, Oaktree Capital Management L.P. Should we invest in artificial intelligence, and can we do…
Howard Marks: AI Hurtles Ahead
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management When I was preparing to write my December memo about artificial…
Faster Decisions, No Compromise: Inside BMO Insurance’s SmartDecision
BMO Insurance's Katarina Nikolic, on how SmartDecision delivers market leading real-time underwriting decisions up to $5-million, which eliminates delays and uncertainty in the decision-making process.
Howard Marks: Is It a Bubble?
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Ours is a remarkable moment in world history. A transformative technology is…
Howard Marks: Cockroaches in the Coal Mine
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management Pardon the mixed metaphor, but I couldn’t resist. Jamie Dimon, Chairman…
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Howard Marks: "A Look Under the Hood"
by Howard Marks, Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management Over the last 56 years, I’ve spent a lot of time…
Howard Marks: The Calculus of Value
by Howard Marks, Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management On July 28, I flew to South America on a plane…
Howard Marks: Nobody Knows (Yet Again)
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital On Monday, September 15, 2008, shortly after the close of the New…
Howard Marks: "Gimme Credit"
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital The questions I get from clients enable me to understand in real…
Howard Marks: On Bubble Watch
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Exactly 25 years ago today, I published the first memo that brought…
Howard Marks: Ruminating on Asset Allocation
by Howard Marks, Vice Chairman, Oaktree Capital When I travel to see clients and spend entire days discussing…
How Howard Marks Thinks About Risk…And You Should Too
by Lance Roberts, RIA When most people hear the word “risk,” they think about wild market swings, scary…
Howard Marks: "Mr. Market Miscalculates"
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital In his book The Intelligent Investor, first published in 1949, Benjamin Graham,…
Howard Marks: The Indispensability of Risk
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Oftentimes, we’re best able to understand something we’re interested in through analogies…
Howard Marks' Memo: Easy Money
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital The backstory: I began writing these memos in 1990 and continued to…
Howard Marks Latest Memo: Further Thoughts on Sea Change
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital In May, I wrote a follow-up memo to Sea Change (December 2022)…