Howard Marks: AI Hurtles Ahead
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management When I was preparing to write my December memo about artificial…
February 28, 2026
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…
December 11, 2025
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…
November 11, 2025
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…
October 30, 2025
Howard Marks: The Calculus of Value
by Howard Marks, Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management On July 28, I flew to South America on a plane…
August 19, 2025
The Case for Core International Equity Exposure
Michael Greenberg, Head of Americas Portfolio Management at Franklin Templeton explains why international equities are no longer a tactical side bet, but a structural core allocation—and how disciplined portfolio construction is becoming the real source of durability
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…
April 15, 2025
Howard Marks: "Gimme Credit"
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital The questions I get from clients enable me to understand in real…
March 6, 2025
Howard Marks: On Bubble Watch
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Exactly 25 years ago today, I published the first memo that brought…
January 10, 2025
Howard Marks: Ruminating on Asset Allocation
by Howard Marks, Vice Chairman, Oaktree Capital When I travel to see clients and spend entire days discussing…
November 12, 2024
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…
October 14, 2024
Howard Marks: "Mr. Market Miscalculates"
by Howard Marks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital In his book The Intelligent Investor, first published in 1949, Benjamin Graham,…
August 30, 2024
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…
April 25, 2024
Howard Marks' Memo: Easy Money
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital The backstory: I began writing these memos in 1990 and continued to…
February 13, 2024
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)…
October 13, 2023
Howard Marks: Fewer Losers, or More Winners?
by Howard Marks, Vice-Chairman, Oaktree Capital My memos got their start in October 1990, inspired by an interesting…
September 13, 2023