By Hedge Fund Insight staff Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Group, is a closely followed as a commentator on investment matters. Here is a small selection of his comments and prognostications from this year. “Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.” “I view alternative investing as like […] Read more »
Summary of “The Most Important Thing” by Howard Marks
By Ken Faulkenberry of Arbor Investment Planner Howard Marks, author of “The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor”, is the Chairman of the Oaktree Capital Management. Marks was one of the original founders and is famous for his “memos to Oaktree clients” which he uses liberally throughout the book to add […] Read more »
Oaktree Capital Indicator For Distressed Investing Turns Positive
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Distressed debt funds had a disappointing year in terms of returns in 2014. According to Evestment distressed funds returned 0.6% last year, and attracted net subscriptions of $9.15bn in 2014. The story is little different this year in terms of returns- Eurekahedge data makes distressed investing the strategy with […] Read more »
Institutional Flows Power Growth for Claren Road, MKP Capital and BlueCrest in Credit
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In all investment strategies of the hedge fund industry the big have got bigger. The growth of assets has tended to be dominated by the top managers, whether in CTAs, macro or multi-strategy. In the period since the Credit Crunch of 2008-9 this long-term trend has accelerated. Between the […] Read more »
Getting Lucky – Howard Mark’s Memo January 2014
By Howard Marks, Chairman of Oaktree Capital Management 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 […] Read more »
Oaktree Capital Sets Out To Seize Control in Europe
Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital Management There are a number of managers of distressed assets who are able to take a medium-to-long-term macro view about the viability of the opportunity set in front of them. Successful distressed investing is a cyclical phenomenon, such that there are better times than others to apply fresh capital to […] Read more »