Category: Howard Marks
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Howard Marks Memo 1992 Microeconomics 101 Supply, Demand and Convertibles Review
As in this memo, Howard writes about the supply, demand and convertibles. Two principal factors determine the success of any investment; 1) Intrinsic Quality: Intrinsic quality of underlying business, how good the business is? Its better to invest in good companies than bad one, ceteris paribus. [Ceteris paribus is a favourite term of economists. It…
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Howard Marks Memo 1991 First Quarter Performance Review
The second memo from Howard Marks, named “First Quarter Performance” written in 1991, I am reviewing today, is very short but very important to understand from investor perspective. Howard starts this memo by saying “The mood swings of the securities markets resemble the movement of a pendulum.” The price of a stock, always behave like…
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Howard Marks Memo 1990 The Route to Performance – Review
In Intelligent Investor, one of the great book ever written on value investing by Benjamin Graham, The preface written by Warren Buffett, in that preface Buffett says “To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What’s needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions…