Right
around the market peaked on September 2018, Oaktree's iconic founder
Howard Marks published a letter to investors in which he warned that the market conditions made it "a time for caution", to wit:
市場がピークを迎えた2018年9月ころ、Oaktreeの伝説的創業者 Howard Marksが投資家向けレターを発行した、この中で市場環境は「注意すべき時だ」と警告した、見てみよう:
I’m absolutely not saying people shouldn’t invest today, or shouldn’t
invest in debt. Oaktree’s mantra recently has been, and continues to
be, “move forward, but with caution.” The outlook is not so bad, and
asset prices are not so high, that one should be in cash or near-cash.
The penalty in terms of likely opportunity cost is just too great to
justify being out of the markets.
But for me, the import of all the above is that investors
should favor strategies, managers and approaches that emphasize limiting
losses in declines above ensuring full participation in gains. You
simply can’t have it both ways. Just about everything in the investment
world can be done either aggressively or defensively. In my view, market conditions make this a time for caution.
In retrospect, one correction and one (short) bear market later,
Marks was right, and on Monday speaking at a Bank of Singapore event,
Marks recapped what happened, saying "we had one of the most violent
downdrafts" that "I had ever seen,” Marks said. "Nothing much changed except people were first ignoring the bad news and then they were obsessing about the bad news."
So having anticipated, if not exactly predicted, said "violent
downdraft", what was Oaktree - which was building up cash for precisely
such an event - doing? Why buying with both hands.
今にしてみると、一度の調整と一度の(短期的な)ベア相場がその後生じた、Marks は正しかった、そして月曜の Bank of Singaporeのイベントで、Marks は最近の出来事の要点を振り返った、彼が言うには、「我々はとても厳しい下落に遭遇した」それは「私が見たこともないような激しさ」だった、とMarksは言った。「いつもと同じことだが、人々は最初の悪いニュースを無視し、その後同じ悪いニュースに取り憑かれてしまう」。懸念されていた通り、正確に予想されたわけではないが、彼が言う「乱暴な下落」に際し、Oaktreeはーーこういう状況で現金を積み上げていたわけでーーどうしたろう?どうしてもろ手で買ったのだろう。
As Bloomberg writes, while some traders say you should never try to
catch a falling knife, Howard Marks begs to differ, noting that "that’s
exactly what investors should be doing" and adding that the recent
sell-off in U.S. equities was a case in point. As timing the bottom is
impossible, the trick is to buy assets as they decline, before they
start to appreciate, Marks said.
ブルームバーグによると、トレーダーによっては決して落ちてくるナイフを掴んではいけないと言うものもいる、 Howard Marksは違う、ほかでもない「それこそまさに投資家がすべき行動だ」とそして最近の米国株式急落で買いましていた、これがポイントだ。相場の底を正確に見図るのは不可能であり、下落に応じて買いますのがコツだ、再度上昇する前にだ、と Marksは言った。
“I like things better when they are on sale, so December was a better
time to buy,” he said. “I don’t believe that prices having been rising
is a reason to buy, and I also don’t think the fact that prices have
been falling is a reason to sell. And if anything, some of the
overpricing was reduced a little bit.”
Well, because that kind of "safety in numbers" is precisely what
investor - and central bank - psychology is all about, and why it
remains rather "complicated" to become a billionaire on Wall Street.
Howard MarksAmong Marks'
other observations, which should be familiar to readers of his periodic
letter, the Oaktree investor said that while markets are not at extreme
bubble levels and so are unlikely to see extreme crashes, because we’re
in the “eighth inning” of the market cycle, now is a time to be more
cautious than aggressive, repeating precisely what he said in September.
He said the rout in U.S. shares in the fourth quarter of last year
was an example of how sentiment can suddenly shift from excessive
optimism to excessive pessimism, even though fundamentals didn’t change.
The S&P 500 Index tumbled almost 20 percent from late September
through a low on Christmas Eve. Since then, it recovered more than 10
percent through Friday’s close.
Marks also made some macro observations, noting that contrary to
market expectations of a rate cut as soon as 2020, the Fed is likely to
continue to raise interest rates but not as fast as in recent times, as
"uncertainty is higher now than usual" while many large macro
uncertainties and it’s time to be cautious. As a result, Oaktree is
trending towards distressed debts and value investors and “things are
not as expensive as six months ago
Oaktree, which secured new investor capital of about $8.5 billion in
2015 to prepare for market duress, started deploying some of that money
over the past year, however Marks didn’t say where he was investing the
capital.
With the recent rebound in risk assets, Marks said he’s unsure how
quickly Oaktree will invest its funds. At a discussion earlier in the
day in Singapore, he said trends are favoring distressed-debt and value investors, though “we are not there yet.”
Echoing Jeff Gundlach, Marks said that emerging markets generally and
Asian markets are relatively cheap, adding that Oaktree is giving “a
lot of attention” to emerging-market stocks and bonds.
Jeff Gundlachに同調して、Marksが言うには新興国市場特にアジア市場は相対的に安いということだ、更にこう言い加えた、Oaktreeは新興国株式と債券に「多大な興味」を持っている。
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多量のオピオイドを米国に送り込み、米国で深刻な麻薬中毒問題を引き起こしています。現代版「阿片戦争」です。あのトヨタ初の女性取締役もオピオイド中毒で逮捕解任されましたよね。 US Is Dependent On China For Almost 80% Of Its Medicine by Tyler Durden Fri, 05/31/2019 - 12:55 Experts are warning that the U.S. has become way too reliant on China for all our medicine , our pain killers, antibiotics, vitamins, aspirin and many cancer treatment medicine. 専門家はこう警告する、米国はすべての医薬品、痛み止め、抗生物質、ビタミン、アスピリン、各種抗がん剤で、中国依存度が高すぎる。 Fox Business reports that according to FDA estimates at least 80 percent of active ingredients found in all of America’s medicine come from abroad, primarily from China . And it’s not just the ingredients, China wants to become the world’s dominant generic drug maker. So far Chinese companies are making generic for everything from high blood pressure to chemotherapy drugs. 90 percent of America’s prescriptions a...
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米国はよく理解してませんが、日本の場合では量的緩和で日銀が国債買い上げした資金は日銀当座預金にそのままです、市中には流れていません。でもNHKのニュース等では「ジャブジャブ」という表現をアナウンサーが使い、さらに丁寧に水道の蛇口からお金が吐き出される画像まで示してくれます。これって心理効果が大きいですよね。量的緩和とは何かを7時のニュースや新聞でこれ以上丁寧に解説するのはそう簡単ではありません。一般の人も株式をやっている人も「イメージ」で捉える以上はそう簡単にできません。多くの人は量的緩和とはなにか、を理解していないと私は想像しています。 ただし、国債を買い上げるので長期金利が低下し住宅ローン金利等が下がったのは確実な効果です。一方で長短金利差が少なくなると銀行のビジネスモデルが成り立たなくなりますが。 This Is The One Chart Every Trader Should Have "Taped To Their Screen" by Tyler Durden Sat, 01/19/2019 - 18:55 After a year of tapering, the Fed’s balance sheet finally captured the market’s attention during the last three months of 2018. 一年間のテーパリング後、FEDバランスシートがとうとう市場の注目をあびることになった、2018年の最後の3ヶ月だ。 By the start of the fourth quarter, the Fed had finished raising the caps on monthly roll-off of its balance sheet to the full $50bn per month (peaking at $30bn USTs, $20bn MBS...