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Taking The Temperature

The Memo by Howard Marks

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Oaktree's Predictive Conclusions in the Market Panic

Oaktree had essentially no involvement with subprime mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. Oaktree organized an $11 billion Reserve Fund for distressed debt between January 2007 and March 2008. Because its predecessor fund had only just become fully invested, we started to slowly invest the Reserve Fund prior to Lehman's bankruptcy.

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