The Minutes of Howard Marks on 2008 https://minutesof.com/howard-marks/on/2008/ Everything Howard Marks has said on 2008: 3 verbatim quotes between June 2022 and December 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:27 +0000 Marks reveals Oaktree raised ten billion dollars for distressed debt before Lehman collapsed, three times larg https://minutesof.com/q/3dd5956e-3106-4f95-b78b-7ccc06d7db00/ https://minutesof.com/q/3dd5956e-3106-4f95-b78b-7ccc06d7db00/ “When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in mid September of o eight, we had raised the biggest distressed debt fund in history by a factor of about three.” — The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:45:06 +0000 2008 Marks deployed seven billion dollars in Q4 2008 at 450 million per week for fifteen weeks after Lehman's colla https://minutesof.com/q/cdede4b7-aa91-4c7d-b5a7-0eca1dafa8de/ https://minutesof.com/q/cdede4b7-aa91-4c7d-b5a7-0eca1dafa8de/ “He ran the fund in question and he bravely invested an average of $450,000,000 a week for the next fifteen weeks. That's $7,000,000,000 in one quarter.” — The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:45:06 +0000 2008 Marks raised $11 billion in reserve in early 2007, didn't deploy it until June 2008. https://minutesof.com/q/641d4c90-b462-4d30-a817-32a837f41ca4/ https://minutesof.com/q/641d4c90-b462-4d30-a817-32a837f41ca4/ “The first closing was March o seven. We didn't start investing it until June o eight.” — Goldman Sachs Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:18:25 +0000 2008