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    <description>Everything Howard Marks has said on performance: 4 verbatim quotes between May 2022 and May 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it…</description>
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      <title>Marks reports Oaktree&#x27;s high yield default rate is roughly one-third the market average over forty years.</title>
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      <description>“And so, over the last forty years, on average, something like 3.6 or 3.7% of all high yield bonds have gone into default every year, and our default rate has been roughly a third.” — Nikhil Kamath</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Marks cites math where consistently staying between 27th and 47th percentile for fourteen years produced overa</title>
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      <description>“So solidly in the second quarter for fourteen years in a row. But interestingly, as a result, for the fourteen years overall, they were in the fourth percentile.” — The Investor’s Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Marks advocates cutting off the bottom tail rather than shooting for the top tail to achieve best long-term pe</title>
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      <description>“Approach is very simple, cut off the bottom tail. That&#x27;s what this guy in the Midwest did.” — Goldman Sachs</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Marks argues average returns with below-average risk are equally significant but overlooked because only retur</title>
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      <description>“achieving an average return with below average risk is an equally significant accomplish, but easily overlooked because only the risk is evident, only the return is evident.” — Wharton School</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 13:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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