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What Risk Is — and Isn’t

By Howard Marks
Mar 27, 2024

Great investing requires both generating returns and controlling risk. And recognizing risk is an absolute prerequisite for controlling it.

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Written by

Howard Marks

Howard Marks

Howard Marks is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. This cover article is excerpted from his book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, copyright 2011. Reproduced with permission of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS to republish in a newsletter/e-newsletter, via Copyright Clearance Center.

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