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Mind of the Manager 08 November 2024

Manager quotes for the week.

Published: 23/07/2025

"The U.S. acts as if it has a credit card with no limit on the balance and no requirement to pay it down. It does so because it’s been able to get away with it thus far, and governing officials lack the will to spend less than they can."

Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital.

"The reality is that emerging equity markets lack any common secular drivers, the only real unifying features having been the initial phase of liberalisation in the 1990s, the impact of the rapid growth of China’s economy from 2000 to 2010, and the relatively low level of valuations in the immediate aftermath of the series of crises from 1997 to 2002.”

John Paul Smith, emerging markets analyst at Deutsche Bank

"It is also almost impossible for an investor to remain indifferent to a topic over which the asset management industry is obsessing. The fact that everyone has a forthright opinion on a subject bestows a significance upon it. We can join the party, or risk appearing negligent.”

Joe Wiggins, financial author.

"We like boring from time to time. Compounding can come from both boring and exciting, that’s the magic of it.”

Josh Snyder, investment strategist at GQG Partners.
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