Category: Quarterly Investor Letters

A combination of factors contributed to strong stock market returns in January: a) China abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy; b) indications of peak inflation; c) favorable

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (“FOMC”) meets next on February 1, 2023. At that meeting, the market anticipates the penultimate rate hike for this

Following the Great Financial Crisis, global economies entered a lengthy era of financial repression, characterized by extremely low interest rates.  Traditional asset allocation frameworks required

Federal Reserve Chairman Powell recently addressed the unsettled debate as to whether the Fed acted too deliberately regarding inflation.  During testimony, he acknowledged monetary policy

The war in Ukraine introduced extreme geo-political uncertainties to an outlook growing increasingly cloudy. Until the invasion, the key variables in our outlook for 2022

Patten & Patten extends to you its sincerest wishes for the happiest of New Year’s!  We look forward to seeing you at our 13th Annual

The Delta variant proved quite disruptive during the Third Quarter.  Governments responded to rising case counts and hospitalizations by re-imposing restrictions that hindered global economic

As of this writing, the US is one of only six countries in which more than 50% of the population has received at least one

Please save Thursday, May 20, 2021 for our 12th Annual Investment Symposium, an “in person” event at the Westin in Downtown Chattanooga.  We intend to mail

As much as any year in recent memory, we look forward to the New Year with optimism.  As an example of this optimism, our 12th Annual Investment