Category: Quarterly Investor Letters

September 2021

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

Read More »

June 2021

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

Read More »

March 2021

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

Read More »

December 2020

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

Read More »

September 2020

We enter the Fourth Quarter of 2020 hopeful that several lingering uncertainties will be resolved before the New Year.  These include potential vaccines for the

Read More »

June 2020

At the beginning of the Second Quarter, consensus held that social distancing and travel restrictions were necessary to suppress and eliminate the “novel” coronavirus known

Read More »

March 2020

Patten & Patten encourages everybody to follow the CDC’s guidelines, and we are concerned for the safety of all of our clients and their families. 

Read More »

December 2019

Happy New Year!  Our 11th Annual Investment Symposium will be on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at the Westin in downtown Chattanooga.  More details will follow

Read More »

September 2019

In a pattern similar to 2018, the stock market has entered the final quarter with stellar performance through the first three.  In fact, the S&P

Read More »

June 2019

The S&P 500 eclipsed the 2900 level for the first time on September 20, 2018.  Then, the index suffered a sharp correction through the balance

Read More »