2004 Winter Letter

To Our Clients and Friends of Parthenon LLC After three years of painful declines for the average equity investor, it was again pleasurable to own stocks in 2003. The S&P 500 rose 28.7%, including dividends. This was the strongest advance for the broad index since 1997. The gains were fueled by an economic acceleration, which…

2004 Summer Letter

To Our Clients and Friends of Parthenon LLC In spite of turbulent economic news and geopolitical events, the equity and bond markets were subdued in the first half of the year. The major stock market indices made little headway for the period, and volatility was mild by recent standards. The S&P 500 rose 3.44%, while…