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PARK PIEDMONT ADVISORS COMMENTS: 2004

Below are past issues of the PPA Monthly Comments.
(These are in PDF format).

December 2004

• Bond Investing and Rising Interest Rates
• Stock Returns over the Long-term

November 2004

• Market Impact of Falling Dollar
• Gold

October 2004

• Market Reactions to Known Events
• Stock Price Volatility

September 2004

• Socially Responsible Investing
• Risks of owning individual stocks

August 2004

• Hedge Funds

July 2004

• Factors affecting stock prices vs. current events
• Corporate earnings; Price/Earnings (PE) ratios; Dividends

June 2004

• Components of Index Funds; Passive vs. Active Investing
• Housing as an investment

May 2004

• Oil Prices: Effects on interest rates, inflation, economic growth, and market prices
• Inflation's effect on stock and bond prices

April 2004

• Effect of interest rates, inflation, and economic growth on market prices

March 2004

• Difficulties with attributing causation in stock and bond markets
• Effects of terrorism, outsourcing, and oil price rises on market prices

February 2004

• Relevance of historic information on prospective market returns
• Outsourcing: Pros and cons of free trade
• Investing in China

January 2004

• Responses to significant market price changes, including Rebalancing
• Rising interest rates and investment choices/asset allocation