01/27/2013

Coutts Wealth Watch - "Spending cliff" looms for US economy

No sooner has the US economy averted one precipice, the “fiscal cliff”, than it faces another – the “spending cliff”. While we remain cautious near term, we don’t believe this undermines the case for equities. We view r

01/06/2013

Coutts Wealth Watch - Bond bear market?

A bear market has potentially broken out in US government bonds, and our favoured response is to continue to rebalance portfolios towards equities.

01/01/2013

Soaking the rich won't work

Governments that are raising tax rates on the wealthy to plug budget holes are doomed to disappointment.