I gather from other wealth managers that what their clients are finding hardest to bear is not the fall in asset prices but falling income. A big drop in interest income has already occurred but they are probably starting to see some dividend cuts and they fear more of the same. The recession is making clear to individuals and their agents a well-concealed truth that is right up-front in No Monkey Business thinking: income consumed is inherently no different from capital consumed. From this insight, a very different and much clearer approach to decisions about spending and saving starts to take shape naturally.
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by Stuart Fowler