Welcome

With over 45 years of collective experience in financial planning and investment management Spruce Hill Capital, LLC helps clients to navigate their financial lives with confidence. We work to forge a strong partnership with each client that is personal and long term.

Our outlook and approach is both realistic and innovative. We employ carefully crafted investment methodologies utilizing technical and fundamental strategies to manage risk, preserve capital, and create profitability in today’s uncertain markets.

In times like this you need a steady hand to temper the volativity while remaining flexible with the tools to respond decisively in any market condition. Spruce Hill Capital, LLC provides the expertise to do just that.

 

LATEST CLIENT UPDATE

February 12th, 2013

Important Tax Numbers For 2013:

Individual Retirement Accounts:                 $5,500 plus $1,000 if you’re age 50 or over

401K’s – 403B’s – 457’s:                                $17,500 plus $5,500 if you’re age 50 or over

SIMPLE IRA’s:                                                    $12,000 plus $2,500 if you’re age 50 or over

SEP IRA:                                                             $51,000

Annual Tax Free Gift:                                        $14,000

Federal Estate Tax Exemption:                       $5,250,000

UGMA’s vs. 529 Plans

I get questions a lot on putting money in children’s names, mostly for college ed purposes. Lots of confusion…

LATEST QUARTERLY COMMENTARY

October 17th, 2012

The Year So Far:

Risk management is key to our approach. We don’t chase the market on the upside. Rather, our focus is twofold: reduce the downside, get a good portion of the upside. Done successfully we believe that combination will yield better results with a smoother ride in this economic environment. That environment – call it a “credit crisis”, “Great Recession”, “near-depression” whatever – involves deleveraging, i.e. paying off debt. What we have been calling a “balance sheet…