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Review of the week: The lost art of compromise
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As investors return from the long Easter weekend, Rathbones chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth considers the prospects for compromise as tariff wars and Brexit negotiations continue amid rumours of another plot to oust Theresa May in our latest Review of the Week.
Eurosif transparency accreditation
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We are delighted to announce that the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund has once again been awarded the rights to display the European SRI Transparency logo.
Chart of the week: Risk-taking is back on...
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
…but be wary of lower-quality bonds
Review of the week: Comeback king
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
American stocks roared back from last year’s setback at a pace rarely seen. Our chief investment officer, Julian Chillingworth, puzzles over the diabolical VIX index and explains why he thinks markets could be getting ahead of themselves.
Rathbones multi-asset funds: the blessed trinity
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
With the Fed putting the brakes on rate hikes, Chinese growth rebounding and positive noises coming out of US-China trade discussions, assistant fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte discusses how the RMAPs team is positioning portfolios following the strong bounce back in equity markets so far this year.
Rathbones Multi-Asset update - The Blessed Trinity
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
With the Fed putting the brakes on rate hikes, Chinese growth rebounding and positive noises coming out of US-China trade discussions, assistant fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte discusses how the RMAPs team is positioning portfolios following the strong bounce back in equity markets so far this year.
Review of the week: Be best
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The Donald has ratcheted up tensions in the trade stand-off just when a resolution was so close you could taste it. Our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth ponders whether investors are right to shrug it off as gamesmanship.
It’s important to be patient as the business cycle matures
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Owing to its size and influence around the world, what happens in the US economy has important implications for financial markets everywhere.
Chart of the week: An indigestible amount of debt?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Quality hasn’t just deteriorated in the sterling-denominated corporate bond market, but the lowest-rated BBB segment has also grown substantially as a proportion of the euro and US dollar investment-grade markets, which are both far bigger. If the rate of downgrades in the next recession is similar to the rate in the previous one, the next rung down in the bond markets – high yield debt markets – could get swamped.
Chart of the week: A new norm
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As society struggled to get back on its feet in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, one thing was clear: society needs the investment industry to be active and responsible. For many, this meant thinking about signing the Stewardship Code, and upping their game on proxy voting and engagement with underlying companies. For us, this created further incentive to refine our existing approach. Since then, responsible investing has become mainstream and over 2,000 asset managers around the world are now signatories to the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI).
Review of the week: Pick a tribe
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
When facts become contested emotion unseats the rule of reason, muses chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth. And emotion is the enemy of compromise.
Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
David Harrison, fund manager of the Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund discusses current investment themes and how he has shaped the current portfolio to maximise returns while remaining in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.