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Rising to the challenge
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Article by, Susan Stevenson, Investment Director, Rathbones
Isaac Asimov believed that the job of science-fiction writers was to “foresee the inevitable”. He claimed that the problems and catastrophes that he and his fellow visionaries presaged were almost bound to happen. What they could not predict, he ruefully added, were the solutions.
Review of the week: Bond vigilantes
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
When bond markets move, governments and stock markets take note. A swift rise in yields has rattled equities and focused attention on countries’ swollen debt piles.
InvestmentUpdate Budget 2021: A lot of give and take
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
More stimulus spending now, with the largest tax hike in decades to follow
Review of the week: America rising
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The US is about to turn on the spending taps once again to combat the effects of the pandemic. This time it coincides with the reopening, so expectations for GDP growth are soaring – taking yields with them.
Rathbones launches a range of sustainable multi-asset portfolios
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of the Rathbone Greenbank Multi-Asset Portfolios. Our new range of sustainable multi-asset funds will be managed by Will McIntosh-Whyte and David Coombs, who also run our existing multi-asset portfolio range. They are supported by Rathbone Greenbank Investments (Greenbank), our specialist ethical, sustainable and impact investment arm. Greenbank is one of the early pioneers in this field boasting over 20 years’ experience in sustainable investing.
Review of the week: Cheques and balances
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The average American family has received $11,400 of government cheques since the pandemic began. That’s a big windfall for people and a difficult economic puzzle for the US Federal Reserve to decipher.
Springing yields
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Bond yields and a new season’s flowers both sprung up last month, heralding an end to the dark days of lockdown winter. Chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth ponders the big question on investors’ minds – does this also foreshadow a prolonged period of higher inflation?
Review of the week: Calm in the eye of the storm
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As the fight against COVID-19 continues, economies are beginning to reopen. Are we about to experience a typhoon of activity to mirror the huge slumps of 2020?
In the media
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte and deputy head of ethical, sustainable and impact research Kate Elliot chats with Proactive Investor’s Katie Pilbeam as to why our newly launched sustainable multi-asset range stands out from the crowd.
Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios webcast - Wednesday 14 April 2021
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
David Coombs, head of multi asset investments, Rathbones, will be outlining his latest views on the impact of the vaccine roll-out on asset allocation, style rotations and the latest changes to strategy.
Review of the week: The delicate web of trade
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The strands of trade connecting markets are as important to our living standards as they are fragile. A stranded ship in the Suez highlights both points at once.
A drop in the ocean or start of a movement?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The UK government has announced one of the most ambitious green bond programmes in Europe. But is it enough? Fund manager Noelle Cazalis argues this is just the beginning.