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Rathbone Global Opportunities Fund
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
James will discuss his best (and worst) performers this year, the reason why he is fully invested and his significant exposure to the US, technology and other growth stocks.
Foxes and hedgehogs
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
They strive each day (and most nights) to completely understand their discipline, so why does their labour only make expert forecasters more inaccurate? Rathbones Income Fund manager Carl Stick looks at why specialists fail at the future.
Communication breakdown
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The US central bank changed tack so fast in 2019 that you could hear the thunderclap. Rathbone Global Opportunities Fund manager James Thomson warns that investors shouldn’t follow suit.
The origins of capitalism: a privilege with a purpose
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Stewardship director Matt Crossman explains how the idea of a responsible capitalism — where firms exist for the wider benefit of society — is nothing new.
The six principles
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Then-UN secretary general Kofi Annan convened a group of the world’s largest institutional investors in early 2005, inviting them to start a process to develop the Principles of Responsible Investment. This panel drafted The Six Principles, which were launched in April 2006 at the New York Stock Exchange.
A decade of investing responsibly
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Our stewardship director Matt Crossman and governance and voting analyst Archie Pearson tell us about putting responsible investing into practice over 10 years under the UN-endorsed Principles for Responsible Investment and where we go from here.
A parable of responsible capitalism
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It’s the middle of the 18th century and you are standing in a forest in what we now call Germany. There are elm and beech and alder and spruce and a cornucopia of mosses, lichens, shrubs, flowers and ferns.
Rathbone Greenbank Review Spring 2019
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Collins Dictionary’s word of 2018 was ‘single-use’, an unsurprising choice for a year during which public awareness of global plastic waste increased significantly.
Plugging into circular solutions for electronic goods
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Innovation in the design and manufacture of electronic products and devices has resulted in greatly expanded access and brought about benefits for society that were inconceivable only a few decades ago.
Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolio Funds: Riots, rogues and prorogation
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As unrest continues on the streets of Hong Kong, yet more trade tariffs are threatened and Brexit potentially comes to a head, fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte discusses how the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios are positioned in the current state of purgatory.
10 years of engagement with the UN Principles of Responsible Investment
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Led by Greenbank and growing through Rathbones.
Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolio Funds: Riots, rogues and prorogation
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As unrest continues on the streets of Hong Kong, yet more trade tariffs are threatened and Brexit potentially comes to a head, fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte discusses how the RMAP portfolios are positioned in the current state of purgatory.