Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and cares for beautiful, accessible and therapeutic gardens at NHS spinal injury centres. Rathbones is proud to help sponsor these inspiring projects, which grew out of the vision of one remarkable teenager.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

How are established brands responding to the needs of millennials? 

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Last Updated: September 30, 2025

A broad range of US companies reined in estimates of 2019 growth last week, most notably Amazon. Last week, we noted that any corporate concerns about next month’s profit and revenue growth would weigh heavily on stock markets and we were correct. The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% in dollar terms, putting it 9.3% down from its peak in September. Other markets followed the American bourse downward, although the UK held up better with a cheaper pound lending some support amid Brexit worries.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Life is in the living, not the grave; joy is in hope, not receipt. Nothing is ever as fulfilling as we can imagine. And so it is with the stock markets that, at bottom, are a barometer of people’s moods.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

October was a brutal month for investors, with a simultaneous rise in bond yields and sharp correction in equity markets. In English, this means the value of both bonds and stocks headed the same way: down

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Markets were dominated by US politics last week, with investors first holding their breath and then pondering how America will fare with a split Congress.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

We are making some important changes with respect to those of our funds that have dual (offer and bid) prices; namely a switch to ‘swinging’ single pricing.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Note dealing dates and times for the Luxembourg SICAV funds

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Investors took a second referendum on the UK’s Brexit deal last week: the result was a resounding no.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell all but dressed up in a Santa suit when he spoke at the New York Economic Club last week.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Trouble in some emerging markets (EMs) has pushed yields for EM debt in general to attractive levels relative to safer developed market bonds. The crucial question for investors is whether the problems in Argentina and Turkey are localised or could spread to other regions. Investors have been spooked and EM currencies remain under pressure, but have markets over-reacted?

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Polls suggest that a majority of the British public would like to see rail, energy and water services renationalised. We look at the history of nationalisation in the UK and consider what a return to state control would entail and whether it is genuinely viable.