Last Updated: September 30, 2025

At best, austerity won’t get any worse.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) has launched a new guide that highlights the business benefits of sustainability and explains why it is key to the success of higher education institutions.

• Charities
• Rathbone Greenbank

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

It’s been 10 years since the defining moment of the global financial crisis — when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and employees piled out of its headquarters on Wall Street with their personal belongings. Following a swift response and extraordinary measures from policymakers, the US economy pulled out of The Great Recession in June 2009 — and it hasn’t looked back since.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The past 18 months have been monumentally important for women around the world. The women’s suffrage movement turned 100, #metoo continues to transform gender equality and figures on the gender pay gap revealed that many women are still being short-changed in the workplace. These forces are driving great advancements for women, in their personal lives and also at work, and women’s entrepreneurship is surging in the UK.  Entrepreneurship is moving in the right direction

• Tomorrow's Titans

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

In this issue, we mark 10 years since a pivotal moment of the financial crisis, when employees at Lehman Brothers gathered their belongings and filed out onto Wall Street. In today’s climate, with the UK in the midst of Brexit negotiations and escalating trade tensions between China and America, it is easy to feel apprehensive about the future.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

It’s one of the longest bull runs ever, but that doesn’t mean it will be cancelled any time soon. 

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

If you’re paying more than double the going rate for branded batteries, what else are you overpaying for? 

• Millennial Matters

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Investing in the next generation

• Millennial Matters

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Faced with this radically evolving landscape, are the major branded consumer goods companies doomed to irrelevance and terminal decline? Are there strategies they can adopt to win over younger generations of consumers and stay relevant in the 21st century?

• Millennial Matters

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Copper is all around us: in our houses, our cars, our hairdryers and it’s even one of the most intensively used raw materials in the green energy revolution. Its wide use in everyday products should make copper prices a good indicator of economic health. But there are other factors at play, and we found that the price of copper seems to respond to economic growth with a six-month delay. Perhaps we shouldn’t rely too heavily on Dr Copper’s reputation for giving us an early diagnosis.

• Chart Of The Week

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Investors seem to be flitting between fear and optimism in an increasingly erratic manner. Hopes for a soft-touch Federal Reserve seem to be driving most of the optimism, notes chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Rathbone Unit Trust Management prepares for post-Brexit regulatory environment. Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, announces its intention to make changes to its Luxembourg domiciled SICAV in preparation for a post-Brexit regulatory environment.