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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
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.
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).
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.
Chart of the week: Value seekers eye sterling
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Kicking the Brexit can all the way to Halloween has done nothing but prolong the uncertainty that’s shrouded us for so long. The ‘good news’ is that we think sterling now looks so undervalued that, no matter what happens with Brexit, it should appreciate over the long term. So, those willing to hold on for a rough ride just may find themselves reaping the rewards when the Brexit puzzle is finally solved.
Property owners are adapting to the popularity of online shopping
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We’ve always been a nation of shopkeepers and spendthrifts. But how we get our retail fix today is dramatically different to even five years ago, let alone the turn of the millennium
A change is in the air
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Searching for investments that improve our world and deliver returns. Rathbones Global Sustainability Fund manager David Harrison takes a trip to America.
If you can make it in America, you can make it anywhere
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
What struck me is that for the first time, US investors were actually asking about ESG. That may sound silly, but the US has been very far behind Europe and the UK in this regard.