Last Updated: September 30, 2025

America is opening up along with the spring blossoms, and a strong summer of spending seems to be on the way. The rebound in fortunes has helped the S&P 500 reach new highs which, as chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth notes, go hand in hand with rising yields.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Why President Joe Biden’s next 100 days will be far more important than his first.

• US
• Economy
• Global Economy
• Politics

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The ongoing financial impact of coronavirus has made people more susceptible than ever to impersonation scams, according to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime. Last year savers lost £78 million — on average £45,242 for each victim — from ‘clone’ attacks alone, after transferring their savings to criminals they thought were genuine investment professionals.

• Security Hub

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

ESG investing has risen in popularity during the pandemic, driven by concern for the climate and society. With rising costs and uncertain returns on his ill-thought through chicken venture, Will McIntosh-Whyte is reminded you ignore the fundamentals at your peril.

• ESG
• Sustainability
• Coronavirus

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Will McIntosh-Whyte is the fund manager for the new multi-asset funds, supported by David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments. Additional research resource is provided by the team led by Kate Elliot, head of ethical, sustainable and impact (ESI) research at Rathbone Greenbank Investments (Greenbank) - Rathbones’ specialist ESI research and investment arm - as well as Rathbones’ fixed income and equity analysts.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Co-Fund Manager of the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios, Will McIntosh-Whyte, will cover fund performance and discuss some of the topics that are front of mind, including: Are rising commodity prices about to start impacting company earnings? A new 'Bidawn'? Is the new administration less centrist than it appears?

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

One Budget announcement that seemed to have been almost universally welcomed was the news that the UK is going to start issuing green bonds. The National Savings & Investments (NS&I) scheme will issue green savings bonds targeted at everyday savers. And at least £15 billion of green sovereign bonds (so-called ‘green gilts’) will be issued in 2021—22. The money raised will help fund Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 10-point public investment plan for a “green industrial revolution”.

• ESG
• Bonds

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Could a rejuvenated commonwealth be the basis for a wider post-Brexit trading bloc? It would need strong, far-sighted leaders to bring it about, argues head of multi-asset investments David Coombs.

• Investments
• Brexit
• Economy
• Trade

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Be unassailable in what you do or be the cheapest in the joint, because if you’re neither you’re nothing, warns David Coombs, our head of multi-asset investments.

• Europe

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

As social media giants are increasingly forced to reveal how they are using people’s private data, users may start to have second thoughts about the benefits of an interconnected world, argues our head of multi-asset investments, David Coombs.

• Prec

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

With cold winds blowing in from the Arctic, and Brussels too, our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs notes that visibility on the UK outlook is getting worse.

• EU

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

You never buy insurance hoping you’ll be able to claim on it, but you buy it all the same argues our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs.