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Review of the week: The Israeli-Hamas Conflict
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
This week has seen harrowing atrocities committed by the terrorist group Hamas against Israeli civilians. With so far more than 1,200 people reported to have been killed, this is the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in decades.
Andrew Maxwell
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
Within our specialist Charities team I work as an Investment Director providing advice and portfolio management for charities and not-for-profit organisations. I am involved in the firms wider investment process through the Responsible Investment Committee, integrating sustainability throughout the group.
Review of the week: DeepSeek or deep fake?
Last Updated: July 24, 2025
A Chinese start-up says it created an AI tool at a fraction of the cost that Western rivals paid. It shouldn’t be a fatal blow, but the development should trigger answers to lingering investor concerns on runaway chip buying.
Rainbow Hub – creating new pathways for the young
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
We speak to Lyndsay Fahey, CEO of Rainbow Hub, about the charity’s brain injury rehab services that help children and young people reach their full potential.
Universal Credit and trusts: important changes
Last Updated: August 7, 2025
Abigail Cuffe of Vincents Solicitors highlights how trusts and income received from a trust are assessed for new Universal Credit claims.
Review of the week: The language of trade
Last Updated: July 24, 2025
The US government plans to slap tariffs on virtually all imports to the US as part of ‘Liberation Day’. The details are yet to be revealed, but the most immediate effect is already apparent: higher prices.
Review of the week: A tale of two markets
Last Updated: July 24, 2025
Equity and bond investors had opposite reactions to the US election. But Trump 2.0 may have less influence than investors first hoped or feared.
Planning for the future – making a will when there are capacity issues
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
Rebecca Bristow of Shoosmiths has kindly contributed a piece on statutory wills and their importance when planning for the future.
The world has changed
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
Failing lenders bring back memories of the dark days of 2008 and 2009. Rathbones head of multi-asset investments David Coombs explains why he thinks a global financial crisis is unlikely, but notes how technology has made banking easier for customers and harder for bankers.
An entrepreneurial journey - Inspired Sounds Episode 1
Last Updated: October 2, 2025
Drum roll please 🥁 our very first Inspired Sounds podcast is here! In the first episode of our three-part series, Scott White, co-founder of Pragmatic Semiconductor (and five other business ventures) talks to us about life as an entrepreneur.
Rathbones Review Winter 2021
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
"When France sneezes,” Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich remarked in the wake of the French Revolution, “Europe catches a cold.” Reflecting shifts in global power, this maxim has metamorphosed over time and is now most often framed in terms of US hegemony. “When America sneezes,” we usually say today, “the world catches a cold.”
Review of the week: Central banks pause for thought
Last Updated: July 22, 2025
Last week’s round of central bank meetings sent a mainly consistent message. Most held interest rates on hold and suggested rates are now at (or very near) their peaks.