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Brave new world
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The prolonged coronavirus lockdown will have lasting economic and social impacts around the world. Here our investment team consider four key areas where things may never be the same again.
Forging a way forward
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
UK dividends have been upended by the pandemic, yet they will bounce back. Income Fund managers Alan Dobbie and Carl Stick explain what they are doing to protect capital and build the foundation for a growing dividend.
Bond life
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Bad news is feeding many pessimists at the moment. Head of fixed income Bryn Jones sees a different, more optimistic, picture – and he’s investing in it.
Responsible Capitalism in the US: Part III Renewable energy
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Renewable energy has always played a minor role in the US. Despite the film industry often portraying California as being awash with wind turbines, the reality is that wind only accounts for just under 10% of energy production in the country.
Responsible Capitalism in the US - the complete report
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It can’t be understated how quickly the world can change. In the few short months since Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund Manager David Harrison travelled to the US to meet with current and potential investments, the world as we know it was flipped upside down. As the coronavirus spread around the globe, entire countries went into lockdown and economies ground to a halt. From that point forward, governments dedicated their resources to containing the outbreak and mitigating its economic fallout.
Beware passively seeking yield
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Helping clients find income has been a tough gig for many years now, yet pandemic-induced dividend cuts have made that task even harder. Business development executive Julianne Smith explains why chasing yield in ETFs could be painful.
Investment Update Q3 2020
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The groundwork has been laid for a rapid recovery, but significant risks remain.
The price of everything, the value of nothing
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Sparring with travel providers over COVID kerfuffles brings home the importance of customer service for head of multi-asset investments David Coombs. For him, it’s worth paying for.
Rathbones expands DFM sales team with new hire
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, has appointed Peter Hooker as a DFM specialist within Rathbones’ distribution team. Peter will report to Philip Turner, head of DFM specialists.
Investment Insights Q3 2020: The healing process
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Markets have rallied strongly as investors look forward to better days ahead. It’s often difficult to work out what’s happening in the middle of a crisis, and we don’t know what will return to normal and what will have changed forever.
New look for the High Street?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
COVID-19 has delivered another blow to Britain’s retailers, and that will have an impact on the High Street. But the powers of creative destruction always generate fresh opportunities, too. Can the hearts of our towns and cities find a new life and raison d’être?
Ed Smith, Head of Asset Allocation Research at Rathbones comments on the Chancellor’s ‘Polyfilla policies’
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Before today’s announcements, public sector net borrowing was on track to increase by around £310bn this year – so, around 15% of GDP. That marks the country’s largest fiscal response in modern peacetime history, and is nearly double the peak during the Global Financial Crisis, when government borrowing peaked at 8.2% GDP. Today the Chancellor announced tax cuts and additional spending that could tally up to another £30bn.