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Preparing and planning for retirement webinar
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
How do you prioritise your financial objectives and work out what you’ll need for retirement? We answer these questions to help you consider what your retirement plan might look like.
Planning for a change of government
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Labour looks likely to form the next government. What changes could they make to raise money, how might that affect your clients’ finances and what can they do about it?
Review of the week: The Trump train rolls on
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
The White House has issued a flurry of decrees in its first fortnight. While not unexpected, they’re already creating unease in markets and chaos in the government.
Review of the week: The Chancellor’s Goodwill Hunting
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
The government has more cash to work with after better-than-expected GDP growth and higher tax receipts. How will the extra money be used?
Review of the week: Running hot and cold
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Inflation is falling nicely in the US, will British CPI follow suit this week? Meanwhile, China battles deflation as its economy stutters.
How could a Labour government affect my finances?
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Labour looks to be on the cusp of taking power in the UK. What changes could they make to raise money, how might that affect you and what can you do about it?
Get in touch with us today to see if we can help, either through your usual Rathbones contact or your financial planner.
For the latest on Labour's plans, please see our pre-Budget update at this link.
Review of the week: Is Europe at Sea?
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Seismic geopolitical changes are wrenching the post-war global order, straining the transatlantic partnership and upending supply chains. Investors are recalculating furiously, putting financial markets in flux as well.
Investment Insights Q4 2021: Slowing down and cracking down
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Our lead article explains that as China’s recovery slows, policymakers there look unlikely to stimulate growth by loosening either the monetary or fiscal purse strings.
Review of the week: Shoppers on strike?
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
UK retail sales slumped in December while inflation went in the other direction. Is the UK now in recession, albeit the mildest of the mild?
Investment Insights Q3 2024: Bond markets can be forgiving (sometimes)
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
As Rachel Reeves moves into Number 11 Downing Street, where the Chancellor lives and works, she faces a fiscal conundrum. Her party’s manifesto pledged “no return to austerity”, yet she is inheriting plans containing significant spending cuts, and her room for manoeuvre is limited. She’s pledged not to increase the four taxes that raise most revenue, and to retain fiscal rules that limit her scope to borrow. Squaring this circle won’t be easy. However, the situation is better than the gloomier prognoses suggest, and we’re still happy holding UK government bonds.
The Magnificent Seven are not the only stock market stars
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
There are plenty of promising companies under the radar aside from the most celebrated names – on both sides of the Atlantic.
Investment Insights webinar - Q2 2024
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Rathbones’ head of equities Sanjiv Tumkur and head of asset allocation Oliver Jones discuss the outlook for global growth. Greenbank’s head of ethical, sustainable and impact research, Kate Elliot provides insight into the likelihood of a change in political leadership and what this could mean for investments.