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Rathbones today announces that it will provide principal sponsorship for the University of Liverpool’s project to design and build ARION1, a bicycle which will attempt to break the land speed record for fastest human powered vehicle, and bring the record to the UK for the first time.

The project will see a team of undergraduate students from the University of Liverpool’s School of Engineering attempt the record in September this year, as part of the World Human Power Speed Challenge – an annual event held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The current men’s record is 83.13mph and the women’s record

Lacrosse legacy programme launched in Surrey as 3,500 girls compete in the finals of the Rathbones National Schools Lacrosse Championships.

Paul Stockton, Group Chief Executive of Rathbones, said:

Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, has today released a report considering the investment implications of disruptive technologies. The report, titled How soon is now? The investment impact of disruptive technologies, aims to differentiate between ‘innovation’ and ‘disruption’ across sectors, and examines the potential and pitfalls of investing in new technologies.

Julian Chillingworth, Chief Investment Officer, Rathbones, and an author of the report, says: “This isn’t about airy futurology-style

• New report by Rathbones considers implications of EU referendum, and aims to dispel five of the most common myths around potential Brexit.
• Report finds the consequences to either leave or stay in the EU more complex than current rhetoric suggests.
• UK financial markets to become increasingly volatile as a result of economic and policy uncertainty, but emergence of any pervasive trends unlikely.
• If the UK votes to leave, then some industry sectors are more vulnerable than others.

Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and

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