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Investment Insights Q4 2021: Slowing down and cracking down
Last Updated: July 21, 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: January 22, 2024
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: July 21, 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: June 4, 2024
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: July 21, 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.
Review of the week: An old-fashioned Santa rally
Last Updated: January 8, 2024
A gruelling year for investors actually delivered decent returns. But how much of that strong performance is in anticipation of 2024?
How could Labour's budget affect my finances?
Last Updated: July 21, 2025
With Labour having pledged not to increase the taxes which raise the most revenue, capital gains tax (CGT), pensions and inheritance tax (IHT) are in the spotlight. Here we explore what changes they could make, and what that might mean for your finances.
Review of the week: Poof, like magic
Last Updated: March 20, 2023
Banks are very powerful, but very fragile. That’s because they are dependent on people and their ability to believe.
Will investors have a more certain hope in 2024?
Last Updated: January 2, 2024
In these videos Rathbones’ co-chief investment officer Ed Smith gives a review of 2023 and discusses our outlook for 2024.
Charity investment training webinar series
Last Updated: July 24, 2023
Demystifying responsible investment
Investing in armaments: has anything changed?
Last Updated: October 3, 2024
With ongoing global conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, where new technology is redefining the battlefield, we look at the controversial issue of investment in defence companies.
Review of the week - Banking eagle: Hawked
Last Updated: June 30, 2023
A regional bank caught up in the March banking crisis has been forcibly sold by an American regulator. Hopefully this marks the end of the chapter.