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Review of the week: A seismograph for US economic tremors
Last Updated: July 4, 2025
A sharp yen surge, falling Japanese stocks, and mixed US data shake markets. Explore what it means for rates, recession risk, and investor sentiment.
Beyond the usual suspects: practical tips for trustee recruitment and boosting board diversity
Last Updated: October 3, 2024
Getting on Board has recently updated it’s guide on ‘How to recruit trustees for your charity’. We outline some of the key takeaways on how to boost board diversity through recruitment.
US Election - Trade Wars
Last Updated: October 11, 2024
US Election - Trade Wars
Review of the week: The Fed goes big
Last Updated: September 23, 2024
Interest rates have finally dropped in the US after a double-barrelled cut. But will they fall as fast from here as investors expect?
Why use a financial planner?
Last Updated: July 29, 2024
A financial planner could help you solve a wide range of challenges, as well as offer many other ways to make the most of your money
Trump 2.0: the return of ‘America first’
Last Updated: July 21, 2025
Former President Donald Trump has retaken the White House on a policy of widespread tax cuts, reduced immigration and lessened regulation. Bond investors aren’t happy, but shareholders are.
Earth Convention webinar: natural capital, biodiversity and oceans
Last Updated: January 20, 2023
Earth Convention webinar: our panel explores how biodiversity – crucial to human, economic and planetary health – is declining faster than at any time in human history.
Review of the week: The price of milk
Last Updated: January 20, 2023
Inflation continues to eat away at shoppers’ spending power, both in the UK and abroad. Meanwhile, how do currency fluctuations affect investment returns?
Quarterly Investment Update video Q4 2023
Last Updated: October 2, 2023
In hindsight we underestimated the resilience of the global economy in 2023 and could have advocated taking more risk. But as Rathbones’ Co-CIO Ed Smith explains in this video, global earnings have been falling since January and equity markets have been largely driven by sentiment.
Quarterly Investment Update Q3 2024: Broad earnings improvement brings good news
Last Updated: June 28, 2024
A widely expected change of government may bolster UK sentiment, while the US election is on a knife’s edge.
Review of the week: Blowing a gale
Last Updated: February 13, 2023
Markets were fanned higher by US monetary policy before getting driven backwards by contradictory economic winds. Uncertainty still reigns supreme.
Investment Update: Russia/Ukraine: Time to Worry?
Last Updated: July 4, 2025
Most geopolitical crises of recent years have hit local markets hard, but at worst done only fleeting damage to global indices. However, there are three events that buck this trend: the 1973 Yom Kippur War/OPEC oil embargo; the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. All centre on the price of energy. A similar oil and gas shock in Eastern Europe as a result of fighting in Ukraine would exacerbate the already sizeable risk that high inflation becomes endemic, which would then require tighter monetary policy to get it under control.