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2 mins
12 May 2023
Artificial returns?
<p>Virtually everyone you talk to is bearish. The future is uncertain. Inflation isn’t falling as fast as everyone would like. Costs from labour to debt interest payments are rising. Central bankers are like a riddle of sphinxes.</p>
<p>And yet, stocks are comfortably up year to date, particularly the digital titans of America: Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple and Amazon, all of which we own, and Meta and Telsa, which we don’t.</p>
4 mins
27 April 2023
A step change for the UK?
It’s not just high-street shoppers who are getting more cost-conscious. Investors too are focusing more on how much value they’re getting for their money. Rathbone Income Fund co-manager Alan Dobbie asks whether this could signal a step-change for UK stocks.
4 mins
21 April 2023
Olyniaeth – it’s Welsh for succession
The market to supply new-fangled electronics for tomorrow’s smarter, cleaner cars has captivated head of multi-asset investments David Coombs for several years. But in a costlier world, could there also be a resurgence in keeping older, dirtier, yet more economical, vehicles running for longer?