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Last Updated: September 30, 2025
A slew of important Brexit votes on Tuesday and Wednesday will be a litmus test for Theresa May’s leadership.
Rathbones to launch range of Luxembourg-domiciled funds
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbone Unit Trust Management (Rathbones) confirms its intention to launch four offshore funds, offering Europe-based investors access to its UK funds for the first time.
Could investors face a triple-whammy this week from central banks?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
This week will be dominated by three major central bank meetings, and investors asking if the US Federal Reserve will hike rates, if the ECB will end QE and if there will be any action at all from the Bank of Japan?
Can you protect a portfolio against a global trade war?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We think it’s prudent to discuss the possible escalation of a global trade war and any impact it might have on our portfolio. Recent volatile market movements highlighted just how sensitive the market has become to protectionist rhetoric, certainly in the short term.
Rathbones’ Smith: comments on the Spring Statement
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
“Chancellor Phillip Hammond was very clear when he reformed the system, the Spring Statement will not be ‘a major fiscal event’ – no other western economy announces tax and spending changes twice a year and the UK needed to stop too. He lived up to that promise today: the first ever Spring Statement was a short update on policy already in train and a response to the Office for Budget Responsibility's new forecasts (which were pretty much unchanged over the forecast horizon). Remember, the OBR's forecasts are grim.
Rathbones: ‘China, not India, will dominate Asian growth for at least another 20 years
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Ed Smith says: “While India may be the ‘new China’ for some investors, given it is where China was in terms of growth at the start of the new millennium, China is to remain the largest Asian growth engine over the next 20 years, and should continue to command investors’ attention.
Rathbones’ Coombs: “Why we are backing our strategy during market falls”
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The correction we are seeing is due to strong US growth and concerns about a pick-up in wage inflation, fuelling the prospect of interest rates rising faster than forecast.
2018 outlook from Rathbones' Coombs & McIntosh-Whyte: "When growth is scarce, target growth."
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
David Coombs, manager of the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolio Funds, and assistant manager Will McIntosh-Whyte, share their seven key investment themes for 2018.
Rathbones: Budget analysis
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbones’ Ed Smith: ‘Small giveaway budget offset by grave deterioration in the outlook for UK growth and the government’s tax receipts shouldn’t move the dial for investors.’
Rathbones launches personal inflation calculator
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, has launched a personal inflation calculator, designed to provide clients with a way of calculating how their wealth is effected by inflation.
Rathbone Unit Trust Management to launch the Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbone Unit Trust Management Ltd (Rathbones) announces its intention to launch the Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund in July 2018, subject to FCA regulatory approval.
Rathbones’ Tumkur : “FTSE 100 being judged too harshly by market”
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As of late January, the MSCI World Index, hadn’t suffered a daily setback greater than 1.5% since September 2016 – a run unprecedented since 2006. After a tumultuous February and March, much of that complacency has been washed away. At the time of writing, most developed world equity markets have fallen about 10% from their peaks.