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Chart of the week: Are your defensives safe?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Traditional defensives have kept pace with economically sensitive sectors through the long and fitful post-crisis recovery. Some ‘defensives’ are decidedly expensive, and investors may need to broaden their search for safe havens.
Chart of the week: A more dovish Fed
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Markets have stabilised after the ‘Santa slump’ experienced into the year end, helped by comments from US Federal Reserve (Fed) officials suggesting they are moving towards more dovish market expectations.
Investment Update Q1 2019
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
From greed to fear – where next?
Green Christmas
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As far as the environment is concerned, Christmas is the least wonderful time of the year, as the highest heights of consumption are scaled through miles of wrapping paper, mountains of turkey, and rivers of petrol. But fear not! There are ways to keep Scrooge from darkening your door while making your Christmas more environmentally friendly too.
Rathbones Review Winter 2018
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
In this edition of Rathbones Review we take a closer look at India’s ongoing transformation and the radical reforms that are fuelling change.
Diversifying assets are important but don’t necessarily look for a big payoff
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
At Rathbones, we take a multi-asset approach to investing, which provides us with the flexibility to meet individual needs. In order to construct portfolios effectively and manage risk, we divide assets into three building blocks, which play different roles – liquidity (mostly safe-haven government bonds and cash), equity-type (such as shares, corporate bonds and emerging market debt) and diversifiers.
The housing shortfall
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
If housing wealth were used to provide an income in retirement, researchers calculate that the savings gaps, discussed in our previous article, could be halved. But few retirees draw on property wealth today, while home ownership rates are falling.
Austerity is not coming to an end
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
At best, austerity won’t get any worse.
Rathbones sponsors a new guide on sustainability
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) has launched a new guide that highlights the business benefits of sustainability and explains why it is key to the success of higher education institutions.
A long road to recovery has investors wondering if the end is nigh
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It’s been 10 years since the defining moment of the global financial crisis — when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and employees piled out of its headquarters on Wall Street with their personal belongings. Following a swift response and extraordinary measures from policymakers, the US economy pulled out of The Great Recession in June 2009 — and it hasn’t looked back since.
A brighter, more female future for entrepreneurs
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The past 18 months have been monumentally important for women around the world. The women’s suffrage movement turned 100, #metoo continues to transform gender equality and figures on the gender pay gap revealed that many women are still being short-changed in the workplace. These forces are driving great advancements for women, in their personal lives and also at work, and women’s entrepreneurship is surging in the UK. Entrepreneurship is moving in the right direction
Investment Insights Q4 2018
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
In this issue, we mark 10 years since a pivotal moment of the financial crisis, when employees at Lehman Brothers gathered their belongings and filed out onto Wall Street. In today’s climate, with the UK in the midst of Brexit negotiations and escalating trade tensions between China and America, it is easy to feel apprehensive about the future.