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Communication breakdown
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The US central bank changed tack so fast in 2019 that you could hear the thunderclap. Rathbone Global Opportunities Fund manager James Thomson warns that investors shouldn’t follow suit.
The origins of capitalism: a privilege with a purpose
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Stewardship director Matt Crossman explains how the idea of a responsible capitalism — where firms exist for the wider benefit of society — is nothing new.
A decade of investing responsibly
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Our stewardship director Matt Crossman and governance and voting analyst Archie Pearson tell us about putting responsible investing into practice over 10 years under the UN-endorsed Principles for Responsible Investment and where we go from here.
A parable of responsible capitalism
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It’s the middle of the 18th century and you are standing in a forest in what we now call Germany. There are elm and beech and alder and spruce and a cornucopia of mosses, lichens, shrubs, flowers and ferns.
Responsible capitalism: benefiting society and investment returns
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Capitalism today is delivering returns for shareholders, but not in a sustainable way if the other stakeholders — employees, customers and the wider world — aren’t sharing in the benefits or, worse, if they’re paying a cost for delivering those returns. Using a parable of Prussian forests, our head of asset allocation research Edward Smith addresses this myopic focus on short-term measures of profit growth in a surprisingly relevant way.
Rathbone Greenbank Review Spring 2019
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Collins Dictionary’s word of 2018 was ‘single-use’, an unsurprising choice for a year during which public awareness of global plastic waste increased significantly.
Time to buckle up
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
New threats require new defences. Our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs explains how he’s filling the sandbags to protect his funds against a populist storm.
Be clear, be trustworthy
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Brits are on board with investing sustainably to make the world a better place, but impenetrable jargon and complicated processes are preventing them from doing so. We need to try harder to speak their language, says Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund manager David Harrison.
FAANGs for the memory
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
A jokey present from Christmas past comes back to haunt David Coombs, our head of multi-asset investments. As the nights lengthen, he spooks himself by pondering the meaning of ‘tech’.
Making a better world, and a profit
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbones’ head of asset allocation Edward Smith explains why he believes that responsible capitalism is in every long-term investor’s self-interest – even if they don’t care about the societal benefits.
What responsible investment looks like
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbones’ stewardship director Matt Crossman explains the Principles for Responsible Investing and how we’ve been putting them into practice over the past 10 years.
Do turkeys vote for Christmas?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Misinformation is rampant ahead of the UK election, as if things weren’t chaotic enough. Multi-Asset Portfolio Fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte worries about what plans the politicians may be hiding and how markets will react to the eventual result.