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The high cost of low prices
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We’ve all got used to cheap flights, meals and clothes, but it was all predicated on low wages in many sectors, argues David Coombs, our head of multi-asset investments.
My Generation (Z)
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
If you have to ask what’s going on, you’re too old. Lucky for you, our sustainable multi-asset investment specialist Rahab Paracha is (almost) young enough to get down with the kids.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
After a hard day’s night investing clients’ cash, our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs has neglected his own savings. Yet given the Bank of England’s tough stance, are there now savings rates worth shouting about?
Reasons to be cheerful
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
With a tough winter approaching, our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs has dusted off the barbell. All the exercise has made him chirpier than usual.
Treat yourself
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
London has been extremely busy in a sun-drenched summer, yet a difficult winter looms. Sustainable multi-asset investment specialist Rahab Paracha asks whether luxury brands are a counterintuitive way to invest defensively in a recession.
How many possible futures are you prepared for?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The world has fundamentally changed, argues Rathbone Income Fund co-manager Carl Stick. Higher interest rates and higher inflation mean that cash earned today rather than tomorrow has become much more valuable.
How to lose friends and alienate people
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The UK government has given a textbook example of how not to deliver a message. Our multi-asset portfolios fund manager David Coombs picks over the wreckage and finds coherence, but poor execution.
Schrödinger's assets
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Property funds are stinging investors once again because of a run of redemptions. Senior multi-asset investment specialist Craig Brown notes their net asset values are in a happy superposition right up till the point they get measured.
Post holiday blues
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
With summer fading into memory, a long uncertain winter of social distancing lies ahead. It’s easy to feel gloomy, but as chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth argues, we should try not to buy into the doom.
Planet Papers 2: Changing the planet
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Back to Planet Papers hub Rathbones’ stewardship director Matt Crossman explains why he firmly believes we can make the world a better place through our investments, and how best to do it.
In flux
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
"You can feel it — or at least, I can. Going out seems more of a chore, except for the exercise regimen that is, everybody seems to be on that train. But having dinner with friends, going for a pint (gluten-free in my case), returning to the office? These concepts feel alien even when you do manage to overcome the threshold of your home and give them a go.
Rathbone Income Fund
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Despite a challenging year, our Rathbone Income Fund has yielded 4%. Co-fund manager Alan Dobbie explains why he is excited and optimistic about the future of UK companies.