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Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Markets, even the UK, have climbed the wall of worry and rallied hard so far in 2019. With the Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund up over 14% year to date (to 23.04.19), we ask manager Alexandra Jackson where to from here.
A last gasp
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
At his penultimate meeting, outgoing President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi announced a series of measures to ease monetary policy in the listless region. The bank cut deposit rates by 10 basis points to -0.50% and will restart quantitative easing (QE) on 1 November. At just €20 billion (£17.7bn) per month it’s peanuts compared to historic QE – since 2015 the ECB’s bond purchases have totalled €2.65 trillion – but crucially the new programme has no set end date. Until inflation gets back to 2% and stays there, QE and zero rates are here to stay.
Rathbones Asset Management Webinars
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Register for the latest Rathbones Asset Management webinars, where the Fund Managers provide their latest views on markets and discuss fund performance. You can also browse our back catalogue for past webinars on demand. Sign up and watch below.
Chart of the week: Antitrust noise is up…
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Just like other life-transforming technologies of the past, today’s tech giants are reaching maturity — that inevitable transformation from fresh young face of innovation to overgrown, mistrusted hulk. Their share prices fell amid reports that US antitrust bodies would be taking a closer look at their competitive practices for possible violations. We don’t think a bust-up is imminent but further volatility is likely for the big US tech firms in the near term.
Chart of the week: Buy low and sell high?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Put crudely, the job of an active investor is to buy low and sell high. Identifying companies and markets that are ‘cheap’ (attractive) and ‘expensive’ (to be avoided) is commonly done using PE ratios, the price divided by the underlying annual earnings for that company or market. But in all but a few specific situations, when it comes to choosing one investment over another, it’s often more hindrance than help, especially over shorter time periods.
Investing in defensive equity sectors as the cycle matures
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
When the pace of economic growth begins to slow and the outlook becomes more gloomy, it makes sense for investors to start shifting their equity investments away from cyclical sectors and towards defensive ones, even if you don’t think a recession is necessarily likely to ensue.
Chart of the week: Protection worth paying for
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Each dot in this chart shows the return of UK defensive sectors during each of the past three economic recessions (above zero on the vertical axis is an outperformance versus the overall market, and the further to the right on the horizontal axis the more expensive). Read more on why we think now is a good time to move in to less economically sensitive sectors in ‘A solid defence’, one of the articles in our latest InvestmentInsights.
Investment Update 2019
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Please Mr Trump, don't mention the war. The global economy is sinking into a slowdown, but is this the beginning of the end? It’s too early to tell.
Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments will update investors on the positioning in his funds as well as explain how he will protect portfolios against levels of such high market volatility.
Investment Insights Q4 2019
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Trade wars continue to cloud the outlook for businesses and consumers. Closer to home, Brexit uncertainty has gone from bad to worse. Our new Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s first few weeks in office have been pretty spectacular.
Chart of the week: Investors see a bleak Brexit
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
UK sentiment near all-time lows.
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.