Last Updated: September 30, 2025

What if we told you there is a country with some of the most densely populated cities, but fastest trains on earth, with average delays of only 18 seconds? Hardly imaginable, if you travel by train in the UK. What if we told you that country also has one of the most rapidly improving free-market capitalist economies? And its companies are becoming increasingly shareholder friendly? On top of all of that, its stock market looks cheap? You’d probably say we were dreaming.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes. We are fast entering a time of intense scrutiny for the US technology giants. For the past couple of decades, the titans of social media and the internet have created a digital world that has radically altered how we communicate, transact and live. Only 30 years ago, a 15-minute phone call to the other side of the world could cost the better part of a day’s wages. Now you can video call anyone, anywhere for nothing.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

A decision tree for navigating Brexit uncertainty

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Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Copper is the world’s favoured conduit of electrical current. It is also a popular method of tracking the conduit of global trade.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

For all the talk of fake news, it would be hard to dream up something stranger than the actual events of the past week in the US. And, weirdly, the markets barely shrugged.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

An obscure British shopping trolley company can be turned into the world’s largest media giant, and then be eclipsed by an upstart tech company toting the motto, “don’t be evil”.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 0.5% when its monetary policy committee meets on Thursday. For the past few weeks, Governor Mark Carney has backpedalled on a May hike following a run of poor economic data. With the committee gun-shy about pulling the trigger when economic data are glum, it could be some time before we see another rate rise. GDP growth has been trending downward for a year now, posting a paltry 1.2% annual expansion in the first quarter.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

There is a school of thought that says monetary policy has to shock to be effective.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

In June last year Rathbones published an investment update following the EU referendum. We are delighted to announce, it was one of twelve campaigns that has been shortlisted in the 'thought leadership' category at Headlinemoney Awards 2017

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

James Thomson, manager of the Rathbone Global Opportunities fund discusses the drivers of top quartile performance in 2018* including the zero exposure to emerging markets, declining UK and overweight US, tech and defensive growth.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Carl reviews performance of the Rathbone Income Fund in 2018. He discusses the strategy and positioning of the fund looking ahead and consider where opportunities for long term performance may be found in the current landscape.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Political violence in the US is overshadowing last week’s big moves in the biggest US stocks, and widespread gains for smaller stocks too.

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