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Quality over quantity
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Sustainable investing may be known for its values and principles, but there are other advantages for investors. David Harrison explains how companies that embrace ESG are more likely to be more resilient over the long term.
The snowball effect
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Fund manager David Harrison explains how the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which began life as an aspirational target for governments around the world, transitioned to an unofficial framework for ESG investing. But can they really make a difference?
Lego, bricks & mortar
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Kids’ building blocks and workplaces both offer a chance to learn. Senior multi-asset investment specialist Craig Brown makes a case for the office while tripping over his son’s toys.
That old-time service
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Hours-long queues for petrol focuses the mind on the importance of businesses that have been dismissed as ‘old-economy’. Rathbone Income Fund co-manager Carl Stick explains why he’s been adding to a few of them this year.
Own the tent not the circus
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
COP26 has produced a lot of hot air, argues our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs, and that’s half the climate problem facing the world. The other half is empty gestures and a lack of action.
Not a Christmas quiz
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The battle between personal freedom and governmental control is extremely important for economic performance, argues David Coombs, our head of multi-asset investments. It affects consumption, inflation, the currency and investment.
2022: The year ahead. Maybe?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
You’d think that two years of pandemic-induced uncertainty would persuade David Coombs to stop trying to predict the future, yet here we are. Our head of multi-assets gives his lucky dice another blow…
Weekly Digest: Fahrenheit 451
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We’re vigilant about threats to companies we invest in, whether from competitors or from within.
Review of the week: Too much oil
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Crazy phenomena like negative oil prices will keep popping up over the coming months, warns our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth. Investors will ignore most of it, but when they do panic, stocks could return to their March lows.
Victory is coming
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
This Friday we remember the victory of an older generation. They won peace and reshaped the world, becoming a timeless example for humanity, argues our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth.
Review of the week: Influencing behaviour
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The government has unveiled its lockdown exit plan to mixed reception. Our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth thinks attention is best paid elsewhere.
Review of the week: The most important resource
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Our kids are going to lead us out of lockdown, as the government makes some tough decisions. Chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth looks at the tracking programme that will accompany the back-to-school drive.