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Review of the week: Rolling Returns
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
A Santa rally is in full swing for stocks and bonds, capping off a year of large swells for investors. While returns flow, climate policy is ebbing at COP28 in Dubai.
Review of the week: The Chancellor’s Goodwill Hunting
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The government has more cash to work with after better-than-expected GDP growth and higher tax receipts. How will the extra money be used?
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Last Updated: September 30, 2025
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Review of the week: Welcome back
Last Updated: October 8, 2025
Action and adventure abounded in the summer holidays and it wasn’t all between the covers of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth takes stock.
Investing early and often: the magic of compound interest
Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Not many of us want to forgo our lifestyle, especially when we are younger, but making an effort to think ahead and invest more at an early age can have an amazing impact on our wealth as we get older.
Investment Insights Q2 2025: Europe's Big Reset
Last Updated: October 7, 2025
In the opening months of President Trump’s second term, attention-grabbing trade policy and a dramatic pivot on Ukraine have ratcheted up the level of uncertainty investors are facing. Our lead article considers the ‘collateral improvement’ this has brought to Europe’s outlook for growth.
Review of the week: No, Prime Minister
Last Updated: October 8, 2025
It’s bye bye for Boris after one scandal too many, yet it shouldn’t affect UK markets much if at all. Meanwhile, the Bank of England is making sure British banks are as safe as houses.
Opportunities and risks of AI in the charity sector
Last Updated: October 9, 2025
All charities should be examining how they can harness the opportunities presented by AI, while remaining alive to the risks, Andrew Maxwell and Simon Lapthorne tell Ian Allsop from Civil Society Media.
Quarterly Investment Update Q4 2025: Another brick in the wall
Last Updated: October 7, 2025
We look at why artificial intelligence is boosting stock markets – and ponder who the eventual winners might be. We also consider current political risks on both sides of the Atlantic.
The vibes are bad for the UK economy, yet its stock market is smoking
Last Updated: October 10, 2025
It’s been one miserable tiding after another for the UK this year. Yet Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund manager Alexandra Jackson notes the FTSE All-Share has shrugged off the malaise to post one of its best starts to the year in three decades.
Review of the week: The cycle of hope
Last Updated: October 10, 2025
When you really want some thing to happen, it’s hard to be objective about it. You focus on the reasons why it will happen and explain away any suggestion that it won’t. Investors have been guilty of this while dreaming ceaselessly of American interest rate cuts over the past year or more.
The UK faces tough choices – it needs to act
Last Updated: October 10, 2025
As the UK summer slowly rolls towards autumn, the government’s second Budget approaches. Head of Multi-Asset Investments David Coombs is getting concerned that Labour isn’t bold enough to deal with pressing problems.