Knowledge and Insight

In our post-pandemic, cost-of-living-crisis world, many charities are facing a property conundrum: how to optimise their office space usage while reducing overheads? We talk to Rui Domingues, director of finance and operations at the Charity Finance Group, and Dan Bishop, head of operations and services at the Association of Chairs, about their mutually beneficial solution.

If you have any missing years of National Insurance Contributions (NIC), you may find that plugging the gaps now can boost income in retirement, but the clock is ticking.

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing current and future generations. If global ‘net-zero’ targets are to be met, the building and construction industries urgently need to reduce their emissions. We discuss how they’re addressing this, and what it could mean for your clients and their investments.

China’s changing demographics are one of the headwinds limiting its economy's long-term growth. We look at some of these forces in brief, and discuss why your clients may want to be wary of chasing any rally in China’s assets in the wake of its post-COVID ‘great reopening’.

Ensuring your clients always get the right advice at the right time is central to the professional adviser ethos. But what are the key trigger points that indicate that your client may need help from a financial planner or an investment manager and what should they look for in selecting one?

There’s a disconnect between how everyone feels and how stock markets are moving. Meanwhile, the US debt ceiling looms ever larger.

A King is crowned and most of England went to the polls last week. Coming up is a Bank of England rate hike and an update for American inflation.

A regional bank caught up in the March banking crisis has been forcibly sold by an American regulator. Hopefully this marks the end of the chapter.

Rathbones and 5 x 15 present the Four Elements: Fire - bringing in experts from different disciplines to discuss the future of our planet at this critical time and examine what actions investors can take to make a difference.

Investors are fearful of an earnings recession as reporting season steams ahead. Meanwhile, China’s first-quarter GDP estimate suggests its recovery is proving uneven

Following China’s ‘great reopening’, growth is likely to accelerate this year. But we’re sceptical that it will be as successful as many are currently assuming. We expect the road ahead to be bumpy, the same sawtooth pattern that characterised other post-COVID re-openings. Longer term, this cyclical rebound is likely to give way to structurally slower growth.

Markets are riven over weighty questions about the economic strength of our households and businesses clashing with higher living costs, and all the while lurks the menace of unknown consequences created by a rapidly changed world.