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An enormous painting of an urban scene strewn with bin bags and graffiti, and overgrown with twisted plants and weeds, is the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors’ Choice 2014, sponsored by Rathbones.

Since the exhibition opened in July, visitors have been voting in their thousands for their favourite work. With such a varied selection people were spoilt for choice between eerie photorealist works, stunning portraiture, landscape and figurative work or intriguing abstract paintings.

However it was the overwhelming Vinculum by London-born Losq which captured the imagination of

Rathbones is pleased to announce that four of its team members have been listed in the Citywire Wealth Manager Top 100. The awards highlight those individuals “who are the locomotives behind the UK’s thriving private client investment management industry.”

Head of Multi-Manager Investments David Coombs, Liverpool-based Investment Director James Hedley, Head of Research Elizabeth Savage and Research Analyst Mona Shah were all singled out for inclusion in the list of the top 100 most influential people in private client fund selection.

Commenting on the awards, Paul Chavasse, Head of

Each quarter, our strategic asset allocation committee meets to identify the key themes that could affect global financial markets. This quarter’s key themes include:

1. Monetary policy - Negative interest rates: bad for banks?
2. Economic data and sentiment - Markets overreacted to concerns about the global economy
3. Inflation-linked bonds - The markets UK inflation expectations are too low
4. Divisifiers - Finding sources of uncorrelated returns
5. Dividends - The income challenge is getting tougher

Read the key issues shaping current investment strategy.

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Rathbone Brothers Plc (Rathbones), the FTSE 250 wealth management company, announces its extended partnership with Lacrosse Scotland until 2017. The partnership comes during an exciting time for the sport with confirmation that U19 World Championships 2015 will be held in Edinburgh.  

Rathbones' sponsorship has enabled Lacrosse Scotland to set up the Rathbones Fund, a body which offers grants to lacrosse players, and also clubs which are aiming to develop the sport in Scotland. This partnership between Rathbones and Lacrosse Scotland aims to increase participation and facilitate greater

Rathbone Investment Management is pleased to announce the appointment of Fiona Gillespie as the new head of charities for Scotland.

Fiona joins Rathbones with over 25 years’ experience within investment management, most recently at Anderson Strathern Asset Management and Aberdeen Asset Management, where she was the principal manager for a number of charities and foundations.

Fiona has a long track record of managing investments for charities and is a long-standing member of the charity sector in Scotland. Fiona’s appointment will help strengthen Rathbones’ charity proposition with the aim to

Rathbones has moved to sixth place in this year’s Charity Finance Fund Management Survey, up from ninth place in 2013, as its charity funds under management hit nearly £3bn.