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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

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that Julie Walters CBE, the multi-BAFTA-winning actress, will discuss her career and craft at a special ‘BAFTA A Life in Television’ event at BAFTA headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London, on Wednesday 3 December. The event is supported by Rathbone Investment Management.

‘BAFTA A Life in Television’ is a new strand of live onstage events that will celebrate leading figures from the world of television, shining a light on their talent and their contribution to British television and culture. 

The event with Julie Walters

Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, confirms the launch of the Rathbone Managed Portfolio Service to clients of financial advisers, with effect from 3 April, 2017. The service is offered on an execution-only basis whereby Rathbones implements client instructions following advice received from a financial adviser.

The investment service consists of six actively managed strategies, designed to preserve and grow wealth over the long term.

The six strategies, which suit different risk and return

To celebrate the extended partnership of Rathbones Group Plc (Rathbones) with English Lacrosse until 2017, a charity match was held between Rathbones’ employees and the English Lacrosse players on 7 February in Hyde Park.

This Interim Management Statement covers the period from 1 January 2015 to 13 May 2015 and includes trading results for the three months ended 31 March 2015.

At the Annual General Meeting later today, Mark Nicholls, Chairman of Rathbones, will say:

“With a backdrop of reasonably favourable investment markets our total funds under management reached £28.9 billion at the end of the first quarter, up 6.3% from 31 December 2014.

“We continue to make good progress on the strategic initiatives we outlined last year, and remain positive in our outlook as we continue to invest and consider future