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Rathbones has been awarded a 5-star rating for its online services at the Financial Adviser Service Awards 2015.

Rathbones Group Plc (“Rathbones”) today announces that following receipt of regulatory approval, it has completed the acquisition of Speirs & Jeffrey (“S&J”), Scotland’s largest independent wealth manager with funds under management of £6.7bn and a team of around 150 people, including 38 investment professionals.

Speirs & Jeffrey represents a strong cultural and operational fit for Rathbones, with a heritage and philosophy very similar to our own. S&J is market-leading in Scotland and, like Rathbones, their approach places clients at the heart of everything they do. 

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Camilla Ayling and Emma Saunders, analysts in Rathbones’ research team, have been honoured with spots in Citywire’s Top 30 Under 30 list. 

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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