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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 - Why investors should not fear rising interest rates
2. A postcard from Beijing - China's old and new economies diverge
3. Real estate - Increasing risks in UK commercial property
4. Pay day - Wage inflation and the UK economy
5. Fixed income - Signs of stress in high yield bond markets

Read the key issues shaping current investment strategy.

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The entire team at Rathbone Investment Management International is celebrating after being named ‘Investment Management Company of the Year – Channel Islands’ for the third time in four years at the annual Citywealth International Financial Centre Awards, this week. Managing Director Jonathan Giles also took the title of ‘Outstanding Individual of the Year’ at the prestigious ceremony.

Jonathan Giles, Managing Director, and Grant Hamilton, Director, attended the event, which was held at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Wednesday evening, where they received the awards from former English rugby union

This statement is an Interim Management Statement in accordance with the UK Listing Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules. It covers the period from 1 July 2014 to 15 October 2014 and includes trading results for the three months ended 30 September 2014.

Chief Executive, Philip Howell, commented:

“Despite relatively flat investment markets in the third quarter, Rathbones’ funds under management grew 10% from £23.9 billion to £26.3 billion as a result of continued net organic growth combined with the successful completion of the acquisition of Jupiter Asset Management Limited's

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

Rathbone Investment Management confirms that its fifth annual Charity Symposium will be held on 18 September 2014 at the Saatchi Gallery, London.  At what is now a well-established event in the not-for-profit calendar, Rathbones’ spokespeople will be joined by Baroness Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, and John Timpson, chairman of the Timpson family business.

This year, the Charity Symposium, aimed at charity trustees and their advisers, takes “new perspectives” as its central theme. Rathbones believes that good investment requires an open mind and the outperforming assets of tomorrow

After achieving a successful period of considerable growth, the board of Rathbones Group Plc (“Rathbones”) announces that Philip Howell will retire as Chief Executive Officer and from the board by the 2019 Annual General Meeting on 9^th May 2019. The Board has appointed Paul Stockton as his successor, subject to regulatory approval. Paul has been Group Finance Director of Rathbones for nearly a decade and was appointed Managing Director of Rathbone Investment Management in May of this year. Paul has been a key individual in the firm's success and has played an integral role in the significant