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Locking in bond income for longer
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Bond fund manager Stuart Chilvers explains why lower interest rates won’t sap corporate bonds’ juicy income yields straightaway.
Challenger comebacks
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund equity analyst Robbie Carr marvels at the speed of an FA Cup comeback. It makes him wonder if UK small and mid-sized companies could soon post a rapid recovery of their own.
Are govvies as exciting as murder in the Mediterranean?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Government bonds have given investors whiplash as their yields bounce around the place like a psychopath in 1950s Italy. Yet multi-asset portfolios fund manager David Coombs explains why he’s holding on tight.
AI: just what the doctor ordered
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Since joining our Multi-Asset Team earlier this year as a fixed income analyst, Sally Hoang has really enjoyed the cross-asset lens that’s used when analysing investments. Combined with her background as a pharmacist, it helps her understand the potential for AI in healthcare.
Can less be more?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Rathbone Income Fund Manager Carl Stick argues that relentlessly busy bees aren’t always as productive as they seem. Might the answer be to do fewer things better?
The end of a long winter for UK stocks?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Could fortunes be turning for British stocks, asks Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund Manager Alexandra Jackson. As the UK prepares to vote in the sunshine, investors seem more optimistic than they’ve been for years.
Things can only get better for UK equities
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
In 1997 a reinvigorated and more centrist Labour party swept into power following a long period of Conservative rule. With the election of a new Labour government, could 2024 spark a similar resurgence in the UK stock market?
Record rotations in stocks and English Euros hopes
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Multi-asset fund manager David Coombs channels some empathy for Gareth Southgate, as he looks to put together a portfolio that can achieve optimal performance over the long haul, but may look out of touch during periods when market momentum is against you.
Guess who’s back?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Former President Donald Trump is the odds-on favourite to win the US election in November, despite the Democrats’ decision to bring on a last-minute substitute. Flashbacks to the bad old days of the pandemic help Multi-Asset Fund Manager David Coombs remember the playbook of dealing with him.
Taxes, beaches and bonds
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
A flurry of new UK government spending raises concerns that Labour will return to its tax and spend habits. Multi-Asset Portfolios Fund Manager David Coombs mulls whether current trends will put interest rate cuts on pause.
FIT FOR LONGER WORKING LIVES?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As the holiday season winds down and we get back to our desks, we may have mixed feelings about recognising that longer lifespans will probably keep us working for longer. Rathbone Income Fund co-manager Carl Stick looks at some of the innovations that might help us stay in fine fettle.
Challenging the Anthropocene era in the Amazon?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Bond fund manager Stuart Chilvers explains why his team are excited by a new bond that aims to tackle humans’ harmful impact on the Amazon rainforest by supporting its reforestation.