Last Updated: September 30, 2025

US Treasury yields soared last Wednesday in a truly astonishing 12-basis-point one-day jump. The move was triggered by ADP employment figures that smashed expectations and was given extra fuel by US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell saying rates were still a way off “neutral”.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

For answers about the global stock market dip of the past couple of weeks, we think you need to look at the bond market. That, mixed with some jumpy robots, is most likely the cause, we believe.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The basic model for charting the adoption of new technologies was first used to track farmers’ purchases of hybrid seed corn. Today novel ideas might rise, fall and die in considerably less time than it takes to cultivate a single harvest. Just how fast has the innovation cycle become?

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The Royal Academy of Arts, the world’s foremost artist and architect-led institution, celebrates two-and-a-half centuries this year, with the unveiling of new exhibition space that will allow it to show more art than ever before.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and cares for beautiful, accessible and therapeutic gardens at NHS spinal injury centres. Rathbones is proud to help sponsor these inspiring projects, which grew out of the vision of one remarkable teenager.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

How are established brands responding to the needs of millennials? 

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• Glasgow Conference

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

A broad range of US companies reined in estimates of 2019 growth last week, most notably Amazon. Last week, we noted that any corporate concerns about next month’s profit and revenue growth would weigh heavily on stock markets and we were correct. The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% in dollar terms, putting it 9.3% down from its peak in September. Other markets followed the American bourse downward, although the UK held up better with a cheaper pound lending some support amid Brexit worries.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Life is in the living, not the grave; joy is in hope, not receipt. Nothing is ever as fulfilling as we can imagine. And so it is with the stock markets that, at bottom, are a barometer of people’s moods.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

October was a brutal month for investors, with a simultaneous rise in bond yields and sharp correction in equity markets. In English, this means the value of both bonds and stocks headed the same way: down

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Markets were dominated by US politics last week, with investors first holding their breath and then pondering how America will fare with a split Congress.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

We are making some important changes with respect to those of our funds that have dual (offer and bid) prices; namely a switch to ‘swinging’ single pricing.

Last Updated: September 30, 2025

Note dealing dates and times for the Luxembourg SICAV funds