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Time to shape up
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
After months of selfie cuts and ad hoc trims, investment specialist Craig Brown’s hair is in chronic need of expert help. As businesses come out of the other side of lockdown, they’re likely to be in a similar situation.
The great property shakeout
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
COVID may be about to rock the property world to its foundations. Such dislocations tend to create opportunities for investors, notes head of multi-asset investments David Coombs, but they don’t come without risk.
Destructive capitalism
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The pandemic has radically changed how we work. That makes propping up struggling companies a dangerous pastime for the government, argues our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs.
A healthy recovery
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Stewardship director Matt Crossman makes the case for a healthy and responsible recovery – building back better from COVID-19.
Nightmare on Tottenham Court Road (Street)
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
There’s a creaking and a groaning in the night in Swindon. Head of multi-asset investments David Coombs is living with a ghost of retail past that not even store credit can bury.
Recovery’s winners and losers
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As investors look ahead to a time when the pandemic will be over, Ed Smith and Sanjiv Tumkur, our respective heads of asset allocation and equity research, question whether equity markets are in the midst of a great rotation from ‘growth’ to ‘value’.
Fun and GameStop in the bedroom
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It looks like we’ll all be staying in this Valentine’s Day. But multi-asset fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte is looking forward to some quality time away from the screens.
Eating for two?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
We’re all craving the end of lockdown and a bit of freedom. But Craig Brown, our multi-asset investment specialist, wonders just how many of us will be in the position to spend up large.
ESG: A package deal
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
From the outside looking in, sustainable investment analysis may seem like information overload. Amid all of the data, is it possible to see both the forest and the trees? Rathbone Greenbank deputy head of research Kate Elliot says yes.
A day in the life of a year at home
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
A year already? Our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs gives a flavour of his latter-day lockdown days and ponders an omnichannel working life.
A drop in the ocean or start of a movement?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The UK government has announced one of the most ambitious green bond programmes in Europe. But is it enough? Fund manager Noelle Cazalis argues this is just the beginning.
Saving the world, one degree at a time
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
After a long and wet winter, our head of fixed income is resisting the urge to turn up the thermostat. Bryn Jones discusses how human activity has contributed to climate change.