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Review of the week: Brexit - trick or treat?
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It seems only fitting that our new Brexit date coincides with Halloween – will it be ‘trick’ or ‘treat’?
Review of the week: The lost art of compromise
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
As investors return from the long Easter weekend, Rathbones chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth considers the prospects for compromise as tariff wars and Brexit negotiations continue amid rumours of another plot to oust Theresa May in our latest Review of the Week.
Review of the week: Comeback king
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
American stocks roared back from last year’s setback at a pace rarely seen. Our chief investment officer, Julian Chillingworth, puzzles over the diabolical VIX index and explains why he thinks markets could be getting ahead of themselves.
Review of the week: Be best
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The Donald has ratcheted up tensions in the trade stand-off just when a resolution was so close you could taste it. Our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth ponders whether investors are right to shrug it off as gamesmanship.
Review of the week: Pick a tribe
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
When facts become contested emotion unseats the rule of reason, muses chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth. And emotion is the enemy of compromise.
Review of the week: Mutiny on the Bounty
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The Conservatives are falling over themselves to replace the Prime Minister, even as she doggedly works on her deal. Meanwhile, America fires another shot at China in the trade war.
Review of the week: A strong message
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
After years of arguments and hollering over Brexit, most Brits didn't even bother voting in the EU elections. Julian Chillingworth lays out how Nigel Farage's big win could affect mainstream party policies.
Silicon Valley feels like the Roman Empire
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
It’s where budding tech entrepreneurs want to be, it’s the engine room of the West Coast that accounted for 60% of all US private equity dollars invested in 2018. It is arguably Rome for the digital 21st century.
Review of the week: Get with the programme
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Unlike with South American asylum seekers, tanks and razor wire won’t keep climate change from encroaching on your borders. Chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth looks at the latest US tariff threats.
Review of the week: Mexican stand off
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
The week starts with a temporary reprieve in the Mexican stand-off, but will it last? Chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth looks at the prevailing winds in US trade rhetoric, the hot air here at home and the anti-trust threat heating up for America’s tech giants.
White collar robots
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Artificial intelligence is coming for your job. There are benefits and drawbacks to this, Rathbones head of multi-asset investments David Coombs notes, but he thinks society will end up taking it in its stride.
When I’m 64
Last Updated: September 30, 2025
Nobody knows what the future holds, but we hope you enjoy David’s ‘predictions’ of what might happen before he turns 64.