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Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Collateral Damage
Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the question the team try to answer on this month’s episode. While there are definitely bubble-like signs popping up in the market, are there enough for the team to be worried? Next, some cracks are beginning to show in private credit. The team discuss recent bankruptcies that have hit the headlines, and whether these are isolated cases or indications of a wider risk to the global economy. Finally, the spotlight is on Lonza, a one-stop shop for drug development and manufacturing that the team has bought recently.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: The vibes are bad for the UK economy, yet its stock market is smoking
It’s been one miserable tiding after another for the UK this year. Yet Rathbone UK Opportunities Fund manager Alexandra Jackson notes the FTSE All-Share has shrugged off the malaise to post one of its best starts to the year in three decades.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: To lend, borrow, or not; nay, to buy? That is the question
Head of multi-asset investments David Coombs’s Nan Connie was so sceptical of debt it made her wax lyrical. Her old advice prompts him to wonder if a tempest is building in debt markets or if it’s all just Shakespearean melodrama.
Register now: Rathbones Multi-Asset Portfolios Webinar 15 October 2025
Join Will McIntosh Whyte, Fund Manager of the Rathbones Multi-Asset Portfolios, in his upcoming webinar on 15 October at 10.00am. Topics to be covered: Mixed Signals: weaker jobs, stronger growth. Will the FED lean into rate cuts? Big tech boom: is there any other game in town? Portfolio performance and positioning
Register now: Rathbones UK Opportunities Webcast, September 30 2025
Overseas investors are buying UK equities again. It helped the FTSE All-Share outperform the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Euro Stoxx 600 year to date. What do foreigners see that domestic investors don’t? And what are they ignoring?
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: The AI opportunity: it’s more than just Nvidia
The AI revolution is more than just the handful of household names at the top of the S&P 500. Global equity analyst Siyuan Lin outlines just some of the businesses making up the diverse ecosystem needed for the technology to thrive.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Gone with the wind
Investor eyes and ears turned to the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech in August as he hinted that interest rate cuts could be coming in the US. How did the Rathbones Asset Management’s multi-asset investing team respond to the rotation away from tech to cyclical stocks?
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: The UK faces tough choices – it needs to act
As the UK summer slowly rolls towards autumn, the government’s second Budget approaches. Head of Multi-Asset Investments David Coombs is getting concerned that Labour isn’t bold enough to deal with pressing problems. Read more
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Goldlinger
You may feel a sense of déjà vu this month, as the team once again talk tariffs after July’s trade deal deadline got pushed back and a raft of negotiations and agreements ensued. While markets now seem almost to ignore many of the tariff announcements, there’s some nervousness around the economic data coming out of the US — but how accurate is it really?
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Finding the perfect partner: where profit meets purpose
Finance often gets a bad rap – sometimes justified! – yet it’s a sector that looms large because of the extraordinary leverage it can bring to bear. As our sustainable investment analyst Neil Smith explains, when harnessed right, it can help create a whole lot of good.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Euro summer: More than just airlines could be delayed
As the socials get blitzed with people gearing up for Euro summer, our multi-asset equity analyst Emma Letheren is dispatched to Paris to scout companies. She finds a rare optimism among them, but old doubts die hard.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: The 5% Club (with special bonus content!)
Geopolitics are top of the agenda in an extra special podcast that celebrates four years of talking common sense about investing (alright and a bit of questionable banter on the side).
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Powering efficiency
A wave of disappointing headlines about our battle against climate change and the move to cleaner energy doesn’t have equity investment specialist Michael Cumberlidge in a funk. He’s looking at the day-to-day improvements delivered by ever-better technology.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Pork chopped
Former First Bro Elon Musk is lambasting President Trump’s tax and spending plans as a “mountain of disgusting pork.” Rathbones Asset Management’s multi-asset fund manager Will McIntosh-Whyte unpicks the claims and concludes a few porky morsels may not prove a bad thing, as long as bond markets can swallow them.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Beauty's in the eye of the bondholder
This month the multi-asset investing team talk all things big and beautiful – not a remake of the hymn – but President Trump’s new budget bill. Deemed by some as more generous to taxpayers great than small, Elon Musk thinks it’s by no means wise and wonderful
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Active investors care what’s in a portfolio, passive investors only care about how it’s held
Would you choose a new car based on how much its price has risen in the past couple of years? Head of multi-asset investments David Coombs asks why so many are happy doing this with their life savings.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Active investors care what’s in a portfolio, passive investors only care about how it’s held
Would you choose a new car based on how much its price has risen in the past couple of years? Head of multi-asset investments David Coombs asks why so many are happy doing this with their life savings.
Register now: Rathbones Income Fund Webcast 04 June 2025
With global trade tensions fuelling asset market volatility and growing scepticism around the long-standing narrative of American exceptionalism, the first few months of 2025 have been anything but quiet. Are investors now looking beyond US markets in search of resilient opportunities? Will this shift reshape global asset allocation strategies? What role will the UK equity market play in this changing world?
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Moving beyond DE&I buzzwords
In light of intense political scrutiny of corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) practices, Rathbones Asset Management’s engagement analyst Jenny Twigg explains why ditching DEI could prove painfully short-sighted.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: The importance of beating earnings
As Oscar Wilde wrote, in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. Yet President Trump’s style is leading some to question American exceptionalism, which has been a hot topic of conversation for the team for years now. The Rathbones Asset Management’s multi-asset investing team discuss their thoughts on the longer-term impact of current events on markets and the global economy. And then guess who’s back, back again – no it’s not Eminem but earnings season! The team talk about how it’s gone so far and what’s surprised them in what’s always a busy time. Finally, Apple – which needs no introduction – has had products glued to the ears and hands of consumers the world over for some time now. Will the glue hold, the team asks, and what part should the company play in portfolios?
Register now: Rathbones Asset Management Multi-Asset Webcast May 2025
Rathbones Asset Management is delighted to invite you to their upcoming webcast on 14 May at 10.00am with Will McIntosh-Whyte, fund manager of the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: It’s a kinda tariff
President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, delivered on two giant placards in the Rose Garden, sent stock markets into freefall. The Rathbones Asset Management’s multi-asset investing team explains how they are unpicking what might happen next and how markets may react to further news and retaliations. The focus then switches to reviewing how the UK’s recent Spring Statement’s announcements – or perhaps the lack thereof – have left the team feeling about UK PLC. Finally, UK listed food service business Compass is on the menu as the team outlines what attracts them to the company.
Register now: Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund Webcast with Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones, head of fixed income at Rathbones Asset Management, is delighted to invite you to his upcoming webcast on 30 April at 10.00am (BST).
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: EuroRevision
Europe has been the star of the show for the past couple of weeks. What’s driven this unusual outperformance? Will 2025 be the year of Europe’s comeback, or just another a short-lived bounce? The team then moves on to America: you can’t get away from President Donald Trump and his tariffs at the moment. Despite having talked about it on last month’s episode, there’s a whole lot more to cover since then. Finally, the team discuss Unilever, a manufacturer of household staples which has been a long-term holding in our Greenbank multi-asset range, but a new addition to our core funds.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Taking the brakes off Britain?
After months of keeping their feet firmly on the growth brake, Rathbone Income Fund Manager Alan Dobbie asks whether the government and central bank might simultaneously be nudging towards the accelerator.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Javons Above
The Donald is firing out of the blocks on trade tariffs with no hesitation. The Rathbones Asset Management’s multi-asset investing team discusses what it means for financial markets and how they should position their funds for a world of potentially lesser trade.
Rathbones Asset Management - In The KNOW blog: Are you 100% faithful to Net Zero?
Fresh from finishing the latest season of The Traitors, our engagement analyst Jenny Twigg is ready for much more open dialogue with our investments in the year ahead.
Register now: Rathbones Asset Management Multi-Asset Webcast
Rathbones Asset Management is delighted to invite you to their upcoming webcast on 26 February at 10.OOam with Will McIntosh-Whyte, fund manager of the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios.
Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Gilty Party
It’s been quite the new year hangover for the global bond market as yields have continued to race away at the start of the new year – the UK 10-year gilt is back to levels not seen since the 2000s.