Rathbone Funds

We are an active management house, offering a range of investment solutions to meet your capital growth and income requirements.

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Individual investors (or retail investors) based within the UK, seeking investments for growth, income or additional diversification

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Financial advisers and other investment intermediaries based in the UK who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

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Why Rathbone Funds?

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Our vision: 'to be recognised as a pre-eminent specialist investment house that focuses on helping financial advisers deliver financial security for their clients over the long term'.

Rathbone Unit Trust Management (Rathbone Funds) is a leading UK fund manager. Our unit trusts have been designed to meet capital growth, income and tax-efficiency requirements, investing in a range of opportunities and catering for different risk appetites.

18 February 2019

Amusing ourselves to death

Quite possibly the worst bounty delivered by the 21st century is the 24-hour news cycle. It creates a strange sort of loop that distorts time, fact and emotion. You ask yourself, for how many days has this BBC presenter on the TV at Westminster been talking about wicketkeepers?…

18 February 2019

Rathbones to make changes to its Luxembourg SICAV range

Rathbone Unit Trust Management prepares for post-Brexit regulatory environment. Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading providers of investment management services for individuals, charities and professional advisers, announces its intention to make changes to its Luxembourg…

18 February 2019

In context

Investors seem to be flitting between fear and optimism in an increasingly erratic manner. Hopes for a soft-touch Federal Reserve seem to be driving most of the optimism, notes chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth. In context It can be difficult to get perspective in…

11 February 2019

The next recession

It’s that time in the ebb and flow of global commerce that investors cast around for the next big threat to the economy, the unforeseen wave that will upend everything. Economists and talking heads have pitched up quite a few candidates over the past six months: China, the US…

8 February 2019

Chart of the week: Ask Dr Copper

Copper is all around us: in our houses, our cars, our hairdryers and it’s even one of the most intensively used raw materials in the green energy revolution. Its wide use in everyday products should make copper prices a good indicator of economic health. But there are other…

4 February 2019

Great timing

US nonfarm payrolls smashed expectations once again, posting 304,000 new jobs in January instead of the 165,000 forecast. Last month’s number was revised down from exceptionally high to very high. The ISM manufacturing survey rose to 56.6, higher than expected, showing that US…

28 January 2019

Watch the pound fly

Every time Theresa May gets trounced in Parliament, delays a vote or a member of her Cabinet lets slip that she won’t really force a no-deal exit from the EU, sterling shoots upward. That’s why UK investors didn’t partake in the continued recovery for global stock markets last…

22 January 2019

A Gordian knot

Markets took a dive in December, but we think panicked investors may have got ahead of themselves. Chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth explains why things are relatively ok for global growth, but perhaps not so much for the UK. A Gordian Knot Theresa May was supposed…

21 January 2019

Losing control

Today Theresa May has to present her alternative Brexit plan to Parliament. Facing a hostile House of Commons, the Prime Minister says she won’t do so. Instead, she will reiterate that she is continuing to negotiate with the EU in a bid to unpick the Gordian knot of the Irish…

16 January 2019

Rathbones’ Smith: Reduced risk of a ‘no deal’

The Brexit saga has taken a predictable turn, though the rout that Prime Minister Theresa May suffered in Tuesday’s Parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal was historical in its magnitude. The vote doesn’t really change much, though, other than making an extension of the Article…

11 January 2019

Rathbones’ Smith looks at the key macro issues for the year ahead

At the start of 2018 we identified the concerns that eventually weighed on equity markets, but we hadn’t anticipated the big drop in valuations that would follow. We still believe some caution is warranted, but not the kind of fear that seemed to take hold as 2018 drew to a…

8 January 2019

Rathbones’ Coombs: “Investors’ greatest risk in 2019 could be…

As market sentiment hits new lows, Rathbones’ David Coombs discusses why he welcomes the recent volatility and continues to back equities. “There is no doubt that 2018 was a tough year for investors, including us. But we managed to dampen the downside and are now positioned to…

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Our funds - UK Individual

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