Rathbones

With the BP crisis and a slowing UK economy further compounding an already delicate situation, investors are nervous.

Rathbone Unit Trust Management has made two multi-asset funds of funds available directly to external investors for the first time.

The uncertain future of the UK economy following the first hung Parliament in 30 years has led to a sell-off in small-cap stocks as investors seek safety and overseas exposure from blue chips.

The panel debate whether this fixed income cycle is moving at a different pace

A lack of timely and equitable release of corporate information in emerging markets has prompted James Thomson to veto trades on exchanges in India, China and Russia.

ETHICAL BONDS

Listen to fund manager Carl Stick as he discusses the simple idea of compounding and Rathbones income mandates.

After 40 years in the financial industry, Rathbones chief executive may take on non-executive roles and retains same desire to continue to face the markets

The probability of an economic recovery is very good, but the promised pay-off could be disappointing because, in many instances, we are being asked to pay happy prices for happy outcomes.

Peter Pearson Lund, chief executive of Rathbones Unit Trust Management, says he would go "straight back into markets" now given the outlook for them, if he were not retiring from the City after 40 years at the end of this month.