UK government bonds are under pressure, sending borrowing costs rocketing once again. But it’s not only Britain that’s affected, and it mostly stems from across the Atlantic.

It’s been quite the new year hangover for the global bond market. The team unpacks the volatile start, financials sector strategies, and why the US-based global investment company KKR is an attractive new holding.

Rathbones Asset Management Ltd (RAM) has appointed Kim Nelson as business development director to lead asset management distribution in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

After a solid year for investors, albeit with jarring moments and a pervasive uncertainty, what does 2025 have in store?

As 2024 winds down and Wall Street is lit up like a Christmas tree, there’s still plenty to keep us on our toes. Will central banks bring glad tidings?

The outlook for Europe looks cloudy as its two largest economies struggle. Comparatively, the UK is doing generally ok. It’s only the US that continues to power ahead.

Mariah Carey is back, Elf on the Shelf is loose, and our head of multi-asset, David Coombs, faces his annual predictions test. Will the team be naughty or nice when scoring David’s forecasts?

Watch David Coombs discuss the City Hive ACT Framework's role in fostering transparency, accountability and cultural change in investment management, and why fund selectors are pushing for more Signatories.

A plan to sort out France’s unsustainable state spending is in jeopardy as another government is threatened with dissolution by the parliament. Meanwhile, chances improve for a December interest rate cut in the US.

Developed nations have agreed to a three-fold increase to clean energy and climate mitigation funding for poorer countries, but with a 10-year phase-in. Meanwhile, advanced nations are battling spiralling energy costs – some more than others.

The UK economy hit the wall last quarter, while inflation started rising again. In the US, expectations of interest rate cuts have cooled since Donald Trump was elected President.

Equity and bond investors had opposite reactions to the US election. But Trump 2.0 may have less influence than investors first hoped or feared.