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Rathbone Unit Trust Management chief executive Mike Webb has urged advisers to consider the sustainability of fund performance when doing their due diligence, as he warned there is "still too much herding" going on in the market.
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Rathbone Unit Trust Management is to cut fees on its entire multi-asset range, as it prepares to include direct equities in portfolios as part of a shift to a "private client-style product".
Rathbones is planning to expand its range of services for high net worth clients with the launch of a private office.
Rathbones saw its funds under management boosted in 2014 thanks to deals with Jupiter Asset Management and Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management.
Rathbones has reported a jump in assets under management, to over £27bn, but taken a cautious stance on the outlook for investors over the next 12 months.
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Morningstar head of portfolio management Dan Kemp has branded risk targeting strategies "lunacy", saying they force managers to sell assets at a time when investors will lose the most money.
Rathbone Unit Trust Management suffered a £230m net outflow in 2009, taking its total funds under management down to £940m at 31 December.