Perspective

October 2026

Your quarterly source of ideas and expert insights to help you build your financial future with confidence. Each issue brings together the perspectives of our wealth management specialists, distilling the themes shaping markets and personal finances into clear, actionable thinking for your wealth.

The ‘Balance sheet of Mum and Dad’

Wealth protection

The ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ might help children onto the property ladder. But the ‘Balance Sheet of Mum and Dad’ lets you share growth with the next generation, tax-efficiently and on your terms.

6 minute read
– The ‘Balance sheet of Mum and Dad’

The AI gold rush, two years on: have our beliefs held true?

AI

The prospectors are still digging, the merchants still selling shovels. Chief Strategist Guy Foster unpicks two years of AI lessons – and what’s changed.

9 minute read
– The AI gold rush, two years on: have our beliefs held true?

Investing in longevity: How longer lives are reshaping markets and retirement plans

Investing

The retirement our parents and grandparents knew is dissipating. In its place is a structural demographic shift that is reshaping economies, markets and portfolios.

7 minute read
– Investing in longevity: How longer lives are reshaping markets and retirement plans

Is AI creating a Brave New World?

AI

The march of AI continues. But, as Ian Quigley, Head of Investment Strategy, RBC Brewin Dolphin Ireland explains, excitement about a new golden age or fears of a future dystopia need to be measured against a balanced investment approach.

8 minute read
– Is AI creating a Brave New World?