Macquarie’s grip on global infrastructure

Take 730 delegates from 44 countries, plus another 2,000 or so hangers-on. House them in a remote, dilapidated hotel with holes in the roof and broken furniture. Deliver a train wagon filled with alcohol. Throw in some Russian spies, German prisoners of war, a troupe of bombshell ...  عرض المزيد

What is money? And what can a small island in Micronesia teach us about how it works? On Yap, a remote island in the western Pacific, giant calcite “Rai” stones once functioned as currency, where ownership and collective trust — rather than physical possession — defined wealth an ...  عرض المزيد

This spring, swimmers in Kent were told to avoid ten beaches in the county due to sewage leaks. Public outrage at sewage pouring into our rivers and beaches has so far focused on water companies. But is someone else to blame? The pipes that carry sewage in Kent are not owned by S ...  عرض المزيد

Philanthropy and the private sector haven’t always known how to work together. But today, investors are becoming more concerned about social and environmental impact. 

Gary White, CEO of the nonprofit Water.org and the asset manager WaterEquity, seized this oppo ...

We had the great opportunity to sit down with Todd Warren, investor and partner at Tribeca Investment Partners.Our conversation was super wide ranging, covering topics such as changes in the decarbonisation thematic, demand for hybrid vehicles, resource nationalism, the volatile ...  عرض المزيد

Our intern Matt “Hobbsy” Hobbs has gone deep into the asset almost at the centre of the biggest mining M&A deal of the decade – Woodsmith. If you haven’t heard of it, we don’t blame you. This is a giant mining project currently under construction in the UK and it has been a giant ...  عرض المزيد