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Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Becoming GPs

Sovereign wealth funds are quietly building their own asset-management platforms. They are becoming the GPs they used to fund, not just the LPs behind them. What is the impact of this move?

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Julio Romo Julio Romo

Burnham, Healey and Reynolds: Britain's Growth Moment?

Burnham, Healey and Reynolds are now responsible for growth. William Hague, Chancellor of Oxford University and former Leader of the Conservative Party, says Britain's problem isn't invention, but conversion and commercialisation. He's right. But we also need to talk about culture, and the risk-averse mindset that holds back British innovation instead of rewarding it.

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Julio Romo Julio Romo

Corporate Venture Capital: The Human Innovation Gap

Two days at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in London confirmed something I have believed for years: the biggest barrier to innovation in investment, defence, and deep tech is not the technology. It is the risk-averse culture inside the institutions that should be accelerating it. Here is what the signals said, and why it matters now.

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