Private investors acquire firefighting apparatus and lease them back to cash-strapped municipalities—while reaping outsize returns.
In 2012, as fracking took off in Texas with the help of hydraulic fracturing, two public pension plans partnered to assemble one of the largest fleets of tanker trucks used in the industry.
Investor-owned marine equipment company Argate Resources prides itself on the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, a global programs for young people that encourages transition from school to work.
In a motorcycle garage in Singapore — which maintains one of the largest fleets per capita in the world — drivers wearing face masks are revving up their Ducatis and Harley-Davidson’s.
Sand in Texas and frack water in Colorado have a new owner, the $348 billion sovereign wealth fund of Norway, which opened an office in Houston last year.
In President Trump’s hometown, Broadway Partners is building a 24-story apartment tower that will house retirees near the site of Trump’s tower.
In the American heartland, the largest investment in a grass-fed beef herd by the China-owned Mengniu Dairy has investors and officials holding out hope.
Russia, under deep Western sanctions and with its economy in shambles, is turning to an unlikely partner: Israel, an economy renowned for ideas and innovation as well as for its wealthy and highly developed venture capital market.
Quanta Capital Advisors, the advisory firm for the Carlyle group, found its way into an exclusive list — the top 10 U.S. government contractors for fiscal year 2018.
Last Thanksgiving, Penserra, a pension-industry technology outsourcer, cut the ribbon on a new, spacious Las Vegas office, complete with a kitchen, game room, beating drums, dancing native Americans and even a water feature so visitors can feed the resident koi.
The year’s big cyberattack, when thieves crippled more than 150 countries, including the United States, British hospitals, Spaniards’ phones and Danish supermarkets, may have come right out of a Hollywood script.
Banks, insurers and corporate pension funds increasingly are seeking help from a New Jersey hedge fund to manage their actions once a catastrophic event forces them to close.
Even as seasons and weather patterns are growing wildly unpredictable in many places around the world, the creation of more and more extreme weather is as inevitable as a sunrise.
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