We measure in generations.
We invest in the systems communities are built on. Then we stay.
We do not court attention or work to an exit date to deliver a return to shareholders.
We hold positions the way families hold land: carefully, productively and with the next generation in the room.
Return, to us, is wider than a number. It is the town that gets clean water. The farmer who gets credit. The grid that holds in a heatwave. When the people around an asset do well, the asset does well.
Essential systems, held across cycles.
Community development
All regionsIntegrated projects that pair housing, energy, health and education at the scale of a town, planned with the people who will live in them.
Infrastructure
Africa · Gulf · AsiaFrom energy grids to digital connectivity and transport, the physical and digital frameworks everything else depends on.
Utilities
All regionsPower, water and the quiet networks beneath both. Demand that does not follow sentiment, through any cycle.
Real estate
Latin America · Asia · EuropeHomes, neighbourhoods and income-producing assets, bought well, held for decades and improved continuously.
Agriculture
Africa · Gulf corridorFood security is national security. We finance farming communities and build the supply chains that carry the harvest from field to market.
Public & private markets
SelectedPositions where a decade horizon is itself the edge, including technology, bioscience, energy and education through the companies we hold.
Different markets, the same question: what will matter here in thirty years?
Africa
Community development, utilities and agriculture.
Latin America
Real estate, conservation, community and utilities.
The Gulf
Partners for the post-oil century.
Southeast Asia
Essential assets in the fastest-moving region.
Europe
Where patience is a competitive advantage.
01Build
Where a market lacks something essential, we create the operating company ourselves.
02Partner
With governments, development institutions and proven operators who share the horizon.
03Back
Established businesses in our sectors, backed with capital, involvement and time.
A few of the companies we have built, backed or partnered. We rarely discuss the rest.
We work with a small number of partners, operators and institutions each year. If you are building something essential, write to us.