‘It’s essential to life’: Ofwat’s Rachel Fletcher sets a new course for water

By: Will Hutton December 15, 2018 When a regulator looks at you unblinkingly and says she wants the companies she regulates to understand they are part of a social contract, you catch your breath. Yes, replies Rachel Fletcher, chief executive of water regulator Ofwat, as I press her about the term “social contract”. The news […]
How the 0.001% invest

By: The Economist December 15, 2018 THINK OF THE upper echelons of the money-management business, and the image that springs to mind is of fusty private banks in Geneva or London’s Mayfair, with marble lobbies and fake country-house meeting-rooms designed to make their super-rich clients feel at home. But that picture is out of date. […]