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Michael Pascoe: Labor spins a housing policy that does nowhere near enough

Labor’s successful election campaign including its housing policy was designed to just be a little better than Scott Morrison’s – a low bar.

The New Daily

Bad news, Tesla bulls: Elon Musk plans to keep running Twitter for the rest of this year

The billionaire entrepreneur said it’s unlikely he’ll be able to choose a suitable successor to run the ailing social media platform until the end of 2023.

Fortune

Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan

Employees and Lloyds Bank among creditors, after liquidation of firm that benefited from pandemic aid devised by Murty’s spouse, Sunak

The Guardian - UK

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Taxpayer takes stakes in two Scottish scale-ups

After recent funding rounds, government loans have been converted to equity holdings

Insider UK

British taxpayers get stake in psychedelic medicine, whisky and footballers’ investor

Government’s Future Fund rescue capital, set up amid Covid pandemic, backs a further 53 firms

The Guardian - UK

UK taxpayer stakes revealed in companies that recently raised over £12m

Also included in the updated list is Steama Company and The Lakes Distillery Company

Birmingham Post

Future Fund a 'beginner' on climate risks

Australian taxpayers have a lot to lose if their sovereign fund continues to lag behind international counterparts on climate risk, independent research warns.

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Michael Hiltzik: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world

The most uplifting aspect of the Sam Bankman-Fried story was always that he guided his way to a putative cryptocurrency fortune of more than $16 billion by following a philosophy of charitable giving known as "effective altruism."

Los Angeles Times

Power-hungry robots, space colonization, cyborgs: inside the bizarre world of ‘longtermism’

Sam Bankman-Fried said his billions would save the world – but his philanthropic ideas ranged from the worthy to the severely outlandish

The Guardian - US

Why the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX has split A.I. researchers

The close ties between A.I. and the 'Effective Altruism' movement that Bankman-Fried belonged to, are now in the spotlight.

Fortune

Is the collapse of Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire the end of Effective Altruism?

The one-time billionaire was closely associated with Effective Altruism. Now some fear for the movement's future.

Fortune

FTX bankruptcy also endangers founder's philanthropic gifts

The rapid collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX into bankruptcy last week has also shaken the world of philanthropy, due to the donations and influence of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the “effective altruism” movement

The Independent UK

Australia's sovereign wealth fund still holds $200 million in Russian investments despite war in Ukraine

Earlier this year the Future Fund announced it would divest its holdings in companies listed on the Russian Stock Exchange but on the same day, the Central Bank of Russia banned brokers from executing sales on behalf of non-Russian residents.

ABC News

How can we help humans thrive trillions of years from now? This philosopher has a plan

William MacAskill's book, What We Owe the Future, urges today's humans to protect future humans — an idea he calls longtermism. Here are a few of his hardly modest proposals.

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Birmingham Post

The 28 North West companies that are part-owned by the UK Government

The Future Fund was launched on May 20, 2020

Birmingham Post

The Welsh firms in which the UK Government has ownership stakes

The firms has converted debt to equity under the Westminster government's Future Fund

The Guardian - UK

Covid loans make UK taxpayers shareholders in cannabis oil firm

Future Fund scheme granted loans to eclectic range of companies, list from British Business Bank shows

Benzinga

Do Institutional Investors Love Tesla? Gary Black Weighs In

Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) may not be a hit with institutional investors, noted bull and Future Fund founder Gary Black said, citing Bloomberg data. Tesla stock is under-owned by institutions, the fund manager said.

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The Guardian - UK

British taxpayers take stake in sex party planning firm Killing Kittens

Company given support from fund set up by government to provide loans to startups during pandemic

The National (Scotland)

The UK Government has a stake in a sex party organising company

THE UK Government has a stake in a company which organises “hedonistic” sex parties as a result of one of the Chancellor’s Covid cash schemes.

Benzinga

EXCLUSIVE: These Characteristics Make Tesla, Alphabet And Celsius Good Bets Amid Current Market Conditions

The Federal Reserve is in the midst of what is expected to be its most aggressive tightening cycle in more than 40 years as the central bank attempts to tame runaway inflation.

Benzinga

2022 FinTwit Conference Speaker Spotlight: Gary Black

Benzinga and Lupton Capital are hosting the premier event for traders in May, and you don't want to miss it. The 2022 FinTwit Conference will be held May 13-14 at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Birmingham Post

The Welsh firms in which the UK Government has ownership stakes

The UK Government has taken equity in the firms under its Covid response Future Fund

AAP

Future Fund battling challenging markets

The Future Fund has delivered positive returns and exceeded its targets despite challenging markets, its chair Peter Costello says.

The Guardian - UK

UK government fund invests in cannabis oil company and London microbrewery

Taxpayer-backed British Business Bank’s Future Fund, set up to provide loans in pandemic, announces 75 new investments

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