NEWS & INSIGHTS

The Cost of Stagnant Capital When we speak of finance as neutral - a ledger, a tool for allocating resources or measuring returns - we obscure its deeper power. In truth, finance is the bloodstream of human civilisation: value coursing through communities, economies, ecosystems. Where it flows determines what lives, what grows, and what withers. Today’s financial system resembles an organism suffering from chronic circulation problems. Trillions sit locked away in pension fun

From Extraction to Regeneration: Why Old Economics Is Collapsing For more than a century, economic progress has been told as a simple story: increase output, maximise efficiency, compound returns. That logic shaped the architecture of modern finance and delivered unprecedented material prosperity. But it also relied on a quiet omission - the ecological and social costs that were pushed out of sight and outsourced onto someone else’s balance sheet. Signals once dismissed as pe

Beyond The Machine For roughly 300 years, since thinkers like Isaac Newton inspired a mechanical worldview that shaped early economic ideas, we’ve treated the economy as if it were a machine: a mechanism to be calibrated, optimized, and pushed harder for maximum output. Growth became the sacred metric; efficiency, the measure of virtue; and finance the fuel, channelling capital into the gears of industry - and into whichever engines promised short-term profit. But what if the

By Higher Status Global   The Trillion-Dollar Elephant in the Room     Confronting climate change is widely seen as the defining global challenge of our time. Politicians declare it, CEOs pledge it, activists shout it and investors package it as strategy at summits.  And yet, here’s the number that should stop us cold: we face a $6 trillion* annual shortfall in climate finance - the gap between what is invested today and what's needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s net-zer

By Higher Status Global A Tipping Point in Human History Every generation tells itself it’s living through extraordinary times. But some moments in history justify the claim. This is one of them. The converging crises of our age - ecological collapse, climate volatility, economic fragility, and social unrest - have made one thing unmistakably clear: yesterday’s systems no longer work. Our economies were built on a logic of extraction, a devotion to growth for growth’s sake,