One of the world's biggest hedge funds. Founded by Ray Dalio. Bridgewater has estimated that sub-Saharan Africa has only half the "development financing resources"—tax revenues, aid, loans from multilateral institutions, foreign direct investment and the like—that it requires for the sort of productivity gains that would narrow its gap with the rest of the world.
The great secret in life ... [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight. At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have answered themselves.