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Rich countries are buying up companies around the world ... why aren't we?

Selwyn Parker on the growth of sovereign funds

LIKE it or not, there is no British equivalent to Tony Tan. He is the right-hand man of Singapore's former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, as well as deputy chairman of the highly secretive Government Investment Corporation (GIC).