INVESTMENTS - World grows more wary of sovereign wealth funds
The growing acquisition of foreign assets by often opaque government investment vehicles is causing anxiety among the leaders of industrialised nations. They fear the funds could be used to control strategic industries for political purposes and are demanding greater accountability. But the issue of how to regulate them is still far from resolved. Anne Hyland reports.
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