The National Infrastructure Plan will be financed by British pension funds and private investment, as well as from further cuts in the present spending round.

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Picking up where the private equity titans could soon be leaving off are sovereign wealth funds, opaque investment funds controlled by governments which dip into their burgeoning national savings accounts to make investments.

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Its National Investment Fund scheme of 1995 placed 414 state companies in the hands of western-managed funds that were subsequently listed on the stock exchange.

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Ray Haynes, would create a task force to review potential foreign investment by California's state employee and teacher pension funds and alert the funds of national security and human rights concerns.

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