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3i Fifty Years Investing in Industry$
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Richard Coopey and Donald Clarke

Print publication date: 1995

Print ISBN-13: 9780198289449

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198289449.001.0001

The International Dimension: A Global Macmillan Gap

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(p. 343 ) Chapter 15 The International Dimension: A Global Macmillan Gap
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3i Fifty Years Investing in Industry
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Donald Clarke

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198289449.003.0016

In the British financial system the separation of government and the private sector is exemplified by the continuing mutual distrust of the City and Whitehall; but it is the City which provides the funds and other financial services for both private industry and government. 3i, born in the City but inspired by government, has always sat uncomfortably between the two, the awkward relationship symbolized by its physical location south of the Thames at Waterloo. But there should be no doubt that it is a private sector institution filling a private-sector need on purely commercial terms; it has needed no government funds, no guarantees, and no subsidies.

Keywords:   private industry, government, financial services, 3i, equity, subsidiaries

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