Qatari sovereign wealth fund takes £200m stake in Severn Trent | Financial Times:
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has taken a £200m stake in Severn Trent, one of the UK’s biggest water companies.
Severn Trent is among the largest of the UK’s 10 regional water supply and sewerage monopolies, serving about 8m people in Birmingham, Gloucester and the Bristol Channel area. It is one of three water companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, while the others are owned mostly by overseas investors, including sovereign wealth and private equity funds.
The opposition Labour party has set out plans to renationalise UK water companies should it win a general election. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said a Labour government would pay less than £15bn to investors when it renationalises the industry, compared with an estimated £44bn market value of their investments.
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