Yet many firms will not let company data float around in a public cloud where they could end up in the wrong hands.

不过很多公司还是不愿意公司的数据在公共云中跑，这样数据可能最后会跑到别人手里去。

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The basic idea being to float a shell company in London, raise some cash, then use the cash and the float to reverse in some large but foreign and privately owned resource company.

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But if a company keeps growing free cash flow and uses part of the cash to keep shrinking the float, why would not such a company outperform an equivalent dividend payer?

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So to some extent we can view an insurance company as actually a large investment fund: investing that float for however long the company gets to keep it.

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