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Demutualisation

January 2024

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    To get to net zero, we may have to sell off the UK’s future

    Phillip Inman
    The cost of decarbonising is vast. Something like the privatisations of the 80s may be needed to raise enough funds

May 2023

  • Dame Sharon White, chair of John Lewis Partnership.

    John Lewis staff rebuke Sharon White over losses but back her to continue

  • John Lewis store on Oxford Street, London

    John Lewis boss faces confidence vote as business considers ways to seek new funds

March 2022

  • Signage for the LV= financial services company outside the firm's building in Bournemouth

    LV= chief under pressure to quit over £511,000 bonus despite botched sale

    Mark Hartigan awarded payout by insurer’s board even though deal with Bain Capital fell through

February 2022

  • LV= sign

    Merger talks between LV= and Royal London collapse

    Deal to buy mutual insurer was second attempt after US private equity firm’s takeover was blocked

December 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    The LV= muddle shows mutual societies need their own Takeover Panel

    Nils Pratley
    Bain Capital saga underlines flaws in law governing sector, such as lack of basic accountability to members
  • LV= chairman Alan Cook.

    LV= sale to Bain might have gone through but for its board’s blunders

    Analysis: not seeking a mandate from the mutual’s members or explaining the deal properly to them were fatal errors
  • Essex v Gloucestershire at the LV= Insurance County Championship

    Observer business agenda
    LV= sell-off could knock the mutuals movement for six

    Members of the former Liverpool Victoria vote this week on a deal that may be the last gasp of a more equitable era

November 2021

  • LV='s building in Bournemouth.

    LV= takeover may create conflicts of interest, says boss of trade body

    Martin Shaw says ‘three-act tragedy’ has led to plans to demutualise, in criticism of chief executive and chair
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    LV= might want to ease up on talk of Royal London ‘hand grenades’

    Nils Pratley
    Bain’s £530m offer may stack up for board but the mutual’s 1.2m policyholders get the final say

    • Mounting fears over LV= takeover amid claims rivals aim to split up mutual

    • Tory treasurer could net millions from controversial LV= takeover

    • What is LV= and why does its takeover matter?

August 2012

  • Stockport's Co-operative Pyramid

    Co-ops are doing Britain proud, but is it mutual?

    Greg Rosen
    Greg Rosen: Co-operatives and mutuals keep outperforming the UK economy, yet Cameron and Osborne seem reluctant to join the vogue

June 2011

  • RAC sale and our car-crash economy

    Letters: The real regret is that the RAC and AA, which used to be member-owned, were encouraged to demutualise some years back

March 2011

  • Remutualisation of Northern Rock

    Letters: We call on the government to give equal and due consideration to a mutual option for the future of Northern Rock

February 2011

  • Customers queue to enter a branch of Northern Rock in Kingston, Surrey, southern England

    Remutualise Northern Rock

    Chuka Umunna

    Chuka Umunna: Returning Northern Rock to its roots would inject a valuable dose of participatory democracy into the financial industry

October 2010

  • Co-ops, cuts and the coalition

    Letters: If this promotion of co-ops by the Tories is simply privatisation by the back door, we should feel very afraid

November 2009

  • Aviva

    Aviva endowments: Long-running saga with an unhappy ending

    The value of Sir Jeremy Beecham's endowment policy was cut just before it was due to mature, and then the wait started

June 2008

  • Ruth Sunderland's business comment
    Were our mutual friends a safer bet?

    Ruth Sunderland

    Ruth Sunderland: In the wake of the credit crunch, the flotation of the building societies does not seem such a great idea

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