The sale of Liverpool Victoria, or LV=, to private equity is dead, but the dissatisfaction around the proposed deal with Bain Capital will be harder to shift. That is not only because the same beleaguered board of LV intends to stay in place and lead the next chapter – negotiations with fellow mutual Royal London. It is also because the rules around transactions involving mutuals lack a basic level of accountability to the owners, the members.
As noted in this column a few weeks ago, life is
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