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Almost every paper featured the Standard Life story about the firm's shareholders voting for a stock ...

Almost every paper featured the Standard Life story about the firm’s shareholders voting for a stock market flotation. Jeff Prestridge of the Financial Mail reported on the challenging time chief executive Sandy Crombie has over the next few weeks convincing financial institutions to buy shares in the group. Some journalists expressed their views on the move to demutualise and how it will affect policyholders in their regular commentaries with Prestridge saying that although the decision is “six years too late” it still “makes great sense”. The Sunday Telegraph’s business section ran a f...