Opinion: A home for Hub

Talk of an IPO at Hub International had been echoing around
banking circles for some time.
After the recent round of private equity ownership churn at
several other US intermediaries, it had been mooted that the
Chicago-based firm - the biggest of its peer group by a distance -
was headed on a different path, taking it towards the public
markets.
But a report yesterday that the US retail broker's backer
Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is exploring a sale of...