Push for shareholder cash after Wesfarmers' $1.85bn sell-off WESFARMERS is under the pump to give shareholders the rewards of the bumper $1.85 billion sale of its insurance underwriting businesses to Insurance Australia Group, as the market digests the biggest financial services deal of the year. Analysts yesterday largely backed the deal as positive for both parties, as Wesfarmers investors wondered whether they would receive a capital return of more than $800 million or management would seek to make acquisitions.