EQUITABLE LIFE MEMBERS

SUPPORT GROUP

Last Updated 

Friday, August 08, 2008

 

This website has been set up by a group of Equitable Life members as a non profit making, non commercial enterprise for the good of all those associated with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, so that we can get together to ensure the best possible results for our futures.

The Parliamentary Ombudsman published her report 17 July 2008

 

17 July 2008 PRESS STATEMENT FROM THE PO

 

Link to the PO's Report

 

Please write to your MP and MEP and ask them to support the Parliamentary Ombudsman's recommendations. Click here for more information.

 

ELTA have been allowed to reproduce the Pensions Week article

Exposing the myths and misconceptions over Equitable Life

 

You can contact us on info@equitablelifemembers.org.uk.

 

Check Out EDM 2088 - 17 July 2008

EQUITABLE HELPLINE NUMBER 0800 408 0097

 

EQUITABLE WEBSITE

 

EMAG WEBSITE 

 

EMAG REGIONAL CAMPAIGN

 

DAILY MAIL - COMPENSATION Q&A

 

TELEGRAPH - EQUITABLE PETITION

 

EMAG'S REPLY TO THE PO'S REPORT

LOTS OF USEFUL LINKS Click here 

 SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

NEWS DATES:

December 2008  Joint Disciplinary Report on Ernst & Young (Equitable's auditors) due 

Autumn 2008  Government to reply to the PO's report

17 July 2008  PASC Announces Hearings on Equitable Life

17 July 2008  Parliamentary Ombudsman Report on Equitable Life published

10 July 2008  Press Statement from the PO

7 February 2008 Judicial Review Results on Occupational Pensions in Court of Appeal

23 January 2008 European Parliament Meet on Equitable

10 January 2008  Equitable Settles with Annuitants

17 December 2007  Financial Assistance Scheme Extended

6 December 2007  PO Writes to MPs regarding delay to Report

28 November 2007  High Court ratification of Prudential transfer

20 November 2007  PAG Vigil Downing Street 4pm and the Welsh National Assembly

11 October 2007  EMAG meeting with the FSA

26 October 2007  EGM on transfer to Prudential

 

Click here for more News History

SEARCH THIS SITE

Click here

 

Check the latest MVAs and Bonuses in the pensions' Industry

 

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

State Pension Forecast On-Line

Pension Calculator

What is your likely retirement income going to be?

AND ASK THE EXPERTS...

Daily Telegraph have a Questions and Answers. E-mail equitable@telegraph.co.uk

General Questions can be answered by the Sunday Times equitable@sunday-times.co.uk

Please send your comments and suggestions to feedback@equitablelifemembers.org.uk

16 July 2008 -  EMAG directors Chris Carnaghan (left) and chairman John Newman working through the PO's report in advance of its publication.

Click here for more Photographs

 

EQUITABLE LIFE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INQUIRY WRITTEN EVIDENCE

 

 

27 June '08 - EMAG Goes Regional!
EMAG has set up a network of regional cells in anticipation that the Parliamentary Ombudsman may recommend compensation when her report is finally published in mid-July.

Visit the new website at www.emagregional.org.uk and see how to participate in the campaign in your local area. Even if you’re already an EMAG member, logging your details on your regional site will enable you to stay in touch with action in your area - or join the regional team to help promote the campaign for compensation which is certain to intensify in the coming weeks and months. Read more.

 

Pictured to the left is Chris Harlow who has done a sterling job in organising the regional network.

This site contains the following areas of information:

ISCUSSIONS AND ASK THE EXPERTS
The Motley Fool  has a lively discussion board running on Equitable. Financial Times - FT.com Discussion Board on Equitable Life 

Astute Investor  lots of discussion on Equitable

 The Money Bag  Contains a separate board for Equitable with some good discussions  BBC Ask Our Pensions Expert

So you think your company pension is safe

Car Sticker Campaign Click here

PLEASE contact your MP

Guardian Report on the Current Inquiries for Compensation

NB See Equitable Life's site  for current comments and information. Also more information can be found on the Halifax Equitable Site.

 

 

MAJOR REPORTS AND INQUIRIES

BAIRD REPORT (October 2001 FSA Report)

B&W DELOITTE REPORT 30 September 2002

CARR & MOSS - Remedies for Mis-selling 30 September 2002

CORLEY REPORT (For Institute of Actuaries - September 2001)

GLICK REPORT (Sept 2001 - FSA)

GOVERNMENT ENQUIRY (announced 31 August 2001 led by Lord Penrose)

HIRST OPINION on Compensation to Late Joiners for the Financial Ombudsman Service (Sept 2003) (Sept 2003)

HOUSE OF LORDS Equitable v Hyman

MYNERS 20 December 2004

LORD NEILL ON THE QUITABLE LIFE & FOS 

PO Report - Equitable Life: A Decade of Regulatory Failure (17 July 2008)

PENROSE REPORT 8 March 2004 

PENSIONS BILL

PENSIONS ANNUITIES (AMENDMENT) BILL

PICKERING REPORT Recommendations on Pension Reform (.pdf format) (11 July 2002 - Department of Work and Pensions)

PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN REPORT 1 July 2003

SANDLER REPORT on Retail Savings (9 July 2002 - HM Treasury)

THE TREASURY SELECT COMMITTEE (Report of Meeting 15 February 2001)

TURNER REPORT ON PENSIONS (30 November 2005)

WARREN REPORT (May 2001 - pdf format)

 

Click here for more Reports

Thanks to Gabrielle de Pauw for the caption and photo of the FSA AGM

 

Equitable had little effective scrutiny and was "a self-perpetuating oligarchy amenable to policyholder pressure only at its discretion". 

Penrose Report 8 March 2004

 

The Equitable Life Members Support Group is not authorised to give individual financial advice. This web site attempts to point policyholders towards sources of information. We cannot take responsibility for any incorrect information given there. All information provided on this website is in good faith and has been checked as far as possible as to its correctness. We sometimes point to reports and letters written by individual policyholders, this does not mean that we are necessarily in agreement with what is written, but this allows for debate on the subject.

 

With thanks to www.cookham.com for their sponsorship