EQUITABLE LIFE

MEMBERS SUPPORT GROUP

Last Updated 

Monday, February 08, 2010

 

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.

 

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

 

ASK YOUR MP TO SIGN EDM 19

 

EDM 1423 (5 May 2009) Introduced by Vince Cable MP has 351!!! signatures 

 

Sir John Chadwick's website Click here

Representations to Sir John must be made by 29 January 2010

 

How to contact your  MP

 

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

 

The Parliamentary Ombudsman published her report 17 July 2008 Sir John Chadwick was appointed to look at compensation. 

 

Link to the PO's Report

4 November 2009 - Paul Braithwaite (EMAG) Equitable Life Policyholder Honor Blackman and Vince Cable MP at EMAG's BIG Rally

(click here for Photogallery)

   SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

     

LOTS OF USEFUL LINKS Click here 

 

NEWS DATES:
29 January 2010  Closing date for representations to Sir John Chadwick's Interim Report

December 2009  JDS Document on E&Y Due to be Published

16 December 2009  Sir John Chadwick to outline latest findings on ex-gratia scheme

23 November 2009  Equitable Announce Transfer of Admin to HCL (.pdf)

4 November 2009  EMAG Big Rally and Lobby of Parliament

21 October 2009  Debate on Equitable in Parliament

15 October 2009  Judgment on EMAG Judicial Review backs policyholders

5 October 2009  E&Y Appeal to be heard

29 September 2009  Stripped of Our Pensions Demo at Labour Party Conference

21 July 2009  Start of EMAG's three day hearing in High Court

11 July 2009  EMAG Regional Co-ordinators' Meeting, London

24 June 2009  Completion date for Treasury defence in High Court

 

Click here for more News History

REPORTS :

1 February 2010 The Issue of Transparency: Further correspondence between Michael Josephs and Sir John Chadwick

16 December 2009 Sir John Chadwick's Second Interim Report

9 December 2009 Correspondence Between Sir John Chadwick and Michael Josephs

5 November 2009 PO Oral Evidence to PASC

20 August 2009 Sir John Chadwick's Interim Report

20 August 2009 Letter from PO to Liam Byrne MP

22 July 2009 Letter from Liam Byrne MP to the PO

Click here for more Reports

 

 

   

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

 

      

Please Support EMAG's Legal Fighting Fund  

 

HM TREASURY - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON EQUITABLE (.pdf) 

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Pension Calculator

What is your likely retirement income going to be?

    

Prudential On-Line Financial Forum

 

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

 

Sign the No 10 Petition

 

Check the latest MVAs and Bonuses in the pensions' Industry

 

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

  

EQUITABLE WEBSITE

 

EMAG WEBSITE 

 

EMAG REGIONAL CAMPAIGN

 

DAILY MAIL - COMPENSATION Q&A

 

TELEGRAPH - EQUITABLE PETITION

 

EMAG'S REPLY TO THE PO'S REPORT

     Icelandic Bank Losses

 

To track a lost pension, go to www.thepensionservice.gov.uk  for an online form, call 0845 6002 537 (8am to 8pm, Mon to Fri) or write to: Pension Tracing Service, The Pension Service, Future Pension Centre, Room TB 201, Tyneview Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE98 1BA.

State Pension Forecast On-Line

 

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.

 

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