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NEWSPAPER AND PRESS ARTICLES

Last Updated: Monday, August 23, 2010


NEWSPAPER AND PRESS ARTICLES 

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Mon 23 August 2010 
Accountancy

Defined benefit pension schemes keep declining

Sun 22 August 2010 
Telegraph

Number of firms final salary pensions fall

Sat 21 August 2010 
This is Money

How about an alternative pension plan

Fri 20 August 2010 
IFA Online

Government set to further relax forced annuitisation

Thu 19 August 2010 
Money Marketing

Advisers say transfer ban will be a disaster

Wed 18 August 2010 
IFA Online

Pensions failing to meet individuals' needs

Tue 17 August 2010 
IFA Online

Government to link private sector schemes to CPI

Mon 16 August 2010 
Investors Chronicle

Final nail for final salary?

Sun 15 August 2010 
Sunday Express

Give up your pension pots

Sat 14 August 2010 
Guardian

Pensions for kids are the latest fashion

Fri 13 August 2010 
FT

Creating a level playing field for pensions

Thu 12 August 2010 
IFA Online

Government urged to link ISAs and pensions

Wed 11 August 2010 
Telegraph

Number working above the age of 65 soars

Tue 10 August 2010 
Telegraph

Linking pensions to CPI breaches human rights

Mon 9 August 2010 
Telegraph

Bad rap for Equitable victims

Sun 8 August 2010 
Scotsman

Rise in state pension age will hit low incomes hardest

FT

Pension schemes focus on liability

Sat 7 August 2010 
Citywire

Are our pensions affordable after all?

Fri 6 August 2010 
The Grapevine

Premier Foods amends pension scheme

Guardian

BBC prepares pension concessions to head off strike

Thu 5 August 2010 
BBC

Civil Service pensions not affordable unions say

Wed 4 August 2010 
FT

The final insult for Equitable Life members

Tue 3 August 2010 
FT Advisor

Altmann calls for end of NI subsidies that cost £6bn

Mon 2 August 2010 
Pensions Age

A good time to reflect

Sun 1 August 2010 
FT

Another knock for DB pensions

Telegraph

Charges and fees cutting 50% from British savers' pension pots

Fri 30 July 2010 
FT

Tax threat to final salary plans

Thu 29 July 2010 
Claims Management

Equitable ruling unsound

Wed 28 July 2010 
This is Money

An inequitable life for investors

Tue 27 July 2010 
Scotsman

Watchdog attacks Equitable Life plans

Telegraph

Equitable Life payout report is unsound

Moneyfacts.com

Equitable Life compensation plans questioned

Outlaw.com

Equitable Life compensation report unsafe and unsound

Mon 26 July 2010 
BBC

Equitable Life compensation plan rejected by Ombudsman

Sun 25 July 2010 
Scotsman

Equitable disgrace continues saga of broken promises

Financial Advice

Why has it taken 10 years to address the Equitable Life collapse?

Sat 24 July 2010 
Scotsman

Cameron & Co's compensation offer may prove less than equitable

Guardian

Don't feel sorry for Equitable Life policyholders

IFA Online

Equitable Life: it wasn't meant to be like this

This is Money

Equitable victims turn up the heat

Telegraph

Equitable Life chief damns report

Fri 23 July 2010 
Express

Anger over Equitable payouts

Scotsman

Anger as government caps Equitable Life compensation

Daily Mail

Policyholders' fury over £500m Equitable payout report

This is Money

Equitable Life victim's rage at £400m payout

This is Money

Labour's Equitable calamity

Telegraph

Equitable Life compensation an insult to victims

Telegraph

Equitable redress just £266

New Statesman

Equitable Life compensation only £500m, says UK government

Thu 22 July 2010 
FT

Treasury dirty tricks dismay policyholders

Share Cast

Equitable Life victims insulted by compensation offer

John Redwood's Diary

Equitable Life 

BBC

Equitable Life compensation coming in 2011

FT

Equitable Life payout plan unveiled

This is Money

Equitable Life victims suffer compensation hit

Telegraph

If this is justice I'm a banana

Money Observer

Equitable Life savers to be compensated next year

Guardian

Don't expect an Equitable outcome

Guardian

Equitable Life victims braced for limited compensation

Wall Street Journal

Equitable Life payout could be under £500 million

Channel 4

No Equitable payouts until 2011

Wed 21 July 2010 
Financial Advice

Will final salary pension schemes disappear forever?

Tue 20 July 2010 
Telegraph

Britons punished for saving, says pensions minister

Mon 19 July 2010 
Love Money

Why delaying your pension makes sense

Daily Mail

Millions more to wait to 68 for their pensions

 

 

PERIODICALS AND ARTICLES

Finding by Institute of Actuaries on Charles Thomson

Silly Equitable Story by a Non GAR

Article - OTHER ROUTES TO A MORE EQUITABLE LIFE (by Dr Michael Nassim EL policy holder)

Article - THE EQUITABLE LIFE DISASTER- DOES IT COMPARE  TO THE LLOYD’S ASBESTOSIS SCANDAL OF THE 1980’s? (by Dr Michael Nassim EL policy holder)

The Equitable Saga - Teresa Hunter  31 March 2004

BBC Interview with Chris Headdon Feb 2004

Investors Chronicle  

The Actuary Letters

Europe Intelligence Wire

The New Statesman

The Economist

Pensions' World

BBC

The Guardian - Equitable Special Report

Ananova

NewsNow.co.uk

 

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Questions can be answered by the Telegraph send them to equitable@telegraph.co.uk

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

NB The Equitable Life site has a clarification of some of the reports in the press.


DISCUSSIONS AND ASK THE EXPERTS

The Motley Fool  has a lively discussion board running on Equitable.

  Also visit their Pensions Discussion Board on the Motley Fool for some really good points and suggestions.

Financial Times - FT.com Discussion Board on Equitable Life 

Astute Investor - Lots of discussion on Equitable

This is Money now also have a Pensions discussion board 

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


PLEASE PLEASE contact your MEP regarding the Equitable crisis, it is vitally important for both leavers and stayers alike. A petition has been put forward to Europe.  See WRITING LETTERS - CONTACTS - INCLUDING CONTACTING YOUR MP,  MEP and the Press  Say you won't vote for your MP again unless the plight of Equitable policyholders is put before Tony Blair. Equitable Life is a far bigger scandal than endowment mis-selling because the company was held up to be as safe as the Bank of England - it is a black-and-white case of mis-selling.

 

Equitable Life Assurance Society Motto “Sic nos non nobis” (thus do we, but not for ourselves)