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NEWSPAPER AND PRESS ARTICLES

Last Updated: Saturday, July 04, 2009

 


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NEWSPAPER AND PRESS ARTICLES 

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Sat 4 Jul 2009 
Telegraph 

Speaker needs Equitable debate

Fri 3 Jul 2009 
Scotsman 

Equitable Life update planned

Thu 2 Jul 2009 
Love Money.com 

The bankers have destroyed our pensions

Professional Pensions 

Church of England scheme deficit grows to £352m

Wed 1 Jul 2009 
Scotsman 

Pension plans' shortfall doubles

Channel 4 

Shortfall for defined pension plans

Daily Mail 

Final salary pensions deficit soars

Telegraph 

Final salary pensions: deficit surges to £73bn

Tue 30 Jun 2009 
BBC 

Pension closures save billions

The Times 

Pension crisis looms for half of women

Guardian 

Pension warnings go unheeded as half of Britons fail to save enough

Mon 29 Jun 2009 
IFA Online 

HMRC restrictive practices should be cause for concern

Press & Journal 

Falling gilt yields having dramatic effect on annuities

Telegraph 

The government's answer to the pensions crisis: more stealth taxes

Sun 28 Jun 2009 
The Scotsman 

More final salary schemes to shut as pension values plummet £12 billion

Sunday Times 

Cost of public sector pensions estimated at £1.2 trillion

Observer 

Lift jobs axe for over 65s

Observer 

Cost of public sector pensions equal to 85% of GDP

This is Money 

Retirement in comfort is for the lucky few

Sat 27 Jun 2009 
Guardian 

I want to draw my pension but the pot's empty

Guardian 

It won't pay to delay buying that annuity

The Times 

Forget about final salary pensions

The Times 

Pensions: What should be done?

Telegraph 

Time to grasp the pensions nettle before it is too late

Fri 26 Jun 2009 
John Redwood 

MPs pensions

This is Money 

MPs call for Equitable Life man to quit

Thu 25 Jun 2009 
Daily Mail 

Brown ditches plans to get public to bail out MPs' pensions

Telegraph 

Half of over 50s say pension not sufficient

Telegraph 

We all know the pension system is broken

BBC 

Your pension questions answered

Yorkshire Post 

MP attacks Equitable Life payout deal

Parliament 

MPs debate Ombudsman's report into Equitable Life

Wed 24 Jun 2009 
Express 

Death knell for final salary deal

Express 

Now Britain is bottom of the pensions league

Guardian 

Employers ditch final salary pensions

Telegraph 

Why pensions apartheid is here to stay

Citywire 

Britain sleeping into pensions crisis

Pension Age 

Crisis deepens for  final salary pension schemes

epolitix 

Equitable Life scandal reduced saving confidence 

Tue 23 Jun 2009 
Express 

EU will cut your pension by 20% 

Accountancy Age 

Injunction lifted to reveal E&Y appeal against Equitable ruling 

Telegraph 

Ernst & Young drop gagging order on critical Equitable report

Mon 22 Jun 2009 
City AM 

Lords defy Darling on pensions

Telegraph 

SIPPs Weigh up the pros and cons

Sun 21 Jun 2009 
Observer 

Six scandals from the darkest days of an already murky industry

Observer 

Mis-selling scandals that won't go away

Observer 

Councils dip into pension fund savings

Sunday Express 

Lifeboat fund on alert for Vauxhall

Sat 20 Jun 2009 
This is Money 

How are pensions best years worked out?

Fri 19 Jun 2009 
BBC 

Dairy Crest may shut pension fund

The Herald 

MPs call for Equitable award advisor to resign

Guardian 

Fury as Equitable Life Advisor refuses to meet Parliamentary group

Thu 18 Jun 2009 
IFA Online 

FSA review to investigate SIPPs

People Management 

FTSE firms lead the final salary exodus

Wed 17 Jun 2009 
Motley Fool 

An accounting time bomb

Love Money 

Six ways to boost your pension income

Tue 16 Jun 2009 
BBC 

Personal Account benefit small

NDS 

Sir John Chadwick sets out his proposed approach on Equitable Life

Mon 15 Jun 2009 
Director of Finance 

More trouble ahead for final salary schemes

Citywire 

What to do with your pension pots

Sun 14 Jun 2009 
Sunday Times 

Glenys and Neil Kinnock have six state pensions

Independent 

Workers wait for pension fund decision

Scotsman 

Strike a balance on pension provision

Sat 13 Jun 2009 
Scotsman 

Think carefully - and take advice - before transferring pension

Fri 12 Jun 2009 
FT Advisor 

One in five employees will opt out of personal accounts

Thu 11 Jun 2009 
The Times 

Is that it for the final salary schemes?

Wed 10 Jun 2009 
Telegraph 

MPs face losing their gold plated salaries

Yorkshire Post 

Ros Altmann: Funeral rites for the final salary pensions

Guardian 

Fear of pensions crisis grows as study shows more workers raiding savings 

Guardian 

MPs' pensions: More peanuts for the monkey house 

Money Mail 

Millions could see their pensions halved

This is Money 

Pensions have lurched from crisis to crisis 

icStafford 

Equitable Life victims to ask MP for help on lost savings 

Tue 9 Jun 2009 
Financial Advice 

Who will bail out the UK pensioners of the future? 

Mon 8 Jun 2009 
This is Money 

The death knell for final salary pensions 

Sun 7 Jun 2009 
Independent 

Another day another pensions chief 

Independent 

Is this the last nail in the coffin of private final-salary pensions? 

FT 

Tough year sees few winners 

Sat 6 Jun 2009 
FT 

Big companies review final salary pensions 

This is Money 

Gold plated politicians: You vs a politician

Fri 5 Jun 2009 
Independent 

Morrisons joins cull of final salary pensions

Guardian 

Unions have failed workers on pensions

Daily Mail 

Final salary plans face extinction

Telegraph 

James Purnell: the latest in Labour's long line of temps who have failed us on pensions

 

 

PERIODICALS AND ARTICLES

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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

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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

The Money Bag  a UK Personal Finance Site. 

Google Finance Usenet Group - Equitable Discussion Thread going back to 1998

This is Money now also have a Pensions discussion board 

MoneyWhispers.

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

Equitable Life Help Box


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.

 

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