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Last Updated: Monday, February 08, 2010

 


 

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Mon 8 Feb 2010 
Citywire

Pension scheme plans must start now

Guardian

15% fall in dividends leaves pensions exposed

Sun 7 Feb 2010 
Observer

BA pensions closure fear

Sunday Express

Pension payments: trying to find the missing link

Sat 6 Feb 2010 
Pensions Age

Pensions guru to head up new political party

Fri 5 Feb 2010 
UK PR Wire

Prudential warns of widespread over reliance on state pension

Thu 4 Feb 2010 
Pensions Age

Pensions deficit could see Reader's Digest bow out

Pensions Age

DB schemes expected to dwindle within a decade

Wed 3 Feb 2010 
Telegraph

Britons desire to stay young sees them refusing to save for the future

This is Money

The Pensions Regulator

Citywire

Local government pensions face £70bn deficit

Tue 2 Feb 2010 
Watford Observer

MP Claire Ward clashes with Equitable Life campaigners from Watford 

Citywire

Pension schemes face tougher standards 

Mon 1 Feb 2010 
Citywire

One million more pension schemes

Financial World

The future of DB pensions

Pensions World

Ombudsman gears up to receive 210,000 complaints

Sun 31 Jan 2010 
Observer

British Airways count the cost of final salary pensions

FT

Pension schemes regain faith in hedge funds

Sat 30 Jan 2010 
This is Money

Boots deals pensions blow to 15,000 staff

Fri 29 Jan 2010 
Telegraph

Britons savings rose amid recession

London Evening Standard

Boots axes final salary scheme for 15,000 workers

Thu 28 Jan 2010 
FT Advisor

One in five plan to retire on state pension

This is Money

What will happen to my pension?

Telegraph

The recession cuts your pension by £10,000

Wed 27 Jan 2010 
Express

Concern that too many rely on state pension

Guardian

Unequal Britain

Guardian

2m pensioners live in poverty

Tue 26 Jan 2010 
Guardian

Standard Life cuts endowment payouts

Mon 25 Jan 2010 
Telegraph

Half of older people want to keep jobs past retirement age

IFA Online

Annuity rates down 1.5% in six months

Sun 24 Jan 2010 
Citywire

The minimum is not good enough for pension savers

Sat 23 Jan 2010 
Express

10 million pensioners face £500 cut

Fri 22 Jan 2010 
Management Pensions

DWP stands by FAS figures

Citywire

Altmann accuses DWP of misleading pensioners about lifeboat payouts

Cash Questions

£3.5bn boost for failed pensions

Independent

Dishonouring the victims of a pension purge

Thu 21 Jan 2010 
DWP

Government fulfils its pensions promise helping thousands who lost their pensions

Engaged Investor

The future of pension schemes

Wed 20 Jan 2010 
FT

Rising threat to defined benefit pension schemes

Guardian

Standard Life fined £2.45m for misleading pensions customers

Mature Times

Honor Blackman - fighting for Equitable pensioners

Tue 19 Jan 2010 
Channel 4

Unions back pension scheme

BBC

Pension fund risks heightened by recession

Telegraph

More than 200,000 people waiting for compensation for failed pensions

Mon 18 Jan 2010 
FT Adviser

Annuity rates see increase

Sun 17 Jan 2010 
Financial Advice

Will final salary schemes ever disappear from the public sector?

Citywire

How the government's pension reforms will work

Sat 16 Jan 2010 
The Herald

Equitable Life Members Action Group accuses government of delaying tactics

Fri 15 Jan 2010 
The Register

MPs slam IBM pension moves

Channel 4

Equitable victims slam government

Reuters

Equitable Life payments protests (scroll down to last item)

Press Association

Equitable Life policyholders angry

Telegraph

Government accused over Equitable Life payments

Telegraph

Equitable Life victims criticise government over delays

Thu 14 Jan 2010 
Citywire

Annuity rates rise but is this now the time to buy?

Wed 13 Jan 2010 
Citywire

Tweaked national pension scheme rules put before parliament

Tue 12 Jan 2010 
Citywire

The fundamental flaw in the government's grand plan

Guardian

Conservatives won't bail out Pension Protection Fund

Telegraph

Employers to cut workers' pension contribution

Mon 11 Jan 2010 
IFA Online

NEST will fail millions

Guardian

Harman wants to end compulsory retirement age

Telegraph

Retirement laws must be more flexible

Sun 10 Jan 2010 
Yahoo

Pension switch to speed Northern Rock sale

Citywire

Let's improve future improve future pensions, not demonise existing ones

Observer

Has the stock market really put the profit back into with profits?

Pensions Age

Pension fund returns for 2009 at 15% average

Sat 9 Jan 2010 
FT

Pensions miss the starter's gun

Fri 8 Jan 2010 
BBC

Name set for new pension scheme

Thu 7 Jan 2010 
Telegraph

Call for state pension of £130 a week

The Times

Warning sounded on final salary pensions

Channel 4

Pension scheme face £170bn deficit

Wed 6 Jan 2010 
Wales Online

Employers moving away from high cost pension schemes

Money Marketing

Equitable with profits bonus increase has caveats

Money Mail

Equitable bonuses have strings attached

Tue 5 Jan 2010 
The Times

Equitable reverses policy cuts and ends bonus famine

This is Money

Policy values rise at Equitable Life 

BBC

Equitable Life bonuses improves savers' policy values

Mon 4 Jan 2010 
BBC

Pension savings deteriorating

Financial Advice

Is the government's pension policy working?

Telegraph

Final salary schemes all but extinct

Telegraph

Equitable boosts members' policy values

 

 

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

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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