EQUITABLE LIFE MEMBERS

SUPPORT GROUP

Last Updated 

Friday, July 21, 2006

 
This website has been set up by a group of 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 main aim of the group is to give members of Equitable Life up to date information of what is going on and where they can go to for advice. In addition the group is working in close co-operation with the other action groups to fight for compensation for all those who have suffered losses. 

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

Equitable had little effective scrutiny and was "a self-perpetuating oligarchy amenable to policyholder pressure only at its discretion". Penrose Report 8 March 2004

 

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28 June 2006 Memorandum from the Parliamentary Ombudsman to the Public Administration Select Committee 

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

EDM 1868 PENSIONS SHORTFALLS

EDM 1893 PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN'S REPORT ON OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS

EDM 1929 OMBUDSMAN'S REPORT ON OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS

 

Equitable Life Trapped Annuitants (ELTA) website

 

LOTS OF USEFUL LINKS Click here

NEWS DATES:

2006  Ernst & Young Hearing by the JDA

17 May 2006  Equitable AGM

11 May 2006  Equitable Announces Transfer of Annuitants Book to Canada Life

2 May 2006  2.30pm - Select Committee on Public Administration discuss Parliamentary Ombudsman' Report on Occupational Pension failures.

24 February 2006  Parliamentary Ombudsman writes to MPs

19 January 2006  European Committee Confirmed

17 January 2006  European Parliament Probe into Equitable Life

19 December 2005  Serious Fraud Office not to Investigate Equitable Life

16 December 2005  European Parliament to Investigate Equitable Life disaster

2 December 2005 Equitable Completes Court Case

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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

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

This site contains the following areas of information:

ACTION GROUPS AND SPECIALIST GROUPS 


PIP GROUP contact Chris & Shelagh Harlow e-mail chris@harlow2.fsnet.co.uk 


ELTA-ANNUITANTS GROUP Contact Tim Balkwill  TBalkwill5310448@aol.com

 

ELCAG - EQUITABLE LATE CONTRIBUTORS ACTION GROUP Contact  info@elcag.org.uk

JOIN A REGIONAL / COUNTRY GROUP  


INTERNATIONAL POLICYHOLDERS' GROUP 
28 February 2003 Letter from Class Law to its Equitable clients

German Equitable Action Group (DAGEV)

 

INCOME PLAN HOLDERS


 EMAG - Equitable Members' Action Group 


EPHAG - Equitable Life Policy Holders' Action Group Supporting non GARs. This website is closed for the moment. 


Equitable Life Guaranteed Annuity Action Group run by Stuart Bayliss of Annuity Direct on behalf of the GARs 

 

Mutuality Study on Equitable 

 

 

DISCUSSIONS 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

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

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)

 

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

 

 

 

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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