EQUITABLE LIFE MEMBERS SUPPORT GROUP

Last Updated 

Monday, January 05, 2009

 

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.  

 

The Government had now postponed their reply to the PO's report until January 2009.

 

How to contact your  MP

 

 

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

The Parliamentary Ombudsman published her report 17 July 2008

 

15 December 2008 PASC - Justice Delayed - The Ombudsman's Report on Equitable Life

 

Link to the PO's Report

 

      

 

EDM 2230 Write To Your MP to Sign  

 

 

   

 

PLEASE SIGN NO 10 NEW Petition

 

 

 

EQUITABLE HELPLINE NUMBER 0800 408 0097

 

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5 Dec 2008 - Telegraph Petition delivered to Downing Street. Ian Cowie Personal Finance editor of the Telegraph Group, Paul Braithwaite of EMAG, Vanni Treves Chairman of Equitable Life and Yvette Essen the Daily Telegraph

(click here for Photogallery)

   

LOTS OF USEFUL LINKS Click here 

 

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

NEWS DATES:

December 2008  Joint Disciplinary Report on Ernst & Young (Equitable's auditors) due 

January 2009  Government to reply to the PO's report, postponed from Autumn 2008

9 December 2008  Public Administration Select Committee

1 December 2008  EU Petitions Committee Discuss Equitable

27 November 2008  Equitable announce freeze on sale

26 November 2008  AADB announce new investigation into Equitable

20 November 2008  MP Briefing Meeting with EMAG 10.30am Committee Room 13

13 November 2008  Public Administration Select Committee interviews 

12 November 2008  MP Briefing Meeting with Vanni Treves and Charles Thomson of Equitable 11am Committee Room 7

11 November 2008  Action Groups and Equitable Management Appear before Public Administration Select Committee 

30 October 2008  PO Appears before Public Administration Select Committee 

Click here for more News History

 

Check the latest MVAs and Bonuses in the pensions' Industry

 

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

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

 

16 July 2008 -  EMAG directors Chris Carnaghan (left) and chairman John Newman working through the PO's report in advance of its publication.

Click here for more Photographs

 

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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