EQUITABLE LIFE MEMBERS SUPPORT GROUP

Last Updated 

Saturday, July 04, 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.  

 

EDM 1423 (5 May 2009) Introduced by Vince Cable MP - 300!!! signatures so far - 

 

EDM 1693 (17 June 2009) CONDUCT OF INDEPENDENT ADVISER ON EQUITABLE LIFE 

 

Has your MP signed? IF NOT WHY NOT?

 

How to contact your  MP

 

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

 

The Parliamentary Ombudsman published her report 17 July 2008 Sir John Chadwick has been appointed to look at compensation. Click here to see his website on the status of his findings

 

Link to the PO's Report

26 June 2009 - EMAG Meeting at Exeter  Richard Younger Ross (Lib Dem) MP and Paul Braithwaite

(click here for Photogallery)

   SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

     

LOTS OF USEFUL LINKS Click here 

 

NEWS DATES:
December 2009  JDS Document on E&Y Due to be Published

October 2009  E&Y Appeal to be heard

21 July 2009  Start of EMAG's three day hearing in High Court

11 July 2009  EMAG Regional Co-ordinators' Meeting, London

24 June 2009  Completion date for Treasury defence in High Court

23 June 2009  Equitable Adjournment Debate Westminster Hall

21 June 2009  Ernst & Young Drop Gagging Order on JDS Report on Equitable

18 June 2009  Ernst & Young Appeal in High Court re Privacy of JDS Report

11 June 2009  Stafford policyholders meeting with David Kidney MP

3 June 2009  Occupational pensioners' demonstration in Parliament Square at lunchtime

18 May 2009  Westminster Hall - MP Debate on Equitable

11 May 2009  Equitable Life AGM - Holiday Inn Regents Park

 

Click here for more News History

REPORTS:

17 June 2009 Sir John Chadwick's Refusal Letter to Appear in front of the All Party Parliamentary Group

15 June 2009 Sir John Chadwick's Preliminary Study

6 May 2009 Diana Wallis MEP News Release on PO Report

23 March 2009 The PO's Letter to MPs

19 March 2009 PASC Justice Delayed (2) - The Ombudsman's Report on Equitable Life

29 January 2009 EMAG Further Memo to PASC

15 January 2009 Government Response to the PO Report

 

Click here for more Reports

 

 

   

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

 

      

Please Support EMAG's Legal Fighting Fund  

 

HM TREASURY - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON EQUITABLE (.pdf) 

SEE WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Pension Calculator

What is your likely retirement income going to be?

    

Prudential On-Line Financial Forum

 

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

 

Sign the No 10 Petition

 

Check the latest MVAs and Bonuses in the pensions' Industry

 

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

 

To track a lost pension, go to www.thepensionservice.gov.uk  for an online form, call 0845 6002 537 (8am to 8pm, Mon to Fri) or write to: Pension Tracing Service, The Pension Service, Future Pension Centre, Room TB 201, Tyneview Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE98 1BA.

State Pension Forecast On-Line

 

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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