In April 2004, Equitable Life, a UK life assurance company, sued EY after nearly collapsing following a House of Lords judgement that it had to pay guaranteed annuities held by its policyholders.

Tontines became associated with life insurance in the United States in 1868 when Henry Baldwin Hyde of the Equitable Life Assurance Society introduced tontines as a means to sell more life insurance, and meet the demands of competition.

He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life.

Kelly was assigned the task of dealing with Equitable Life after the Penrose Report into the life insurance company was published.

He is best known for heading the Penrose Inquiry into the near-collapse of the mutual life assurance company Equitable Life.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society ( Equitable Life ), founded 1762, is a life insurance company in the United Kingdom.

The Society, established via a Deed of Trust in September 1762 with the name of the “ Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships ” offered both whole life and fixed term policies.

In 1870, the Life Assurance Companies Act was passed " requiring all life offices to publish financial data on the lines so long followed by the Equitable.

* The Equitable Life Assurance Society, a life insurance company in the United Kingdom

* The Equitable Life Assurance Society, life insurance company in the United Kingdom

Equitable sold the building in 1946 to the Flatiron Associates, an investor group headed by Harry Helmsley, whose firm, Dwight-Helmsley, which would later become Helmsley-Spear, managing the property.

* The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, a group of weavers who designed the Rochdale Principles

* The middle group, the Department of Equitable Administration, allowed for marriage, but sexual relationships were only to be for the purpose of reproduction.

* Equitable Members Action Group ( EMAG )

Other companies that did not originally use such mathematical and scientific methods most often failed or were forced to adopt the methods pioneered by Equitable.

To attract tenants, Equitable did some modernization of the building, including replacing the original cast-iron birdcage elevators, which had cabs covered in rubber tiling and were originally built by Hecla Iron Works, but the hydraulic power system was not replaced.

He believed in peace in America, but he also believed they were entitled to " Equitable Representation ", an idea repeated in the famous phrase " No taxation without representation ".

The payments were given to them by the Equitable Trust Company securely in exchange for stock shares in Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre.

Equitable Life Assurance Building, 1868 – 70: the exterior cladding and decorative features suggest three to four floors, when in fact there were eight floors

They were first set out by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England, in 1844, and have formed the basis for the principles on which co-operatives around the world operate to this day.

This directive required the UK where Equitable ’ s headquarters were based to supervise its “ entire business ” and the curtailed the supervisory power of other EU countries where Equitable operated.

Although Equitable ’ s management initially welcomed the announcement, they were concerned that compensation would be based on Sir John ’ s report, written on the premise that only five of the Ombudsman ’ s findings of maladministration were valid.

Among the companies that moved their corporate offices from Manhattan to Stern's Meadowlands commercial office buildings were The Equitable Life Assurance Society, UBS / Paine Webber, Panasonic's U. S. headquarters, and WWOR-TV.

They were first set out by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England, in 1844 and have formed the basis for the principles on which co-operatives around the world operate to this day.

The American millionaire philanthropist James Hazen Hyde, who inherited a majority share in Equitable Life Assurance Society, formed a collection of allegorical prints illustrating the Four Continents that are now at the New-York Historical Society ; Hyde's drawings and a supporting collection of sets of porcelain table ornaments and other decorative arts illustrating the Four Continents were shared by various New York City museums.

" While living at Equitable Farm, Peter and Catherine were interviewed at length by Rolling Stone magazine for an article on hippie anarchist communes.

However, in 1959 all the remaining assets were sold to New York Ship, which was later sold to Equitable equipment Co. Higgins Marine Sales Corp. continued at the old City Park plant until 1970, when it moved to Thalia Street.

Studios were located at 1100 Walnut Street in downtown Des Moines and the station's tower and transmitter were located on top of the Equitable Building at 6th and Locust in Des Moines.

David King's speculative development failed, and most of the houses were soon owned by the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which had financed the project.

The shares of the Lopez and Gokongwei Families were sold to the SSS and GSIS which acquired 78 % of PCI Bank shares that were bought by the Go-Led Equitable Banking Corporation and they merged in 1999 and was approved by the Bangko Sentral and other agencies that had created the Third Largest Philippine Bank with Equitable as the survivor of the merger and the name Equitable PCI Bank was adopted.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

and the The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, setting up satellite museums with rotating exhibitions in the lobbies of their buildings.

The Bingley Permanent Building Society merged with the Bradford Equitable Building Society to form the Bradford & Bingley Building Society ( now a bank ) in 1964.

In 1928, it merged with Halifax Equitable Building Society, then the second largest building society and was renamed Halifax Building Society.

Subsequently, in 1930, the Equitable merged with the Chase National Bank, now JP Morgan Chase, and became at that time the largest bank in the world.

As a result, in 1915, the Equitable Life Insurance Company in New York City introduced the “ Modern Efficiency Desk ” with a flat top and drawers below, designed to allow managers an easy view of the workers.

His grandson, William C. Alexander ( 1848 – 1937 ), was an executive with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, author, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

Most important was the Equitable Building ( 1944 – 47 ) in Portland, Oregon: a concrete frame office block clad in aluminum, and considered the first office building with a completely sealed air-conditioned environment.

To foil a takeover bid by Dart Group Corp., management took Supermarkets General private in a $ 2. 1 billion leveraged buyout in 1987, in which Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Inc. received 55 percent of the shares, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S., 35 percent, with management retaining 10 percent.

At its peak, Equitable had 1. 5 million policyholders with funds worth £ 26 billion under management, but it had allowed large unhedged liabilities to accumulate in respect of guaranteed fixed returns to investors without making provision for adverse market changes.

Between 1956 and the advent of Personal Pension Schemes in July 1988, Equitable sold policies with an option to select either a Guaranteed Annuity Rate ( GAR ) or the Current Annuity Rate ( CAR ).

In 1994 Equitable exercised its discretion under Article 65 to reduce the terminal bonus of policies with Guaranteed Annuity Rates, negating any benefit from the guarantee but preserving the assets of non GAR policyholders.

Even before that stage, Equitable, which had long claimed to be more transparent than its rivals, had assets worth £ 3B less than communication with policyholders had indicated.

Having not insured against loss of the case and with no other way to make provision for the immediate £ 1. 5B increase in long term liabilites, Equitable put itself up for sale.

This covered the FSA's regulation of Equitable from 1 January 1999 to 8 December 2000 when the Society closed to new business and was produced by the FSA's director of internal audit with the help of independent accountants and lawyers.

The Equitable Building is owned by Silverstein Properties, Inc. After buying the building in 1980, Larry Silverstein had the building renovated and restored at a cost of $ 30 million, with renovations completed in 1990.

* Pietro Belluschi's Equitable Building was the first aluminum-clad building and the first to be completely sealed with an air-conditioned environment.

On January 6, 2006, Banco de Oro, with the SM Group of Companies, submitted to Equitable PCI a merger offer with Banco de Oro as the surviving entity.

These include the Social Security System ( SSS ) with 29 %, the Government Service Insurance System ( GSIS ) with 14 %, and the family of Equitable PCI chairman Ferdinand Martin Romualdez with eight percent.