The payment of around £1.5bn that the government has put on the table to settle the long-running Equitable Life saga is a good deal.
I know the policyholders' groups don't see it that way but in the current economic climate the prospects of getting the £6bn plus they now say they were hoping for are remote. The compensation d...
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