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Helen Morrissey

Helen Morrissey

Editor, Professional Pensions

Helen is editor of Professional Pensions and has twelve years' experience of writing about pensions and retirement from both a retail and institutional standpoint.

She initially joined Professional Pensions in December 2003 as a features writer and was made editor in October 2014.

In addition to her work on Professional Pensions Helen also edited Retirement Planner, a magazine aimed at independent financial advisers for eight years.

While she has written on a range of retirement related topics over the years she specialises in at and post-retirement issues. She has appeared on the BBC's Your Money programme on several occasions and appears regularly on Share Radio.

Helen holds the Pensions Management Institute's Retirement Provision Certificate (RPC).

In her spare time Helen is a keen runner with a number of half and full marathons under her belt. She is currently training for her first - and she believes her last - ultramarathon.

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Articles by Helen Morrissey

Law and Regulation

The cost of exiting EU pensions

Charlotte Moore assesses the potential pension cost of the UK leaving The Pension Scheme of European Officials.

clock 27 April 2017 • 8 min read

Investment

Understanding the impact of ESG factors on credit

While it can be difficult to isolate the impact that ESG factors have on the performance of credit instruments, the research is becoming hard to ignore, finds Helen Morrissey

clock 25 April 2017 • 4 min read

Industry

The end is nigh

In her final editor's comment Helen Morrissey says the one constant in pensions has been change.

clock 25 April 2017 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

Time for a bold new pensions policy

The upcoming general election is an opportunity to put forward a bolder pension policy says Hilary Salt.

clock 20 April 2017 • 3 min read

Investment

Hermes research highlights relationship between ESG and credit spreads

Research from Hermes Investment Management shows a clear relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials and performance from a credit perspective.

clock 19 April 2017 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

Pension accounting changes - the what, when, who and how

Darren Redmayne and Paul Houghton look into upcoming changes to how IAS19 is to be applied.

clock 18 April 2017 • 4 min read

Investment

Time for change on fees

An LCP report shows current fund charging strategies do not serve schemes well. Helen Morrissey looks at the issue

clock 13 April 2017 • 5 min read

Investment

The case for credit

While credit is currently looking expensive Sorca Kelly-Scholte believes it still has a role to play in pension scheme portfolios

clock 13 April 2017 • 3 min read

Investment

Too much diversification breeds diworsification

Nikesh Patel discusses the perils of over diversification in scheme portfolios

clock 12 April 2017 • 4 min read

Admin / Technology

Cyber and data security: are pension scheme trustees ready?

Claire Southern looks at the issues trustees must be aware of around cyber-security

clock 12 April 2017 • 4 min read
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