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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

Investment

FCA's Bailey: Fund fee caps would not effectively drive competition

Proposes all-in fee on funds

clock 18 November 2016 • 2 min read

Industry

FCA to consult on CMA probe into investment consultants

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to consult on whether to make a market investigation reference on the investment consultancy market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

clock 18 November 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

Time to change inflation measures again?

Steve Webb looks at the potential impact of a new measure of inflation called CPIH.

clock 16 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

DWP plans to cap early-exit charges for occupational pensions

Follows FCA announcement on personal pensions

clock 15 November 2016 • 2 min read

Industry

PenTech is for life, not just for Christmas

Raj Mody discusses the impact technology is having on the pensions industry.

clock 15 November 2016 • 3 min read

Defined Contribution

TPR disputes claim UK firms are paying unnecessary AE fines

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has disputed a report saying UK firms have paid a huge number of auto-enrolment fines unnecessarily.

clock 15 November 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

BA case: APS trustees used increases as a threat to get additional funding

Airways Pension Scheme (APS) trustees used the threat of discretionary increases to try to get British Airways (BA) to maintain a funding schedule and recovery plan based on the Retail Price Index (RPI), the High Court has heard.

clock 15 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

Raise AE contributions to 12.5% and simplify tax relief, says Aviva

Aviva has called on the government to increase minimum auto-enrolment (AE) contributions to 12.5% by 2028 to ensure people build adequate pensions, as part of ten recommendations.

clock 15 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

FCA introduces cap on early-exit pension charges

‘Proportionate balance between benefits'

clock 15 November 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

Ombudsman should not be deterred from intervening in appeals

Helen Morrissey looks at the Pensions Ombudsman's recent intervention in an appeal against one of its determinations.

clock 15 November 2016 • 1 min read
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