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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

Defined Benefit

Legal & General completes largest pension buyout of 2016

Legal & General has completed a £1.1bn pension buyout for the Vickers Group Pension Scheme which is part of the Rolls-Royce Group.

clock 14 November 2016 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

Now Pensions: Master trust capital adequacy should be £2m minimum

Capital adequacy for master trusts should be set at a minimum of £2m to ensure a robust and innovative market according to Now Pensions.

clock 14 November 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

What to expect when Pensions Ombudsman intervenes in appeals

Earlier this year the Pensions Ombudsman said it would participate in appeals against its decisions where there was public need. As the first case where the PO has participated has been decided, Helen Morrissey asks what can be expected

clock 14 November 2016 • 5 min read

Investment

The implications of a Trump Presidency

Saker Nusseibeh looks at what we might expect from a Trump administration.

clock 10 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

Why public sector workers and those contracted-out of the state second pension could benefit most from the new state pension

Malcolm McLean looks at who benefits most from the new state pension.

clock 10 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

BA: Best estimate assumptions would have allowed discretionary increases

Company adviser modelling of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) funding position would have allowed for discretionary increases if adopted, British Airways (BA) has admitted.

clock 09 November 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

BHS is a major test for TPR

Helen Morrissey thinks the regulator will need to show its teeth in the BHS saga.

clock 08 November 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

Three told and untold truths facing fixed income investors

Salman Ahmed looks at the issues facing fixed income investors.

clock 04 November 2016 • 4 min read

Defined Benefit

New approaches to projecting life expectancy

Matthew Edwards believes uncertainty over future life expectancy necessitates a new approach.

clock 04 November 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

A world of low numbers

Andrew Milligan looks at the issues raised by the low growth environment.

clock 03 November 2016 • 3 min read
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