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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

Local government pension schemes to become 'governance leaders'?

Andy Todd discusses the opportunities asset pooling brings for local government funds

clock 02 November 2016 • 4 min read

Industry

21st century trusteeship: What are we going to do now?

Peter Askins asks how we can improve the diversity of trustee boards.

clock 02 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

TPR needs more powers to intervene in complex cases

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should have more powers to intervene in complex cases according to a panel speaking at this morning's Work and Pensions Committee meeting.

clock 02 November 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

British Airways: Trustees hid benefits increase decision from company and TPR

Trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) deliberately kept their decision to increase benefits by 0.2% above the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a lawyer for British Airways (BA) has claimed.

clock 02 November 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

Workers at AWE vote overwhelmingly for strike action over pensions

Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over the company’s plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.

clock 01 November 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

We need to help the self-employed save for retirement

Helen Morrissey wonders if the recent Uber decision will prompt new discussion on helping the self-employed save for retirement.

clock 01 November 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

US election offers macro managers another chance for error

Asbjørn Trolle Hansen says managers should beware of positioning portfolios based on predicted results of major events.

clock 31 October 2016 • 3 min read

Defined Benefit

What MPs are being told about the future of DB

MPs are considering a wide range of views on how to solve the DB 'crisis'. James Phillips rounds up the responses.

clock 28 October 2016 • 7 min read

Defined Benefit

Smiths Industries Pension Scheme concludes £250m buy-in

The Smiths Industries Pension Scheme has concluded a £250m buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).

clock 28 October 2016 • 1 min read

Industry

The Pension Home Guard and the Battle of Brexit

Henry Tapper asks how an improved pension system could help with Brexit.

clock 27 October 2016 • 3 min read
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