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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

Ideas to fine-tune your growth portfolio

Altaf Kassam looks at how schemes can make their growth portfolio work harder

clock 11 April 2017 • 5 min read

Admin / Technology

Origo to revise governance structure

Origo has announced a new governance structure to provide a clear distinction between its 'standards and governance' services and operational services such as its £100bn Options Transfers service.

clock 11 April 2017 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

UK private sector pension fund consolidation: Lessons from abroad

Paul Traynor says UK schemes can learn a lot from the overseas experience of scheme consolidation

clock 10 April 2017 • 4 min read

Investment

Emerging market corporates: managing liquidity in a constantly evolving environment.

Steve Cook, Chris Perryman and John Bates look at managing liquidity in emerging market corporates

clock 10 April 2017 • 4 min read

Defined Contribution

Why more emotion is needed for pension savings success.

Lydia Fearn says we need to tap into the emotions of saving to boost engagement

clock 10 April 2017 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

We need to engage with LISA

LISA is here and we have to deal with it. Helen Morrissey says the pensions industry needs to start communicating.

clock 10 April 2017 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

DB consolidation - where next?

Mike Ramsey reflects on the government's Green Paper.

clock 10 April 2017 • 4 min read

Investment

TPR's DB investment guidance sets best practice for schemes

Helen Morrissey gauges industry reaction to TPR's investment guidelines for defined benefit schemes

clock 07 April 2017 • 6 min read

Industry

Back to basics business planning for schemes of all sizes

Helen Ball discusses the importance of proper business planning for pension schemes

clock 05 April 2017 • 4 min read

Investment

The new pension scheme challenge - managing cashflow efficiently

Jonathan Crowther and Sebastien Proffit say schemes need to prepare their portfolios to deal with increased cashflow requirements.

clock 05 April 2017 • 4 min read
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