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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

Admin / Technology

A dashboard on its own is not enough

The pensions dashboard has long been discussed as something with the ability to finally engage people with their pension savings.

clock 20 September 2016 • 1 min read

Admin / Technology

Building pension dashboards: The challenges ahead

A pension dashboard prototype will be launched by March 2017. Jonathan Stapleton and Helen Morrissey find out what the project is all about.

clock 19 September 2016 • 5 min read

Defined Benefit

Are we mis-selling DB schemes?

Anna Rogers asks if we are giving members the right information on their defined benefit schemes.

clock 15 September 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

Time is of the essence with pensions

Richard Butcher ponders the issues of timescales with pensions.

clock 15 September 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

PPF compensation increase for long serving employees expected in April 2017

The government has confirmed it will introduce the necessary legislation to increase the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) compensation limit for long serving employees.

clock 15 September 2016 • 2 min read

Investment

How the markets are reacting to Brexit

Percival Stanion takes a look at how global markets have reacted to the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

clock 15 September 2016 • 4 min read

Defined Contribution

Why scheme design can protect low earners from lost tax relief

The industry is seeking the equalisation of the tax treatment of net pay and relief-at-source arrangements, but will it succeed? Natasha Browne investigates.

clock 15 September 2016 • 8 min read

Employee Benefits

Pensions to be supplemented by other vehicles to increase saving

Workplace pensions should be supplemented with other savings vehicles if employees are to save adequately for retirement according to an industry panel.

clock 15 September 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Contribution

Pensions dashboard won't work without engagement

A targeted approach to stimulate engagement is vital if the pensions dashboard is to be a success according to a Dutch regulator.

clock 15 September 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Contribution

PLSA launches Retirement Quality Mark

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has launched the Retirement Quality Mark (RQM) to help members make appropriate retirement income choices.

clock 13 September 2016 • 2 min read
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