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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

Law and Regulation

VIDEO: What can the industry do to prevent pension scams?

TPAS chief executive Michelle Cracknell talks to Professional Pensions about what more the industry can do to crack down on pension scams.

clock 21 July 2016 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

VIDEO: How can schemes help resolve disputes more quickly?

Pensions ombudsman Anthony Arter talks to Professional Pensions about what schemes can do to help resolve disputes more quickly.

clock 21 July 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

VIDEO: What impact will Brexit have on UK pension schemes?

Disruptive Capital's Edmund Truell talks to Professional Pensions about the impact Brexit will have on UK pension schemes.

clock 21 July 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

VIDEO: How can schemes deal with the current low gilt yield environment?

Disruptive Capital's Edmund Truell talks to Professional Pensions about how schemes can deal with the current low gilt yield environment.

clock 21 July 2016 • 1 min read

Industry

What are the implications of Altmann's exit?

As Ros Altmann exits the pensions minister role Helen Morrissey asks what the future looks like for policy development.

clock 19 July 2016 • 1 min read

Industry

Ros Altmann leaves government

Ros Altmann has left her role as pensions minister and has called on government to radically reform the pension system.

clock 15 July 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

Pensions Infrastructure Platform completes first debt investment

The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) has completed its first investment for the PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF).

clock 15 July 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Nine schemes submit case for LGPS Central pool

Nine Midlands-based local government pension funds have submitted a business case to Government to create a multi asset investment pool called LGPS Central.

clock 15 July 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Arise ye actuaries from your slumber

Hilary Salt is pleased to see people are starting to revisit the idea of how best to fund schemes

clock 14 July 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

It is time to liberalise LDI and to take a more funding-led approach

Rupert Brindley says it doesn't make sense to mark pension liabilities to gilts.

clock 14 July 2016 • 3 min read
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