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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

Secretary of state LGPS powers will be used 'sparingly'

The secretary of state's powers to intervene in the local government pension scheme (LGPS) will only be used where justified, according to the local government minister.

clock 17 May 2016 • 2 min read

Investment

The strong alpha opportunity in fallen angels

As the £5.1bn Neuberger Berman High Yield Bond Fund approaches its 10-year anniversary, Thomas O'Reilly examines the current state of the asset class and explains why investors are witnessing an attractive pocket of opportunity in fallen angels.

clock 17 May 2016 • 4 min read

Defined Contribution

We need master trust regulation

Is now the time for regulation of the master trust market? Helen Morrissey hopes so.

clock 17 May 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

Manager spin on performance still a big problem

Consultants have been battling with fund managers for years on the ‘dressing up' of track records. Yet it continues to be a challenge even more so in DC, writes Stephanie Baxter

clock 16 May 2016 • 5 min read

Communication

Onus on Government to deliver financial education, believe employers

Companies overlooking financial advisers, new research finds

clock 16 May 2016 • 2 min read

Investment

The time has come for cost transparency

Stewart Bevan highlights the impact costs can have on scheme portfolios.

clock 13 May 2016 • 3 min read

Industry

What it is like to be a new member nominated trustee

Peter Sparkes looks at the challenges facing new member nominated trustees.

clock 12 May 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

DGFs need alternatives to 'broken' duration protection

Claus Vorm asks what role duration plays in multi-asset portfolios and what are the alternatives?

clock 12 May 2016 • 4 min read

Defined Contribution

How can master trust governance be improved?

Master trusts have grown rapidly as a result of auto-enrolment but there are concerns about the regulatory framework that underpins them. Padraig Floyd asks how things can be improved.

clock 11 May 2016 • 9 min read

Law and Regulation

Crabb: Master trusts not a 'byword for poor practice'

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb has warned against allowing master trusts to become a "byword for poor practice."

clock 11 May 2016 • 2 min read
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