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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

Industry

Guinness and trustee qualifications: both dark and mysterious?

The Irish pensions industry is looking closely at trustee qualifications. Richard Butcher thinks we should follow its lead.

clock 28 January 2016 • 3 min read

Defined Benefit

Are we overly obsessed by deficits?

Raj Mody thinks we need to take a new approach to assessing scheme health.

clock 28 January 2016 • 3 min read

Industry

PLSA: no dash to cash but pension freedoms highlight need for education

Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) research shows no dash to take entire pension pots as cash though significant education challenges remain.

clock 28 January 2016 • 2 min read

Investment

Seeking value for money - The benefits of exchange traded products

Rima Haddad looks at how exchange traded products can fit into a scheme portfolio.

clock 27 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

A trustee perspective on diversified growth funds

DGFs have proved popular but trustees need to consider all angles says Jonathan Reynolds

clock 27 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

Where do pension schemes stand with volatility?

Pension schemes have endured a volatile few months. Scott Edmunds looks at how this can be dealt with.

clock 27 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

Taking account of geopolitical risk

We’ve had a difficult start to 2016 and ongoing political factors will continue to have an impact finds Charlotte Moore.

clock 26 January 2016 • 8 min read

Industry

Trustees must avoid herd mentality

Adopting a "groupthink" mentality is not good news for trustee boards says Helen Morrissey.

clock 26 January 2016 • 1 min read

Communication

Pensions Dashboard: the next frontier in Fintech

Yvonne Braun looks at the potential impact a pensions dashboard could have on retirement saving.

clock 22 January 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

Regulation and information: what we really need to know

Robin Ellison asks how we can simplify scheme return documents.

clock 22 January 2016 • 3 min read
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