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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

How schemes are using alternative financing solutions

Lynda Whitney looks at how schemes are using alternative financing solutions to fund pension schemes.

clock 22 October 2015 •

Investment

Digging deeper in DGFs

Thomas Nehring takes a look at the rapidly evolving DGF market.

clock 22 October 2015 •

Defined Benefit

Why going unbundled can save you money

Trustees of small DB schemes can make big savings by reviewing their bundled insurance company arrangements says Ashlin Noonan.

clock 22 October 2015 •

Investment

How we exploit bias in investment markets

Jeremy Lang looks at how learned bias can be exploited to find opportunity in investment markets.

clock 22 October 2015 •

Law and Regulation

What's going on with CDC and pot follows member?

Former flagship policies are set to sink without a trace

clock 19 October 2015 •

Law and Regulation

Is this the end of pot follows member and CDC?

A ministerial statement issued last week put key policies such as pot follows member and collective defined contribution on hold. Helen Morrissey gauges the response.

clock 19 October 2015 •

Defined Benefit

NAPF 2015: New communication approach needed for DB-DC transfers

Defined benefit (DB) schemes need to deploy different communications methods if members are to understand options such as transfers to defined contribution (DC) schemes.

clock 16 October 2015 •

Law and Regulation

Altmann: CDC is not abolished

Pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann told NAPF Annual Conference delegates that issues such as collective defined contribution (CDC) have not been abandoned.

clock 16 October 2015 •

Industry

NAPF rebrands as Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

The National Association of Pensions Funds (NAPF) has been renamed the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.

clock 15 October 2015 •

Industry

Pot follows member put on hold

The implementation of pot follows member has been put on hold according to a ministerial statement issued today.

clock 15 October 2015 •
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