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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

Summer Budget: Lifetime allowance to be increased in line with CPI

Budget documents have confirmed the lifetime allowance is to be indexed annually in line with the consumer prices index (CPI) from 6 April 2018.

clock 08 July 2015 •

Industry

Tax relief tinkering really will lead us to a dark place

As we get ready for the summer Budget Helen Morrissey is concerned by how potential tax relief changes could affect pensions.

clock 07 July 2015 •

Defined Contribution

How can we fix UK retirement policy?

David Harris looks at the challenges caused by UK retirement policy and asks how we can fix things.

clock 06 July 2015 •

Investment

Don't be frozen out by less liquid bond markets

Adrian Hull explains why an environment of lower liquidity in bond markets brings risks for pension schemes.

clock 02 July 2015 •

Defined Contribution

The multifaceted risks of DC investing

Simon Chinnery outlines the key risks surrounding DC investment.

clock 01 July 2015 •

Defined Contribution

PBUK 2015: Pensions communications need to tug at the heartstrings

Pension schemes have been urged to learn communication skills from other areas such as marketing and charities if engagement is to increase.

clock 01 July 2015 •

Defined Contribution

PBUK 2015: Collective solutions could deliver mass market income drawdown

Income drawdown may need to be delivered collectively to account for mass market demand according to Legal & General Investment Management's head of DC solutions Emma Douglas.

clock 30 June 2015 •

Industry

PBUK 2015: Webb warns tax relief changes could lead industry to 'a dark place'

Potential changes to pensions tax relief could lead the industry "into a very dark place" according to former pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 30 June 2015 •

Industry

Are we turning trustees off pensions?

Recent research from TPR shows many small schemes know little about the regulator’s quality features. Helen Morrissey asks whether trustees are disengaging from pensions.

clock 30 June 2015 •

Investment

Can schemes honour their promises in a low interest rate world?

An OECD report has sounded alarm bells about scheme solvency in a low interest rate environment. Helen Morrissey takes a closer look.

clock 29 June 2015 •
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