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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 Contribution

Who pays for the guidance guarantee?

How the cost of the government’s promise of at-retirement advice could be met

clock 07 May 2014 •

Investment

Fiduciary management - what is the alternative?

Keith Ambachtsheer talks to Helen Morrissey about the need for scale

clock 06 May 2014 •

Defined Contribution

Schemes urged to develop in-house income drawdown services

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged schemes to develop in-house income drawdown propositions rather than forcing members into the retail market.

clock 30 April 2014 •

Law and Regulation

Webb promises guidance guarantee clarity by end of year

Schemes can expect to get clarity as to what the guidance guarantee entails by the end of the year according to pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 30 April 2014 •

Defined Contribution

Webb: Schemes to bear cost of guidance guarantee

The cost of providing the guidance guarantee will fall on schemes according to pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 30 April 2014 •

Industry

Schemes must exercise caution in communicating transfer option

Helen Morrissey looks at the impact of DWP's consultation on DB to DC transfers

clock 17 April 2014 •

Defined Contribution

Webb: DWP to publish charge cap response next week

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will publish its response to last year's charge cap consultation next week, pensions minister Steve Webb confirms.

clock 20 March 2014 •

Defined Contribution

Guidance guarantee 'could cost pensions industry £120m a year' - UPDATE

George Osborne's promise of free, impartial, face-to-face advice for defined contribution (DC) retirees could cost the industry anything from £32m to £120m a year, consultants warn.

clock 20 March 2014 •

Industry

PIC profits down 40% despite £3.7bn new insurance business in 2013

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) saw its pre-tax profits fall more than 40% in 2013, despite securing new insurance business worth £3.7bn.

clock 20 March 2014 •

Regulation

Budget 2014 - What the changes mean for the industry

The Budget ushered in massive changes in the retirement income space. Helen Morrissey asks what this means for the industry

clock 20 March 2014 •
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