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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

Is compulsion the way forward?

Helen Morrissey asks if compulsion is the next step to boost saving

clock 20 March 2014 •

Defined Contribution

Budget 2014: Changes 'will not damage annuity market'

Today's Budget pension reforms will not irreparably damage the annuity market, says Just Retirement customer insight director, Stephen Lowe.

clock 19 March 2014 •

Law and Regulation

Budget 2014: Osborne delivers radical shake up of retirement income

Chancellor George Osborne used today's Budget to radically overhaul the retirement income market.

clock 19 March 2014 •

Industry

Budget 2014: Govt to scrap restrictions on pensions access - UPDATE 6

The government is set to scrap restrictions on how people take pensions income as part of a radical overhaul of tax relief.

clock 19 March 2014 • 1 min read

Investment

Five years of QE

Helen Morrissey looks at how quantitative easing has affected defined benefit schemes

clock 13 March 2014 •

Investment

QE has undermined pensions

Helen Morrissey says the damage done by QE will take years to fix

clock 13 March 2014 •

Investment

Fiduciary management: Passing the baton, not the buck

Helen Morrissey looks at where responsibility lies in fiduciary management arrangements

clock 12 March 2014 •

Defined Contribution

A little less conversation on annuities

Helen Morrissey thinks its time for action on the retirement market

clock 20 February 2014 •

Law and Regulation

FCA's annuity review: A damp squib after a long wait

Helen Morrissey rounds up reaction to the Financial Conduct Authority’s annuity market investigation

clock 20 February 2014 •

Law and Regulation

FCA annuity review 'does not go far enough'

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) thematic review of the annuity market has been criticised for not going far enough, fast enough.

clock 14 February 2014 •
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