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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

Investment

The ECB must act on deflation fears

Helen Morrissey says uncertainty helps no-one

clock 13 February 2014 •

Investment

The threat of Eurozone deflation

When the UK and US started quantitative easing (QE) programmes the fear was that printing money could force inflation to spiral.

clock 13 February 2014 •

Law and Regulation

Lifetime allowance: The £1.25m question

Helen Morrissey looks at the impact of the LTA falling to £1.25m at the end of this tax year

clock 16 January 2014 •

Industry

Key challenges the pensions industry faces in 2014

Helen Morrissey draws together opinions on the outlook for next year

clock 12 December 2013 •

Industry

Autumn Statement 2013: No change to income drawdown rates

The government will not change the basis on which Government Actuary's Department (GAD) tables are formulated for income drawdown according to the Autumn Statement.

clock 05 December 2013 •

Industry

The future of The Pensions Advisory Service

New chief exec Michelle Cracknell sets out her plans for TPAS

clock 02 December 2013 •

Defined Contribution

It's time to get behind DC

Helen Morrissey says Lord Hutton is right about defined ambition

clock 28 November 2013 •

Industry

SAUL's Penny Green to retire

Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL) Trustee Company chief executive Penny Green has announced her intention to retire at the end of 2014.

clock 22 November 2013 •

Defined Contribution

Video: The future of auto-enrolment

In the final installment of the Scottish Widows roundtable on auto-enrolment the panel discusses the future of auto-enrolment.

clock 15 November 2013 •

Defined Contribution

Video: The challenges of auto-enrolment

In the second part of our video roundtable the panellists discuss the challenges of dealing with auto-enrolment.

clock 14 November 2013 •
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