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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

Industry

Individual protection: Short term gain brings long term pain

Helen Morrissey is not convinced cuts to the lifetime allowance will raise much tax

clock 04 July 2013 •

Industry

Europe faces deflation threat -LGIM

Europe is facing a real danger of deflation according to Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).

clock 03 July 2013 •

Defined Contribution

Cleaning up trust-based DC schemes

Helen Morrissey looks at the results of TPR's governance surveyand asks how the situation can be improved

clock 20 June 2013 •

Defined Contribution

TPR: Industry must do more to support members' retirement income choice

The industry must do more to support employees making retirement income decisions says The Pension Regulator's chairman Michael O'Higgins.

clock 13 June 2013 •

Defined Benefit

PB Show: TPR tells trustees to balance member interests with business growth.

Trustees should work with employers to agree funding solutions that balance member interests with business growth according to The Pension Regulator chairman Michael O'Higgins.

clock 13 June 2013 •

Defined Contribution

Is DC governance up to scratch?

Helen Morrissey asks if the ‘trust good/contract bad’ philosophy is still true

clock 13 June 2013 •

Industry

FRC: Insurance industry must do more on stewardship

Insurance industry organisations need to do more on stewardship, Financial Reporting Council (FRC) senior investment adviser Peter Montagnon has said.

clock 12 June 2013 •

Industry

PB Show: RDR could impact member engagement

The shift towards fees brought about by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) could lead to a reduction in member engagement says Capita's head of DC Paul Sturgess.

clock 12 June 2013 •

Industry

PB Show: Early opt-out rate figures 'skewed' by employer size

Early opt-out rates for auto-enrolment (AE) are "skewed" by employer size, KPMG DC director Andy Seed warns.

clock 12 June 2013 •

Industry

TPR: 97% of DC schemes provide OMO support

Data from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) shows 97% of surveyed DC schemes provide support to members wishing to exercise their open market option (OMO).

clock 07 June 2013 •
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