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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

An Ed for the Ed

Helen Morrissey on the pension landscape today's toddlers can look forward to

clock 25 February 2013 •

Industry

Administration trends revealed

In our third Professional Pensions administration survey, Helen Morrissey looks at what trends are emerging in the admin market. What proportion of schemes are looking to outsource, what impact will auto-enrolment have on scheme administration and how...

clock 31 January 2013 • 7 min read

Law and Regulation

Pensions Clinic: Your AE questions answered

Do you have a burning auto-enrolment question that needs to be answered? Get a response from a panel of experts in our Pensions Clinic.

clock 24 January 2013 •

Industry

The dividends of face-to-face

In the second of PP's series of Scheme Excellence interviews, Helen Morrissey talks to David Lidbury of Zurich about the company's award-winning DC communication strategy.

clock 17 January 2013 •

Law and Regulation

Bank of England votes against further QE

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has again voted against an extension of its quantitative easing programme.

clock 10 January 2013 •

Admin / Technology

Towers Watson signs up for ITM's eDAaRT

Consultant Towers Watson has been granted a license to use ITM's data analytics software eDAaRT.

clock 10 January 2013 •

Regulation

RPI-linking to remain as ONS introduces new index

After consulting on options for changing Retail Prices Index, the Office for National Statistics has chosen 'none of the above' and proposed a new index to be published in parallel.

clock 10 January 2013 •

Law and Regulation

What's on the pension agenda for 2013?

Zoe Lynch, partner at Sacker & Partners takes a look at the issues likely to dominate the pensions industry in 2013

clock 13 December 2012 •

Industry

120% max GAD limit reinstated in Autumn Statement

Capped drawdown limits have been reinstated at 120% maximum GAD in today's Autumn statement.

clock 05 December 2012 •

Defined Benefit

Fifteen to one

In the first of PP’s series of Scheme Excellence interviews, Helen Morrissey talks to the Isle of Man Government Unified Scheme about how 15 separate schemes were merged into one

clock 29 November 2012 •
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