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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

Pensions

MPs launch auto-enrolment inquiry

Effects on small firms scrutinised

clock 14 December 2015 •

Your profession

Life expectancy continues to rise, finds ONS

Life expectancy continues to improve according to data released by the Office for National Statistics.

clock 05 November 2015 •

Pensions

Ros Altmann interview: We can't keep 'throwing' reforms at savers

The pensions minister discusses auto-enrolment, defined ambition, pot follows member, and other policies...

clock 26 October 2015 •

Pensions

Ros Altmann: Govt will return to pension risk sharing

A question of timing

clock 16 October 2015 •

Retirement

NAPF rebrands as Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

Move reflects shrinking role of pensions in retirement income plans

clock 16 October 2015 •

Pensions

Tax relief change could end in 'pension implosion'

Smith addressed the NAPF Conference 2015

clock 14 October 2015 •

Income

Guaranteed retirement income must be 'default option for DC savers'

The government should ensure a decent guaranteed income is the default option for defined contribution (DC) retirees, according to the Strategic Society Centre.

clock 14 July 2015 •

Income

Mass market drawdown demand could be met by 'collective solution' - LGIM

Income drawdown may need to be delivered collectively to account for mass market demand, according to Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).

clock 02 July 2015 •

Pensions

Pension tax relief changes could lead to 'dark place', warns Steve Webb

Further changes to pensions tax relief could lead the industry "into a very dark place", according to ex-pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 30 June 2015 •

Pensions

Webb: Bosses are the key to workplace pensions buy-in

Keeping bosses enrolled in the same pension scheme as all other employees could boost overall workplace saving engagement, according to ex-pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 15 June 2015 •
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