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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

Salary sacrifice could be cut in July Budget - Steve Webb

Steve Webb has warned that the Conservative government may target the £15bn salary sacrifice bill in its July emergency Budget.

clock 10 June 2015 •

Pensions

Five years at the top: Has Steve Webb been a success?

PP gauges industry opinion on Webb's five years as pensions minister

clock 08 May 2015 •

Pensions

Budget 2015: Pension Wise gets £20m funding boost

An additional £19.5m will be provided in 2015-2016 to support pensions freedoms and the Pension Wise service as part of today's Budget announcements.

clock 18 March 2015 •

Pensions

Asset managers should be subject to retirement income regulation - McAteer

Asset managers should be subject to similar regulation to annuity providers if they are to get involved in the retirement income market, argues the Financial Inclusion Centre.

clock 11 February 2015 •

Pensions

NEST chief executive Tim Jones to stand down

NEST is to recruit a new chief executive officer following current CEO Tim Jones' decision to leave.

clock 11 February 2015 •

Pensions

Providers 'interested' in Webb's annuity unwinding plan

Providers have shown interest in plans to allow people to unwind their annuities, according to pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 22 January 2015 •

Pensions

Webb floats idea of bulk transfers to cost efficient pensions

Pensions minister Steve Webb has floated plans to allow providers to bulk transfer members from legacy schemes to more cost efficient models.

clock 21 January 2015 •

Pensions

Pension Wise undergoing pre-launch tests to brace for 'demand surges'

The new Pension Wise service is being tested ahead of launch to ensure it meets any potential demand surges, according to pensions minister Steve Webb.

clock 21 January 2015 •

Pensions

Schroders launches flexible pre-retirement fund

Schroders has launched a fund to help defined contribution (DC) members coming up to retirement take advantage of incoming Budget flexibilities.

clock 15 January 2015 •

Income

Retirement Planner launches retirement breakfast briefing series

Retirement Planner has launched of a series of breakfast briefings aimed at advisers operating in the retirement planning space.

clock 09 January 2015 •
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