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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

Retirement Planner - November 2013

The latest digital edition of Retirement Planner is now available to read online.

clock 31 October 2013 •

Your profession

Commission by any other name

Fiona Murphy asks what the FCA's review into inducements from life offices means for the advice industry

clock 30 October 2013 •

Estate planning

How not to fall foul of parental settlement rules

Mark Green discusses the role of parental settlement rules in tax planning

clock 30 October 2013 •

Investment

Steve Webb interview: Auto-enrolment - A quiet revolution

Since the coalition came to power in 2010, Steve Webb has been charged with the task of implementing auto-enrolment. Helen Morrissey spoke to the pensions minister about the first year of AE and challenges that lie ahead

clock 30 October 2013 •

Long Term Care

Can we reshape the pensions landscape to fund LTC?

Fiona Murphy asks whether a pensions overhaul could help encourage people to save for their long-term care needs

clock 30 October 2013 •

Income

The lowdown on capped drawdown

Adrian Walker discusses the advice challenges and opportunities surrounding changes in capped drawdown limits

clock 30 October 2013 •

Pensions

All change in the SIPP world

Martin Tilley discusses the issues facing advisers in the SIPP market

clock 30 October 2013 •

Income

The highs and lows of income drawdown

Anna Sofat talks through the advice issues thrown up when using income drawdown

clock 30 October 2013 •

Income

Annuities: Shopping around just isn't enough

Billy Burrows examines what to look for when making decisions on retirement income

clock 30 October 2013 •

Investment

AE: the advice opportunity

Fiona Murphy discusses the massive opportunities advisers have encountered in the first year of auto-enrolment

clock 30 October 2013 •