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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

Retiring Abroad

QROPS inquiry: The prospects for growth

The QROPS market has real benefits for those retiring abroad but it has been dogged by controversy. In this Retirement Planner Inquiry Helen Morrissey asks how the market can meet its challenges and looks at the prospects for growth.

clock 02 September 2013 •

Income

Alternative retirement strategies

Retirement planning needn't only include pensions. Neil Jones looks at the alternatives

clock 02 September 2013 •

Income

Case study: How clients could use the income drawdown option

A case study using the Prudential Flexible Retirement Plan

clock 22 August 2013 •

Income

What's the future for income drawdown?

Prudential's Vince Smith Hughes and Annuity Line's Billy Burrows took part in the latest Retirement Planner Conjecture debate to answer your queries on the income drawdown market.

clock 22 August 2013 •

Income

Bridging the retirement advice gap

Recent figures show a steep decline in the number of advisers in the market. Helen Morrissey asks whether there will be enough advisers to meet the demand for retirement advice

clock 21 August 2013 •

Income

Pension decumulation: The elephant in the room

Andrew Pennie asks why income drawdown is not more widely promoted in decumulation strategies.

clock 21 August 2013 •

Income

ABI launches Annuity Window service

The Association of British Insurers has launched the Annuity Window to help retiring pension investors get the best deal from their retirement income.

clock 21 August 2013 •

Investment

"SSAS Approved" whatever next?

Martin Tilley discusses the importance of due diligence in both the SIPP and SSAS world

clock 20 August 2013 •

Income

Flexible drawdown - floundering or flourishing?

Neil MacGillivray discusses the future prospects for flexible drawdown

clock 20 August 2013 •

Investment

Auto-enrolment: Who is left out in the cold?

Helen Morrissey looks at who has missed out on AE and what can be done to reach them

clock 08 August 2013 •