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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

RP poll: Will 70% stay auto-enrolled?

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Do you agree with the DWP figures that 70% of those being auto-enrolled will remain in a pension scheme?

clock 27 November 2012 •

Investment

Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's round-up of the week's top pension stories

clock 27 November 2012 •

Investment

Is a single tier state pension the way forward?

Andrew Tully assesses what impact a single tier state pension system will have.

clock 27 November 2012 •

Pensions

SIPPS: Has the FSA taken the right approach?

Fiona Murphy asks what the FSA's capital adequacy consultation means for the SIPP industry

clock 27 November 2012 •

Investment

Baroness Greengross secures parliamentary debate on small pension pots

The issue of advising small pension pots is to be debated in the House of Lords on 27 November.

clock 23 November 2012 •

Investment

Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's round up of the top pensions stories this week.

clock 20 November 2012 •

Income

RP Poll: Will Osborne cut the annual allowance?

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Will the Chancellor reduce the annual allowance?

clock 20 November 2012 •

Investment

Will RDR prompt growth in the DFM market?

Dave White looks at the merits of discretionary fund managers and predicts a rise in their star as RDR looms.

clock 20 November 2012 •

Investment

Scottish Widows - women and pensions report 2012

The Scottish Widows Women and Pension Report examines the growing gap between the amount that men and women are saving for retirement.

clock 31 October 2012 •

Income

Income drawdown - the unwritten rules

Stewart Dick explores the unwritten rules surrounding income drawdown and warns that these shouldn't cloud an investor's decision.

clock 24 October 2012 •