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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

Long Term Care

LTC reform needs to be clear and sustainable

Long term care reform needs to be both clear and sustainable if a funding crisis is to be avoided says Just Retirement.

clock 07 June 2012 •

Pensions

RP Poll: Are SIPP disclosure regulation costs "wildly underestimated"?

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Do you agree with AMPS that SIPP disclosure regulation costs are "wildly underestimated"?

clock 06 June 2012 •

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Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's round up of the latest pension stories.

clock 06 June 2012 •

Equity release

Changing times for equity release

Trade body SHIP is no more. It has rebooted itself as Equity Release Council and unveiled its mission to represent the needs of the entire equity release sector and drive it forward. Fiona Murphy asks new chairman Nigel Waterson about the changes and...

clock 06 June 2012 •

Investment

The Scottish Widows UK Pensions Report 2012

The Scottish Widows UK Pensions Report is based on a recent online survey of 5,200 UK adults by independent research agency YouGov.

clock 31 May 2012 •

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Roundtable Discussion: Understanding retirement

Helen Morrissey talks to a panel of industry experts about the challenges facing the retirement market

clock 24 May 2012 •

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Is income drawdown a ticking timebomb?

Helen Morrissey looks at the difficulties being faced by the income drawdown market and asks whether a mis-selling scandal can be avoided

clock 22 May 2012 •

Investment

McClymont urges removal of NEST restrictions

Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has reiterated his call to remove the restrictions on the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) so it can compete more effectively with its rivals.

clock 16 May 2012 •

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RP Poll: RDR

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Have you told your clients the way they pay for advice will change from the end of 2012?

clock 15 May 2012 •

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Three things we learned this week

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

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