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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

Jumpstart your retirement planning

Tony Stenning looks at why retirees should still be looking to include equities in their retirement planning strategies.

clock 21 February 2012 •

RDR

RDR: What opportunities will it bring?

Steve Lowe looks at the potential opportunities for advisers post RDR

clock 15 February 2012 •

Investment

Discretionary management: Will RDR bring growth?

Mark Hendricks asks what discretionary managers bring to a retirement planning strategy.

clock 08 February 2012 •

Investment

Should we have more time to prepare for fixed protection?

Andy Zanelli asks whether the deadline for fixed protection needs to be amended

clock 08 February 2012 •

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RP poll: Are employers interested in NEST?

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Do you think employers are interested in using low cost pensions such as NEST as part of their pension provision post auto-enrolment?

clock 01 February 2012 •

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Three things we learned this week

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

clock 01 February 2012 •

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Equity release increases lending and sales in 2011

In 2011 the equity release market enjoyed the first annual rise in both total lending and plan sales since 2007 according to Key Retirement Solutions.

clock 23 January 2012 •

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Estate Planning: Regular Gifts out of Income

There is a way to increase the amount you can give away each year without incurring a potential inheritance tax liability: Carl Lamb explains how regular gifts out of income can be used for estate planning purposes.

clock 19 January 2012 •

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Protecting your pension

With only a few months to go before people need to register for fixed protection, Adrian Walker says advisers should identify any individuals where this issue could be a key part of retirement planning

clock 18 January 2012 • 5 min read

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Annuity purchase: Timing is key

David Trenner discusses the importance of adopting a phased strategy when moving from income drawdown to annuities.

clock 18 January 2012 •