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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

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Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's roundup of the top pension stories.

clock 21 September 2011 •

Pensions

Ten due diligence hurdles your SIPP provider must clear

Advisers need to be sure they are entrusting their clients' SIPP funds to the right partners. Andy Leggett says there are some important questions to ask and there need to be convincing, evidenced reasons before any boxes are ticked.

clock 14 September 2011 •

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Three things we learned this week

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

clock 14 September 2011 •

Investment

RP poll: should state pension age be increased more quickly?

This week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll asks: Do you believe the DWP should accelerate the increase in State Pension Age to age 67?

clock 14 September 2011 •

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Downsizing home may not be best option for over 55s

Downsizing to release equity from the home many not be the best option for the UK's over 55s according to trade body SHIP.

clock 07 September 2011 •

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Three things we learned this week

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

clock 06 September 2011 •

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Falling annuity rates bigger risk to retirees than market volatility

Falling annuity rates could prove a greater long term risk than stock market volatility warns Key Retirement Solutions.

clock 06 September 2011 •

Investment

Three things we learned this week

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

clock 31 August 2011 •

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Top tips on trusts and pensions

Andy Zanelli highlights the top 10 questions about pensions and trusts

clock 31 August 2011 •

Investment

Three things we learned this week

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

clock 24 August 2011 •