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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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RP Inquiry: The future for SIPP and SSAS

Helen Morrissey takes a look at the results of the latest Retirement Planner Inquiry into the future of the SIPP and SSAS markets.

clock 24 August 2011 • 7 min read

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Three things we learned this week

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

clock 17 August 2011 •

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Is large scale SIPP consolidation looming?

Helen Morrissey looks at whether recent reports mean large scale SIPP provider consolidation is on its way.

clock 17 August 2011 •

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What you need to know about fixed protection

As the lifetime allowance reduces to £1.5m advisers can apply for fixed protection for clients with pension pots likely to breach this amount. Matthew Stephens goes through the process

clock 17 August 2011 •

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Quick poll: auto-enrolment

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: Should smaller employers be given more time to prepare for auto-enrolment?

clock 10 August 2011 •

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Three things we learned today

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

clock 10 August 2011 •

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Flexible drawdown: Ten things you need to know

The government has altered the legislation applying to the drawdown of pension funds. Here are ten things to bear in mind...

clock 10 August 2011 •

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Quick poll: What do you make of the McFall report?

Retirement Planner's quick-fire poll this week asks: Do you believe in Lord McFall's assertion that charging structures on pension schemes are unreasonably high and "too opaque", rendering saving ineffective?

clock 03 August 2011 •

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Lifetime allowance cut: Ten things you need to know

Axa Wealth's Andy Zanelli on ten key facts advisers should know about the forthcoming reduction to the lifetime allowance...

clock 29 July 2011 •

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Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's round up of the week's key pension stories

clock 27 July 2011 •