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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

Income

How Solvency II will affect the annuity market

Andrew Tully discusses the potential impact of Solvency II

clock 22 June 2011 •

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Quick poll: How would you improve the equity release market?

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: How would you improve the equity release market?

clock 15 June 2011 • 1 min read

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Three things we learned this week

Retirement Planner's round-up of this week's key news stories...

clock 15 June 2011 •

Equity Release

Partnership launches impaired life equity release product

Partnership has launched an equity release product offering better rates for those suffering from conditions such as diabetes or cancer.

clock 15 June 2011 •

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RP re-cap: The week's key stories

Yet more gloomy news for the nation's savers...

clock 08 June 2011 •

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Poll: Do you plan to advise on QROPs?

In the first of our weekly quick-fire polls, Retirement Planner asks: Do you plan to advise clients on QROPs?

clock 07 June 2011 •

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How pension reform gives clients more options

Retirement Planner speaks to Andrew Tully about how recent reform is changing how people view their pensions.

clock 07 June 2011 •

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Annuity innovation needed to meet market needs

While lifetime annuities remain the most popular at-retirement product further innovation is needed to meet the needs of the market according to the Xafinity Annuity Industry Study.

clock 31 May 2011 •

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At-Retirement: Increasing choice

In this month's Inquiry, Helen Morrissey assesses the results of our survey on the ­ at-retirement market and asks how the advent of flexible drawdown will affect the market

clock 24 May 2011 •

Investment

A question of timing

The new drawdown regime means clients can stay in drawdown indefinitely. However, Helen Morrissey says that clients could actually lose out on income by not annuitising at the right time

clock 24 May 2011 •