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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

Estate planning

Preparing for taxing times

Gerry Brown discusses the benefits of IHT planning

clock 27 April 2011 •

Long Term Care

Inquiry: How can we simplify long-term care?

Helen Morrissey asks what needs to be done to simplify the care system.

clock 27 April 2011 •

Long Term Care

Long term care - break the silence

Helen Morrissey looks at the issues people face when it comes to long-term care and asks what can be done to make sure people get the advice they need

clock 27 April 2011 •

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Where now for QROPS?

Ken Wrench discusses how demand for QROPS will evolve following the introduction of capped and flexible drawdown.

clock 26 April 2011 •

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SIPP Conjecture debate: Property, drawdown and the FSA

Leading SIPP experts discuss transparency, possible rule changes and regulatory intervention.

clock 26 April 2011 •

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Could equity release solve our retirement crisis?

The disparity between how much people are saving for retirement and how much they will actually live on is getting wider, says Claire Barker.

clock 26 April 2011 •

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Choosing drawdown options

Andrew Roberts discusses the impact of recent changes to income drawdown

clock 26 April 2011 •

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How the coalition reformed pensions

As we approach the first anniversary of the coalition government, Mike Morrison looks at how it has reformed pensions

clock 26 April 2011 •

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Moret on those new drawdown rules

John Moret discusses the implications of the new drawdown regime, suggesting a more illustrative pensions systems.

clock 26 April 2011 •

Pensions

Keeping up with reform

In this month's Inquiry, we ask readers to give us their views on the SIPP market - Helen Morrissey goes through the results

clock 30 March 2011 •