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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

Pensions

The cost of delay

Helen Morrissey asks whether providers will be ready for the introduction of flexible drawdown in April and asks why other providers prefer to delay until later in the year

clock 30 March 2011 •

Investment

Changing behaviour

Helen Morrissey talks to Partnership's managing director of retirement Andrew Megson about the firm's recent win at the Professional Adviser Awards

clock 30 March 2011 •

Investment

Preparing for change

Dennis Hall talks to Helen Morrissey about the challenges currently facing advisers operating in the retirement planning market

clock 30 March 2011 •

Pensions

DWP and Treasury mull further tax relief restrictions to fund Citizen's Pension

The DWP and Treasury are considering proposals to further restrict pension tax relief to fund the proposed Universal State Pension, a leading academic says.

clock 09 March 2011 •

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Changing times call for different measures

The results of the latest Retirement Planner Inquiry, into how recent reform will affect the annuity market, are in - Helen Morrissey goes through them

clock 17 February 2011 •

Income

The Big Interview: Vince Smith-Hughes

This month, Vince Smith-Hughes talks to Helen Morrissey about the role asset-backed annuities can play in a retirement planning portfolio

clock 17 February 2011 •

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Make your retirement income work harder

Helen Morrissey looks at how asset-backed annuities can help retirees meet the challenges of longevity and inflation

clock 17 February 2011 •

Technology

The Big Interview: Julie Lord

More than a decade ago, Bluefin Wealth Management led the way in doing business by using platforms. With technology developing at breakneck speed today, Julie Lord tells Helen Morrissey there is no better time to put them to use in everyday business practice...

clock 17 February 2011 •

RDR

How I'm preparing for RDR: Ian Lowes

Ian Lowes tells Helen Morrissey about his company's preparations for the RDR and voices his concerns about the shift to fees.

clock 17 February 2011 •

Investment

Standard Life offers golden opportunity to SIPP investors

Standard Life SIPP customers can now invest directly in gold bullion. Standard Life has teamed up with GoldMoney, one of the world's largest providers and holders of physical bullion for retail investors to offer the service across its retail and Group...

clock 14 February 2011 •