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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

Investment

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clock 02 November 2010 •

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Who will benefit most from pension tax changes?

Helen Morrissey takes a look at recent changes to pension tax relief and examines who will be the main beneficiaries.

clock 02 November 2010 •

Investment

Pensions and ISAs - Weighing up the options

Ken Wrench warns over the inherent danger in the current debate around merging ISAs and pensions within retirement legislation

clock 29 September 2010 •

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Redesigning the annual allowance

Colin Batchelor looks at the issues surrounding proposals to amend the annual allowance

clock 29 September 2010 •

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Conjecture: Innovation in retirement income

Retirement Planner's Helen Morrissey recently chaired an online Conjecture debate on income drawdown.

clock 26 August 2010 •

Investment

The significance of segmentation

Helen Morrissey talks to Jeremy Mugridge about the importance of client segmentation

clock 26 August 2010 •

Long Term Care

Long-term progression

Retirement Planner's Helen Morrissey also chaired an online Conjecture debate on long-term care.

clock 26 August 2010 •

Investment

Editor's Comment: Rolling with the waves

The advent of the Coalition government has certainly ushered in frantic times for the pensions industry.

clock 26 August 2010 •

Investment

Finding yourself out of pocket

The recent announcement that pension increases will be linked to CPI rather than RPI could leave future pensioners out of pocket. Helen Morrissey looks at whether this will be the case and asks how the change needs to be managed

clock 26 August 2010 •

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Treasury issues OMO ultimatum to insurers

The coalition government has issued an ultimatum to the Association of British Insurers over its opposition to the open market option, RP understands.

clock 26 August 2010 •