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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

Law and Regulation

Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) reconciliations - is it Groundhog Day?

Geraldine Brassett asks whether we are seeing Groundhog Day or déjà vu with GMP reconciliations.

clock 13 January 2017 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

Pension scheme deficits - a problem with no solution?

Claire Southern thinks we need a new way of addressing defined benefit deficits

clock 11 January 2017 • 4 min read

Defined Contribution

Schemes need to understand their members better

Catherine Howarth says schemes need to explore different avenues to help members take ownership of retirement saving.

clock 10 January 2017 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

We need an end to plumbers' plight.

Helen Morrissey hopes to see a speedy resolution to issues within the industry-wide plumbing scheme.

clock 09 January 2017 • 1 min read

Investment

Investors should focus on risk assets in current environment

Improved prospects for growth and inflation mean investors should look to invest more in risk assets according to Schroders.

clock 05 January 2017 • 1 min read

Industry

New Year Resolutions for the pensions industry

As we crack on with our New Year resolutions John Walbaum asks what the pensions industry should focus on if it is to remain fit for purpose.

clock 04 January 2017 • 3 min read

Admin / Technology

What the Nordics can teach us about pension dashboards

David Harris says we can learn a lot from the Nordics when it comes to developing pension dashboards.

clock 04 January 2017 • 4 min read

Investment

ESG principles enhance portfolio risk and return profiles

Asha Mehta bursts some myths around ESG.

clock 04 January 2017 • 4 min read

Defined Benefit

Transfer heaven or transfer hell?

Henry Tapper discusses the highs and lows of DB transfers.

clock 04 January 2017 • 3 min read

Industry

What happened in pensions in 2016: Part Four

In the fourth and final part of our pensions timeline PP Online looks at what happened in pensions between October and December.

clock 30 December 2016 • 2 min read
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