The team : Bruce Mcness

Bruce has worked in pensions since 1979. For 10 years he was an investment manager responsible for the bond and property portfolios of Reed International's pension schemes. In 1989 he became a professional pension scheme trustee, firstly with Law Debenture and, from July 2006, with BESTrustees.

Bruce has wide-ranging experience as a trustee of all types of occupational pension scheme and of the issues they face (including investment, funding, governance and risk reviews, mergers, benefit changes, Clearance Notices and Assessment Periods). He has acted as trustee of large and small schemes throughout the British Isles and has direct experience of working with all the principal suppliers of services to pension schemes. Bruce has carried out special assignments to neutralise conflicts of interest and has worked with management, member and pensioner trustees to achieve and maintain best practice in a field that has been subject to considerable change.

Bruce is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and an Associate of the Society of Investment Analysts. He has spoken and published articles on investment and governance issues.