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Our People

The organisation fosters a close-knit environment. The ethos of the firm is to have open and constructive communication, active acceptance of responsibility and ownership, and a delivery culture.

The strong long-term fund performance bears out this strategy and has proven the success of this model.

Bob Brown Chairman

Since leaving the University of Durham with a degree in Politics, Psychology and Economics, Bob has worked in investment management for over thirty-five years. After eleven years with Phillips & Drew he joined DRG in 1980 and took the investment management of the DRG Pension Fund in-house. With his fellow directors he set up RCBIM in May 1990. He is an Affiliate of the Society of Investment Professionals and a past Secretary of the Western Group of the National Association of Pension Funds. Bob makes strategic investment decisions and designs portfolios to clients' individual requirements.

Alan Beaney Investment Director

Alan has more than 25 years experience in the investment industry. He started as a property analyst at Phillips & Drew before moving into investment management with ICI Pension. Since then he has held a number of senior positions with firms such as Lloyds Investment Management and Investec Guinnness Flight. Prior to joining RC Brown he was Head of Investment for Principal Investment Management and during his nine years there oversaw a dramatic increase in both the profitability and size of the business.

Alan Comer Managing Director

Alan has more than forty years' experience in investment administration and management. From Manchester stockbrokers Henry Cooke Lumsden he moved to the Greater Manchester Council and helped set up their Superannuation Fund. He joined DRG in 1982 to take their investment administration in-house. Alan's experience covers all major areas - UK and overseas equities, property, fixed interest, cash management, and stock lending systems and procedures. Alan runs RCBIM.

Oliver Brown Investment Manager

Oliver joined RCBIM in 2006 after training as a chartered accountant with Grant Thornton, working on a number of listed clients in a variety of sectors, developing specialisms in the construction, leisure and IT industries. Prior to this, Oliver graduated from Birmingham University with a degree in Money, Banking and Finance.

Lindsey Jones Compliance Director

Lindsey has over twenty years' experience in financial services, including periods with Scottish Amicable, the John Laing Occupational Pension Scheme, a City IFA and Rea Brothers private bank. Lindsey progressively specialised in compliance as this side of the industry developed, before taking on a full-time compliance role with RCBIM in 2002. Lindsey has since been awarded the Diploma in Investment Compliance and is a member of the Securities and Investment Institute.

  • The team has an open collegiate approach to investment management that is driven by communication, analysis and understanding. Regular meetings are undertaken with investee companies and decisions are supplemented with our own research and analysis rather than solely relying on published research.
  • The support team offers a bespoke and high-quality service headed by the Managing Director and Compliance Director.