Mike Bessell is a Managing Director and European Research Strategist at Invesco Real Estate. Mike is responsible for the research products across our European markets. He manages an in-house team of four researchers across Europe.

Mike began his investment career in 2001 and joined Invesco Real Estate in 2007. Prior to joining Invesco Real Estate, Mike worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) for five years, where he was head of real estate equity research for the EMEA region. In this leading role, he and his team published research on listed real estate stocks across the UK, Europe, MENA and South Africa. Before BofAML, Mike was a research analyst covering UK real estate and housebuilders for Investec, having previously been a UK equity fund manager at Standard Life Investments in Edinburgh.

Mike earned a Master of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of St Andrews and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) charterholder. At Invesco Real Estate, Mike is a member of the Fund Strategy Review Committee, the Core Steering Committee and co-chair of the Investment Strategy Group. He is based in the London office.