In his first interview since leaving Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in October, former senior investment manager in the firm's real estate team Calum Bruce talks to Financial News about the decision to leave and his aims for his new role as investment director at Ediston Real Estate.

What triggered your departure from Swip? I had been looking to move on from Swip for a wee while. I had been at Swip for nine years and I was looking for something that was outside of the institutional world but there wasn't that many opportunities.