David Cumming joined Newton as head of UK equities in March 2022. David heads up our UK equity strategies and is lead portfolio manager of the UK Equity Income strategy.
- Joined industry
- 1983
- Joined the Group
- 2022
Strategy focus
David has been an active UK equity manager for more than 40 years. He was most recently Chief Investment Officer of Equities at Aviva Investors. Before that, he was Head of Equities at Standard Life Investments, and prior to that was a portfolio manager at Morgan Grenfell, Manufacturers Life and Edinburgh Fund Managers, having begun his career as an investment analyst at Royal London Mutual.
He has an MA (Hons) in Economics and Accounting.