David Cumming joined Newton as Head of UK Equities in March 2022. David manages the BNY Mellon UK Income Fund with Tim Lucas, and heads up our UK equity investment team, working with Louise Kernohan and Georgina Cooper who run our UK Equity and Sustainable UK Opportunities strategies. David has been an active UK equity manager for more than 35 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.
