Tim is a portfolio manager on the UK equities team. Tim joined Newton in 2004, and prior to joining the UK equities team, was a global research analyst specialising in the support services and leisure sectors. Prior to joining Newton, Tim worked as an equity analyst at Insight Investment, covering the chemicals and support services sectors.

Tim has a Master of Chemistry degree from the University of Oxford and is a CFA1 charterholder.

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 the UK equity investment team, working with Louise Kernohan and Georgina Cooper who run the 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.