Stewart Newton

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Stewart Newton is the chairman of Veritas Investment Partners Ltd.

He has huge amounts of experience in investment banking and management having founded Newton Investment Management (now part of Mellon Bank) and worked as a non-executive director at HSBC Holdings Plc.

Career

Newton has worked as a portfolio manager and director at Ivory & Sime (1968-1977), Newton Investment Management (1977-2002), a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings Plc (2002-2008) an investment adviser at Wellcome Trust (2003-2013) and was on the investment board of Cambridge University (2006-2010).

He is currently the chairman and a director of Veritas Investment Partners Ltd and Veritas Asset Management LLP, council member of Imperial College and chairman of the committee advising the council on the Endowment Fund and a director of The Herald Investment Trust plc.[1][2]

Political donations

Recorded by the Electoral Commission:

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
11/06/2001 S W Newton £2,000.00 Conservative Party Bury St Edmunds
26/05/2004 Stewart W Newton £50,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
22/03/2005 Stewart W Newton £5,000.00 Conservative Party Harlow
22/12/2009 Stewart W Newton £12,000.00 Conservative Party Hove
05/11/2009 Stewart W Newton £25,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
12/03/2010 Stewart Newton £5,000.00 Conservative Party Brighton Pavillion
02/04/2010 Stewart Newton £6,000.00 Conservative Party Brighton Pavillion
29/10/2013 Stewart Newton £10,000.00 Mike Weatherley MP
29/10/2013 Stewart Newton £10,000.00 Conservative Party Hove
08/07/2014 Stewart Newton £3,000.00 Conservative Party Lewes

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Notes

  1. Veritas Investment Stewart Newton, accessed 25 February 2015
  2. Bloomberg, Stewart Worth Newton, accessed 25 February 2015
  3. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 25 February 2015