Helena Morrissey's five-year plan for Newton

‘Newton is not a one-trick pony’

Newton's chief executive Helena Morrissey talks to Anna Fedorova about her five-year plan for the business, her product development focus, and her successful campaign for female representation in business.

Since becoming chief executive of Newton Investment Management in 2001, Helena Morrissey has turned the business around from a struggling asset manager to a firm that runs some of the largest and most popular mandates in the UK market. She has also been appointed the first chairman of the new organisation arising from the merger of the Association of British Insurers (ABI)'s investment affairs division and the Investment Management Association.  When she joined Newton, the group had £20bn in assets, but the figured doubled by 2009, despite the impact of the financial crisis on growth....