Tom Winnifrith

Thomas John Zacchaeus Winnifrith (born January 1968) is a former British journalist, share tipster and former fund manager.

Early life

Tom Winnifrith was born in 1968[1] He studied PPE at the University of Oxford (1987–90), graduating with a lower second degree.[2]

Career

Tom Winnifrith is the founder and editor[3] of the website Shareprophets.com. He was at one stage chief executive and founder[4] of former ISDX listed Rivington Street Holdings (RSH)[5][6] before stepping down in 2011.[7][8]

He has formerly worked as a financial journalist for Investors Chronicle and the London Evening Standard. Winnifrith was the resident investment expert on the Channel 4 game show Show Me The Money.[8]

Controversy

Winnifrith was expelled from the Liberal Democrat Party by Paddy Ashdown in 1993 for allegedly "pandering to racism". He was subject to an investigation by Metropolitan Police Service at the request of the Attorney General at the time, Sir Nicholas Lyell, and then Shadow Cabinet Minister Jack Straw, which found no wrongdoing.[9]

In September 2017, Winnifrith authored an article that claimed that the FCA would not be shutting down Beaufort Securities.[10] In March 2018, Beaufort Securities was shut down, declared insolvent, and charged with fraud, following a joint FCA, FBI, SEC and DOJ investigation.[11][12][13][14][15]

His time as CEO of Rivington Street Holdings (RSH) has also come under criticism, including accusations of multiple compliance failures while running a regulated company and acting "ultra vires", attempting to sell an FSA regulated entity without the approval of the RSH board [16]

Personal life

Tom is married to Ranji Devadason,[17] sociology lecturer at Keele University.[18] The journalist and author Christopher Booker was his uncle.[19][20] Winnifrith’s mother committed suicide in 1976.[21]

References

  1. ^ MR THOMAS JOHN ZACCHAEUS WINNIFRITH. Companies in the U.K. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. ^ tom winnifrith. LinkedIn. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Woodford Internet Nemesis Claims Vindication" Nishant Kumar, Bloomberg, 8 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Real Man Tom slices up his empire in tasty pizza sell-off." Anna White, The Telegraph, 2 May 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  5. ^ https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/rivington-street-holdings-(uk)%7CCompanies in the UK
  6. ^ "Hero-to-zero RSH may have done too much, too soon." Derek Pain, The Independent, 2 June 2012.
  7. ^ Comeback for Peter Webb as T1PS review prompts Winnifrith exit. Gavin Lumsden, citywiremoney, 29 May 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Tom Winnifrith quits". IOM Today, 11 July 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Lib Dems accused of 'whitewash' over racism expulsions". The Independent. 18 December 1993. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Beaufort Securities - alarming email? Panic not the FCA is not shutting it down". Shareprophets.com. 9 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Beaufort Securities charged with fraud by US prosecutors". Citywire.co.uk. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018
  12. ^ "Six Individuals And Four Corporate Defendants Indicted In $50 Million International Securities Fraud And Money Laundering Schemes" Justice.gov. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018
  13. ^ "FCA kept Beaufort Securities alive for FBI fraud probe" Citywire.co.uk. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018
  14. ^ "SEC Charges U.K. Brokerage Firm, Investment Manager, CEO, and Others for Manipulative Trading in U.S. Microcap Stocks" sec.gov, 16 March 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018
  15. ^ "Share pumping and Picassos: $50m scam that killed a London brokerage" ft.com. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018
  16. ^ "Rivington Street Holdings – Bedroom Fantasy to Corporate Catastrophe". https://sharetipstersuncovered.wordpress.com/. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Why i am voting Labour". shareprophets.com, 3 May 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2018
  18. ^ "Ranji Devadason".
  19. ^ "Christopher Booker on My Grandfather". tomwinnifrith.com, 18 August 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2018
  20. ^ "Christopher Booker – The Thatcher I knew, nearly always right in the end". uk.advfn.com, 28 April 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2018
  21. ^ "The deaths of my mother and aunt". tomwinnifrith.com, 23 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2018