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

Early life

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

Career

Tom Winnifrith is the founder and

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Nishant Kumar, '' Bloomberg'', 8 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019. of the website Shareprophets.com. He was at one stage chief executive and founder"Real Man Tom slices up his empire in tasty pizza sell-off."
Anna White, '' The Telegraph'', 2 May 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2015. of former ISDX listed Rivington Street Holdings (RSH) before stepping down in 2011. He has formerly worked as a financial journalist for ''

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'' and the '' London Evening Standard''. Winnifrith was the resident investment expert on the Channel 4 game show '' Show Me The Money''."Tom Winnifrith quits".
IOM Today, 11 July 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

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

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at the request of the

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at the time, Sir Nicholas Lyell, and then Shadow Cabinet Minister Jack Straw, which found no wrongdoing. In September 2017, Winnifrith authored an article that claimed that the

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would not be shutting down Beaufort Securities. In March 2018, Beaufort Securities was shut down, declared insolvent, and charged with fraud, following a joint

, FBI, SEC and DOJ investigation. 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

Personal life

Tom is married to Ranji Devadason. The journalist and author Christopher Booker was his uncle. Winnifrith’s mother committed suicide in 1976. Tom is a friend of Kelvin Mackenzie and considers him to be his journalistic hero."The false lesbianisation of our history is just getting boring from Queen Anne to Mary Anning".
shareprophets.com, 20 September 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2021

References

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