Anthony Bolton

Anthony Bolton (born 7 March 1950) is a British investment fund manager. He has managed the Fidelity Investments Special Situations fund since 1979. During this period the fund achieved annualised growth of 20.3%, in excess of the 7.7% growth of the wider stock exchange. cite web
url=http://www.moneyweek.com/file/19277/how-anthony-bolton-finds-winners.html
title=How Anthony Bolton finds winners
publisher=Money Week]

Educated at Cambridge University, Bolton left with a degree in engineering. He pursued a career in the city where, age 29, he was recruited by Fidelity as one of their first London based investment managers. [cite web
title = Anthony Bolton
work = Authors
publisher = Harriman House
url = http://www.harriman-house.com/pages/authors.htm?Index=3705&Author=Anthony_Bolton]

In November 1985, he also took on the management of the new Fidelity European Fund until December 2002. During his management the fund grew at an annualised 19.1%.

In 2006 his Special Situations Fund was split, [cite web
url = http://www.fidelity.co.uk/direct/select/fidelity/uk/neweradawns.html
title = Fidelity Special Situations - A new era dawns
publisher = Fidelity Investments] as the success of the fund had brought in so much money from investors, and had become the UK's largest fund, that it was feared that the fund was too big to manage successfully. The funds were split into UK and Global Special Situations funds, with the Global fund passed onto another manager and the UK fund continuing under Bolton's stewardship until his retirement at the end of 2007. [cite web
url = http://www.independent-investor.com/stories/Farewell_to_Bolton_438.aspx
title = Farewell to the Harry Potter of investment
publisher=Independent Investor
date = 2006-07-30]

With Bolton's retirement, many have questioned [cite web
url = http://money.scotsman.com/scotsman/articles/articledisplay.jsp?section=Savings&article_id=2951551
title = Check out special situations funds
publisher = The Scotsman
date = 2006-04-27] whether the fund can continue to outperform the market in future. Anthony Bolton will be replaced by Sanjeev Shah as the manager of the UK Special Situations Fund in early 2008.

With Bolton's retirement, his former funds suffered amongst the worst redemptions in 2007, with the Special Situations fund shedding £335m and Global Special Situations losing £508m. [cite web
url=http://www.bestinvest.co.uk/news/fmpro?-db=web_comment.fp5&-format=article.htm&subject=commentary&-lay=article&searchcode=The2007&-find
title = The Most Dumped Funds of 2008
publisher = bestinvest
date = 2008-01-24]

In his spare time he relaxes by writing music and cites Benjamin Britten as his biggest influence. He is a keen traveller and has a holiday home in Antigua. cite news
title = Business big shot: Anthony Bolton
publisher = The Times
date = 15 December 2007
url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3054303.ece]

He lives in Midhurst, West Sussex and has three children.

Bibliography

*cite book
last = Bolton
first = Anthony
coauthors = Davis, Jonathan
title = Investing with Anthony Bolton
publisher = Harriman House
edition = 2nd
date = 1 November 2006
location = Petersfield, Hampshire
url = http://www.harriman-house.com/pages/book.htm?BookCode=23867
isbn = 9781905641116

References

External links

*cite web
title = Why Anthony Bolton is Bearish Again
publisher = Independent Investor
date = 26 December 2006
url = http://www.independent-investor.com/stories/Bear_market_525.aspx
*cite news
last = Bolton
first = Anthony
title = How far will the credit crunch go?
date = 2 January 2008
publisher = Daily Mail
url = http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=428734&in_page_id=3
*cite news
last = Hosking
first = Patrick
title = Former Fidelity guru changes tack to back banks
publisher = The Times
date = 14 May 2008
url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3926856.ece
*cite web
last = Bolton
first = Anthony
title = Fidelity's Anthony Bolton speaks out
publisher = Hargreaves Lansdown
date = 2008-06-13
url = http://www.h-l.co.uk/news_and_expert_views/feature_articles/articles/061/rq/article.hl?theSource=E0600&Override=1
*cite news
last = Bolton
first = Anthony
title = What investors must look for in captains of industry
publisher = Financial Times
date = 2008-07-05
url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ac50ff6c-4a2c-11dd-891a-000077b07658.html
*cite news
last = Farrow
first = Paul
title = Anthony Bolton is expecting many more rights issues and company failures
publisher = The Daily Telegraph
date = 2008-07-11
url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/10/cmbolton110.xml

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SHORT DESCRIPTION = One of the UK's most successful investment fund managers, managing the Fidelity (UK) Special Situations fund since 1979.
DATE OF BIRTH = 7 March 1950
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