The world’s greatest investors: Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch spent 13 years running Fidelity’s Magellan fund, making an annualised return of nearly 30%. The fund grew from managing just $18m to $14bn by the time he stepped down.

Dr Matthew Partridge
By Dr Matthew Partridge
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Peter Lynch is best known for his 13-year stint running Fidelity's Magellan fund. Between 1977 and 1990, he made an annualised return of nearly 30% trouncing the return on the S&P 500. The fund grew from managing just $18m to $14bn by the time Lynch stepped down.

What was his strategy?

How did this work in practice?

Is that all there is to it?

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Dr Matthew Partridge

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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