Anthony Bolton was born in 1950. He graduated from Cambridge with a degree in engineering and business studies, going on to work at Keyser Ullman, then Schlesinger Investment Management, before being recruited in 1979 by a former colleague to manage Fidelity's Special Situations Fund. He ran the fund for 28 years, stepping down in 2007.
He wrote Investing Against The Tide: Lessons From A Life Running Money during a brief retirement period, before coming back to run the Fidelity China Special Situations fund in 2010. In 2014 he retired again, and now has a part-time role mentoring other investment managers.
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