An interlude that is music to Anthony Bolton's ears
He's said to have outperformed Warren Buffett, but life isn't all about investing for this fund manager - his free time is spent writing music
Stay away from emotional fund managers. That's the advice Anthony Bolton has been quoted as giving over the years. And as he sits in the conference room of Fidelity Investments' office here, wearing a dark navy pinstripe suit and a gold ring bearing his family crest - a hand holding a dagger - he looks every bit the cool, calm fund manager.
Bolton moved to Hong Kong in 2010 to manage Fidelity's China Special Situations Fund.
The 62-year-old is known for his investing prowess - as London-based manager of Fidelity UK's Special Situations Fund from 1979 to 2007, he's said to have outperformed the likes of Warren Buffett. Investors who put £1,000 (HK$11,800) into the fund in 1979 would have ended up with £147,000 in 2007.
Bolton puts his success down to being unemotional and a contrarian investor. In interviews with the financial press, he is often described as unflappable. But put him in an opera house or classical concert hall and he checks that part of him at the door with his coat.
"[Music] gets right to the inside of you, does something to the chemical nature of us that moves us - sometimes to tears," he said last week.
"Why should sound going to my mind cause this emotional effect? But it does."