安东尼·波顿是富达国际公司总裁，在业界素有“欧洲的彼得·林奇”、“欧洲股神”之称，也是富达集团能与彼得·林奇比肩的另一位投资大师。安东尼·波顿出生于1950年3月7日，毕业于英国剑桥大学，获工程及商业研究荣誉硕士学位。毕业后，安东尼·波顿任职于一家小型商业银行，6年的投资分析师生涯使他开始形成自己的偏好。1976年，他进入Schlesinger’s资产投资管理公司，其后升任基金经理开始独立管理基金。1979年是安东尼·波顿人生的重要时刻，29岁的他加入富达，成为富达在伦敦的开拓者，从此开始叱咤30年的投资生涯。1979年底，他开始执掌富达特殊情况基金，期间经历了1987年的股市大崩盘、1991年的海湾战争、2000年的科网泡沫破灭、2001年的911事件，到2007年底退休为止，安东尼·波顿以著名的“逆向投资”创造了20％的年复合收益率，也就是说，短短28年间，这只初始资金仅为1000英镑的基金规模暴增了147倍，绩效排名第一。2007年底，安东尼·波顿功成身退，转而负责指导富达的年轻基金经理和分析师，同时监控富达的投资管理程序。安东尼·波顿在投资选股之余，最爱的就是创作古典音乐。在28年中，他与家人一直生活在英国西萨塞克斯郡，每天坚持搭乘火车前往伦敦。这位优雅的绅士就坐在火车上翻阅每日必读的报刊和资料。 目前，安东尼·波顿对中国表示出浓厚的投资兴趣。

This authoritative and accessible investment classic promises rare insight into what it really takes to run money in a top-performing investment fund. Anthony Bolton, the UK's most successful stock market investor, tells the story of his contrarian approach to managing money. He provides invaluable lessons on the factors that really matter in picking a stock: the need to identify good managers, how to run a portfolio, the importance of value investing, reading charts and how to trade successfully. It's not easy to continually buy low and sell high. This book gives clear directions for doing well in the stock market, and doing well consistently. Investing Against the Tide shows you how to make the right decisions at the right time. Anthony Bolton is considered the UK's most successful stock market investor and fund manager. Over twenty five years he delivered a market-beating return of 20% in his Fidelity Special Situations Fund. How did he do it, and what can you learn from him? In Investing Against the Tide, Anthony Bolton tells the story of his contrarian approach to managing money.He provides invaluable lessons on the factors that really matter when investing: how to pick a stock, the need to identify good managers, how to run a portfolio, the importance of value investing, reading charts and how to trade successfully. In this account of financial accomplishment, Bolton reveals the secrets of his success. It's not easy constantly to buy low and sell high and this book gives clear directions for doing well in the stock market, and doing well consistently. Chapter by chapter Investing Against the Tide shows you how to make the right decisions at the right time and featured key lessons show you how you really can learn from a life running money. Investing Against the Tideis an authoritative guide for investment professionals, offering them a rare insight into what it really takes to run money in a top-performing fund, as well as providing amateur investors the chance to learn the stock-picking strategies from a leading money-manager. About the author Anthony Bolton left Cambridge University with a degree in engineering to begin a career in the City.He started as a graduate trainee working for Keyser Ullmann in 1971 before taking up a full time position as an assistant in their investment department. In 1976 he moved to Schlesingers where he became, for the first time, an investment manager. In 1979, aged 29, he was recruited by Fidelity, the international fund management group, as one of its first London-based investment managers, a move that proved to be the launch of a long and successful career. In surveys of professional investors, he is regularly voted the fund manager most respected by his peers. He retired from full-time investment management at the end of 2007, but continues to work at Fidelity as a mentor of the analysts and younger fund managers as well as being involved in overseeing Fidelity's investment process. His hobby is composing classical music. Anthony Bolton is married with three children and lives in West Sussex.