Sunday, September 27, 2009

Best & Worst Positions from Anthony Bolton's Portfolio/Funds


In my previous blog, i listed some advices from Anthony Bolton who worked as fund manager at London, Fidelity for decades. In this blog, i list some of his best and worst bets between 2000 and 2007. I think, these example bets from his portfolio will be useful to understand dynamics of long term investments.


Year

Best

Worst

2000

Autonomy

Merrant

Celltech

British-Borne Oil

Safeway

Compel

Johnson Matthey

Scotia Holdings

Ellis & Everard

Albert Fisher

Gallaher Group

Allied Leisure

Bank Of Ireland

Cookson Group

Wembley

Enodis

Iceland Group

Reed international

2001

ICAP

Railtrack

London Stock Exchange

Carlton Communications

Arcadia

Iceland Group

Inchcape

Novar

Balfour Beatty

Enodis

Safeway

Elementis

George Wimpey

4 Imprint Group

De Beers

SVB Holdings

Gallaher

British Airways

Carillion

Laird Group

2002

Credit Lyonnais

British Energy

Harmony Gold

Cable & Wireless

Galleger Group

SSL Intl

Amlin

Big Food Group

Enterprise Oil

Bulmer HP

MMO2

Cadiz Inc

Bank of Ireland

Royal & Sun Alliance

SOCO international

Carlton Communications

George Wimpey

Oxford Glycosciences

Kiln

Cookson Group

2003

Cable & Wireless

Goshawk Insurance

Big Food group

SOCO Intl

WS Atkins

Tullow Oil

NTL

Kiln

Carlton Communications

Hiscox

William Hill

Wellington U/W

MMO2

Management Consultancy

Mothercare

Beazley Group

Somerfield

De la Rue

Body Shop

Tenon

2004

Cairn Energy

ITV

MMO2

Rank Group

Celltech

Proteome Sciences

London Stock Exchange

BG Group

Carlton Communications

Big Food Group

First Calgary Peteroleum

Aquarius Platinum

Pendragon

Royal & Sun Alliances

Allied Irish Banks

Reuters

Orkla

Shire

Land Securities

NTL

2005

Cairn Energy

GCAP Media

BG Group

ITV

Statoil

William Hill

Amlin

Marconi Corp

British Energy

London Stock Exchange

Roche

NTL

Standard Chartered

Provident Financial

C&C Energy

SMG

P&O Nedlloyd

Minerva

SOCO Intl

Asia Energy

2006

ITV

Sportingbet

Microfocus

Isoft

British Land

Rank Group

Mecom

GCAP Media

Expro International

BSkyB

Shire

Reed Elsevier

BG Group

Highland Gold

Amlin

888 Holdings

Astra Zeneca

SMG

British Energy

Asia Energy

2007

Bayer

Premier Foods

BG Group

Rank Group

Electrcie de France

GCAP Media

Nokia

Premier Farnell

Reuters

SMG

J Sainsbury

BP

Reed Elsevier

British Land

Xansa

Johnson Services Group

Statoil Hydro

Erinaceous Group

Vodafone

ITV

Summary

2000-2007

Autonomy

Sportingbet

ICAP

Rank Group

Gallaher Group

ITV

Cairn Energy

GCAP Media

MMO2

SMG

Amlin

Premier Foods

Balfour Beatty

Isoft

George Wimpey

Cookson Group

BG Group

SSL Intl

Safeway

British-Borneo Oil & Gas


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