The last time it hired new talent, Lady Thatcher was enjoying her first year as prime minister and Bob Hoskins was filming classic British gangster movie The Long Good Friday.
In 1979, Fidelity International, which is the name of the company running Fidelitys business outside the US, made its most important hiring decision when it made a little-known fund manager called Anthony Bolton an offer he could not refuse. Bolton went on to become the face of Fidelity in the UK, managing the companys flagship European and Special Situations funds.
Although Bolton surrendered control of the European fund to Tim McCarron, with effect from 1 January this year, his association with ...