Fidelity's Bolton: A new high for the FTSE 100?

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UK stockpicker tips another strong year for equities, fuelled by investors' changing asset allocation strategies.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment’s renowned manager Anthony Bolton has predicted the current upward momentum seen across global equity markets could take the FTSE 100 to a new high this year. The manager (pictured), who made his name investing in UK equities through the Fidelity UK Special Situations fund in the 1980s and 1990s, said he expects 2013 to be another positive year for equity markets as investors build on gains seen in the second half of 2012. “In a low growth, low interest rate environment, investors first went into bonds and they then picked up but now that is going into eq...

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