translate it into Chinese British fund manager sees scope for high profits in China in future years The Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras was the first person to aver that possessing an ability with mathematics was linked with a corresponding natural affinity with music. Today, one of the UK's best known fund managers and successful investors, Anthony Bolton, is a living embodiment of that belief. Bolton, 59, who managed the UK's Fidelity Special Situations fund from December 1979 to December 2007, is coming out of semi-retirement to manage a China fund for Fidelity from Hong Kong for two years from March. By then he hopes to have finished the eighth and final part of an octet for wind and string instruments that he is composing. As anyone familiar with Chinese knows, the number eight is an appropriate figure for someone who likes to take a punt, given that it sounds like the Chinese word "to generate wealth". During his 28 years in charge of Fidelity's Special Situations fund, Bolton earned an annual return of 19.5 percent, compared with 13.5 percent for the London-based FTSE All-Share index. A lump sum investment of 1,000 pounds would have grown to 148,200 pounds over the period under his management. Bolton, an unassuming figure who will "definitely not" be living on the Peak in Hong Kong, the highest part of the island favored by the rich and famous, and who will walk to work, read engineering and business at Trinity College, Cambridge. When he matriculated he was unsure what to do with his life, other than that he would not become an engineer. Despite that exception, he does see value in having studied the discipline.