Read? Greatest Traders vs. Greatest Investors??? (Refresh) Read? John Paulson, Winner in 2008 Crisis, Latest to Quit Hedge Funds CW8888 : Peter Lynch has played his end game very well! Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944)[1] is an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund[2] at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return,[3] consistently more than doubling the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world.[4][5] During his 13 year tenure, assets under management increased from $18 million to $14 billion.[6] He also co-authored a number of books and papers on investing and coined a number of well known mantras of modern individual investing strategies, such as Invest in what you know and ten bagger. Lynch is consistently described as a "legend" by the financial media for his performance record,[6][7] and was called "legendary" by Jason Zweig in his 2003 update of...