Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch

Formal First Name
Peter
Dates
1944 - present

Retired at age 46, Peter Lynch is one of the most victorious and celebrated investors of all time. He is the lauded former manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund. Lynch's investment style has been labeled as adaptive to the predominating economic environment at the time, but Lynch always stressed that one should be able to understand what he owns.

  • Lynch is credited with inventing the price-to-earnings-growth (PEG) ratio.


From 1977 to 1990, Lynch managed Fidelity's Magellan Fund and generated 29.2% CAGR returns.