Veteran stock-picker Anthony Bolton's Chinese equity fund has outperformed its benchmark by more than six percentage points over from its launch in April to the end of September, according to its first interim results.

The net asset value of the Fidelity China Special Situations fund has risen 7.7% since the fund was launched on 19 April to 30 September, according to figures just published. Over the same period the MSCI China total return index rose 1.4%.