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Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of $3.3 trillion, including managed assets of $1.5 trillion as of January 31, 2008. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to 24 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the largest mutual fund supermarket and a leading online brokerage firm.
Chief Executive Officer
Edward C. JohnsonNumber of Employees 46,400
Contact Information
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-3605
(800) 581-5800
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Pension Funds: 525110
Recent Events
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ANALYSIS-Market cap gives Fidelity options in transition
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Fund sales stage a recovery
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Fidelity Cutting Fees On All Its '529' Plans
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Fidelity Names Asset Management Czar
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Insider to lead Fidelity's asset management unit
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Former JDA Software Executive Joins Manthan Systems as President, US
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Terry Savage - Don't go sour on global stocks
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Wilens to Assume Fidelity Retirement Unit Post
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Former Fidelity trader liable on insider trading
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Fidelity introduces Roth IRA conversion tool for RIAs, brokers
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Fidelity Launches Own Version of Transition Tool
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Fidelity unveils Roth IRA conversion tool
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Moody's assigns rating to FMR notes
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Fidelity hires ex-Schwab exec for RIA business
News & Analysis
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Retirement Calculator Report Card: Are You Saving Enough?
We put that question to the six top online retirement calculators and got six different answers. Here's how to use them to get the right answer. ...
Fidelity Investments Reports Nearly Half of 61 Year-Olds Plan to Start Taking Social Security as Soon as Eligible
Financial Needs and Health Concerns Cited As Top Factors in Decision to Begin Receiving Benefits at Age 62 BOSTON -- In a new survey1 released today, Fidelity Investments reports that nearly half (45%) of Americans age 61 today are planning to begin taking Social Security at the age of...
Fitch Rates Fidelity Colchester Street Trust: Government Portfolio 'AAA/V1+'
NEW YORK -- Fitch assigns a rating of 'AAA/V1+' to the Fidelity Colchester Street Trust: Government Portfolio, marketed under the name Fidelity Institutional Money Market: Government Portfolio. The assigned ratings denote the lowest expectation of credit and market risks. The portfolio's capacity to meet its objectives is highly unlikely to...
Providers revamp investment options and communication in light of 403(b) changes
As traditional pension plans are increasingly being replaced by defined contribution plans, retirement income plan providers will need to adjust their tactics in order to keep up with the ever-changing retirement landscape. "Most people don't realize they're responsible for their own retirement," says Dennis Ackley, president of Ackley Associates,...
FundsNetwork calls on UK chancellor to put higher limit on tax-free investment.
The Isa changes announced in this month's Budget do not go far enough, Fidelity FundsNetwork has said.. Oliver Good The annual tax-free investment limit should have been raised from GBP7000 to GBP10,000, instead of the modest GBP200 increase announced, the platform argued. ...
Companies Should Act to Mitigate Cost of 2012 Personal Accounts, Says Fidelity International.
LONDON, November 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - Leading Asset Management Firm Fidelity International Advise That Companies With Auto Enrolment Applied to Defined Contribution Pension Schemes Will be Less Impacted by the Government's Introduction of 2012 Personal Accounts. The Government's introduction of Personal...
Holding out for personal accounts 'will be costly'.
Waiting until the introduction of personal accounts in 2012 could leave people as much as AGBP116,000 out of pocket, Fidelity has calculated. Fidelity International made its calculations to highlight concerns that people will wait until personal accounts are introduced before they...
Protesters target Fidelity over Sudan.(Short Interests)
Byline: Kathie O'Donnell BOSTON - Protesters - some with signs asking, "Is your Fidelity 401k funding genocide?'' - gathered near City Hall here April 29 to protest the mutual fund company's investment ties to Sudan. ...
Nationwide Exchange Services Increases Fidelity Bond to 55 Million Dollars
Provider of Industry-Leading, Comprehensive 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchange Products SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Nationwide Exchange Services NES, one of the country's leading Qualified Intermediaries, in response to significant growth in large exchange transaction activity, today announces that is has increased its fidelity bond to $55 million per exchange transaction. Fidelity...
Media blitz to force Sudan divestment launched
WASHINGTON AFP — Activists including US actress Mia Farrow launched on Tuesday a campaign to force Fidelity and Berkshire Hathaway to withdraw investments from Sudan over a humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Farrow said she urged Fidelity Investments to divest, but the company took no responsibility for the mass killings...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Edward C. Johnson | Chief Executive Officer |
| Abigail P. Johnson | President, Fidelity Employer Services Company |
| Charles G. Goldman | President, Institutional Platforms |
| Christopher Sullivan | President, Bond Group |
| Ed Orazem | President, Fidelity Family Office Services |
| Marvin W. Adams | President, Fidelity Shared Services |
| Michael Durbin | President, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services |
| Peter Cieszko | President, Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Co. |
| Peter J. Smail | President, Fidelity Institutional Asset Management Group |
| Rodger A. Lawson | President |
| Dan Petrozzo | Chief Information Officer |
| Jacques Perold | Chief Operating Officer, Asset Management |
| Laura Cronin | CFO & Executive Vice President |
| Ronald E. DePoalo | Chief Information Officer, Fidelity Institutional Products Group |
| Guy L. Patton | Executive Vice President, HR |
| Joseph A. Giordano | Executive Vice President, Relationship Management, Institutional Wealth Services |
| David B. Jones | Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Communications |
| Eric Schoen | Senior Vice President, Business Development |
| Jacqueline Shoback | Senior Vice President, Segment Market Growth |
| Laurel Link | Senior Vice President, Head of Staffing |
| Glenn Dill | Vice President, Product Development |
| Jody Johnson | Vice President, Staffing Account Manager |
| Steven McManus | Vice President, Marketing Communications |
| Stephen P. Jonas | Executive Director, Investment Management |
| C. Bruce Johnstone | Managing Director & Senior Marketing Investment Strategist |
| Cynthia Porter | Sourcing Director |
| Jill O'Connell | Director of Investment Staffing |
| Michael Fernando | Director, Executive Staffing |
| Charlie Yun-Min | Portfolio Manager, Developing Communications |
| James Morrow | Portfolio Manager, Technology |
| Anthony W. Ryan | Head, Asset-Management Strategy & Product-Development Unit |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Employer Services Company | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | Chairman, Fund Board | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | Board of Directors | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Institutional Platforms | Current |
| Foundation for Financial Planning | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Schwab Institutional | Current |
| Schwab Institutional | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| Schwab Institutional | Executive Vice President | Current |
| Foundation for Financial Planning | Board of Directors | Current |
| Paramount Citrus Association | President | Former |
| Paramount Farms, Inc. | President | Former |
| Paramount Farms, Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Paramount Citrus Association | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| The Charles Schwab Corporation | Senior Vice President Ofventure Capital Investing | Former |
| Paramount Farms, Inc. | Vice President | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | MBA | Former |
| University of Southern California | Bachelors Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Bond Group | Current |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Co-Head, U.S. Fixed Income, GSAM | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Family Office Services | Current |
| Citigroup Inc. | Managing Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Shared Services | Current |
| Ford Motor Company | CIO & Senior Vice President | Former |
| Citigroup Inc. | Chief Information Officer | Former |
| Bank One Corp | Chief Information Officer | Former |
| Xerox Corporation | Head, Worldwide Engineering Systems | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services | Current |
| Morgan Stanley | Chief Operating Officer, National Sales Division, Global Wealth Management Group | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Co. | Current |
| Wachovia Corporation | President, Global Distr | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President, Fidelity Institutional Asset Management Group | Current |
Lawson was elected vice chairman of Prudential Financial in August 2002. He was executive vice president of Prudential Financial from February 2001 to August 2002, and previously served as executive vice president, International Investments and Global Marketing Communications, of Prudential Insurance, and as executive vice president, Marketing and Planning, from June 1996 to October 1998. Prior to joining Prudential, Lawson was the president and chief executive officer of VanEck Global from April 1994 to June 1996; managing director and partner, president and chief executive officer of Global Private Banking and Mutual Funds for Bankers Trust Company from January 1992 to April 1994; managing director and chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments-Retail from May 1985 to May 1991; and president and chief executive officer of Dreyfus Service Corporation from March 1982 to May 1985.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | President | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | President, Distribution and Operations | Former |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Chief Information Officer | Current |
| Morgan Stanley | Global Chief Information Officer & Head of Enterprise Infrastructure | Former |
| Morgan Stanley | Managing Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Chief Operating Officer, Asset Management | Current |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | CFO & Executive Vice President | Current |
| Fidelity Investments | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Chief Information Officer, Fidelity Institutional Products Group | Current |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer, Global Wealth Management | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Executive Vice President, HR | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Executive Vice President, Relationship Management, Institutional Wealth Services | Current |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Managing Director, Global Client Services, Worldwide-Securities-Services | Former |
| Bankers Trust Company Inc. | Managing Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Senior Vice President, Business Development | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Senior Vice President, Segment Market Growth | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Senior Vice President, Head of Staffing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Vice President, Product Development | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Vice President, Staffing Account Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Vice President, Marketing Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Executive Director, Investment Management | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Managing Director & Senior Marketing Investment Strategist | Current |
| The Boston Foundation For Sight | Board of Directors | Current |
| Needham Education Foundation, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Harvard Business School | MBA | Former |
| Harvard College | BA | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Sourcing Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Director of Investment Staffing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Director, Executive Staffing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Portfolio Manager, Developing Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Portfolio Manager, Technology | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments | Head, Asset-Management Strategy & Product-Development Unit | Current |
| U.S. Treasury Department | Acting Undersecretary, Domestic Finance | Former |
Executive News
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Senior executive leaves Fidelity post
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Senior Fidelity executive Michael Clark steps down
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Who's the top dog?
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Fidelity Investments: Staying Away from ETFs?
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Fidelity Assets Rise 8% to $2.8 Trillion
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ETF Roundup: August 20
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Fidelity sees rise in assets, inflows
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Fidelity president says assets, inflows rise
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INTERVIEW-Fidelity president says assets, inflows rise
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Fidelity's assets, inflows soar - company president
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Fidelity Hires New CIO
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