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Article: 4. Abigail Johnson: President, Personal & Workplace Investing, Fidelity.
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- Banking Wire
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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With the financial world long obsessing over "will she or won't she"-succeed her 77-year-old father as CEO of $1.5 trillion Fidelity, that is-it's easy to forget Abigail Johnson's accomplishments and what she brings to the game right now.
The amount of attention Fidelity garners in the financial world is influence enough to wield, considering Johnson's position inside the Boston behemoth. The last round of succession speculation sparked last fall when there was a leak claiming the 46-year-old Johnson might become chairman-but not chief executive-and the scenarios flew.
Not so much attention went to her new duties in charge of fund sales to individuals ...