Article: Abigail Johnson moves up at Fidelity Promotion as part of shifts by Pozen viewed by some as significant step on road to top of the fund company

The new chief of Fidelity Investments mutual funds business has surrounded himself with three freshly promoted investment pros, including boss's daughter Abigail Johnson.

Less than two weeks into the job, Robert Pozen yesterday named Johnson, 35, Robert A. Lawrence, 44, and Richard Spillane, 46, as senior vice presidents of the Boston company's equity division. Pozen, president of Fidelity Management & Research, called them "my core management team."

Pozen, who had been Fidelity's top lawyer for a decade, said the trio is needed to provide more support for managers of Fidelity's 220-plus funds. They also shore up a line of senior management eroded by the expected retirement of equities group ...

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