Article: Exodus from Fidelity rolls on as advertising chief plans to step down; Departure signals shift in firm's marketing strategies

Article: Fidelity keeps the faith. (Fidelity Investments)
The Economist (US);  May 21, 1988 ;     611 words ...FIDELITY Investments, a private, family-run company based in genteel...securities houses have cause to envy. In the 1950s and 1960s Fidelity ran funds that were marketed by others-that is, by retail...when stockbrokers began to market their own funds, so Fidelity (like other firms such as Dreyfus, Puttnam ...

Article: THE FIDELITY WATCH
The Boston Globe;  December 10, 2004 ;     613 words ...Scott DeSano, Fidelity Investments' super-powerful head of...are suddenly under the gun. Until now, Fidelity has avoided the taint that has infected...fallout has paid off handsomely for Fidelity, Vanguard, and a few other brand-name...

Article: Fidelity Building in Brazil With Outsourcing Launch.(Fidelity National Information Services Inc.)
American Banker;  July 18, 2006 ;     621 words ...Fidelity National Information Services Inc. has created an outsourcing business in Brazil, in a move that...the company's strategy of linking the processing of payment card transactions and paper checks. Fidelity, of Jacksonville, Fla., announced Fidelity BPO Brazil Ltda. on Monday. It also said that it had ...

Article: Fidelity cuts, not deep.(Business)
The Boston Herald;  October 31, 2001 ;     542 words ...Fidelity Investments slashed 760 jobs yesterday, or 2.3 percent of its work force, bowing to the pressure...mutual fund firm were not as deep as some had expected. It's a surprisingly low number, said longtime Fidelity watcher James Lowell, editor of Fidelity Investor. It suggests the business managers at ...

Article: Fidelity Eyes Bigger Clients: Spins Off $102 Billion Institutional Arm.(Fidelity Investments)
Money Management Executive;  March 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Fidelity Investments is investing $100 million to spin off its institutional investment arm in...corporate and public employee pension and retirement funds. It will eventually be split from Fidelity Management & Research, the parent company that oversees Fidelity's mutual funds. Our objective is to increase ...

Article: Fidelity touts reliability instead of flash In new ad campaign, firm sells itself as Volvo of on-line brokerages
The Boston Globe;  April 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Fidelity Investments wants to be the Volvo of the on-line brokerage...may be fly-by-nights or have computer systems that fail, Fidelity is the one you can count on to execute your trades safely...competitors don't," says Stephen Cone, head of marketing at Fidelity. Which raises a question: Is being Volvo ...

Article: Fidelity Eyes Bigger Clients; Spins Off $102B Institutional Arm.
Investment Management Weekly;  April 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Fidelity Investments is investing $100 million to spin off its institutional investment arm...and public employee pension and retirement funds. It will eventually be split from Fidelity Management & Research (FMR), the parent company that oversees Fidelity's mutual funds. Our objective is to increase ...

Article: Fidelity aims to fix retail unit with new chief Fund firm also plans to develop and sell software for business
The Boston Globe;  September 17, 1996 ;     532 words ...Fidelity Investments yesterday put Paul Hondros, a senior executive...Hondros previously was in charge of the separate family of Fidelity funds sold through brokers, banks and financial planners...Equity Research Inc., a New Hampshire firm that tracks Fidelity. "He did a magnificent job where he was." The ...

Article: New Fidelity ads have boomers think of Yesterday, tomorrow.(Business)
The Boston Herald;  September 8, 2005 ;     547 words ......we're going to do at Fidelity, says Claire Huang, executive vice president of marketing. Fidelity tried its hand with...all age groups, Huang said. But at 63...most exciting to Fidelity. The retiring boomer...band in history. Huang goes on to explain...says, is something ...

Article: FIDELITY RIDES MARKET REBOUND '03 PROFIT JUMPS 12%, HELPED BY COST CUTS WINNING YEAR FOR FIDELITY
The Boston Globe;  February 24, 2004 ;     655 words ...Fidelity Investments' earnings climbed 12 percent last year, to...accounted for $17.4 billion in net new cash, according to Fidelity's annual report, released yesterday. Total assets jumped...challenged on the revenue front. Charles Schwab Corp., one of Fidelity's chief rivals, posted flat revenues of $4.1 ...

Article: Fidelity's returns sizzle, sales fizzle Mutual fund goliath overrun by rivals
The Boston Globe;  December 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Many of Fidelity Investments' biggest mutual funds are...pages, and business magazines in maybe Fidelity's biggest ad blitz ever. And the sales...Research Corp., a Boston consulting firm, Fidelity's equity funds through October recorded...

Article: FIDELITY REORGANIZES MANAGEMENT TEAM ABIGAIL JOHNSON TO RUN FAST-GROWING SERVICES DIVISION
The Boston Globe;  May 3, 2005 ;     671 words ...Fidelity Investments shuffled its management team yesterday, reassigning the daughter of and...The mutual-funds giant said Abigail P. Johnson, 43, who had served as president of Fidelity Management and Research, was appointed to the same position at Fidelity Employer Services Co., effective immediately. The ...

Article: BURKHEAD, CONE RESIGN AT FIDELITY GAIL MCGOVERN, A RISING STAR AT THE FUND GIANT, RECEIVES PROMOTION
The Boston Globe;  January 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Fidelity Investments lost two top executives yesterday and promoted...dominated by the Internet. J. Gary Burkhead, who headed two of Fidelity's largest and most challenging areas - retail fund sales...periodic troubles, including what some observers have called Fidelity's slowness in recent years to embrace ...

Article: FIDELITY AT CROSSROADS
The Boston Globe;  October 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Fidelity Investments finds itself at one of those fork-in-the...choppy wake of the dot-com party cruise, how much should Fidelity invest in innovation? A quick tour of the company's technology...Internet. "The Web has become the customer's window into Fidelity," says Steve Elterich, president of ...