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After a stint in the US Army, he became a research analyst at Fidelity Investments in 1957, a company founded by his father in 1949. He later became the portfolio manager for the Fidelity Trend Fund in 1960 and ran the famous Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1963 to 1977. He then became president of the company in 1972, and chairman and CEO in 1977.
Fidelity Investments, formerly known as Fidelity Management & Research (FMR), is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts.. Established in 1946, the company is one of the largest asset managers in the world, with $5.8 trillion in assets under management, and $15.0 trillion in assets under administration, as of September 2024
The Fidelity Magellan Fund (Mutual fund: FMAGX) is a U.S.-domiciled mutual fund from the Fidelity family of funds. [1] It is perhaps the world's best-known actively managed mutual fund, known particularly for its record-setting growth under the management of Peter Lynch from 1977 to 1990. [ 2 ]
[8] [9] From 1946, he served as the founding chairman of Fidelity Management and Research. [7] By 1958, Johnson managed over $400 million combined with $357 million in the Fidelity Fund and $59 million in his new Puritan Fund. [10] Beginning in 1969, Johnson chaired the board of Fidelity Management and Research. [11]
Fidelity Contrafund (symbol FCNTX) is a mutual fund operated and provided by Fidelity Investments. Its current manager is William Danoff , who has headed the fund since 1990. Contrafund's AUM ( assets under management ) as of July 2015 total over 112 billion USD .
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) [1] is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist.As the manager of the Magellan Fund [2] at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, [3] consistently more than double the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world.
Contrafund is one of Fidelity's largest mutual funds, holding over $129 billion in assets, making it the largest single-manager mutual fund in the world. Fidelity Contrafund is the second largest actively managed mutual fund in the market in 2014, behind the American Funds Growth Fund of America (AGTHX). The American Funds team managed about ...
Today, Fidelity International handles investments for clients in Europe, Canada, EMEA and Asia, while the US-based Fidelity Management and Research handles investments for clients in the USA. In the same year that it was established, an office was opened in Tokyo, [ 4 ] followed by London in 1973, [ 5 ] Hong Kong in 1981 [ 6 ] and Taipei in 1986.