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Edward Crosby Johnson II (January 19, 1898 – April 2, 1984) was an American businessman and lawyer who founded Fidelity Investments. Biography Edward Crosby Johnson II was born in Back Bay, Boston , Massachusetts, on January 19, 1898, to Samuel Johnson, a partner in the dry-goods firm C.F. Hovey and Co. and Josephine Johnson (née Forbush). [ 1 ]
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
Abigail Pierrepont Johnson [1] (born December 19, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman and the granddaughter of late Edward C. Johnson II, the founder of Fidelity Investments. [2] Since 2014, Johnson has been president and chief executive officer (CEO) of American investment firm Fidelity Investments (FMR), [ 3 ] and chair of its ...
While his father founded Fidelity, Johnson’s four-decade tenure transformed the firm into the Wall Street and investment giant that it is today. Ned Johnson, who made Fidelity a fund titan, dies ...
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.
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.
Previously, high-profile investors like Fidelity have been connected with X, ... founded by billionaire investor Bill Ackman 20 years ago.
Fink co-founded BlackRock in 1988 after his departure from investment bank First Boston. He and his fellow co-founders focused on the buy-side of trading, and integrated investing with risk ...