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- Edward Johnson III, Chairman
- Abigail Johnson, largest shareholder
The FMR LLC ( Fidelity Investments ), often short Fidelity, is a U.S. company in the financial services industry with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is one of the largest asset managers in the world and is active as an investment company with numerous funds, Related sales structure, investment advisors, as well as an online broker and stock broker. In addition, the company is active in other areas. She also holds a majority stake in the phone company Colt Technology Services and has a bus companies, hotels and an employment agency. The Fidelity Group employs 43,600 employees (as at 30 June 2011).
In one published in 2011 at the ETH Zurich study FMR LLC was named as the third most influential companies in the world economy.
History
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The company was founded in 1946 by Edward C. Johnson II and is still today, half owned by the Johnson family, the other half of the shares held by senior staff. Currently, Edward Johnson III as Chairman Chairman of the group. His daughter Abigail Johnson, with a share of around 25 % of the largest individual shareholders and is considered a possible successor at the helm.
Originally focused on the American market company has been on an increasingly international with the establishment of sister company, Fidelity Worldwide Investment ( FIL Limited) in 1969. While Fidelity in North America operates under Fidelity Investments, the company occurs in all other markets where it is present ( Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia -Pacific Region) under the brand Fidelity Worldwide Investment. In 1973 the company opened a subsidiary in London and in 1992 the company entered the German market with the opening of an office in Frankfurt am Main (since 2003 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was performed. Fidelity Worldwide Investment has more than 5,500 employees in 23 countries and manages fund assets of € 201.3 billion (as at 31 December 2011).
Activities in Germany
In Germany Fidelity Worldwide Investment has been present since 1992 active in the market and manages total assets of 23.5 billion euros. The main site of the company in Kronberg im Taunus. The platform operates business of financial service providers in Germany about the FIL Fund Bank ( FFB). This is dedicated to the safekeeping of investment fund shares and directs its services to independent financial advisors, investment companies and banks. The FFB manages assets of 12.5 billion euros in over 780,000 customer accounts. In the asset management division Fidelity Worldwide Investment in Germany manages a fund size of 11 billion euros. Under the brand Fidelity Worldwide Investment 145 mutual funds are sold directly and through more than 600 partners in this field in Germany. Overall, Fidelity Worldwide Investment employed in Germany 318 people and has the legal entities FIL Investment Services GmbH, FIL Investments International - Frankfurt Branch, FIL Investment Management GmbH, FIL Pensions Services GmbH, FIL Finance Services GmbH and FIL Fund Bank GmbH (formerly Frankfurt Fondsbank GmbH) represented.
Products
Fidelity offers in Germany in particular fund products for private and institutional investors. The range of services includes equity, bond, mixed, money market and life cycle funds and special funds and company pension schemes. With the FFB Fidelity also offers market participants in the administration of the Fund's investments. Fidelity has a global research network that covers approximately 92 percent of global market capitalization, with its research results and company analysis.