Articles tagged "Fidelity Investments"
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Empower climbs to $1.4 trillion on fifth acquisition--Prudential's record-keeping business-- but Fidelity hit the $1.4-trillion mark in 2014 and is pulling away on organic growth alone
Empower's $3.4 billion deal ups total assets to $1.4 trillion, a distant second to Fidelity's $3.2 trillion in administered assets.
July 24, 2021 at 3:09 AM
Fidelity Investments is paying 2,000 employees to hasten their corporate exits, including high-profile RIA overseer, Sanjiv Mirchandani, as part of its shift to a digital future
The Boston giant offered voluntary buyout packages and the 4% of staff who accepted will leave by June 30 to give other staff room to grow careers and make room for hires.
June 24, 2021 at 5:39 PM
With up to 25% of assets exposed, Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard add algorithms to spot decreased mental capacity among aging clients, but RIAs are sitting ducks, a new report states
The leading edge of the boomer generation is now 75, near the average for Alzheimer's onset, and up to 25% will suffer diminished capacity, making them vulnerable to poor decision-making or exploitation
June 12, 2021 at 12:25 AM
Fidelity Investments unveils 'Sherlock' -- a dashboard that gives advisors data on 80 digital assets that can be used to justify buying and selling crypto
The Boston giant is plowing ahead with its controversial endeavor even as Bitcoin plummets in value and data analytics firms like Morningstar, BlackRock (Aladdin) and Bloomberg hang back.
June 9, 2021 at 2:34 AM
Fidelity claims the sub-Robinhood segment for itself (among majors) by offering 13- to 17-year-old investors a parent-lite, zero-fee trading app to go with a neobank
The Boston giant -- after the success of Step and others -- is going after this largely virgin market with a hard-knocks philosophy of teaching and a seamless transition to a regular brokerage account when the teen turns 18
May 25, 2021 at 1:25 AM
Fidelity Investments flies past staggering $10T milestone, but Schwab, finally fully loaded with Q1 results from TDA merger, steals some of the Boston giant's thunder
The Boston and Westlake, Tex., companies are both on fire -- even showing surprising strength in the 'Robinhood' sector -- but Schwab's rollup of TD Ameritrade and USAA radically reduced a yawning gap
May 14, 2021 at 11:25 PM
Fidelity and Schwab oddly take opposite sides on issue critical to money market funds as an SEC, alarmed by systemic risks, puts NAVs under spotlight
The Boston and Westlake, Tex., providers disagree about whether the once sacred $1 net asset value should now float accross prime money market funds -- and potentially municipal money market funds.
May 10, 2021 at 5:28 PM
Fidelity Investments is set to make 4,000 new hires at the same time senior staff may accept buyouts, an arbitrage to match talent with digital needs
The Boston giant is now advertising approximately 2,500 'client-facing' roles, in addition to the 5,150 it filled last year. It will also bump its technology headcount by 10% and hire 1,000 new financial planners.
April 20, 2021 at 9:06 PM
Envestnet, Orion and Schwab will all launch crypto capabilities soon enough, insiders say, but Damon Deru just beat them all to market with more than a hack
AdvisorPeak launched a virtual means for RIAs to trade, rebalance and custody cryptocurrencies with Prime Trust; Fidelity will soon add Ethereum
April 15, 2021 at 6:04 PM
Brooke's Bits: Charles Goldman's SPAC has a 'unicorn' pitch• Why Fidelity's bitcoin ETF application might have a shot • Investment bank to RIAs makes amends with staff who cranked out deals in overwrought 2020
The ex-AssetMark CEO says his new gig is anchored by a well-oiled team • Fidelity has crypto heft and bitcoin's history moved a decade in a year • Moelis pays $10,000, in installments
April 1, 2021 at 9:36 PM
'Several of the largest RIA firms' move assets to Ethic, enough for Fidelity Investments to join the start-up's $29 million B round
The Boston giant doubled down on the New York City firm, encouraged by internal RIA flows and after seeing Schwab, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock all make moves toward hyper-personalized indexes in 'white-hot' market.
March 31, 2021 at 2:19 AM
Schwab and Fidelity join other Fortune 500-size companies, sticking with CDC guidelines and declining the Texas roll-back of COVID-19 restrictions
The two retail finance giants keep restrictions on thousands of staff in Texas even as governor nixes mask mandate and opens businesses 100% in the name of business interests.
March 6, 2021 at 5:03 AM
Fidelity Investments leaps back to the future in an experiment to restore active management to its lofty perch, using technology that is still more science fiction than fact
The Boston giant is renting a special corner of Amazon's cloud to remake Monte Carlo and do hyper-quant investing like an AI Peter Lynch, with no experience as a golf caddy.
December 21, 2020 at 11:45 PM
Fidelity Investments applies its proven Peter Jubber to its unproven bitcoin unit and its launch of Fidelity Digital Funds signals it's all in on blockchain currency
By launching Fidelity Digital Funds under an 18-year seasoned exec, the Boston giant is signalling no let-up by putting something scarcer than capital into the crypto-pot -- its seasoned talent
September 9, 2020 at 2:20 AM
Fidelity, Schwab, Robinhood and even (days numbered) TD Ameritrade are hiring thousands of staff -- even as Merrill Lynch hits a snag-- what's that say about free trading?
Schwabitradehood's growing pains aren't just in website glitches but also to keep hold times to a mimimum in the phone service queue
