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Sheldon Geller: It is the plan sponsor, not Fidelity, who makes the fiduciary decision as to whether to offer the investment advice service to their employees.

Delta employees sue Fidelity for 'illegal kickbacks' from Financial Engines

The case may turn on whether Fidelity, by acting as recordkeeper and administrator, qualifies as a fiduciary and therefore breached its duty as it accepted Financial Engines' advice fees

July 6, 2016 at 6:58 PM

Josh Charlson: Although the high costs have come down, returns have not surpassed their hurdle rate.

Fidelity dumps two liquid alts managers after they fail to deliver the vaunted 'hedge effect' in stormy markets

The Boston giant gave Arden, then Blackstone, the bum's rush after their halo effect was tarnished by high expenses, low returns

April 8, 2016 at 6:12 PM

Vincent C. Gubitosi is the person behind the people behind the robo that will manage Fidelity Go assets.

With RIAs deliberately not in mind, Fidelity Investments launches Fidelity Go, a robo-advisor with the human touch of Vince Gubitosi

The Boston investments firm is using Geode Capital to call the shots, BlackRock as ETF supplier, and its own employees as its initial test subjects

November 20, 2015 at 10:32 PM

Eduardo Repetto: It's solving a problem before it exists on the back end.

Dimensional Fund Advisors to launch 13 target date funds but can its RIA 'cult' deliver success?

The Austin, Texas-based fund giant sees a 401(k) opening the size of its home state if Vanguard, T.Rowe and Fido are any indication

October 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM

Philip Paleveev:  We want them to experience what it feels like to run a firm and make decisions

Philip Palaveev and Bob Oros create Hunger Games-style RIA high jinks for Fidelity execs, then release it for wide consumption

The reality TV-Harvard Business School hybrid throws simulated market crashes, personal tragedies and M&A what-ifs at green FAs to test their mettle and groom them for succession

September 29, 2015 at 10:31 PM

Mike Foy: We were wondering if hiring more women is a good strategy for making women investors happy and we found out it isn't.

In tight race, Fidelity and Edward Jones tie for top honors in J.D. Power survey as spiky markets drive down satisfaction scores across the board

In a first, J.D. Power asked women the importance of a same-sex advisor -- and got a surprising response

April 9, 2015 at 5:13 PM

The forecast for the 401(k) business is bright and foggy.

What exactly is doable for an RIA in the 401(k) business?

Conflicting forces of change have made the question harder to answer but has sweetened the pot

October 15, 2014 at 3:45 AM

Bob Reynolds: We're going to run the businesses together as one company.

Bob Reynolds does 'a lot of testing' to avoid foisting his 'Great West' brand on JP Morgan and Putnam Investments clientele

The chief executive also sees upside opportunities in bringing all three divisions under one banner

September 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM

Mike Alfred: Fidelity's gone from being generous to being assured of being generous.

How exactly Fidelity Investments extracted itself from a legal and HR quagmire and why it'll cost far more than the public $12-million amount

The settlement's small print reveals Fidelity employee may receive additional hundreds of millions of dollars in value over time

August 14, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Steve Anderson: We made the decision and notified these clients that we're going to resign our services. I personally made the call and explained our thinking.

Schwab shoos $25 billion of client assets out the door as it calls the bluff of employers with lopsided 401(k) contracts

The San Francisco giant is trading recordkeeper revenue for the prospect of wielding its mighty brand directly at plan participants

February 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM

Greg Gable on behalf of Charles Schwab:  Clients who participate in a planning process are more engaged.

Schwab's financial plan production skyrockets in 2013 as part of 'Chuck's' upmarket push

TD and Fidelity hold their fire on playing the planner role as Schwab clients get a full-on planner-executed fee for $2,000 and others are satisfied with more limited plans executed by 1,000 branch advisors for free

January 23, 2014 at 7:26 PM

Jylanne Dunne: What's most surprising about the study is how concerned the husbands are that the wives aren't prepared.

Fidelity's new research unlocks women by fixating on -- men -- but elicits an 'ahem' from a big RIA client

As part of its gender efforts, the Boston giant has crafted a quiz -- one that strikes United Capital's Joe Duran as suspiciously familiar

December 23, 2013 at 5:48 AM

Anthony Rochte:  We're not trying to build a passive-ETF business.

Why Fidelity's Anthony Rochte could still laugh best in the ETF game -- despite a late, late start

The Boston fund giant, with its hired gun ETF czar, has an outside shot at jumping from laughing stock also-ran in ETFs to first-mover if it pulls off its deep-in-the-rockies launch of active ETFs

October 25, 2013 at 3:20 AM

Jordan Burgess: This information has been well-received by advisors.

Fidelity Investments puts hard numbers on the disgruntlement of 401(k) plan sponsors -- and launches Z shares with ETF-like prices

Advisors are gaining some ground but the crunch of fees and service on plan purveyors gets worse and worse

August 16, 2013 at 5:32 AM

Mike Durbin: Our attitude is the world is an absolutely enormous place so the overlaps don't bother us at all.

Fidelity reorganizes its advisor business and extrudes a custody unit aimed at outsourcers, roll-ups and TAMPs

The move is the biggest effort yet to wield the combined capacities of National Financial Services and Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services as a single Fidelity weapon

July 10, 2013 at 1:09 PM

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