Fidelity Investments

Will the Supreme Court Follow the GOP Plan and Force Seniors to Pay $20,000 More for Rx Drugs?

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Fidelity Investments, Income Inequality, Retirement, Mitt Romney, Prescription Drugs, Gop, Affordable Care Act, Medical Costs, Medicare, Constitution, Republicans, Politics News

Fidelity Investments, the gigantic Wall Street mutual fund company, says it will cost a retired couple $20,000 more to buy their medicines if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act.

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Financial Services Should Take a Page From the Physician's Code of Conduct: First Do No Harm

April Rudin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab, Wirehouses, Private Wealth Management, Wealth, Wall Street, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Consumer Protection, Brokers, Business News

Financial services needs to fix itself and repair its relationship with consumers who have developed mistrust of an industry who has harmed them.

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The 401(k) Rip-off May Be Ending

Dan Solin | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Investing, Retirement Funds, 401k, 401k Advice, Retirement Savings, Video, Business News

It has long been my view that 401(k) plans are a national disgrace. They are rife with conflicts of interest between those who "advise" them and the participants who contribute to them.

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Bank Loan Rates Could Spike Following Money Market Rules

Reuters | Posted 04.08.2012

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By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The cost for banks and other borrowers to raise funds in short-term markets could jump ...

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How Can We Address Our Retirement Deficits If We Don't Know What to Save or What We've Saved?

Jane White | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Social Security, Retirement, Vanguard Group, 401(K) Plans, 401(K), 401k, Retirement Deficits, 401k Advice, Business News

Incredibly, those managing 401(k) assets aren't required to communicate the "cost" of retirement adequacy and the minimum contribution needed to fund that goal.

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Too Big To Fail, Or Too Trifling For Oversight?

New York Times | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Fed, Pacific Investment Management Company, Systemically Important, Paulson & Company, Tbtf, Blackrock, Too Big to Fail, Federal Reserve, Hedge Funds, Citadel, Treasury, Zurich Financial Services, Mass Mutual Financial Group, Financial Regulation, Financial Crisis, Business News

It is not very often that business people head to Washington to explain how unimportant they are. But over the last several months, executives from...

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401k Balances Reach 10-Year High, Fidelity Says

AP | DAVID PITT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, 401k Balances, US Economy, Retirement Investments, Business News, Fidelity, Business News

Most 401(k) accountholders continue to plug away at setting aside a portion of their pay. That consistency, along with a rising stock market helped pu...

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Why Your 401K Plan May Be Overpriced

Time | Stephen Gandel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Mutual Funds, 401k, Retirement, 401ks, Retirement Plans, 401k Advice, Etf, Pension Funds, Business News

Boston College's Center for Retirement Research Center has a study out this month about the cost of 401(k) plans, and they have found another flaw in ...

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Retirement Health Care: Average Couple Needs To Save $250,000

AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Savings, Retirement, Retirement Savings, Health Care Retirement, Fidelity Investments, Retirement Expenses, Business News

BOSTON — Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul. But ultim...

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Fidelity FutureStage Helps Public Schools Get a Groove On

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

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I learned Fidelity Investments not only accepts investments, it invests in its neighboring communities through arts education in public schools, and it's been investing in school children nationwide since 2006.

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Fidelity President Rodger Lawson To Retire

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fidelity President, Edward Johnson, Fidelity Investments, Mutual Funds, Fidelity, 401k, Rodget Lawson, Business News

BOSTON (Mark, Jewell AP) -- Fidelity Investments President Rodger Lawson is retiring at the end of March after two-and-a-half years reorganizing a com...

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Retire the 401(k) - Replace it with This

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, 401(K), Time Magazine, Retirement, Aig, New York Times, Erisa Industry Committee, Retirement Planning, Citigroup, Business News

Jilting the 401(k) to return to the old-fashioned pension, like going back to your spouse after a fling, is not an option. You need something that combines features of both.

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The Year of the Man-Child

Catie Lazarus | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.

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Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

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Fidelity (Accidentally) Makes the Case Against the 401(k)

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 401(K), Fidelity Investments, Retirement Plans, Investment Company Institute, Nathan Hale, Behavioral Economics, Business News

It's not a lack of financial literacy that makes a majority of 20-year-olds not participate in a 401(k). It's human nature.

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Retirement Health Costs Jumped 6.7 Percent in 2008, Fidelity Says

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Medicare, Health Insurance, Retirement, Business News

The exploding cost of health care poses one of the most serious threats to retirement security -- even with Medicare covering everyone over age 65.

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Fidelity Investments : Charles Goldman

money.cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Fidelity Investments on Tuesday named Charles Goldman, most recently of Schwab Institutional, president of its Institutional Pl...

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Fidelity Layoff Rumor Gains Traction, But Not Confirmed

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments said on Tuesday it was reviewing its costs and staffing following an industry report that said as many as 4,00...

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Cuomo: Fidelity to settle auction-rate probe

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Fidelity Investments said Friday it will buy back $300 million worth of auction-rate securities from its customers, becoming the ...

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Fidelity's Lynch Took $16,000 Worth Of Freebies

Los Angeles Times | Walter Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a case that could sully the reputation of legendary Fidelity Investments fund manager Peter Lynch, regulators said Wednesday that he had improperly...

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