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Byline: Thomas C. Palmer Jr. Jan. 5--The owners of One Federal Street, a 1.1-million-square-foot tower built for Shawmut Bank that houses prominent tenants like Bank of America Corp., State Street [...]

Byline: Ross Kerber Dec. 24--Fidelity Investments executive Abigail P. Johnson is stepping down from the board of trustees that oversees the 366 mutual funds at the company her family controls, [...]

Byline: Ross Kerber Dec. 23--Fidelity Investments' independent trustees have named Robert M. Gates as their new chairman, executives said yesterday, making the former CIA director the top watchdog of the [...]

Byline: Robert Weisman Dec. 5--Who's the biggest Google bull in the investment corral? That would be Fidelity Investments, the Boston mutual fund giant. Fidelity fund managers loaded up on shares [...]

Byline: Andrew Caffrey Nov. 1--Robert Stansky is stepping down after a decade of running Fidelity Investments' flagship Magellan fund, a period in which it rocketed to nearly $110 billion in [...]

Byline: Andrew Caffrey May 6--Federal investigators are looking into whether some traders at Fidelity Investments and brokers that handled the mutual fund company's business bartered tips about privileged stock information, [...]

Byline: Steven Syre Mar. 31--WE'RE NUMBER 3: Fidelity Investments got knocked down another peg this week. In truth, my timing could be a little off. It might have happened last [...]

Byline: Andrew Caffrey Mar. 25--Regulators are investigating trading in the account of the mother of a former Fidelity Investments trader to see if there is any connection to positions the [...]

Dec. 7--Federal regulators have subpoenaed Fidelity Investments and several brokerage firms that handle the stock-trading business for the mutual fund giant, seeking information about gifts and expensive perks Fidelity traders [...]

Byline: Thomas C. Palmer Jr. Nov. 5--Fidelity Investments, one of the last major local employers still growing, is negotiating to buy the former FleetBoston Financial Corp. headquarters building at 100 [...]

Byline: Frank Phillips Sep. 19--Drawing on his connections in the financial world, Governor Mitt Romney is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Massachusetts corporate leaders, and [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Aug. 28--Fidelity Investments' largest funds voted to oust Michael D. Eisner from the chairman's post at Walt Disney Co., in one of last year's biggest proxy battles, [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Jun. 21--In 1928, when Philip L. Carret ran one of the country's first mutual funds, there were just two trustees looking over his shoulder: his mother and [...]

Byline: Peter J. Howe Mar. 5--The surprisingly strong shareholder no-confidence vote against Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael D. Eisner Wednesday may be one of the first consequences of new [...]

Nov. 19--Massachusetts and New Hampshire regulators have opened a broad joint investigation of the mutual fund industry in Boston by subpoenaing trading records of money managers at six fund companies, [...]

Byline: Scott Bernard Nelson Oct. 26--After six months of increasingly tense drama at Allmerica Financial Corp., president and chief executive John F. O'Brien announced yesterday that he has decided to [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Oct. 10--Exit41, an Andover company that makes point-of-sale systems for McDonald's and other fast-food chains, has landed a $14.2 million round of venture financing from a group [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Aug. 28--Three fund managers are leaving beleaguered Putnam Investments, two of them to join a smaller Boston rival, State Street Research & Management Co. Paul Haagensen, 56, [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Aug. 25--Three years ago, the mood was almost euphoric at the Back Bay offices of MFS Investments. Stocks were soaring and employee bonuses were big. There were [...]

Byline: Sean P. Murphy Aug. 1--The Massachusetts Port Authority announced yesterday that George K. Hertz, the agency's new deputy executive director, will not involve himself in some development issues in [...]

Byline: Chris Reidy Nov. 19--A few years ago, Thermo Electron Corp. made a switch. It had been using a corporate foundation to manage its charitable efforts. Then it opted for [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Nov. 16--Fidelity Investments stock pickers made some large and sometimes contrarian bets in the turbulent third quarter, snapping up shares of troubled Lucent Technologies Inc. while dumping [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Aug. 10--As investments go, health care may seem like a one-shot wonder after last year's performance. Mutual funds that own health and biotech stocks soared past every [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Aug. 10--As investments go, health care may seem like a one-shot wonder after last year's performance. Mutual funds that own health and biotech stocks soared past every [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Jul. 6--It was the eve of the July Fourth holiday. The stock market would close early, at 1 p.m. And Sapient Corp., a Cambridge technology consultant, suddenly [...]

Byline: Chris Reidy Jun. 16--In a busy day on the New England advertising scene, Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos and Fidelity Investments yesterday said they will part ways, a move that [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Feb. 14--In a bid to capitalize on the millions of hours drivers spend stuck in traffic, Fidelity Investments yesterday announced a deal with General Motors Corp. that [...]

Byline: Chris Reidy Jan. 25--Chalk one up for the old economy. Last year's Super Bowl was dubbed the dot-com bowl. Seventeen dot-com companies ran ads during the big game a [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Dec. 22--Fidelity Investments has launched a free service that lets customers view all of their investment records and bank accounts at once on the Fidelity Web site. [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Dec. 15--Fidelity Investments yesterday said it would reopen two of its biggest mutual funds to new investors, in a bid to offset the billions of dollars customers [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Oct. 19--In an unusual partnership, John Hancock Financial Services Inc. will soon offer a special long-term care product to Fidelity Investments customers. Fidelity said the arrangement was [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Oct. 18--Managers controlling billions of dollars worth of stocks at Fidelity Investments sharply cut back their technology holdings over the summer, as the market crumpled. At the [...]

Byline: Mark Jurkowitz Sep. 30--Thus far, optimism dominates in the wake of the news that Boston Herald publisher Patrick J. Purcell has agreed to purchase more than 100 local papers [...]

Byline: Mark Jurkowitz Sep. 29--Dramatically altering the Massachusetts media landscape and widening his publishing battle with The Boston Globe, Boston Herald publisher Patrick J. Purcell announced an agreement yesterday to [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Sep. 29--One would hardly call Edward 'Ned' Johnson III a newspaper man. That his Fidelity Investments ever delved into the news business has always been viewed with [...]

Byline: Beth Healy Sep. 29--Fidelity Investments legend Peter Lynch has sold a slice of his shares in the privately held mutual fund giant for $53 million, according to a regulatory [...]

Byline: Richard Kindleberger Apr. 25--The World Trade Center kicked off construction of another office building yesterday, drawing a contrast to the slower pace of other South Boston Waterfront projects. Fidelity [...]

Jan. 6--ACCOUNTING FOR RETIREES: Financial documents are often best read starting with the footnotes in the back. Take, for instance, the state comptroller's new Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Massachusetts. [...]

Jan. 6--Fidelity Investments said yesterday it plans to move up to 1,500 jobs out of Massachusetts by 2008, a step likely to reignite a regional development rivalry among New England [...]

Dec. 25--In the business world, 2005 was everything 2004 was and more: more slow economic growth, more increases in energy prices, and more mergers. The year also produced more success [...]

Dec. 21--Fidelity Investments said yesterday it has changed the way it will pay Deutsche Bank Securities for corporate research services, a move that could lower costs for consumers and put [...]

Dec. 21--Fidelity Investments said yesterday it has changed the way it will pay Deutsche Bank Securities for corporate research services, a move that could lower costs for consumers and put [...]

Nov. 13--Designing sports cars sounds like a dream job. But as a young engineer at Chevrolet, Harry W. Lange had other long-term goals. When he borrowed Corvette prototypes on weekends, [...]

Oct. 18--The second phase of the partnership between Fidelity Investments and Sir Paul McCartney is scheduled to kick in today, when the two launch a new public charity, the Music [...]

Sep. 29--As many as a half-dozen current traders at Fidelity Investments have been told by federal regulators they could be charged with securities-law violations in connection with the ongoing investigation [...]

Sep. 23--Federal investigators notified Fidelity Investments yesterday they are looking at a second area of potential charges that they may bring against the mutual fund giant in connection with its [...]

Sep. 23--Federal investigators notified Fidelity Investments yesterday they are looking at a second area of potential charges that they may bring against the mutual fund giant in connection with its [...]

Sep. 22--Fidelity Investments wants corporate America and its workers to do a better job saving for retirement, and it's starting with its own house. Beginning Jan. 1, all Fidelity employees [...]

Apr. 26--Beverly Edgehill will leave her post at Fidelity. The Partnership, a mentoring organization that helps minority professionals at Massachusetts firms advance yesterday named Beverly Edgehill president and chief executive, [...]

Mar. 24--Another member of Fidelity Investments vaunted stock-trading desk has left the firm, the fifth to depart since federal authorities last year began investigating gift-giving and entertainment practices between its [...]