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Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gov. Mitt Romney's former top economic adviser has joined the chorus attacking the retroactive 2002 tax hike - after it slapped one of his trust funds with […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Fidelity Investments yesterday pointedly declined to back Abigail Johnson for the company's succession, following news that chairman Ned Johnson's daughter had transferred some of her stock to […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Fidelity Investments has taken a bold stand against corporate greed at Clear Channel Communications Inc., the world's largest radio broadcaster, new filings show. Fidelity, the biggest shareholders […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Danny Black flew home to Lansing, Mich., last night after testifying before a grand jury over the infamous 2003 bachelor party of former Fidelity Investments trader Tom […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Eric Wetlaufer, like his ex-wife Suzy, knows how to bounce back from adversity. Two years ago, Wetlaufer quit Putnam Investments after a dismal five-year record running the […]

Byline: Brett Arends Fidelity Investments was hit yesterday as two more fund managers walked out to join a hedge fund. David Baverez and Krishnan Sadasivam ran more than $2.2 billion […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Fidelity Investments yesterday removed the powerful and high-profile head of its scandal-hit trading desk. Scott DeSano, 44, has been shunted into "Strategic New Business Development" in a […]

Byline: Brett Arends Ned Johnson found himself on the wrong end of a parting political shot yesterday. Hours before his enforced "retirement," Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson hustled […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If Ned and Abby Johnson are managing their fortune effectively, they probably earn more than $100,000 every hour - morning, noon and night. Yet the father and […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Fidelity Investments made sweeping changes yesterday to the management of a half-dozen mutual funds. But observers were most surprised by the management that didn't change: the Fidelity […]

Byline: Brett Arends Former Fidelity Investments fund manager Karen Firestone is setting up her own investment management shop, sources have told the Herald. And she's being joined by one of […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Call it a tale of sex, drugs and Fidelity. Speculation is intensifying over the events at the bachelor party arranged for former Fidelity Investments trader Tom Bruderman. […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Ned Johnson is publicly defending his daughter Abby's record running Fidelity's investment arm, known as FMR Co. "Abby has served well as president of the investment-management division," […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS There were sweeping changes last night at the top of Boston's secretive family-controlled funds empire Fidelity Investments. Chairman and controlling shareholder Ned Johnson moved Abigail, his daughter […]

Byline: Brett Arends Bad news for Ned Johnson. New data confirmed yesterday that Fidelity Investments has at last been overtaken in the rankings of mutual fund firms by California-based rival […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Ned Johnson's Fidelity Investments yesterday won a $700 million reprieve from State Treasurer Tim Cahill. The treasurer declared himself satisfied that the scandal on Fidelity's trading desk […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Ned Johnson's profits are back in the billions. Johnson's Fidelity Investments saw net income surge back above $1 billion last year, thanks to stock market gains and […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Not everything has been sunshine and peaches down on Devonshire Street recently. Straight-laced and upright Fidelity Investments has been embarrassed by a scandal in its trading arm […]