About Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research LLC (FMR LLC), founded in 1946 and serving the North American market, and Fidelity International Limited (FIL), spun off in 1969 to provide investment products and services to clients outside the Americas.

Fidelity Investments includes a large family of mutual funds, their distributors and investment advisors, as well as providing discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, life insurance and a number of other services.