To help celebrate its silver anniversary, Toronto-based Fidelity Investments Canada ULC will ring the opening bell to start the trading day at the Toronto Stock Exchange today.
On hand will be Rob Strickland, president, Fidelity Investments Canada, Roger Servison, president of the strategic new business development group for Fidelity Investments and 25 of Fidelity Canada’s longest-tenured employees.
What started as a small company focused on serving a few financial advisors has grown into one of the largest investment management companies in Canada. Today, thousands of clients from individual investors with the help of their financial advisors to the largest pension plans in Canada choose Fidelity to help them manage their investments.
“Fidelity Investments Canada has the unique distinction of opening for business on October 19, 1987 — better known as Black Monday,” says Strickland. “A lot has changed since we debuted on that infamous day, but what hasn’t changed is Fidelity’s commitment to our clients and partners.”
Stickland says Fidelity’s success in Canada “has been built on a proven and repeatable investment process, independent research, global reach and our very own Team Canada.”
“In 25 years we’ve grown to become the largest independent mutual fund company in Canada by forging solid, long-lasting relationships with clients from coast to coast,” he says.