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The investment seeks capital appreciation. The fund invests primarily in common stocks. It invests at least 80% of assets in securities of companies principally engaged in the utilities industry and companies deriving a majority of their revenues from their utility operations. The fund invests in domestic and foreign issuers. It uses fundamental analysis of factors such as each issuer's financial condition and industry position, as well as market and economic conditions to select investments. The fund is non-diversified.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Douglas Simmons | Portfolio Manager | 2006 | Now |
Biography | Douglas Simmons is a portfolio manager in the Equity division at Fidelity Investments. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing, and other financial products and services to institutions, financial intermediaries, and individuals. In this role, Mr. Simmons manages Fidelity Telecom and Utilities Fund, Fidelity Select Utilities Portfolio, Fidelity VIP Utilities Portfolio, and the Fidelity Advisor Utilities Fund. As a member of Fidelity’s Stock Selector Large Cap Group, he is also responsible for managing the utilities sleeves for various diversified sector-based portfolios. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in September 2005, Mr. Simmons served as a utilities analyst covering the electric and gas utility stocks. Before joining Fidelity in 2003, Mr. Simmons worked as a financial analyst at the private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Previously, Mr. Simmons was an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. He has been in the financial industry since 1997. Mr. Simmons earned his bachelor of business administration degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with highest honors, and his master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School. | ||
Brian Younger | Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager | 2003 | 2006 |
Biography | Younger is a portfolio manager with Fidelity Investments. Since joining Fidelity Investments in June 1998, he has worked as a research analyst and portfolio manager. | ||
R. Shepherd Perkins | CIO (Chief Investment Officer) | 2002 | 2003 |
Biography | Shep Perkins has been the Chief Investment Officer, Equities at Putnam since 2019. Prior to joining Putnam, Mr. Perkins was at Fidelity Investments, serving as Portfolio Manager; Portfolio Manager of Fidelity OTC Fund from 2003 to 2004; and as an Analyst, covering the health-care, telecommunications, and technology sectors, from 1997 to 2003. Prior to these roles, he was an Equity Research Associate, covering the chemicals sector at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1993 to 1997. He has been in the investment industry since 1993. | ||
John D. Roth | Portfolio Manager | 1999 | 2002 |
Biography | John Roth is a portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments. He joined Fidelity Investments as a research analyst in 1998. Previously, he was an equity trader with Tucker Anthony in Boston from 1992 to 1997. | ||
Jonathan M. Zang | Portfolio Manager | 1998 | 1999 |
Biography | Zang joined Fidelity Investments in 1997 as an equity analyst following the electric utilities industry. He became a portfolio manager in 1998. Prior to joining the firm, he was an investment officer with Hawaiian Trust Company from 1992 to 1995. | ||
Nick Thakore | Portfolio Manager | 1997 | 1998 |
Biography | Nick Thakore is the CEO and CIO of Diametric Capital. He brings substantial Portfolio Management, Hedge Fund and Team Building experience to Diametric. Most recently he was co-head of Equities at Putnam Investments and previously worked at Fidelity Investments and Ameriprise. He has 23 years of experience as a Portfolio Manager, having sole managed $20b+ and as an assistant PM on the largest US equity fund at the time. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. | ||
John Muresianu | Research Analyst | 1992 | 1997 |
Biography | Muresianu is a portfolio manager with Fidelity Investments. He joined the company in 1986 as a research analyst following Canadian stocks and the natural gas and life insurance industries. From 1990 to 1992, he managed U.S. pension accounts and Canadian mutual funds. He assumed his current position in 1992. Prior to joining the firm, he spent two years working on the trading floor at Bank of Boston. From 1982 to 1984, he was a history professor at Knox College in Illinois. | ||
Jeffrey Ubben | Portfolio Manager | 1991 | 1992 |
Biography | Mr. Jeffrey Ubben is the Founder and serves as Co-Portfolio Manager, Member of Management Committee and Chairman at ValueAct Capital Management. He is a Board Member of AppHarvest and Nikola. Prior to founding ValueAct Capital in 2000, Mr. Ubben was a Managing Partner at Blum Capital Partners for more than five years. Mr. Ubben was a board member of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. and Willis Towers Watson PLC, a former chairman and director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., and a former director of Catalina Marketing Corp., Gartner Group, Inc., Mentor Corporation, Misys, plc, Sara Lee Corp., Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and several other public and private companies. In addition, Mr. Ubben serves as chairman of the national board of the Posse Foundation, is on the board of trustees of Duke University, and is also on the board of trustees of Northwestern University. He has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. | ||
Alan N. Berro | Senior Vice President | 1989 | 1991 |
Biography | Alan N. Berro is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He also serves on the Portfolio Solutions Committee. He has 38 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 33 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered U.S. utilities, capital goods and machinery companies. Before joining Capital, he was a portfolio manager and utilities analyst for Fidelity Management and Research Company in Boston. He also worked as an auditor for Price Waterhouse in Los Angeles. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles graduating magna cum laude. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts. Alan is based in Los Angeles. |
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