The Team
Fidelity Investments has long been a leader in managing equity portfolios, with roots dating back to the 1940s. Fidelity’s Equity division is responsible for managing diversified and industry-specific funds for millions of investors. The division consists of portfolio managers, research analysts, research associates, sector specialists and traders who work together to deliver exceptional investment outcomes. Over the years, its capabilities have grown substantially, with investment strategies designed across style, capitalisation, sector, and geography.
The Equity team relies on its proprietary research, disciplined portfolio management, and sophisticated trading process to evaluate, construct, and manage investment portfolios and deliver superior long-term results.
The Role
The Equity Research Analyst will work closely with Fidelity’s portfolio managers and play a vital role in contributing to the investment performance of the firm. The analyst will be assigned a group of stocks within a specific industry to analyse. This analysis involves interviewing company management, communicating with external research sources, assessing customers, suppliers and competitors, compiling detailed financial models and projections, and applying economic and industry analysis to produce an investment recommendation. Equity Research Analysts have full responsibility for coverage of the assigned companies, and stock recommendations are solely attributed to them.
The Value You Deliver
You will be responsible for both identifying new opportunities and monitoring existing positions across your assigned sub-sector(s). You will work closely with portfolio managers and other analysts on the domestic and international teams and play a vital role in contributing to investment performance.
Specific responsibilities include:
Generating and validating new ideas within your sub-sector area(s) that are consistent with the team’s investment process. Specifically, idea generation involves:
Investigating stocks generated by the proprietary ranking process to identify potential to meet a fund’s key criteria of attractive valuation and future positive change. This process typically involves an initial review and, for those stocks that continue to meet the fund’s criteria, more extensive fundamental analysis.
Identifying stocks through your own process of monitoring opportunities in your sub-sector area(s), for example, by using screens, Fidelity research and sell-side research.
Maintaining coverage of assigned sector stocks held in the required portfolios. Specifically, coverage involves:
Performing industry analysis – monitoring trends and developing a view regarding the relative attractiveness of the assigned sub-sectors
Maintaining up-to-date recommendations and target prices
Creating and maintaining proprietary financial models and valuation analysis
Monitoring investment theses to track the progress of improving dynamics and other critical variables
Conducting proprietary research
Collaborating with other Fidelity analysts
Engaging with company management through meetings and calls
Communicating updates and recommendations to the Equity team and broader Fidelity investment organisation. The most important form of communication will be in-person discussions, supplemented by concise written reports, voicemails and emails as needed.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
You will possess the following characteristics:
A minimum of 3–7 years’ buy-side investment research experience
Bachelor’s degree required, with a postgraduate degree or CFA (or progress towards) preferred
Strong analytical and communication skills, coupled with the highest level of personal and professional integrity
Demonstrated success during academic studies and in other pursuits
Sound business judgement and a strong interest in financial markets
A desire to gain an edge and a healthy level of scepticism in your thinking
Ability to think creatively, work independently and make decisions quickly, often with limited information
Confidence and maturity to engage with senior-level company management
Intellectual curiosity about companies and markets, with high levels of initiative and motivation
A strong enthusiasm for identifying new investment opportunities and genuine intellectual curiosity
The ability to consistently develop, clearly articulate and effectively communicate investment recommendations, supported by a comprehensive and thoughtful research process
Skills Required
- 3-7 years buy-side investment research experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Postgraduate degree or CFA (or progress towards)
- Experience building and maintaining proprietary financial models and valuation analysis
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to engage confidently with senior-level company management
- Sound business judgment and strong interest in financial markets
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
