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Recent Articles about Fidelity Investments

College Savings Down

The slumping economy is making it tougher for parents to put aside college funds for their kids.  Read more

Recruiting;

Awarding bonuses to employees who recruit new people has been an effective management ploy since the days of the Model T, but these days you may do better...  Read more

The Great Fund Failure

Mutual funds were designed to let the small guy invest in the market cheaply and efficiently. The system doesn't work, though, when fund investors are to...  Read more

The People Prediction Game

Determining someone's personality type has become a popular management practice for putting the right people in the right jobs. But it can also sell people s...  Read more

You Have Some Choices

A brief look at why two growing companies decided to offer 401(k)s and how they balanced cost and service.  Read more

All-in-one Accounts

When Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. introduced its Cash Management Account (CMA) in 1977, it undoubtedly expected a lot of competition. Tha...  Read more

Picking a Plan

1. Evaluate Your Needs If you want to encourage your employees to contribute to their retirement, there are two options: a so-called SIMPLE (savi...  Read more

Best of the Net: Setting Policy

If a dangerous and insecure world raises questions about your insurance coverage, these sites can help you reexamine your options -- up to a point.  Read more

Most Likely to Succeed

Generation Y is getting an early start.  Read more

March Madness: Time to Control Staff Web-Surfing?

In late December, Fidelity Investments canned an employee for playing fantasy football on company computers. With March Madness only a few weeks away, is it ...  Read more

Mobile E-Signatures for Legal Deals on the Go

E-signatures are coming to a mobile phone near you. As business continues to move from the computer inside the office to the handheld on the go, digital sig...  Read more

No Fooling

Inc.'s editor explains why the employee manual at the Motley Fool, a personal-investing Web site, gives a clear sense of what it's like to work for the company.  Read more

Shaking the Foundations

For years philanthropy has been the preserve of the super-rich. Now entrepreneurs are bringing it to the mass market.  Read more

A Startup To Help Startups and the Stork Visits Twitter

The dark side of micro-lending . The Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating story on a new credit bubble in India. On the surface it sounds fam...  Read more

How to Launch Your Company's 401(k) Plan

How to set up a retirement plan that maximizes employee contributions, minimizes fees, and puts your staff on the path to making wise investment choices.  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the September issue of Inc., including Jerry Useem's "The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of" and "Treating Temporary Work as a...  Read more

Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?

A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs.  Read more

Play Money

Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies.  Read more

Play Money

Some companies are earning high returns on their idle cash -- and living to regret it.  Read more

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

For-profit schools: a look at Advantage Schools; Michigan's governor's take on school privatization; and companies that failed in this market.  Read more

Sole Survivor

One third-generation family business has survived imports, mergers, offshore manufacturing and new technologies.  Read more

Looking The Other Way

How Jack Sullivan Chooses stocks  Read more

Offshore Drilling

Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms.  Read more

Health Care Stocks: "90% Confusion And 10% Opportunity"

Choosing the right health care stocks;  Read more

Short On Cash?

There's a new way to sell receivables: on an exchange.  Read more

Parallel Lives

Bill Gates has a golf handicap in the double digits. And so does Ronald Harland! Tom Monaghan launched his pizza empire in Michigan. And Lisa St...  Read more

The Advice Squad

How outside boards give CEOs what they can't get anywhere else.  Read more