Fidelity Investments

If you have questions or technology issues per online trading, Your questions are answered in record time by real live humans. You're never put into a robo-caller hell. Personnel are courteous and attentive to one's questions with clear and concise instructions and assistance.

This company is great in keeping the clients up on what to expect in my portfolio of benefits. Monthly I receive reports and explanations on how and why. Retirement funds - that I invested through employment. With all the fraudulent activities that are going on this company can be trusted.

When you leave a company, you can transfer your 401-k to Fidelity free of charge and for the last year or so Trades are free also. Great website and you can get a daily email with results of stocks you want to watch. If you set a buy for $1,000 (because that is your available cash balance) and price ends up $1,200, then just call Fidelity that day and they will let you sell some of you other shares to cover the difference.

I've had some experience investing on my own for personal accounts using several platforms including Robinhood and Stash. Fidelity is the easiest to use, everything is upfront and the availability for help is immediate. Any issue from general questions to 401k can be answered with ease. I know my money is safe, secure and managed all the time. I love the fact they offer free webinars to help learn more about trading and investing. I can even arrange a meeting with my advisor, and if I don't feel comfortable with the advisor I can always request to change.

I have been a client with Fidelity for over a decade. I have retirement accounts and a brokerage account and I would recommend them, especially someone who is in my demographic and who prefers my investment style: 40 years old, married, middle class and who prefers investing in actively managed mutual funds, some passive funds and ETFs, and some individual stock picking. I also have a Robinhood account and a Webull account and I use them for more aggressive trading, but Fidelity is by far my choice for my long term investing. Their research platform is excellent and the number of mutual funds they offer is outstanding.

I have asked a number of times why Fidelity continually sells my stock at the lowest point and buys my stocks at their highest point. No explanations are given except that the formulary. Also, I was told my commission fee would be .7% and there would be no cost for trades. On my monthly statements, I see that I am paying 1.45% in commissions and fees. I have lost $5890 between August 2021 and December 2021 while all my other 401ks are making money. Having a managed account with Fidelity seems like a really losing proposition to me. I watch my money with Fidelity deteriorate and it is the majority of my entire portfolio.

They liquidated my retirement account while I require a rollover in kind. It took 4 months to get the problem resolved; and I was shoveled in between department when calling in their customer service. Calls took ages to be picked up. Up to the end, I didn't know how the mistake was corrected accurately. I did not receive a detailed breakdown regardless numerous calls to them.

I have had a 401(k) account through my employer, with Fidelity Investments for 20+ years. In January, 2021 I requested a distribution from my account for $10,500, which originally, was to be wire transferred to my account with Bangkok Bank. Later, Fidelity explained that they were unable to wire the funds directly (this is accurate, and apparently the result of a change in Federal Regulations), and instead, sent me a paper check, via USPS. That check never arrived. In or about April of this year, I called them again (BTW - I live in Thailand, and have to pay for all of the foreign calls I place, regardless of their "toll-free" status in the US), to tell them the check had not arrived. Fidelity cancelled the January check, and sent a new check, this time via UPS. I sent this check out for collection on April 30, 2021. Fidelity claims that check "cleared" on June 17, 2021; in fact, the check was never honored.

I have been going around with them for three months trying to establish PoA authorities for my parents' accounts. After told that I needed to complete a Fidelity form along with sending copies of the PoA. Fidelity would come back every two weeks asking for more information. Then after three months, told that the Fidelity form they told me to fill out was the wrong form and I would have to travel back to my parents' state of residence and start the entire process all over again complete with notary. The incompetence I have faced over the past three months (!!!) trying to get what should be a routine event for a large brokerage firm is mind-boggling. In doing a similar Trust arrangement with another one of my father's accounts with a different broker, the process was done in 2 days.

Fidelity has restricted my account and will not let me withdraw my money. They hung up on me and told me I was no longer a client while they have my money. I would use anyone besides fidelity. Stay away.