Fidelity Investments has announced that for the first half of2015 it has made new defined contribution retirement plan sales of$35 billion, in addition to getting commitments for another $21billion for 2016.

Plans sold in the first six months of the year were of allsizes, from large corporation to tax-exempt employers and emergingcompanies. Some sales came via financial advisors. Altogether,plans sold in 2015 represent nearly 800 employers with 700,000employees.

Among the companies opting for Fidelity were these SiliconValley emerging companies:

• Airbnb

• NerdWallet

• eSilicon

• Prysm

And these tax-exempt health care institutions opted forFidelity:

• Allegiance Health, based in Jackson, Michigan

• UnityPoint Health of West Des Moines, Iowa

Clients representing more than $100 billion in assets underadministration included these:

• Delta Airlines

• General Motors

• Halliburton,

• Amway,

• Wolters Kluwer

• Synopsys

• First American Financial Corporation

• Marshfield Clinic

And companies opting for additional services included Blue Crossand Blue Shield of Minnesota and University of Vermont MedicalCenter.

In addition, the ability to offer multiple benefits on the sameplatform, such as high-deductible health plans with health savingsaccounts as a complement to a 401(k) plan, was a factor in somecompanies’ decisio

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As of June 30, Fidelity had $5.2 trillion in assets underadministration, including managed assets of $2.1 trillion.

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Altogether Fidelity provides investment assistance for 24million people, employee benefit programs for nearly 20,000businesses, and technology solutions for nearly 10,000 advisoryfirms that invest their own clients' money.