Abigail Johnson

Chairman & CEO, Fidelity Investments
$39.94B
as of 07/12/26

About Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been chairman since 2016.

Her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II, founded the Boston-based financial services giant in 1946.

She owns an estimated 29% of the firm, which as of December 2025 manages discretionary assets totaling $7.1 trillion.

Johnson has embraced digital assets, and Fidelity first launched a platform that allows institutional investors to custody and trade Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin in 2018.

Johnson worked summers at Fidelity through college and joined full-time as an analyst in 1988 after receiving a Harvard M.B.A.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Fidelity

Residence

United States of America

Marital status

Married

Birth date

12/19/61 (age 64)

Number of children

2

Education

Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Hobart and William Smith

Self-made

inherited and growing

Abigail Johnson’s fortune is worth

666K

troy ounces of gold

615K

median U.S. household

399K

median U.S. income

0.799%

U.S. credit card volume

0.16%

GDP of the United States

0.117%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

The Johnson family is a frequent donor to nonprofits in the Boston area and has given money to Harvard, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Historic New England.

Net worth over time

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