Fidelity opens securities lending platform to all comers
The agency lending platform joins a compact group of less than a dozen companies that enable funds to lend securities to be sold short.
April 28, 2021 2 MINS
After two years of field testing a securities lending platform on its own funds, Fidelity Investments is opening the platform to the broader universe of mutual funds, ETFs and institutional investors looking to add performance by lending securities to be sold short.
Fidelity Agency Lending, which is currently responsible for $2 trillion in assets, joins a compact group of less than a dozen companies that offer securities lending services to asset managers.
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