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Welcome to a very special edition of Talking Real Money.

I'm Tom Koch here, as you know, five days a week to try to help you get money, investing, finances, all that,

done properly and done better. And today we have absolutely wonderful preview of a brand new book

that's just out about a company that's incredibly important in the financial services industry.

That company, of course, being Fidelity. And I was

lucky enough to sort of read the book before you got a chance to see it. The book is called House of

Fidelity. It's written by an award-winning journalist and editor for the Wall Street Journal.

Justin Baer, thank you for joining us here on Talking Real Money. It's a pleasure.

It's great to be here.

Really, really, really enjoyed the book. And so for those of you who have an interest,

certainly in the industry, certainly in Fidelity, it's one that you should absolutely 100% read.

So, okay, I think one of the news releases or something I tried to go back last night and

look at everything, said something about how Fidelity changed American investing.

So let's start with that. I mean, because a company does go back 80 years, I think,

or something are pretty close to 80 years. 80 years just next month in May.

Which is any business, anybody, and we can talk about the family ownership and all that.

But, okay, but for me as an investor

how is it changed how i invest what what's been the biggest change that they've they've led

sure i you know we can go back to the early days of uh sort of post war period um where they really

um get going um i would say the overall theme is that they have been often at the forefront of

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