It is the biggest foreign investment firm in Japan, and the biggest manager of unit trusts (mutual funds) in Britain.Unlike competitors such as Vanguard and Barclays, which mirror stockmarket indices, Fidelity vigorously manages its share portfolios.
That could limit risk-taking, raise financing costs, and reduce the banks' profits, which explains why they opposed the reform so vigorously, and, eventually, managed to get part of it rolled back.
Death should be managed as vigorously as life saving.
For months, the economy had managed to grow vigorously despite worrying developments, from the unraveling of the housing industry to turmoil in the credit markets.
Surely this explains why Monsanto and its allies have fought the labeling of genetically modified food so vigorously since 1992, when the industry managed to persuade the Food and Drug Administration — over the objection of its own scientists — that the new crops were "substantially equivalent" to the old and so did not need to be labeled, much less regulated.
It is incredible, too, to have managed the feat of so vigorously reimagining the natural world, stripping it bare of centuries of romantic trappings.
The new government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office in December, has managed to recast the country's image by moving vigorously on legislation to attack problems that are a drag on growth.
But the president stuck with her, campaigning vigorously for her and managing to make the election essentially a referendum on his years in office.
They managed to survive re-election by showing leadership, taking principled positions and defending them vigorously.
Even though stocks performed well and the economy grew vigorously -- two factors that are normally not associated with positive developments in the fixed-income markets -- bond funds managed to have positive returns in the quarter.
