1.  But instead of hiring new in-house managers to manage the three new funds, Stallings said the company will hire highly successful independent money managers.

2.  Fidelity said Vinik made the decision to resign to start an independent money management firm.

3.  Richard Eakle, an independent money manager in Fair Haven, New Jersey was one of those market strategists who saw little reason to panic in July.

4.  Vinik, who left Fidelity last June and now runs an independent money management firm in Boston, declined to comment about the pending case.

5.  Vinik said he made the decision to resign in the past two weeks and will open an independent money management firm.

6.  Vinik left Fidelity last June and now runs an independent money management firm in Boston.

7.  Vinik said he resigned to open an independent money management firm.