Fidelity Contrafund


Fidelity Contrafund is a mutual fund operated and provided by Fidelity Investments. Its current manager is William Danoff, who has headed the fund since 1990. Contrafund's AUM as of July 2015 total over 112 billion USD. As of 2015 Contrafund was the second-largest actively-managed mutual fund in the US by assets, after AGTHX, and was the largest mutual fund of any type managed by an individual.

History

The fund's name stems from its original mandate in 1967: "the fund's mission was to take a contrarian view, investing in out-of-favor stocks or sectors." This strategy has changed since the 1990s to become a fund focused on growth investing in large companies, and the Contrafund's strong history of growth has led to its being "a stalwart of many 401 plans".