In Brief: Fidelity Has New Equity Chief

In executive news at Fidelity Investments, Brian B. Hogan now leads the equity unit of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo), the investment advisor to Fidelity’s family of mutual funds. Hogan has been with the firm for 15 years and has been senior vice president of equity research since 2006.

As president of the equity division, Hogan will oversee more than $491 billion in equity and high-income mutual fund assets, according to Fidelity. He now reports to Michael E. Wilens, head of asset management.

Hogan joined Fidelity in 1994 as a fixed-income analyst and became part of the equity division in 1998. He assumed his current role in October 2006.