Stephen  Balter

Stephen Balter is a portfolio manager at Pyramis Global Advisors, a unit of Fidelity Investments. In this role, Steve serves as portfolio manager of large-capitalization growth assets. Along with portfolio co-manager Chistopher Galizio, Steve manages Fidelity American Opportunities Fund and the U.S. equity portfolio of Fidelity Global Fund.

Before joining Pyramis in February, 2007, Steve was co-chair of growth investing at Pioneer Investments in Boston and co-managed Pioneer Growth Shares and Pioneer Fundamental Growth. Prior to joining Pioneer, Steve was portfolio manager at 2100 Capital Group, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, where he managed the 2100 Capital Group Discovery Fund, a U.S. equity market-neutral hedge fund. Steve spent four years at Putnam Investments as senior vice-president and was co-manager of the Putnam Utilities Growth and Income Fund, as well as sector team leader for telecommunications research. Before working at Putnam, Steve spent four years at Pioneer on both the emerging markets and domestic equity research teams covering various industries, including telecommunications, consumer, industrials and technology. Steve has more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry.

Steve earned a BA in economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Babson College. Steve is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.