Form 485APOS Fidelity Rutland Square
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E-mailSecurities Act of 1933 Registration No. 333-139427
Investment Company Act of 1940 Registration No. 811-21991
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 [X]
[ ] Pre-Effective Amendment No. ______
[X] Post-Effective Amendment No. __125___
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 [X]
[X] Amendment No. __128___
Fidelity Rutland Square Trust II
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)
Registrant’s Telephone Number: 617-563-7000
| Christina H. Lee Secretary and Chief Legal Officer 245 Summer Street Boston, Massachusetts 02210 (Name and Address of Agent for Service) | With copies to: John V. O’Hanlon, Esq. Dechert LLP One International Place, 40th Floor 100 Oliver Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
It is proposed that this filing will become effective on March 21, 2025 pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Fund/Ticker
Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund/[_____]
Offered exclusively to certain managed account clients of Strategic Advisers LLC or its affiliates - not available for sale to the general public
Prospectus
[________, YYYY]
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have not approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this prospectus is accurate or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
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 245 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
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Contents
Fund Summary |
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Fund Basics |
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Shareholder Information |
Additional Information about the Purchase and Sale of Shares |
Fund Services |
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Appendix |
Fund Summary
Fund:
Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund
Investment Objective
Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund seeks total return.
Fee Table
The following table describes the fees and expenses that may be incurred when you buy, hold, and sell shares of the fund.
Shareholder fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
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None
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Annual Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fee (fluctuates based on the fund's allocation among underlying funds and sub-advisers)
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[__]%A
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Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) fees
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None
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Other expenses
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[__]%B
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Acquired fund fees and expenses
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[__]%B
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Total annual operating expenses
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[__]%
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Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement
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[__]%A
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Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement
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[__]%
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A Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) has contractually agreed that the fund's maximum aggregate annual management fee will not exceed [ ]% of the fund's average daily net assets. In addition, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive a portion of the fund's management fee in an amount equal to [ ]% of the fund's average daily net assets. This arrangement will remain in effect through [ ], and neither Strategic Advisers nor any of its affiliates retain the ability to be repaid with respect to this arrangement. Strategic Advisers may not terminate this arrangement without the approval of the Board of Trustees.
B Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
This example helps compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
Let's say, hypothetically, that the annual return for shares of the fund is 5% and that the fees and the annual operating expenses for shares of the fund are exactly as described in the fee table. This example illustrates the effect of fees and expenses, but is not meant to suggest actual or expected fees and expenses or returns, all of which may vary. For every $10,000 you invested, here's how much you would pay in total expenses if you sell all of your shares at the end of each time period indicated:
1 year
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$[__]
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3 years
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$[__]
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Portfolio Turnover
The fund will not incur transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of affiliated mutual funds but may incur transaction costs when buying or selling non-affiliated funds and other types of securities (including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)) directly (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund's performance.
Principal Investment Strategies
- Seeking to provide shareholders with positive total returns over a complete market cycle (generally five to eight years) through multiple "alternative" or non-traditional strategies, including return seeking (positive correlation with equity markets), diversifying (low correlation with equity markets) and defensive strategies (hedging strategies that are expected to perform well when equity markets decline).
- Normally allocating the fund's assets among affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (collectively, underlying funds), derivatives, and sub-advisers that provide exposure to equity, debt (including debt securities of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds), derivatives, currency, and commodities markets, across different market sectors, countries and regions, including the United States, non-U.S. developed markets and emerging markets, cash and cash equivalents.
- Allocating a majority of the fund's assets among underlying Fidelity® funds and sub-advisers, as well as derivatives, that provide exposure to the investments above.
- Engaging in transactions that have a leveraging effect on the fund, including long and short investments in derivatives - such as forward contracts, futures, options, swaps, and various volatility related instruments - and forward-settling securities, to: create and adjust the fund's investment exposure; enhance total return; hedge against fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates, or currency exchange rates; change the effective duration of the fund's portfolio; manage certain investment risks; manage volatility; and/or substitute for the purchase or sale of securities, currencies, or commodities.
- Allocating assets among affiliated funds (i.e., Fidelity® funds, including mutual funds and ETFs), non-affiliated funds that typically participate in Fidelity's FundsNetwork®, non-affiliated ETFs and sub-advisers.
- Allocating assets among sub-advisers and underlying funds using proprietary fundamental and quantitative research, considering factors including, but not limited to, performance in different market environments, manager experience and investment style, management company infrastructure, costs, asset size, portfolio turnover, and impact on portfolio risk characteristics.
- Investing up to 25% of assets in one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands with a May 31 fiscal year end that invest in commodity-linked derivative instruments.
Pursuant to an exemptive order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) is permitted, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, to enter into new or amended sub-advisory agreements with one or more unaffiliated sub-advisers without obtaining shareholder approval of such agreements. Subject to oversight by the Board of Trustees, Strategic Advisers has the ultimate responsibility to oversee the fund's sub-advisers and recommend their hiring, termination, and replacement. In the event the Board of Trustees approves a sub-advisory agreement with a new unaffiliated sub-adviser, shareholders will be provided with information about the new sub-adviser and sub-advisory agreement.
Principal Investment Risks
- Multiple Sub-Adviser Risk.
Separate investment decisions and the resulting purchase and sale activities of the fund's sub-advisers might adversely affect the fund's performance or lead to disadvantageous tax consequences.
- Investing in Other Funds.
Regulatory restrictions may limit the amount that one fund can invest in another, which means that the fund's manager may not be able to invest as much as it wants to in some other funds. The fund bears all risks of investment strategies employed by the underlying funds, including the risk that the underlying funds will not meet their investment objectives. Underlying funds may invest in special purpose acquisition companies or other similar special purpose entities (collectively, SPACs), which do not have an operating history or ongoing business other than seeking acquisitions. As such, the value of a SPAC's securities is particularly dependent on the ability of its management to identify and complete a profitable acquisition and may be highly volatile with little or no liquidity. Underlying funds that are passively managed attempt to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities and as such their performance could be lower than actively managed funds, which may shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact of a market decline. In addition, errors in the construction of the index tracked by an underlying passively managed fund may have an adverse impact on the performance of such underlying fund.
- Stock Market Volatility.
Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market, including different market sectors, and different types of securities can react differently to these developments.
- Interest Rate Changes.
Interest rate increases can cause the price of a debt security to decrease.
- Correlation Risk.
The correlation of asset classes or selected countries and investments become correlated in a way not anticipated by the Adviser could result in magnified risks and loss instead of reducing the risk of loss.
- Foreign and Emerging Markets Risk.
Foreign markets, particularly emerging markets, can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and can perform differently from the U.S. market.
The extent of economic development; political stability; market depth, infrastructure, and capitalization; and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets. Emerging markets typically have less established legal, accounting and financial reporting systems than those in more developed markets, which may reduce the scope or quality of financial information available to investors.
Emerging markets can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
Foreign exchange rates also can be extremely volatile.
- Geographic Exposure.
Social, political, and economic conditions and changes in regulatory, tax, or economic policy in a country or region could significantly affect the market in that country or region.
- Currency Exposure.
Because the fund is normally exposed to foreign currencies, it could experience losses based solely on the weakness of foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar and changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Currency risk may be particularly high to the extent that a fund invests in foreign currencies or engages in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to emerging markets countries. These emerging markets currency transactions may present market, credit, currency, liquidity, legal, political and other risks different from, or greater than, the risks of investing in developed foreign currencies or engaging in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to developed foreign countries.
- Industry Exposure.
Market conditions, interest rates, and economic, regulatory, or financial developments could significantly affect a single industry or group of related industries.
- Subsidiary Risk.
Investment in [ ] and/or [ ], each an unregistered subsidiary, is not subject to the investor protections of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act) and is subject to the risks associated with investing in derivatives and commodity-linked investing in general. Changes in tax and other laws could negatively affect investments in the subsidiaries.
- Prepayment.
The ability of an issuer of a debt security to repay principal prior to a security's maturity can cause greater price volatility if interest rates change.
- Issuer-Specific Changes.
The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than, and can perform differently from, the market as a whole.
Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds) and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer. The value of lower-quality debt securities and certain types of other securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.
Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty (e.g., broker-dealer or other borrower in a securities lending transaction) can increase the risk of default by an issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security's or instrument's value or result in delays in recovering securities and/or capital from a counterparty.
- Small- and Mid-Cap Investing.
The value of securities of small to medium size, less well-known issuers can perform differently from the market as a whole and other types of stocks and can be more volatile than that of larger issuers.
- Leverage Risk.
Leverage can increase market exposure, magnify investment risks, and cause losses to be realized more quickly. The fund's use of futures, forwards, options, swaps, and other derivative instruments may result in losses. The value of these derivative instruments may pose risks in addition to and greater than those associated with investing directly in securities, currencies or other instruments and may be illiquid or less liquid, volatile, difficult to price and leveraged so that small changes in the value of underlying instruments may produce disproportionate losses to the fund. The use of derivatives is a highly specialized activity that involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with investments in more traditional securities and instruments. Moreover, a relatively small price movement in a derivative contract may result in substantial losses to the fund, exceeding the amount of the margin paid. The use of derivatives can increase the fund's risk exposure to underlying assets and their attendant risks, while also exposing the fund to the risk of mispricing or other improper valuation and the risk that changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate as anticipated with the underlying asset, rate, index or overall securities markets, thereby reducing their effectiveness.
- Investing in ETFs.
ETFs may trade in the secondary market at prices below the value of their underlying portfolios and may not be liquid. ETFs that track an index are subject to tracking error and may be unable to sell poorly performing assets that are included in their index or other benchmark.
- Quantitative Investing.
Securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, and changes in the factors' historical trends.
- Commodity-Linked Investing.
The value of commodities and commodity-linked investments may be affected by the performance of the overall commodities markets as well as weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market developments. Commodity-linked investments may be more volatile and less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures.
- Commodity Futures.
Investments in commodity futures contracts are also subject to the risk of the failure of any of the exchanges on which the fund's positions trade or of its clearinghouses or counterparties. In addition, certain commodity exchanges limit fluctuations in certain futures contract prices during a single day by regulations referred to as "daily price fluctuation limits" or "daily limits." Under such daily limits, during a single trading day no trades may be executed at prices beyond the daily limit. If triggered, these limits could prevent the fund from liquidating unfavorable positions and subject the fund to losses or prevent it from entering into desired trades during the particular trading day.
In addition, the fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act, which means that it has the ability to invest a greater portion of assets in securities of a smaller number of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a more diversified fund.
An investment in the fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. You could lose money by investing in the fund.
Performance
Performance history will be available for the fund after the fund has been in operation for one calendar year.
Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers (the Adviser) is the fund's manager. [_____] have been retained to serve as sub-advisers for the fund. [______] has been retained to serve as [a] sub-subadviser[s] for the fund.
The Adviser may change a sub-adviser's asset allocation at any time, including allocating no assets to, or terminating the sub-advisory contract with, a sub-adviser.
Portfolio Manager(s)
Kevin Britton (Portfolio Manager) has managed the fund since 2025.
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The fund is not available for sale to the general public.
The price to buy one share is its net asset value per share (NAV). Shares will be bought at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
The price to sell one share is its NAV. Shares will be sold at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
The fund is open for business each day the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is open.
There is no purchase minimum for fund shares.
Tax Information
Distributions you receive from the fund are subject to federal income tax and generally will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, and may also be subject to state or local taxes, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged retirement account (in which case you may be taxed later, upon withdrawal of your investment from such account).
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
The fund, the Adviser, Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC), and/or their affiliates may pay intermediaries, which may include banks, broker-dealers, retirement plan sponsors, administrators, or service-providers (who may be affiliated with the Adviser or FDC), for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your intermediary and your investment professional to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your investment professional or visit your intermediary's web site for more information.
Fund Basics
Investment Details
Investment Objective
Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund seeks total return.
Principal Investment Strategies
The fund pursues its investment objective by seeking to provide shareholders with positive total returns over a complete market cycle (generally five to eight years) through multiple "alternative" or non-traditional strategies. The fund achieves exposure to these strategies through underlying funds, sub-advisers and derivatives that provide exposure to multiple alternative strategies, including return seeking, diversifying and defensive strategies. Return seeking strategies exhibit meaningful positive correlation to equity markets and may include different arbitrage and global macro strategies that seek to take long positions in undervalued markets and short positions in overvalued markets. Arbitrage strategies may also include investments in the stock, warrants, and other securities of special purpose acquisition companies or other similar special purpose entities (collectively, SPACs) that pool money to seek potential acquisition opportunities. Diversifying strategies generally have low correlation to equity markets and seek to diversify the risks of investing in equity markets by offering alternative strategies that may include "relative value" strategies that purchase undervalued assets paired with a similar sized short position in an overvalued asset, "reinsurance" strategies that provide exposure to insurance markets for natural catastrophes, and "trend" strategies that make investments in markets that are trending up, while shorting those that are trending down, which may be correlated to equities over shorter periods of time but change positions dynamically leading to low correlation over longer periods. Defensive strategies are designed to perform well when equity markets decline and include various hedging strategies.
The Adviser normally allocates the fund's assets among affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (collectively, underlying funds), derivatives and sub-advisers that provide exposure to equity, debt (including debt securities of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds), derivatives, currency, and commodities markets, across different market sectors, countries and regions, including the United States, non-U.S. developed markets and emerging markets, cash and cash equivalents. The fund has flexibility in its allocation to asset classes, markets, and instruments and expects to vary the percentage of its assets invested in each asset class, market and instrument from time to time.
The Adviser allocates a majority of the fund's assets among underlying Fidelity® funds and sub-advisers, as well as derivatives, that provide exposure to the investments above.
The fund invests in derivatives, both long and short, such as: forward contracts, including forward foreign currency contracts; futures, including exchange traded futures, currency, equity index, commodity, interest rate and other bond futures; options, including writing (selling) calls against positions in the portfolio (covered calls) or writing (selling) puts, call and put options, over-the-counter (OTC) options, options on swaps and rights and warrants; and swaps, including credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, and total return swaps; and various volatility related instruments. The fund uses derivatives to: create and adjust investment exposure; enhance total return; hedge against fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates, or currency exchange rates; change the effective duration of the fund's portfolio; manage certain investment risks; manage volatility; and/or substitute for the purchase or sale of securities, currencies or commodities. Therefore, the Adviser expects the fund to have investment leverage, defined as market exposure in excess of the fund's assets, as a result of the fund's investments in derivatives.
The Adviser pursues a disciplined approach to portfolio construction, and monitors and adjusts allocations to underlying funds, derivatives and sub-advisers as necessary to favor those underlying funds, derivatives and sub-advisers that the Adviser believes will provide the most favorable outlook for achieving the fund's investment objective. The Adviser may allocate the fund's assets among any number of underlying funds, sub-advisers and derivatives at any time and may adjust these allocations from time to time, including making no allocations at all to one or more sub-advisers.
When determining how to allocate the fund's assets, the Adviser uses proprietary fundamental and quantitative research, considering factors including, but not limited to, performance in different market environments, manager experience and investment style, management company infrastructure, costs, asset size, portfolio turnover, and impact on portfolio risk characteristics.
The fund may invest in affiliated funds (i.e., Fidelity® funds, including mutual funds and ETFs), non-affiliated funds that typically participate in Fidelity's FundsNetwork® and in non-affiliated ETFs. Underlying funds include both funds managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) (an affiliated company that, together with the Adviser, is part of Fidelity Investments) or an affiliate and funds managed by investment advisers other than Fidelity. Fidelity may receive service fees that typically are at an annual rate of up to 0.40% of a non-affiliated underlying fund's average daily net assets attributable to purchases through Fidelity's FundsNetwork®, though such fees may be higher or lower, or may be charged as transaction and/or account fees. In addition, the fund may invest in ETFs in transactions not occurring through Fidelity's FundsNetwork®.
The Adviser generally classifies underlying funds by reference to a fund's name, policies, or investments.
For information on the underlying funds, see the underlying funds' prospectuses. A copy of any underlying Fidelity® fund's prospectus is available at www.fidelity.com or institutional.fidelity.com. For a copy of any other underlying fund's prospectus, visit the web site of the company that manages or sponsors that underlying fund.
Common types of investment approaches that a sub-adviser may use in selecting investments for a fund include, but are not limited to, quantitative analysis, fundamental analysis, or a combination of both approaches. Quantitative analysis refers to programmatic models that analyze such factors as growth potential, valuation, relative valuation, liquidity, and investment risk based on data inputs. Fundamental analysis involves a bottom-up assessment of potential for success in light of factors including its financial condition, earnings outlook, strategy, management, industry position, economic and market conditions, security-specific features, current valuation relative to alternatives in the market, short-term trading opportunities resulting from market inefficiencies, and credit, currency and economic risks associated with a security or instrument and the country of its issuer.
The Adviser may invest up to 25% of the fund's assets in one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries of the fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiaries) with a May 31 fiscal year end. The Subsidiaries are managed by the Adviser or a sub-adviser to the fund. The Subsidiaries are expected to invest directly in commodity-related instruments and commodity-linked derivative instruments, including swaps, options and forward contracts based on the value of commodities or commodities indexes, commodity-lined notes, and commodity futures. The Subsidiaries will not be managed to take delivery of physical commodities, and may divest of certain commodity-linked derivative instruments (namely commodity futures and forwards) to avoid delivery.
Because the fund is classified as non-diversified, the fund may invest a significant percentage of the fund's assets in a single issuer.
The fund's initial shareholder approved a proposal permitting the Adviser to enter into new or amended sub-advisory agreements with one or more unaffiliated sub-advisers without obtaining shareholder approval of such agreements, subject to conditions of an exemptive order that has been granted by the SEC (Exemptive Order). One of the conditions of the Exemptive Order requires the Board of Trustees to approve any such agreement. Subject to oversight by the Board of Trustees, the Adviser has the ultimate responsibility to oversee the fund's sub-advisers and recommend their hiring, termination, and replacement. In the event the Board of Trustees approves a sub-advisory agreement with a new unaffiliated sub-adviser, shareholders will be provided with information about the new sub-adviser and sub-advisory agreement within ninety days of appointment.
Description of Principal Security Types
In addition to investing in underlying funds, the fund may invest directly in the following principal security types:
Derivatives are investments whose values are tied to an underlying asset, instrument, currency, or index. Derivatives include futures, options, forwards, and swaps, such as interest rate swaps (exchanging a floating rate for a fixed rate), total return swaps (exchanging a floating rate for the total return of an index, security, or other instrument or investment) and credit default swaps (buying or selling credit default protection) and volatility related instruments. Currency-related derivatives, in particular, include foreign exchange (FX) transactions such as spot FX trades, FX forwards, non-deliverable forwards, and cross-currency FX trades. Derivative instruments may include:
• A futures contract is an exchange-traded derivative transaction between two parties in which a buyer (holding the "long" position) agrees to pay a fixed price (or rate) at a specified future date for delivery of an underlying reference from a seller (holding the "short" position).
• Options are derivatives that give the purchaser the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a specific amount of an underlying instrument, foreign currency or contract (such as a swap agreement or futures contract) on the underlying instrument or foreign currency from or to a counterparty at a specified price (the strike price) on or before an expiration date.
• In swap transactions, two parties agree to exchange payments at specified dates on the basis of a specified notional amount, with the payments calculated by reference to specified securities, indices, reference rates, currencies or other instruments.
• Volatility related instruments provide exposure to volatility across different markets through long or short positions in derivative instruments, including volatility index options, volatility and variance swaps and volatility futures.
Equity securities represent an ownership interest, or the right to acquire an ownership interest, in an issuer. Different types of equity securities provide different voting and dividend rights and priority in the event of the bankruptcy of the issuer. Equity securities include common stocks, preferred stocks, convertible securities, and warrants.
Debt securities are used by issuers to borrow money. The issuer usually pays a fixed, variable, or floating rate of interest, and must repay the amount borrowed, usually at the maturity of the security. Some debt securities, such as zero coupon bonds, do not pay current interest but are sold at a discount from their face values. Debt securities include corporate bonds, catastrophe bonds (bonds designed to raise funds for companies in the insurance industry in the event of a natural disaster), government securities (including Treasury securities), repurchase agreements, money market securities, mortgage and other asset-backed securities, loans and loan participations, and other securities believed to have debt-like characteristics, including hybrids and synthetic securities.
Commodity-linked derivative instruments are indexed to all or part of a commodities index or to a single commodity. Commodity-linked derivative instruments include debt securities and other investments whose maturity values, interest rates, or returns are determined by reference to a commodities index and are designed to provide exposure to the entire index, and may include other investments that provide exposure to less than the entire commodities index or to a single commodity. Commodity-linked derivative instruments may be positively or negatively indexed, meaning their maturity value may be structured to increase or decrease as commodity values change.
A repurchase agreement is an agreement to buy a security at one price and a simultaneous agreement to sell it back at an agreed-upon price.
Forward-settling securities involve a commitment to purchase or sell specific securities when issued, or at a predetermined price or yield. When a fund does not already own or have the right to obtain securities equivalent in kind and amount, a commitment to sell securities is equivalent to a short sale. Payment and delivery take place after the customary settlement period.
U.S. Government securities are securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government and its various instrumentalities and agencies.
Principal Investment Risks
Many factors affect the fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics and epidemics, may magnify factors that affect a fund's performance. The fund's share price changes daily based on the performance of the underlying funds and securities in which it invests and on changes in market conditions and interest rates and in response to other economic, political, or financial developments. The fund's reaction to these developments will be affected by the types of underlying funds and securities in which the fund invests, the financial condition, industry and economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and the fund's level of investment in the securities of that underlying fund or issuer. In addition, because the fund may invest a significant percentage of assets in a single issuer or a single underlying fund, the fund's performance could be closely tied to that one issuer or underlying fund and could be more volatile than the performance of more diversified funds.
If the Adviser's or a sub-adviser's allocation strategies do not work as intended, the fund may not achieve its objective. A portfolio manager's evaluations and assumptions in selecting underlying funds or individual securities may be incorrect in view of actual market conditions.
When your shares are sold they may be worth more or less than what you paid for them, which means that you could lose money by investing in the fund.
The following factors can significantly affect the fund's performance:
Multiple Sub-Adviser Risk. Because each sub-adviser manages its allocated portion, if any, independently from another sub-adviser, it is possible that the sub-advisers' security selection processes may not complement one another. As a result, the fund's aggregate exposure to a particular industry or group of industries, or to a single issuer, could unintentionally be larger or smaller than intended. Because each sub-adviser directs the trading for its own portion, if any, of the fund, and does not aggregate its transactions with those of the other sub-advisers, the fund may incur higher brokerage costs than would be the case if a single sub-adviser were managing the entire fund.
Investing in Other Funds. Regulatory restrictions may limit the amount that one fund can invest in another, and in certain cases further limit investments to the extent a fund's shares are already held by the Adviser or its affiliates. The fund bears all risks of investment strategies employed by the underlying funds. The fund does not control the investments of the underlying funds, which may have different investment objectives and may engage in investment strategies that the fund would not engage in directly. Underlying funds may invest in SPACs, which are collective investment structures formed to raise money in an initial public offering for the purpose of merging with or acquiring one or more operating companies. Because SPACs do not have an operating history or ongoing business other than seeking acquisitions, the value of a SPAC's securities is particularly dependent on the ability of its management to identify and complete a profitable acquisition. There is no guarantee that a SPAC will complete an acquisition or that any acquisitions completed will be profitable. The value of an underlying fund's investments in SPACs may be highly volatile and these investments may also have limited or no liquidity. Aggregation of underlying fund holdings may result in indirect concentration of assets in a particular industry or group of industries, or in a single issuer, which may increase volatility. Some of the underlying funds in which the fund invests are managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities, regardless of the current or projected performance of an underlying fund's index or of the actual securities included in the index. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the performance of these underlying passively managed funds could be lower than actively managed funds that may shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact of a market decline or a decline in the value of one or more issuers. In addition, errors in the construction or calculation of the index tracked by an underlying passively managed fund may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected for some period of time, which may have an adverse impact on the performance of the underlying fund and its shareholders.
Investing in ETFs. ETFs may trade in the secondary market (e.g., on a stock exchange) at prices below the value of their underlying portfolios and may not be liquid. An ETF that is not actively managed cannot sell poorly performing stocks or other assets as long as they are represented in its index or other benchmark. ETFs that track an index are subject to tracking error risk (the risk of errors in matching the ETF's underlying assets to its index or other benchmark).
Interest Rate Changes. Debt securities, including money market securities, have varying levels of sensitivity to changes in interest rates. In general, the price of a debt security can fall when interest rates rise and can rise when interest rates fall. Securities with longer maturities and certain types of securities, such as mortgage securities and the securities of issuers in the financial services sector, can be more sensitive to interest rate changes, meaning the longer the maturity of a security, the greater the impact a change in interest rates could have on the security's price. Short-term and long-term interest rates do not necessarily move in the same amount or the same direction. Short-term securities tend to react to changes in short-term interest rates, and long-term securities tend to react to changes in long-term interest rates. Securities with floating interest rates can be less sensitive to interest rate changes, but may decline in value if their interest rates do not rise as much as interest rates in general. Securities whose payment at maturity is based on the movement of all or part of an index and inflation-protected debt securities may react differently from other types of debt securities. Some countries experience low or negative interest rates from time to time, which may magnify interest rate risk for the market as a whole and for a fund. Certain investments held by a fund may have relied on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) (an indicative measure of the average interest rate at which major global banks could borrow from one another). As a result of benchmark reforms, publication of all LIBOR settings has ceased. Although the transition process away from certain benchmark rates, including LIBOR, for more instruments has been completed, any potential effects of the transition away from LIBOR and other benchmark rates on financial markets, a fund or the financial instruments in which a fund invests can be difficult to ascertain and may adversely impact a fund's performance.
Prepayment. Many types of debt securities, including mortgage securities, inflation-protected debt securities, and floating rate loans, are subject to prepayment risk. Prepayment risk occurs when the issuer of a security can repay principal prior to the security's maturity. Securities subject to prepayment can offer less potential for gains during a declining interest rate environment or when the credit quality of an issuer improves and similar or greater potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment. In addition, the potential impact of prepayment features on the price of a debt security can be difficult to predict and result in greater volatility.
Correlation Risk. Changes in the value of the asset classes in which the fund invests or specific investments within those asset classes may not track or offset each other in the manner anticipated by the Adviser. Because the fund's investment strategy seeks to balance risk across multiple asset classes and, within each asset class, to balance risk across different countries and investments, to the extent either the asset classes or the selected countries and investments become correlated in a way not anticipated by the Adviser, the fund's risk allocation process may not produce the intended result.
Stock Market Volatility. The value of equity securities fluctuates in response to issuer, political, market, and economic developments. Fluctuations, especially in foreign markets, can be dramatic over the short as well as long term, and different parts of the market, including different market sectors, and different types of equity securities can react differently to these developments. For example, stocks of companies in one sector can react differently from those in another, large cap stocks can react differently from small cap stocks, and "growth" stocks can react differently from "value" stocks. Issuer, political, or economic developments can affect a single issuer, issuers within an industry or economic sector or geographic region, or the market as a whole. Changes in the financial condition of a single issuer can impact the market as a whole. Terrorism and related geo-political risks have led, and may in the future lead, to increased short-term market volatility and may have adverse long-term effects on world economies and markets generally.
Quantitative Investing. The value of securities selected using quantitative analysis can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than the market as a whole or securities selected using only fundamental analysis. The factors used in quantitative analysis and the weight placed on those factors may not be predictive of a security's value. In addition, factors that affect a security's value can change over time and these changes may not be reflected in the quantitative model.
Leverage Risk. Derivatives and forward-settling securities and short sale transactions involve leverage because they can provide investment exposure in an amount exceeding the initial investment. Leverage can magnify investment risks and cause losses to be realized more quickly. A small change in the underlying asset, instrument, or index can lead to a significant loss. Assets segregated to cover these transactions may decline in value and are not available to meet redemptions. Forward-settling securities and short sale transactions also involve the risk that a security will not be issued, delivered, available for purchase, or paid for when anticipated. An increase in the market price of securities sold short will result in a loss. Government legislation or regulation could affect the use of these transactions and could limit a fund's ability to pursue its investment strategies. The use of derivatives can increase the fund's risk exposure to underlying assets and their attendant risks, such as credit risk, stock market volatility risk, foreign currency risk and interest rate risk, while also exposing the fund to the risk of mispricing or other improper valuation; the risk that changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate as anticipated with the underlying asset, rate, index or overall securities markets, thereby reducing their effectiveness; counterparty risk; inflation risk; leverage risk; and liquidity risk.
The use of derivatives is a highly specialized activity that involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with investments in traditional securities and instruments. There is no guarantee that the use of derivatives will achieve their intended result. If the Adviser is incorrect in its expectation of the timing or level of fluctuation in securities prices, interest rates, currency prices or other variables, the use of derivatives could result in losses, which may be significant. A lack of correlation between changes in the value of derivatives and the value of the portfolio assets (if any) being hedged could also result in losses. In addition, there is a risk that the performance of the derivatives or other instruments used by the Adviser to replicate the performance of a particular asset class may not accurately track the performance of that asset class. The fund's use of derivatives also may cause the fund to realize higher amounts of short-term capital gains (generally taxed at ordinary income tax rates) than if the fund had not used such instruments.
Swaps Risk. The fund may invest in credit default swaps, credit default swap indexes, interest rate swaps, and total return swaps. Swaps may be difficult to value and may be illiquid. The fund could experience losses if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated. The fund may only close out a swap with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty. Certain swaps, such as short swap transactions and total return swaps, have the potential for unlimited losses, regardless of the size of the initial investment.
Credit default swaps (including credit default swap indices) are a special type of swap where one party makes a stream of payments to another party in exchange for the right to receive a specified return upon the occurrence of a particular credit event by one or more third parties, such as bankruptcy, default or a similar event. A credit default swap may be embedded within a structured note or other derivative instrument. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the fund may have may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could delay or limit the fund's recovery. Thus, if the counterparty to a credit default swap defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the fund may lose such payments altogether, or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve costs or delays.
Credit default swap indices are indices that reflect the performance of a basket of credit default swaps and are subject to the same risks as credit default swaps, as well as additional risks. The fund's return from investment in a credit default swap index may not match the return of the referenced index. Unexpected changes in the composition of the index may also affect performance of the credit default swap index. If a referenced index has a dramatic intraday move that causes a material decline in the fund's net assets, the terms of the fund's credit default swap index may permit the counterparty to immediately close out the transaction. In that event, the fund may be unable to enter into another credit default swap index or otherwise achieve desired exposure, even if the referenced index reverses all or a portion of its intraday move.
Futures Contract Risk. The fund may invest in bond, currency, equity, index, and interest rate futures contracts. Certain futures contract markets are highly volatile, the use of futures may increase the volatility of the fund's NAV, and futures contracts may be illiquid or less liquid than the underlying reference. Futures are traded on exchanges that may limit fluctuations in futures contract prices by imposing a maximum permissible daily price movement. The fund may be disadvantaged if it is prohibited from executing a trade outside the daily permissible price movement. Positions in futures contracts may be closed out only on the exchange on which they were entered into or through a linked exchange, and no secondary market exists for such contracts. Futures positions are marked to market each day and variation margin payment must be paid to or by the fund. Because of the low margin deposits normally required in futures trading, it is possible that the fund may employ a high degree of leverage in the portfolio. For certain types of futures contracts, losses are theoretically unlimited. Moreover, futures contracts executed (if any) on foreign exchanges may not provide the same protection as U.S. exchanges.
Options Risk. The fund may purchase or write (i.e., sell) put and call options. When writing options, the fund is exposed to the risk that it may be required to buy or sell the underlying reference at a disadvantageous price on or before the expiration date. If the fund sells a put option, the fund may be required to buy the underlying reference at a strike price that is above market price, resulting in a loss. If the fund sells a call option, the fund may be required to sell the underlying reference at a strike price that is below market price, resulting in a loss. If the fund sells a call option that is not covered (it does not own the underlying reference), the fund's losses are theoretically unlimited. Options may involve economic leverage, which could result in greater volatility in price movement. Options may be traded on a securities exchange or in the OTC market.
Commodity-Linked Investing. The performance of commodities, commodity-linked swaps, futures, notes, and other commodity-related investments may depend on the performance of individual commodities and the overall commodities markets and on other factors that affect the value of commodities, including weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market developments. Commodity-linked instruments may be leveraged. For example, the price of a three-times leveraged commodity-linked note may change by a magnitude of three for every percentage change (positive or negative) in the value of the underlying index. Commodity-linked investments may be hybrid instruments that can have substantial risk of loss with respect to both principal and interest. Commodity-linked investments may be more volatile and less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures, and may be subject to the credit risks associated with the issuer or counterparty. As a result, returns of commodity-linked investments may deviate significantly from the return of the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures. In addition, the regulatory and tax environment for commodity-linked derivative instruments is evolving, and changes in the regulation or taxation of such investments may have a material adverse impact on an underlying fund.
The commodities industries can be significantly affected by the level and volatility of commodity prices; the rate of commodity consumption; world events including international monetary and political developments; import controls, export controls, and worldwide competition; exploration and production spending; and tax and other government regulations and economic conditions.
Commodity Futures. Investments in commodity futures contracts are also subject to the risk of the failure of any of the exchanges on which the fund's positions trade or of its clearinghouses or counterparties. In addition, certain commodity exchanges limit fluctuations in certain futures contract prices during a single day by regulations referred to as "daily price fluctuation limits" or "daily limits." Under such daily limits, during a single trading day no trades may be executed at prices beyond the daily limit. Once the price of a particular commodity futures contract has increased or decreased by an amount equal to the daily limit, positions in that contract can neither be taken nor liquidated unless traders are willing to effect trades at or within the limit. If triggered, these limits could prevent the fund from liquidating unfavorable positions and subject the fund to losses or prevent it from entering into desired trades during the particular trading day. A commodity futures contract could also move to the daily limit for several consecutive trading days with little or no trading, thereby further prolonging the liquidation of positions and subjecting some holders of such futures contracts to additional losses. In extraordinary circumstances, a futures exchange or the applicable regulator could suspend trading in a particular futures contract, or order liquidation or settlement of all open positions in such contract.
Small- and Mid-Cap Investing. The value of securities of small to medium size, less well-known issuers can be more volatile than that of relatively larger issuers and can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Smaller issuers can have more limited product lines, markets, and financial resources.
Foreign and Emerging Markets Risk. Foreign securities, foreign currencies, and securities issued by U.S. entities with substantial foreign operations can involve additional risks relating to political, economic, or regulatory conditions in foreign countries. These risks include fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; withholding or other taxes; trading, settlement, custodial, and other operational risks; and the less stringent investor protection and disclosure standards of some foreign markets. All of these factors can make foreign investments, especially those in emerging markets, more volatile and potentially less liquid than U.S. investments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently from the U.S. market.
Investing in emerging markets can involve risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign markets. The extent of economic development; political stability; market depth, infrastructure, and capitalization; and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets. Emerging markets typically have less established legal, accounting and financial reporting systems than those in more developed markets, which may reduce the scope or quality of financial information available to investors. Emerging markets economies can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. All of these factors can make emerging markets securities more volatile and potentially less liquid than securities issued in more developed markets.
Global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers or providers in, or foreign exchange rates with, a different country or region.
Geographic Exposure. Social, political, and economic conditions and changes in regulatory, tax, or economic policy in a country or region could significantly affect the market in that country or region. From time to time, a small number of companies and industries may represent a large portion of the market in a particular country or region, and these companies and industries can be sensitive to adverse social, political, economic, currency, or regulatory developments. Similarly, from time to time, the fund or an underlying fund may invest a meaningful portion of its assets in the securities of issuers located in a single country or a limited number of countries. If the fund or an underlying fund invests in this manner, there is a higher risk that social, political, economic, tax (such as a tax on foreign investments or financial transactions), currency, or regulatory developments in those countries may have a significant impact on the fund's or the underlying fund's investment performance.
Industry Exposure. Market conditions, interest rates, and economic, regulatory, or financial developments could significantly affect a single industry or a group of related industries, and the securities of companies in that industry or group of industries could react similarly to these or other developments. In addition, from time to time, a small number of companies may represent a large portion of a single industry or a group of related industries as a whole, and these companies can be sensitive to adverse economic, regulatory, or financial developments.
Currency Exposure. Because the fund is normally exposed to foreign currencies, it could experience losses based solely on the weakness of foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar and changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Currency risk may be particularly high to the extent that a fund invests in foreign currencies or engages in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to emerging markets countries. These emerging markets currency transactions may present market, credit, currency, liquidity, legal, political and other risks different from, or greater than, the risks of investing in developed foreign currencies or engaging in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to developed foreign countries.
Issuer-Specific Changes. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, and changes in general economic or political conditions can increase the risk of default by an issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security's or instrument's credit quality or value and an issuer's or counterparty's ability to pay interest and principal when due. Entities providing credit support (such as guarantees) or a maturity-shortening structure (such as demand and put features) also can be affected by these types of changes, and if the structure of a security fails to function as intended, the security could decline in value. Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds), including floating rate loans, and certain types of other securities tend to be particularly sensitive to these changes.
Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds) and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer. The value of lower-quality debt securities and certain types of other securities often fluctuates in response to company, political, or economic developments and can decline significantly over short as well as long periods of time or during periods of general or regional economic difficulty. Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds) can be thinly traded or have restrictions on resale, making them difficult to sell at an acceptable price, and often are considered to be speculative. The default rate for lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds) is likely to be higher during economic recessions or periods of high interest rates.
Subsidiary Risk. The investments held by the Subsidiaries are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the fund and, therefore, the Subsidiaries are subject to risks similar to those of the fund, including the risks associated with investing in derivatives and commodity-linked investing in general. Because the Subsidiaries are organized under Cayman Islands law and are not registered under the 1940 Act, the Subsidiaries are not subject to the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Changes in U.S. or Cayman Islands laws could result in the inability of the fund and/or the Subsidiaries to operate as described in this prospectus.
In response to market, economic, political, or other conditions, a fund may temporarily use a different investment strategy for defensive purposes. If the fund does so, different factors could affect its performance and the fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Other Investment Strategies
In addition to the principal investment strategies discussed above, the Adviser may lend the fund's securities to broker-dealers or other institutions to earn income for the fund.
Non-Fundamental Investment Policies
The fund's investment objective is non-fundamental and may be changed without shareholder approval.
The fund is open for business each day the NYSE is open.
The NAV is the value of a single share. Fidelity normally calculates NAV as of the close of business of the NYSE, normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. The fund's assets normally are valued as of this time for the purpose of computing NAV.
NAV is not calculated and the fund will not process purchase and redemption requests submitted on days when the fund is not open for business. The time at which shares are priced and until which purchase and redemption orders are accepted may be changed as permitted by the SEC.
To the extent that the fund's assets are traded in other markets on days when the fund is not open for business, the value of the fund's assets may be affected on those days. In addition, trading in some of the fund's assets may not occur on days when the fund is open for business.
Shares of underlying funds (other than ETFs) are valued at their respective NAVs. NAV is calculated using the values of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. For an explanation of the circumstances under which the underlying funds will use fair value pricing and the effects of using fair value pricing, see the underlying funds' prospectuses and Statements of Additional Information (SAIs). Other assets (including securities issued by ETFs) are valued primarily on the basis of market quotations, official closing prices, or information furnished by a pricing service. Certain short-term securities are valued on the basis of amortized cost. If market quotations, official closing prices, or information furnished by a pricing service are not readily available or, in the Adviser's opinion, are deemed unreliable for a security, then that security will be fair valued in good faith by the Adviser in accordance with applicable fair value pricing policies. For example, if, in the Adviser's opinion, a security's value has been materially affected by events occurring before a fund's pricing time but after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, then that security will be fair valued in good faith by the Adviser in accordance with applicable fair value pricing policies. Fair value pricing will be used for high yield debt securities when available pricing information is determined to be stale or for other reasons not to accurately reflect fair value.
Arbitrage opportunities may exist when trading in a portfolio security or securities is halted and does not resume before a fund calculates its NAV. These arbitrage opportunities may enable short-term traders to dilute the NAV of long-term investors. Securities trading in overseas markets, if applicable, present time zone arbitrage opportunities when events affecting portfolio security values occur after the close of the overseas markets but prior to the close of the U.S. market. Fair valuation of a fund's portfolio securities can serve to reduce arbitrage opportunities available to short-term traders, but there is no assurance that fair value pricing policies will prevent dilution of NAV by short-term traders.
Fair value pricing is based on subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value of a security may differ materially from the value that would be realized if the security were sold.
Shareholder Information
NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
As used in this prospectus, the term "shares" generally refers to the shares offered through this prospectus.
General Information
Shares can be purchased only through certain discretionary investment programs offered by the Adviser or its affiliates. If you are not currently a client of a Fidelity discretionary investment program, please call 1-800-544-3455 (9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday) for more information. Additional fees apply for discretionary investment programs. For more information on these fees, please refer to the "Buying and Selling Information" section of the SAI.
The fund may reject for any reason, or cancel as permitted or required by law, any purchase orders.
Excessive trading of fund shares can harm shareholders in various ways, including reducing the returns to long-term shareholders by increasing costs to the fund (such as brokerage commissions or spreads paid to dealers who sell money market instruments), disrupting portfolio management strategies, and diluting the value of the shares in cases in which fluctuations in markets are not fully priced into the fund's NAV.
Because investments in the fund can only be made by the Adviser or an affiliate on behalf of its clients, the potential for excessive or short-term disruptive purchases and sales is reduced. Accordingly, the Board of Trustees has not adopted policies and procedures designed to discourage excessive trading of fund shares and the fund accommodates frequent trading.
The fund does not place a limit on purchases or sales of fund shares by the Adviser or its affiliates. The fund reserves the right, but does not have the obligation, to reject any purchase transaction at any time. In addition, the fund reserves the right to impose restrictions on disruptive, excessive, or short-term trading.
Buying Shares
Eligibility
Shares are generally available only to investors residing in the United States.
Shares are available only to certain discretionary investment programs offered by the Adviser or its affiliates.
There is no minimum balance or purchase minimum for fund shares.
Price to Buy
The price to buy one share is its NAV. Shares are sold without a sales charge.
Shares will be bought at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
Provided the fund receives an order to buy shares in proper form before the close of business, the fund may place an order to buy shares of an underlying Fidelity® fund after the close of business, pursuant to a pre-determined allocation, and receive that day's NAV.
The fund may stop offering shares completely or may offer shares only on a limited basis, for a period of time or permanently.
Under applicable anti-money laundering rules and other regulations, purchase orders may be suspended, restricted, or canceled and the monies may be withheld.
Selling Shares
The price to sell one share is its NAV.
Shares will be sold at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
Normally, redemptions will be processed by the next business day, but it may take up to seven days to pay the redemption proceeds if making immediate payment would adversely affect the fund.
Provided the fund receives an order to sell shares in proper form before the close of business, the fund may place an order to sell shares of an underlying Fidelity® fund after the close of business, pursuant to a pre-determined allocation, and receive that day's NAV.
See "Policies Concerning the Redemption of Fund Shares" below for additional redemption information.
Redemptions may be suspended or payment dates postponed when the NYSE is closed (other than weekends or holidays), when trading on the NYSE is restricted, or as permitted by the SEC.
Redemption proceeds may be paid in underlying fund shares, securities, or other property rather than in cash if the Adviser determines it is in the best interests of the fund.
Under applicable anti-money laundering rules and other regulations, redemption requests may be suspended, restricted, canceled, or processed and the proceeds may be withheld.
Policies Concerning the Redemption of Fund Shares
Shares of the fund are only available to certain discretionary investment programs offered by the Adviser or its affiliates.
If your account is held directly with a fund, the length of time that a fund typically expects to pay redemption proceeds depends on the method you have elected to receive such proceeds. A fund typically expects to make payment of redemption proceeds by wire, automated clearing house (ACH) or by issuing a check by the next business day following receipt of a redemption order in proper form. Proceeds from the periodic and automatic sale of shares of a Fidelity® money market fund that are used to buy shares of another Fidelity® fund are settled simultaneously.
If your account is held through an intermediary, the length of time that a fund typically expects to pay redemption proceeds depends, in part, on the terms of the agreement in place between the intermediary and a fund. For redemption proceeds that are paid either directly to you from a fund or to your intermediary for transmittal to you, a fund typically expects to make payments by wire, by ACH or by issuing a check on the next business day following receipt of a redemption order in proper form from the intermediary by a fund. Redemption orders that are processed through investment professionals that utilize the National Securities Clearing Corporation will generally settle one to three business days following receipt of a redemption order in proper form.
As noted elsewhere, payment of redemption proceeds may take longer than the time a fund typically expects and may take up to seven days from the date of receipt of the redemption order as permitted by applicable law.
Redemption Methods Available. Generally a fund expects to pay redemption proceeds in cash. To do so, a fund typically expects to satisfy redemption requests either by using available cash (or cash equivalents) or by selling portfolio securities. On a less regular basis, a fund may also satisfy redemption requests by utilizing one or more of the following sources, if permitted: borrowing from another Fidelity® fund; drawing on an available line or lines of credit from a bank or banks; or using reverse repurchase agreements. These methods may be used during both normal and stressed market conditions.
In addition to paying redemption proceeds in cash, a fund reserves the right to pay part or all of your redemption proceeds in readily marketable securities instead of cash (redemption in-kind). Redemption in-kind proceeds will typically be made by delivering the selected securities to the redeeming shareholder within seven days after the receipt of the redemption order in proper form by a fund.
When your relationship with your managed account provider is terminated, your shares may be sold at the discretion of the managed account provider at the NAV next calculated after the sell order is placed, in which case the redemption proceeds will remain in your account pending your instruction.
The fund earns interest, dividends, and other income from its investments, and distributes this income (less expenses) to shareholders as dividends. The fund also realizes capital gains from its investments, and distributes these gains (less any losses) to shareholders as capital gain distributions.
The fund normally pays dividends and capital gain distributions per the tables below:
Fund Name
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Dividends Paid
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Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund
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[______]
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Fund Name
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Capital Gains Paid
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Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund
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[______]
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Distribution Options
Any dividends and capital gain distributions may be reinvested in additional shares or paid in cash.
As with any investment, your investment in the fund could have tax consequences for you (for non-retirement accounts).
Taxes on Distributions
Distributions you receive from the fund are subject to federal income tax, and may also be subject to state or local taxes.
For federal tax purposes, certain distributions, including dividends and distributions of short-term capital gains, are taxable to you as ordinary income, while certain distributions, including distributions of long-term capital gains, are taxable to you generally as capital gains. A percentage of certain distributions of dividends may qualify for taxation at long-term capital gains rates (provided certain holding period requirements are met).
If the Adviser buys shares on your behalf when a fund has realized but not yet distributed income or capital gains, you will be "buying a dividend" by paying the full price for the shares and then receiving a portion of the price back in the form of a taxable distribution.
Any taxable distributions you receive from the fund will normally be taxable to you when you receive them, regardless of your distribution option.
Taxes on Transactions
Your redemptions may result in a capital gain or loss for federal tax purposes. A capital gain or loss on your investment in the fund generally is the difference between the cost of your shares and the price you receive when you sell them.
Fund Services
Fund Management
The fund is a mutual fund, an investment that pools shareholders' money and invests it toward a specified goal.
The fund employs a multi-manager and a fund of funds investment structure. The Adviser may allocate the fund's assets among any number of sub-advisers or underlying funds. The Adviser may adjust allocations among underlying funds or sub-advisers from time to time, including making no allocation to, or terminating the sub-advisory contract with, a sub-adviser.
Adviser
Strategic Advisers LLC. The Adviser is the fund's manager. The address of the Adviser is 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
As of December 31, 2023, the Adviser had approximately $792.6 billion in discretionary assets under management, and approximately $4.9 trillion when combined with all of its affiliates' assets under management.
As the manager, the Adviser has overall responsibility for directing the fund's investments and handling its business affairs.
Sub-Adviser(s)
[____________], at [_______], has been retained to serve as a sub-adviser for the fund. As of [______], [_________] had approximately $[__ billion] in [discretionary] assets under management.
[_______] has retained [______] to serve as sub-subadviser.
[_______], at [_______], has been retained to serve as a sub-subadviser for the fund. As of [______], [_____________] had approximately $[__ billion] in [discretionary] assets under management.
Portfolio Manager(s)
Kevin Britton is Portfolio Manager of Strategic Advisers® Fidelity® Alternatives Fund, which he has managed since 2025. Since joining Fidelity Investments in 2013, Mr. Britton has worked as a senior research analyst and portfolio manager.
The SAI provides additional information about the compensation of, any other accounts managed by, and any fund shares held by the portfolio manager(s).
From time to time a manager, analyst, or other Fidelity employee may express views regarding a particular company, security, industry, or market sector. The views expressed by any such person are the views of only that individual as of the time expressed and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any fund.
Advisory Fee(s)
The fund pays a management fee to the Adviser.
The management fee is calculated and paid to the Adviser every month.
The fund's management fee is calculated by adding the annual rate of [ ]% of the fund's average daily net assets throughout the month plus the total fees payable monthly to the fund's sub-advisers, if any, pursuant to the applicable investment sub-advisory agreement(s).
Because the fund's management fee rate may fluctuate, the fund's management fee may be higher or lower in the future.
The fund's maximum aggregate annual management fee will not exceed [ ]% of the fund's average daily net assets.
The Adviser has contractually agreed to waive a portion of the fund's management fee in an amount equal to [ ]% of the fund's average daily net assets through [ ].
In return for the services of the fund's sub-advisers, the Adviser will pay [ ] the fee (as described above) payable to that sub-adviser.
[ ], in turn, will pay [ ] for providing sub-subadvisory services.
The basis for the Board of Trustees approving the management contract, sub-advisory agreement[s], and sub-subadvisory agreement[s] for the fund will be included in the fund's [____] report for the fiscal period ending [____].
Fund Distribution
FDC distributes the fund's shares.
Distribution and Service Plan(s)
The fund has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act with respect to its shares that recognizes that the Adviser may use its management fee revenues, as well as its past profits or its resources from any other source, to pay FDC for expenses incurred in connection with providing services intended to result in the sale of shares of the fund and/or shareholder support services. The Adviser, directly or through FDC, may pay significant amounts to intermediaries that provide those services. Currently, the Board of Trustees of the fund has authorized such payments for shares of the fund.
Affiliates of the Adviser may receive service fees or distribution fees or both with respect to underlying funds that participate in Fidelity's FundsNetwork®.
If payments made by the Adviser to FDC or to intermediaries under the Distribution and Service Plan were considered to be paid out of the fund's assets on an ongoing basis, they might increase the cost of your investment and might cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.
No dealer, sales representative, or any other person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations, other than those contained in this prospectus and in the related SAI, in connection with the offer contained in this prospectus. If given or made, such other information or representations must not be relied upon as having been authorized by the fund or FDC. This prospectus and the related SAI do not constitute an offer by the fund or by FDC to sell shares of the fund to, or to buy shares of the fund from, any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer.
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Additional Index Information
ICE® BofA® US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index measures the performance of a single issue of outstanding treasury bill which matures closest to, but not beyond, three months from the rebalancing date. The issue is purchased at the beginning of the month and held for a full month; at the end of the month that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT ACT), requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or entity that opens an account.For individual investors opening an account: When you open an account, you will be asked for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow Fidelity to identify you. You may also be asked to provide documents that may help to establish your identity, such as your driver's license.For investors other than individuals: When you open an account, you will be asked for the name of the entity, its principal place of business and taxpayer identification number (TIN). You will be asked to provide information about the entity's control person and beneficial owners, and person(s) with authority over the account, including name, address, date of birth and social security number. You may also be asked to provide documents, such as drivers' licenses, articles of incorporation, trust instruments or partnership agreements and other information that will help Fidelity identify the entity.
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You can obtain additional information about the fund. A description of the fund's policies and procedures for disclosing its holdings is available in its SAI and on Fidelity's web sites. The SAI also includes more detailed information about the fund and its investments. The SAI is incorporated herein by reference (legally forms a part of the prospectus). A financial report and Form N-CSR will be available once the fund has completed its first annual or semi-annual period. The fund's annual and semi-annual reports and Form N-CSR also include additional information. The fund's annual report includes a discussion of recent market conditions and the fund's investment strategies that affected performance. In Form N-CSR, you will find the fund's annual and semi-annual financial statements.
For a free copy of any of these documents or to request other information or ask questions about the fund, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-3455. In addition, you may visit Fidelity's web site at www.fidelity.com for a free copy of a prospectus, SAI, annual or semi-annual report, or the fund's financial statements or to request other information.
The Statement of Additional Information (SAI), the fund's annual and semi-annual reports and other related materials are available from the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) Database on the SEC's web site (http://www.sec.gov). You can obtain copies of this information, after paying a duplicating fee, by sending a request by e-mail to [email protected] or by writing the Public Reference Section of the SEC, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520. You can also review and copy information about the fund, including the fund's SAI, at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Call 1-202-551-8090 for information on the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room.
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Investment Company Act of 1940, File Number(s), 811-21991
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Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC) is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). You may obtain information about SIPC, including the SIPC brochure, by visiting www.sipc.org or calling SIPC at 202-371-8300.
Fidelity, the Fidelity Investments Logo and all other Fidelity trademarks or service marks used herein are trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC. Any third-party marks that are used herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. © 2025 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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