UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number 811-21439
Fidelity Rutland Square Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
82 Devonshire St., Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Stephen D. Fisher, Secretary
82 Devonshire St.
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 617-563-7000
Date of fiscal year end: | February 28 |
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Date of reporting period: | August 31, 2009 |
Item 1. Reports to Stockholders
PAS Core Income
Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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August 31, 2009
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. | |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees |
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Third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.
This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the funds. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the funds unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.
A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the funds nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
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Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,133.20 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's investments | % of fund's investments |
PIMCO Total Return Fund Administrative Class | 29.5 | 34.7 |
Fidelity Total Bond Fund | 19.5 | 22.7 |
Fidelity Investment Grade Bond Fund | 12.0 | 11.6 |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond Fund Class M | 10.7 | 11.0 |
Western Asset Core Plus Bond Portfolio | 6.8 | 6.5 |
Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund | 6.7 | 0.0 |
TCW Total Return Bond Fund N Class | 5.5 | 5.1 |
Loomis Sayles Bond Fund Retail Class | 3.0 | 2.5 |
Westcore Plus Bond Fund | 2.5 | 0.3 |
Fidelity Focused High Income Fund | 1.3 | 0.3 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Intermediate-Term |
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High Yield |
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Sector Funds 1.0% |
| Sector Funds 0.1% |
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Municipal Bond |
| Municipal Bond |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Fixed-Income Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
High Yield Fixed-Income Funds - 2.5% | |||
Fidelity Focused High Income Fund (a) | 2,092,697 | $ 18,227,389 | |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund (a) | 1,094,800 | 15,797,965 | |
TOTAL HIGH YIELD FIXED-INCOME FUNDS | 34,025,354 | ||
Intermediate-Term Bond Funds - 96.5% | |||
Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund (a) | 9,071,295 | 90,894,371 | |
Fidelity Investment Grade Bond Fund (a) | 23,367,279 | 161,234,226 | |
Fidelity Total Bond Fund (a) | 25,502,384 | 262,164,507 | |
Loomis Sayles Bond Fund Retail Class | 3,206,856 | 39,989,495 | |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond Fund Class M | 15,106,806 | 144,874,269 | |
PIMCO Total Return Fund Administrative Class | 36,875,966 | 397,522,916 | |
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund Advisor Class | 457,309 | 4,202,668 | |
TCW Total Return Bond Fund N Class | 7,234,690 | 74,589,659 | |
Westcore Plus Bond Fund | 3,249,779 | 33,667,706 | |
Western Asset Core Plus Bond Portfolio | 9,360,045 | 91,073,235 | |
TOTAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM BOND FUNDS | 1,300,213,052 | ||
Sector Funds - 1.0% | |||
Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund (a) | 1,570,108 | 13,612,840 | |
TOTAL FIXED-INCOME FUNDS (Cost $1,313,411,385) | 1,347,851,246 | ||
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $1,313,411,385) | $ 1,347,851,246 |
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(a) Affiliated company |
Affiliated Underlying Funds | |
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: |
Fund | Income Earned | |
Fidelity Focused High Income Fund | $ 375,491 | |
Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund | 454,873 | |
Fidelity Investment Grade Bond Fund | 2,939,188 | |
Fidelity Mortgage Securities Fund | 78,990 | |
Fidelity Municipal Income Fund | 189,794 | |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund | 101,258 | |
Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund | 108,459 | |
Fidelity Total Bond Fund | 5,196,288 | |
Total | $ 9,444,341 |
Additional information regarding the Fund's fiscal year to date purchases and sales of the affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: |
Fund | Value, | Purchases | Sales | Value, |
Fidelity Focused High Income Fund | $ 2,526,043 | $ 14,286,800 | $ - | $ 18,227,389 |
Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund | - | 88,969,129 | - | 90,894,371 |
Fidelity Investment Grade Bond Fund | 84,517,679 | 64,878,103 | 144,414 | 161,234,226 |
Fidelity Mortgage Securities Fund | 10,227,808 | 78,522 | 10,372,387 | - |
Fidelity Municipal Income Fund | 6,605,826 | 3,783,519 | 10,653,177 | - |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund | - | 15,198,301 | - | 15,797,965 |
Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund | 998,816 | 10,552,458 | - | 13,612,840 |
Fidelity Total Bond Fund | 165,243,912 | 72,707,168 | 264,758 | 262,164,507 |
Total | $ 270,120,084 | $ 270,454,000 | $ 21,434,736 | $ 561,931,298 |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $8,067,705 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending February 28, 2010 approximately $2,436,402 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
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Assets | ||
Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule: |
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Unaffiliated Underlying Funds (cost $765,872,234) | $ 785,919,948 | |
Affiliated Underlying Funds (cost $547,539,151) | 561,931,298 | |
Total Investments (cost $1,313,411,385) | $ 1,347,851,246 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 3,168,600 | |
Total assets | 1,351,019,846 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 2,293,459 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 896,633 | |
Distributions payable | 16,475 | |
Total liabilities | 3,206,567 | |
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Net Assets | $ 1,347,813,279 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 1,327,058,154 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 868,106 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (14,552,842) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | 34,439,861 | |
Net Assets, for 135,528,954 shares outstanding | $ 1,347,813,279 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($1,347,813,279 ÷ 135,528,954 shares) | $ 9.94 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated |
| $ 19,223,979 |
Affiliated |
| 9,444,341 |
Interest |
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Total income |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 1,264,393 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 10,164 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 1,274,557 | |
Expenses reductions | (1,274,557) | - |
Net investment income (Loss) | 28,668,354 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares: |
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Unaffiliated | (1,049,161) |
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Affiliated | 310,244 |
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Realized gain distributions from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated | 1,010,473 | 271,556 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
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Net gain (loss) | 100,462,185 | |
Net in net assets resulting from operations | $ 129,130,539 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements - continued
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 28,668,354 | $ 39,366,734 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 271,556 | (5,159,639) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 100,190,629 | (71,051,595) |
Net in net assets resulting | 129,130,539 | (36,844,500) |
Distributions to from net investment income | (28,287,155) | (38,581,532) |
Distributions to from net realized gain | - | (9,365,342) |
Total distributions | (28,287,155) | (47,946,874) |
Share transactions | 623,655,072 | 526,310,343 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 28,204,065 | 47,788,423 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (133,182,200) | (507,726,800) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 518,676,937 | 66,371,966 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 619,520,321 | (18,419,408) |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 728,292,958 | 746,712,366 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $868,106 and undistributed net investment income of $486,907, respectively) | $ 1,347,813,279 | $ 728,292,958 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 66,170,344 | 55,678,520 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | 2,949,900 | 5,103,062 |
Redeemed | (14,317,543) | (54,087,499) |
Net increase (decrease) | 54,802,701 | 6,694,083 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Years ended | |
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 9.02 | $ 10.09 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | .268 | .509 | .207 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .918 | (.950) | .132 |
Total from investment operations | 1.186 | (.441) | .339 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.266) | (.499) | (.222) H |
Distributions from net realized gain | - | (.130) | (.027) H |
Total distributions | (.266) | (.629) | (.249) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 9.94 | $ 9.02 | $ 10.09 |
Total Return B, C | 13.32% | (4.41)% | 3.42% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .26% | .25% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | 5.62% A | 5.35% | 4.92% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 1,347,813 | $ 728,293 | $ 746,712 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 10% A | 38% | 19% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period September 27, 2007 (commencement of operations) to February 29, 2008.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
H The amount shown reflects certain reclassifications related to book to tax differences.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS Core Income Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October, 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day. If an Underlying Fund's NAV is unavailable, shares of that fund may be valued by another method that the Board of Trustees believes reflects fair value in accordance with the Board's fair value pricing policies.
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain
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Investment Transactions and Income - continued
distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Dividends are declared daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
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Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited) - continued
2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 40,195,948 |
Unrealized depreciation | (10,081,394) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ 30,114,554 |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 1,317,736,692 |
3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $573,009,438 and $52,919,721, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $1,274,557.
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6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
Each year the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes at an in-person meeting on the renewal of the management contract and administration agreement (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.
The Board meets regularly four times per year and considers at each of its meetings factors that it believes are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. While the full Board or the Independent Trustees, as appropriate, act on all major matters, a portion of the activities of the Board (including certain of those described herein) may be conducted through committees.
At its March 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including, but not limited to, (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services and the profits, if any, to be realized by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers or SAI) and its affiliates from the relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.
The Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Strategic Advisers under the fund's management contract is consistent with Strategic Advisers' fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year.
In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling.
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, Strategic Advisers, and the administrator, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objectives and disciplines. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Strategic Advisers' investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.
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Management Fees - continued
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of Strategic Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and Strategic Advisers' and FMR's approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers' analysts have access to a variety of technological tools that enable them to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines.
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency and pricing and bookkeeping services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of Strategic Advisers' supervision of third party service providers; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following table, which reflects information considered by the Board, shows, for the one-year period ended September 30, 2008, the fund's total return, the total return of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and the median total return of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Strategic Advisers as having an investment objective similar to that of the fund.
Fund-specific performance results reviewed by the Board are discussed below, though due to the passage of time, they are likely to differ from performance results for more recent periods, including those shown elsewhere in this report.
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PAS Core Income Fund of Funds
Total Return % for the One-Year Period Ended September 30, 2008 vs. Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index and SAI General Intermediate Peer Group Median
Total Returns | 1 YEAR |
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PAS Core Income Fund of Funds (FPCIX) | -0.94% |
Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index* | 3.65% |
Difference | -4.59% |
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SAI General Intermediate Peer Group Median** | -1.59% |
Difference | 0.65% |
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Morningstar Intermediate-Term Bond Median | -1.68% |
Difference | 0.74% |
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% of SAI Peers Beaten by FPCIX | 55% |
% of SAI Peers Beaten by Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index | 92% |
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* As of November 3, 2008, the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index changed its name to the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. | |
** For inclusion in SAI's General Intermediate peer group, constituents generally have a minimum $300M in assets and a minimum 3-year life-of-fund, and also are most likely included in Morningstar's Intermediate Bond category, but this is not a requirement for inclusion in the peer group. SAI may occasionally make exceptions to these guidelines. |
The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and observed that the fund out-performed 55% of its peers in the SAI General Intermediate Peer Group for the one-year period. The Board considered that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the one-year period shown. The Board also considered that in light of the fund's relatively recent commencement of operations, a more comprehensive analysis of the fund's performance will be possible after the fund has completed an additional year of operations.
Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by Strategic Advisers and FMR to maintain and improve relative performance, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will continue to benefit the fund's shareholders.
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the amount and nature of fees paid by shareholders to Strategic Advisers. The Board considered Strategic Advisers' contractual commitment to waive its management fee and reimburse its other expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) until March 31, 2010, which Strategic Advisers estimated would result in the fund having a net operating expense ratio of zero for that period. The Board also considered that Strategic Advisers proposed to extend the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangement until March 31, 2012.
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Management Fees - continued
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee and the total expenses of the fund (giving effect to the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements) were fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered information regarding the revenues earned and expenses incurred by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates attributable to the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders.
Strategic Advisers presented information to the Board on its profitability for managing the fund. Strategic Advisers calculates the profitability for the fund using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies. Strategic Advisers noted that it employs the same corporate reporting of revenues and expenses as those used by the Fidelity Group of Funds.
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Possible Fall-Out Benefits. The Board considered information regarding the potential of direct and indirect benefits to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from their relationships with the fund, including non-advisory fee compensation paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, if any. The Board considered the receipt of these benefits in light of Strategic Advisers' and its affiliates' profitability and other considerations described above. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers did not calculate potential fall-out benefit revenue because Strategic Advisers did not believe that the management of the fund had resulted in significant quantifiable fall-out benefits to the businesses of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Possible Economies of Scale. The Board concluded that the realization of economies of scale was not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Conclusion. Based on its evaluation of all of the considerations noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
PCI-SANN-1009 1.851418.101
PAS Income Opportunities Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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August 31, 2009
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. | |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees |
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Shareholder Expense Example - continued
| Annualized | Beginning | Ending | Expenses Paid |
Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,339.50 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's investments | % of fund's investments |
Fidelity® Capital & Income Fund | 29.5 | 23.3 |
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund Advisor Class | 23.3 | 22.1 |
Fidelity® High Income Fund | 12.4 | 11.4 |
MainStay High Yield Corporate Bond Fund Class A | 11.6 | 11.8 |
Fidelity® Advisor High Income Fund Institutional Class | 5.6 | 2.1 |
BlackRock High Yield Bond Portfolio Investor A Class | 5.3 | 6.1 |
Fidelity® Advisor High Income Advantage Fund Institutional Class | 4.8 | 3.1 |
Goldman Sachs High Yield Fund Class A | 4.5 | 5.2 |
PIMCO High Yield Fund Administrative Class | 2.1 | 10.1 |
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund - Advisers Class | 0.8 | 2.2 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
High Yield Fixed- |
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Bank Loan Funds 0.9% |
| Bank Loan Funds 4.8% |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. Prior period classifications reflect Morningstar categories in place as of the date indicated and have not been adjusted to reflect current classifications. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Fixed-Income Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Bank Loan Funds - 0.9% | |||
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund - Advisers Class | 607,439 | $ 4,993,150 | |
Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund (a) | 54,621 | 503,605 | |
TOTAL BANK LOAN FUNDS | 5,496,755 | ||
High Yield Fixed - Income Funds - 99.1% | |||
BlackRock High Yield Bond Portfolio Investor A Class | 5,105,285 | 32,316,455 | |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Advantage Fund Institutional Class (a) | 3,770,719 | 29,185,369 | |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Fund Institutional Class (a) | 4,525,147 | 34,164,860 | |
Fidelity Capital & Income Fund (a) | 23,705,092 | 181,106,905 | |
Fidelity High Income Fund (a) | 9,763,800 | 75,767,092 | |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund (a) | 19,821 | 286,017 | |
Goldman Sachs High Yield Fund Class A | 4,311,546 | 27,680,124 | |
MainStay High Yield Corporate Bond Fund Class A | 13,341,685 | 71,244,597 | |
PIMCO High Yield Fund Administrative Class | 1,591,677 | 12,956,254 | |
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund Advisor Class | 24,044,803 | 143,066,578 | |
TOTAL HIGH YIELD FIXED - INCOME FUNDS | 607,774,251 | ||
TOTAL FIXED-INCOME FUNDS (Cost $641,513,591) | 613,271,006 | ||
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $641,513,591) | $ 613,271,006 |
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(a) Affiliated company |
Affiliated Underlying Funds |
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: |
Fund | Income Earned |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Advantage Fund Institutional Class | $ 677,950 |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Fund Institutional Class | 1,058,203 |
Fidelity Capital & Income Fund | 5,893,359 |
Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund | 122,792 |
Fidelity High Income Fund | 2,512,430 |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund | 199,664 |
Total | $ 10,464,398 |
Additional Information regarding the Fund's fiscal year to date purchases and sales of the affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: |
Fund | Value, | Purchases | Sales | Value, |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Advantage Fund Institutional Class | $ 14,813,293 | $ 6,139,451 | $ 322,701 | $ 29,185,369 |
Fidelity Advisor High Income Fund Institutional Class | 10,382,470 | 20,498,108 | 1,708,302 | 34,164,860 |
Fidelity Capital & Income Fund | 112,453,524 | 29,110,883 | 8,760,078 | 181,106,905 |
Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund | 12,233,182 | 562,595 | 13,549,596 | 503,605 |
Fidelity High Income Fund | 54,774,032 | 19,361,771 | 13,432,614 | 75,767,092 |
Fidelity New Markets Income Fund | - | 8,948,740 | 9,965,093 | 286,017 |
Total | $ 204,656,501 | $ 84,621,548 | $ 47,738,384 | $ 321,013,848 |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $2,102,577 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | |
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Assets | ||
Investment in securities, at value - |
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Unaffiliated Underlying Funds (cost $313,479,047) | $ 292,257,158 |
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Affiliated Underlying Funds (cost $328,034,544) | 321,013,848 |
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Total investments (cost $641,513,591) | $ 613,271,006 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 1,352,630 | |
Total assets | 614,623,636 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 964,535 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 403,943 | |
Distributions payable | 10,410 | |
Total liabilities | 1,378,888 | |
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Net Assets | $ 613,244,748 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 645,173,576 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 454,191 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (4,140,434) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | (28,242,585) | |
Net Assets, for 73,070,130 shares outstanding | $ 613,244,748 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($613,244,748 ÷ 73,070,130 shares) | $ 8.39 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
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Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated |
| $ 12,777,361 |
Affiliated |
| 10,464,398 |
Total Income |
| 23,241,759 |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 711,640 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 5,879 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 717,519 | |
Expense reductions | (717,519) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 23,241,759 | |
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Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares: |
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Unaffiliated | (2,203,066) |
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Affiliated | 3,200,204 | 997,138 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
| 143,066,483 |
Net gain (loss) | 144,063,621 | |
Net in net assets resulting from operations | $ 167,305,380 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements - continued
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 23,241,759 | $ 35,427,951 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 997,138 | (3,371,344) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 143,066,483 | (143,337,315) |
Net in net assets resulting | 167,305,380 | (111,280,708) |
Distributions to from net investment income | (23,215,304) | (35,059,863) |
Share transactions | 208,699,978 | 376,385,143 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 23,147,038 | 34,943,894 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (244,644,179) | (170,269,315) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | (12,797,163) | 241,059,722 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 131,292,913 | 94,719,151 |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 481,951,835 | 387,232,684 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $454,191 and undistributed net investment income of $427,736, respectively) | $ 613,244,748 | $ 481,951,835 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 28,941,260 | 50,046,388 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | 3,059,099 | 4,573,724 |
Redeemed | (32,863,514) | (22,471,198) |
Net increase (decrease) | (863,155) | 32,148,914 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended August 31, 2009 | Years ended | |
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 6.52 | $ 9.27 | $ 10.00 |
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Income from Investment Operations D | .304 | .660 | .302 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 1.871 | (2.753) | (.728) |
Total from investment operations | 2.175 | (2.093) | (.426) |
Distributions from net investment income | (.305) | (.657) | (.304) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 8.39 | $ 6.52 | $ 9.27 |
Total Return B,C | 33.95% | (23.54)% | (4.34)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .26% | .25% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | 8.10% A | 8.31% | 7.52% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 613,245 | $ 481,952 | $ 387,233 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 52% A | 6% | 23% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period September 27, 2007 (commencement of operations) to February 29, 2008.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS Income Opportunities Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day. If an Underlying Fund's NAV is unavailable, shares of that fund may be valued by another method that the Board of Trustees believes reflects fair value in accordance with the Board's fair value pricing policies.
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain
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2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Investment Transactions and Income - continued
distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Dividends are declared daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to capital loss carryforwards, losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 31,472,260 |
Unrealized depreciation | (63,132,087) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ (31,659,827) |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 644,930,833 |
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3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $147,913,521 and $160,646,497, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $717,519.
6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
Each year the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes at an in-person meeting on the renewal of the management contract and administration agreement (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.
The Board meets regularly four times per year and considers at each of its meetings factors that it believes are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. While the full Board or the Independent Trustees, as appropriate, act on all major matters, a portion of the activities of the Board (including certain of those described herein) may be conducted through committees.
At its March 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including, but not limited to, (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services and the profits, if any, to be realized by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers or SAI) and its affiliates from the relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.
The Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Strategic Advisers under the fund's management contract is consistent with Strategic Advisers' fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year.
In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling.
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, Strategic Advisers, and the administrator, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objectives and disciplines. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Strategic Advisers' investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.
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Management Fees - continued
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of Strategic Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and Strategic Advisers' and FMR's approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers' analysts have access to a variety of technological tools that enable them to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines.
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency and pricing and bookkeeping services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of Strategic Advisers' supervision of third party service providers; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following table, which reflects information considered by the Board, shows, for the one-year period ended September 30, 2008, the fund's total return, the total return of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and the median total return of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Strategic Advisers as having an investment objective similar to that of the fund.
Fund-specific performance results reviewed by the Board are discussed below, though due to the passage of time, they are likely to differ from performance results for more recent periods, including those shown elsewhere in this report.
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PAS Income Opportunities Fund of Funds
Total Return % for the One-Year Period Ended September 30, 2008 vs. Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Constrained Index and SAI High Yield Peer Group Median
Total Returns | 1 YEAR |
PAS Income Opportunities Fund of Funds (FPIOX) | -10.91% |
Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Constrained Index | -11.09% |
Difference | 0.18% |
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SAI High Yield Peer Group Median* | -10.65% |
Difference | -0.26% |
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Morningstar High Yield Median | -10.41% |
Difference | -0.50% |
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% SAI Peers Beaten by FPIOX | 43% |
% of SAI Peers Beaten by Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Constrained Index | 42% |
* For inclusion in SAI's High Yield peer group, constituents generally have a minimum $300M in assets and a minimum 3-year life-of-fund, and also are most likely included in Morningstar's High Yield Bond category, but this is not a requirement for inclusion in the peer group. SAI may occasionally make exceptions to these guidelines. |
The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and observed that the fund under-performed 57% of its peers in the SAI High Yield Peer Group for the one-year period. The Board considered that the investment performance of the fund was higher than its benchmark for the one-year period shown. The Board also considered that in light of the fund's relatively recent commencement of operations, a more comprehensive analysis of the fund's performance will be possible after the fund has completed an additional year of operations.
Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by Strategic Advisers and FMR to maintain and improve relative performance, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will continue to benefit the fund's shareholders.
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the amount and nature of fees paid by shareholders to Strategic Advisers. The Board considered Strategic Advisers' contractual commitment to waive its management fee and reimburse its other expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) until March 31, 2010, which Strategic Advisers estimated would result in the fund having a net operating expense ratio of zero for that period. The Board also considered that Strategic Advisers proposed to extend the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangement until March 31, 2012.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and
Management Fees - continued
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee and the total expenses of the fund (giving effect to the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements) were fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered information regarding the revenues earned and expenses incurred by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates attributable to the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders.
Strategic Advisers presented information to the Board on its profitability for managing the fund. Strategic Advisers calculates the profitability for the fund using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies. Strategic Advisers noted that it employs the same corporate reporting of revenues and expenses as those used by the Fidelity Group of Funds.
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Possible Fall-Out Benefits. The Board considered information regarding the potential of direct and indirect benefits to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from their relationships with the fund, including non-advisory fee compensation paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, if any. The Board considered the receipt of these benefits in light of Strategic Advisers' and its affiliates' profitability and other considerations described above. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers did not calculate potential fall-out benefit revenue because Strategic Advisers did not believe that the management of the fund had resulted in significant quantifiable fall-out benefits to the businesses of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Possible Economies of Scale. The Board concluded that the realization of economies of scale was not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Conclusion. Based on its evaluation of all of the considerations noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
PIO-SANN-1009 1.851414.101
PAS International Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. | |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees |
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
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Shareholder Expense Example - continued
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,506.90 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratios.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's | % of fund's investments |
Harbor International Fund Retirement Class | 7.4 | 7.2 |
Fidelity International Discovery Fund | 7.0 | 7.4 |
Fidelity Diversified International Fund | 6.7 | 6.5 |
Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund, Inc. - International Equity Portfolio Class B | 6.5 | 9.3 |
Manning & Napier Fund, Inc. World Opportunities Series Class A | 5.5 | 5.7 |
MFS Research International Fund A Shares | 5.5 | 5.7 |
SSgA International Stock Selection Fund Institutional Class | 5.0 | 3.6 |
Henderson International Opportunities Fund Class A | 4.5 | 4.0 |
Causeway International Value Fund Investor Class | 4.3 | 4.3 |
GE Institutional International Equity Fund Service Class | 3.9 | 3.8 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Foreign Large |
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Foreign Large |
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Foreign Large |
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Foreign Small |
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Other 5.8% |
| Other 7.4% |
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Sector Funds 1.5% |
| Sector Funds 0.7% |
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Foreign Small |
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Short-Term Funds 0.0% |
| Short-Term Funds 0.0% |
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International Equity |
| International Equity |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Equity Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Foreign Large Blend Funds - 42.9% | |||
American EuroPacific Growth Fund Class F-1 | 1,177,304 | $ 41,817,854 | |
Artio International Equity Fund II Class A | 5,170,401 | 59,252,797 | |
Fidelity Canada Fund (b) | 301,388 | 13,444,939 | |
Fidelity International Discovery Fund (b) | 6,920,429 | 196,609,390 | |
GE Institutional International Equity Fund Service Class | 10,524,316 | 110,400,071 | |
Henderson International Opportunities Fund Class A | 6,570,779 | 127,210,290 | |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index ETF | 612,700 | 32,277,036 | |
Manning & Napier Fund, Inc. World Opportunities Series Class A | 20,865,756 | 155,867,196 | |
Masters' Select International Fund Investor Class (a) | 5,554 | 68,201 | |
MFS Research International Fund A Shares | 11,818,540 | 153,995,580 | |
Scout International Fund | 3,194,984 | 84,507,329 | |
SSgA International Stock Selection Fund Institutional Class | 15,241,901 | 140,835,163 | |
Thornburg International Value Fund Class A | 4,002,941 | 91,747,399 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN LARGE BLEND FUNDS | 1,208,033,245 | ||
Foreign Large Growth Funds - 12.5% | |||
AIM International Growth Fund Class A | 3,076,705 | 68,733,598 | |
Fidelity Diversified International Fund (b) | 7,215,617 | 189,049,152 | |
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund Advisor Class | 119,546 | 1,362,827 | |
William Blair International Growth Fund Class N | 5,484,840 | 92,200,164 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN LARGE GROWTH FUNDS | 351,345,741 | ||
Foreign Large Value Funds - 30.0% | |||
Causeway International Value Fund Investor Class | 11,225,574 | 119,776,877 | |
Goldman Sachs Structured International Equity Fund Class A | 4,990,823 | 47,313,001 | |
Harbor International Fund Retirement Class | 4,253,629 | 208,768,118 | |
MFS International Value Fund A Shares | 4,047,678 | 89,008,434 | |
Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund, Inc. - International Equity Portfolio Class B | 14,735,698 | 183,017,367 | |
Oakmark International Fund Class I | 6,519,328 | 101,310,351 | |
Quant Foreign Value Fund Ordinary Shares | 7,730,690 | 90,294,461 | |
T. Rowe Price International Growth & Income Fund Advisor Class | 348,860 | 4,140,974 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN LARGE VALUE FUNDS | 843,629,583 | ||
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Foreign Small Mid Growth Funds - 0.0% | |||
MFS International New Discovery Fund A Shares | 56 | $ 914 | |
Neuberger Berman International Fund Trust Class | 369 | 5,544 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN SMALL MID GROWTH FUNDS | 6,458 | ||
Foreign Small Mid Value Funds - 7.3% | |||
Artisan International Value Fund Investor Class | 4,861,340 | 105,977,203 | |
Morgan Stanley International Small Cap Portfolio Class P | 3,451,469 | 42,522,096 | |
Third Avenue International Value Fund | 3,875,678 | 56,933,709 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN SMALL MID VALUE FUNDS | 205,433,008 | ||
International Equity Funds - 0.0% | |||
Henderson European Focus Fund Class A | 36 | 805 | |
Sector Funds - 1.5% | |||
ING International Real Estate Fund Class A | 3,422,694 | 28,168,775 | |
SPDR DJ Wilshire International Real Estate ETF | 456,100 | 15,534,766 | |
TOTAL SECTOR FUNDS | 43,703,541 | ||
Other - 5.8% | |||
Acadian Emerging Market Portfolio Institutional Class | 4,673 | 67,107 | |
BlackRock Pacific Fund, Inc. Investor Class A | 248,877 | 4,561,920 | |
Fidelity Japan Fund (b) | 4,317,789 | 46,459,411 | |
Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund (b) | 2,788,239 | 24,815,324 | |
GMO Emerging Countries Fund Class M | 654,272 | 5,469,715 | |
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF | 900 | 31,779 | |
iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF | 4,803,800 | 49,094,836 | |
Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund Class I | 14,871 | 244,338 | |
SPDR Russell/Nomura Small Cap Japan ETF | 160,400 | 6,576,400 | |
SSgA Emerging Markets Fund | 48 | 795 | |
Wintergreen Fund | 2,541,069 | 26,579,580 | |
TOTAL OTHER | 163,901,205 | ||
TOTAL EQUITY FUNDS (Cost $2,788,332,182) | 2,816,053,586 | ||
Short-Term Funds - 0.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Fidelity Select Money Market Portfolio (b) | 2,868 | $ 2,868 | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $2,788,335,050) | $ 2,816,056,454 |
Security Type Abbreviation | ||
ETF | - | Exchange-Traded Fund |
Legend |
(a) Non-income producing |
(b) Affiliated company |
Affiliated Underlying Funds | |||||
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: |
| Income earned |
Fidelity Select Money Market Portfolio | $ 2,501 |
Additional information regarding the Fund's fiscal year to date purchases and sales of the affiliated non Money Market Underlying Funds is as follows: |
Fund | Value, | Purchases | Sales | Value, |
Fidelity Canada Fund | $ 3,130,205 | $ 8,252,788 | $ 196,709 | $ 13,444,939 |
Fidelity Diversified International Fund | 45,479,724 | 117,071,085 | 7,724,551 | 189,049,152 |
Fidelity International Discovery Fund | 51,698,901 | 124,421,109 | 13,278,491 | 196,609,390 |
Fidelity Japan Fund | 13,224,786 | 25,852,872 | 361,188 | 46,459,411 |
Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund | 5,254,544 | 14,465,549 | - | 24,815,324 |
Total | $ 118,788,160 | $ 290,063,403 | $ 21,560,939 | $ 470,378,216 |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | |
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Assets | ||
Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule: |
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Unaffiliated Underlying Funds (cost $2,301,713,020) | $ 2,345,675,370 | |
Affiliated Underlying Funds (cost $486,622,030) | 470,381,084 | |
Total Investments (cost $2,788,335,050) | $ 2,816,056,454 | |
Cash | 6,790 | |
Receivable for investments sold | 2,993,351 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 5,427,724 | |
Total assets | 2,824,484,319 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 6,512,325 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 1,915,530 | |
Total liabilities | 8,427,855 | |
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Net Assets | $ 2,816,056,464 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 2,781,841,864 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 1,912,750 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | 4,580,446 | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | 27,721,404 | |
Net Assets, for 363,525,967 shares outstanding | $ 2,816,056,464 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($2,816,056,464 ÷ 363,525,967 shares) | $ 7.75 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
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Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated |
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Affiliated |
| 2,501 |
Interest |
| 10 |
Total income |
| 1,264,168 |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 1,582,042 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 11,766 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 1,593,808 | |
Expense reductions | (1,593,808) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 1,264,168 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares |
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Unaffiliated | 6,161,891 |
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Affiliated | 3,691,593 |
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Realized gain distributions from unaffiliated underlying funds | 1,553,826 | 11,407,310 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
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Net gain (loss) | 499,660,648 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | $ 500,924,816 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements - continued
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 1,264,168 | $ 15,027,960 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 11,407,310 | (1,828,547) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 488,253,338 | (412,420,915) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting | 500,924,816 | (399,221,502) |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | - | (14,926,444) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (3,114,589) | (29,091,490) |
Total distributions | (3,114,589) | (44,017,934) |
Share transactions | 1,845,885,280 | 802,362,483 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 3,105,787 | 43,820,141 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (226,243,799) | (212,207,633) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 1,622,747,268 | 633,974,991 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 2,120,557,495 | 190,735,555 |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 695,498,969 | 504,763,414 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $1,912,750 and undistributed net investment income of $648,582, respectively) | $ 2,816,056,464 | $ 695,498,969 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 264,189,134 | 112,075,589 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | 516,765 | 5,171,330 |
Redeemed | (35,896,378) | (29,530,415) |
Net increase (decrease) | 228,809,521 | 87,716,504 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Year ended February 28, | ||
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 H | 2007 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 5.16 | $ 10.74 | $ 11.34 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | .01 | .19 | .22 | .18 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 2.60 | (5.14) | .08 | 1.57 |
Total from investment operations | 2.61 | (4.95) | .30 | 1.75 |
Distributions from net investment income | - | (.14) | (.18) | (.13) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.02) | (.49) | (.72) | (.28) |
Total distributions | (.02) | (.63) | (.90) | (.41) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 7.75 | $ 5.16 | $ 10.74 | $ 11.34 |
Total Return B, C | 50.69% | (48.57)% | 2.17% | 17.53% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .25% | .26% | .26% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | .20% A | 2.44% | 1.88% | 1.83% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 2,816,056 | $ 695,499 | $ 504,763 | $ 255,600 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 22% A | 18% | 34% | 16% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period March 23, 2006 (commencement of operations) to February 28, 2007.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
H For the year ended February 29.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS International Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day. If an Underlying Fund's NAV is unavailable, shares of that fund may be valued by another method that the Board of Trustees believes reflects fair value in accordance with the Board's fair value pricing policies. ETFs are valued at their last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, ETFs are valued at the last quoted bid price.
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2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain distributions from the Underlying Funds and distributions from the ETFs, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV and the value of each ETF. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds and losses deferred due to wash sales.
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Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited) - continued
2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 238,665,675 |
Unrealized depreciation | (219,218,451) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ 19,447,224 |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 2,796,609,230 |
3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $1,771,809,408 and $149,358,724, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $1,593,808.
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6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
PAS International Fund of Funds:
Each year the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes at an in-person meeting on the renewal of the management contract and administration agreement (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.
The Board meets regularly four times per year and considers at each of its meetings factors that it believes are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. While the full Board or the Independent Trustees, as appropriate, act on all major matters, a portion of the activities of the Board (including certain of those described herein) may be conducted through committees.
At its March 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including, but not limited to, (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services and the profits, if any, to be realized by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers or SAI) and its affiliates from the relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.
The Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Strategic Advisers under the fund's management contract is consistent with Strategic Advisers' fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year.
In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling.
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, Strategic Advisers, and the administrator, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objectives and disciplines. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Strategic Advisers' investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.
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Management Fees - continued
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of Strategic Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and Strategic Advisers' and FMR's approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers' analysts have access to a variety of technological tools that enable them to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines.
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency and pricing and bookkeeping services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of Strategic Advisers' supervision of third party service providers; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following table, which reflects information considered by the Board, shows, for the one-year period ended September 30, 2008, the fund's total return, the total return of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and the median total return of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Strategic Advisers as having an investment objective similar to that of the fund.
Fund-specific performance results reviewed by the Board are discussed below, though due to the passage of time, they are likely to differ from performance results for more recent periods, including those shown elsewhere in this report.
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PAS International Fund of Funds
Total Return % for the One-Year Period Ended September 30, 2008 vs. MSCI EAFE and SAI Diversified International Peer Group Median
Total Returns | 1 YEAR |
PAS International Fund of Funds (FILFX) | -28.49% |
MSCI EAFE | -30.39% |
Difference | 1.90% |
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SAI Diversified International Peer Group Median* | -29.83% |
Difference | 1.34% |
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% of SAI Peers Beaten by FILFX | 65% |
% of SAI Peers Beaten by MSCI EAFE | 43% |
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Morningstar Foreign Large Blend Median | -30.22% |
Morningstar Foreign Large Growth Median | -30.81% |
Morningstar Foreign Large Value Median | -29.24% |
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* For inclusion in SAI's Diversified International peer group, constituents generally fall into one of several specific Morningstar Categories (Foreign Large Blend, Foreign Large Growth, and Foreign Large Value), and have a minimum $300M in assets and a minimum 3-year life-of-fund. SAI may occasionally make exceptions to these guidelines. |
The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and observed that the fund out-performed 65% of its peers in the SAI Diversified International Peer Group for the one-year period. The Board considered that the investment performance of the fund was higher than its benchmark for the one-year period shown. The Board also considered that in light of the fund's relatively recent commencement of operations, a more comprehensive analysis of the fund's performance will be possible after the fund has completed an additional year of operations.
Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by Strategic Advisers and FMR to maintain and improve relative performance, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will continue to benefit the fund's shareholders.
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the amount and nature of fees paid by shareholders to Strategic Advisers. The Board considered Strategic Advisers' contractual commitment to waive its management fee and reimburse its other expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) until March 31, 2011, which Strategic Advisers estimated would result in the fund having a net operating expense ratio of zero for that period. The Board also considered that Strategic Advisers proposed to extend the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangement until March 31, 2012.
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Management Fees - continued
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee and the total expenses of the fund (giving effect to the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements) were fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered information regarding the revenues earned and expenses incurred by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates attributable to the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders.
Strategic Advisers presented information to the Board on its profitability for managing the fund. Strategic Advisers calculates the profitability for the fund using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies. Strategic Advisers noted that it employs the same corporate reporting of revenues and expenses as those used by the Fidelity Group of Funds.
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Possible Fall-Out Benefits. The Board considered information regarding the potential of direct and indirect benefits to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from their relationships with the fund, including non-advisory fee compensation paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, if any. The Board considered the receipt of these benefits in light of Strategic Advisers' and its affiliates' profitability and other considerations described above. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers did not calculate potential fall-out benefit revenue because Strategic Advisers did not believe that the management of the fund had resulted in significant quantifiable fall-out benefits to the businesses of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Possible Economies of Scale. The Board concluded that the realization of economies of scale was not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Conclusion. Based on its evaluation of all of the considerations noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
FOI-SANN-1009 1.824712.103
PAS International Fidelity Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. | |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees |
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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.
A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Shareholder Expense Example - continued
| Annualized Expense Ratio | Beginning | Ending | Expenses Paid |
Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,538.20 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's investments | % of fund's investments |
Fidelity® Diversified International Fund | 19.3 | 18.9 |
Fidelity International Discovery Fund | 18.5 | 16.4 |
Spartan® International Index Fund Investor Class | 16.2 | 14.4 |
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Institutional Class | 14.1 | 11.8 |
Fidelity Overseas Fund | 8.7 | 6.7 |
Fidelity International Value Fund | 7.3 | 13.3 |
Fidelity International Capital Appreciation Fund | 5.6 | 4.6 |
Fidelity Japan Fund | 3.2 | 3.2 |
Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund | 1.5 | 1.3 |
Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund | 1.4 | 1.2 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Foreign Large |
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Foreign Large |
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Foreign Large |
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Other 6.1% |
| Other 5.7% |
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Sector Funds 1.0% |
| Sector Funds 1.0% |
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Foreign Small Mid Growth Funds 0.8% |
| Foreign Small Mid Growth Funds 0.8% |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Equity Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Foreign Large Blend Funds - 59.9% | |||
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Institutional Class | 723,468 | $ 10,186,425 | |
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Institutional Class | 6,557,607 | 103,151,155 | |
Fidelity Canada Fund | 156,759 | 6,993,012 | |
Fidelity International Discovery Fund | 4,782,989 | 135,884,731 | |
Fidelity Overseas Fund | 2,103,065 | 63,996,279 | |
Spartan International Index Fund Investor Class | 3,693,024 | 119,136,958 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN LARGE BLEND FUNDS | 439,348,560 | ||
Foreign Large Growth Funds - 24.9% | |||
Fidelity Diversified International Fund | 5,406,622 | 141,653,494 | |
Fidelity International Capital Appreciation Fund | 3,822,007 | 40,666,155 | |
TOTAL FOREIGN LARGE GROWTH FUNDS | 182,319,649 | ||
Foreign Large Value Funds - 7.3% | |||
Fidelity International Value Fund | 7,044,214 | 53,465,586 | |
Foreign Small Mid Growth Funds - 0.8% | |||
Fidelity International Small Cap Opportunities Fund | 797,496 | 6,212,493 | |
Sector Funds - 1.0% | |||
Fidelity International Real Estate Fund (a) | 870,718 | 7,305,321 | |
Other - 6.1% | |||
Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund | 567,548 | 10,834,494 | |
Fidelity Japan Fund | 2,166,947 | 23,316,350 | |
Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund | 1,145,322 | 10,193,365 | |
TOTAL OTHER | 44,344,209 | ||
TOTAL EQUITY FUNDS (Cost $840,878,580) | 732,995,818 | ||
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $840,878,580) | $ 732,995,818 |
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(a) Non-income producing |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $11,206,459 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending February 28, 2010 approximately $15,620,863 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | |
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Assets | ||
Investment in affiliated securities, at value (cost $840,878,580) - See accompanying schedule | $ 732,995,818 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 552,310 | |
Total assets | 733,548,128 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 158,464 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 393,841 | |
Total liabilities | 552,305 | |
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Net Assets | $ 732,995,823 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 907,620,138 | |
Distributions in excess of net investment income | (164,592) | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (66,576,961) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | (107,882,762) | |
Net Assets, for 107,698,615 shares outstanding | $ 732,995,823 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($732,995,823 ÷ 107,698,615 shares) | $ 6.81 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
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Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 491,910 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 3,784 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 495,694 | |
Expense reductions | (495,694) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 130,499 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares |
| (23,036,807) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
| 189,544,876 |
Net gain (loss) | 166,508,069 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | $ 166,638,568 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements - continued
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 130,499 | $ 6,894,860 |
Net realized gain (loss) | (23,036,807) | (43,251,176) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 189,544,876 | (248,901,706) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting | 166,638,568 | (285,258,022) |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (925,023) | (6,176,471) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | - | (23,455,626) |
Total distributions | (925,023) | (29,632,097) |
Share transactions | 369,734,743 | 297,004,584 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 923,119 | 29,590,890 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (81,355,830) | (152,254,953) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 289,302,032 | 174,340,521 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 455,015,577 | (140,549,598) |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 277,980,246 | 418,529,844 |
End of period (including distributions in excess of net investment income of $164,592 and undistributed net investment income of $629,932, respectively) | $ 732,995,823 | $ 277,980,246 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 59,150,009 | 38,888,675 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | 175,498 | 3,635,866 |
Redeemed | (14,276,788) | (21,945,229) |
Net increase (decrease) | 45,048,719 | 20,579,312 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Years ended February 28, | |
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 4.44 | $ 9.95 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | - H | .12 | .16 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 2.39 | (5.03) | .14 |
Total from investment operations | 2.39 | (4.91) | .30 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.02) | (.10) | (.14) |
Distributions from net realized gain | - | (.50) | (.21) |
Total distributions | (.02) | (.60) | (.35) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 6.81 | $ 4.44 | $ 9.95 |
Total Return B,C | 53.82% | (52.13)% | 2.67% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .25% | .26% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | .07% A | 1.63% | 1.50% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 732,996 | $ 277,980 | $ 418,530 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 27% A | 20% | 14% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period March 8, 2007 (commencement of operations) to February 29, 2008.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
H Amount represents less than $.01 per share.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS International Fidelity Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day.
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
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Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 29,800,710 |
Unrealized depreciation | (154,100,225) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ (124,299,515) |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 857,295,333 |
3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $344,234,404 and $55,726,897, respectively.
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4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $495,694.
6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
The Fund does not invest in the Underlying Funds for the purpose of exercising management or control; however, investments by the Fund within its principal investment strategies may represent a significant portion of an Underlying Fund's net assets. At the end of the period, the Fund was the owner of record of approximately 11% and 29% of the total outstanding shares of Fidelity International Capital Appreciation Fund and Fidelity International Value Fund, respectively.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
Each year the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes at an in-person meeting on the renewal of the management contract and administration agreement (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.
The Board meets regularly four times per year and considers at each of its meetings factors that it believes are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. While the full Board or the Independent Trustees, as appropriate, act on all major matters, a portion of the activities of the Board (including certain of those described herein) may be conducted through committees.
At its March 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including, but not limited to, (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services and the profits, if any, to be realized by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers or SAI) and its affiliates from the relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.
The Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Strategic Advisers under the fund's management contract is consistent with Strategic Advisers' fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year.
In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling.
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, Strategic Advisers, and the administrator, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objectives and disciplines. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Strategic Advisers' investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.
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Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of Strategic Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and Strategic Advisers' and FMR's approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers' analysts have access to a variety of technological tools that enable them to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines.
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency and pricing and bookkeeping services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of Strategic Advisers' supervision of third party service providers; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following table, which reflects information considered by the Board, shows, for the one-year period ended September 30, 2008, the fund's total return, the total return of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and the median total return of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Strategic Advisers as having an investment objective similar to that of the fund.
Fund-specific performance results reviewed by the Board are discussed below, though due to the passage of time, they are likely to differ from performance results for more recent periods, including those shown elsewhere in this report.
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Management Fees - continued
PAS International Fidelity Fund of Funds
Total Return % for the One-Year Period Ended September 30, 2008 vs. MSCI EAFE and SAI Diversified International Peer Group Median
Total Returns | 1 YEAR |
PAS International Fidelity Fund of Funds (FUSIX) | -31.51% |
MSCI EAFE | -30.39% |
Difference | -1.12% |
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SAI Diversified International Peer Group Median* | -29.83% |
Difference | -1.68% |
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% of SAI Peers Beaten by FUSIX | 32% |
% of SAI Peers Beaten by MSCI EAFE | 43% |
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Morningstar Foreign Large Blend Median | -30.22% |
Morningstar Foreign Large Growth Median | -30.81% |
Morningstar Foreign Large Value Median | -29.24% |
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* For inclusion in SAI's Diversified International peer group, constituents generally fall into one of several specific Morningstar Categories (Foreign Large Blend, Foreign Large Growth, and Foreign Large Value), and have a minimum $300M in assets and a minimum 3-year life-of-fund. SAI may occasionally make exceptions to these guidelines. |
The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and observed that the fund under-performed 68% of its peers in the SAI Diversified International Peer Group for the one-year period. The Board considered that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the one-year period shown. The Board also considered that in light of the fund's relatively recent commencement of operations, a more comprehensive analysis of the fund's performance will be possible after the fund has completed an additional year of operations.
Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by Strategic Advisers and FMR to maintain and improve relative performance, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will continue to benefit the fund's shareholders.
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the amount and nature of fees paid by shareholders to Strategic Advisers. The Board considered Strategic Advisers' contractual commitment to waive its management fee and reimburse its other expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) until March 31, 2011, which Strategic Advisers estimated would result in the fund having a net operating expense ratio of zero for that period. The Board also considered that Strategic Advisers proposed to extend the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangement until March 31, 2012.
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Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee and the total expenses of the fund (giving effect to the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements) were fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered information regarding the revenues earned and expenses incurred by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates attributable to the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders.
Strategic Advisers presented information to the Board on its profitability for managing the fund. Strategic Advisers calculates the profitability for the fund using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies. Strategic Advisers noted that it employs the same corporate reporting of revenues and expenses as those used by the Fidelity Group of Funds.
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Possible Fall-Out Benefits. The Board considered information regarding the potential of direct and indirect benefits to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from their relationships with the fund, including non-advisory fee compensation paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, if any. The Board considered the receipt of these benefits in light of Strategic Advisers' and its affiliates' profitability and other considerations described above. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers did not calculate potential fall-out benefit revenue because Strategic Advisers did not believe that the management of the fund had resulted in significant quantifiable fall-out benefits to the businesses of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Possible Economies of Scale. The Board concluded that the realization of economies of scale was not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Conclusion. Based on its evaluation of all of the considerations noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
PAI-SANN-1009 1.843744.102
PAS Small Cap Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. | |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees |
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,497.30 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's investments | % of fund's investments |
iShares Russell 2000 Value Index ETF | 8.5 | 5.8 |
iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index ETF | 6.9 | 4.0 |
Champlain Small Company Fund Advisor Class | 6.1 | 7.8 |
William Blair Small Cap Growth Fund Class N | 4.7 | 3.5 |
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund | 3.9 | 4.5 |
Perritt MicroCap Opportunities Fund | 3.5 | 2.0 |
FBR Small Cap Financial Fund | 3.0 | 0.2 |
MFS New Discovery Fund A Shares | 3.0 | 0.0 |
Fidelity Small Cap Value Fund | 2.9 | 0.0 |
Turner Small Cap Growth Fund Class I | 2.8 | 2.6 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Small Growth |
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Small Blend Funds 22.2% |
| Small Blend Funds 26.3% |
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Small Value Funds 21.7% |
| Small Value Funds 17.5% |
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Sector Funds 11.3% |
| Sector Funds 7.1% |
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Mid-Cap |
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Mid-Cap |
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Short-Term Funds 0.0% |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Equity Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Mid-Cap Blend Funds - 3.2% | |||
FMI Common Stock Fund | 825,590 | $ 16,693,428 | |
Kinetics Small Cap Opportunities Fund | 82 | 1,544 | |
Royce Premier Fund | 429,356 | 6,332,997 | |
Westport Select Cap Fund Class R (a) | 359,197 | 6,659,509 | |
TOTAL MID-CAP BLEND FUNDS | 29,687,478 | ||
Mid-Cap Growth Funds - 0.0% | |||
FBR Focus Fund | 9,427 | 361,058 | |
Sector Funds - 11.3% | |||
FBR Small Cap Financial Fund | 1,632,048 | 28,528,197 | |
Fidelity Advisor Real Estate Fund Institutional Class (b) | 1,242,718 | 13,819,029 | |
Forward Banking and Finance Fund Class A | 124,091 | 1,776,983 | |
John Hancock Regional Bank Class A | 1,503,271 | 20,564,743 | |
RS Technology Fund Class A | 2,016,856 | 25,271,202 | |
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF | 288,300 | 15,588,381 | |
TOTAL SECTOR FUNDS | 105,548,535 | ||
Small Blend Funds - 22.2% | |||
Aston/TAMRO Small Cap Fund Class N (a) | 545,796 | 8,066,862 | |
CRM Small Cap Value Fund Investor Class | 176 | 2,899 | |
ING Small Company Fund Class A | 1,131,192 | 11,357,170 | |
iShares Russell Microcap Index ETF | 233,300 | 8,692,758 | |
JPMorgan Small Capital Equity Fund Class A (a) | 39 | 1,017 | |
Keeley Small Cap Value Fund Class A (a) | 1,136,508 | 20,673,077 | |
Natixis Vaughan Nelson Small Cap Value Fund Class A (a) | 505,425 | 10,199,484 | |
Perritt Emerging Opportunities Fund (a) | 1,492,088 | 11,414,475 | |
Perritt MicroCap Opportunities Fund (a) | 1,671,494 | 32,543,984 | |
Royce Micro-Cap Fund Service Class | 1,686,164 | 20,166,524 | |
Royce Value Fund Service Class (a) | 2,348,174 | 21,250,977 | |
RS Partners Fund Class A | 985,615 | 23,526,633 | |
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund | 1,358,169 | 36,792,786 | |
Wells Fargo Small Cap Value Fund Class A (a) | 173,186 | 3,867,242 | |
TOTAL SMALL BLEND FUNDS | 208,555,888 | ||
Small Growth Funds - 41.6% | |||
Alger Small Cap Growth Institutional Fund Class I (a) | 1,094,848 | 21,645,147 | |
Baron Growth Fund | 175,454 | 6,565,501 | |
Baron Small Cap Fund | 821,106 | 14,032,694 | |
BlackRock Funds Small Cap Growth Equity Fund Investor Class A (a) | 1,093 | 17,588 | |
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Small Growth Funds - continued | |||
Buffalo Small Cap Fund (a) | 704,044 | $ 15,207,348 | |
Champlain Small Company Fund Advisor Class | 5,311,438 | 57,416,643 | |
Franklin Small Cap Growth Fund II Class A | 364 | 2,798 | |
ING SmallCap Opportunities Fund Class A (a) | 501,100 | 13,043,641 | |
iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index ETF | 1,046,400 | 64,541,952 | |
Lord Abbett Small Cap Blend Fund (a) | 1,434,740 | 17,389,045 | |
Managers AMG Essex Small/Micro Cap Growth Fund Class A (a) | 406,946 | 5,461,214 | |
MFS New Discovery Fund A Shares (a) | 1,708,293 | 27,708,509 | |
Munder Micro-Cap Equity Fund Class A | 89 | 1,866 | |
Oberweis Emerging Growth Fund | 1,036,316 | 14,363,334 | |
Perimeter Small Cap Growth Fund Investor Shares (a) | 1,658,597 | 13,915,631 | |
Royce Value Plus Fund Service Class | 959,555 | 9,816,252 | |
RS Emerging Growth Fund Class A (a) | 846,322 | 23,248,478 | |
The Brown Capital Management Small Co. Fund Institutional Shares | 130,261 | 4,071,946 | |
Turner Small Cap Growth Fund Class I (a) | 1,104,563 | 26,122,905 | |
Wasatch Small Cap Growth Fund | 174,799 | 4,731,818 | |
William Blair Small Cap Growth Fund Class N | 2,407,887 | 43,727,223 | |
Winslow Green Growth Fund Investor Class | 594,849 | 6,959,732 | |
TOTAL SMALL GROWTH FUNDS | 389,991,265 | ||
Small Value Funds - 21.7% | |||
Allianz NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Admin Class | 13,341 | 283,638 | |
Aston/River Road Small Cap Value Class N | 491,479 | 5,032,743 | |
Fidelity Small Cap Value Fund (b) | 2,322,738 | 27,152,809 | |
Goldman Sachs Small Cap Value Fund Class A | 786,684 | 22,483,432 | |
HighMark Small Cap Value Fund Class A | 2,298,679 | 22,366,147 | |
iShares Russell 2000 Value Index ETF | 1,471,900 | 79,615,070 | |
Northern Small Cap Value Fund | 2,138,588 | 24,401,289 | |
Royce Opportunity Fund Service Class | 2,840,493 | 22,496,702 | |
TOTAL SMALL VALUE FUNDS | 203,831,830 | ||
TOTAL EQUITY FUNDS (Cost $932,510,591) | 937,976,054 | ||
Short-Term Funds - 0.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Fidelity Institutional Money Market Portfolio Class I (b) | 3,170 | $ 3,170 | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $932,513,761) | $ 937,979,224 | ||
Security Type Abbreviation ETF - Exchange Traded Fund |
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(b) Affiliated company |
Affiliated Underlying Funds | |
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: | |
Fund | Income Earned |
Fidelity Advisor Real Estate Fund Institutional Class | $ 30,783 |
Fidelity Institutional Money Market Portfolio Class I | 3,404 |
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Additional information regarding the Fund's fiscal year to date purchases and sales of the affiliated non Money Market Underlying Funds is as follows: | ||||
| Value, | Purchases | Sales | Value, |
Fund | ||||
Fidelity Advisor Real Estate Fund Institutional Class | $ 1,201,956 | $ 9,633,301 | $ - | $ 13,819,029 |
Fidelity Small Cap Value Fund | - | 26,328,843 | 4,475,377 | 27,152,809 |
Total | $ 1,201,956 | $ 35,962,144 | $ 4,475,377 | $ 40,971,838 |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $24,453,515 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending February 28, 2010 approximately $19,549,852 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
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Assets | ||
Investment in securities, at value - |
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Unaffiliated Underlying Funds (cost $896,667,662) | $ 897,004,216 |
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Affiliated Underlying Funds (cost $35,846,099) | 40,975,008 |
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Total investments (cost $932,513,761) | $ 937,979,224 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 1,763,389 | |
Total assets | 939,742,613 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 1,216,914 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 546,487 | |
Total liabilities | 1,763,401 | |
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Net Assets | $ 937,979,212 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 970,319,046 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 954,754 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (38,760,051) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | 5,465,463 | |
Net Assets, for 112,473,618 shares outstanding | $ 937,979,212 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($937,979,212 ÷ 112,473,618 shares) | $ 8.34 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
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Dividends from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated |
| $ 920,490 |
Affiliated |
| 34,187 |
Interest |
| 77 |
Total income |
| 954,754 |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 989,849 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 7,958 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 997,807 | |
Expense reductions | (997,807) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 954,754 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares |
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Unaffiliated | 6,593,303 |
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Affiliated | 1,138,589 |
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Realized gain distributions from unaffiliated underlying funds | 9,732 | 7,741,624 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds: |
| 294,519,993 |
Net gain (loss) | 302,261,617 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | $ 303,216,371 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 954,754 | $ 2,260,611 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 7,741,624 | (45,118,025) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 294,519,993 | (236,256,628) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting | 303,216,371 | (279,114,042) |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | - | (2,553,943) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | - | (14,703,263) |
Total distributions | - | (17,257,206) |
Share transactions | 252,710,391 | 640,823,137 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 17,226,130 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (177,833,423) | (161,676,541) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 74,876,968 | 496,372,726 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 378,093,339 | 200,001,478 |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 559,885,873 | 359,884,395 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $954,754 and $0, respectively) | $ 937,979,212 | $ 559,885,873 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 36,640,756 | 84,158,648 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | - | 1,966,117 |
Redeemed | (24,628,269) | (21,675,295) |
Net increase (decrease) | 12,012,487 | 64,449,470 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Years ended February 28, | |||
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 H | 2007 | 2006 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 5.57 | $ 9.99 | $ 11.77 | $ 11.31 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | .01 | .04 | .03 | .02 | - I |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 2.76 | (4.05) | (1.17) | .75 | 1.46 |
Total from investment operations | 2.77 | (4.01) | (1.14) | .77 | 1.46 |
Distributions from net investment income | - | (.04) | (.03) | (.01) | - |
Distributions from net realized gain | - | (.38) | (.61) | (.30) | (.15) |
Total distributions | - | (.41) J | (.64) | (.31) | (.15) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 8.34 | $ 5.57 | $ 9.99 | $ 11.77 | $ 11.31 |
Total Return B,C | 49.73% | (41.74)% | (10.38)% | 6.86% | 14.69% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25%A | .25% | .26% | .26% | .37%A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00%A | .00% | .00% | .00% | .00%A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% | .00% | .00%A |
Net investment income (loss) | .24% A | .50% | .30% | .17% | .03%A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 937,979 | $ 559,886 | $ 359,884 | $ 303,861 | $ 230,571 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 83% A | 55% | 20% | 27% | 10%A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period June 23, 2005 (commencement of operations) to February 28, 2006.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
H For the year ended February 29.
I Amount represents less than $.01 per share.
J Total distributions of $.41 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.035 and distributions from net realized gain of $.375 per share.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS Small Cap Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day. If an Underlying Fund's NAV is unavailable, shares of that fund may be valued by another method that the Board of Trustees believes reflects fair value in accordance with the Board's fair value pricing policies. ETFs are valued at their last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, ETFs are valued at the last quoted bid price.
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Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited) - continued
2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain distributions from the Underlying Funds and distributions from the ETFs, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV and the value of each ETF. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
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2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 96,809,743 |
Unrealized depreciation | (93,138,019) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ 3,671,724 |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 934,307,500 |
3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $402,886,010 and $327,044,549, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $997,807.
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Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited) - continued
6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
PAS Small Cap Fund of Funds:
Each year the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes at an in-person meeting on the renewal of the management contract and administration agreement (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.
The Board meets regularly four times per year and considers at each of its meetings factors that it believes are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. While the full Board or the Independent Trustees, as appropriate, act on all major matters, a portion of the activities of the Board (including certain of those described herein) may be conducted through committees.
At its March 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including, but not limited to, (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services and the profits, if any, to be realized by Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers or SAI) and its affiliates from the relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.
The Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Strategic Advisers under the fund's management contract is consistent with Strategic Advisers' fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year.
In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling.
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, Strategic Advisers, and the administrator, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objectives and disciplines. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Strategic Advisers' investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.
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Management Fees - continued
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of Strategic Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and Strategic Advisers' and FMR's approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers' analysts have access to a variety of technological tools that enable them to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines.
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency and pricing and bookkeeping services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of Strategic Advisers' supervision of third party service providers; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds. The following table, which reflects information considered by the Board, shows, for the one- and three-year periods ended September 30, 2008, the fund's total return, the total return of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and the median total return of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Strategic Advisers as having an investment objective similar to that of the fund.
Fund-specific performance results reviewed by the Board are discussed below, though due to the passage of time, they are likely to differ from performance results for more recent periods, including those shown elsewhere in this report.
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PAS Small Cap Fund of Funds
Total Return % for the Periods Ended September 30, 2008 vs. Russell 2000 Index and SAI Small Cap SuperGroup Median
Total Returns | 1 YEAR | 3 YEARS |
PAS Small Cap Fund of Funds (FSCFX) | -18.86% | -0.70% |
Russell 2000 Index | -14.48% | 1.83% |
Difference | -4.38% | -2.53% |
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SAI Small Cap SuperGroup Median* | -19.72% | -0.22% |
Difference | 0.86% | -0.48% |
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% of SAI Small Cap SuperGroup Peers Beaten by FSCFX | 55% | 42% |
% of SAI Small Cap SuperGroup Peers Beaten by Russell 2000 | 80% | 71% |
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Morningstar Small Cap Blend Median | -18.24% | 0.15% |
Morningstar Small Cap Growth Median | -22.75% | -0.59% |
Morningstar Small Cap Value Median | -15.59% | 0.11% |
Morningstar Small Cap SuperGroup Median** | -19.32% | -0.24% |
* SAI Small Cap SuperGroup is composed of the 349 distinct funds found in SAI's Small Cap Core, Value and Growth peer groups. The constituents of the SAI Small Cap SuperGroup generally will fall into one of several specific Morningstar Categories (Small Blend, Small Value, Small Growth), have a median market capitalization range of up to $2.5B, have a minimum of $100M in assets, and have a minimum 3-year life-of-fund. SAI may occasionally make exceptions to these guidelines. | ||
** Morningstar Small Cap SuperGroup is composed of 2,103 share classes of funds in Morningstar's Small Cap Blend, Value, and Growth categories. |
The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and observed that the fund out-performed 55% of its peers in the SAI Small Cap SuperGroup for the one-year period and that the fund under-performed 58% of its peers for the three-year period. The Board also considered that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown.
Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by Strategic Advisers and FMR to maintain and improve relative performance, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will continue to benefit the fund's shareholders.
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the amount and nature of fees paid by shareholders to Strategic Advisers. The Board considered Strategic Advisers' contractual commitment to waive its management fee and reimburse its other expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) until March 31, 2011, which Strategic Advisers estimated would result in the fund having a net operating expense ratio of zero for that period. The Board also considered that Strategic Advisers proposed to extend the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangement until March 31, 2012.
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Management Fees - continued
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee and the total expenses of the fund (giving effect to the fund's fee waiver and expense reimbursement arrangements) were fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered information regarding the revenues earned and expenses incurred by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates attributable to the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders.
Strategic Advisers presented information to the Board on its profitability for managing the fund. Strategic Advisers calculates the profitability for the fund using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies. Strategic Advisers noted that it employs the same corporate reporting of revenues and expenses as those used by the Fidelity Group of Funds.
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Possible Fall-Out Benefits. The Board considered information regarding the potential of direct and indirect benefits to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from their relationships with the fund, including non-advisory fee compensation paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, if any. The Board considered the receipt of these benefits in light of Strategic Advisers' and its affiliates' profitability and other considerations described above. The Board noted that Strategic Advisers did not calculate potential fall-out benefit revenue because Strategic Advisers did not believe that the management of the fund had resulted in significant quantifiable fall-out benefits to the businesses of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Possible Economies of Scale. The Board concluded that the realization of economies of scale was not relevant to the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts because the fund does not pay management fees and Strategic Advisers pays all other expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
Conclusion. Based on its evaluation of all of the considerations noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
FOF-SANN-1009 1.816939.104
PAS U.S. Opportunity Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. |
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
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Shareholder Expense Example - continued
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,429.20 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's | % of fund's investments |
JPMorgan U.S. Large Cap Core Plus Fund Select Class | 10.4 | 10.1 |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio | 5.7 | 5.1 |
Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio | 4.9 | 2.2 |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio | 4.1 | 2.2 |
American Century Equity Income Fund Investor Class | 3.4 | 6.8 |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio | 2.7 | 0.0 |
Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund | 2.7 | 0.0 |
Janus Mid Cap Value Fund - Investor Shares | 2.7 | 2.9 |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio | 2.4 | 1.4 |
Fidelity Contrafund | 2.3 | 0.0 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Sector Funds 53.7% |
| Sector Funds 40.4% |
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Large Blend Funds 14.2% |
| Large Blend Funds 16.4% |
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Large Value Funds 10.5% |
| Large Value Funds 22.4% |
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Large Growth Funds 9.5% |
| Large Growth Funds 5.7% |
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Mid-Cap |
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Mid-Cap |
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Small Value Funds 1.7% |
| Small Value Funds 2.4% |
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Small Blend Funds 0.8% |
| Small Blend Funds 1.3% |
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Mid-Cap |
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Small Growth Fund 0.0% |
| Small Growth Fund 0.0% |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Equity Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Large Blend Funds - 14.2% | |||
American Century Fundamental Equity Fund Investor Class | 904 | $ 9,388 | |
Evergreen Enhanced S&P 500 Fund Class A | 128 | 1,437 | |
Fidelity 130/30 Large Cap Fund (b) | 555 | 3,411 | |
Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund (b) | 587,454 | 12,506,900 | |
Fidelity Fund (b) | 114 | 3,025 | |
Jennison Equity Opportunity Fund Class A | 163,487 | 1,782,008 | |
JPMorgan U.S. Large Cap Core Plus Fund Select Class | 3,964,755 | 65,140,918 | |
RS Core Equity Fund Class A | 4,356 | 150,822 | |
The Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund Class A | 256,939 | 7,096,668 | |
Thornburg Value Fund Class A | 94,687 | 2,727,941 | |
TOTAL LARGE BLEND FUNDS | 89,422,518 | ||
Large Growth Funds - 9.5% | |||
Alger Spectra Fund Class A (a) | 681,965 | 6,171,787 | |
Allianz RCM Large-Cap Growth Fund Admin Class | 116,307 | 1,275,887 | |
Fidelity Contrafund (b) | 285,635 | 14,735,910 | |
Fidelity Growth Company Fund (b) | 113,346 | 6,873,307 | |
Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund (b) | 1,220,165 | 16,777,271 | |
Ivy Capital Appreciation Fund Class A | 22,089 | 164,788 | |
Janus Fund | 377,234 | 8,770,697 | |
Janus Research Fund | 103,362 | 2,277,074 | |
John Hancock US Global Leaders Growth Fund Class A | 3,536 | 82,006 | |
Marsico 21st Century Fund | 1,818 | 19,599 | |
Natixis CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund Class A | 61,464 | 513,839 | |
Putnam Growth Opportunities Fund Class A (a) | 123,730 | 1,550,340 | |
Putnam Voyager Fund Class A (a) | 29,058 | 515,192 | |
TOTAL LARGE GROWTH FUNDS | 59,727,697 | ||
Large Value Funds - 10.5% | |||
Allianz NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class D | 117 | 1,128 | |
American Beacon Large Cap Value Fund Plan Ahead Class | 648,683 | 9,924,843 | |
American Century Equity Income Fund Investor Class | 3,444,292 | 21,423,496 | |
Artisan Opportunistic Value Fund Investor Shares | 223,536 | 1,752,519 | |
Aston Value Fund Class N | 188,247 | 1,556,802 | |
BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund Investor A Class | 422,053 | 6,128,209 | |
Columbia Value and Restructuring Fund Class Z | 232,590 | 8,736,085 | |
Eaton Vance Large-Cap Value Fund Class A | 140,310 | 2,166,379 | |
Evergreen Disciplined Value Fund Class A | 127,200 | 1,341,962 | |
Fidelity Equity-Income Fund (b) | 81,669 | 2,996,433 | |
Fidelity Equity-Income II Fund (b) | 1,403 | 21,548 | |
Goldman Sachs Growth & Income Fund Institutional Class | 679 | 12,159 | |
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Large Value Funds - continued | |||
Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund Institutional Class | 11,969 | $ 118,735 | |
Harbor Large Cap Value Fund Administrative Class | 400,917 | 2,630,013 | |
John Hancock Classic Value Fund Class A | 1,602 | 22,055 | |
JPMorgan U.S. Large Cap Value Fund Class A | 183,685 | 2,004,002 | |
Pioneer Cullen Value Fund Class A | 894 | 13,958 | |
The Hartford Value Opportunities Fund Class A | 306,634 | 3,097,000 | |
Wasatch-1st Source Income Equity Fund | 160,535 | 1,873,441 | |
TOTAL LARGE VALUE FUNDS | 65,820,767 | ||
Mid-Cap Blend Funds - 0.4% | |||
Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock Fund (b) | 51,145 | 1,048,480 | |
Keeley All Cap Value Fund Class A (a) | 142,635 | 1,212,398 | |
TOTAL MID-CAP BLEND FUNDS | 2,260,878 | ||
Mid-Cap Growth Funds - 2.9% | |||
Baron iOpportunity Fund (a) | 237,556 | 2,342,302 | |
BlackRock US Opportunities Fund Investor A Class (a) | 154,878 | 4,499,208 | |
Janus Enterprise Fund (a) | 49,870 | 2,062,641 | |
Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Trust Mid Cap Growth Portfolio Advisor Shares (a) | 386,856 | 9,315,502 | |
Munder Mid-Cap Core Growth Fund Class A | 142 | 2,832 | |
Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Trust Class (a) | 231 | 2,609 | |
TOTAL MID-CAP GROWTH FUNDS | 18,225,094 | ||
Mid-Cap Value Funds - 6.3% | |||
American Century Mid Cap Value Fund Investor Class | 586,585 | 5,660,541 | |
Delafield Fund, Inc. | 371,571 | 7,765,824 | |
Janus Mid Cap Value Fund - Investor Shares | 914,340 | 16,732,423 | |
JPMorgan Value Advantage Fund Select Class | 657,979 | 9,251,186 | |
TOTAL MID-CAP VALUE FUNDS | 39,409,974 | ||
Sector Funds - 53.7% | |||
Fidelity Real Estate Investment Portfolio (b) | 857 | 14,756 | |
Fidelity Select Air Transportation Portfolio (a)(b) | 98,854 | 2,644,356 | |
Fidelity Select Automotive Portfolio (b) | 46,567 | 1,287,574 | |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio (b) | 980,846 | 14,957,900 | |
Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio (a)(b) | 214,397 | 13,862,903 | |
Fidelity Select Brokerage & Investment Management Portfolio (b) | 148,067 | 7,027,242 | |
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Sector Funds - continued | |||
Fidelity Select Chemicals Portfolio (b) | 108,182 | $ 7,328,272 | |
Fidelity Select Computers Portfolio (a)(b) | 371,439 | 14,448,977 | |
Fidelity Select Construction & Housing Portfolio (b) | 166,111 | 4,729,189 | |
Fidelity Select Consumer Discretionary Portfolio (b) | 514,704 | 8,621,295 | |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio (b) | 624,946 | 35,703,173 | |
Fidelity Select Electronics Portfolio (b) | 125,391 | 4,629,440 | |
Fidelity Select Energy Portfolio (a)(b) | 356,909 | 13,473,318 | |
Fidelity Select Energy Services Portfolio (a)(b) | 215,366 | 10,876,007 | |
Fidelity Select Environmental Portfolio (b) | 1,092 | 15,754 | |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio (b) | 441,561 | 25,592,893 | |
Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio (b) | 224,792 | 8,382,493 | |
Fidelity Select Health Care Portfolio (b) | 115,513 | 11,185,129 | |
Fidelity Select Industrial Equipment Portfolio (b) | 454,132 | 10,317,883 | |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio (b) | 1,064,824 | 17,260,791 | |
Fidelity Select Insurance Portfolio (b) | 37,090 | 1,468,388 | |
Fidelity Select IT Services Portfolio (a)(b) | 315,009 | 4,690,479 | |
Fidelity Select Leisure Portfolio (b) | 79,733 | 4,947,411 | |
Fidelity Select Materials Portfolio (b) | 8,298 | 389,773 | |
Fidelity Select Medical Delivery Portfolio (a)(b) | 151,313 | 5,684,817 | |
Fidelity Select Medical Equipment & Systems Portfolio (b) | 431,651 | 9,733,721 | |
Fidelity Select Multimedia Portfolio (b) | 12,502 | 357,438 | |
Fidelity Select Natural Resources Portfolio (a)(b) | 386,824 | 9,376,604 | |
Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio (b) | 1,380,831 | 13,476,915 | |
Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio (b) | 237,146 | 9,538,006 | |
Fidelity Select Software & Computer Services Portfolio (a)(b) | 190,236 | 11,954,448 | |
Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio (b) | 492,335 | 30,844,799 | |
Fidelity Select Telecommunications Portfolio (b) | 116,298 | 4,096,014 | |
Fidelity Select Transportation Portfolio (b) | 67,312 | 2,363,984 | |
Fidelity Select Utilities Portfolio (b) | 58,499 | 2,513,689 | |
Fidelity Select Wireless Portfolio (b) | 168,475 | 1,022,641 | |
Fidelity Telecom and Utilities Fund (b) | 56,548 | 731,731 | |
MFS Utilities Fund A Shares | 937,768 | 12,753,642 | |
TOTAL SECTOR FUNDS | 338,303,845 | ||
Small Blend Funds - 0.8% | |||
Natixis Vaughan Nelson Small Cap Value Fund Class A (a) | 208,298 | 4,203,461 | |
Royce Value Fund Service Class (a) | 122,809 | 1,111,424 | |
TOTAL SMALL BLEND FUNDS | 5,314,885 | ||
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Small Growth Funds - 0.0% | |||
Champlain Small Company Fund Advisor Class | 15,848 | $ 171,315 | |
Wells Fargo Advantage Small Cap Growth Fund Administrator Class (a) | 444 | 4,473 | |
TOTAL SMALL GROWTH FUNDS | 175,788 | ||
Small Value Funds - 1.7% | |||
Aston/River Road Small Cap Value Class N | 1,158 | 11,859 | |
Fidelity Small Cap Value Fund (b) | 116,844 | 1,365,909 | |
Northern Small Cap Value Fund | 818,401 | 9,337,954 | |
Paradigm Value Fund | 229 | 8,990 | |
TOTAL SMALL VALUE FUNDS | 10,724,712 | ||
TOTAL EQUITY FUNDS (Cost $604,758,772) | 629,386,158 | ||
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $604,758,772) | $ 629,386,158 |
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(b) Affiliated company |
Affiliated Underlying Funds | |
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: | |
Fund | Income Earned |
Fidelity Equity-Income II Fund | $ 222 |
Fidelity Fund | 25 |
Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund | 41,887 |
Fidelity Real Estate Investment Portfolio | 14,878 |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio | 124,619 |
Fidelity Select Brokerage & Investment Management Portfolio | 1,592 |
Fidelity Select Chemicals Portfolio | 10,383 |
Fidelity Select Construction & Housing Portfolio | 2,549 |
Fidelity Select Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 2,451 |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio | 14,533 |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio | 74,723 |
Fidelity Select Health Care Portfolio | 2,589 |
Fidelity Select Industrial Equipment Portfolio | 26,595 |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio | $ 13,444 |
Fidelity Select Leisure Portfolio | 7,067 |
Fidelity Select Multimedia Portfolio | 24 |
Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio | 42,007 |
Fidelity Select Telecommunications Portfolio | 3,619 |
Fidelity Select Transportation Portfolio | 1,504 |
Fidelity Telecom and Utilities Fund | 7,272 |
| $ 391,983 |
Additional information regarding the Fund's fiscal year to date purchases and sales of the affiliated Underlying Funds is as follows: | ||||
Fund | Value, | Purchases | Sales | Value, |
Fidelity 130/30 Large Cap Fund | $ 2,928 | $ - | $ - | $ 3,411 |
Fidelity Contrafund | - | 14,876,213 | 3,106,706 | 14,735,910 |
Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund | 1,717,019 | 8,092,695 | 324,343 | 12,506,900 |
Fidelity Equity-Income Fund | - | 2,929,990 | - | 2,996,433 |
Fidelity Equity-Income II Fund | 14,292 | 222 | - | 21,548 |
Fidelity Fund | 2,141 | 25 | - | 3,025 |
Fidelity Growth Company Fund | 3,025,005 | 2,467,681 | 180,190 | 6,873,307 |
Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund | - | 13,529,102 | 360,381 | 16,777,271 |
Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock Fund | 528,548 | 156,557 | 38,461 | 1,048,480 |
Fidelity Real Estate Investment Portfolio | 2,096,399 | 14,878 | 2,102,637 | 14,756 |
Fidelity Select Air Transportation Portfolio | 1,137,022 | 756,412 | 74,499 | 2,644,356 |
Fidelity Select Automotive Portfolio | - | 1,017,818 | - | 1,287,574 |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio | 3,713,041 | 6,438,245 | 411,722 | 14,957,900 |
Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio | 6,850,776 | 5,123,198 | 186,018 | 13,862,903 |
Fidelity Select Brokerage & Investment Management Portfolio | 471,828 | 5,525,928 | - | 7,027,242 |
Fidelity Select Chemicals Portfolio | 3,080,033 | 2,225,542 | 446,052 | 7,328,272 |
Fidelity Select Computers Portfolio | $ 3,751,466 | $ 6,546,555 | $ 159,861 | $ 14,448,977 |
Fidelity Select Construction & Housing Portfolio | 1,177,868 | 2,274,280 | 144,152 | 4,729,189 |
Fidelity Select Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 1,580,407 | 5,684,408 | 182,613 | 8,621,295 |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio | 13,937,840 | 16,399,077 | 813,573 | 35,703,173 |
Fidelity Select Electronics Portfolio | - | 4,206,906 | - | 4,629,440 |
Fidelity Select Energy Portfolio | 1,978,984 | 10,081,332 | 557,996 | 13,473,318 |
Fidelity Select Energy Services Portfolio | 3,986,833 | 4,079,570 | 581,248 | 10,876,007 |
Fidelity Select Environmental Portfolio | 3,789,454 | - | 4,089,198 | 15,754 |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio | 5,937,491 | 11,196,665 | 720,761 | 25,592,893 |
Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio | 8,538,271 | 1,644,238 | 3,099,963 | 8,382,493 |
Fidelity Select Health Care Portfolio | 1,059,641 | 9,078,343 | 23,252 | 11,185,129 |
Fidelity Select Industrial Equipment Portfolio | 1,350 | 8,258,107 | 324,343 | 10,317,883 |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio | - | 14,637,556 | 342,362 | 17,260,791 |
Fidelity Select Insurance Portfolio | 341,325 | 738,768 | 30,805 | 1,468,388 |
Fidelity Select IT Services Portfolio | 1,142,957 | 2,578,387 | 267,372 | 4,690,479 |
Fidelity Select Leisure Portfolio | 2,443,285 | 1,580,584 | 172,532 | 4,947,411 |
Fidelity Select Materials Portfolio | - | 374,900 | - | 389,773 |
Fidelity Select Medical Delivery Portfolio | 825,292 | 4,181,281 | 16,962 | 5,684,817 |
Fidelity Select Medical Equipment & Systems Portfolio | 5,278,334 | 2,517,464 | 131,762 | 9,733,721 |
Fidelity Select Multimedia Portfolio | 29,465 | 265,986 | - | 357,438 |
Fidelity Select Natural Resources Portfolio | 9,141,953 | 2,097,444 | 5,252,080 | 9,376,604 |
Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio | $ 7,041,529 | $ 4,056,498 | $ 188,441 | $ 13,476,915 |
Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio | 3,113,492 | 3,970,808 | 306,324 | 9,538,006 |
Fidelity Select Software & Computer Services Portfolio | 4,363,959 | 5,367,426 | 989,831 | 11,954,448 |
Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio | 6,082,082 | 15,280,982 | 348,783 | 30,844,799 |
Fidelity Select Telecommunications Portfolio | 660,509 | 2,871,964 | 90,095 | 4,096,014 |
Fidelity Select Transportation Portfolio | 537,954 | 1,287,675 | 79,345 | 2,363,984 |
Fidelity Select Utilities Portfolio | - | 2,400,969 | - | 2,513,689 |
Fidelity Select Wireless Portfolio | - | 996,530 | - | 1,022,641 |
Fidelity Small Cap Value Fund | 78,847 | 1,045,545 | - | 1,365,909 |
Fidelity Telecom and Utilities Fund | - | 697,272 | - | 731,731 |
Total | $ 109,459,620 | $ 209,552,026 | $ 26,144,663 | $ 381,882,397 |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $24,545,440 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending February 28, 2010 approximately $17,673,663 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | |
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Assets | ||
Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule: |
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Unaffiliated Underlying Funds (cost $263,414,721) | $ 247,503,761 | |
Affiliated Underlying Funds (cost $341,344,051) | 381,882,397 | |
Total investments (cost $604,758,772) | $ 629,386,158 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 1,323,158 | |
Total assets | 630,709,316 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 804,557 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 481,089 | |
Total liabilities | 1,285,646 | |
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Net Assets | $ 629,423,670 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 666,980,401 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 1,117,147 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (63,301,264) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | 24,627,386 | |
Net Assets, for 82,398,742 shares outstanding | $ 629,423,670 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($629,423,670 ÷ 82,398,742 shares) | $ 7.64 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
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Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds: |
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Unaffiliated | $ 921,526 | |
Affiliated | 391,983 | |
Total income | 1,313,509 | |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 577,167 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 4,573 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 581,740 | |
Expenses reductions | (581,740) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 1,313,509 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares |
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Unaffiliated | $ (18,789,937) | |
Affiliated | (1,066,960) | |
Realized gain distributions from affiliated underlying funds | 3,619 | (19,853,278) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
| 174,472,387 |
Net gain (loss) | 154,619,109 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | $ 155,932,618 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 1,313,509 | $ 4,007,910 |
Net realized gain (loss) | (19,853,278) | (43,171,917) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 174,472,387 | (134,785,940) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting | 155,932,618 | (173,949,947) |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (304,420) | (4,386,053) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | - | (1,022,970) |
Total distributions | (304,420) | (5,409,023) |
Share transactions | 268,799,154 | 423,219,096 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 302,753 | 5,375,099 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (68,264,698) | (131,833,931) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 200,837,209 | 296,760,264 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 356,465,407 | 117,401,294 |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 272,958,263 | 155,556,969 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $1,117,147 and undistributed net investment income of $108,058, respectively) | $ 629,423,670 | $ 272,958,263 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 41,852,856 | 51,513,278 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | 48,056 | 787,575 |
Redeemed | (10,523,104) | (17,591,988) |
Net increase (decrease) | 31,377,808 | 34,708,865 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Years ended February 28, | ||
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 H | 2007 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 5.35 | $ 9.54 | $ 10.06 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | .02 | .09 | .08 | - I |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 2.28 | (4.16) | (.37) | .06 |
Total from investment operations | 2.30 | (4.07) | (.29) | .06 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.01) | (.10) | (.04) | - |
Distributions from net realized gain | - | (.03) | (.19) | - |
Total distributions | (.01) | (.12) J | (.23) | - |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 7.64 | $ 5.35 | $ 9.54 | $ 10.06 |
Total Return B, C | 42.92% | (42.95)% | (3.11)% | .60% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .25% | .26% | .27% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | .57% A | 1.18% | .74% | .08% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 629,424 | $ 272,958 | $ 155,557 | $ 64,427 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 39% A | 35% | 82% | 274% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period December 29, 2006 (commencement of operations) to February 28, 2007.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
H For the year ended February 29.
I Amount represents less than $.01 per share.
J Total distributions of $.12 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.095 and distributions from net realized gain of $.025 per share.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS U.S. Opportunity Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day. If an Underlying Fund's NAV is unavailable, shares of that fund may be valued by another method that the Board of Trustees believes reflects fair value in accordance with the Board's fair value pricing policies.
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain
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Investment Transactions and Income - continued
distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 69,351,343 |
Unrealized depreciation | (46,451,264) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ 22,900,079 |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 606,486,079 |
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3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $292,216,526 and $90,384,825, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012 to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $581,740.
6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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6. Other - continued
The Fund does not invest in the Underlying Funds for the purpose of exercising management or control; however, investments by the Fund within its principal investment strategies may represent a significant portion of an Underlying Fund's net assets. At the end of the period, the Fund was the owner of record of approximately 15% and 10% of the total outstanding shares of Fidelity Select Consumer Discretionary Portfolio and Fidelity Select Industrial Equipment Portfolio, respectively.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
FOU-SANN-1009 1.836925.102
PAS U.S. Opportunity Fidelity Fund of Funds®
Managed exclusively for certain clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. - not available for sale to the general public
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August 31, 2009
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
A Fidelity Investments Company
Contents
Shareholder Expense Example | An example of shareholder expenses. | |
Investment Changes | A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months. | |
Investments | A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values. | |
Financial Statements | Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights. | |
Notes | Notes to the financial statements. |
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Third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.
This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.
A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (March 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition to the direct expenses incurred by the Fund presented in the table, as a shareholder of the underlying affiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds), the Fund also indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
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Shareholder Expense Example - continued
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
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Actual | .00% | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,422.90 | $ .00 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) |
| $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,025.21 | $ .00 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.
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Investment Changes (Unaudited)
The information in the following tables is based on the direct investments of the Fund. |
Top Ten Fund Holdings as of August 31, 2009 |
| % of fund's investments | % of fund's investments |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio | 10.1 | 11.0 |
Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio | 8.6 | 1.7 |
Fidelity Select Energy Portfolio | 7.9 | 9.1 |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio | 6.8 | 1.0 |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio | 4.7 | 0.9 |
Fidelity® Telecom and Utilities Fund | 4.5 | 7.0 |
Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund | 4.4 | 4.3 |
Fidelity Select Medical Equipment & Systems Portfolio | 4.4 | 5.9 |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio | 3.5 | 3.0 |
Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio | 3.3 | 4.9 |
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Asset Allocation (% of fund's investments) | |||||||
As of August 31, 2009 | As of February 28, 2009 | ||||||
Sector Funds 91.5% |
| Sector Funds 87.5% |
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Large Blend Funds 6.2% |
| Large Blend Funds 10.3% |
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Large Value Funds 1.7% |
| Large Value Funds 2.1% |
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Large Growth Funds 0.5% |
| Large Growth Funds 0.0% |
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Small Growth Funds 0.1% |
| Small Growth Funds 0.1% |
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Mid-Cap Blend |
| Mid-Cap Blend |
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Asset allocations in the pie charts reflect the categorizations of assets as defined by Morningstar as of the reporting dates indicated above. |
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Investments August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Total Value of Investment in Securities
Equity Funds - 100.0% | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Large Blend Funds - 6.2% | |||
Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund | 908,945 | $ 19,351,449 | |
Spartan® U.S. Equity Index Fund Investor Class | 209,502 | 7,586,057 | |
TOTAL LARGE BLEND FUNDS | 26,937,506 | ||
Large Growth Funds - 0.5% | |||
Fidelity Large Cap Stock Fund | 175,641 | 2,415,062 | |
Large Value Funds - 1.7% | |||
Fidelity Blue Chip Value Fund | 753,507 | 7,120,641 | |
Fidelity Equity-Income II Fund | 11,302 | 173,601 | |
TOTAL LARGE VALUE FUNDS | 7,294,242 | ||
Mid-Cap Blend Funds - 0.0% | |||
Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock Fund | 1,297 | 26,597 | |
Sector Funds - 91.5% | |||
Fidelity Advisor Cyclical Industries Fund Institutional Class | 114 | 2,084 | |
Fidelity Advisor Utilities Fund Institutional Class | 12,049 | 192,187 | |
Fidelity Real Estate Investment Portfolio | 322 | 5,545 | |
Fidelity Select Air Transportation Portfolio (a) | 72,997 | 1,952,667 | |
Fidelity Select Automotive Portfolio | 147,021 | 4,065,128 | |
Fidelity Select Banking Portfolio | 1,013,900 | 15,461,970 | |
Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio (a) | 97,893 | 6,329,792 | |
Fidelity Select Brokerage & Investment Management Portfolio | 116,216 | 5,515,615 | |
Fidelity Select Chemicals Portfolio | 181,752 | 12,311,848 | |
Fidelity Select Communications Equipment Portfolio | 49,464 | 903,220 | |
Fidelity Select Computers Portfolio (a) | 153,122 | 5,956,430 | |
Fidelity Select Construction & Housing Portfolio | 350,112 | 9,967,683 | |
Fidelity Select Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 337,808 | 5,658,283 | |
Fidelity Select Consumer Staples Portfolio | 770,861 | 44,039,277 | |
Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Portfolio | 62,276 | 3,339,884 | |
Fidelity Select Electronics Portfolio | 294,896 | 10,887,557 | |
Fidelity Select Energy Portfolio (a) | 911,487 | 34,408,619 | |
Fidelity Select Energy Services Portfolio (a) | 37,041 | 1,870,588 | |
Fidelity Select Environmental Portfolio | 13,104 | 188,957 | |
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio | 508,178 | 29,454,020 | |
Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio | 143,799 | 5,362,258 | |
Fidelity Select Health Care Portfolio | 126,986 | 12,296,014 | |
Fidelity Select Industrial Equipment Portfolio | 142,812 | 3,244,687 | |
Fidelity Select Industrials Portfolio | 1,253,294 | 20,315,893 | |
Fidelity Select Insurance Portfolio | 261,842 | 10,366,315 | |
Fidelity Select IT Services Portfolio (a) | 421,513 | 6,276,333 | |
Equity Funds - continued | |||
Shares | Value | ||
Sector Funds - continued | |||
Fidelity Select Leisure Portfolio | 144,185 | $ 8,946,670 | |
Fidelity Select Materials Portfolio | 30,002 | 1,409,177 | |
Fidelity Select Medical Delivery Portfolio (a) | 133,795 | 5,026,679 | |
Fidelity Select Medical Equipment & Systems Portfolio | 849,278 | 19,151,210 | |
Fidelity Select Multimedia Portfolio | 59,535 | 1,702,101 | |
Fidelity Select Natural Gas Portfolio (a) | 101,905 | 2,850,282 | |
Fidelity Select Natural Resources Portfolio (a) | 111,148 | 2,694,238 | |
Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio | 1,472,151 | 14,368,196 | |
Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio | 197,482 | 7,942,733 | |
Fidelity Select Software & Computer Services Portfolio (a) | 222,819 | 14,001,974 | |
Fidelity Select Technology Portfolio | 600,019 | 37,591,215 | |
Fidelity Select Telecommunications Portfolio | 140,181 | 4,937,190 | |
Fidelity Select Transportation Portfolio | 128,125 | 4,499,750 | |
Fidelity Select Utilities Portfolio | 88,460 | 3,801,127 | |
Fidelity Select Wireless Portfolio | 989 | 6,006 | |
Fidelity Telecom and Utilities Fund | 1,524,699 | 19,729,611 | |
TOTAL SECTOR FUNDS | 399,031,013 | ||
Small Growth Funds - 0.1% | |||
Fidelity Advisor Small Cap Fund Institutional Class | 17,033 | 352,929 | |
TOTAL EQUITY FUNDS (Cost $443,399,716) | 436,057,349 | ||
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100% (Cost $443,399,716) | $ 436,057,349 |
Legend |
(a) Non-income producing |
Other Information |
All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements. |
Income Tax Information |
At February 28, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $61,373,935 all of which will expire on February 28, 2017. |
The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending February 28, 2010 approximately $34,444,965 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | |
Assets | ||
Investment in affiliated securities, at value (cost $443,399,716) - See accompanying schedule | $ 436,057,349 | |
Receivable for fund shares sold | 297,375 | |
Total assets | 436,354,724 | |
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Liabilities | ||
Payable for investments purchased | $ 71,018 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 226,356 | |
Total liabilities | 297,374 | |
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Net Assets | $ 436,057,350 | |
Net Assets consist of: |
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Paid in capital | $ 558,415,654 | |
Undistributed net investment income | 925,404 | |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments | (115,941,341) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | (7,342,367) | |
Net Assets, for 58,344,299 shares outstanding | $ 436,057,350 | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($436,057,350 ÷ 58,344,299 shares) | $ 7.47 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Statement of Operations
Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | ||
Investment Income |
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Dividends from underlying funds |
| $ 925,404 |
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Expenses | ||
Management fee | $ 401,810 | |
Independent trustees' compensation | 3,214 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 405,024 | |
Expense reductions | (405,024) | - |
Net investment income (loss) | 925,404 | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) Realized gain (loss) on sale of underlying fund shares | (16,604,507) | |
Realized gain distributions from underlying funds | 4,816 | (16,599,691) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on underlying funds |
| 126,181,269 |
Net gain (loss) | 109,581,578 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | $ 110,506,982 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Statements - continued
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited) | Year ended |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
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Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) | $ 925,404 | $ 4,256,718 |
Net realized gain (loss) | (16,599,691) | (89,932,734) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 126,181,269 | (90,999,266) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting | 110,506,982 | (176,675,282) |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | - | (4,302,072) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | - | (430,207) |
Total distributions | - | (4,732,279) |
Share transactions | 102,980,490 | 176,934,678 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 4,724,671 |
Cost of shares redeemed | (49,204,369) | (116,102,070) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions | 53,776,121 | 65,557,279 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 164,283,103 | (115,850,282) |
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Net Assets | ||
Beginning of period | 271,774,247 | 387,624,529 |
End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $925,404 and $0, respectively) | $ 436,057,350 | $ 271,774,247 |
Other Information Shares | ||
Sold | 14,809,364 | 25,808,703 |
Issued in reinvestment of distributions | - | 791,402 |
Redeemed | (8,245,525) | (15,486,468) |
Net increase (decrease) | 6,563,839 | 11,113,637 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Financial Highlights
| Six months ended | Years ended February 28, | |
(Unaudited) | 2009 | 2008 F | |
Selected Per-Share Data |
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Net asset value, beginning of period | $ 5.25 | $ 9.53 | $ 10.00 |
Income from Investment Operations |
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Net investment income (loss) D | .02 | .10 | .09 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | 2.20 | (4.27) | (.20) |
Total from investment operations | 2.22 | (4.17) | (.11) |
Distributions from net investment income | - | (.10) | (.06) |
Distributions from net realized gain | - | (.01) | (.28) |
Return of capital | - | - | (.02) |
Total distributions | - | (.11) | (.36) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ 7.47 | $ 5.25 | $ 9.53 |
Total Return B, C | 42.29% | (43.90)% | (1.46)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets G |
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Expenses before reductions | .25% A | .25% | .26% A |
Expenses net of contractual waivers | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Expenses net of all reductions | .00% A | .00% | .00% A |
Net investment income (loss) | .58% A | 1.24% | .92% A |
Supplemental Data |
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Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ 436,057 | $ 271,774 | $ 387,625 |
Portfolio turnover rate E | 53% A | 130% | 197% A |
A Annualized
B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
C Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.
D Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
E Amounts do not include the portfolio activity of the underlying funds.
F For the period March 8, 2007 (commencement of operations) to February 29, 2008.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the Fund. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts contractually reimbursed by the investment adviser and do not represent the amount paid by the Fund during periods when reimbursements occur. Expenses net of contractual waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the Fund. Fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds are not included in the Fund's annualized ratios. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
For the period ended August 31, 2009 (Unaudited)
1. Organization.
PAS U.S. Opportunity Fidelity Fund of Funds (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Rutland Square Trust (the trust), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust. The Fund invests in affiliated mutual funds (the Underlying Funds) and operates under Section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Fund's investments in the Underlying Funds were not subject to front-end sales charges or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund is offered exclusively to clients of Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers®), an affiliate of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR).
2. Significant Accounting Policies.
The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Underlying Funds as an investment of the Fund but does not include the underlying holdings of each Underlying Fund. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, October 13, 2009, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Security Valuation. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are classified into three levels. Level 1 includes readily available unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly. Level 3 includes unobservable inputs when market prices are not readily available or reliable. Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy. All inputs to value investments as of August 31, 2009, for the Fund are categorized as Level 1 in the disclosure hierarchy. Investments in the Underlying Funds are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day.
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV for processing shareholder transactions includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend and realized gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest.
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Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited) - continued
2. Significant Accounting Policies - continued
Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each fund in the trust. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Fund and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds. Although not included in the Fund's expenses, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the Underlying Funds' expenses through the impact of these expenses on each Underlying Fund's NAV. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. The Fund is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. There are no unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years.
Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
The federal tax cost of investments and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:
Unrealized appreciation | $ 36,571,092 |
Unrealized depreciation | (46,956,277) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $ (10,385,185) |
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Cost for federal income tax purposes | $ 446,442,534 |
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3. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities (including the Underlying Fund shares), other than short-term securities, aggregated $141,100,731 and $86,394,391, respectively.
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Strategic Advisers provides the Fund with investment management related services. For these services, the Fund pays a monthly management fee to Strategic Advisers. The management fee is computed at an annual rate of .25% of the Fund's average net assets. Strategic Advisers, either itself or through an affiliated company, pays all other expenses of the Fund with certain exceptions such as interest expense and independent Trustees' compensation.
Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive its management fee until September 30, 2012.
Strategic Advisers has entered into an administration agreement with FMR under which FMR provides management and administrative services (other than investment advisory services) necessary for the operation of the Fund. FMR also contracts with other Fidelity companies to perform the services necessary for the operation of the Fund. Under this agreement, Strategic Advisers agrees to pay FMR a monthly administration fee. The Fund does not pay any fees for these services.
5. Expense Reductions.
In addition to waiving its management fee, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund until September 30, 2012, to the extent that annual operating expenses exceed .00% of average net assets. Some expenses, for example interest expense, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period, this waiver and reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $405,024.
6. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
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Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers, Inc.
Boston, MA
General Distributor
Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA
Transfer and Service Agents
Fidelity Investments Institutional
Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
Custodian
The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY
PAO-SANN-1009 1.843748.102
Item 2. Code of Ethics
Not applicable.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert
Not applicable.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Not applicable.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants
Not applicable.
Item 6. Investments
(a) Not applicable.
(b) Not applicable
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Not applicable.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers
Not applicable.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Not applicable.
Item 11. Controls and Procedures
(a)(i) The President and Treasurer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Fidelity Rutland Square Trust's (the "Trust") disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act) provide reasonable assurances that material information relating to the Trust is made known to them by the appropriate persons, based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.
(a)(ii) There was no change in the Trust's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Trust's internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits
(a) | (1) | Not applicable. |
(a) | (2) | Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) is filed and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.CERT. |
(a) | (3) | Not applicable. |
(b) |
| Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)) is furnished and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.906CERT. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Fidelity Rutland Square Trust
By: | /s/ Mark Osterheld |
| Mark Osterheld |
| President and Treasurer |
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Date: | October 30, 2009 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By: | /s/ Mark Osterheld |
| Mark Osterheld |
| President and Treasurer |
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Date: | October 30, 2009 |
By: | /s/ Nicholas E. Steck |
| Nicholas E. Steck |
| Chief Financial Officer |
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Date: | October 30, 2009 |