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 811-03759
Variable Insurance Products Fund IV
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
245 Summer St., Boston, MA 02210
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Margaret Carey, Secretary
245 Summer St.
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
617-563-7000
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Date of fiscal year end: | December 31 |
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Date of reporting period: | June 30, 2023 |
Item 1.
Reports to Stockholders
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Technology Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
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Apple, Inc. | 16.8 | |
Microsoft Corp. | 15.3 | |
NVIDIA Corp. | 11.9 | |
Marvell Technology, Inc. | 4.5 | |
NXP Semiconductors NV | 4.1 | |
ON Semiconductor Corp. | 3.6 | |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | 3.3 | |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | 3.1 | |
Salesforce, Inc. | 3.1 | |
ServiceNow, Inc. | 3.0 | |
| 68.7 | |
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Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
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Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | 30.8 | |
Software | 28.2 | |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals | 16.8 | |
IT Services | 6.5 | |
Financial Services | 4.8 | |
Communications Equipment | 3.1 | |
Ground Transportation | 1.8 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | 1.5 | |
Interactive Media & Services | 1.0 | |
Professional Services | 0.8 | |
Entertainment | 0.7 | |
Aerospace & Defense | 0.2 | |
Broadline Retail | 0.1 | |
Chemicals | 0.1 | |
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components | 0.1 | |
Metals & Mining | 0.1 | |
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail | 0.0 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | 0.0 | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services | 0.0 | |
Pharmaceuticals | 0.0 | |
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Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 95.2% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Chemicals - 0.1% | | | |
Commodity Chemicals - 0.1% | | | |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 3,710 | 1,888,734 |
Communications Equipment - 3.1% | | | |
Communications Equipment - 3.1% | | | |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | | 1,119,700 | 57,933,278 |
Entertainment - 0.7% | | | |
Movies & Entertainment - 0.7% | | | |
Netflix, Inc. (a) | | 30,332 | 13,360,943 |
Financial Services - 4.8% | | | |
Diversified Financial Services - 0.1% | | | |
Ant International Co. Ltd. Class C (a)(b)(c) | | 835,647 | 1,261,827 |
Transaction & Payment Processing Services - 4.7% | | | |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | | 155,600 | 61,197,480 |
Visa, Inc. Class A | | 107,000 | 25,410,360 |
| | | 86,607,840 |
TOTAL FINANCIAL SERVICES | | | 87,869,667 |
Ground Transportation - 1.8% | | | |
Cargo Ground Transportation - 0.0% | | | |
TuSimple Holdings, Inc. (a)(d) | | 31,800 | 52,788 |
Passenger Ground Transportation - 1.8% | | | |
Lyft, Inc. (a) | | 180,097 | 1,727,130 |
Uber Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 733,524 | 31,666,231 |
| | | 33,393,361 |
TOTAL GROUND TRANSPORTATION | | | 33,446,149 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 0.0% | | | |
Health Care Equipment - 0.0% | | | |
China Medical Technologies, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)(c) | | 300 | 0 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.5% | | | |
Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines - 1.4% | | | |
Airbnb, Inc. Class A (a) | | 197,100 | 25,260,336 |
Restaurants - 0.1% | | | |
Deliveroo PLC Class A (a)(e) | | 955,100 | 1,388,859 |
TOTAL HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE | | | 26,649,195 |
Interactive Media & Services - 0.7% | | | |
Interactive Media & Services - 0.7% | | | |
Snap, Inc. Class A (a) | | 1,030,967 | 12,206,649 |
IT Services - 6.5% | | | |
Internet Services & Infrastructure - 6.2% | | | |
MongoDB, Inc. Class A (a) | | 80,130 | 32,932,629 |
Okta, Inc. (a) | | 603,200 | 41,831,920 |
Shopify, Inc. Class A (a) | | 172,200 | 11,124,120 |
Snowflake, Inc. (a) | | 117,816 | 20,733,260 |
Twilio, Inc. Class A (a) | | 119,600 | 7,608,952 |
| | | 114,230,881 |
IT Consulting & Other Services - 0.3% | | | |
Capgemini SA | | 24,200 | 4,582,090 |
TOTAL IT SERVICES | | | 118,812,971 |
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.0% | | | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.0% | | | |
Eden Biologics, Inc. (a)(c) | | 94,814 | 0 |
Pharmaceuticals - 0.0% | | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 0.0% | | | |
Chime Biologics Wuhan Co. Ltd. (a)(c) | | 94,814 | 49,382 |
Professional Services - 0.8% | | | |
Human Resource & Employment Services - 0.8% | | | |
Paycom Software, Inc. | | 47,431 | 15,236,734 |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 30.6% | | | |
Semiconductor Materials & Equipment - 2.2% | | | |
ASML Holding NV (Netherlands) | | 20,100 | 14,579,103 |
Teradyne, Inc. | | 229,400 | 25,539,102 |
| | | 40,118,205 |
Semiconductors - 28.4% | | | |
GlobalFoundries, Inc. (a) | | 665,898 | 43,003,693 |
Marvell Technology, Inc. | | 1,377,204 | 82,329,255 |
Microchip Technology, Inc. | | 85,900 | 7,695,781 |
NVIDIA Corp. | | 518,300 | 219,251,266 |
NXP Semiconductors NV | | 369,804 | 75,691,483 |
ON Semiconductor Corp. (a) | | 706,900 | 66,858,602 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 1,578,000 | 29,143,902 |
| | | 523,973,982 |
TOTAL SEMICONDUCTORS & SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | | | 564,092,187 |
Software - 27.8% | | | |
Application Software - 9.4% | | | |
Bill Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 157,700 | 18,427,245 |
Convoy, Inc. warrants (a)(b)(c) | | 1,866 | 4,908 |
Dynatrace, Inc. (a) | | 217,100 | 11,174,137 |
HashiCorp, Inc. (a) | | 247,192 | 6,471,487 |
HubSpot, Inc. (a) | | 33,633 | 17,895,783 |
Intuit, Inc. | | 38,700 | 17,731,953 |
Manhattan Associates, Inc. (a) | | 50,555 | 10,104,933 |
Pine Labs Private Ltd. (a)(b)(c) | | 1,314 | 671,073 |
Salesforce, Inc. (a) | | 271,265 | 57,307,444 |
Splunk, Inc. (a) | | 316,900 | 33,619,921 |
| | | 173,408,884 |
Systems Software - 18.4% | | | |
Microsoft Corp. | | 826,800 | 281,558,472 |
ServiceNow, Inc. (a) | | 98,200 | 55,185,454 |
Tenable Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 48,370 | 2,106,514 |
| | | 338,850,440 |
TOTAL SOFTWARE | | | 512,259,324 |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 16.8% | | | |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 16.8% | | | |
Apple, Inc. | | 1,591,560 | 308,714,893 |
IonQ, Inc. (a)(b) | | 44,500 | 602,085 |
| | | 309,316,978 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $959,472,302) | | | 1,753,122,191 |
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Preferred Stocks - 1.4% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Convertible Preferred Stocks - 1.2% | | | |
Aerospace & Defense - 0.2% | | | |
Aerospace & Defense - 0.2% | | | |
Relativity Space, Inc. Series E (a)(b)(c) | | 174,268 | 3,065,374 |
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Broadline Retail - 0.1% | | | |
Broadline Retail - 0.1% | | | |
Meesho Series F (a)(b)(c) | | 17,100 | 1,283,355 |
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Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail - 0.0% | | | |
Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail - 0.0% | | | |
Instacart, Inc. Series I (a)(b)(c) | | 10,890 | 453,242 |
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Food Retail - 0.0% | | | |
GoBrands, Inc. Series G (a)(b)(c) | | 5,260 | 476,609 |
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TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES DISTRIBUTION & RETAIL | | | 929,851 |
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Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.1% | | | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.1% | | | |
Enevate Corp. Series E (a)(b)(c) | | 3,556,678 | 2,062,873 |
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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.0% | | | |
Casinos & Gaming - 0.0% | | | |
Discord, Inc. Series I (a)(b)(c) | | 200 | 61,486 |
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Interactive Media & Services - 0.3% | | | |
Interactive Media & Services - 0.3% | | | |
ByteDance Ltd. Series E1 (a)(b)(c) | | 9,903 | 2,236,494 |
Reddit, Inc.: | | | |
Series D(a)(b)(c) | | 33,900 | 1,172,601 |
Series E(a)(b)(c) | | 1,982 | 68,557 |
Series F(a)(b)(c) | | 55,762 | 1,928,808 |
| | | 5,406,460 |
Metals & Mining - 0.1% | | | |
Precious Metals & Minerals - 0.1% | | | |
Diamond Foundry, Inc. Series C (a)(b)(c) | | 56,576 | 2,101,798 |
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Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 0.2% | | | |
Semiconductor Materials & Equipment - 0.1% | | | |
Astera Labs, Inc.: | | | |
Series A(a)(b)(c) | | 52,688 | 499,482 |
Series B(a)(b)(c) | | 8,971 | 85,045 |
Series C(a)(b)(c) | | 49,300 | 467,364 |
Series D(a)(b)(c) | | 216,871 | 2,055,937 |
| | | 3,107,828 |
Semiconductors - 0.1% | | | |
Retym, Inc. Series C (b)(c) | | 50,104 | 389,809 |
SiMa.ai: | | | |
Series B(a)(b)(c) | | 85,000 | 508,300 |
Series B1(a)(b)(c) | | 36,016 | 253,553 |
Xsight Labs Ltd. Series D (a)(b)(c) | | 37,800 | 264,978 |
| | | 1,416,640 |
TOTAL SEMICONDUCTORS & SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT | | | 4,524,468 |
| | | |
Software - 0.2% | | | |
Application Software - 0.2% | | | |
Convoy, Inc. Series D (a)(b)(c) | | 28,479 | 165,748 |
Databricks, Inc.: | | | |
Series G(a)(b)(c) | | 14,100 | 754,491 |
Series H(a)(b)(c) | | 36,297 | 1,942,252 |
| | | 2,862,491 |
Systems Software - 0.0% | | | |
Tenstorrent, Inc. Series C1 (a)(b)(c) | | 2,400 | 141,552 |
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TOTAL SOFTWARE | | | 3,004,043 |
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Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 0.0% | | | |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 0.0% | | | |
Lightmatter, Inc. Series C (b)(c) | | 29,615 | 485,982 |
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TOTAL CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | 22,925,690 |
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.2% | | | |
Software - 0.2% | | | |
Application Software - 0.2% | | | |
Pine Labs Private Ltd.: | | | |
Series 1(a)(b)(c) | | 3,140 | 1,603,629 |
Series A(a)(b)(c) | | 785 | 400,907 |
Series B(a)(b)(c) | | 854 | 436,146 |
Series B2(a)(b)(c) | | 690 | 352,390 |
Series C(a)(b)(c) | | 1,284 | 655,752 |
Series C1(a)(b)(c) | | 271 | 138,402 |
Series D(a)(b)(c) | | 289 | 147,595 |
| | | 3,734,821 |
TOTAL PREFERRED STOCKS (Cost $30,351,596) | | | 26,660,511 |
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Convertible Bonds - 0.0% |
| | Principal Amount (f) | Value ($) |
Software - 0.0% | | | |
Application Software - 0.0% | | | |
Convoy, Inc. 15% 9/30/26 (b)(c) (Cost $12,428) | | 12,428 | 13,012 |
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Preferred Securities - 0.0% |
| | Principal Amount (f) | Value ($) |
Software - 0.0% | | | |
Systems Software - 0.0% | | | |
Tenstorrent, Inc. 0% (b)(c)(g) (Cost $130,000) | | 130,000 | 128,960 |
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Money Market Funds - 4.0% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (h) | | 72,991,471 | 73,006,070 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (h)(i) | | 63,394 | 63,400 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $73,069,470) | | | 73,069,470 |
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TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.6% (Cost $1,063,035,796) | 1,852,994,144 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.6)% | (10,647,486) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 1,842,346,658 |
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Legend
(b) | Restricted securities (including private placements) - Investment in securities not registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (excluding 144A issues). At the end of the period, the value of restricted securities (excluding 144A issues) amounted to $29,342,376 or 1.6% of net assets. |
(d) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(e) | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At the end of the period, the value of these securities amounted to $1,388,859 or 0.1% of net assets. |
(f) | Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted. |
(g) | Security is perpetual in nature with no stated maturity date. |
(h) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(i) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Additional information on each restricted holding is as follows: |
Security | Acquisition Date | Acquisition Cost ($) |
Ant International Co. Ltd. Class C | 5/16/18 | 3,184,965 |
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Astera Labs, Inc. Series A | 5/17/22 | 535,811 |
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Astera Labs, Inc. Series B | 5/17/22 | 91,231 |
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Astera Labs, Inc. Series C | 8/24/21 | 165,737 |
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Astera Labs, Inc. Series D | 5/17/22 - 5/27/22 | 2,205,470 |
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ByteDance Ltd. Series E1 | 11/18/20 | 1,085,113 |
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Convoy, Inc. Series D | 10/30/19 | 385,606 |
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Convoy, Inc. warrants | 3/24/23 | 0 |
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Convoy, Inc. 15% 9/30/26 | 3/24/23 | 12,428 |
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Databricks, Inc. Series G | 2/01/21 | 833,629 |
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Databricks, Inc. Series H | 8/31/21 | 2,667,254 |
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Diamond Foundry, Inc. Series C | 3/15/21 | 1,357,824 |
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Discord, Inc. Series I | 9/15/21 | 110,125 |
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Enevate Corp. Series E | 1/29/21 | 3,943,236 |
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GoBrands, Inc. Series G | 3/02/21 | 1,313,513 |
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Instacart, Inc. Series I | 2/26/21 | 1,361,250 |
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IonQ, Inc. | 3/07/21 | 445,000 |
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Lightmatter, Inc. Series C | 5/19/23 | 487,368 |
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Meesho Series F | 9/21/21 | 1,311,096 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. | 6/30/21 | 489,938 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series 1 | 6/30/21 | 1,170,780 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series A | 6/30/21 | 292,695 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series B | 6/30/21 | 318,422 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series B2 | 6/30/21 | 257,273 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series C | 6/30/21 | 478,752 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series C1 | 6/30/21 | 101,045 |
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Pine Labs Private Ltd. Series D | 6/30/21 | 107,757 |
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Reddit, Inc. Series D | 2/04/19 | 735,166 |
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Reddit, Inc. Series E | 5/18/21 | 84,184 |
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Reddit, Inc. Series F | 8/11/21 | 3,445,779 |
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Relativity Space, Inc. Series E | 5/27/21 | 3,979,427 |
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Retym, Inc. Series C | 5/17/23 - 6/20/23 | 389,899 |
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SiMa.ai Series B | 5/10/21 | 435,829 |
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SiMa.ai Series B1 | 4/25/22 - 10/17/22 | 255,386 |
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Tenstorrent, Inc. Series C1 | 4/23/21 | 142,690 |
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Tenstorrent, Inc. 0% | 4/23/21 | 130,000 |
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Xsight Labs Ltd. Series D | 2/16/21 | 302,249 |
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Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 7,928,276 | 222,106,017 | 157,028,223 | 892,706 | - | - | 73,006,070 | 0.2% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 26,064,625 | 32,096,604 | 58,097,829 | 137,565 | - | - | 63,400 | 0.0% |
Total | 33,992,901 | 254,202,621 | 215,126,052 | 1,030,271 | - | - | 73,069,470 | |
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Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 1,753,122,191 | 1,700,941,172 | 50,193,829 | 1,987,190 |
|
Preferred Stocks | 26,660,511 | - | - | 26,660,511 |
|
Convertible Bonds | 13,012 | - | - | 13,012 |
|
Preferred Securities | 128,960 | - | - | 128,960 |
|
Money Market Funds | 73,069,470 | 73,069,470 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 1,852,994,144 | 1,774,010,642 | 50,193,829 | 28,789,673 |
The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:
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Investments in Securities: | |
Preferred Stocks | | | |
Beginning Balance | $ | 25,593,556 | |
Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | - | |
Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | 194,596 | |
Cost of Purchases | | 877,267 | |
Proceeds of Sales | | - | |
Amortization/Accretion | | - | |
Transfers into Level 3 | | - | |
Transfers out of Level 3 | | - | |
Ending Balance | $ | 26,665,419 | |
The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at June 30, 2023 | $ | 194,596 | |
Other Investments in Securities | | | |
Beginning Balance | $ | 3,732,066 | |
Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | - | |
Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | (105,964) | |
Cost of Purchases | | 12,428 | |
Proceeds of Sales | | (1,514,278) | |
Amortization/Accretion | | - | |
Transfers into Level 3 | | - | |
Transfers out of Level 3 | | - | |
Ending Balance | $ | 2,124,252 | |
The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at June 30, 2023 | $ | (174,107) | |
The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Cost of purchases and proceeds of sales may include securities received and/or delivered through in-kind transactions, corporate actions or exchanges. Transfers into Level 3 were attributable to a lack of observable market data resulting from decreases in market activity, decreases in liquidity, security restructurings or corporate actions. Transfers out of Level 3 were attributable to observable market data becoming available for those securities. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represent the beginning value of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations. | |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $52,622) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $989,966,326) | $ | 1,779,924,674 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $73,069,470) | | 73,069,470 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $1,063,035,796) | | | $ | 1,852,994,144 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $96) | | | | 96 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 128,448 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 440,990 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 364,508 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 1,607 |
Total assets | | | | 1,853,929,793 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $ | 8,152,363 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 2,350,153 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 767,227 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 223,601 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 26,391 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 63,400 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 11,583,135 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 1,842,346,658 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 1,032,435,171 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 809,911,487 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 1,842,346,658 |
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Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($323,666,376 ÷ 10,844,647 shares) | | | $ | 29.85 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($1,518,680,282 ÷ 51,936,505 shares) | | | $ | 29.24 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 4,368,598 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $137,565 from security lending) | | | | 1,030,271 |
Total Income | | | | 5,398,869 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 3,747,079 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 900,187 | | |
Accounting fees | | 199,757 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 13,851 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 4,467 | | |
Audit | | 31,909 | | |
Legal | | 3,510 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 4,103 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 4,904,863 | | |
Expense reductions | | (30,275) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 4,874,588 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 524,281 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 19,737,240 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | (9,594) | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 19,727,646 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 519,905,121 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | (1,925) | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 519,903,196 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 539,630,842 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 540,155,123 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
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| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 524,281 | $ | (157,798) |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 19,727,646 | | 36,112,478 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 519,903,196 | | (732,956,032) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 540,155,123 | | (697,001,352) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (36,962,467) | | (149,535,613) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | 211,652,363 | | (74,623,368) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 714,845,019 | | (921,160,333) |
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Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 1,127,501,639 | | 2,048,661,972 |
End of period | $ | 1,842,346,658 | $ | 1,127,501,639 |
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VIP Technology Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 20.94 | $ | 35.65 | $ | 30.99 | $ | 19.08 | $ | 15.76 | $ | 18.43 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .02 | | .01 | | (.04) | | (.01) | | .09 | | .05 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 9.56 | | (12.04) | | 8.22 | | 12.36 | | 6.72 | | (1.34) |
Total from investment operations | | 9.58 | | (12.03) | | 8.18 | | 12.35 | | 6.81 | | (1.29) |
��Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | (.02) | | (.08) | | - |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.67) | | (2.68) | | (3.52) | | (.42) | | (3.42) | | (1.38) |
Total distributions | | (.67) | | (2.68) | | (3.52) | | (.44) | | (3.49) C | | (1.38) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 29.85 | $ | 20.94 | $ | 35.65 | $ | 30.99 | $ | 19.08 | $ | 15.76 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 46.52% | | (35.86)% | | 28.16% | | 64.95% | | 51.32% | | (7.62)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .62% I | | .63% | | .62% | | .63% | | .65% | | .66% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .62% I | | .62% | | .62% | | .63% | | .65% | | .66% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .62% I | | .62% | | .62% | | .63% | | .64% | | .64% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .14% I | | .05% | | (.12)% | | (.03)% | | .52% | | .27% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 323,666 | $ | 185,489 | $ | 356,589 | $ | 286,967 | $ | 175,680 | $ | 123,867 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 20% I | | 21% | | 31% | | 52% | | 20% | | 139% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Technology Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 20.54 | $ | 35.03 | $ | 30.51 | $ | 18.80 | $ | 15.57 | $ | 18.23 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .01 | | (.01) | | (.06) | | (.02) | | .07 | | .04 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 9.36 | | (11.81) | | 8.07 | | 12.16 | | 6.64 | | (1.34) |
Total from investment operations | | 9.37 | | (11.82) | | 8.01 | | 12.14 | | 6.71 | | (1.30) |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | (.02) | | (.06) | | - |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.67) | | (2.67) | | (3.49) | | (.41) | | (3.42) | | (1.36) |
Total distributions | | (.67) | | (2.67) | | (3.49) | | (.43) | | (3.48) | | (1.36) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 29.24 | $ | 20.54 | $ | 35.03 | $ | 30.51 | $ | 18.80 | $ | 15.57 |
Total Return C,D,E | | 46.40% | | (35.87)% | | 28.06% | | 64.76% | | 51.26% | | (7.73)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,F,G | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .70% H | | .70% | | .70% | | .71% | | .73% | | .74% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .69% H | | .70% | | .70% | | .71% | | .73% | | .73% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .69% H | | .70% | | .70% | | .71% | | .72% | | .72% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .06% H | | (.02)% | | (.20)% | | (.11)% | | .44% | | .20% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 1,518,680 | $ | 942,013 | $ | 1,692,073 | $ | 1,365,091 | $ | 732,499 | $ | 488,235 |
Portfolio turnover rate I | | 20% H | | 21% | | 31% | | 52% | | 20% | | 139% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
H Annualized.
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Technology Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy. Securities, including private placements or other restricted securities, for which observable inputs are not available are valued using alternate valuation approaches, including the market approach, the income approach and cost approach, and are categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy. The market approach considers factors including the price of recent investments in the same or a similar security or financial metrics of comparable securities. The income approach considers factors including expected future cash flows, security specific risks and corresponding discount rates. The cost approach considers factors including the value of the security's underlying assets and liabilities.
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing services or from brokers who make markets in such securities. Corporate bonds and preferred securities are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing services. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
The following provides information on Level 3 securities held by the Fund that were valued at period end based on unobservable inputs. These amounts exclude valuations provided by a broker.
Asset Type | Fair Value | Valuation Technique(s) | Unobservable Input | Amount or Range/Weighted Average | Impact to Valuation from an Increase in Input A |
Equities | $28,647,701 | Market comparable | Enterprise value/Revenue multiple (EV/R) | 1.4 - 25.0 / 11.1 | Increase |
| | | Enterprise value/Gross profit multiple (EV/GP) | 5.3 | Increase |
| | Recovery value | Recovery value | $0.00 - $0.31 / $0.31 | Increase |
| | Market approach | Transaction price | $1.11 - $59.45 / $5.64 | Increase |
| | | Discount rate | 15.0% - 75.0% / 46.6% | Decrease |
| | | Premium rate | 10.0% | Increase |
| | Book value | Book value multiple | 1.4 | Increase |
| | Discounted cash flow | Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) | 29.0% | Decrease |
| | | Exit multiple | 1.8 | Increase |
| | Black scholes | Discount rate | 3.9% - 4.7% / 4.2% | Increase |
| | | Volatility | 50.0% - 100.0% / 78.8% | Increase |
| | | Term | 2.0 - 5.0 / 3.9 | Increase |
Corporate Bonds | $13,012 | Market comparable | Enterprise value/Revenue multiple (EV/R) | 1.4 | Increase |
| | Black scholes | Discount rate | 4.7% | Increase |
| | | Volatility | 60.0% | Increase |
| | | Term | 2.0 | Increase |
Preferred Securities | $128,960 | Market approach | Transaction price | $59.45 | Increase |
| | | Premium rate | 10.0% | Increase |
| | Black scholes | Discount rate | 4.7% | Increase |
| | | Volatility | 70.0% | Increase |
| | | Term | 2 | Increase |
A Represents the directional change in the fair value of the Level 3 investments that could have resulted from an increase in the corresponding input as of period end. A decrease to the unobservable input would have had the opposite effect. Significant changes in these inputs may have resulted in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement at period end.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 investments is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or ETFs. Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or 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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, net operating losses and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $876,071,992 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (86,521,951) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $789,550,041 |
Tax cost | $1,063,444,103 |
The Fund elected to defer to its next fiscal year approximately $13,879 of ordinary losses recognized during the period January 1,2022 to December 31, 2022.
Restricted Securities (including Private Placements). Funds may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities held at period end is included at the end of the Schedule of Investments, if applicable.
New Accounting Pronouncement. In June 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2022-03 Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions. The amendments in this ASU clarify that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not considered part of the unit of account of the equity security and, therefore, is not considered in measuring fair value. They also clarify that an entity cannot, as a separate unit of account, recognize and measure a contractual sale restriction. They also require additional disclosures for equity securities subject to contractual sale restrictions. ASU 2022-03 will be effective for fiscal years, including interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2023, and allows for early adoption. ASU 2022-03 will only be applicable to an equity security in which the contractual arrangement that restricts its sale is executed or modified on or after the adoption date. Management is currently evaluating the potential impact of ASU 2022-03 to the financial statements.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Technology Portfolio | 262,366,725 | 142,286,276 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .52% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | 75,994 | .06 |
Investor Class | 824,193 | .14 |
| $900,187 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Technology Portfolio | .03 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Technology Portfolio | $1,836 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Technology Portfolio | 11,568,319 | 23,841,265 | 7,638,748 |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Technology Portfolio | $1,218 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Technology Portfolio | $14,378 | $ - | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
Through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of certain uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, custodian credits reduced the Fund's expenses by $612.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $29,663.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Technology Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $6,092,707 | $25,127,668 |
Investor Class | 30,869,760 | 124,407,945 |
Total | $36,962,467 | $149,535,613 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Technology Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 2,487,634 | 1,088,651 | $65,621,038 | $27,057,152 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 252,705 | 864,682 | 6,092,707 | 25,127,668 |
Shares redeemed | (753,416) | (3,099,249) | (18,883,548) | (81,125,431) |
Net increase (decrease) | 1,986,923 | (1,145,916) | $52,830,197 | $(28,940,611) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 5,983,487 | 3,481,136 | $156,531,182 | $87,723,145 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 1,306,933 | 4,362,130 | 30,869,760 | 124,407,945 |
Shares redeemed | (1,226,324) | (10,268,845) | (28,578,776) | (257,813,847) |
Net increase (decrease) | 6,064,096 | (2,425,579) | $158,822,166 | $(45,682,757) |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated% |
VIP Technology Portfolio | 97% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Technology Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .62% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,465.20 | | $ 3.79 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.72 | | $ 3.11 |
Investor Class | | | | .69% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,464.00 | | $ 4.22 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.37 | | $ 3.46 |
|
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Technology Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.817388.118
VTECIC-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Industrials Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Fortive Corp. | 8.0 | |
Saia, Inc. | 7.8 | |
TransDigm Group, Inc. | 6.2 | |
AMETEK, Inc. | 5.8 | |
FedEx Corp. | 5.7 | |
The Boeing Co. | 5.6 | |
Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc. | 5.1 | |
Pentair PLC | 4.7 | |
General Electric Co. | 4.3 | |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc. Class A | 4.2 | |
| 57.4 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Ground Transportation | 29.7 | |
Machinery | 21.1 | |
Aerospace & Defense | 18.4 | |
Air Freight & Logistics | 9.5 | |
Electrical Equipment | 8.0 | |
Industrial Conglomerates | 7.7 | |
Software | 2.6 | |
Construction & Engineering | 2.3 | |
Commercial Services & Supplies | 0.0 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.3% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Aerospace & Defense - 18.4% | | | |
Aerospace & Defense - 18.4% | | | |
HEICO Corp. (a) | | 18,500 | 3,273,390 |
HEICO Corp. Class A | | 12,000 | 1,687,200 |
Hexcel Corp. | | 8,200 | 623,364 |
Howmet Aerospace, Inc. | | 103,200 | 5,114,592 |
The Boeing Co. (b) | | 43,100 | 9,100,996 |
TransDigm Group, Inc. | | 11,100 | 9,925,287 |
| | | 29,724,829 |
Air Freight & Logistics - 9.5% | | | |
Air Freight & Logistics - 9.5% | | | |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | | 29,300 | 2,764,455 |
FedEx Corp. | | 37,000 | 9,172,300 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B | | 19,400 | 3,477,450 |
| | | 15,414,205 |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.0% | | | |
Environmental & Facilities Services - 0.0% | | | |
Tetra Tech, Inc. | | 200 | 32,748 |
Construction & Engineering - 2.3% | | | |
Construction & Engineering - 2.3% | | | |
Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings (a)(b) | | 76,600 | 3,660,714 |
Electrical Equipment - 8.0% | | | |
Electrical Components & Equipment - 8.0% | | | |
Acuity Brands, Inc. | | 2,400 | 391,392 |
AMETEK, Inc. | | 57,500 | 9,308,100 |
nVent Electric PLC | | 57,600 | 2,976,192 |
Regal Rexnord Corp. | | 1,175 | 180,833 |
| | | 12,856,517 |
Ground Transportation - 29.7% | | | |
Cargo Ground Transportation - 26.8% | | | |
ArcBest Corp. | | 43,700 | 4,317,560 |
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | | 3,802 | 688,276 |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc. Class A | | 122,900 | 6,828,324 |
Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc. | | 22,100 | 8,171,475 |
Saia, Inc. (b) | | 36,800 | 12,600,688 |
Werner Enterprises, Inc. | | 144,900 | 6,401,682 |
XPO, Inc. (b) | | 70,500 | 4,159,500 |
| | | 43,167,505 |
Passenger Ground Transportation - 2.9% | | | |
Uber Technologies, Inc. (b) | | 108,900 | 4,701,213 |
TOTAL GROUND TRANSPORTATION | | | 47,868,718 |
Industrial Conglomerates - 7.7% | | | |
Industrial Conglomerates - 7.7% | | | |
General Electric Co. | | 64,000 | 7,030,400 |
Honeywell International, Inc. | | 26,427 | 5,483,603 |
| | | 12,514,003 |
Machinery - 21.1% | | | |
Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components - 21.1% | | | |
Crane Co. | | 9,930 | 884,962 |
Flowserve Corp. | | 17,500 | 650,125 |
Fortive Corp. | | 173,792 | 12,994,427 |
Ingersoll Rand, Inc. | | 65,900 | 4,307,224 |
Middleby Corp. (b) | | 29,000 | 4,287,070 |
Mueller Water Products, Inc. Class A | | 20,300 | 329,469 |
Parker Hannifin Corp. | | 1,200 | 468,048 |
Pentair PLC | | 117,100 | 7,564,660 |
RBC Bearings, Inc. (b) | | 11,600 | 2,522,652 |
| | | 34,008,637 |
Software - 2.6% | | | |
Application Software - 2.6% | | | |
Roper Technologies, Inc. | | 8,600 | 4,134,880 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $129,932,008) | | | 160,215,251 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 2.9% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c) | | 890,179 | 890,357 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) | | 3,828,267 | 3,828,650 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $4,719,007) | | | 4,719,007 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 102.2% (Cost $134,651,015) | 164,934,258 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (2.2)% | (3,613,962) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 161,320,296 |
| |
Legend
(a) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 1,050,960 | 29,009,477 | 29,170,080 | 25,868 | - | - | 890,357 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 6,409,825 | 34,691,249 | 37,272,424 | 1,930 | - | - | 3,828,650 | 0.0% |
Total | 7,460,785 | 63,700,726 | 66,442,504 | 27,798 | - | - | 4,719,007 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 160,215,251 | 160,215,251 | - | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 4,719,007 | 4,719,007 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 164,934,258 | 164,934,258 | - | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $3,772,683) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $129,932,008) | $ | 160,215,251 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,719,007) | | 4,719,007 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $134,651,015) | | | $ | 164,934,258 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 227,274 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 91,740 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 2,816 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 452 |
Total assets | | | | 165,256,540 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | $ | 195 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 66,511 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 20,556 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 20,332 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 3,828,650 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 3,936,244 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 161,320,296 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 130,481,455 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 30,838,841 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 161,320,296 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($26,166,642 ÷ 1,291,761 shares) | | | $ | 20.26 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($135,153,654 ÷ 6,748,807 shares) | | | $ | 20.03 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 549,149 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $1,930 from security lending) | | | | 27,798 |
Total Income | | | | 576,947 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 403,880 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 97,295 | | |
Accounting fees | | 27,223 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 8,578 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 498 | | |
Audit | | 21,030 | | |
Legal | | 2,065 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 445 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 561,014 | | |
Expense reductions | | (3,580) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 557,434 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 19,513 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 7,114,114 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 70 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 7,114,184 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities | | | | 9,203,767 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 16,317,951 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 16,337,464 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 19,513 | $ | 319,177 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 7,114,184 | | (6,195,707) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 9,203,767 | | (12,698,207) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 16,337,464 | | (18,574,737) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (129,837) | | (21,148,838) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (8,559,897) | | 15,484,082 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 7,647,730 | | (24,239,493) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 153,672,566 | | 177,912,059 |
End of period | $ | 161,320,296 | $ | 153,672,566 |
| | | | |
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VIP Industrials Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 18.23 | $ | 23.44 | $ | 23.29 | $ | 21.98 | $ | 19.29 | $ | 23.85 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .01 | | .05 C | | (.02) | | .03 | | .24 | | .19 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 2.04 | | (2.43) | | 3.57 | | 2.57 | | 4.92 | | (3.68) |
Total from investment operations | | 2.05 | | (2.38) | | 3.55 | | 2.60 | | 5.16 | | (3.49) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.02) | | (.03) | | - | | (.10) | | (.24) | | (.18) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (2.79) | | (3.40) | | (1.19) | | (2.23) | | (.89) |
Total distributions | | (.02) | | (2.83) D | | (3.40) | | (1.29) | | (2.47) | | (1.07) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 20.26 | $ | 18.23 | $ | 23.44 | $ | 23.29 | $ | 21.98 | $ | 19.29 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 11.23% | | (10.30)% | | 17.09% | | 12.32% | | 28.15% | | (15.12)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .67% J | | .66% | | .66% | | .68% | | .67% | | .67% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .66% J | | .66% | | .66% | | .68% | | .67% | | .67% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .66% J | | .66% | | .66% | | .67% | | .67% | | .66% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .09% J | | .28% C | | (.08)% | | .17% | | 1.13% | | .85% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 26,167 | $ | 25,557 | $ | 31,026 | $ | 29,873 | $ | 33,078 | $ | 30,987 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 156% J | | 83% | | 197% | | 240% | | 121% | | 94% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .15%.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Industrials Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 18.02 | $ | 23.22 | $ | 23.10 | $ | 21.82 | $ | 19.17 | $ | 23.69 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | - | | .04 C | | (.04) | | .02 | | .22 | | .17 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 2.03 | | (2.43) | | 3.55 | | 2.53 | | 4.88 | | (3.64) |
Total from investment operations | | 2.03 | | (2.39) | | 3.51 | | 2.55 | | 5.10 | | (3.47) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.02) | | (.02) | | - | | (.08) | | (.22) | | (.16) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (2.79) | | (3.39) | | (1.19) | | (2.23) | | (.89) |
Total distributions | | (.02) | | (2.81) | | (3.39) | | (1.27) | | (2.45) | | (1.05) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 20.03 | $ | 18.02 | $ | 23.22 | $ | 23.10 | $ | 21.82 | $ | 19.17 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 11.24% | | (10.42)% | | 17.03% | | 12.19% | | 28.03% | | (15.14)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .74% I | | .74% | | .74% | | .76% | | .75% | | .75% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .74% I | | .73% | | .74% | | .76% | | .75% | | .75% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .74% I | | .73% | | .74% | | .75% | | .75% | | .74% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .01% I | | .20% C | | (.16)% | | .10% | | 1.05% | | .77% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 135,154 | $ | 128,115 | $ | 146,886 | $ | 135,328 | $ | 138,417 | $ | 124,268 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 156% I | | 83% | | 197% | | 240% | | 121% | | 94% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .08%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Industrials Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
4. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $32,112,118 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (2,062,807) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $30,049,311 |
Tax cost | $134,884,947 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
5. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | 120,261,424 | 129,052,957 |
6. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $7,956 | .06 |
Investor Class | 89,339 | .14 |
| $97,295 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | $2,537 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | 1,084,972 | 3,787,410 | 275,329 |
7. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | $151 |
8. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | $204 | $- | $- |
9. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $3,580.
10. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $23,788 | $3,701,428 |
Investor Class | 106,049 | 17,447,410 |
Total | $129,837 | $21,148,838 |
11. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 57,504 | 96,902 | $1,085,869 | $1,809,862 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 1,226 | 200,593 | 23,788 | 3,701,428 |
Shares redeemed | (169,227) | (218,811) | (3,154,947) | (3,973,341) |
Net increase (decrease) | (110,497) | 78,684 | $(2,045,290) | $1,537,949 |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 280,396 | 809,705 | $5,213,737 | $14,245,191 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 5,523 | 956,449 | 106,049 | 17,447,410 |
Shares redeemed | (645,277) | (984,710) | (11,834,393) | (17,746,468) |
Net increase (decrease) | (359,358) | 781,444 | $(6,514,607) | $13,946,133 |
12. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | 100% |
13. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Industrials Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .66% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,112.30 | | $ 3.46 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.52 | | $ 3.31 |
Investor Class | | | | .74% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,112.40 | | $ 3.88 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.12 | | $ 3.71 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Industrials Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.817364.118
VCYLIC-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Materials Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Linde PLC | 20.4 | |
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. | 7.1 | |
Corteva, Inc. | 5.4 | |
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | 5.2 | |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | 5.0 | |
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. | 4.9 | |
Celanese Corp. Class A | 4.3 | |
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. | 3.9 | |
The Chemours Co. LLC | 3.4 | |
Aptargroup, Inc. | 2.8 | |
| 62.4 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Chemicals | 62.7 | |
Metals & Mining | 23.1 | |
Containers & Packaging | 8.2 | |
Construction Materials | 5.4 | |
|
Geographic Diversification (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
* Includes Short-Term investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities). Percentages are adjusted for the effect of derivatives, if applicable. |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.4% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Chemicals - 62.7% | | | |
Commodity Chemicals - 16.3% | | | |
Cabot Corp. | | 30,000 | 2,006,700 |
Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund | | 180,400 | 1,115,287 |
Dow, Inc. | | 17,800 | 948,028 |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | | 50,260 | 4,615,376 |
Olin Corp. | | 45,022 | 2,313,681 |
Orion SA | | 17,500 | 371,350 |
Tronox Holdings PLC | | 170,340 | 2,165,021 |
Westlake Corp. | | 11,900 | 1,421,693 |
| | | 14,957,136 |
Diversified Chemicals - 4.1% | | | |
Huntsman Corp. | | 22,800 | 616,056 |
The Chemours Co. LLC | | 85,300 | 3,146,717 |
| | | 3,762,773 |
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals - 5.4% | | | |
Corteva, Inc. | | 85,900 | 4,922,070 |
Industrial Gases - 25.6% | | | |
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | | 16,088 | 4,818,839 |
Linde PLC | | 49,100 | 18,711,026 |
| | | 23,529,865 |
Specialty Chemicals - 11.3% | | | |
Ashland, Inc. | | 14,200 | 1,234,122 |
Celanese Corp. Class A | | 34,300 | 3,971,940 |
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. | | 50,114 | 3,580,144 |
Eastman Chemical Co. | | 6,200 | 519,064 |
Element Solutions, Inc. | | 33,800 | 648,960 |
RPM International, Inc. | | 4,900 | 439,677 |
| | | 10,393,907 |
TOTAL CHEMICALS | | | 57,565,751 |
Construction Materials - 5.4% | | | |
Construction Materials - 5.4% | | | |
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | | 5,326 | 2,458,961 |
Vulcan Materials Co. | | 11,250 | 2,536,200 |
| | | 4,995,161 |
Containers & Packaging - 8.2% | | | |
Metal, Glass & Plastic Containers - 6.6% | | | |
Aptargroup, Inc. | | 21,900 | 2,537,334 |
Crown Holdings, Inc. | | 16,019 | 1,391,571 |
Greif, Inc. Class A | | 30,500 | 2,101,145 |
| | | 6,030,050 |
Paper & Plastic Packaging Products & Materials - 1.6% | | | |
Avery Dennison Corp. | | 8,700 | 1,494,660 |
TOTAL CONTAINERS & PACKAGING | | | 7,524,710 |
Metals & Mining - 23.1% | | | |
Aluminum - 0.4% | | | |
Alcoa Corp. | | 11,600 | 393,588 |
Copper - 12.0% | | | |
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. | | 190,920 | 4,516,651 |
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. | | 162,140 | 6,485,600 |
| | | 11,002,251 |
Diversified Metals & Mining - 3.3% | | | |
Glencore PLC | | 170,300 | 965,582 |
Horizonte Minerals PLC (a) | | 326,000 | 596,189 |
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (a) | | 105,100 | 959,962 |
Major Drilling Group International, Inc. (a) | | 69,300 | 478,129 |
| | | 2,999,862 |
Gold - 2.3% | | | |
Franco-Nevada Corp. | | 10,100 | 1,439,503 |
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. | | 14,600 | 631,390 |
| | | 2,070,893 |
Steel - 5.1% | | | |
Commercial Metals Co. | | 28,151 | 1,482,432 |
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | | 8,200 | 2,227,038 |
Steel Dynamics, Inc. | | 9,300 | 1,013,049 |
| | | 4,722,519 |
TOTAL METALS & MINING | | | 21,189,113 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $70,694,691) | | | 91,274,735 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 99.4% (Cost $70,694,691) | 91,274,735 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - 0.6% | 534,632 |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 91,809,367 |
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Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 1,662,208 | 17,149,390 | 18,811,598 | 16,493 | - | - | - | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | - | 16,010,312 | 16,010,312 | 288 | - | - | - | 0.0% |
Total | 1,662,208 | 33,159,702 | 34,821,910 | 16,781 | - | - | - | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 91,274,735 | 90,309,153 | 965,582 | - |
| | | | |
Total Investments in Securities: | 91,274,735 | 90,309,153 | 965,582 | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule Unaffiliated issuers (cost $70,694,691): | | | $ | 91,274,735 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 767,468 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 62,168 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 80,302 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 531 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 198 |
Total assets | | | | 92,185,402 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable to custodian bank | $ | 294,915 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 6,489 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 40,367 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 12,539 | | |
Audit fee payable | | 18,608 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 3,117 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 376,035 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 91,809,367 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 71,872,508 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 19,936,859 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 91,809,367 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($13,926,151 ÷ 811,758 shares) | | | $ | 17.16 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($77,883,216 ÷ 4,542,766 shares) | | | $ | 17.14 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 987,090 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $288 from security lending) | | | | 16,781 |
Total Income | | | | 1,003,871 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 260,444 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 63,232 | | |
Accounting fees | | 17,554 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 6,957 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 335 | | |
Audit | | 20,476 | | |
Legal | | 523 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 271 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 369,792 | | |
Expense reductions | | (2,335) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 367,457 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 636,414 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (985,128) | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | (5,004) | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | (990,132) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 5,433,452 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 322 | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 5,433,774 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 4,443,642 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 5,080,056 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 636,414 | $ | 1,069,888 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (990,132) | | 207,665 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 5,433,774 | | (15,772,056) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 5,080,056 | | (14,494,503) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (396,517) | | (4,316,287) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (10,287,940) | | 1,838,134 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (5,604,401) | | (16,972,656) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 97,413,768 | | 114,386,424 |
End of period | $ | 91,809,367 | $ | 97,413,768 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
VIP Materials Portfolio Initial Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.24 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 14.17 | $ | 11.74 | $ | 11.46 | $ | 16.18 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .11 | | .18 | | .14 | | .07 | | .16 | | .18 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .88 | | (2.00) | | 4.58 | | 2.44 | | 1.31 | | (3.83) |
Total from investment operations | | .99 | | (1.82) | | 4.72 | | 2.51 | | 1.47 | | (3.65) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.04) | | (.19) | | (.13) | | (.08) | | (.19) | | (.21) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.03) | | (.51) | | - | | - | | (1.00) | | (.86) |
Total distributions | | (.07) | | (.70) | | (.13) | | (.08) | | (1.19) | | (1.07) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 17.16 | $ | 16.24 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 14.17 | $ | 11.74 | $ | 11.46 |
Total Return C,D,E | | 6.07% | | (9.79)% | | 33.42% | | 21.49% | | 13.40% | | (23.60)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,F,G | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .68% H | | .69% | | .68% | | .77% | | .75% | | .72% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .68% H | | .68% | | .68% | | .77% | | .75% | | .72% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .68% H | | .68% | | .68% | | .76% | | .74% | | .71% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.35% H | | 1.09% | | .84% | | .59% | | 1.37% | | 1.26% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 13,926 | $ | 14,941 | $ | 19,714 | $ | 9,924 | $ | 8,905 | $ | 9,728 |
Portfolio turnover rate I | | 54% H | | 63% | | 99% | | 83% | | 104% | | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
H Annualized.
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Materials Portfolio Investor Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.23 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 14.16 | $ | 11.73 | $ | 11.46 | $ | 16.17 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .11 | | .17 | | .13 | | .06 | | .15 | | .17 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .87 | | (2.01) | | 4.59 | | 2.45 | | 1.30 | | (3.82) |
Total from investment operations | | .98 | | (1.84) | | 4.72 | | 2.51 | | 1.45 | | (3.65) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.04) | | (.18) | | (.12) | | (.08) | | (.18) | | (.20) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.03) | | (.51) | | - | | - | | (1.00) | | (.86) |
Total distributions | | (.07) | | (.69) | | (.12) | | (.08) | | (1.18) | | (1.06) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 17.14 | $ | 16.23 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 14.16 | $ | 11.73 | $ | 11.46 |
Total Return C,D,E | | 6.00% | | (9.91)% | | 33.40% | | 21.45% | | 13.20% | | (23.65)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,F,G | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .76% H | | .76% | | .76% | | .85% | | .83% | | .80% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .75% H | | .76% | | .76% | | .85% | | .83% | | .80% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .75% H | | .76% | | .76% | | .84% | | .82% | | .79% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.27% H | | 1.01% | | .77% | | .52% | | 1.29% | | 1.18% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 77,883 | $ | 82,473 | $ | 94,673 | $ | 48,022 | $ | 35,254 | $ | 42,448 |
Portfolio turnover rate I | | 54% H | | 63% | | 99% | | 83% | | 104% | | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
H Annualized.
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Materials Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $22,618,817 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (2,172,361) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $20,446,456 |
Tax cost | $70,828,279 |
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Materials Portfolio | 26,286,545 | 35,281,696 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | 4,722 | .06 |
Investor Class | 58,510 | .14 |
| $63,232 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Materials Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Materials Portfolio | $379 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Materials Portfolio | 2,007,522 | 1,455,470 | (5,848) |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Materials Portfolio | $98 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Materials Portfolio | $31 | $- | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $2,335.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Materials Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | 62,325 | 720,470 |
Investor Class | 334,192 | 3,595,817 |
Total | $396,517 | $4,316,287 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Materials Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 56,011 | 296,138 | $964,544 | $5,269,787 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 3,594 | 42,906 | 62,325 | 720,470 |
Shares redeemed | (168,065) | (469,426) | (2,770,587) | (7,699,942) |
Net increase (decrease) | (108,460) | (130,382) | $(1,743,718) | $(1,709,685) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 527,386 | 1,833,964 | $9,062,791 | $32,145,510 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 19,273 | 214,129 | 334,192 | 3,595,817 |
Shares redeemed | (1,085,461) | (2,013,920) | (17,941,205) | (32,193,508) |
Net increase (decrease) | (538,802) | 34,173 | $(8,544,222) | $3,547,819 |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % |
VIP Materials Portfolio | 100% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Materials Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .68% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,060.70 | | $ 3.47 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.42 | | $ 3.41 |
Investor Class | | | | .75% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,060.00 | | $ 3.83 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.08 | | $ 3.76 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Materials Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.851002.116
VMATP-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Health Care Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | 10.0 | |
Boston Scientific Corp. | 6.9 | |
Danaher Corp. | 6.0 | |
Eli Lilly & Co. | 5.8 | |
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 4.7 | |
Penumbra, Inc. | 4.6 | |
Cigna Group | 3.0 | |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2.9 | |
Masimo Corp. | 2.7 | |
Centene Corp. | 2.6 | |
| 49.2 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Health Care Providers & Services | 27.0 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | 21.1 | |
Biotechnology | 18.4 | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services | 16.4 | |
Pharmaceuticals | 14.1 | |
Health Care Technology | 2.3 | |
Personal Care Products | 0.2 | |
Financial Services | 0.1 | |
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Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 98.5% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Biotechnology - 17.8% | | | |
Biotechnology - 17.8% | | | |
Acelyrin, Inc. | | 110,000 | 2,299,000 |
Akero Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 154,000 | 7,190,260 |
Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 600,000 | 2,982,000 |
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 18,500 | 3,513,890 |
Ambrx Biopharma, Inc. ADR (a) | | 60,000 | 987,600 |
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 86,000 | 7,834,600 |
Arcellx, Inc. (a) | | 75,000 | 2,371,500 |
Arcus Biosciences, Inc. (a) | | 75,000 | 1,523,250 |
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 155,000 | 1,477,150 |
Argenx SE ADR (a) | | 66,500 | 25,917,045 |
Ascendis Pharma A/S sponsored ADR (a) | | 110,000 | 9,817,500 |
Avidity Biosciences, Inc. (a) | | 200,000 | 2,218,000 |
Beam Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(b) | | 56,000 | 1,788,080 |
Blueprint Medicines Corp. (a) | | 92,000 | 5,814,400 |
Caris Life Sciences, Inc. (c)(d) | | 254,430 | 1,424,808 |
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 110,000 | 3,732,300 |
Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings (a) | | 193,833 | 6,161,951 |
Cytokinetics, Inc. (a) | | 218,000 | 7,111,160 |
Generation Bio Co. (a) | | 63,300 | 348,150 |
Janux Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 80,000 | 949,600 |
Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 42,000 | 9,107,700 |
Keros Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 84,000 | 3,375,120 |
Legend Biotech Corp. ADR (a) | | 240,000 | 16,567,200 |
Morphic Holding, Inc. (a) | | 60,000 | 3,439,800 |
Nuvalent, Inc. Class A (a) | | 80,000 | 3,373,600 |
Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(b) | | 255,887 | 450,361 |
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 80,000 | 3,253,600 |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 48,500 | 34,849,190 |
Repligen Corp. (a) | | 62,788 | 8,881,990 |
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 34,000 | 3,893,680 |
Shattuck Labs, Inc. (a) | | 36,553 | 114,045 |
uniQure B.V. (a) | | 90,000 | 1,031,400 |
Vaxcyte, Inc. (a) | | 185,000 | 9,238,900 |
Vera Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 160,000 | 2,568,000 |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 14,000 | 4,926,740 |
Xencor, Inc. (a) | | 210,000 | 5,243,700 |
Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 115,000 | 4,427,500 |
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 200,000 | 5,642,000 |
| | | 215,846,770 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 21.1% | | | |
Health Care Equipment - 21.1% | | | |
Boston Scientific Corp. (a) | | 1,540,000 | 83,298,600 |
Insulet Corp. (a) | | 90,000 | 25,950,600 |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a) | | 28,000 | 9,574,320 |
iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 60,000 | 6,259,200 |
Masimo Corp. (a) | | 200,000 | 32,910,000 |
Nevro Corp. (a) | | 45,000 | 1,143,900 |
Novocure Ltd. (a) | | 73,016 | 3,030,164 |
Outset Medical, Inc. (a) | | 140,000 | 3,061,800 |
Penumbra, Inc. (a) | | 161,000 | 55,393,660 |
PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (a)(b) | | 85,000 | 3,004,750 |
ResMed, Inc. | | 80,500 | 17,589,250 |
Stryker Corp. | | 38,600 | 11,776,474 |
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (a) | | 70,000 | 1,717,800 |
| | | 254,710,518 |
Health Care Providers & Services - 27.0% | | | |
Health Care Facilities - 2.9% | | | |
Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc. (a) | | 140,000 | 11,149,600 |
Surgery Partners, Inc. (a) | | 550,000 | 24,744,500 |
| | | 35,894,100 |
Health Care Services - 7.9% | | | |
agilon health, Inc. (a)(b) | | 1,471,100 | 25,508,874 |
Cigna Group | | 130,000 | 36,478,000 |
CVS Health Corp. | | 200,000 | 13,826,000 |
LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (a) | | 800,000 | 7,304,000 |
Privia Health Group, Inc. (a) | | 465,000 | 12,141,150 |
| | | 95,258,024 |
Managed Health Care - 16.2% | | | |
Alignment Healthcare, Inc. (a) | | 540,000 | 3,105,000 |
Centene Corp. (a) | | 460,000 | 31,027,000 |
Elevance Health, Inc. | | 20,000 | 8,885,800 |
Humana, Inc. | | 58,000 | 25,933,540 |
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (a) | | 20,000 | 6,024,800 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 252,000 | 121,121,280 |
| | | 196,097,420 |
TOTAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES | | | 327,249,544 |
Health Care Technology - 2.0% | | | |
Health Care Technology - 2.0% | | | |
Doximity, Inc. (a)(b) | | 100,000 | 3,402,000 |
Evolent Health, Inc. (a) | | 131,500 | 3,984,450 |
Evolent Health, Inc. (c) | | 168,500 | 4,850,273 |
Phreesia, Inc. (a) | | 160,000 | 4,961,600 |
Veeva Systems, Inc. Class A (a) | | 34,000 | 6,722,820 |
| | | 23,921,143 |
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 16.4% | | | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 16.4% | | | |
10X Genomics, Inc. (a) | | 245,000 | 13,680,800 |
Bruker Corp. | | 160,000 | 11,827,200 |
Danaher Corp. | | 300,000 | 72,000,000 |
IQVIA Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 82,000 | 18,431,140 |
Lonza Group AG | | 10,000 | 5,959,444 |
Olink Holding AB ADR (a) | | 156,900 | 2,941,875 |
Sartorius Stedim Biotech | | 24,000 | 5,989,379 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | | 110,000 | 57,392,500 |
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. | | 28,000 | 10,709,160 |
| | | 198,931,498 |
Personal Care Products - 0.2% | | | |
Personal Care Products - 0.2% | | | |
The Beauty Health Co. (a)(b) | | 100,800 | 843,696 |
The Beauty Health Co. (a)(c) | | 200,000 | 1,674,000 |
| | | 2,517,696 |
Pharmaceuticals - 14.0% | | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 14.0% | | | |
Arvinas Holding Co. LLC (a) | | 100,000 | 2,482,000 |
AstraZeneca PLC (United Kingdom) | | 208,000 | 29,817,690 |
Eli Lilly & Co. | | 148,500 | 69,643,530 |
Enliven Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(b) | | 60,000 | 1,224,600 |
Merck & Co., Inc. | | 208,000 | 24,001,120 |
Novo Nordisk A/S Series B | | 77,500 | 12,519,338 |
Pharvaris BV (a) | | 80,000 | 1,256,800 |
Royalty Pharma PLC | | 500,000 | 15,370,000 |
UCB SA | | 87,500 | 7,752,976 |
Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. (a) | | 110,200 | 3,614,560 |
Verona Pharma PLC ADR (a) | | 85,000 | 1,796,900 |
| | | 169,479,514 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $808,350,868) | | | 1,192,656,683 |
| | | |
Convertible Preferred Stocks - 1.1% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Biotechnology - 0.6% | | | |
Biotechnology - 0.6% | | | |
Asimov, Inc. Series B (a)(c)(d) | | 13,047 | 631,344 |
Caris Life Sciences, Inc. Series D (a)(c)(d) | | 398,133 | 2,229,545 |
Cleerly, Inc. Series C (c)(d) | | 179,891 | 2,093,931 |
Element Biosciences, Inc. Series C (a)(c)(d) | | 72,178 | 1,154,126 |
ElevateBio LLC Series C (a)(c)(d) | | 31,200 | 132,288 |
Inscripta, Inc. Series E (a)(c)(d) | | 157,568 | 666,513 |
| | | 6,907,747 |
Financial Services - 0.1% | | | |
Specialized Finance - 0.1% | | | |
Saluda Medical, Inc. Series E (c)(d) | | 163,717 | 1,317,922 |
Health Care Providers & Services - 0.0% | | | |
Health Care Services - 0.0% | | | |
dMed Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Series C (a)(c)(d) | | 45,182 | 353,775 |
Health Care Technology - 0.3% | | | |
Health Care Technology - 0.3% | | | |
Aledade, Inc.: | | | |
Series B1 (a)(c)(d) | | 24,966 | 1,251,296 |
Series E1 (a)(c)(d) | | 10,776 | 540,093 |
Omada Health, Inc. Series E (a)(c)(d) | | 281,490 | 928,917 |
Wugen, Inc. Series B (a)(c)(d) | | 57,585 | 287,925 |
| | | 3,008,231 |
Pharmaceuticals - 0.1% | | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 0.1% | | | |
Aristea Therapeutics, Inc. Series B (a)(c)(d) | | 123,100 | 678,281 |
Galvanize Therapeutics Series B (a)(c)(d) | | 505,495 | 818,902 |
| | | 1,497,183 |
TOTAL CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS (Cost $16,703,614) | | | 13,084,858 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 3.2% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (e) | | 6,056,714 | 6,057,925 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (e)(f) | | 33,030,095 | 33,033,398 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $39,091,323) | | | 39,091,323 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 102.8% (Cost $864,145,805) | 1,244,832,864 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (2.8)% | (34,020,043) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 1,210,812,821 |
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(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Restricted securities (including private placements) - Investment in securities not registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (excluding 144A issues). At the end of the period, the value of restricted securities (excluding 144A issues) amounted to $21,033,939 or 1.7% of net assets. |
(e) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(f) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Additional information on each restricted holding is as follows: |
Security | Acquisition Date | Acquisition Cost ($) |
Aledade, Inc. Series B1 | 5/07/21 | 955,966 |
| | |
Aledade, Inc. Series E1 | 5/20/22 | 536,800 |
| | |
Aristea Therapeutics, Inc. Series B | 10/06/20 | 678,736 |
| | |
Asimov, Inc. Series B | 10/29/21 | 1,209,205 |
| | |
Caris Life Sciences, Inc. | 10/06/22 | 1,424,808 |
| | |
Caris Life Sciences, Inc. Series D | 5/11/21 | 3,224,877 |
| | |
Cleerly, Inc. Series C | 7/08/22 | 2,119,224 |
| | |
dMed Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Series C | 12/01/20 | 641,727 |
| | |
Element Biosciences, Inc. Series C | 6/21/21 | 1,483,741 |
| | |
ElevateBio LLC Series C | 3/09/21 | 130,884 |
| | |
Evolent Health, Inc. | 3/28/23 | 4,886,500 |
| | |
Galvanize Therapeutics Series B | 3/29/22 | 875,156 |
| | |
Inscripta, Inc. Series E | 3/30/21 | 1,391,325 |
| | |
Omada Health, Inc. Series E | 12/22/21 | 1,687,589 |
| | |
Saluda Medical, Inc. Series E | 4/06/23 | 1,321,818 |
| | |
The Beauty Health Co. | 12/08/20 | 2,000,000 |
| | |
Wugen, Inc. Series B | 7/09/21 | 446,566 |
| | |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 8,270,343 | 118,174,903 | 120,387,321 | 223,149 | - | - | 6,057,925 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 53,909,480 | 82,686,120 | 103,562,202 | 39,235 | - | - | 33,033,398 | 0.1% |
Total | 62,179,823 | 200,861,023 | 223,949,523 | 262,384 | - | - | 39,091,323 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 1,192,656,683 | 1,144,044,574 | 47,187,301 | 1,424,808 |
|
Convertible Preferred Stocks | 13,084,858 | - | - | 13,084,858 |
|
Money Market Funds | 39,091,323 | 39,091,323 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 1,244,832,864 | 1,183,135,897 | 47,187,301 | 14,509,666 |
The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:
| |
Investments in Securities: | |
Convertible Preferred Stocks | | | |
Beginning Balance | $ | 12,279,992 | |
Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | - | |
Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | (516,952) | |
Cost of Purchases | | 1,321,818 | |
Proceeds of Sales | | - | |
Amortization/Accretion | | - | |
Transfers into Level 3 | | - | |
Transfers out of Level 3 | | - | |
Ending Balance | $ | 13,084,858 | |
The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at June 30, 2023 | $ | (516,952) | |
Other Investments in Securities | | | |
Beginning Balance | $ | 1,424,808 | |
Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | - | |
Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investment Securities | | - | |
Cost of Purchases | | - | |
Proceeds of Sales | | - | |
Amortization/Accretion | | - | |
Transfers into Level 3 | | - | |
Transfers out of Level 3 | | - | |
Ending Balance | $ | 1,424,808 | |
The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at June 30, 2023 | $ | - | |
The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Cost of purchases and proceeds of sales may include securities received and/or delivered through in-kind transactions, corporate actions or exchanges. Transfers into Level 3 were attributable to a lack of observable market data resulting from decreases in market activity, decreases in liquidity, security restructurings or corporate actions. Transfers out of Level 3 were attributable to observable market data becoming available for those securities. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represent the beginning value of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations. | |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $32,669,369) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $825,054,482) | $ | 1,205,741,541 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $39,091,323) | | 39,091,323 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $864,145,805) | | | $ | 1,244,832,864 |
Cash | | | | 110,082 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,533,861 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 233,437 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 743,708 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 37,995 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 1,546 |
Other receivables | | | | 2,638 |
Total assets | | | | 1,247,496,131 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $ | 2,370,154 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 523,325 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 528,039 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | | 55,409 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 143,705 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 34,978 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 33,027,700 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 36,683,310 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 1,210,812,821 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 856,391,603 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 354,421,218 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 1,210,812,821 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($130,866,313 ÷ 3,850,861 shares) | | | $ | 33.98 |
Service Class 2 : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($269,636,616 ÷ 7,998,063 shares) | | | $ | 33.71 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($810,309,892 ÷ 24,134,728 shares) | | | $ | 33.57 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 3,391,455 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $39,235 from security lending) | | | | 262,384 |
Total Income | | | | 3,653,839 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 3,158,158 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 687,928 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees | | 321,811 | | |
Accounting fees | | 172,824 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 32,668 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 3,909 | | |
Audit | | 22,388 | | |
Legal | | 2,334 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 3,803 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 4,405,823 | | |
Expense reductions | | (28,063) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 4,377,760 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | (723,921) |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 16,484,921 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | (9,918) | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 16,475,003 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 23,715,718 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 11,163 | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 23,726,881 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 40,201,884 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 39,477,963 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | (723,921) | $ | (1,989,028) |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 16,475,003 | | (37,710,579) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 23,726,881 | | (142,009,475) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 39,477,963 | | (181,709,082) |
Distributions to shareholders | | - | | (78,323,481) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (22,248,423) | | 30,988,288 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 17,229,540 | | (229,044,275) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 1,193,583,281 | | 1,422,627,556 |
End of period | $ | 1,210,812,821 | $ | 1,193,583,281 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
VIP Health Care Portfolio Initial Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 32.87 | $ | 40.05 | $ | 38.41 | $ | 33.32 | $ | 27.86 | $ | 26.44 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | - C | | (.02) | | (.01) | | .06 | | .07 | | .06 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 1.11 | | (4.96) | | 4.39 | | 6.90 | | 7.47 | | 1.99 |
Total from investment operations | | 1.11 | | (4.98) | | 4.38 | | 6.96 | | 7.54 | | 2.05 |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | (.04) | | (.19) | | (.07) | | (.06) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.71) | | (1.67) | | (2.01) | | (.57) |
Total distributions | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.74) D | | (1.87) D | | (2.08) | | (.63) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 33.98 | $ | 32.87 | $ | 40.05 | $ | 38.41 | $ | 33.32 | $ | 27.86 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 3.38% | | (12.41)% | | 11.73% | | 21.58% | | 28.37% | | 7.86% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .63% J | | .63% | | .63% | | .64% | | .65% | | .65% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .62% J | | .63% | | .63% | | .64% | | .65% | | .65% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .62% J | | .63% | | .63% | | .64% | | .65% | | .64% |
Net investment income (loss) | | (.02)% J | | (.06)% | | (.04)% | | .18% | | .23% | | .19% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 130,866 | $ | 132,871 | $ | 172,092 | $ | 168,627 | $ | 145,315 | $ | 139,026 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 55% J | | 43% | | 32% | | 51% | | 38% | | 65% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Health Care Portfolio Service Class 2 |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 A |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 32.65 | $ | 39.89 | $ | 38.29 | $ | 33.27 | $ | 28.52 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) B,C | | (.04) | | (.10) | | (.11) | | (.03) | | (.04) |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 1.10 | | (4.94) | | 4.38 | | 6.88 | | 4.85 |
Total from investment operations | | 1.06 | | (5.04) | | 4.27 | | 6.85 | | 4.81 |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | (.02) | | (.16) | | (.06) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.65) | | (1.67) | | - D |
Total distributions | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.67) | | (1.83) | | (.06) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 33.71 | $ | 32.65 | $ | 39.89 | $ | 38.29 | $ | 33.27 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 3.25% | | (12.62)% | | 11.45% | | 21.28% | | 16.87% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets C,H,I | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .88% J | | .88% | | .88% | | .89% | | .91% J |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .87% J | | .88% | | .87% | | .89% | | .91% J |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .87% J | | .88% | | .87% | | .88% | | .90% J |
Net investment income (loss) | | (.27)% J | | (.31)% | | (.28)% | | (.07)% | | (.18)% J |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 269,637 | $ | 246,472 | $ | 275,392 | $ | 143,771 | $ | 20,198 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 55% J | | 43% | | 32% | | 51% | | 38% |
A For the period April 11, 2019 (commencement of sale of shares) through December 31, 2019.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Health Care Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 32.48 | $ | 39.64 | $ | 38.04 | $ | 33.02 | $ | 27.62 | $ | 26.23 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | (.02) | | (.04) | | (.04) | | .03 | | .04 | | .03 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 1.11 | | (4.92) | | 4.35 | | 6.83 | | 7.41 | | 1.96 |
Total from investment operations | | 1.09 | | (4.96) | | 4.31 | | 6.86 | | 7.45 | | 1.99 |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | (.03) | | (.17) | | (.05) | | (.04) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.68) | | (1.67) | | (2.01) | | (.57) |
Total distributions | | - | | (2.20) | | (2.71) | | (1.84) | | (2.05) C | | (.60) C |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 33.57 | $ | 32.48 | $ | 39.64 | $ | 38.04 | $ | 33.02 | $ | 27.62 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 3.36% | | (12.49)% | | 11.66% | | 21.49% | | 28.29% | | 7.72% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .70% I | | .70% | | .70% | | .72% | | .73% | | .73% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .70% I | | .70% | | .70% | | .72% | | .73% | | .73% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .70% I | | .70% | | .70% | | .71% | | .73% | | .72% |
Net investment income (loss) | | (.09)% I | | (.14)% | | (.11)% | | .10% | | .15% | | .11% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 810,310 | $ | 814,240 | $ | 975,143 | $ | 914,765 | $ | 737,957 | $ | 674,111 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 55% I | | 43% | | 32% | | 51% | | 38% | | 65% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Health Care Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
The following provides information on Level 3 securities held by the Fund that were valued at period end based on unobservable inputs. These amounts exclude valuations provided by a broker.
Asset Type | Fair Value | Valuation Technique(s) | Unobservable Input | Amount or Range/Weighted Average | Impact to Valuation from an Increase in Input A |
Equities | $14,509,666 | Market comparable | Enterprise value/Revenue multiple (EV/R) | 3.3 - 24.9 / 7.3 | Increase |
| | Recovery value | Recovery value | $5.51 | Increase |
| | Market approach | Transaction price | $7.75 - $20.56 / $13.45 | Increase |
| | | Discount rate | 20.0% | Decrease |
| | Black scholes | Discount rate | 4.2% - 5.0% / 4.5% | Increase |
| | | Volatility | 45.0% - 90.0% / 52.6% | Increase |
| | | Term | 1.5 - 4.0 / 2.9 | Increase |
A Represents the directional change in the fair value of the Level 3 investments that could have resulted from an increase in the corresponding input as of period end. A decrease to the unobservable input would have had the opposite effect. Significant changes in these inputs may have resulted in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement at period end.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 investments, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), partnership, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $433,193,213 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (56,049,408) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $377,143,805 |
Tax cost | $867,689,059 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
Short-term | $(36,462,205) |
Long-term | (1,177,918) |
Total capital loss carryforward | $(37,640,123) |
Restricted Securities (including Private Placements). Funds may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities held at period end is included at the end of the Schedule of Investments, if applicable.
New Accounting Pronouncement. In June 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2022-03 Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions. The amendments in this ASU clarify that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not considered part of the unit of account of the equity security and, therefore, is not considered in measuring fair value. They also clarify that an entity cannot, as a separate unit of account, recognize and measure a contractual sale restriction. They also require additional disclosures for equity securities subject to contractual sale restrictions. ASU 2022-03 will be effective for fiscal years, including interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2023, and allows for early adoption. ASU 2022-03 will only be applicable to an equity security in which the contractual arrangement that restricts its sale is executed or modified on or after the adoption date. Management is currently evaluating the potential impact of ASU 2022-03 to the financial statements.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | 327,671,494 | 345,438,481 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of.25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.
For the period, total fees, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services, were as follows:
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $41,546 | .06 |
Service Class 2 | 81,096 | .06 |
Investor Class | 565,286 | .14 |
| $687,928 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | .03 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | $5,362 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | 23,021,826 | 19,896,749 | 2,174,195 |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | $1,167 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | $4,239 | $290 | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
Through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of certain uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, custodian credits reduced the Fund's expenses by $545.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $27,518.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $- | $9,298,671 |
Service Class 2 | - | 15,645,387 |
Investor Class | - | 53,379,423 |
Total | $- | $78,323,481 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 134,951 | 295,996 | $4,496,339 | $9,770,229 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 284,276 | - | 9,298,671 |
Shares redeemed | (326,759) | (834,758) | (10,955,433) | (26,380,793) |
Net increase (decrease) | (191,808) | (254,486) | $(6,459,094) | $(7,311,893) |
Service Class 2 | | | | |
Shares sold | 864,483 | 1,753,408 | $28,719,902 | $56,484,590 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 480,509 | - | 15,645,387 |
Shares redeemed | (416,319) | (1,587,975) | (13,860,436) | (50,671,053) |
Net increase (decrease) | 448,164 | 645,942 | $14,859,466 | $21,458,924 |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 414,466 | 1,365,364 | $13,817,988 | $43,792,392 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 1,650,059 | - | 53,379,423 |
Shares redeemed | (1,345,836) | (2,550,391) | (44,466,783) | (80,330,558) |
Net increase (decrease) | (931,370) | 465,032 | $(30,648,795) | $16,841,257 |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% and certain otherwise unaffiliated shareholders were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % | Number ofUnaffiliated Shareholders | Unaffiliated Shareholders % |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | 77% | 1 | 21% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Health Care Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .62% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,033.80 | | $ 3.13 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.72 | | $ 3.11 |
Service Class 2 | | | | .87% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,032.50 | | $ 4.38 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,020.48 | | $ 4.36 |
Investor Class | | | | .70% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,033.60 | | $ 3.53 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.32 | | $ 3.51 |
|
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Health Care Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.817376.118
VHCIC-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Financials Portfolio
(formerly VIP Financial Services Portfolio)
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.
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All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company. © 2023 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | 10.5 | |
Wells Fargo & Co. | 7.5 | |
Bank of America Corp. | 5.9 | |
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | 3.4 | |
U.S. Bancorp | 3.0 | |
Citigroup, Inc. | 2.9 | |
Morgan Stanley | 2.9 | |
Essent Group Ltd. | 2.7 | |
Chubb Ltd. | 2.7 | |
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. | 2.6 | |
| 44.1 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Banks | 33.9 | |
Insurance | 23.3 | |
Financial Services | 22.9 | |
Capital Markets | 14.1 | |
Consumer Finance | 4.7 | |
Professional Services | 0.8 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.3% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Banks - 33.9% | | | |
Diversified Banks - 21.8% | | | |
Bank of America Corp. | | 357,700 | 10,262,413 |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 109,600 | 5,045,984 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | | 14,300 | 2,079,792 |
KeyCorp | | 253,100 | 2,338,644 |
U.S. Bancorp | | 156,500 | 5,170,760 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 308,577 | 13,170,066 |
| | | 38,067,659 |
Regional Banks - 12.1% | | | |
Associated Banc-Corp. | | 80,700 | 1,309,761 |
Cadence Bank | | 48,710 | 956,664 |
East West Bancorp, Inc. | | 37,800 | 1,995,462 |
First Hawaiian, Inc. | | 55,700 | 1,003,157 |
First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc. | | 69,969 | 1,668,061 |
Heartland Financial U.S.A., Inc. | | 26,000 | 724,620 |
Huntington Bancshares, Inc. | | 670 | 7,223 |
M&T Bank Corp. | | 20,830 | 2,577,921 |
Popular, Inc. | | 47,400 | 2,868,648 |
Truist Financial Corp. | | 98,400 | 2,986,440 |
UMB Financial Corp. | | 17,000 | 1,035,300 |
Wintrust Financial Corp. | | 28,400 | 2,062,408 |
Zions Bancorp NA | | 76,600 | 2,057,476 |
| | | 21,253,141 |
TOTAL BANKS | | | 59,320,800 |
Capital Markets - 14.1% | | | |
Asset Management & Custody Banks - 8.2% | | | |
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. | | 6,500 | 974,285 |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | | 62,100 | 2,764,692 |
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. Class A | | 10 | 326 |
Brookfield Corp. Class A | | 47,541 | 1,599,755 |
Carlyle Group LP | | 55,100 | 1,760,445 |
Northern Trust Corp. | | 12,200 | 904,508 |
Patria Investments Ltd. (a) | | 156,700 | 2,240,810 |
State Street Corp. | | 56,000 | 4,098,080 |
| | | 14,342,901 |
Financial Exchanges & Data - 0.8% | | | |
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores S.A.B. de CV | | 690,200 | 1,432,255 |
Investment Banking & Brokerage - 5.1% | | | |
Lazard Ltd. Class A | | 32,700 | 1,046,400 |
Morgan Stanley | | 58,300 | 4,978,820 |
Raymond James Financial, Inc. | | 19,150 | 1,987,196 |
Virtu Financial, Inc. Class A | | 55,100 | 941,659 |
| | | 8,954,075 |
TOTAL CAPITAL MARKETS | | | 24,729,231 |
Consumer Finance - 4.7% | | | |
Consumer Finance - 4.7% | | | |
Capital One Financial Corp. | | 33,600 | 3,674,832 |
FirstCash Holdings, Inc. | | 25,338 | 2,364,796 |
OneMain Holdings, Inc. | | 50,200 | 2,193,238 |
| | | 8,232,866 |
Financial Services - 22.5% | | | |
Commercial & Residential Mortgage Finance - 4.1% | | | |
Essent Group Ltd. | | 100,100 | 4,684,680 |
NMI Holdings, Inc. (b) | | 48,644 | 1,255,988 |
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. | | 14,800 | 1,170,532 |
| | | 7,111,200 |
Diversified Financial Services - 2.8% | | | |
Apollo Global Management, Inc. | | 45,700 | 3,510,217 |
Corebridge Financial, Inc. (a) | | 80,700 | 1,425,162 |
| | | 4,935,379 |
Multi-Sector Holdings - 0.7% | | | |
Cannae Holdings, Inc. (b) | | 57,100 | 1,153,991 |
Transaction & Payment Processing Services - 14.9% | | | |
Fiserv, Inc. (b) | | 30,300 | 3,822,345 |
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. (b) | | 7,400 | 1,857,992 |
Global Payments, Inc. | | 21,800 | 2,147,736 |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | | 46,600 | 18,327,778 |
| | | 26,155,851 |
TOTAL FINANCIAL SERVICES | | | 39,356,421 |
Insurance - 23.3% | | | |
Insurance Brokers - 3.9% | | | |
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. | | 10,400 | 2,283,528 |
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. | | 23,900 | 4,495,112 |
| | | 6,778,640 |
Life & Health Insurance - 3.0% | | | |
Globe Life, Inc. | | 23,900 | 2,619,918 |
Primerica, Inc. | | 13,500 | 2,669,760 |
| | | 5,289,678 |
Multi-Line Insurance - 1.5% | | | |
Assurant, Inc. | | 100 | 12,572 |
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. | | 37,300 | 2,686,346 |
| | | 2,698,918 |
Property & Casualty Insurance - 11.4% | | | |
American Financial Group, Inc. | | 13,300 | 1,579,375 |
Beazley PLC | | 201,179 | 1,504,879 |
Chubb Ltd. | | 24,300 | 4,679,208 |
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC | | 819,900 | 1,415,611 |
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. | | 38,900 | 1,400,400 |
First American Financial Corp. | | 32,700 | 1,864,554 |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 190,300 | 2,636,740 |
Lancashire Holdings Ltd. | | 232,500 | 1,706,690 |
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. | | 12,000 | 1,151,400 |
The Travelers Companies, Inc. | | 11,512 | 1,999,174 |
| | | 19,938,031 |
Reinsurance - 3.5% | | | |
Enstar Group Ltd. (b) | | 500 | 122,120 |
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | | 43,700 | 6,060,753 |
| | | 6,182,873 |
TOTAL INSURANCE | | | 40,888,140 |
Professional Services - 0.8% | | | |
Research & Consulting Services - 0.8% | | | |
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 119,700 | 1,384,929 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $156,611,838) | | | 173,912,387 |
| | | |
Convertible Bonds - 0.4% |
| | Principal Amount (c) | Value ($) |
Financial Services - 0.4% | | | |
Transaction & Payment Processing Services - 0.4% | | | |
Affirm Holdings, Inc. 0% 11/15/26 (Cost $631,293) | | 959,000 | 707,838 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 2.5% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (d)(e) (Cost $4,304,450) | | 4,304,020 | 4,304,450 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 102.2% (Cost $161,547,581) | 178,924,675 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (2.2)% | (3,849,068) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 175,075,607 |
| |
Legend
(a) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted. |
(d) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(e) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | - | 12,640,945 | 12,640,945 | 7,531 | - | - | - | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | - | 23,280,200 | 18,975,750 | 1,014 | - | - | 4,304,450 | 0.0% |
Total | - | 35,921,145 | 31,616,695 | 8,545 | - | - | 4,304,450 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 173,912,387 | 173,912,387 | - | - |
|
Convertible Bonds | 707,838 | - | 707,838 | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 4,304,450 | 4,304,450 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 178,924,675 | 178,216,837 | 707,838 | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $4,164,400) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $157,243,131) | $ | 174,620,225 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,304,450) | | 4,304,450 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $161,547,581) | | | $ | 178,924,675 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,893,621 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 22,984 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 211,750 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 789 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 513 |
Other receivables | | | | 220 |
Total assets | | | | 181,054,552 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable to custodian bank | $ | 1,378,267 | | |
Payable for investments purchased | | 82,371 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 87,811 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 77,367 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 24,444 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 24,235 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 4,304,450 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 5,978,945 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 175,075,607 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 159,285,921 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 15,789,686 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 175,075,607 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($20,173,729 ÷ 1,550,885 shares) | | | $ | 13.01 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($154,901,878 ÷ 11,985,270 shares) | | | $ | 12.92 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 3,144,141 |
Interest | | | | 64,638 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $1,014 from security lending) | | | | 8,545 |
Total Income | | | | 3,217,324 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 539,708 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 133,372 | | |
Accounting fees | | 36,374 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 19,408 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 758 | | |
Audit | | 20,605 | | |
Legal | | 490 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 651 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 751,366 | | |
Expense reductions | | (5,067) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 746,299 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 2,471,025 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (2,700,258) | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 2,608 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | (2,697,650) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (6,882,335) | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | (301) | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | (6,882,636) |
Net gain (loss) | | | | (9,580,286) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | (7,109,261) |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 2,471,025 | $ | 5,140,561 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (2,697,650) | | 10,273,427 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (6,882,636) | | (44,761,949) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | (7,109,261) | | (29,347,961) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (11,096,211) | | (9,878,895) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (33,234,616) | | (16,203,538) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (51,440,088) | | (55,430,394) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 226,515,695 | | 281,946,089 |
End of period | $ | 175,075,607 | $ | 226,515,695 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
VIP Financials Portfolio Initial Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 14.01 | $ | 15.82 | $ | 12.38 | $ | 13.62 | $ | 11.15 | $ | 13.72 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .17 | | .30 | | .32 | | .26 | | .22 | | .17 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (.47) | | (1.57) | | 3.71 | | (.16) | | 3.39 | | (2.28) |
Total from investment operations | | (.30) | | (1.27) | | 4.03 | | .10 | | 3.61 | | (2.11) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.29) | | (.27) | | (.26) | | (.26) | | (.16) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.62) | | (.25) | | (.32) | | (1.08) | | (.88) | | (.29) |
Total distributions | | (.70) | | (.54) | | (.59) | | (1.34) | | (1.14) | | (.46) C |
Redemption fees added to paid in capital A | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - D |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 13.01 | $ | 14.01 | $ | 15.82 | $ | 12.38 | $ | 13.62 | $ | 11.15 |
Total Return E,F,G | | (2.71)% | | (8.33)% | | 33.19% | | .77% | | 34.33% | | (15.73)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .67% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .69% | | .68% | | .67% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .66% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .69% | | .68% | | .67% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .66% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .68% | | .67% | | .66% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.48% J | | 2.06% | | 2.08% | | 2.47% | | 1.83% | | 1.25% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 20,174 | $ | 29,116 | $ | 35,491 | $ | 20,134 | $ | 24,758 | $ | 24,142 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 56% J | | 53% | | 40% | | 68% | | 58% | | 59% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Financial Services Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 13.93 | $ | 15.73 | $ | 12.31 | $ | 13.56 | $ | 11.10 | $ | 13.66 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .16 | | .29 | | .30 | | .25 | | .21 | | .15 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (.47) | | (1.56) | | 3.70 | | (.16) | | 3.38 | | (2.26) |
Total from investment operations | | (.31) | | (1.27) | | 4.00 | | .09 | | 3.59 | | (2.11) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.28) | | (.26) | | (.25) | | (.25) | | (.15) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.62) | | (.25) | | (.32) | | (1.08) | | (.88) | | (.29) |
Total distributions | | (.70) | | (.53) | | (.58) | | (1.34) C | | (1.13) | | (.45) C |
Redemption fees added to paid in capital A | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - D |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 12.92 | $ | 13.93 | $ | 15.73 | $ | 12.31 | $ | 13.56 | $ | 11.10 |
Total Return E,F,G | | (2.81)% | | (8.37)% | | 33.14% | | .63% | | 34.28% | | (15.82)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .74% J | | .73% | | .72% | | .76% | | .76% | | .75% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .74% J | | .73% | | .72% | | .76% | | .76% | | .75% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .74% J | | .73% | | .72% | | .75% | | .75% | | .74% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.41% J | | 1.99% | | 2.01% | | 2.39% | | 1.75% | | 1.17% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 154,902 | $ | 197,400 | $ | 246,455 | $ | 121,359 | $ | 139,831 | $ | 133,990 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 56% J | | 53% | | 40% | | 68% | | 58% | | 59% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Financials Portfolio (the Fund) (formerly VIP Financial Services Portfolio) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing services or from brokers who make markets in such securities. Corporate bonds are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers prepayment speed assumptions, attributes of the collateral, yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing services. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income is accrued as earned and includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities as applicable. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC) and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $29,920,536 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (15,034,424) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $14,886,112 |
Tax cost | $164,038,562 |
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Financials Portfolio | 57,838,784 | 99,764,387 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | 7,837 | .06 |
Investor Class | 125,535 | .14 |
| $133,372 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Financials Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Financials Portfolio | $1,013 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Financials Portfolio | 929,784 | 4,240,512 | (110,800) |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Financials Portfolio | $228 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Financials Portfolio | $113 | $- | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $5,067.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Financials Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | 1,391,952 | 1,249,703 |
Investor Class | 9,704,259 | 8,629,192 |
Total | $11,096,211 | $9,878,895 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Financials Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 74,564 | 1,003,850 | $989,671 | $15,681,340 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 94,626 | 79,599 | 1,391,952 | 1,249,703 |
Shares redeemed | (696,336) | (1,249,358) | (8,966,202) | (18,033,364) |
Net increase (decrease) | (527,146) | (165,909) | $(6,584,579) | $(1,102,321) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 648,810 | 4,025,217 | $8,596,917 | $63,943,329 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 663,766 | 552,838 | 9,704,258 | 8,629,192 |
Shares redeemed | (3,499,448) | (6,076,050) | (44,951,212) | (87,673,738) |
Net increase (decrease) | (2,186,872) | (1,497,995) | $(26,650,037) | $(15,101,217) |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated |
VIP Financials Portfolio | 100% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Financials Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .66% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 972.90 | | $ 3.23 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.52 | | $ 3.31 |
Investor Class | | | | .74% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 971.90 | | $ 3.62 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.12 | | $ 3.71 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Financials Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.817370.118
VFSIC-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Amazon.com, Inc. | 23.9 | |
Tesla, Inc. | 14.4 | |
Lowe's Companies, Inc. | 4.8 | |
The Home Depot, Inc. | 4.6 | |
TJX Companies, Inc. | 4.1 | |
NIKE, Inc. Class B | 3.4 | |
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. | 2.9 | |
McDonald's Corp. | 2.4 | |
Booking Holdings, Inc. | 2.2 | |
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | 2.1 | |
| 64.8 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Broadline Retail | 24.5 | |
Specialty Retail | 20.0 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | 18.4 | |
Automobiles | 14.4 | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods | 11.1 | |
Household Durables | 3.9 | |
Automobile Components | 3.3 | |
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail | 3.1 | |
Building Products | 0.3 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.0% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Automobile Components - 3.3% | | | |
Automotive Parts & Equipment - 3.3% | | | |
Adient PLC (a) | | 46,300 | 1,774,216 |
Aptiv PLC (a) | | 43,850 | 4,476,647 |
Magna International, Inc. Class A | | 24,820 | 1,400,841 |
| | | 7,651,704 |
Automobiles - 14.4% | | | |
Automobile Manufacturers - 14.4% | | | |
Tesla, Inc. (a) | | 126,964 | 33,235,366 |
Broadline Retail - 24.5% | | | |
Broadline Retail - 24.5% | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 423,737 | 55,238,353 |
eBay, Inc. | | 9,206 | 411,416 |
Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 17,000 | 984,810 |
| | | 56,634,579 |
Building Products - 0.3% | | | |
Building Products - 0.3% | | | |
The AZEK Co., Inc. (a) | | 26,358 | 798,384 |
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail - 3.1% | | | |
Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail - 2.2% | | | |
Dollar Tree, Inc. (a) | | 30,049 | 4,312,032 |
Target Corp. | | 4,814 | 634,967 |
| | | 4,946,999 |
Food Distributors - 0.9% | | | |
Performance Food Group Co. (a) | | 35,031 | 2,110,267 |
TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES DISTRIBUTION & RETAIL | | | 7,057,266 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 18.4% | | | |
Casinos & Gaming - 2.5% | | | |
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (a) | | 25,299 | 1,289,490 |
Churchill Downs, Inc. | | 16,048 | 2,233,400 |
Penn Entertainment, Inc. (a) | | 65,652 | 1,577,618 |
Red Rock Resorts, Inc. | | 14,000 | 654,920 |
| | | 5,755,428 |
Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines - 7.5% | | | |
Booking Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 1,861 | 5,025,314 |
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. | | 45,480 | 6,619,614 |
Marriott International, Inc. Class A | | 22,824 | 4,192,541 |
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (a) | | 14,290 | 1,482,445 |
| | | 17,319,914 |
Leisure Facilities - 0.3% | | | |
Planet Fitness, Inc. (a) | | 10,896 | 734,826 |
Restaurants - 8.1% | | | |
ARAMARK Holdings Corp. | | 58,945 | 2,537,582 |
Brinker International, Inc. (a) | | 12,095 | 442,677 |
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (a) | | 1,425 | 3,048,075 |
Domino's Pizza, Inc. | | 10,876 | 3,665,103 |
Dutch Bros, Inc. (a)(b) | | 9,227 | 262,508 |
McDonald's Corp. | | 18,693 | 5,578,178 |
Starbucks Corp. | | 31,300 | 3,100,578 |
| | | 18,634,701 |
TOTAL HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE | | | 42,444,869 |
Household Durables - 3.9% | | | |
Home Furnishings - 1.8% | | | |
Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (b) | | 99,803 | 3,999,106 |
Homebuilding - 2.1% | | | |
KB Home | | 40,280 | 2,082,879 |
PulteGroup, Inc. | | 36,510 | 2,836,097 |
| | | 4,918,976 |
TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DURABLES | | | 8,918,082 |
Specialty Retail - 20.0% | | | |
Apparel Retail - 4.9% | | | |
Burlington Stores, Inc. (a) | | 8,769 | 1,380,153 |
TJX Companies, Inc. | | 111,738 | 9,474,265 |
Victoria's Secret & Co. (a) | | 23,596 | 411,278 |
| | | 11,265,696 |
Automotive Retail - 0.6% | | | |
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a) | | 1,465 | 1,399,515 |
Home Improvement Retail - 11.3% | | | |
Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. Class A (a)(b) | | 41,371 | 4,300,929 |
Lowe's Companies, Inc. | | 49,078 | 11,076,905 |
The Home Depot, Inc. | | 34,616 | 10,753,114 |
| | | 26,130,948 |
Homefurnishing Retail - 0.6% | | | |
Wayfair LLC Class A (a) | | 1,866 | 121,309 |
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (b) | | 10,460 | 1,308,964 |
| | | 1,430,273 |
Other Specialty Retail - 2.6% | | | |
Bath & Body Works, Inc. | | 18,985 | 711,938 |
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. | | 36,588 | 4,836,568 |
Five Below, Inc. (a) | | 740 | 145,440 |
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 24,000 | 296,400 |
| | | 5,990,346 |
TOTAL SPECIALTY RETAIL | | | 46,216,778 |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 11.1% | | | |
Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods - 5.4% | | | |
Capri Holdings Ltd. (a) | | 66,387 | 2,382,629 |
Levi Strauss & Co. Class A | | 44,200 | 637,806 |
lululemon athletica, Inc. (a) | | 10,756 | 4,071,146 |
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | | 1,064 | 1,003,259 |
PVH Corp. | | 18,555 | 1,576,618 |
Tapestry, Inc. | | 65,619 | 2,808,493 |
| | | 12,479,951 |
Footwear - 5.7% | | | |
Deckers Outdoor Corp. (a) | | 7,414 | 3,912,071 |
NIKE, Inc. Class B | | 70,316 | 7,760,777 |
On Holding AG (a) | | 14,294 | 471,702 |
Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Class A (sub. vtg.) (a) | | 11,000 | 579,260 |
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. | | 30,100 | 442,169 |
| | | 13,165,979 |
TOTAL TEXTILES, APPAREL & LUXURY GOODS | | | 25,645,930 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $133,161,334) | | | 228,602,958 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 4.6% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c) | | 2,235,605 | 2,236,053 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) | | 8,343,855 | 8,344,689 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $10,580,742) | | | 10,580,742 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 103.6% (Cost $143,742,076) | 239,183,700 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (3.6)% | (8,344,877) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 230,838,823 |
| |
Legend
(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 119,017 | 24,709,666 | 22,592,630 | 27,151 | - | - | 2,236,053 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 5,380,314 | 31,998,127 | 29,033,752 | 13,460 | - | - | 8,344,689 | 0.0% |
Total | 5,499,331 | 56,707,793 | 51,626,382 | 40,611 | - | - | 10,580,742 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 228,602,958 | 227,599,699 | 1,003,259 | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 10,580,742 | 10,580,742 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 239,183,700 | 238,180,441 | 1,003,259 | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $8,265,116) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $133,161,334) | $ | 228,602,958 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $10,580,742) | | 10,580,742 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $143,742,076) | | | $ | 239,183,700 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 106,534 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 36,294 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 10,507 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 360 |
Other receivables | | | | 1,914 |
Total assets | | | | 239,339,309 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | $ | 8,137 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 96,151 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 30,695 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 20,978 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 8,344,525 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 8,500,486 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 230,838,823 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 137,178,046 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 93,660,777 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 230,838,823 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($21,221,341 ÷ 701,795 shares) | | | $ | 30.24 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($209,617,482 ÷ 6,970,892 shares) | | | $ | 30.07 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 771,045 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $13,460 from security lending) | | | | 40,611 |
Total Income | | | | 811,656 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 535,695 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 134,522 | | |
Accounting fees | | 36,110 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 8,106 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 683 | | |
Audit | | 20,332 | | |
Legal | | 677 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 536 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 736,661 | | |
Expense reductions | | (4,457) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 732,204 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 79,452 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 4,043,018 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | (458) | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 4,042,560 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 45,220,124 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 263 | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 45,220,387 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 49,262,947 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 49,342,399 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 79,452 | $ | (51,944) |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 4,042,560 | | (4,940,734) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 45,220,387 | | (98,525,229) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 49,342,399 | | (103,517,907) |
Distributions to shareholders | | - | | (23,241,323) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | 6,729,979 | | (26,322,787) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 56,072,378 | | (153,082,017) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 174,766,445 | | 327,848,462 |
End of period | $ | 230,838,823 | $ | 174,766,445 |
| | | | |
| | | | |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio Initial Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 23.54 | $ | 39.33 | $ | 34.37 | $ | 25.27 | $ | 20.97 | $ | 22.27 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .02 | | .01 | | (.04) | | .02 | | .08 | | .08 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 6.68 | | (12.80) | | 6.56 | | 9.11 | | 5.42 | | (.30) |
Total from investment operations | | 6.70 | | (12.79) | | 6.52 | | 9.13 | | 5.50 | | (.22) |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | (.03) | | (.08) | | (.07) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (3.00) | | (1.56) | | - | | (1.12) | | (1.01) |
Total distributions | | - | | (3.00) | | (1.56) | | (.03) | | (1.20) | | (1.08) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 30.24 | $ | 23.54 | $ | 39.33 | $ | 34.37 | $ | 25.27 | $ | 20.97 |
Total Return C,D,E | | 28.46% | | (34.63)% | | 19.41% | | 36.15% | | 27.19% | | (1.09)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,F,G | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .65% H | | .66% | | .65% | | .67% | | .68% | | .68% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .65% H | | .66% | | .65% | | .67% | | .68% | | .68% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .65% H | | .66% | | .65% | | .67% | | .67% | | .67% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .15% H | | .04% | | (.11)% | | .07% | | .32% | | .35% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 21,221 | $ | 16,567 | $ | 32,788 | $ | 28,273 | $ | 25,623 | $ | 25,079 |
Portfolio turnover rate I | | 37% H | | 34% | | 39% | | 52% | | 40% | | 38% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
H Annualized.
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio Investor Class |
|
| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 23.41 | $ | 39.17 | $ | 34.24 | $ | 25.20 | $ | 20.91 | $ | 22.21 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .01 | | (.01) | | (.07) | | - | | .06 | | .06 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 6.65 | | (12.75) | | 6.54 | | 9.06 | | 5.41 | | (.29) |
Total from investment operations | | 6.66 | | (12.76) | | 6.47 | | 9.06 | | 5.47 | | (.23) |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | (.02) | | (.06) | | (.06) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (3.00) | | (1.54) | | - | | (1.12) | | (1.01) |
Total distributions | | - | | (3.00) | | (1.54) | | (.02) | | (1.18) | | (1.07) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 30.07 | $ | 23.41 | $ | 39.17 | $ | 34.24 | $ | 25.20 | $ | 20.91 |
Total Return C,D,E | | 28.45% | | (34.70)% | | 19.32% | | 36.00% | | 27.12% | | (1.16)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,F,G | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .73% H | | .74% | | .72% | | .75% | | .76% | | .76% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .72% H | | .73% | | .72% | | .75% | | .76% | | .76% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .72% H | | .73% | | .72% | | .74% | | .75% | | .75% |
Net investment income (loss) | | .07% H | | (.03)% | | (.18)% | | (.01)% | | .24% | | .27% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 209,617 | $ | 158,200 | $ | 295,060 | $ | 236,803 | $ | 176,535 | $ | 161,512 |
Portfolio turnover rate I | | 37% H | | 34% | | 39% | | 52% | | 40% | | 38% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
H Annualized.
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, net operating losses, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $98,481,529 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (4,969,455) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $93,512,074 |
Tax cost | $145,671,626 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 43,311,294 | 37,999,038 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .52% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $6,023 | .06 |
Investor Class | 128,499 | .14 |
| $134,522 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | $557 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 3,154,338 | 1,117,938 | 203,550 |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | $191 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | $1,461 | $2,256 | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $4,457.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $- | $2,380,494 |
Investor Class | - | 20,860,829 |
Total | $- | $23,241,323 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 98,213 | 53,194 | $2,709,178 | $1,581,061 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 73,201 | - | 2,380,494 |
Shares redeemed | (100,305) | (256,234) | (2,683,741) | (7,430,816) |
Net increase (decrease) | (2,092) | (129,839) | $25,437 | $(3,469,261) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 825,559 | 731,867 | $22,586,153 | $19,470,902 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 644,449 | - | 20,860,829 |
Shares redeemed | (611,307) | (2,153,025) | (15,881,611) | (63,185,257) |
Net increase (decrease) | 214,252 | (776,709) | $6,704,542 | $(22,853,526) |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | 100% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .65% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,284.60 | | $ 3.68 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.57 | | $ 3.26 |
Investor Class | | | | .72% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,284.50 | | $ 4.08 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.22 | | $ 3.61 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C ��Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Communication Services Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.
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NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A | 21.8 | |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A | 18.5 | |
Netflix, Inc. | 8.1 | |
Comcast Corp. Class A | 4.5 | |
T-Mobile U.S., Inc. | 4.5 | |
Activision Blizzard, Inc. | 3.9 | |
Charter Communications, Inc. Class A | 3.7 | |
The Walt Disney Co. | 3.7 | |
Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A | 3.5 | |
Amazon.com, Inc. | 2.8 | |
| 75.0 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
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Interactive Media & Services | 45.6 | |
Entertainment | 25.8 | |
Media | 13.6 | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | 4.5 | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services | 3.1 | |
Broadline Retail | 2.8 | |
Ground Transportation | 2.7 | |
IT Services | 0.5 | |
Software | 0.1 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 98.7% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Broadline Retail - 2.8% | | | |
Broadline Retail - 2.8% | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 32,500 | 4,236,700 |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 3.1% | | | |
Alternative Carriers - 3.1% | | | |
EchoStar Holding Corp. Class A (a)(b) | | 20,000 | 346,800 |
Iridium Communications, Inc. | | 4,600 | 285,752 |
Liberty Global PLC Class C (a) | | 120,200 | 2,135,954 |
Liberty Latin America Ltd. Class C (a) | | 225,990 | 1,948,034 |
| | | 4,716,540 |
Integrated Telecommunication Services - 0.0% | | | |
AT&T, Inc. | | 300 | 4,785 |
TOTAL DIVERSIFIED TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES | | | 4,721,325 |
Entertainment - 25.8% | | | |
Interactive Home Entertainment - 7.3% | | | |
Activision Blizzard, Inc. | | 69,400 | 5,850,420 |
Roblox Corp. (a) | | 9,600 | 386,880 |
Sea Ltd. ADR (a) | | 16,600 | 963,464 |
Skillz, Inc. (a) | | 95 | 865 |
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (a) | | 26,300 | 3,870,308 |
| | | 11,071,937 |
Movies & Entertainment - 18.5% | | | |
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (a)(b) | | 103,900 | 1,714,350 |
Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 26,900 | 643,448 |
Liberty Media Corp. Liberty Formula One Class A (a) | | 39,900 | 2,698,038 |
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.: | | | |
Class A (a) | | 4,500 | 39,735 |
Class B (a) | | 92,300 | 770,705 |
Marcus Corp. (b) | | 46,500 | 689,595 |
Netflix, Inc. (a) | | 27,910 | 12,294,076 |
The Walt Disney Co. (a) | | 62,123 | 5,546,341 |
Warner Music Group Corp. Class A | | 41,000 | 1,069,690 |
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Class A (b) | | 22,500 | 2,440,575 |
| | | 27,906,553 |
TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT | | | 38,978,490 |
Ground Transportation - 2.7% | | | |
Passenger Ground Transportation - 2.7% | | | |
Uber Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 96,200 | 4,152,954 |
Interactive Media & Services - 45.6% | | | |
Interactive Media & Services - 45.6% | | | |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A (a) | | 234,200 | 28,033,740 |
Angi, Inc. (a) | | 328,599 | 1,084,377 |
Match Group, Inc. (a) | | 39,099 | 1,636,293 |
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A (a) | | 114,700 | 32,916,606 |
Pinterest, Inc. Class A (a) | | 61,700 | 1,686,878 |
Shutterstock, Inc. | | 3,300 | 160,611 |
Snap, Inc. Class A (a) | | 232,200 | 2,749,248 |
Vimeo, Inc. (a) | | 5,800 | 23,896 |
Zoominfo Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 27,300 | 693,147 |
| | | 68,984,796 |
IT Services - 0.5% | | | |
Internet Services & Infrastructure - 0.5% | | | |
Shopify, Inc. Class A (a) | | 11,000 | 710,600 |
Media - 13.6% | | | |
Advertising - 0.4% | | | |
S4 Capital PLC (a) | | 310,700 | 497,182 |
TechTarget, Inc. (a) | | 1,900 | 59,147 |
| | | 556,329 |
Broadcasting - 0.2% | | | |
Fox Corp. Class A | | 8,600 | 292,400 |
Cable & Satellite - 13.0% | | | |
Altice U.S.A., Inc. Class A (a) | | 224,000 | 676,480 |
Charter Communications, Inc. Class A (a) | | 15,400 | 5,657,498 |
Comcast Corp. Class A | | 164,100 | 6,818,355 |
DISH Network Corp. Class A (a)(b) | | 5,654 | 37,260 |
Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A (a) | | 66,365 | 5,291,281 |
Liberty Media Corp. Liberty SiriusXM Series A (a) | | 38,500 | 1,263,185 |
| | | 19,744,059 |
TOTAL MEDIA | | | 20,592,788 |
Software - 0.1% | | | |
Application Software - 0.1% | | | |
Viant Technology, Inc. (a) | | 41,200 | 189,932 |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 4.5% | | | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 4.5% | | | |
T-Mobile U.S., Inc. (a) | | 48,721 | 6,767,347 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $117,697,059) | | | 149,334,932 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 4.0% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c) | | 1,916,564 | 1,916,948 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) | | 4,112,381 | 4,112,792 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $6,029,740) | | | 6,029,740 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 102.7% (Cost $123,726,799) | 155,364,672 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (2.7)% | (4,138,428) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 151,226,244 |
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Legend
(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 603,067 | 42,717,002 | 41,403,121 | 41,246 | - | - | 1,916,948 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 2,323,180 | 16,353,322 | 14,563,710 | 1,542 | - | - | 4,112,792 | 0.0% |
Total | 2,926,247 | 59,070,324 | 55,966,831 | 42,788 | - | - | 6,029,740 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 149,334,932 | 149,334,932 | - | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 6,029,740 | 6,029,740 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 155,364,672 | 155,364,672 | - | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $3,987,520) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $117,697,059) | $ | 149,334,932 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $6,029,740) | | 6,029,740 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $123,726,799) | | | $ | 155,364,672 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $40) | | | | 40 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 69,207 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 245 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 8,459 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 77 |
Other receivables | | | | 551 |
Total assets | | | | 155,443,251 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | $ | 101 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 63,111 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 19,951 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 21,132 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 4,112,712 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 4,217,007 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 151,226,244 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 124,898,119 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 26,328,125 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 151,226,244 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($17,364,772 ÷ 1,113,823 shares) | | | $ | 15.59 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($133,861,472 ÷ 8,676,037 shares) | | | $ | 15.43 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 86,988 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $1,542 from security lending) | | | | 42,788 |
Total Income | | | | 129,776 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 292,605 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 72,707 | | |
Accounting fees | | 19,727 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 6,026 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 330 | | |
Audit | | 20,327 | | |
Legal | | 528 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 215 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 412,465 | | |
Expense reductions | | (2,063) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 410,402 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | (280,626) |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (3,064,079) | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 254 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | (3,063,825) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 36,569,854 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | (61) | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 36,569,793 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 33,505,968 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 33,225,342 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | (280,626) | $ | (352,031) |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (3,063,825) | | (1,141,959) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 36,569,793 | | (51,337,689) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 33,225,342 | | (52,831,679) |
Distributions to shareholders | | - | | (6,166,309) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | 42,445,708 | | (19,599,514) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 75,671,050 | | (78,597,502) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 75,555,194 | | 154,152,696 |
End of period | $ | 151,226,244 | $ | 75,555,194 |
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VIP Communication Services Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 11.36 | $ | 19.25 | $ | 17.39 | $ | 12.98 | $ | 10.58 | $ | 12.74 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | (.03) | | (.04) | | (.07) | | (.05) | | (.01) | | .21 C |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 4.26 | | (7.05) | | 2.74 | | 4.62 | | 3.36 | | (.89) |
Total from investment operations | | 4.23 | | (7.09) | | 2.67 | | 4.57 | | 3.35 | | (.68) |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (.01) | | (.19) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (.80) | | (.81) | | (.16) | | (.94) | | (1.29) |
Total distributions | | - | | (.80) | | (.81) | | (.16) | | (.95) | | (1.48) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 15.59 | $ | 11.36 | $ | 19.25 | $ | 17.39 | $ | 12.98 | $ | 10.58 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 37.24% | | (38.14)% | | 15.65% | | 35.60% | | 32.98% | | (5.36)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .67% I | | .68% | | .66% | | .70% | | .72% | | .81% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .67% I | | .68% | | .66% | | .70% | | .72% | | .81% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .67% I | | .68% | | .66% | | .70% | | .71% | | .79% |
Net investment income (loss) | | (.43)% I | | (.29)% | | (.34)% | | (.39)% | | (.09)% | | 1.87% C |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 17,365 | $ | 8,116 | $ | 18,332 | $ | 13,370 | $ | 9,865 | $ | 5,702 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 36% I | | 37% | | 66% | | 66% | | 73% | | 162% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.45%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Communication Services Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 11.25 | $ | 19.08 | $ | 17.23 | $ | 12.88 | $ | 10.50 | $ | 12.65 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | (.03) | | (.05) | | (.08) | | (.06) | | (.02) | | .20 C |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 4.21 | | (6.98) | | 2.72 | | 4.57 | | 3.34 | | (.88) |
Total from investment operations | | 4.18 | | (7.03) | | 2.64 | | 4.51 | | 3.32 | | (.68) |
Distributions from net investment income | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (.01) | | (.18) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (.80) | | (.79) | | (.16) | | (.93) | | (1.29) |
Total distributions | | - | | (.80) | | (.79) | | (.16) | | (.94) | | (1.47) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 15.43 | $ | 11.25 | $ | 19.08 | $ | 17.23 | $ | 12.88 | $ | 10.50 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 37.16% | | (38.17)% | | 15.60% | | 35.40% | | 32.95% | | (5.39)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .75% I | | .76% | | .73% | | .78% | | .80% | | .89% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .74% I | | .75% | | .73% | | .78% | | .80% | | .89% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .74% I | | .75% | | .73% | | .78% | | .79% | | .87% |
Net investment income (loss) | | (.51)% I | | (.36)% | | (.41)% | | (.46)% | | (.17)% | | 1.79% C |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 133,861 | $ | 67,439 | $ | 135,821 | $ | 102,631 | $ | 71,137 | $ | 38,626 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 36% I | | 37% | | 66% | | 66% | | 73% | | 162% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.37%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Communication Services Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, net operating losses, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $38,929,597 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (11,028,183) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $27,901,414 |
Tax cost | $127,463,258 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | 60,451,634 | 19,825,079 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .52% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | 3,939 | .06 |
Investor Class | 68,768 | .14 |
| $72,707 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | $960 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | 5,106,749 | 1,236,774 | (41,201) |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | $85 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | $140 | $1 | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $2,063.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | - | 711,816 |
Investor Class | - | 5,454,493 |
Total | $- | $6,166,309 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 517,227 | 37,799 | $7,157,465 | $495,902 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 42,881 | - | 711,816 |
Shares redeemed | (117,708) | (318,448) | (1,575,190) | (4,834,118) |
Net increase (decrease) | 399,519 | (237,768) | $5,582,275 | $(3,626,400) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 3,294,312 | 313,782 | $45,255,068 | $4,225,074 |
Reinvestment of distributions | - | 331,580 | - | 5,454,493 |
Shares redeemed | (613,562) | (1,767,642) | (8,391,635) | (25,652,681) |
Net increase (decrease) | 2,680,750 | (1,122,280) | $36,863,433 | $(15,973,114) |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | 100% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Communication Services Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .67% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,372.40 | | $ 3.94 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.47 | | $ 3.36 |
Investor Class | | | | .74% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,371.60 | | $ 4.35 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.12 | | $ 3.71 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Communication Services Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.851007.116
VTELP-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Utilities Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.
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All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company. © 2023 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
NextEra Energy, Inc. | 14.0 | |
Southern Co. | 13.5 | |
PG&E Corp. | 7.0 | |
Sempra Energy | 7.0 | |
Constellation Energy Corp. | 6.8 | |
Edison International | 4.8 | |
American Water Works Co., Inc. | 4.3 | |
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 4.1 | |
NiSource, Inc. | 4.0 | |
Vistra Corp. | 3.7 | |
| 69.2 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Electric Utilities | 63.7 | |
Multi-Utilities | 22.1 | |
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers | 8.4 | |
Water Utilities | 4.3 | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | 1.1 | |
Electrical Equipment | 0.2 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.8% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Electric Utilities - 63.7% | | | |
Electric Utilities - 63.7% | | | |
Constellation Energy Corp. | | 172,652 | 15,806,291 |
Duke Energy Corp. | | 51,483 | 4,620,084 |
Edison International | | 161,527 | 11,218,050 |
Eversource Energy | | 121,900 | 8,645,148 |
Exelon Corp. | | 146,386 | 5,963,766 |
FirstEnergy Corp. | | 166,100 | 6,457,968 |
NextEra Energy, Inc. | | 438,861 | 32,563,485 |
NRG Energy, Inc. | | 72,737 | 2,719,636 |
PG&E Corp. (a) | | 946,738 | 16,359,633 |
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. | | 58,430 | 4,759,708 |
PPL Corp. | | 166,000 | 4,392,360 |
Southern Co. | | 447,162 | 31,413,131 |
Xcel Energy, Inc. | | 50,700 | 3,152,019 |
| | | 148,071,279 |
Electrical Equipment - 0.2% | | | |
Electrical Components & Equipment - 0.2% | | | |
Fluence Energy, Inc. (a)(b) | | 14,400 | 383,616 |
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers - 8.4% | | | |
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 6.4% | | | |
Energy Harbor Corp. (a) | | 40,800 | 3,151,800 |
The AES Corp. | | 145,900 | 3,024,507 |
Vistra Corp. | | 329,543 | 8,650,504 |
| | | 14,826,811 |
Renewable Electricity - 2.0% | | | |
Clearway Energy, Inc. Class C | | 4,247 | 121,294 |
NextEra Energy Partners LP | | 57,252 | 3,357,257 |
Sunnova Energy International, Inc. (a)(b) | | 62,700 | 1,148,037 |
| | | 4,626,588 |
TOTAL INDEPENDENT POWER AND RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS | | | 19,453,399 |
Multi-Utilities - 22.1% | | | |
Multi-Utilities - 22.1% | | | |
Dominion Energy, Inc. | | 166,558 | 8,626,039 |
DTE Energy Co. | | 69,200 | 7,613,384 |
NiSource, Inc. | | 343,038 | 9,382,089 |
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | | 150,201 | 9,404,085 |
Sempra Energy | | 112,315 | 16,351,941 |
| | | 51,377,538 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 1.1% | | | |
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation - 1.1% | | | |
Cheniere Energy, Inc. | | 16,700 | 2,544,412 |
Water Utilities - 4.3% | | | |
Water Utilities - 4.3% | | | |
American Water Works Co., Inc. | | 70,000 | 9,992,500 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $187,705,897) | | | 231,822,744 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 0.8% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c) | | 223,791 | 223,836 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) | | 1,531,972 | 1,532,125 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $1,755,961) | | | 1,755,961 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.6% (Cost $189,461,858) | 233,578,705 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.6)% | (1,305,894) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 232,272,811 |
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(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 15,597,092 | 48,414,547 | 63,787,803 | 93,329 | - | - | 223,836 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 656,250 | 7,694,334 | 6,818,459 | 933 | - | - | 1,532,125 | 0.0% |
Total | 16,253,342 | 56,108,881 | 70,606,262 | 94,262 | - | - | 1,755,961 | |
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Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 231,822,744 | 231,822,744 | - | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 1,755,961 | 1,755,961 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 233,578,705 | 233,578,705 | - | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $1,527,158) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $187,705,897) | $ | 231,822,744 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $1,755,961) | | 1,755,961 | | |
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Total Investment in Securities (cost $189,461,858) | | | $ | 233,578,705 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 955,596 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 181 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 135,193 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 4,425 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 245 |
Total assets | | | | 234,674,345 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $ | 237,951 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 477,036 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 102,848 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 31,815 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 19,759 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 1,532,125 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 2,401,534 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 232,272,811 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 185,198,859 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 47,073,952 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 232,272,811 |
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Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($37,457,646 ÷ 1,854,568 shares) | | | $ | 20.20 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($194,815,165 ÷ 9,724,179 shares) | | | $ | 20.03 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 3,282,707 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $933 from security lending) | | | | 94,262 |
Total Income | | | | 3,376,969 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 655,043 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 158,012 | | |
Accounting fees | | 44,151 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 7,074 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 817 | | |
Audit | | 19,728 | | |
Legal | | 550 | | |
Interest | | 3,539 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 632 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 889,546 | | |
Expense reductions | | (6,021) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 883,525 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 2,493,444 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 1,863,084 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 33 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 1,863,117 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (13,639,077) | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 59 | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | (13,639,018) |
Net gain (loss) | | | | (11,775,901) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | (9,282,457) |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 2,493,444 | $ | 4,338,630 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 1,863,117 | | 5,973,282 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (13,639,018) | | (2,666,934) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | (9,282,457) | | 7,644,978 |
Distributions to shareholders | | (7,958,239) | | (4,522,100) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (34,790,148) | | 83,411,707 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (52,030,844) | | 86,534,585 |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 284,303,655 | | 197,769,070 |
End of period | $ | 232,272,811 | $ | 284,303,655 |
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VIP Utilities Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 21.53 | $ | 20.80 | $ | 18.05 | $ | 18.79 | $ | 16.81 | $ | 16.73 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .21 | | .38 | | .40 | | .34 | | .43 | | .40 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (.90) | | .75 | | 2.71 | | (.35) | | 3.22 | | .96 |
Total from investment operations | | (.69) | | 1.13 | | 3.11 | | (.01) | | 3.65 | | 1.36 |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.07) | | (.34) | | (.36) | | (.45) | | (.39) | | (.32) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.58) | | (.06) | | - | | (.28) | | (1.28) | | (.97) |
Total distributions | | (.64) C | | (.40) | | (.36) | | (.73) | | (1.67) | | (1.28) C |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 20.20 | $ | 21.53 | $ | 20.80 | $ | 18.05 | $ | 18.79 | $ | 16.81 |
Total Return D,E,F | | (3.16)% | | 5.47% | | 17.43% | | (.12)% | | 23.18% | | 8.82% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .67% | | .66% | | .68% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .67% | | .66% | | .68% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .66% | | .66% | | .65% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.07% I | | 1.81% | | 2.09% | | 1.96% | | 2.46% | | 2.36% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 37,458 | $ | 48,029 | $ | 29,279 | $ | 26,868 | $ | 40,839 | $ | 38,270 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 70% I | | 53% | | 32% | | 66% | | 66% | | 113% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Utilities Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 21.36 | $ | 20.64 | $ | 17.92 | $ | 18.66 | $ | 16.70 | $ | 16.64 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .20 | | .36 | | .38 | | .32 | | .42 | | .38 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (.89) | | .74 | | 2.69 | | (.35) | | 3.19 | | .95 |
Total from investment operations | | (.69) | | 1.10 | | 3.07 | | (.03) | | 3.61 | | 1.33 |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.07) | | (.32) | | (.35) | | (.44) | | (.38) | | (.31) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.58) | | (.06) | | - | | (.28) | | (1.28) | | (.97) |
Total distributions | | (.64) C | | (.38) | | (.35) | | (.71) C | | (1.65) C | | (1.27) C |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 20.03 | $ | 21.36 | $ | 20.64 | $ | 17.92 | $ | 18.66 | $ | 16.70 |
Total Return D,E,F | | (3.19)% | | 5.39% | | 17.30% | | (.20)% | | 23.14% | | 8.66% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .73% I | | .72% | | .73% | | .75% | | .74% | | .76% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .72% I | | .72% | | .73% | | .75% | | .74% | | .76% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .72% I | | .72% | | .73% | | .74% | | .74% | | .73% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.99% I | | 1.74% | | 2.01% | | 1.89% | | 2.38% | | 2.28% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 194,815 | $ | 236,275 | $ | 168,490 | $ | 151,484 | $ | 215,259 | $ | 137,635 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 70% I | | 53% | | 32% | | 66% | | 66% | | 113% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Utilities Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $48,060,112 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (4,409,962) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $43,650,150 |
Tax cost | $189,928,555 |
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | 85,555,909 | 110,654,878 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | 12,722 | .06 |
Investor Class | 145,290 | .14 |
| $158,012 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | $1,070 |
Interfund Lending Program. Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), the Fund, along with other registered investment companies having management contracts with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), or other affiliated entities of FMR, may participate in an interfund lending program. This program provides an alternative credit facility allowing the Fund to borrow from, or lend money to, other participating affiliated funds. At period end, there were no interfund loans outstanding. Activity in this program during the period for which loans were outstanding was as follows:
| Borrower or Lender | Average Loan Balance | Weighted Average Interest Rate | Interest Expense |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | Borrower | $ 4,409,833 | 4.82% | $3,539 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | 1,111,670 | 4,010,541 | (719,761) |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | $260 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | $99 | $- | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $6,021.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | 1,256,312 | 760,356 |
Investor Class | 6,701,927 | 3,761,744 |
Total | $7,958,239 | $4,522,100 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 196,235 | 1,335,704 | $4,002,890 | $28,668,446 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 62,816 | 35,949 | 1,256,312 | 760,356 |
Shares redeemed | (635,781) | (548,083) | (13,112,376) | (11,274,350) |
Net increase (decrease) | (376,730) | 823,570 | $(7,853,174) | $18,154,452 |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 533,076 | 5,108,204 | $10,996,540 | $109,619,074 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 337,799 | 179,867 | 6,701,927 | 3,761,744 |
Shares redeemed | (2,207,018) | (2,389,376) | (44,635,441) | (48,123,563) |
Net increase (decrease) | (1,336,143) | 2,898,695 | $(26,936,974) | $65,257,255 |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | 97% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Utilities Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .65% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 968.40 | | $ 3.17 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.57 | | $ 3.26 |
Investor Class | | | | .72% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 968.10 | | $ 3.51 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.22 | | $ 3.61 |
|
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Utilities Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.817394.118
VTELIC-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.
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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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Procter & Gamble Co. | 14.9 | |
The Coca-Cola Co. | 14.1 | |
Keurig Dr. Pepper, Inc. | 6.1 | |
Mondelez International, Inc. | 5.7 | |
Walmart, Inc. | 5.3 | |
Philip Morris International, Inc. | 4.9 | |
Altria Group, Inc. | 4.8 | |
Monster Beverage Corp. | 3.7 | |
PepsiCo, Inc. | 3.6 | |
Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A (sub. vtg.) | 3.4 | |
| 66.5 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Beverages | 35.5 | |
Household Products | 21.3 | |
Food Products | 15.5 | |
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail | 14.0 | |
Tobacco | 9.7 | |
Personal Care Products | 2.8 | |
Household Durables | 0.4 | |
Broadline Retail | 0.3 | |
Media | 0.1 | |
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 99.6% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Beverages - 35.5% | | | |
Brewers - 3.1% | | | |
Boston Beer Co., Inc. Class A (a) | | 28,350 | 8,744,274 |
Distillers & Vintners - 4.5% | | | |
Brown-Forman Corp. Class B (non-vtg.) | | 5,700 | 380,646 |
Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A (sub. vtg.) | | 38,116 | 9,381,491 |
Diageo PLC | | 64,885 | 2,789,471 |
| | | 12,551,608 |
Soft Drinks & Non-alcoholic Beverages - 27.9% | | | |
Keurig Dr. Pepper, Inc. | | 549,873 | 17,194,529 |
Monster Beverage Corp. | | 180,078 | 10,343,680 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | | 54,202 | 10,039,294 |
Primo Water Corp. | | 92,100 | 1,154,934 |
The Coca-Cola Co. | | 657,738 | 39,608,982 |
| | | 78,341,419 |
TOTAL BEVERAGES | | | 99,637,301 |
Broadline Retail - 0.3% | | | |
Broadline Retail - 0.3% | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 6,700 | 873,412 |
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail - 14.0% | | | |
Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail - 10.3% | | | |
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 54,800 | 3,452,948 |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | | 800 | 430,704 |
Dollar General Corp. | | 18,000 | 3,056,040 |
Dollar Tree, Inc. (a) | | 6,300 | 904,050 |
Target Corp. | | 47,300 | 6,238,870 |
Walmart, Inc. | | 94,109 | 14,792,053 |
| | | 28,874,665 |
Drug Retail - 0.2% | | | |
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. | | 16,600 | 472,934 |
Food Distributors - 2.3% | | | |
Performance Food Group Co. (a) | | 30,300 | 1,825,272 |
Sysco Corp. | | 47,444 | 3,520,345 |
U.S. Foods Holding Corp. (a) | | 26,642 | 1,172,248 |
United Natural Foods, Inc. (a) | | 3,200 | 62,560 |
| | | 6,580,425 |
Food Retail - 1.2% | | | |
Albertsons Companies, Inc. | | 105,000 | 2,291,100 |
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (a) | | 12,850 | 393,339 |
Kroger Co. | | 11,700 | 549,900 |
| | | 3,234,339 |
TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES DISTRIBUTION & RETAIL | | | 39,162,363 |
Food Products - 15.5% | | | |
Agricultural Products & Services - 3.3% | | | |
Archer Daniels Midland Co. | | 33,700 | 2,546,372 |
Bunge Ltd. | | 45,407 | 4,284,150 |
Darling Ingredients, Inc. (a) | | 32,822 | 2,093,715 |
Ingredion, Inc. | | 2,000 | 211,900 |
| | | 9,136,137 |
Packaged Foods & Meats - 12.2% | | | |
Conagra Brands, Inc. | | 64,059 | 2,160,069 |
Freshpet, Inc. (a)(b) | | 52,600 | 3,461,606 |
General Mills, Inc. | | 10,500 | 805,350 |
Laird Superfood, Inc. (a)(b) | | 36,040 | 28,654 |
Mondelez International, Inc. | | 220,861 | 16,109,601 |
Nomad Foods Ltd. (a)(b) | | 328,841 | 5,761,294 |
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (a) | | 8,000 | 171,920 |
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (a) | | 19,200 | 240,192 |
The J.M. Smucker Co. | | 3,000 | 443,010 |
The Kraft Heinz Co. | | 2,600 | 92,300 |
The Real Good Food Co., Inc. (a)(b) | | 10,417 | 36,147 |
The Simply Good Foods Co. (a) | | 26,800 | 980,612 |
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (a) | | 14,916 | 751,468 |
Tyson Foods, Inc. Class A | | 63,534 | 3,242,775 |
| | | 34,284,998 |
TOTAL FOOD PRODUCTS | | | 43,421,135 |
Household Durables - 0.4% | | | |
Household Appliances - 0.3% | | | |
Helen of Troy Ltd. (a) | | 8,600 | 928,972 |
Housewares & Specialties - 0.1% | | | |
Newell Brands, Inc. | | 11,100 | 96,570 |
TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DURABLES | | | 1,025,542 |
Household Products - 21.3% | | | |
Household Products - 21.3% | | | |
Colgate-Palmolive Co. | | 18,200 | 1,402,128 |
Energizer Holdings, Inc. | | 189,156 | 6,351,858 |
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | | 36,767 | 5,076,052 |
Procter & Gamble Co. | | 275,075 | 41,739,882 |
Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc. | | 98,606 | 2,785,620 |
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (b) | | 17,611 | 1,374,539 |
The Clorox Co. | | 7,326 | 1,165,127 |
| | | 59,895,206 |
Media - 0.1% | | | |
Advertising - 0.1% | | | |
Advantage Solutions, Inc. Class A (a) | | 105,300 | 246,402 |
Personal Care Products - 2.8% | | | |
Personal Care Products - 2.8% | | | |
Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. Class A | | 20,445 | 4,014,989 |
Herbalife Ltd. (a)(b) | | 123,909 | 1,640,555 |
Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (a)(b) | | 578,800 | 2,153,136 |
| | | 7,808,680 |
Tobacco - 9.7% | | | |
Tobacco - 9.7% | | | |
Altria Group, Inc. | | 295,004 | 13,363,681 |
Philip Morris International, Inc. | | 142,543 | 13,915,048 |
| | | 27,278,729 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $216,827,060) | | | 279,348,770 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 1.9% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) (Cost $5,158,744) | | 5,158,228 | 5,158,744 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 101.5% (Cost $221,985,804) | 284,507,514 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (1.5)% | (4,142,783) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 280,364,731 |
| |
Legend
(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 7,309,323 | 11,444,912 | 18,754,235 | 29,413 | - | - | - | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 8,368,228 | 51,402,513 | 54,611,997 | 3,717 | - | - | 5,158,744 | 0.0% |
Total | 15,677,551 | 62,847,425 | 73,366,232 | 33,130 | - | - | 5,158,744 | |
| | | | | | | | |
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 279,348,770 | 276,559,299 | 2,789,471 | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 5,158,744 | 5,158,744 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 284,507,514 | 281,718,043 | 2,789,471 | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $4,981,683) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $216,827,060) | $ | 279,348,770 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $5,158,744) | | 5,158,744 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $221,985,804) | | | $ | 284,507,514 |
Cash | | | | 40,254 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $131) | | | | 131 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,919,305 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 1,012,283 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 383 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 531 |
Total assets | | | | 287,480,401 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $ | 1,320,730 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 453,047 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 122,858 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 39,222 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 21,463 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 5,158,350 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 7,115,670 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 280,364,731 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 212,029,800 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 68,334,931 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 280,364,731 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($25,684,803 ÷ 1,285,163 shares) | | | $ | 19.99 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($254,679,928 ÷ 12,818,550 shares) | | | $ | 19.87 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 3,518,299 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $3,717 from security lending) | | | | 33,130 |
Total Income | | | | 3,551,429 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 749,889 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 188,540 | | |
Accounting fees | | 50,546 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 17,029 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 915 | | |
Audit | | 20,337 | | |
Legal | | 1,374 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 754 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 1,029,384 | | |
Expense reductions | | (6,574) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 1,022,810 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 2,528,619 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 4,218,949 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 2,731 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 4,221,680 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 1,512,352 | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 250 | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | 1,512,602 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 5,734,282 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 8,262,901 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
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| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 2,528,619 | $ | 4,838,677 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 4,221,680 | | (365,234) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 1,512,602 | | (7,587,718) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 8,262,901 | | (3,114,275) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (1,031,775) | | (20,685,358) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (18,671,571) | | 56,213,858 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (11,440,445) | | 32,414,225 |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 291,805,176 | | 259,390,951 |
End of period | $ | 280,364,731 | $ | 291,805,176 |
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VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 19.46 | $ | 21.13 | $ | 19.84 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 15.10 | $ | 19.72 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .18 | | .35 | | .38 | | .35 | | .39 | | .44 C |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .42 | | (.48) | | 2.27 | | 1.78 | | 4.22 | | (3.36) |
Total from investment operations | | .60 | | (.13) | | 2.65 | | 2.13 | | 4.61 | | (2.92) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.07) | | (.35) | | (.40) | | (.35) | | (.34) | | (.50) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (1.19) | | (.96) | | (.71) | | (.61) | | (1.19) |
Total distributions | | (.07) | | (1.54) | | (1.36) | | (1.05) D | | (.95) | | (1.70) D |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 19.99 | $ | 19.46 | $ | 21.13 | $ | 19.84 | $ | 18.76 | $ | 15.10 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 3.10% | | (.62)% | | 14.24% | | 11.78% | | 31.42% | | (15.55)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets A,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .65% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .67% | | .67% | | .68% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .65% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .66% | | .67% | | .68% |
��Expenses net of all reductions | | .65% J | | .65% | | .65% | | .66% | | .67% | | .67% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.84% J | | 1.84% | | 1.89% | | 1.94% | | 2.23% | | 2.53% C |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 25,685 | $ | 26,707 | $ | 22,366 | $ | 20,009 | $ | 21,139 | $ | 16,285 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 50% J | | 46% | | 64% | | 51% | | 46% | | 38% |
A Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.14 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.71%.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 19.35 | $ | 21.02 | $ | 19.75 | $ | 18.68 | $ | 15.04 | $ | 19.64 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .17 | | .34 | | .37 | | .33 | | .37 | | .42 C |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .42 | | (.48) | | 2.24 | | 1.78 | | 4.21 | | (3.34) |
Total from investment operations | | .59 | | (.14) | | 2.61 | | 2.11 | | 4.58 | | (2.92) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.07) | | (.34) | | (.38) | | (.33) | | (.33) | | (.49) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | (1.19) | | (.96) | | (.71) | | (.61) | | (1.19) |
Total distributions | | (.07) | | (1.53) | | (1.34) | | (1.04) | | (.94) | | (1.68) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 19.87 | $ | 19.35 | $ | 21.02 | $ | 19.75 | $ | 18.68 | $ | 15.04 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 3.05% | | (.69)% | | 14.11% | | 11.70% | | 31.33% | | (15.58)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .73% I | | .73% | | .73% | | .74% | | .75% | | .76% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .72% I | | .73% | | .73% | | .74% | | .75% | | .76% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .72% I | | .73% | | .73% | | .73% | | .75% | | .75% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.77% I | | 1.76% | | 1.81% | | 1.86% | | 2.15% | | 2.45% C |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 254,680 | $ | 265,098 | $ | 237,025 | $ | 224,492 | $ | 227,607 | $ | 172,096 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 50% I | | 46% | | 64% | | 51% | | 46% | | 38% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.14 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.63%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain. Funds may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. Any withholding tax reclaims income is included in the Statement of Operations in dividends. Any receivables for withholding tax reclaims are included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities in dividends receivable.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $72,742,020 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (11,219,943) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $61,522,077 |
Tax cost | $222,985,437 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | 70,908,922 | 80,381,661 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $8,233 | .06 |
Investor Class | 180,307 | .14 |
| $188,540 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | $1,524 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | 9,583,058 | 6,147,553 | 516,488 |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | $275 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | $379 | $1 | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $6,574.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $96,269 | $1,829,507 |
Investor Class | 935,506 | 18,855,851 |
Total | $1,031,775 | $20,685,358 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 143,706 | 580,346 | $2,825,250 | $11,453,344 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 4,922 | 92,967 | 96,269 | 1,829,507 |
Shares redeemed | (235,692) | (359,659) | (4,608,343) | (6,848,059) |
Net increase (decrease) | (87,064) | 313,654 | $(1,686,824) | $6,434,792 |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 541,782 | 3,639,755 | $10,641,107 | $71,984,707 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 48,098 | 963,502 | 935,506 | 18,855,851 |
Shares redeemed | (1,468,756) | (2,181,946) | (28,561,360) | (41,061,492) |
Net increase (decrease) | (878,876) | 2,421,311 | $(16,984,747) | $49,779,066 |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | 98% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .65% | | �� | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,031.00 | | $ 3.27 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.57 | | $ 3.26 |
Investor Class | | | | .72% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,030.50 | | $ 3.62 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.22 | | $ 3.61 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.850997.116
VCSP-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Real Estate Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.
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All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company. © 2023 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
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Prologis (REIT), Inc. | 11.1 | |
Equinix, Inc. | 9.0 | |
Crown Castle International Corp. | 7.9 | |
CubeSmart | 6.7 | |
American Tower Corp. | 6.5 | |
Ventas, Inc. | 5.4 | |
CBRE Group, Inc. | 4.9 | |
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. | 4.6 | |
Essex Property Trust, Inc. | 4.1 | |
Welltower, Inc. | 3.5 | |
| 63.7 | |
|
Top REIT Sectors (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
REITs - Diversified | 24.5 | |
REITs - Warehouse/Industrial | 14.3 | |
REITs - Apartments | 13.8 | |
REITs - Health Care | 8.9 | |
REITs - Storage | 8.0 | |
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Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
|
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 98.9% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.7% | | | |
REITs - Diversified - 0.7% | | | |
The GEO Group, Inc. (a) | | 337,900 | 2,419,364 |
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 92.9% | | | |
REITs - Apartments - 13.8% | | | |
Essex Property Trust, Inc. | | 57,648 | 13,506,926 |
Invitation Homes, Inc. | | 289,300 | 9,951,920 |
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. | | 100,100 | 15,201,186 |
UDR, Inc. | | 165,400 | 7,105,584 |
| | | 45,765,616 |
REITs - Diversified - 23.8% | | | |
Crown Castle International Corp. | | 229,900 | 26,194,806 |
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | | 81,400 | 9,269,018 |
Equinix, Inc. | | 38,300 | 30,024,902 |
Lamar Advertising Co. Class A | | 77,800 | 7,721,650 |
Outfront Media, Inc. | | 145,100 | 2,280,972 |
VICI Properties, Inc. | | 117,500 | 3,693,025 |
| | | 79,184,373 |
REITs - Health Care - 8.9% | | | |
Ventas, Inc. | | 378,210 | 17,877,987 |
Welltower, Inc. | | 142,600 | 11,534,914 |
| | | 29,412,901 |
REITs - Hotels - 2.9% | | | |
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. | | 103,200 | 9,589,344 |
REITs - Management/Investment - 6.5% | | | |
American Tower Corp. | | 111,300 | 21,585,522 |
REITs - Manufactured Homes - 3.4% | | | |
Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. | | 170,620 | 11,412,772 |
REITs - Office Property - 2.2% | | | |
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. | | 63,500 | 7,206,615 |
REITs - Regional Malls - 0.3% | | | |
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. | | 46,500 | 1,026,255 |
REITs - Shopping Centers - 4.1% | | | |
SITE Centers Corp. | | 532,200 | 7,035,684 |
Urban Edge Properties | | 428,800 | 6,616,384 |
| | | 13,652,068 |
REITs - Single Tenant - 4.7% | | | |
Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. | | 402,400 | 10,220,960 |
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc. | | 133,300 | 5,249,354 |
| | | 15,470,314 |
REITs - Storage - 8.0% | | | |
CubeSmart | | 497,200 | 22,204,952 |
Extra Space Storage, Inc. | | 30,400 | 4,525,040 |
| | | 26,729,992 |
REITs - Warehouse/Industrial - 14.3% | | | |
EastGroup Properties, Inc. | | 34,800 | 6,041,280 |
Prologis (REIT), Inc. | | 300,329 | 36,829,345 |
Terreno Realty Corp. | | 77,500 | 4,657,750 |
| | | 47,528,375 |
TOTAL EQUITY REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (REITS) | | | 308,564,147 |
Real Estate Management & Development - 5.3% | | | |
Real Estate Operating Companies - 0.1% | | | |
WeWork, Inc. (a)(b) | | 900,000 | 229,860 |
Real Estate Services - 5.2% | | | |
CBRE Group, Inc. (a) | | 200,700 | 16,198,497 |
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. (a) | | 6,900 | 1,075,020 |
| | | 17,273,517 |
TOTAL REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT | | | 17,503,377 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $285,884,786) | | | 328,486,888 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 0.9% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c) | | 2,222,187 | 2,222,631 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (c)(d) | | 825,517 | 825,600 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $3,048,231) | | | 3,048,231 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 99.8% (Cost $288,933,017) | 331,535,119 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - 0.2% | 650,896 |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 332,186,015 |
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Legend
(b) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(c) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(d) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 3,046,451 | 24,411,458 | 25,235,278 | 67,192 | - | - | 2,222,631 | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 2,070,800 | 7,242,839 | 8,488,039 | 38,185 | - | - | 825,600 | 0.0% |
Total | 5,117,251 | 31,654,297 | 33,723,317 | 105,377 | - | - | 3,048,231 | |
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Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 328,486,888 | 328,486,888 | - | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 3,048,231 | 3,048,231 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 331,535,119 | 331,535,119 | - | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $210,858) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $285,884,786) | $ | 328,486,888 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $3,048,231) | | 3,048,231 | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $288,933,017) | | | $ | 331,535,119 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,076,794 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 152,583 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 1,398,148 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 15,575 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 755 |
Total assets | | | | 334,178,974 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $ | 766,100 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 174,921 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 143,086 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | | 21,299 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 36,552 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 25,401 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 825,600 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 1,992,959 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 332,186,015 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 293,569,509 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 38,616,506 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 332,186,015 |
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Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($65,699,469 ÷ 3,978,523 shares) | | | $ | 16.51 |
Service Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($12,480,421 ÷ 759,821 shares) | | | $ | 16.43 |
Service Class 2 : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($99,677,074 ÷ 6,165,497 shares) | | | $ | 16.17 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($154,329,051 ÷ 9,413,414 shares) | | | $ | 16.39 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 5,579,080 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $38,185 from security lending) | | | | 105,377 |
Total Income | | | | 5,684,457 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 888,188 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 166,868 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees | | 131,930 | | |
Accounting fees | | 59,866 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 4,868 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 1,191 | | |
Audit | | 25,109 | | |
Legal | | 683 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 1,022 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 1,279,725 | | |
Expense reductions | | (7,913) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 1,271,812 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 4,412,645 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (6,408,616) | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | (6,408,616) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities | | | | 15,897,664 |
Net gain (loss) | | | | 9,489,048 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | 13,901,693 |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 4,412,645 | $ | 6,689,241 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (6,408,616) | | 12,272,372 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 15,897,664 | | (155,468,615) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 13,901,693 | | (136,507,002) |
Distributions to shareholders | | (15,660,621) | | (17,453,553) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | 1,747,324 | | (27,789,290) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (11,604) | | (181,749,845) |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 332,197,619 | | 513,947,464 |
End of period | $ | 332,186,015 | $ | 332,197,619 |
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VIP Real Estate Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.54 | $ | 23.81 | $ | 17.43 | $ | 19.79 | $ | 16.68 | $ | 19.44 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .23 | | .34 | | .23 | | .31 | | .43 | | .40 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .52 | | (6.76) | | 6.52 | | (1.54) | | 3.41 | | (1.64) |
Total from investment operations | | .75 | | (6.42) | | 6.75 | | (1.23) | | 3.84 | | (1.24) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.25) | | (.22) C | | (.37) | | (.34) | | (.51) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.70) | | (.59) | | (.15) C | | (.76) | | (.39) | | (1.00) |
Total distributions | | (.78) | | (.85) D | | (.37) | | (1.13) | | (.73) | | (1.52) D |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 16.51 | $ | 16.54 | $ | 23.81 | $ | 17.43 | $ | 19.79 | $ | 16.68 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 4.30% | | (27.51)% | | 38.99% | | (6.55)% | | 23.22% | | (6.22)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .64% J | | .64% | | .64% | | .66% | | .66% | | .67% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .64% J | | .64% | | .64% | | .66% | | .66% | | .67% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .64% J | | .64% | | .64% | | .65% | | .65% | | .67% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.73% J | | 1.80% | | 1.11% | | 1.83% | | 2.21% | | 2.23% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 65,699 | $ | 66,060 | $ | 95,219 | $ | 69,612 | $ | 90,029 | $ | 74,259 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 22% J | | 53% | | 31% | | 83% | | 44% | | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C The amount shown reflects reclassifications related to book to tax differences that were made in the year shown.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Real Estate Portfolio Service Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.46 | $ | 23.70 | $ | 17.35 | $ | 19.70 | $ | 16.61 | $ | 19.37 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .22 | | .32 | | .21 | | .29 | | .41 | | .38 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .53 | | (6.73) | | 6.48 | | (1.52) | | 3.39 | | (1.63) |
Total from investment operations | | .75 | | (6.41) | | 6.69 | | (1.23) | | 3.80 | | (1.25) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.24) | | (.19) C | | (.36) | | (.33) | | (.50) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.70) | | (.59) | | (.15) C | | (.76) | | (.39) | | (1.00) |
Total distributions | | (.78) | | (.83) | | (.34) | | (1.12) | | (.71) D | | (1.51) D |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 16.43 | $ | 16.46 | $ | 23.70 | $ | 17.35 | $ | 19.70 | $ | 16.61 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 4.31% | | (27.59)% | | 38.80% | | (6.61)% | | 23.09% | | (6.31)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .74% J | | .74% | | .74% | | .76% | | .76% | | .77% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .74% J | | .74% | | .74% | | .76% | | .76% | | .77% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .74% J | | .74% | | .74% | | .75% | | .75% | | .77% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.63% J | | 1.70% | | 1.01% | | 1.73% | | 2.11% | | 2.13% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 12,480 | $ | 12,149 | $ | 15,071 | $ | 14,062 | $ | 12,933 | $ | 9,737 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 22% J | | 53% | | 31% | | 83% | | 44% | | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C The amount shown reflects reclassifications related to book to tax differences that were made in the year shown.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Real Estate Portfolio Service Class 2 |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.22 | $ | 23.36 | $ | 17.11 | $ | 19.45 | $ | 16.40 | $ | 19.14 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .20 | | .29 | | .17 | | .26 | | .37 | | .35 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .53 | | (6.63) | | 6.40 | | (1.51) | | 3.36 | | (1.62) |
Total from investment operations | | .73 | | (6.34) | | 6.57 | | (1.25) | | 3.73 | | (1.27) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.21) | | (.17) C | | (.33) | | (.30) | | (.47) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.70) | | (.58) | | (.15) C | | (.76) | | (.39) | | (1.00) |
Total distributions | | (.78) | | (.80) D | | (.32) | | (1.09) | | (.68) D | | (1.47) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 16.17 | $ | 16.22 | $ | 23.36 | $ | 17.11 | $ | 19.45 | $ | 16.40 |
Total Return E,F,G | | 4.22% | | (27.69)% | | 38.64% | | (6.79)% | | 22.95% | | (6.45)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,H,I | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .89% J | | .89% | | .89% | | .91% | | .91% | | .92% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .89% J | | .89% | | .89% | | .91% | | .91% | | .92% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .89% J | | .89% | | .89% | | .90% | | .90% | | .92% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.48% J | | 1.55% | | .86% | | 1.58% | | 1.96% | | 1.98% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 99,677 | $ | 97,994 | $ | 158,332 | $ | 105,694 | $ | 124,526 | $ | 104,238 |
Portfolio turnover rate K | | 22% J | | 53% | | 31% | | 83% | | 44% | | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C The amount shown reflects reclassifications related to book to tax differences that were made in the year shown.
D Total distributions per share do not sum due to rounding.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
J Annualized.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Real Estate Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 16.43 | $ | 23.66 | $ | 17.32 | $ | 19.67 | $ | 16.58 | $ | 19.34 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .22 | | .33 | | .21 | | .30 | | .41 | | .38 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .52 | | (6.73) | | 6.49 | | (1.53) | | 3.40 | | (1.64) |
Total from investment operations | | .74 | | (6.40) | | 6.70 | | (1.23) | | 3.81 | | (1.26) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.08) | | (.24) | | (.21) C | | (.36) | | (.33) | | (.50) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | (.70) | | (.59) | | (.15) C | | (.76) | | (.39) | | (1.00) |
Total distributions | | (.78) | | (.83) | | (.36) | | (1.12) | | (.72) | | (1.50) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 16.39 | $ | 16.43 | $ | 23.66 | $ | 17.32 | $ | 19.67 | $ | 16.58 |
Total Return D,E,F | | 4.25% | | (27.58)% | | 38.92% | | (6.61)% | | 23.15% | | (6.33)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .72% I | | .72% | | .72% | | .74% | | .74% | | .75% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .72% I | | .72% | | .71% | | .74% | | .73% | | .75% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .72% I | | .72% | | .71% | | .73% | | .73% | | .75% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.65% I | | 1.72% | | 1.03% | | 1.75% | | 2.13% | | 2.15% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 154,329 | $ | 155,995 | $ | 245,326 | $ | 150,117 | $ | 192,874 | $ | 151,327 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 22% I | | 53% | | 31% | | 83% | | 44% | | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C The amount shown reflects reclassifications related to book to tax differences that were made in the year shown.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Real Estate Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. In order to disclose class level financial information dollar amounts presented in the notes are unrounded. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $70,006,462 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (29,015,601) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $40,990,861 |
Tax cost | $290,544,258 |
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities andin-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | 36,955,907 | 45,933,339 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.
For the period, total fees, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services, were as follows:
Service Class | $6,330 |
Service Class 2 | 125,600 |
| $131,930 |
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $20,896 | .06 |
Service Class | 3,988 | .06 |
Service Class 2 | 31,651 | .06 |
Investor Class | 110,333 | .14 |
| $166,868 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | .04 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | $678 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | 2,361,894 | 2,420,975 | (150,489) |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | $338 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | $4,172 | $- | $- |
8. Expense Reductions.
Through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of certain uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, custodian credits reduced the Fund's expenses by $107
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $7,806.
9 Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $ 3,016,777 | $3,366,351 |
Service Class | 584,402 | 559,733 |
Service Class 2 | 4,723,016 | 5,225,323 |
Investor Class | 7,336,426 | 8,302,146 |
Total | $15,660,621 | $17,453,553 |
10. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 278,564 | 450,719 | $4,505,846 | $8,747,373 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 173,080 | 171,237 | 3,016,777 | 3,366,350 |
Shares redeemed | (467,434) | (626,425) | (7,785,223) | (12,167,123) |
Net increase (decrease) | (15,790) | (4,469) | $(262,600) | $(53,400) |
Service Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 85,854 | 269,375 | $1,414,380 | $4,941,492 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 33,703 | 28,665 | 584,402 | 559,733 |
Shares redeemed | (97,809) | (195,743) | (1,575,070) | (3,613,979) |
Net increase (decrease) | 21,748 | 102,297 | $423,712 | $1,887,246 |
Service Class 2 | | | | |
Shares sold | 439,251 | 2,102,703 | $7,266,516 | $41,393,596 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 276,523 | 268,267 | 4,723,016 | 5,225,323 |
Shares redeemed | (592,050) | (3,106,302) | (9,590,360) | (60,881,093) |
Net increase (decrease) | 123,724 | (735,332) | $2,399,172 | $(14,262,174) |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 269,097 | 792,516 | $4,488,749 | $16,739,279 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 423,826 | 422,934 | 7,336,426 | 8,302,146 |
Shares redeemed | (774,855) | (2,090,615) | (12,638,135) | (40,402,387) |
Net increase (decrease) | (81,932) | (875,165) | $(812,960) | $(15,360,962) |
11. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | 54% |
12. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Real Estate Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .64% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,043.00 | | $ 3.24 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.62 | | $ 3.21 |
Service Class | | | | .74% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,043.10 | | $ 3.75 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.12 | | $ 3.71 |
Service Class 2 | | | | .89% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,042.20 | | $ 4.51 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,020.38 | | $ 4.46 |
Investor Class | | | | .72% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,042.50 | | $ 3.65 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.22 | | $ 3.61 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Real Estate Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
1.787989.120
VIPRE-SANN-0823
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
VIP Energy Portfolio
Semi-Annual Report
June 30, 2023
Contents
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You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.
Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.
Standard & Poor's, S&P and S&P 500 are registered service marks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Fidelity Distributors Corporation.
Other 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. © 2023 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
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-PORT. Forms N-PORT are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-PORT 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.
For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com, http://www.institutional.fidelity.com, or http://www.401k.com, as applicable.
NOT FDIC INSURED •MAY LOSE VALUE •NO BANK GUARANTEE
Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
Top Holdings (% of Fund's net assets) |
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Exxon Mobil Corp. | 24.4 | |
Chevron Corp. | 6.6 | |
ConocoPhillips Co. | 4.7 | |
Schlumberger Ltd. | 4.4 | |
Marathon Petroleum Corp. | 4.2 | |
Valero Energy Corp. | 4.2 | |
Halliburton Co. | 4.1 | |
Hess Corp. | 3.8 | |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 3.7 | |
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | 3.6 | |
| 63.7 | |
|
Industries (% of Fund's net assets) |
|
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | 83.9 | |
Energy Equipment & Services | 15.7 | |
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers | 0.5 | |
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Geographic Diversification (% of Fund's net assets) |
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* Includes Short-Term investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities). Percentages are adjusted for the effect of derivatives, if applicable. |
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Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 100.1% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Energy Equipment & Services - 15.7% | | | |
Oil & Gas Drilling - 1.7% | | | |
Nabors Industries Ltd. warrants 6/11/26 (a) | | 2,992 | 34,408 |
Noble Corp. PLC | | 57,500 | 2,375,325 |
Odfjell Drilling Ltd. (a) | | 282,200 | 679,629 |
Shelf Drilling Ltd. (a)(b) | | 240,173 | 440,356 |
Valaris Ltd. (a) | | 86,900 | 5,468,617 |
| | | 8,998,335 |
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services - 14.0% | | | |
Halliburton Co. | | 673,800 | 22,228,662 |
Nextier Oilfield Solutions, Inc. (a) | | 867,060 | 7,751,516 |
NOV, Inc. | | 172,000 | 2,758,880 |
Oceaneering International, Inc. (a) | | 189,900 | 3,551,130 |
ProFrac Holding Corp. (a)(c) | | 162,800 | 1,816,848 |
ProPetro Holding Corp. (a) | | 221,230 | 1,822,935 |
Schlumberger Ltd. | | 488,349 | 23,987,703 |
TechnipFMC PLC (a) | | 742,826 | 12,345,768 |
| | | 76,263,442 |
TOTAL ENERGY EQUIPMENT & SERVICES | | | 85,261,777 |
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers - 0.5% | | | |
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.5% | | | |
Vistra Corp. | | 96,829 | 2,541,761 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 83.9% | | | |
Coal & Consumable Fuels - 0.2% | | | |
Arch Resources, Inc. | | 11,800 | 1,330,568 |
Integrated Oil & Gas - 39.9% | | | |
Cenovus Energy, Inc. (Canada) (c) | | 934,200 | 15,866,767 |
Chevron Corp. | | 226,596 | 35,654,881 |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | | 1,235,648 | 132,523,250 |
Imperial Oil Ltd. | | 101,800 | 5,208,533 |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | | 345,570 | 20,319,516 |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. warrants 8/3/27 (a) | | 11,000 | 410,520 |
Suncor Energy, Inc. (c) | | 235,020 | 6,894,038 |
| | | 216,877,505 |
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - 28.5% | | | |
Antero Resources Corp. (a) | | 263,160 | 6,060,575 |
APA Corp. | | 201,950 | 6,900,632 |
Callon Petroleum Co. (a) | | 17,535 | 614,952 |
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | | 350,430 | 19,701,850 |
Chord Energy Corp. | | 18,115 | 2,786,087 |
Civitas Resources, Inc. | | 48,274 | 3,348,767 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | | 248,209 | 25,716,934 |
Coterra Energy, Inc. | | 99,881 | 2,526,989 |
Devon Energy Corp. | | 152,940 | 7,393,120 |
Diamondback Energy, Inc. | | 37,300 | 4,899,728 |
EOG Resources, Inc. | | 62,002 | 7,095,509 |
EQT Corp. | | 61,200 | 2,517,156 |
Hess Corp. | | 151,100 | 20,542,045 |
Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. Class A | | 101,640 | 2,124,276 |
National Energy Services Reunited Corp. (a) | | 456,650 | 1,347,118 |
Northern Oil & Gas, Inc. | | 31,350 | 1,075,932 |
Ovintiv, Inc. (c) | | 165,360 | 6,295,255 |
PDC Energy, Inc. | | 212,534 | 15,119,669 |
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. | | 43,144 | 8,938,574 |
Range Resources Corp. | | 273,460 | 8,039,724 |
SM Energy Co. | | 56,270 | 1,779,820 |
| | | 154,824,712 |
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing - 10.1% | | | |
Marathon Petroleum Corp. | | 195,876 | 22,839,142 |
Phillips 66 Co. | | 96,432 | 9,197,684 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 192,520 | 22,582,596 |
| | | 54,619,422 |
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation - 5.2% | | | |
Cheniere Energy, Inc. | | 122,990 | 18,738,756 |
Energy Transfer LP | | 576,330 | 7,319,391 |
Golar LNG Ltd. | | 94,030 | 1,896,585 |
| | | 27,954,732 |
TOTAL OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS | | | 455,606,939 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $329,779,516) | | | 543,410,477 |
| | | |
Money Market Funds - 4.9% |
| | Shares | Value ($) |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% (d)(e) (Cost $26,887,824) | | 26,885,135 | 26,887,824 |
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TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 105.0% (Cost $356,667,340) | 570,298,301 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (5.0)% | (27,176,549) |
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | 543,121,752 |
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Legend
(b) | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At the end of the period, the value of these securities amounted to $440,356 or 0.1% of net assets. |
(c) | Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end. |
(d) | Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements are available on the SEC's website or upon request. |
(e) | Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan. |
Affiliated Central Funds
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
Affiliate | Value, beginning of period ($) | Purchases ($) | Sales Proceeds ($) | Dividend Income ($) | Realized Gain (loss) ($) | Change in Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) ($) | Value, end of period ($) | % ownership, end of period |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 3,996,061 | 26,266,421 | 30,262,482 | 16,946 | - | - | - | 0.0% |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 5.14% | 14,450,476 | 197,376,461 | 184,939,113 | 20,004 | - | - | 26,887,824 | 0.1% |
Total | 18,446,537 | 223,642,882 | 215,201,595 | 36,950 | - | - | 26,887,824 | |
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Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
Amounts in the dividend income column for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. 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, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date: |
Description | Total ($) | Level 1 ($) | Level 2 ($) | Level 3 ($) |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
|
Common Stocks | 543,410,477 | 543,410,477 | - | - |
|
Money Market Funds | 26,887,824 | 26,887,824 | - | - |
Total Investments in Securities: | 570,298,301 | 570,298,301 | - | - |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
| | | | June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $25,930,708) - See accompanying schedule: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $329,779,516) | $ | 543,410,477 | | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $26,887,824) | | 26,887,824 | | |
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| | | | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $356,667,340) | | | $ | 570,298,301 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $968) | | | | 969 |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,679,655 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | | | 471,860 |
Dividends receivable | | | | 689,096 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | | | 7,300 |
Prepaid expenses | | | | 555 |
Other receivables | | | | 8,590 |
Total assets | | | | 573,156,326 |
Liabilities | | | | |
Payable to custodian bank | $ | 518,258 | | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | | 2,259,848 | | |
Accrued management fee | | 240,485 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | | 43,941 | | |
Other affiliated payables | | 62,251 | | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | | 23,843 | | |
Collateral on securities loaned | | 26,885,948 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 30,034,574 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 543,121,752 |
Net Assets consist of: | | | | |
Paid in capital | | | $ | 418,135,353 |
Total accumulated earnings (loss) | | | | 124,986,399 |
Net Assets | | | $ | 543,121,752 |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value and Maximum Offering Price | | | | |
Initial Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($59,099,507 ÷ 2,484,261 shares) | | | $ | 23.79 |
Service Class 2 : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($211,976,345 ÷ 8,966,423 shares) | | | $ | 23.64 |
Investor Class : | | | | |
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($272,045,900 ÷ 11,465,116 shares) | | | $ | 23.73 |
Statement of Operations |
| | | | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 10,001,755 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $20,004 from security lending) | | | | 36,950 |
Total Income | | | | 10,038,705 |
Expenses | | | | |
Management fee | $ | 1,796,294 | | |
Transfer agent fees | | 352,848 | | |
Distribution and service plan fees | | 298,207 | | |
Accounting fees | | 110,577 | | |
Custodian fees and expenses | | 26,305 | | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | | 2,254 | | |
Audit | | 20,360 | | |
Legal | | 1,635 | | |
Interest | | 49,911 | | |
Miscellaneous | | 2,154 | | |
Total expenses before reductions | | 2,660,545 | | |
Expense reductions | | (17,111) | | |
Total expenses after reductions | | | | 2,643,434 |
Net Investment income (loss) | | | | 7,395,271 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | 14,722,685 | | |
Foreign currency transactions | | 28,734 | | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | | | 14,751,419 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | | (64,873,175) | | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | (1,689) | | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | | (64,874,864) |
Net gain (loss) | | | | (50,123,445) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | | $ | (42,728,174) |
Statement of Changes in Net Assets |
|
| | Six months ended June 30, 2023 (Unaudited) | | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 7,395,271 | $ | 19,144,872 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 14,751,419 | | (4,693,061) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (64,874,864) | | 218,880,105 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | (42,728,174) | | 233,331,916 |
Distributions to shareholders | | (5,074,553) | | (16,391,155) |
| | | | |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | | (186,938,262) | | 246,339,710 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | (234,740,989) | | 463,280,471 |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 777,862,741 | | 314,582,270 |
End of period | $ | 543,121,752 | $ | 777,862,741 |
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VIP Energy Portfolio Initial Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 25.16 | $ | 15.77 | $ | 10.41 | $ | 15.91 | $ | 14.78 | $ | 19.86 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .28 | | .69 | | .48 C | | .41 | | .29 | | .22 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (1.48) | | 9.26 | | 5.24 | | (5.62) | | 1.18 | | (5.09) |
Total from investment operations | | (1.20) | | 9.95 | | 5.72 | | (5.21) | | 1.47 | | (4.87) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.17) | | (.56) | | (.36) | | (.29) | | (.33) | | (.19) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (.01) | | (.02) |
Total distributions | | (.17) | | (.56) | | (.36) | | (.29) | | (.34) | | (.21) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 23.79 | $ | 25.16 | $ | 15.77 | $ | 10.41 | $ | 15.91 | $ | 14.78 |
Total Return D,E,F | | (4.80)% | | 63.18% | | 55.35% | | (32.76)% | | 10.08% | | (24.58)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .69% | | .67% | | .67% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .69% | | .67% | | .67% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .65% I | | .64% | | .65% | | .68% | | .66% | | .66% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.30% I | | 3.02% | | 3.35% C | | 3.98% | | 1.83% | | 1.12% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 59,100 | $ | 101,150 | $ | 30,777 | $ | 16,336 | $ | 27,957 | $ | 28,999 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 12% I | | 50% | | 65% | | 71% | | 58% | | 58% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 2.97%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Energy Portfolio Service Class 2 |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 25.03 | $ | 15.69 | $ | 10.37 | $ | 15.84 | $ | 14.71 | $ | 19.75 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .25 | | .62 | | .44 C | | .37 | | .25 | | .17 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (1.48) | | 9.23 | | 5.21 | | (5.58) | | 1.18 | | (5.05) |
Total from investment operations | | (1.23) | | 9.85 | | 5.65 | | (5.21) | | 1.43 | | (4.88) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.16) | | (.51) | | (.33) | | (.26) | | (.29) | | (.14) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (.01) | | (.02) |
Total distributions | | (.16) | | (.51) | | (.33) | | (.26) | | (.30) | | (.16) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 23.64 | $ | 25.03 | $ | 15.69 | $ | 10.37 | $ | 15.84 | $ | 14.71 |
Total Return D,E,F | | (4.94)% | | 62.87% | | 54.83% | | (32.88)% | | 9.82% | | (24.77)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .90% I | | .89% | | .90% | | .94% | | .92% | | .92% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .90% I | | .88% | | .90% | | .94% | | .92% | | .92% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .90% I | | .88% | | .90% | | .93% | | .91% | | .91% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.05% I | | 2.77% | | 3.10% C | | 3.73% | | 1.58% | | .88% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 211,976 | $ | 259,298 | $ | 120,827 | $ | 64,986 | $ | 90,208 | $ | 90,093 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 12% I | | 50% | | 65% | | 71% | | 58% | | 58% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 2.72%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
VIP Energy Portfolio Investor Class |
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| | Six months ended (Unaudited) June 30, 2023 | | Years ended December 31, 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Selected Per-Share Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $ | 25.10 | $ | 15.73 | $ | 10.39 | $ | 15.88 | $ | 14.75 | $ | 19.82 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) A,B | | .27 | | .67 | | .47 C | | .39 | | .28 | | .21 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (1.47) | | 9.25 | | 5.22 | | (5.60) | | 1.18 | | (5.09) |
Total from investment operations | | (1.20) | | 9.92 | | 5.69 | | (5.21) | | 1.46 | | (4.88) |
Distributions from net investment income | | (.17) | | (.55) | | (.35) | | (.28) | | (.32) | | (.17) |
Distributions from net realized gain | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (.01) | | (.02) |
Total distributions | | (.17) | | (.55) | | (.35) | | (.28) | | (.33) | | (.19) |
Net asset value, end of period | $ | 23.73 | $ | 25.10 | $ | 15.73 | $ | 10.39 | $ | 15.88 | $ | 14.75 |
Total Return D,E,F | | (4.82)% | | 63.13% | | 55.16% | | (32.80)% | | 9.98% | | (24.65)% |
Ratios to Average Net Assets B,G,H | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | | .73% I | | .71% | | .72% | | .76% | | .75% | | .75% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | | .72% I | | .71% | | .72% | | .76% | | .75% | | .75% |
Expenses net of all reductions | | .72% I | | .71% | | .72% | | .75% | | .74% | | .74% |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.22% I | | 2.94% | | 3.28% C | | 3.90% | | 1.75% | | 1.05% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $ | 272,046 | $ | 417,415 | $ | 162,978 | $ | 70,268 | $ | 78,339 | $ | 91,936 |
Portfolio turnover rate J | | 12% I | | 50% | | 65% | | 71% | | 58% | | 58% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
C Net investment income per share reflects one or more large, non-recurring dividend(s) which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding such non-recurring dividend(s), the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 2.90%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
I Annualized.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
For the period ended June 30, 2023
1. Organization.
VIP Energy Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
Fidelity Central Fund | Investment Manager | Investment Objective | Investment Practices | Expense Ratio A |
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds | Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) | Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity. | Short-term Investments | Less than .005% |
A Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by a third party pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when market or security specific events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, ETFs and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities may be used and would be categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For equity securities, including restricted securities, where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and these securities may be categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of June 30, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. Certain Funds may use foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Gains and losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.
Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received, and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.
The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.
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 per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and 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 and include proceeds received from litigation. Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of a fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to a fund. Any such rebates are included in net realized gain (loss) on investments in the Statement of Operations. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain distributions received by the Fund represent a return of capital or capital gain. The Fund determines the components of these distributions subsequent to the ex-dividend date, based upon receipt of tax filings or other correspondence relating to the underlying investment. These distributions are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of a fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated daily on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of a fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred, as applicable. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class, if applicable. For the reporting period, the allocated portion of income and expenses to each class as a percent of its average net assets may vary due to the timing of recording these transactions in relation to fluctuating net assets of the classes. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (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 under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.
Distributions are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
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. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, partnerships, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Gross unrealized appreciation | $216,695,392 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (5,971,277) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $210,724,115 |
Tax cost | $359,574,186 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
Short-term | $(66,390,968) |
Long-term | (34,481,675) |
Total capital loss carryforward | $(100,872,643) |
Restricted Securities (including Private Placements). Funds may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities held at period end is included at the end of the Schedule of Investments, if applicable.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities and in-kind transactions, as applicable, are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) |
VIP Energy Portfolio | 40,066,735 | 233,866,400 |
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .23% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the monthly average net assets of a group of registered investment companies with which the investment adviser has management contracts. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate was .53% of the Fund's average net assets.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted a separate 12b-1 Plan for Service Class 2 shares. Service Class 2 pays Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.
For the period, total fees for Service Class 2, all of which was re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services were $298,207.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class pays a fee for transfer agent services, typesetting and printing and mailing of shareholder reports, excluding mailing of proxy statements. For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets A |
Initial Class | $26,408 | .06 |
Service Class 2 | 75,148 | .06 |
Investor Class | 251,292 | .14 |
| $352,848 | |
A Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to the following annualized rates:
| % of Average Net Assets |
VIP Energy Portfolio | .03 |
Brokerage Commissions. A portion of portfolio transactions were placed with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. Brokerage commissions are included in net realized gain (loss) and change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in the Statement of Operations. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were as follows:
| Amount |
VIP Energy Portfolio | $3,104 |
Interfund Lending Program. Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), the Fund, along with other registered investment companies having management contracts with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), or other affiliated entities of FMR, may participate in an interfund lending program. This program provides an alternative credit facility allowing the Fund to borrow from, or lend money to, other participating affiliated funds. At period end, there were no interfund loans outstanding. Activity in this program during the period for which loans were outstanding was as follows:
| Borrower or Lender | Average Loan Balance | Weighted Average Interest Rate | Interest Expense |
VIP Energy Portfolio | Borrower | $ 5,045,908 | 5.15% | $46,900 |
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. Interfund trades during the period are noted in the table below.
| Purchases ($) | Sales ($) | Realized Gain (Loss) ($) |
VIP Energy Portfolio | 9,630,849 | 10,906,421 | 185,351 |
6. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
| Amount |
VIP Energy Portfolio | $767 |
7. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
| Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS | Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS | Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End |
VIP Energy Portfolio | $2,172 | $- | $- |
8. Bank Borrowings.
The Fund is permitted to have bank borrowings for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity requirements. The Fund has established borrowing arrangements with certain banks. The interest rate on the borrowings is the bank's base rate, as revised from time to time. Any open loans, including accrued interest, at period end are presented under the caption "Notes payable" in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities, if applicable. Activity in this program during the period for which loans were outstanding was as follows:
| Average Loan Balance | Weighted Average Interest Rate | Interest Expense |
VIP Energy Portfolio | $818,958 | 5.52% | $3,011 |
9. Expense Reductions.
During the period the investment adviser or an affiliate reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $17,111.
10. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Energy Portfolio | | |
Distributions to shareholders | | |
Initial Class | $ 658,114 | $2,143,749 |
Service Class 2 | 1,649,940 | 5,328,447 |
Investor Class | 2,766,499 | 8,918,959 |
Total | $5,074,553 | $16,391,155 |
11. Share Transactions.
Transactions for each class of shares were as follows and may contain in-kind transactions:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 | Six months ended June 30, 2023 | Year ended December 31, 2022 |
VIP Energy Portfolio | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 134,180 | 4,770,417 | $3,337,881 | $105,152,019 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 26,569 | 85,780 | 658,114 | 2,143,749 |
Shares redeemed | (1,696,266) | (2,788,431) | (39,614,423) | (60,018,217) |
Net increase (decrease) | (1,535,517) | 2,067,766 | $(35,618,428) | $47,277,551 |
Service Class 2 | | | | |
Shares sold | 1,228,762 | 9,562,012 | $29,897,245 | $207,734,047 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 66,989 | 215,650 | 1,649,940 | 5,328,447 |
Shares redeemed | (2,690,293) | (7,117,295) | (63,697,116) | (154,201,989) |
Net increase (decrease) | (1,394,542) | 2,660,367 | $(32,149,931) | $58,860,505 |
Investor Class | | | | |
Shares sold | 689,143 | 13,627,476 | $17,156,719 | $296,238,118 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 111,959 | 357,932 | 2,766,499 | 8,918,959 |
Shares redeemed | (5,963,062) | (7,716,954) | (139,093,121) | (164,955,423) |
Net increase (decrease) | (5,161,960) | 6,268,454 | $(119,169,903) | $140,201,654 |
12. Other.
A 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, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, the investment adviser or its affiliates were owners of record of more than 10% and certain otherwise unaffiliated shareholders were owners of record of more than 10% of the outstanding shares as follows:
Fund | Affiliated % | Number of Unaffiliated Shareholders | Unaffiliated Shareholders % |
VIP Energy Portfolio | 61% | 1 | 25% |
13. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a 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 (January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023). |
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 for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the 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. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower.
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. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Annualized Expense Ratio- A | | Beginning Account Value January 1, 2023 | | Ending Account Value June 30, 2023 | | Expenses Paid During Period- C January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 |
VIP Energy Portfolio | | | | | | | | | | |
Initial Class | | | | .65% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 952.00 | | $ 3.15 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.57 | | $ 3.26 |
Service Class 2 | | | | .90% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 950.60 | | $ 4.35 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,020.33 | | $ 4.51 |
Investor Class | | | | .72% | | | | | | |
Actual | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 951.80 | | $ 3.48 |
Hypothetical- B | | | | | | $ 1,000 | | $ 1,021.22 | | $ 3.61 |
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A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B 5% return per year before expenses
C Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts
VIP Energy Portfolio
At its May 2023 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), voted to continue the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), and the sub-advisory agreements and sub-subadvisory agreements, in each case, where applicable (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023. The Board determined that it will consider the annual renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts for a full one year period in July 2023, following its review of additional materials provided by FMR.
The Board considered that the approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts will not result in any changes in (i) the investment process or strategies employed in the management of the fund's assets; (ii) the fees and expenses paid by shareholders; (iii) the nature, extent or quality of services provided under the fund's Advisory Contracts; or (iv) the day-to-day management of the fund or the persons primarily responsible for such management. The Board also considered that since its last approval of the fund's Advisory Contracts, FMR had provided additional information on the fund in support of the annual contract renewal process, including competitive analyses on total expenses and management fees and in-depth reviews of fund performance and fund profitability information. The Board concluded that the fund's Advisory Contracts are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed, without modification, through July 31, 2023, with the understanding that the Board will consider the annual renewal for a full one year period in July 2023.
In connection with its consideration of future renewals of the fund's Advisory Contracts, the Board will consider: (i) the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the fund, including shareholder and administrative services and investment performance; (ii) the competitiveness of the management fee and total expenses for the fund; (iii) the costs of the services and profitability, including the revenues earned and the expenses incurred in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering, and servicing the fund and its shareholders, to the extent applicable; and (iv) whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is the potential for realization of any further economies.
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board ultimately concluded that the fund's management fee structure is fair and reasonable, and that the continuation of the fund's Advisory Contracts should be approved for two months from June 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
- Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
- Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
- Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
- Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM). The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.
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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
There were no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the Variable Insurance Products Fund IV’s Board of Trustees.
Item 11.
Controls and Procedures
(a)(i) The President and Treasurer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Variable Insurance Products Fund IV’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 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.
Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management
Investment Companies
Not applicable.
Item 13.
Exhibits
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.
Variable Insurance Products Fund IV
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By: | /s/Stacie M. Smith |
| Stacie M. Smith |
| President and Treasurer |
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Date: | August 22, 2023 |
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.
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By: | /s/Stacie M. Smith |
| Stacie M. Smith |
| President and Treasurer |
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Date: | August 22, 2023 |
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By: | /s/John J. Burke III |
| John J. Burke III |
| Chief Financial Officer |
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Date: | August 22, 2023 |