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 811-3855
Fidelity Advisor Series VIII
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
245 Summer St., Boston, MA 02210
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Marc Bryant, 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: | October 31 |
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Date of reporting period: | April 30, 2018 |
Item 1.
Reports to Stockholders
Fidelity Advisor® Diversified International Fund Class A, Class M, Class C, Class I and Class Z
Semi-Annual Report April 30, 2018 |
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Contents
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Prudential PLC (United Kingdom, Insurance) | 1.6 |
ORIX Corp. (Japan, Diversified Financial Services) | 1.6 |
British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR (United Kingdom, Tobacco) | 1.4 |
Keyence Corp. (Japan, Electronic Equipment & Components) | 1.4 |
Statoil ASA (Norway, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels) | 1.4 |
| 7.4 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 25.4 |
Industrials | 16.3 |
Information Technology | 12.0 |
Consumer Staples | 11.3 |
Consumer Discretionary | 10.8 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
Japan | 17.3 |
United Kingdom | 15.6 |
France | 7.6 |
Germany | 7.2 |
United States of America | 5.6 |
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 97.3% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 2.7% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 96.6% | | | |
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Australia - 1.1% | | | |
Amcor Ltd. | | 612,591 | $6,313 |
Bapcor Ltd. | | 632,977 | 2,793 |
CSL Ltd. | | 62,570 | 8,015 |
Link Administration Holdings Ltd. | | 145,275 | 904 |
Magellan Financial Group Ltd. | | 323,588 | 5,653 |
Technology One Ltd. | | 66,893 | 248 |
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TOTAL AUSTRALIA | | | 23,926 |
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Austria - 0.1% | | | |
Andritz AG | | 44,900 | 2,416 |
Bailiwick of Jersey - 2.3% | | | |
Glencore Xstrata PLC | | 1,635,031 | 7,894 |
Shire PLC | | 245,162 | 13,055 |
Wolseley PLC | | 343,412 | 26,381 |
WPP PLC | | 139,924 | 2,401 |
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TOTAL BAILIWICK OF JERSEY | | | 49,731 |
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Belgium - 1.1% | | | |
KBC Groep NV | | 238,380 | 20,842 |
Umicore SA | | 60,700 | 3,391 |
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TOTAL BELGIUM | | | 24,233 |
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Bermuda - 1.2% | | | |
Credicorp Ltd. (United States) | | 40,805 | 9,487 |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 439,100 | 9,001 |
IHS Markit Ltd. (a) | | 140,388 | 6,897 |
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TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 25,385 |
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Canada - 3.6% | | | |
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. Class B (sub. vtg.) | | 486,400 | 21,029 |
CCL Industries, Inc. Class B | | 43,900 | 2,129 |
Cenovus Energy, Inc. | | 1,154,900 | 11,567 |
Constellation Software, Inc. | | 15,900 | 11,364 |
Fairfax India Holdings Corp. (a) | | 468,700 | 8,202 |
PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. | | 80,569 | 1,787 |
Suncor Energy, Inc. | | 580,800 | 22,211�� |
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TOTAL CANADA | | | 78,289 |
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Cayman Islands - 1.2% | | | |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 61,000 | 10,891 |
ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. | | 380,000 | 3,554 |
JD.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a) | | 154,200 | 5,630 |
NetEase, Inc. ADR | | 18,000 | 4,627 |
Zai Lab Ltd. ADR (b) | | 69,154 | 1,291 |
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TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 25,993 |
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China - 0.7% | | | |
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 175,400 | 1,062 |
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 60,476 | 6,297 |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 728,972 | 5,725 |
Tonghua Dongbao Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Class A | | 566,900 | 2,565 |
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TOTAL CHINA | | | 15,649 |
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Curacao - 0.3% | | | |
Schlumberger Ltd. | | 92,500 | 6,342 |
Denmark - 0.3% | | | |
NNIT A/S (c) | | 42,357 | 1,177 |
Novozymes A/S Series B | | 108,900 | 5,120 |
SimCorp A/S | | 3,300 | 240 |
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TOTAL DENMARK | | | 6,537 |
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Finland - 0.4% | | | |
Sampo Oyj (A Shares) | | 165,800 | 8,960 |
France - 7.6% | | | |
Aeroports de Paris | | 29,800 | 6,564 |
Amundi SA (c) | | 219,558 | 18,687 |
BNP Paribas SA | | 286,900 | 22,167 |
Capgemini SA | | 64,600 | 8,893 |
Compagnie de St. Gobain | | 202,900 | 10,657 |
Eiffage SA | | 38,500 | 4,589 |
Elis SA | | 236,500 | 5,661 |
Iliad SA | | 10,401 | 2,084 |
Kering SA | | 17,100 | 9,904 |
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SA (b) | | 57,587 | 20,041 |
Maisons du Monde SA (c) | | 90,273 | 3,672 |
Sanofi SA | | 255,620 | 20,210 |
Societe Generale Series A | | 220,700 | 12,079 |
SR Teleperformance SA | | 21,600 | 3,467 |
Thales SA | | 25,800 | 3,271 |
VINCI SA (b) | | 157,900 | 15,787 |
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TOTAL FRANCE | | | 167,733 |
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Germany - 6.6% | | | |
adidas AG | | 72,317 | 17,807 |
Aumann AG (b)(c) | | 38,488 | 2,329 |
Axel Springer Verlag AG | | 93,000 | 7,620 |
Bayer AG | | 179,652 | 21,472 |
Brenntag AG | | 17,700 | 1,016 |
Deutsche Borse AG | | 40,000 | 5,380 |
Deutsche Post AG | | 295,326 | 12,818 |
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA | | 199,400 | 15,252 |
Hannover Reuck SE | | 47,300 | 6,660 |
Linde AG | | 54,800 | 12,180 |
Morphosys AG sponsored ADR | | 90,400 | 2,367 |
Rational AG | | 3,600 | 2,258 |
SAP SE | | 233,873 | 25,985 |
Scout24 AG (c) | | 90,700 | 4,703 |
Symrise AG | | 100,100 | 8,111 |
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TOTAL GERMANY | | | 145,958 |
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Hong Kong - 1.5% | | | |
AIA Group Ltd. | | 2,892,800 | 25,854 |
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. | | 1,312,500 | 7,689 |
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TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 33,543 |
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Hungary - 0.0% | | | |
OTP Bank PLC | | 26,600 | 1,162 |
India - 4.0% | | | |
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. | | 669,928 | 4,098 |
Axis Bank Ltd. | | 680,158 | 5,273 |
Future Retail Ltd. | | 78,122 | 706 |
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. | | 91,832 | 1,539 |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | | 780,671 | 23,529 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | | 793,387 | 22,447 |
ICICI Bank Ltd. | | 1,082,365 | 4,626 |
Kajaria Ceramics Ltd. | | 144,781 | 1,185 |
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (a) | | 253,740 | 4,614 |
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. | | 389,732 | 3,191 |
Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. | | 230,752 | 1,223 |
PC Jeweller Ltd. | | 115,219 | 249 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | | 1,033,008 | 14,915 |
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TOTAL INDIA | | | 87,595 |
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Indonesia - 0.9% | | | |
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | | 5,682,200 | 8,985 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 44,133,800 | 10,176 |
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TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 19,161 |
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Ireland - 3.3% | | | |
Allergan PLC | | 26,700 | 4,102 |
CRH PLC | | 294,600 | 10,456 |
DCC PLC (United Kingdom) | | 83,500 | 8,047 |
Kerry Group PLC Class A | | 112,500 | 11,480 |
Kingspan Group PLC (Ireland) | | 209,400 | 9,483 |
Paddy Power Betfair PLC (Ireland) | | 68,800 | 6,809 |
Ryanair Holdings PLC sponsored ADR (a) | | 198,936 | 21,877 |
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TOTAL IRELAND | | | 72,254 |
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Israel - 0.9% | | | |
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a) | | 106,200 | 10,249 |
Frutarom Industries Ltd. | | 76,800 | 7,373 |
SodaStream International Ltd. (a) | | 23,600 | 2,230 |
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TOTAL ISRAEL | | | 19,852 |
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Italy - 1.0% | | | |
Buzzi Unicem SpA | | 30,600 | 775 |
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA | | 4,349,900 | 16,547 |
Prada SpA | | 1,143,200 | 5,800 |
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TOTAL ITALY | | | 23,122 |
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Japan - 17.3% | | | |
Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc. | | 39,400 | 1,339 |
Bridgestone Corp. | | 281,800 | 11,829 |
Daikin Industries Ltd. | | 122,800 | 14,384 |
East Japan Railway Co. | | 61,600 | 5,911 |
GMO Internet, Inc. | | 31,900 | 588 |
Hoya Corp. | | 421,900 | 22,623 |
Itochu Corp. | | 194,800 | 3,910 |
Kao Corp. | | 134,600 | 9,671 |
Keyence Corp. | | 50,200 | 30,753 |
Minebea Mitsumi, Inc. | | 818,000 | 16,439 |
Misumi Group, Inc. | | 232,400 | 6,441 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | | 3,130,100 | 20,976 |
Morinaga & Co. Ltd. | | 137,700 | 6,714 |
Nabtesco Corp. | | 86,000 | 3,111 |
Nidec Corp. | | 69,600 | 10,912 |
Nintendo Co. Ltd. | | 5,300 | 2,227 |
Nissan Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | | 15,400 | 687 |
Nitori Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 104,500 | 17,665 |
Olympus Corp. | | 203,300 | 7,597 |
ORIX Corp. | | 1,960,900 | 34,511 |
Outsourcing, Inc. | | 199,000 | 3,357 |
PALTAC Corp. | | 80,200 | 4,020 |
Panasonic Corp. | | 455,000 | 6,737 |
Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 688,600 | 15,917 |
Renesas Electronics Corp. (a)(b) | | 1,104,300 | 11,597 |
S Foods, Inc. | | 133,700 | 5,632 |
Seria Co. Ltd. | | 49,100 | 2,407 |
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. | | 65,300 | 6,574 |
Shiseido Co. Ltd. | | 34,600 | 2,251 |
SMC Corp. | | 26,900 | 10,266 |
SoftBank Corp. | | 192,400 | 14,701 |
Sohgo Security Services Co., Ltd. | | 49,600 | 2,455 |
Sony Corp. | | 299,900 | 14,007 |
Start Today Co. Ltd. | | 156,500 | 4,524 |
Subaru Corp. | | 170,800 | 5,748 |
Sundrug Co. Ltd. | | 78,300 | 4,032 |
Tsubaki Nakashima Co. Ltd. | | 75,468 | 1,785 |
Tsuruha Holdings, Inc. | | 154,500 | 22,231 |
Welcia Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 242,800 | 12,504 |
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TOTAL JAPAN | | | 379,033 |
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Korea (South) - 0.3% | | | |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 18,503 | 6,220 |
Liberia - 0.1% | | | |
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | | 10,900 | 1,179 |
Luxembourg - 1.0% | | | |
B&M European Value Retail S.A. | | 3,452,848 | 19,266 |
Eurofins Scientific SA | | 313 | 169 |
Samsonite International SA | | 476,700 | 2,150 |
Stabilus SA | | 2,418 | 218 |
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TOTAL LUXEMBOURG | | | 21,803 |
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Netherlands - 5.4% | | | |
ASML Holding NV | | 95,700 | 18,035 |
ING Groep NV (Certificaten Van Aandelen) | | 863,400 | 14,549 |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV | | 311,900 | 13,202 |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | | 103,200 | 10,911 |
Philips Lighting NV (c) | | 67,600 | 2,060 |
RELX NV | | 662,447 | 14,091 |
Unilever NV (Certificaten Van Aandelen) (Bearer) | | 493,200 | 28,274 |
Wolters Kluwer NV | | 245,300 | 13,280 |
Yandex NV Series A (a) | | 111,000 | 3,703 |
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TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 118,105 |
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New Zealand - 0.2% | | | |
Ryman Healthcare Group Ltd. | | 632,845 | 4,720 |
Norway - 1.6% | | | |
Schibsted ASA (A Shares) | | 159,600 | 4,667 |
Statoil ASA | | 1,181,000 | 30,201 |
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TOTAL NORWAY | | | 34,868 |
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South Africa - 0.8% | | | |
Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd. | | 20,600 | 1,467 |
Naspers Ltd. Class N | | 66,200 | 16,128 |
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TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA | | | 17,595 |
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Spain - 2.4% | | | |
Aedas Homes SAU (c) | | 59,600 | 2,123 |
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A | | 262,500 | 19,242 |
CaixaBank SA | | 2,964,300 | 14,415 |
Masmovil Ibercom SA (a) | | 50,521 | 7,297 |
Neinor Homes SLU (a)(c) | | 119,500 | 2,318 |
Prosegur Cash SA (c) | | 2,363,895 | 6,908 |
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TOTAL SPAIN | | | 52,303 |
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Sweden - 2.3% | | | |
Alfa Laval AB | | 112,500 | 2,797 |
ASSA ABLOY AB (B Shares) | | 557,800 | 11,734 |
Coor Service Management Holding AB | | 445,200 | 3,096 |
Essity AB Class B | | 345,900 | 8,809 |
HEXPOL AB (B Shares) (b) | | 366,900 | 3,813 |
Indutrade AB | | 83,800 | 1,985 |
Nordea Bank AB | | 1,715,400 | 17,509 |
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TOTAL SWEDEN | | | 49,743 |
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Switzerland - 4.5% | | | |
Credit Suisse Group AG | | 949,316 | 16,011 |
Julius Baer Group Ltd. | | 142,880 | 8,480 |
Kaba Holding AG (B Shares) (Reg.) | | 4,970 | 3,862 |
Lonza Group AG | | 29,786 | 7,340 |
Partners Group Holding AG | | 6,150 | 4,509 |
Roche Holding AG (participation certificate) | | 89,417 | 19,867 |
Sika AG | | 2,103 | 15,343 |
Swatch Group AG (Bearer) | | 16,460 | 7,948 |
TE Connectivity Ltd. | | 22,100 | 2,028 |
UBS Group AG | | 816,653 | 13,820 |
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TOTAL SWITZERLAND | | | 99,208 |
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Taiwan - 1.2% | | | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR | | 513,900 | 19,759 |
Tripod Technology Corp. | | 555,000 | 1,676 |
United Microelectronics Corp. | | 10,854,000 | 5,843 |
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TOTAL TAIWAN | | | 27,278 |
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Thailand - 0.2% | | | |
Kasikornbank PCL (For. Reg.) | | 793,000 | 5,026 |
United Kingdom - 15.6% | | | |
Admiral Group PLC | | 204,600 | 5,614 |
Aon PLC | | 26,600 | 3,790 |
Ascential PLC | | 762,977 | 4,426 |
Ashtead Group PLC | | 162,900 | 4,559 |
AstraZeneca PLC (United Kingdom) | | 223,076 | 15,616 |
Beazley PLC | | 272,000 | 2,215 |
British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR | | 571,700 | 31,226 |
Bunzl PLC | | 401,000 | 11,654 |
Coca-Cola European Partners PLC | | 141,800 | 5,559 |
Compass Group PLC | | 517,392 | 11,112 |
Conviviality PLC (d) | | 775,686 | 540 |
Cranswick PLC | | 171,000 | 6,860 |
Diploma PLC | | 209,514 | 3,479 |
DS Smith PLC | | 508,500 | 3,657 |
Essentra PLC | | 368,870 | 2,240 |
Halma PLC | | 231,300 | 3,894 |
Hastings Group Holdings PLC (c) | | 1,715,495 | 6,518 |
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC | | 182,820 | 6,555 |
Indivior PLC (a) | | 1,539,600 | 9,604 |
Informa PLC | | 348,568 | 3,546 |
ITV PLC | | 547,100 | 1,142 |
John Wood Group PLC | | 552,200 | 4,323 |
LivaNova PLC (a) | | 34,500 | 3,063 |
Lloyds Banking Group PLC | | 17,732,900 | 15,728 |
London Stock Exchange Group PLC | | 241,300 | 14,285 |
Melrose Industries PLC | | 5,387,971 | 16,912 |
Micro Focus International PLC | | 530,352 | 9,145 |
Prudential PLC | | 1,399,642 | 35,986 |
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | | 258,813 | 20,303 |
Spectris PLC | | 186,300 | 6,899 |
St. James's Place Capital PLC | | 1,191,100 | 18,636 |
Standard Chartered PLC (United Kingdom) | | 1,034,388 | 10,922 |
Standard Life PLC | | 1,934,381 | 9,728 |
Tesco PLC | | 4,800,972 | 15,550 |
The Weir Group PLC | | 313,000 | 9,204 |
Volution Group PLC | | 2,932,618 | 7,954 |
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TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 342,444 |
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United States of America - 5.6% | | | |
Alphabet, Inc. Class C (a) | | 13,049 | 13,275 |
Amgen, Inc. | | 75,000 | 13,086 |
Becton, Dickinson & Co. | | 14,900 | 3,455 |
Boston Scientific Corp. (a) | | 37,800 | 1,086 |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 140,300 | 9,578 |
Coty, Inc. Class A | | 600,800 | 10,424 |
DocuSign, Inc. | | 6,300 | 243 |
DowDuPont, Inc. | | 100,300 | 6,343 |
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 9,500 | 1,969 |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | | 100,400 | 17,898 |
nLIGHT, Inc. (a) | | 2,700 | 67 |
Oceaneering International, Inc. | | 126,400 | 2,685 |
Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 23,100 | 2,212 |
S&P Global, Inc. | | 86,200 | 16,257 |
Smartsheet, Inc. | | 5,100 | 98 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 62,300 | 6,911 |
Visa, Inc. Class A | | 135,500 | 17,192 |
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TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 122,779 |
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TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $1,651,949) | | | 2,120,145 |
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Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.7% | | | |
Brazil - 0.1% | | | |
Itau Unibanco Holding SA | | 162,490 | 2,366 |
Germany - 0.6% | | | |
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | | 74,700 | 9,508 |
Sartorius AG (non-vtg.) | | 25,800 | 3,982 |
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TOTAL GERMANY | | | 13,490 |
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TOTAL NONCONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $11,455) | | | 15,856 |
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Money Market Funds - 2.5% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (e) | | 45,400,702 | 45,410 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (e)(f) | | 9,156,770 | 9,158 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $54,568) | | | 54,568 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 99.8% | | | |
(Cost $1,717,972) | | | 2,190,569 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - 0.2% | | | 5,463 |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $2,196,032 |
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
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(a) Non-income producing
(b) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
(c) 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 $50,495,000 or 2.3% of net assets.
(d) Level 3 security
(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.
Affiliated Central Funds
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
| (Amounts in thousands) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $249 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 274 |
Total | $523 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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 |
(Amounts in thousands) | | | | |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $236,732 | $156,808 | $79,924 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 247,055 | 174,552 | 71,963 | 540 |
Energy | 100,942 | 55,826 | 45,116 | -- |
Financials | 563,326 | 282,334 | 280,992 | -- |
Health Care | 217,128 | 103,126 | 114,002 | -- |
Industrials | 354,239 | 314,626 | 39,613 | -- |
Information Technology | 267,290 | 220,200 | 47,090 | -- |
Materials | 119,530 | 97,641 | 21,889 | -- |
Real Estate | 2,123 | 2,123 | -- | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 24,082 | 9,381 | 14,701 | -- |
Utilities | 3,554 | -- | 3,554 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 54,568 | 54,568 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $2,190,569 | $1,471,185 | $718,844 | $540 |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total (000s) |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $223,956 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $306,245 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
Amounts in thousands (except per-share amounts) | | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $8,741) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $1,663,404) | $2,136,001 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $54,568) | 54,568 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $1,717,972) | | $2,190,569 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $619) | | 618 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 17,560 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 2,598 |
Dividends receivable | | 10,319 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 147 |
Prepaid expenses | | 1 |
Other receivables | | 132 |
Total assets | | 2,221,944 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $9,491 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 4,540 | |
Accrued management fee | 1,222 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 361 | |
Other affiliated payables | 414 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 724 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 9,160 | |
Total liabilities | | 25,912 |
Net Assets | | $2,196,032 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $1,691,073 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 7,566 |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 25,547 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 471,846 |
Net Assets | | $2,196,032 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($565,139 ÷ 24,194 shares) | | $23.36 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $23.36) | | $24.79 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($211,858 ÷ 9,131 shares) | | $23.20 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $23.20) | | $24.04 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($183,939 ÷ 8,221 shares)(a) | | $22.37 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($917,896 ÷ 38,680 shares) | | $23.73 |
Class Z: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($317,200 ÷ 13,379 shares) | | $23.71 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
Amounts in thousands | | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $21,614 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 523 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 22,137 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (1,765) |
Total income | | 20,372 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | $7,544 | |
Transfer agent fees | 2,036 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 2,289 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 498 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 151 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 4 | |
Registration fees | 72 | |
Audit | 40 | |
Legal | 5 | |
Miscellaneous | 8 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 12,647 | |
Expense reductions | (174) | 12,473 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 7,899 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 46,023 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | (3) | |
Foreign currency transactions | (26) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 45,994 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $83) | (36,916) | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (120) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (37,036) |
Net gain (loss) | | 8,958 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $16,857 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
Amounts in thousands | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $7,899 | $17,535 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 45,994 | 145,317 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (37,036) | 244,874 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 16,857 | 407,726 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (17,622) | (18,146) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (6,423) | (4,351) |
Total distributions | (24,045) | (22,497) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | (49,060) | 12,173 |
Redemption fees | – | 8 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | (56,248) | 397,410 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 2,252,280 | 1,854,870 |
End of period | $2,196,032 | $2,252,280 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $7,566 | $17,289 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $23.43 | $19.38 | $20.10 | $19.56 | $19.47 | $15.63 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .07 | .17 | .18 | .15 | .27B | .19 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .09 | 4.11 | (.77) | .61 | .17 | 3.92 |
Total from investment operations | .16 | 4.28 | (.59) | .76 | .44 | 4.11 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.16) | (.19) | (.13) | (.20) | (.18) | (.21) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.07) | (.05) | – | (.02) | (.17) | (.06) |
Total distributions | (.23) | (.23)C | (.13) | (.22) | (.35) | (.27) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $23.36 | $23.43 | $19.38 | $20.10 | $19.56 | $19.47 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | .69% | 22.39% | (2.97)% | 3.93% | 2.28% | 26.69% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.19%J | 1.21% | 1.23% | 1.22% | 1.26% | 1.31% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.19%J | 1.21% | 1.23% | 1.22% | 1.26% | 1.30% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.17%J | 1.20% | 1.22% | 1.21% | 1.26% | 1.28% |
Net investment income (loss) | .62%J | .82% | .92% | .75% | 1.34%B | 1.08% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $565 | $579 | $574 | $662 | $693 | $756 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 37% | 44% | 31% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.10 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .85%.
C Total distributions of $.23 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.187 and distributions from net realized gain of $.046 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $23.24 | $19.21 | $19.92 | $19.38 | $19.30 | $15.49 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .04 | .12 | .13 | .10 | .21B | .14 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .08 | 4.08 | (.77) | .61 | .18 | 3.89 |
Total from investment operations | .12 | 4.20 | (.64) | .71 | .39 | 4.03 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.09) | (.13) | (.07) | (.15) | (.14) | (.16) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.07) | (.05) | – | (.02) | (.17) | (.06) |
Total distributions | (.16) | (.17)C | (.07) | (.17) | (.31) | (.22) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $23.20 | $23.24 | $19.21 | $19.92 | $19.38 | $19.30 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | .52% | 22.10% | (3.22)% | 3.67% | 2.04% | 26.37% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.46%J | 1.48% | 1.49% | 1.48% | 1.51% | 1.55% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.46%J | 1.47% | 1.49% | 1.48% | 1.51% | 1.55% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.44%J | 1.47% | 1.48% | 1.47% | 1.51% | 1.53% |
Net investment income (loss) | .35%J | .56% | .66% | .49% | 1.09%B | .83% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $212 | $224 | $224 | $271 | $284 | $319 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 37% | 44% | 31% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.10 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .60%.
C Total distributions of $.17 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.128 and distributions from net realized gain of $.046 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $22.35 | $18.48 | $19.19 | $18.68 | $18.63 | $14.97 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.02) | .01 | .03 | –B | .11C | .06 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .08 | 3.94 | (.74) | .59 | .18 | 3.75 |
Total from investment operations | .06 | 3.95 | (.71) | .59 | .29 | 3.81 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | (.03) | – | (.06) | (.07) | (.09) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.04) | (.05) | – | (.02) | (.17) | (.06) |
Total distributions | (.04) | (.08) | – | (.08) | (.24) | (.15) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –B | –B | –B | –B | –B |
Net asset value, end of period | $22.37 | $22.35 | $18.48 | $19.19 | $18.68 | $18.63 |
Total ReturnD,E,F | .28% | 21.46% | (3.70)% | 3.15% | 1.58% | 25.71% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.95%I | 1.96% | 1.98% | 1.97% | 2.00% | 2.04% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.95%I | 1.96% | 1.98% | 1.97% | 2.00% | 2.04% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.93%I | 1.96% | 1.98% | 1.96% | 2.00% | 2.01% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.14)%I | .07% | .17% | - %J | .60%C | .35% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $184 | $211 | $206 | $251 | $243 | $264 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 37% | 44% | 31% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .11%.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount represents less than .005%.
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $23.85 | $19.73 | $20.46 | $19.91 | $19.80 | $15.90 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .11 | .24 | .24 | .21 | .33B | .24 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .08 | 4.18 | (.78) | .63 | .18 | 3.98 |
Total from investment operations | .19 | 4.42 | (.54) | .84 | .51 | 4.22 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.24) | (.25) | (.19) | (.26) | (.23) | (.26) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.07) | (.05) | – | (.02) | (.17) | (.06) |
Total distributions | (.31) | (.30) | (.19) | (.29)C | (.40) | (.32) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $23.73 | $23.85 | $19.73 | $20.46 | $19.91 | $19.80 |
Total ReturnE,F | .79% | 22.75% | (2.69)% | 4.24% | 2.60% | 27.03% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | .92%I | .93% | .94% | .94% | .97% | .99% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .92%I | .93% | .94% | .94% | .97% | .99% |
Expenses net of all reductions | .91%I | .92% | .94% | .94% | .97% | .97% |
Net investment income (loss) | .89%I | 1.10% | 1.21% | 1.03% | 1.63%B | 1.39% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $918 | $953 | $757 | $747 | $648 | $636 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 37% | 44% | 31% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.10 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.14%.
C Total distributions of $.29 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.263 and distributions from net realized gain of $.022 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund Class Z
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 A |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $23.85 | $19.73 | $20.46 | $19.93 | $19.81 | $18.54 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)B | .12 | .27 | .27 | .24 | .36C | .03 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .09 | 4.18 | (.78) | .61 | .19 | 1.24 |
Total from investment operations | .21 | 4.45 | (.51) | .85 | .55 | 1.27 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.28) | (.28) | (.22) | (.30) | (.26) | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.07) | (.05) | – | (.02) | (.17) | – |
Total distributions | (.35) | (.33) | (.22) | (.32) | (.43) | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalB | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $23.71 | $23.85 | $19.73 | $20.46 | $19.93 | $19.81 |
Total ReturnE,F | .88% | 22.94% | (2.54)% | 4.34% | 2.81% | 6.85% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | .78%I | .78% | .79% | .79% | .81% | .83%I |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .78%I | .78% | .79% | .79% | .81% | .83%I |
Expenses net of all reductions | .76%I | .78% | .79% | .78% | .81% | .80%I |
Net investment income (loss) | 1.03%I | 1.25% | 1.36% | 1.18% | 1.79%C | .77%I |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $317 | $286 | $93 | $83 | $24 | $– |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 37% | 44% | 31% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
A For the period August 13, 2013 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2013.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.10 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.30%.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
(Amounts in thousands except percentages)
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Diversified International Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C, Class I and Class Z shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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 includes proceeds received from litigation. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on capital gains by certain countries in which it invests. An estimated deferred tax liability for net unrealized appreciation on the applicable securities is included in Other payables and accrued expenses on the Statement of Assets & Liabilities.
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), deferred trustees compensation, capital loss carryforwards, expiring 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 | $519,901 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (70,504) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $449,397 |
Tax cost | $1,741,172 |
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $410,877 and $497,927, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .424% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. 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 .66% 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 Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares . Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $723 | $19 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 551 | 10 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 1,015 | 54 |
| | | $2,289 | $83 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $46 |
Class M | 14 |
Class C(a) | 4 |
| $64 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund, except for Class Z. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee of Class Z's average net assets. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $598 | .21 |
Class M | 246 | .22 |
Class C | 218 | .21 |
Class I | 903 | .19 |
Class Z | 71 | .05 |
| $2,036 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .04%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $2 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $3 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. At period end, there were no security loans outstanding with FCM. 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $274, including less than five hundred dollars from securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $162 for the period. In addition, 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, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by less than five hundred dollars.
In addition, during the period the investment advisor reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $12.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $3,940 | $5,441 |
Class M | 855 | 1,459 |
Class C | – | 337 |
Class I | 9,445 | 9,585 |
Class Z | 3,382 | 1,324 |
Total | $17,622 | $18,146 |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $1,713 | $1,338 |
Class M | 665 | 524 |
Class C | 401 | 500 |
Class I | 2,789 | 1,771 |
Class Z | 855 | 218 |
Total | $6,423 | $4,351 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 1,782 | 3,317 | $42,489 | $69,149 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 235 | 342 | 5,469 | 6,436 |
Shares redeemed | (2,525) | (8,598) | (59,887) | (175,117) |
Net increase (decrease) | (508) | (4,939) | $(11,929) | $(99,532) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 368 | 809 | $8,695 | $16,845 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 64 | 102 | 1,487 | 1,912 |
Shares redeemed | (922) | (2,936) | (21,869) | (59,831) |
Net increase (decrease) | (490) | (2,025) | $(11,687) | $(41,074) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 306 | 706 | $6,977 | $14,348 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 16 | 40 | 361 | 720 |
Shares redeemed | (1,542) | (2,474) | (35,357) | (49,015) |
Net increase (decrease) | (1,220) | (1,728) | $(28,019) | $(33,947) |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 3,702 | 13,526 | $89,126 | $282,118 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 434 | 479 | 10,246 | 9,168 |
Shares redeemed | (5,407) | (12,447) | (129,427) | (259,183) |
Net increase (decrease) | (1,271) | 1,558 | $(30,055) | $32,103 |
Class Z | | | | |
Shares sold | 3,296 | 9,293 | $79,683 | $197,380 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 164 | 81 | 3,858 | 1,541 |
Shares redeemed | (2,083) | (2,078) | (50,911) | (44,298) |
Net increase (decrease) | 1,377 | 7,296 | $32,630 | $154,623 |
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.19% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,006.90 | $5.92 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.89 | $5.96 |
Class M | 1.46% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,005.20 | $7.26 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.55 | $7.30 |
Class C | 1.95% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,002.80 | $9.68 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,015.12 | $9.74 |
Class I | .92% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,007.90 | $4.58 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.23 | $4.61 |
Class Z | .78% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,008.80 | $3.88 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.93 | $3.91 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Ten Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 7.3 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR | 5.5 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 5.3 |
AIA Group Ltd. | 3.4 |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | 2.6 |
China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares) | 2.4 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | 2.3 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | 2.0 |
SK Hynix, Inc. | 1.7 |
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | 1.6 |
| 34.1 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Information Technology | 28.5 |
Financials | 21.9 |
Consumer Discretionary | 10.1 |
Industrials | 7.5 |
Utilities | 5.6 |
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 98.0% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 2.0% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 97.0% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
Australia - 1.8% | | | |
Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd. | | 282,448 | $651,005 |
Netwealth Group Ltd. | | 273,526 | 1,473,068 |
SpeedCast International Ltd. | | 349,909 | 1,554,129 |
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. | | 79,444 | 1,925,207 |
|
TOTAL AUSTRALIA | | | 5,603,409 |
|
Bermuda - 4.4% | | | |
Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. | | 351,000 | 2,770,236 |
China Resource Gas Group Ltd. | | 924,000 | 3,398,109 |
Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd. | | 490,000 | 3,541,348 |
Man Wah Holdings Ltd. | | 1,457,200 | 1,077,715 |
Tai Cheung Holdings Ltd. | | 1,105,000 | 1,217,111 |
Vtech Holdings Ltd. | | 168,100 | 2,046,831 |
|
TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 14,051,350 |
|
Cayman Islands - 19.5% | | | |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 99,600 | 17,782,584 |
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. | | 795,000 | 2,090,875 |
International Housewares Retail Co. Ltd. | | 2,913,900 | 588,780 |
JD.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a) | | 105,200 | 3,840,852 |
NetEase, Inc. ADR | | 13,800 | 3,547,566 |
Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd. | | 346,000 | 3,777,018 |
Silergy Corp. | | 86,000 | 1,795,251 |
SITC International Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 2,015,000 | 2,146,874 |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | | 477,200 | 23,460,549 |
Value Partners Group Ltd. | | 2,070,000 | 1,958,024 |
Xinyi Glass Holdings Ltd. | | 1,106,000 | 1,589,985 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 62,578,358 |
|
China - 16.5% | | | |
China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares) | | 7,413,000 | 7,766,297 |
China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 515,600 | 2,275,177 |
Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai Class A | | 535,400 | 3,713,219 |
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 546,948 | 3,312,800 |
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 276,464 | 3,623,751 |
Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery Joint-Stock Co. Ltd. Class A | | 193,610 | 3,411,476 |
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 46,383 | 4,829,817 |
PICC Property & Casualty Co. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 1,107,060 | 1,981,825 |
Qingdao Port International Co. Ltd. (b) | | 3,522,000 | 2,893,574 |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 439,500 | 3,451,896 |
Shenzhen Expressway Co. (H Shares) | | 2,228,000 | 2,260,900 |
Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 477,397 | 2,470,451 |
Suofeiya Home Collection Co. Ltd. Class A | | 348,900 | 1,768,399 |
Tonghua Dongbao Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Class A | | 818,698 | 3,703,592 |
Yunnan Baiyao Group Co. Ltd. | | 252,768 | 3,774,730 |
Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd. | | 534,160 | 1,725,683 |
|
TOTAL CHINA | | | 52,963,587 |
|
Hong Kong - 9.1% | | | |
AIA Group Ltd. | | 1,213,800 | 10,847,973 |
China Resources Beer Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 762,000 | 3,281,879 |
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. | | 2,044,000 | 5,206,188 |
Dah Sing Banking Group Ltd. | | 1,062,000 | 2,521,897 |
Power Assets Holdings Ltd. | | 316,000 | 2,351,307 |
Sino Land Ltd. | | 1,142,000 | 1,971,293 |
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. | | 515,500 | 3,019,898 |
|
TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 29,200,435 |
|
India - 15.9% | | | |
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. | | 283,825 | 1,736,182 |
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. | | 125,362 | 1,619,641 |
Axis Bank Ltd. | | 410,730 | 3,184,167 |
Bajaj Corp. Ltd. | | 130,804 | 940,612 |
Bandhan Bank Ltd. (b) | | 5,672 | 43,577 |
Bharti Infratel Ltd. | | 318,481 | 1,498,901 |
CCL Products (India) Ltd. | | 372,079 | 1,749,959 |
Future Retail Ltd. | | 262,177 | 2,368,928 |
Gujarat Gas Ltd. | | 100,016 | 1,328,646 |
Havells India Ltd. | | 133,026 | 1,091,020 |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | | 155,627 | 4,690,569 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | | 220,606 | 6,241,611 |
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. | | 546,966 | 1,329,754 |
Indraprastha Gas Ltd. | | 749,918 | 3,234,305 |
Oberoi Realty Ltd. | | 215,281 | 1,773,666 |
Petronet LNG Ltd. | | 860,317 | 2,929,118 |
Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd. | | 1,578,758 | 4,926,868 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | | 510,296 | 7,367,858 |
UPL Ltd. | | 179,811 | 1,968,669 |
Vakrangee Ltd. | | 282,973 | 424,161 |
VST Industries Ltd. | | 14,284 | 656,284 |
|
TOTAL INDIA | | | 51,104,496 |
|
Indonesia - 2.8% | | | |
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | | 3,296,400 | 5,212,541 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 16,456,000 | 3,794,235 |
|
TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 9,006,776 |
|
Israel - 0.2% | | | |
Sarine Technologies Ltd. | | 803,000 | 632,124 |
Japan - 2.3% | | | |
Disco Corp. | | 6,000 | 1,058,178 |
Nissan Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | | 49,100 | 2,189,558 |
SMC Corp. | | 4,600 | 1,755,507 |
SoftBank Corp. | | 32,600 | 2,490,924 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 7,494,167 |
|
Korea (South) - 8.7% | | | |
Coway Co. Ltd. | | 33,963 | 2,774,949 |
Cuckoo Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 15,481 | 1,720,232 |
Hyundai Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. | | 46,264 | 1,652,401 |
Kakao M Corp. | | 28,872 | 2,412,908 |
KB Financial Group, Inc. | | 49,997 | 2,832,958 |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 7,413 | 2,491,939 |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | | 3,369 | 8,348,382 |
SK Hynix, Inc. | | 70,654 | 5,574,866 |
|
TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH) | | | 27,808,635 |
|
Malaysia - 0.3% | | | |
Bursa Malaysia Bhd | | 514,800 | 944,966 |
Multi-National - 1.6% | | | |
HKT Trust/HKT Ltd. unit | | 3,791,500 | 4,988,423 |
Philippines - 1.7% | | | |
Ayala Land, Inc. | | 3,716,500 | 2,924,859 |
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) | | 1,213,396 | 2,459,713 |
|
TOTAL PHILIPPINES | | | 5,384,572 |
|
Singapore - 0.6% | | | |
Wing Tai Holdings Ltd. | | 1,269,600 | 1,945,244 |
Taiwan - 9.0% | | | |
E.SUN Financial Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 4,691,513 | 3,311,746 |
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd. | | 477,000 | 1,487,106 |
Nien Made Enterprise Co. Ltd. | | 171,000 | 1,516,225 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 2,241,393 | 17,043,216 |
United Microelectronics Corp. | | 5,633,000 | 3,032,340 |
Voltronic Power Technology Corp. | | 136,000 | 2,415,981 |
|
TOTAL TAIWAN | | | 28,806,614 |
|
Thailand - 2.6% | | | |
Bangkok Bank PCL (For. Reg.) | | 482,100 | 3,071,207 |
Kasikornbank PCL (For. Reg.) | | 478,800 | 3,034,667 |
Thai Beverage PCL | | 3,530,100 | 2,269,455 |
|
TOTAL THAILAND | | | 8,375,329 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $217,942,974) | | | 310,888,485 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 1.0% | | | |
Korea (South) - 1.0% | | | |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | | | |
(Cost $3,001,197) | | 1,680 | 3,316,320 |
|
Money Market Funds - 3.2% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (c) | | | |
(Cost $10,180,007) | | 10,177,972 | 10,180,007 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 101.2% | | | |
(Cost $231,124,178) | | | 324,384,812 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (1.2)% | | | (3,916,537) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $320,468,275 |
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
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(a) Non-income producing
(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 $2,937,151 or 0.9% of net assets.
(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.
Affiliated Central Funds
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $67,350 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 314 |
Total | $67,664 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $32,259,983 | $10,748,941 | $21,511,042 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 17,139,482 | -- | 17,139,482 | -- |
Energy | 13,551,937 | -- | 13,551,937 | -- |
Financials | 69,949,624 | 1,652,401 | 68,297,223 | -- |
Health Care | 16,308,261 | -- | 16,308,261 | -- |
Industrials | 24,199,833 | 1,755,507 | 22,444,326 | -- |
Information Technology | 92,230,150 | 39,627,896 | 52,602,254 | -- |
Materials | 6,650,166 | 4,681,497 | 1,968,669 | -- |
Real Estate | 13,373,521 | -- | 13,373,521 | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 10,532,377 | -- | 10,532,377 | -- |
Utilities | 18,009,471 | -- | 18,009,471 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 10,180,007 | 10,180,007 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $324,384,812 | $68,646,249 | $255,738,563 | $-- |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $168,533,385 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $5,186,214 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $220,944,171) | $314,204,805 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $10,180,007) | 10,180,007 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $231,124,178) | | $324,384,812 |
Cash | | 47,884 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $35,252) | | 35,252 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 2,393,039 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 116,196 |
Dividends receivable | | 285,662 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 16,242 |
Prepaid expenses | | 141 |
Other receivables | | 114,677 |
Total assets | | 327,393,905 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $5,709,657 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 294,150 | |
Accrued management fee | 186,699 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 100,975 | |
Other affiliated payables | 72,564 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 561,585 | |
Total liabilities | | 6,925,630 |
Net Assets | | $320,468,275 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $219,008,076 |
Accumulated net investment loss | | (313,478) |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 9,041,615 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 92,732,062 |
Net Assets | | $320,468,275 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($135,122,946 ÷ 3,382,361 shares) | | $39.95 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $39.95) | | $42.39 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($44,211,113 ÷ 1,139,792 shares) | | $38.79 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $38.79) | | $40.20 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($63,737,816 ÷ 1,757,306 shares)(a) | | $36.27 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($77,396,400 ÷ 1,879,873 shares) | | $41.17 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $2,133,250 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 67,664 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 2,200,914 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (161,432) |
Total income | | 2,039,482 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | $1,137,485 | |
Transfer agent fees | 350,863 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 619,947 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 85,315 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 81,937 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 640 | |
Registration fees | 57,717 | |
Audit | 43,384 | |
Legal | 553 | |
Miscellaneous | 969 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 2,378,810 | |
Expense reductions | (25,151) | 2,353,659 |
Net investment income (loss) | | (314,177) |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 14,781,901 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 3 | |
Foreign currency transactions | (77,284) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 14,704,620 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (net of decrease in deferred foreign taxes of $414,380) | (13,875,277) | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (5,463) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (13,880,740) |
Net gain (loss) | | 823,880 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $509,703 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $(314,177) | $1,672,421 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 14,704,620 | 3,273,257 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (13,880,740) | 68,519,125 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 509,703 | 73,464,803 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (1,565,492) | (1,607,959) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (103,959) | (514,572) |
Total distributions | (1,669,451) | (2,122,531) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 12,057,669 | 2,563,469 |
Redemption fees | 5,359 | 39,586 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 10,903,280 | 73,945,327 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 309,564,995 | 235,619,668 |
End of period | $320,468,275 | $309,564,995 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $– | $1,566,191 |
Accumulated net investment loss end of period | $(313,478) | $– |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $39.98 | $30.26 | $28.75 | $32.05 | $31.34 | $28.87 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.01) | .27 | .29 | .31 | .30 | .30 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .21 | 9.75 | 1.67 | (1.76) | 2.00B | 2.59 |
Total from investment operations | .20 | 10.02 | 1.96 | (1.45) | 2.30 | 2.89 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.22) | (.24) | (.22) | (.18) | (.26) | (.33) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.01) | (.07) | (.23) | (1.67) | (1.33) | (.09) |
Total distributions | (.23) | (.31) | (.45) | (1.86)C | (1.59) | (.42) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | –D | .01 | –D | .01 | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $39.95 | $39.98 | $30.26 | $28.75 | $32.05 | $31.34 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | .50% | 33.54% | 6.95% | (4.78)% | 7.70%B | 10.10% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.33%J | 1.38% | 1.42% | 1.37% | 1.42% | 1.41% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.32%J | 1.37% | 1.42% | 1.37% | 1.42% | 1.41% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.31%J | 1.36% | 1.42% | 1.36% | 1.42% | 1.38% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.07)%J | .80% | 1.03% | 1.00% | .96% | .99% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $135,123 | $137,165 | $119,449 | $125,528 | $145,184 | $155,104 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 32%J | 43% | 75% | 70% | 91% | 95% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B In 2014, a change to the Indian tax rules invalidated a prior ruling that had exempted the Fund from taxes on realized gains. As a result, the fund recorded a tax liability which resulted in a decrease to realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share of $.18. Excluding this amount, the total return would have been 8.29%.
C Total distributions of $1.86 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.183 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.674 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $38.80 | $29.39 | $27.93 | $31.17 | $30.53 | $28.13 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.07) | .16 | .20 | .21 | .20 | .20 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .20 | 9.49 | 1.62 | (1.71) | 1.94B | 2.54 |
Total from investment operations | .13 | 9.65 | 1.82 | (1.50) | 2.14 | 2.74 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.13) | (.18) | (.13) | (.08) | (.17) | (.25) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.01) | (.07) | (.23) | (1.67) | (1.33) | (.09) |
Total distributions | (.14) | (.25) | (.36) | (1.75) | (1.50) | (.34) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | –C | .01 | –C | .01 | –C | –C |
Net asset value, end of period | $38.79 | $38.80 | $29.39 | $27.93 | $31.17 | $30.53 |
Total ReturnD,E,F | .34% | 33.16% | 6.62% | (5.05)% | 7.34%B | 9.80% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.61%I | 1.68% | 1.72% | 1.68% | 1.73% | 1.70% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.61%I | 1.68% | 1.72% | 1.68% | 1.73% | 1.70% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.60%I | 1.66% | 1.72% | 1.67% | 1.73% | 1.67% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.36)%I | .50% | .72% | .69% | .66% | .70% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $44,211 | $44,730 | $35,791 | $37,720 | $44,563 | $47,620 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 32%I | 43% | 75% | 70% | 91% | 95% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B In 2014, a change to the Indian tax rules invalidated a prior ruling that had exempted the Fund from taxes on realized gains. As a result, the fund recorded a tax liability which resulted in a decrease to realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share of $.18. Excluding this amount, the total return would have been 7.93%.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $36.29 | $27.52 | $26.17 | $29.30 | $28.78 | $26.53 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.15) | .02 | .07 | .07 | .06 | .07 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .20 | 8.89 | 1.52 | (1.59) | 1.82B | 2.39 |
Total from investment operations | .05 | 8.91 | 1.59 | (1.52) | 1.88 | 2.46 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.05) | (.08) | (.01) | – | (.03) | (.12) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.01) | (.07) | (.23) | (1.62) | (1.33) | (.09) |
Total distributions | (.07)C | (.14)D | (.24) | (1.62) | (1.36) | (.21) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | –E | –E | –E | .01 | –E | –E |
Net asset value, end of period | $36.27 | $36.29 | $27.52 | $26.17 | $29.30 | $28.78 |
Total ReturnF,G,H | .13% | 32.58% | 6.14% | (5.46)% | 6.85%B | 9.33% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsI,J | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.06%K | 2.11% | 2.16% | 2.11% | 2.17% | 2.16% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.06%K | 2.11% | 2.16% | 2.11% | 2.17% | 2.16% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.04%K | 2.09% | 2.16% | 2.10% | 2.17% | 2.12% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.80)%K | .07% | .29% | .26% | .22% | .24% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $63,738 | $60,852 | $43,016 | $51,651 | $57,226 | $61,824 |
Portfolio turnover rateL | 32%K | 43% | 75% | 70% | 91% | 95% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B In 2014, a change to the Indian tax rules invalidated a prior ruling that had exempted the Fund from taxes on realized gains. As a result, the fund recorded a tax liability which resulted in a decrease to realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share of $.17. Excluding this amount, the total return would have been 7.44%.
C Total distributions of $.07 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.054 and distributions from net realized gain of $.013 per share.
D Total distributions of $.14 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.076 and distributions from net realized gain of $.067 per share.
E Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
F Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
I Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
K Annualized
L Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $41.27 | $31.19 | $29.63 | $33.00 | $32.24 | $29.67 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .05 | .38 | .39 | .41 | .40 | .40 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .21 | 10.06 | 1.72 | (1.81) | 2.04B | 2.68 |
Total from investment operations | .26 | 10.44 | 2.11 | (1.40) | 2.44 | 3.08 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.34) | (.31) | (.32) | (.31) | (.35) | (.41) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.01) | (.07) | (.23) | (1.67) | (1.33) | (.09) |
Total distributions | (.36)C | (.37)D | (.55) | (1.98) | (1.68) | (.51)E |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | –F | .01 | –F | .01 | –F | –F |
Net asset value, end of period | $41.17 | $41.27 | $31.19 | $29.63 | $33.00 | $32.24 |
Total ReturnG,H | .62% | 33.97% | 7.27% | (4.47)% | 7.98%B | 10.47% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsI,J | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.04%K | 1.08% | 1.11% | 1.07% | 1.12% | 1.11% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.04%K | 1.07% | 1.11% | 1.07% | 1.12% | 1.11% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.02%K | 1.06% | 1.11% | 1.06% | 1.12% | 1.08% |
Net investment income (loss) | .22%K | 1.10% | 1.34% | 1.30% | 1.26% | 1.29% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $77,396 | $66,818 | $37,364 | $51,569 | $48,693 | $36,310 |
Portfolio turnover rateL | 32%K | 43% | 75% | 70% | 91% | 95% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B In 2014, a change to the Indian tax rules invalidated a prior ruling that had exempted the Fund from taxes on realized gains. As a result, the fund recorded a tax liability which resulted in a decrease to realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share of $.19. Excluding this amount, the total return would have been 8.57%.
C Total distributions of $.36 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.342 and distributions from net realized gain of $.013 per share.
D Total distributions of $.37 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.307 and distributions from net realized gain of $.067 per share.
E Total distributions of $.51 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.413 and distributions from net realized gain of $.092 per share.
F Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
G Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
H Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
I Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
K Annualized
L Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Asia Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C, and Class I shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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 includes proceeds received from litigation. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on capital gains by certain countries in which it invests. An estimated deferred tax liability for net unrealized appreciation on the applicable securities is included in Other payables and accrued expenses on the Statement of Assets & Liabilities.
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), 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 | $102,310,326 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (9,118,901) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $93,191,425 |
Tax cost | $231,193,387 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010 (the Act), the Fund is permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 22, 2010 for an unlimited period and such capital losses are required to be used prior to any losses that expire. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
No expiration | |
Short-term | $(5,337,125) |
Total capital loss carryforward | $(5,337,125) |
Short-Term Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held by investors in the Fund less than 90 days may have been subject to a redemption fee equal to 1.50% of the NAV of shares redeemed. All redemption fees, which reduce the proceeds of the shareholder redemption, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital. In November 2017, the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of these redemption fees effective December 18, 2017.
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $62,239,719 and $51,157,976, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .45% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. 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 .69% 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 Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $176,246 | $7,524 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 115,852 | 2,554 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 327,849 | 39,326 |
| | | $619,947 | $49,404 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $18,835 |
Class M | 4,351 |
Class C(a) | 1,458 |
| $24,644 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $155,056 | .22 |
Class M | 59,247 | .26 |
Class C | 66,506 | .20 |
Class I | 70,054 | .18 |
| $350,863 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .05%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $38 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $462 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. At period end, there were no security loans outstanding. 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $314. During the period, there were no securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $23,478 for the period. In addition, 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, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $87.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $1,586.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $737,960 | $945,543 |
Class M | 149,089 | 215,347 |
Class C | 92,434 | 115,038 |
Class I | 586,009 | 332,031 |
Total | $1,565,492 | $1,607,959 |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $44,409 | $259,636 |
Class M | 15,026 | 81,058 |
Class C | 22,249 | 101,415 |
Class I | 22,275 | 72,463 |
Total | $103,959 | $514,572 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 209,336 | 351,068 | $8,719,130 | $11,902,064 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 18,295 | 37,540 | 726,143 | 1,091,284 |
Shares redeemed | (276,138) | (905,334) | (11,400,088) | (29,487,490) |
Net increase (decrease) | (48,507) | (516,726) | $(1,954,815) | $(16,494,142) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 76,413 | 140,369 | $3,066,949 | $4,595,147 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 4,228 | 10,290 | 163,108 | 291,111 |
Shares redeemed | (93,766) | (215,506) | (3,740,526) | (6,775,073) |
Net increase (decrease) | (13,125) | (64,847) | $(510,469) | $(1,888,815) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 219,298 | 459,427 | $8,299,462 | $14,705,301 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 2,994 | 7,217 | 108,193 | 191,693 |
Shares redeemed | (141,692) | (352,850) | (5,337,913) | (10,437,224) |
Net increase (decrease) | 80,600 | 113,794 | $3,069,742 | $4,459,770 |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 606,132 | 941,763 | $25,904,052 | $33,526,040 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 13,464 | 11,258 | 550,139 | 336,943 |
Shares redeemed | (358,927) | (531,849) | (15,000,980) | (17,376,327) |
Net increase (decrease) | 260,669 | 421,172 | $11,453,211 | $16,486,656 |
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, redemption fees and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.32% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,005.00 | $6.56 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.25 | $6.61 |
Class M | 1.61% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,003.40 | $8.00 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,016.81 | $8.05 |
Class C | 2.06% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,001.30 | $10.22 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,014.58 | $10.29 |
Class I | 1.04% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,006.20 | $5.17 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.64 | $5.21 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Cayman Islands, Internet Software & Services) | 5.9 |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea (South), Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals) | 5.7 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (Cayman Islands, Internet Software & Services) | 4.4 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Taiwan, Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment) | 4.1 |
Naspers Ltd. Class N (South Africa, Media) | 2.5 |
| 22.6 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Information Technology | 28.3 |
Financials | 22.1 |
Consumer Discretionary | 15.5 |
Industrials | 8.9 |
Consumer Staples | 7.2 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
Cayman Islands | 14.7 |
India | 12.0 |
Brazil | 9.3 |
United States of America | 8.3 |
China | 8.0 |
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 98.6% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 1.4% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 95.3% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
Argentina - 1.0% | | | |
Banco Macro SA sponsored ADR | | 38,700 | $3,750,804 |
Telecom Argentina SA Class B sponsored ADR | | 122,959 | 3,693,688 |
|
TOTAL ARGENTINA | | | 7,444,492 |
|
Australia - 0.5% | | | |
Amcor Ltd. | | 337,673 | 3,479,712 |
Belgium - 0.5% | | | |
Umicore SA | | 71,727 | 4,006,927 |
Bermuda - 0.8% | | | |
Credicorp Ltd. (United States) | | 25,514 | 5,931,750 |
Brazil - 6.0% | | | |
BM&F BOVESPA SA | | 826,800 | 5,971,124 |
BTG Pactual Participations Ltd. unit | | 572,900 | 3,659,940 |
CVC Brasil Operadora e Agencia de Viagens SA | | 254,600 | 4,214,505 |
Equatorial Energia SA | | 213,200 | 4,330,092 |
Hapvida Participacoes e Investimentos SA | | 476,500 | 3,760,911 |
IRB Brasil Resseguros SA | | 311,300 | 4,203,154 |
Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA (a) | | 37,496 | 144,495 |
Localiza Rent A Car SA | | 523,600 | 4,168,533 |
Lojas Renner SA | | 483,000 | 4,496,069 |
Notre Dame Intermedica Participacoes SA | | 687,700 | 4,004,647 |
Suzano Papel e Celulose SA | | 436,700 | 5,118,435 |
|
TOTAL BRAZIL | | | 44,071,905 |
|
Cayman Islands - 14.7% | | | |
58.com, Inc. ADR (a) | | 65,300 | 5,706,567 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 184,800 | 32,994,192 |
JD.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a) | | 198,000 | 7,228,980 |
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. sponsored ADR | | 138,800 | 4,331,948 |
New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. sponsored ADR | | 61,000 | 5,480,240 |
Sands China Ltd. | | 716,000 | 4,138,037 |
Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd. | | 506,000 | 5,523,615 |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | | 886,100 | 43,563,273 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 108,966,852 |
|
Chile - 0.6% | | | |
Banco Santander Chile sponsored ADR | | 136,600 | 4,511,898 |
China - 8.0% | | | |
China International Travel Service Corp. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 462,111 | 3,777,860 |
China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 1,437,000 | 6,265,895 |
Dong E-E-Jiao Co. Ltd. Class A | | 388,760 | 3,617,975 |
Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai Class A | | 517,949 | 3,592,190 |
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 608,267 | 3,684,201 |
Inner Mongoli Yili Industries Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 925,561 | 3,832,215 |
Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery Joint-Stock Co. Ltd. Class A | | 228,500 | 4,026,251 |
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 34,775 | 3,621,087 |
Midea Group Co. Ltd. Class A | | 476,632 | 3,875,281 |
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. (H Shares) | | 1,100,500 | 10,753,425 |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 530,806 | 4,169,027 |
Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 843,357 | 4,364,233 |
Yunnan Baiyao Group Co. Ltd. | | 266,352 | 3,977,588 |
|
TOTAL CHINA | | | 59,557,228 |
|
France - 2.3% | | | |
Kering SA | | 7,200 | 4,169,988 |
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SA (b) | | 12,749 | 4,436,807 |
Pernod Ricard SA | | 24,300 | 4,036,361 |
Rubis | | 55,100 | 4,291,750 |
|
TOTAL FRANCE | | | 16,934,906 |
|
Germany - 1.2% | | | |
adidas AG | | 16,627 | 4,094,060 |
Wirecard AG | | 33,900 | 4,630,047 |
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TOTAL GERMANY | | | 8,724,107 |
|
Hong Kong - 2.4% | | | |
AIA Group Ltd. | | 505,200 | 4,515,073 |
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. | | 2,172,000 | 5,532,212 |
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. | | 472,000 | 4,131,242 |
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. | | 663,000 | 3,883,981 |
|
TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 18,062,508 |
|
Hungary - 0.7% | | | |
OTP Bank PLC | | 119,900 | 5,238,367 |
India - 12.0% | | | |
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. | | 811,462 | 4,963,784 |
Asian Paints Ltd. | | 262,476 | 4,736,336 |
Eicher Motors Ltd. | | 10,156 | 4,745,151 |
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. | | 268,176 | 4,493,878 |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | | 131,764 | 3,971,342 |
Hero Motocorp Ltd. | | 80,866 | 4,529,898 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | | 350,519 | 9,917,242 |
Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (a) | | 875,153 | 3,774,429 |
IndusInd Bank Ltd. | | 154,931 | 4,407,153 |
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (a) | | 243,662 | 4,430,724 |
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. | | 266,491 | 5,602,087 |
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. | | 508,808 | 4,165,744 |
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. | | 44,565 | 5,891,622 |
Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. | | 841,151 | 4,456,663 |
PC Jeweller Ltd. | | 91,722 | 198,577 |
Pidilite Industries Ltd. (a) | | 250,307 | 4,081,897 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | | 681,243 | 9,836,059 |
Ultratech Cemco Ltd. | | 71,060 | 4,381,067 |
|
TOTAL INDIA | | | 88,583,653 |
|
Indonesia - 1.5% | | | |
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | | 3,663,300 | 5,792,713 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 24,300,000 | 5,602,814 |
|
TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 11,395,527 |
|
Ireland - 0.5% | | | |
Accenture PLC Class A | | 26,200 | 3,961,440 |
Israel - 0.5% | | | |
Frutarom Industries Ltd. | | 40,776 | 3,914,505 |
Japan - 1.7% | | | |
Daikin Industries Ltd. | | 34,800 | 4,076,235 |
Keyence Corp. | | 7,000 | 4,288,236 |
Misumi Group, Inc. | | 141,700 | 3,927,470 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 12,291,941 |
|
Kenya - 0.5% | | | |
Safaricom Ltd. | | 14,037,900 | 3,953,845 |
Korea (South) - 7.4% | | | |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 18,257 | 6,137,237 |
LG Household & Health Care Ltd. | | 5,043 | 6,451,348 |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | | 17,120 | 42,423,360 |
|
TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH) | | | 55,011,945 |
|
Mexico - 3.5% | | | |
Embotelladoras Arca S.A.B. de CV | | 610,500 | 4,219,496 |
Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A.B. de CV unit | | 655,600 | 6,337,239 |
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B. de CV Series B | | 439,621 | 4,572,968 |
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste S.A.B. de CV Series B | | 250,775 | 4,509,835 |
Grupo Mexico SA de CV Series B | | 1,216,700 | 4,044,596 |
Wal-Mart de Mexico SA de CV Series V | | 850,600 | 2,363,681 |
|
TOTAL MEXICO | | | 26,047,815 |
|
Netherlands - 1.0% | | | |
ASML Holding NV (Netherlands) | | 19,900 | 3,784,920 |
Yandex NV Series A (a) | | 117,100 | 3,906,456 |
|
TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 7,691,376 |
|
Philippines - 2.5% | | | |
Ayala Corp. | | 243,880 | 4,543,350 |
Ayala Land, Inc. | | 5,917,900 | 4,657,345 |
SM Investments Corp. | | 264,769 | 4,795,146 |
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. | | 7,109,300 | 4,692,245 |
|
TOTAL PHILIPPINES | | | 18,688,086 |
|
Russia - 1.3% | | | |
Sberbank of Russia | | 2,618,570 | 9,333,880 |
South Africa - 5.9% | | | |
Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd. | | 63,200 | 4,499,462 |
Discovery Ltd. | | 313,362 | 4,350,990 |
FirstRand Ltd. | | 1,193,000 | 6,389,144 |
Mondi Ltd. | | 153,820 | 4,487,676 |
Naspers Ltd. Class N | | 76,600 | 18,661,258 |
Sanlam Ltd. | | 778,700 | 4,919,064 |
|
TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA | | | 43,307,594 |
|
Spain - 0.5% | | | |
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A | | 54,600 | 4,002,252 |
Switzerland - 0.5% | | | |
Sika AG | | 510 | 3,720,787 |
Taiwan - 4.1% | | | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 3,980,000 | 30,263,322 |
Thailand - 1.6% | | | |
Airports of Thailand PCL (For. Reg.) | | 2,449,500 | 5,509,839 |
C.P. ALL PCL (For. Reg.) | | 2,185,800 | 6,012,043 |
|
TOTAL THAILAND | | | 11,521,882 |
|
Turkey - 1.6% | | | |
Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi A/S | | 540,669 | 3,330,184 |
Tupras Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri A/S | | 159,803 | 4,071,690 |
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmet A/S | | 1,250,000 | 4,295,808 |
|
TOTAL TURKEY | | | 11,697,682 |
|
United Arab Emirates - 0.6% | | | |
DP World Ltd. | | 195,658 | 4,353,391 |
United Kingdom - 1.1% | | | |
NMC Health PLC | | 82,700 | 4,062,278 |
Prudential PLC | | 153,158 | 3,938,314 |
|
TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 8,000,592 |
|
United States of America - 8.3% | | | |
A.O. Smith Corp. | | 63,200 | 3,877,320 |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A (a) | | 3,700 | 3,768,746 |
Amphenol Corp. Class A | | 45,111 | 3,776,242 |
Facebook, Inc. Class A (a) | | 23,400 | 4,024,800 |
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. | | 46,400 | 3,658,176 |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | | 23,400 | 4,171,518 |
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a) | | 7,000 | 3,919,510 |
Moody's Corp. | | 25,100 | 4,071,220 |
MSCI, Inc. | | 27,700 | 4,150,291 |
NVIDIA Corp. | | 17,400 | 3,913,260 |
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 50,400 | 3,760,344 |
S&P Global, Inc. | | 21,400 | 4,036,040 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | | 10,100 | 3,713,366 |
Visa, Inc. Class A | | 33,400 | 4,237,792 |
Yum China Holdings, Inc. | | 148,300 | 6,341,308 |
|
TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 61,419,933 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $547,059,201) | | | 706,092,100 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 3.3% | | | |
Brazil - 3.3% | | | |
Ambev SA sponsored ADR | | 1,198,100 | 7,931,422 |
Itau Unibanco Holding SA | | 717,220 | 10,443,421 |
Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA (PN) | | 1,539,700 | 5,981,764 |
|
TOTAL BRAZIL | | | |
|
(Cost $20,285,016) | | | 24,356,607 |
|
Money Market Funds - 1.1% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (c) | | 8,599,391 | 8,601,111 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (c)(d) | | 36,589 | 36,592 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $8,637,703) | | | 8,637,703 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 99.7% | | | |
(Cost $575,981,920) | | | 739,086,410 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - 0.3% | | | 1,901,665 |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $740,988,075 |
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
Legend
(a) Non-income producing
(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
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $90,216 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 12,320 |
Total | $102,536 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $114,442,489 | $47,345,458 | $67,097,031 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 53,325,021 | 31,339,547 | 21,985,474 | -- |
Energy | 13,907,749 | 4,071,690 | 9,836,059 | -- |
Financials | 163,651,508 | 65,855,179 | 97,796,329 | -- |
Health Care | 25,114,210 | 11,986,435 | 13,127,775 | -- |
Industrials | 63,635,019 | 29,485,752 | 34,149,267 | -- |
Information Technology | 210,860,968 | 133,350,172 | 77,510,796 | -- |
Materials | 51,822,541 | 30,655,853 | 21,166,688 | -- |
Real Estate | 9,349,590 | -- | 9,349,590 | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 11,943,341 | 11,943,341 | -- | -- |
Utilities | 12,396,271 | 8,621,842 | 3,774,429 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 8,637,703 | 8,637,703 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $739,086,410 | $383,292,972 | $355,793,438 | $-- |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $178,120,703 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $3,211,645 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $34,953) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $567,344,217) | $730,448,707 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $8,637,703) | 8,637,703 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $575,981,920) | | $739,086,410 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $959,391) | | 964,029 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 8,503,626 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 3,154,952 |
Dividends receivable | | 1,550,138 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 26,670 |
Prepaid expenses | | 291 |
Other receivables | | 106,941 |
Total assets | | 753,393,057 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $3,131,000 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 7,518,740 | |
Accrued management fee | 487,777 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 112,545 | |
Other affiliated payables | 158,527 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 960,255 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 36,138 | |
Total liabilities | | 12,404,982 |
Net Assets | | $740,988,075 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $568,066,150 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 1,086,491 |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 9,539,558 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 162,295,876 |
Net Assets | | $740,988,075 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($162,832,738 ÷ 5,474,711 shares) | | $29.74 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $29.74) | | $31.55 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($55,032,247 ÷ 1,865,453 shares) | | $29.50 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $29.50) | | $30.57 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($66,182,424 ÷ 2,340,786 shares)(a) | | $28.27 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($414,575,483 ÷ 13,867,843 shares) | | $29.89 |
Class Z: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($42,365,183 ÷ 1,418,175 shares) | | $29.87 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $6,111,340 |
Interest | | 21 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 102,536 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 6,213,897 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (573,251) |
Total income | | 5,640,646 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | $2,778,739 | |
Transfer agent fees | 744,687 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 670,256 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 171,718 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 209,017 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 1,337 | |
Registration fees | 76,635 | |
Audit | 31,795 | |
Legal | 2,108 | |
Interest | 1,317 | |
Miscellaneous | 2,007 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 4,689,616 | |
Expense reductions | (138,177) | 4,551,439 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1,089,207 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 10,239,014 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 922 | |
Foreign currency transactions | (62,890) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 10,177,046 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (net of decrease in deferred foreign taxes of $280,663) | 5,617,586 | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (3,513) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 5,614,073 |
Net gain (loss) | | 15,791,119 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $16,880,326 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $1,089,207 | $2,259,653 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 10,177,046 | 35,265,386 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 5,614,073 | 100,164,775 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 16,880,326 | 137,689,814 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (1,901,686) | (1,034,337) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (610,238) | – |
Total distributions | (2,511,924) | (1,034,337) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 118,391,464 | 16,614,636 |
Redemption fees | 14,871 | 50,215 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 132,774,737 | 153,320,328 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 608,213,338 | 454,893,010 |
End of period | $740,988,075 | $608,213,338 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $1,086,491 | $1,898,970 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $28.86 | $22.30 | $20.73 | $23.38 | $22.62 | $20.51 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .03 | .08 | .02 | .06 | .06 | .08 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .93 | 6.49 | 1.55 | (2.66) | .76 | 2.23 |
Total from investment operations | .96 | 6.57 | 1.57 | (2.60) | .82 | 2.31 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.05) | (.01) | – | (.02) | (.05) | (.20) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.03) | – | – | (.03) | (.01) | – |
Total distributions | (.08) | (.01) | – | (.05) | (.06) | (.20) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $29.74 | $28.86 | $22.30 | $20.73 | $23.38 | $22.62 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 3.35% | 29.46% | 7.57% | (11.13)% | 3.65% | 11.34% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.43%H | 1.47% | 1.51% | 1.52% | 1.52% | 1.56% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.43%H | 1.47% | 1.51% | 1.52% | 1.52% | 1.55% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.39%H | 1.46% | 1.51% | 1.50% | 1.52% | 1.50% |
Net investment income (loss) | .21%H | .34% | .11% | .28% | .26% | .38% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $162,833 | $142,129 | $118,092 | $112,931 | $141,601 | $146,378 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 89%H | 86% | 85% | 110% | 97% | 121% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $28.61 | $22.16 | $20.65 | $23.30 | $22.55 | $20.44 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.01) | .02 | (.03) | .01 | –B | .03 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .92 | 6.43 | 1.54 | (2.66) | .76 | 2.22 |
Total from investment operations | .91 | 6.45 | 1.51 | (2.65) | .76 | 2.25 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | –B | (.14) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.02) | – | – | – | (.01) | – |
Total distributions | (.02) | – | – | – | (.01) | (.14) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $29.50 | $28.61 | $22.16 | $20.65 | $23.30 | $22.55 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 3.19% | 29.11% | 7.31% | (11.37)% | 3.39% | 11.06% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.72%H | 1.75% | 1.77% | 1.78% | 1.78% | 1.81% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.72%H | 1.75% | 1.77% | 1.78% | 1.78% | 1.81% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.68%H | 1.73% | 1.77% | 1.76% | 1.78% | 1.76% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.08)%H | .06% | (.15)% | .02% | - %I | .13% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $55,032 | $53,572 | $44,575 | $43,365 | $54,341 | $55,797 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 89%H | 86% | 85% | 110% | 97% | 121% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount represents less than .005%.
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $27.46 | $21.37 | $20.02 | $22.70 | $22.06 | $20.00 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.08) | (.10) | (.13) | (.10) | (.11) | (.08) |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .89 | 6.19 | 1.48 | (2.58) | .75 | 2.18 |
Total from investment operations | .81 | 6.09 | 1.35 | (2.68) | .64 | 2.10 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | – | (.04) |
Distributions from net realized gain | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Total distributions | – | – | – | – | – | (.04) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $28.27 | $27.46 | $21.37 | $20.02 | $22.70 | $22.06 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 2.95% | 28.50% | 6.74% | (11.81)% | 2.90% | 10.49% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.21%H | 2.24% | 2.26% | 2.27% | 2.27% | 2.31% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.21%H | 2.24% | 2.26% | 2.27% | 2.27% | 2.30% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.18%H | 2.22% | 2.26% | 2.26% | 2.27% | 2.25% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.57)%H | (.43)% | (.64)% | (.47)% | (.49)% | (.37)% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $66,182 | $57,599 | $43,848 | $46,595 | $64,026 | $62,532 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 89%H | 86% | 85% | 110% | 97% | 121% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $29.03 | $22.44 | $20.83 | $23.50 | $22.73 | $20.61 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .08 | .17 | .10 | .14 | .14 | .15 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .93 | 6.51 | 1.55 | (2.67) | .76 | 2.25 |
Total from investment operations | 1.01 | 6.68 | 1.65 | (2.53) | .90 | 2.40 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.12) | (.09) | (.04) | (.11) | (.12) | (.28) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.03) | – | – | (.03) | (.01) | – |
Total distributions | (.15) | (.09) | (.04) | (.14) | (.13) | (.28) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $29.89 | $29.03 | $22.44 | $20.83 | $23.50 | $22.73 |
Total ReturnC,D | 3.50% | 29.94% | 7.93% | (10.83)% | 4.00% | 11.73% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsE,F | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.12%G | 1.13% | 1.16% | 1.17% | 1.18% | 1.23% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.12%G | 1.13% | 1.16% | 1.17% | 1.18% | 1.22% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.08%G | 1.11% | 1.15% | 1.16% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
Net investment income (loss) | .53%G | .68% | .46% | .63% | .60% | .71% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $414,575 | $340,526 | $242,116 | $209,270 | $199,098 | $150,576 |
Portfolio turnover rateH | 89%G | 86% | 85% | 110% | 97% | 121% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
G Annualized
H Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund Class Z
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 A |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $29.02 | $22.44 | $20.83 | $23.50 | $22.73 | $21.33 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)B | .10 | .21 | .13 | .17 | .18 | .03 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .93 | 6.50 | 1.55 | (2.66) | .76 | 1.37 |
Total from investment operations | 1.03 | 6.71 | 1.68 | (2.49) | .94 | 1.40 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.15) | (.13) | (.07) | (.14) | (.16) | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.03) | – | – | (.03) | (.01) | – |
Total distributions | (.18) | (.13) | (.07) | (.18)C | (.17) | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalB,D | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $29.87 | $29.02 | $22.44 | $20.83 | $23.50 | $22.73 |
Total ReturnE,F | 3.58% | 30.13% | 8.09% | (10.68)% | 4.19% | 6.56% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | .98%I | .98% | 1.01% | 1.02% | 1.02% | 1.05%I |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .98%I | .98% | 1.01% | 1.02% | 1.02% | 1.05%I |
Expenses net of all reductions | .94%I | .97% | 1.00% | 1.00% | 1.02% | 1.00%I |
Net investment income (loss) | .67%I | .82% | .61% | .78% | .77% | .62%I |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $42,365 | $14,387 | $6,261 | $6,114 | $5,544 | $107 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 89%I | 86% | 85% | 110% | 97% | 121% |
A For the period August 13, 2013 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2013.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Total distributions of $.18 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.143 and distributions from net realized gain of $.033 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C, Class I and Class Z shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on capital gains by certain countries in which it invests. An estimated deferred tax liability for net unrealized appreciation on the applicable securities is included in Other payables and accrued expenses on the Statement of Assets & Liabilities.
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, certain foreign taxes, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), expiring 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 | $175,540,080 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (14,394,791) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $161,145,289 |
Tax cost | $577,941,121 |
Short-Term Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held by investors in the Fund less than 90 days may have been subject to a redemption fee equal to 1.50% of the NAV of shares redeemed. All redemption fees, which reduce the proceeds of the shareholder redemption, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital. In November 2017, the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of these redemption fees effective December 18, 2017.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $424,102,708 and $305,030,947, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .55% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. 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 .79% 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 Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares, except for the Class I. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $199,703 | $9,435 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 142,318 | 1,871 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 328,235 | 64,594 |
| | | $670,256 | $75,900 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $69,470 |
Class M | 12,459 |
Class C(a) | 6,680 |
| $88,609 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund, except for Class Z. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee of Class Z's average net assets. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $198,986 | .25 |
Class M | 82,965 | .29 |
Class C | 92,716 | .28 |
Class I | 363,621 | .19 |
Class Z | 6,399 | .05 |
| $744,687 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .05%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $1,438 for the period.
Interfund Lending Program. Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the SEC, the Fund, along with other registered investment companies having management contracts with Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) or other affiliated entities of FMR, may participate in an interfund lending program. This program provides an alternative credit facility allowing the funds to borrow from, or lend money to, other participating affiliated funds. At period end, there were no interfund loans outstanding. The Fund's 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 |
Borrower | $6,059,800 | 1.56% | $1,317 |
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $957 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $12,320. During the period, there were no securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $134,375 for the period.
In addition, 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, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $544.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $3,258.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $266,441 | $30,776 |
Class I | 1,547,030 | 966,752 |
Class Z | 88,215 | 36,809 |
Total | $1,901,686 | $1,034,337 |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $155,824 | $– |
Class M | 43,443 | – |
Class I | 393,098 | – |
Class Z | 17,873 | – |
Total | $610,238 | $– |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 1,334,554 | 1,406,498 | $40,791,775 | $34,951,324 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 14,191 | 1,458 | 413,945 | 29,674 |
Shares redeemed | (798,974) | (1,779,486) | (24,237,535) | (41,753,813) |
Net increase (decrease) | 549,771 | (371,530) | $16,968,185 | $(6,772,815) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 252,667 | 399,257 | $7,638,878 | $9,730,129 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 1,470 | – | 42,562 | – |
Shares redeemed | (261,418) | (538,495) | (7,893,322) | (12,676,856) |
Net increase (decrease) | (7,281) | (139,238) | $(211,882) | $(2,946,727) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 551,832 | 588,436 | $16,014,990 | $14,253,873 |
Shares redeemed | (308,420) | (542,611) | (9,032,762) | (12,199,299) |
Net increase (decrease) | 243,412 | 45,825 | $6,982,228 | $2,054,574 |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 5,492,149 | 5,029,257 | $167,572,382 | $124,935,093 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 64,636 | 45,270 | 1,892,548 | 948,024 |
Shares redeemed | (3,419,818) | (4,132,239) | (103,099,162) | (107,476,617) |
Net increase (decrease) | 2,136,967 | 942,288 | $66,365,768 | $18,406,500 |
Class Z | | | | |
Shares sold | 1,090,075 | 314,090 | $33,387,906 | $8,345,374 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 3,332 | 1,759 | 97,427 | 36,809 |
Shares redeemed | (171,056) | (99,035) | (5,198,168) | (2,509,079) |
Net increase (decrease) | 922,351 | 216,814 | $28,287,165 | $5,873,104 |
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, redemption fees and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.43% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,033.50 | $7.21 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.70 | $7.15 |
Class M | 1.72% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,031.90 | $8.67 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,016.27 | $8.60 |
Class C | 2.21% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,029.50 | $11.12 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,013.84 | $11.04 |
Class I | 1.12% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,035.00 | $5.65 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.24 | $5.61 |
Class Z | .98% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,035.80 | $4.95 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.93 | $4.91 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Bank of America Corp. (United States of America, Banks) | 1.3 |
Citigroup, Inc. (United States of America, Banks) | 1.0 |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A (United States of America, Internet Software & Services) | 1.0 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (Cayman Islands, Internet Software & Services) | 1.0 |
The AES Corp. (United States of America, Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers) | 0.9 |
| 5.2 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 19.0 |
Information Technology | 15.2 |
Industrials | 14.1 |
Health Care | 13.2 |
Consumer Discretionary | 12.7 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
United States of America | 42.9 |
Japan | 8.1 |
United Kingdom | 6.6 |
Cayman Islands | 5.2 |
Canada | 3.0 |
Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 99.3% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 0.7% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 98.4% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
Australia - 0.6% | | | |
Beacon Lighting Group Ltd. | | 122,491 | $135,663 |
Costa Group Holdings Ltd. | | 62,893 | 342,814 |
Imdex Ltd. (a) | | 94,492 | 88,114 |
Mitula Group Ltd. (a) | | 966,190 | 327,499 |
|
TOTAL AUSTRALIA | | | 894,090 |
|
Austria - 0.8% | | | |
ams AG | | 4,280 | 355,789 |
CA Immobilien Anlagen AG | | 9,800 | 340,123 |
Erste Group Bank AG | | 6,000 | 294,171 |
IMMOFINANZ Immobilien Anlagen AG | | 39,700 | 104,225 |
|
TOTAL AUSTRIA | | | 1,094,308 |
|
Bailiwick of Jersey - 0.5% | | | |
Glencore Xstrata PLC | | 87,690 | 423,375 |
WNS Holdings Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 5,100 | 249,543 |
|
TOTAL BAILIWICK OF JERSEY | | | 672,918 |
|
Bermuda - 2.2% | | | |
BW LPG Ltd. (a)(b) | | 6,900 | 24,100 |
China Gas Holdings Ltd. | | 101,600 | 360,038 |
China Resource Gas Group Ltd. | | 108,000 | 397,182 |
Credicorp Ltd. (United States) | | 2,000 | 464,980 |
FLY Leasing Ltd. ADR (a) | | 7,400 | 90,946 |
Genpact Ltd. | | 12,500 | 398,625 |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 5,100 | 104,545 |
Man Wah Holdings Ltd. | | 171,600 | 126,912 |
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. | | 14,300 | 286,858 |
Nabors Industries Ltd. | | 28,200 | 214,602 |
Tai Cheung Holdings Ltd. | | 466,000 | 513,279 |
Tai Fook Securities Group Ltd. | | 295,202 | 172,084 |
|
TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 3,154,151 |
|
Brazil - 1.9% | | | |
BR Properties SA | | 44,300 | 112,546 |
BTG Pactual Participations Ltd. unit | | 84,000 | 536,629 |
Construtora Tenda SA (a) | | 37,632 | 274,033 |
CVC Brasil Operadora e Agencia de Viagens SA | | 7,000 | 115,874 |
Direcional Engenharia SA (a) | | 57,600 | 100,132 |
Even Construtora e Incorporadora SA (a) | | 224,900 | 290,819 |
Gafisa SA (a) | | 45,912 | 154,386 |
Helbor Empreendimentos SA (a) | | 168,200 | 69,619 |
Kroton Educacional SA | | 19,900 | 79,584 |
Localiza Rent A Car SA | | 45,000 | 358,258 |
MRV Engenharia e Participacoes SA | | 72,700 | 311,287 |
Natura Cosmeticos SA | | 800 | 7,356 |
Smiles Fidelidade SA | | 7,700 | 158,255 |
Sul America SA unit | | 31,964 | 197,266 |
|
TOTAL BRAZIL | | | 2,766,044 |
|
British Virgin Islands - 0.7% | | | |
Nomad Foods Ltd. (a) | | 65,100 | 1,073,499 |
Canada - 3.0% | | | |
Bombardier, Inc. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a) | | 70,500 | 217,987 |
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. | | 4,700 | 169,558 |
Constellation Software, Inc. | | 600 | 428,816 |
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. | | 36,500 | 525,916 |
Gluskin Sheff + Associates, Inc. | | 10,600 | 128,212 |
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.: | | | |
Class A (c) | | 3,250 | 80,893 |
Class B | | 3,250 | 74,815 |
Mitel Networks Corp. (a) | | 12,700 | 141,743 |
Nutrien Ltd. | | 7,000 | 318,665 |
Parex Resources, Inc. (a) | | 22,400 | 385,386 |
Pason Systems, Inc. | | 3,700 | 51,727 |
PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. | | 7,500 | 166,303 |
Precision Drilling Corp. (a) | | 291,200 | 1,038,745 |
SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc. | | 4,800 | 210,438 |
Suncor Energy, Inc. | | 7,500 | 286,810 |
Tahoe Resources, Inc. | | 40,000 | 201,565 |
|
TOTAL CANADA | | | 4,427,579 |
|
Cayman Islands - 5.2% | | | |
3SBio, Inc. (b) | | 143,000 | 307,259 |
58.com, Inc. ADR (a) | | 100 | 8,739 |
Airtac International Group | | 10,983 | 190,233 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 7,800 | 1,392,612 |
Baozun, Inc. sponsored ADR (a) | | 100 | 4,599 |
BizLink Holding, Inc. | | 100 | 737 |
China Everbright Greentech Ltd. (b) | | 357,000 | 333,152 |
China Maple Leaf Educational Systems Ltd. | | 306,000 | 424,014 |
China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd. | | 103,000 | 332,051 |
China Overseas Property Holdings Ltd. | | 480,100 | 143,493 |
ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. | | 51,000 | 476,928 |
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. | | 100,000 | 263,003 |
Greatview Aseptic Pack Co. Ltd. | | 146,000 | 96,763 |
HKBN Ltd. | | 250,000 | 350,034 |
Li Ning Co. Ltd. (a) | | 377,500 | 425,049 |
NetEase, Inc. ADR | | 1,100 | 282,777 |
New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. sponsored ADR | | 1,800 | 161,712 |
Sands China Ltd. | | 57,600 | 332,892 |
Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (a)(c) | | 9,900 | 238,293 |
Towngas China Co. Ltd. | | 250,640 | 223,360 |
Value Partners Group Ltd. | | 171,000 | 161,750 |
WH Group Ltd. (b) | | 246,500 | 255,195 |
Zhongsheng Group Holdings Ltd. Class H | | 135,000 | 387,001 |
ZTO Express (Cayman), Inc. sponsored ADR | | 46,500 | 767,250 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 7,558,896 |
|
China - 2.1% | | | |
Air China Ltd. (H Shares) | | 108,000 | 142,376 |
Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares) | | 616,000 | 334,384 |
Beijing Urban Consolidated & Development Group Ltd. (H Shares) | | 134,000 | 65,507 |
China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares) | | 171,000 | 179,150 |
China CYTS Tours Holding Co. Ltd. | | 97,127 | 319,472 |
China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 125,000 | 354,495 |
Huaneng Renewables Corp. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 780,000 | 346,400 |
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares) | | 657,000 | 576,768 |
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 1,081 | 112,563 |
Livzon Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (H Shares) | | 21,520 | 155,008 |
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co. Ltd. (H Shares) | | 37,000 | 200,700 |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 41,583 | 326,599 |
|
TOTAL CHINA | | | 3,113,422 |
|
Curacao - 0.2% | | | |
Schlumberger Ltd. | | 4,300 | 294,808 |
France - 3.0% | | | |
Air France KLM (Reg.) (a) | | 14,600 | 143,086 |
BNP Paribas SA | | 8,600 | 664,455 |
Compagnie Plastic Omnium | | 7,400 | 356,020 |
Danone SA | | 1,362 | 110,330 |
Elis SA | | 15,200 | 363,806 |
Ipsen SA | | 2,200 | 357,329 |
Maisons du Monde SA (b) | | 9,000 | 366,048 |
Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits SA (a) | | 4,900 | 47,279 |
Rubis | | 3,700 | 288,194 |
Societe Generale Series A | | 13,200 | 722,420 |
Thales SA | | 2,900 | 367,714 |
VINCI SA | | 3,700 | 369,940 |
Vivendi SA | | 6,300 | 166,536 |
|
TOTAL FRANCE | | | 4,323,157 |
|
Germany - 2.8% | | | |
BAUER AG | | 7,700 | 240,832 |
Bayer AG | | 7,800 | 932,253 |
Deutsche Borse AG | | 3,800 | 511,059 |
Deutsche Lufthansa AG | | 3,200 | 93,401 |
Deutsche Post AG | | 7,386 | 320,585 |
Infineon Technologies AG | | 10,100 | 258,618 |
KION Group AG | | 1,400 | 117,161 |
MLP AG | | 19,500 | 118,447 |
Rheinmetall AG | | 2,600 | 341,135 |
SAP SE | | 3,189 | 354,316 |
Sixt AG | | 3,300 | 389,542 |
Wirecard AG | | 2,400 | 327,791 |
|
TOTAL GERMANY | | | 4,005,140 |
|
Greece - 0.2% | | | |
Motor Oil (HELLAS) Corinth Refineries SA | | 5,800 | 138,541 |
Mytilineos Holdings SA | | 15,300 | 184,763 |
|
TOTAL GREECE | | | 323,304 |
|
Hong Kong - 0.4% | | | |
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. | | 78,000 | 198,671 |
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. | | 23,000 | 201,311 |
Sino Land Ltd. | | 125,331 | 216,343 |
|
TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 616,325 |
|
India - 1.1% | | | |
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. | | 53,769 | 70,712 |
Future Retail Ltd. | | 100 | 904 |
Gujarat Gas Ltd. | | 17,981 | 238,866 |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | | 4,366 | 131,590 |
Indraprastha Gas Ltd. | | 13,604 | 58,672 |
InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (b) | | 16,716 | 351,953 |
JSW Steel Ltd. | | 24,782 | 120,497 |
Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd. | | 28,221 | 372,512 |
PC Jeweller Ltd. | | 1,009 | 2,184 |
Praxis Home Retail Ltd. (a) | | 5 | 21 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | | 12,191 | 176,019 |
The Karnataka Bank Ltd. | | 74,641 | 136,816 |
|
TOTAL INDIA | | | 1,660,746 |
|
Indonesia - 0.3% | | | |
PT Bank Bukopin Tbk | | 3,440,300 | 105,444 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 766,200 | 176,662 |
PT Semen Gresik (Persero) Tbk | | 216,300 | 149,395 |
PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk | | 1,196,400 | 55,561 |
|
TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 487,062 |
|
Ireland - 2.4% | | | |
Allergan PLC | | 7,800 | 1,198,470 |
C&C Group PLC | | 70,090 | 264,079 |
Hibernia (REIT) PLC | | 94,230 | 168,868 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC (a) | | 5,100 | 775,404 |
Johnson Controls International PLC | | 17,600 | 596,112 |
Kingspan Group PLC (United Kingdom) | | 3,800 | 171,349 |
Medtronic PLC | | 4,500 | 360,585 |
|
TOTAL IRELAND | | | 3,534,867 |
|
Israel - 0.7% | | | |
Ituran Location & Control Ltd. | | 1,900 | 59,565 |
SodaStream International Ltd. (a) | | 4,700 | 444,103 |
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR | | 31,000 | 557,380 |
|
TOTAL ISRAEL | | | 1,061,048 |
|
Italy - 1.6% | | | |
Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione SpA | | 19,485 | 182,664 |
Leonardo SpA | | 31,939 | 370,653 |
Mediaset SpA (a) | | 29,400 | 116,984 |
Moncler SpA | | 12,800 | 578,721 |
Technogym SpA (b) | | 25,200 | 307,054 |
Technogym SpA (b) | | 59,600 | 726,207 |
|
TOTAL ITALY | | | 2,282,283 |
|
Japan - 8.1% | | | |
Aeon Fantasy Co. Ltd. | | 7,200 | 379,363 |
Aichi Electric Co. Ltd. | | 400 | 12,587 |
Astellas Pharma, Inc. | | 33,300 | 487,054 |
Aucnet, Inc. | | 58,800 | 763,238 |
Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc. | | 9,500 | 322,837 |
Benefit One, Inc. | | 8,000 | 187,925 |
Broadleaf Co. Ltd. | | 46,700 | 222,991 |
Daisue Construction Co. Ltd. | | 32,100 | 305,085 |
en-japan, Inc. | | 6,500 | 305,022 |
Ezaki Glico Co. Ltd. | | 13,400 | 724,424 |
Fanuc Corp. | | 100 | 21,421 |
FJ Next Co. Ltd. | | 26,700 | 209,800 |
Fujita Engineering Co. Ltd. | | 12,900 | 107,028 |
Hokuriku Electrical Construction Co. Ltd. | | 20,100 | 223,211 |
Hoya Corp. | | 2,100 | 112,607 |
JK Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 12,400 | 106,736 |
Koshidaka Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 5,000 | 303,696 |
Maeda Seisakusho Co. Ltd. (c) | | 18,200 | 160,157 |
Meitetsu Transport Co. Ltd. | | 7,800 | 182,656 |
Mikikogyo Co. Ltd. | | 4,400 | 211,306 |
Minebea Mitsumi, Inc. | | 15,100 | 303,464 |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 5,100 | 201,817 |
Monex Group, Inc. | | 96,900 | 553,106 |
Moriya Corp. | | 14,000 | 263,813 |
Nabtesco Corp. | | 100 | 3,618 |
Nakano Corp. | | 35,800 | 204,019 |
Nintendo Co. Ltd. | | 600 | 252,106 |
NOF Corp. | | 14,000 | 418,130 |
Open House Co. Ltd. | | 2,500 | 139,956 |
Panasonic Corp. | | 45,600 | 675,206 |
Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 12,600 | 291,257 |
Renesas Electronics Corp. (a) | | 19,200 | 201,625 |
Sakai Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 3,100 | 132,286 |
SAMTY Co. Ltd. | | 12,300 | 228,403 |
Sanei Architecture Planning Co. Ltd. | | 700 | 11,846 |
Seikitokyu Kogyo Co. Ltd. | | 134,800 | 868,086 |
SMC Corp. | | 1,400 | 534,285 |
Suzuki Motor Corp. | | 4,500 | 242,495 |
Taiheiyo Cement Corp. | | 2,300 | 87,207 |
Tokyo Electron Ltd. | | 1,400 | 269,640 |
Toto Ltd. | | 6,268 | 356,058 |
Zenkoku Hosho Co. Ltd. | | 4,100 | 169,708 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 11,757,275 |
|
Kazakhstan - 0.1% | | | |
JSC Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan GDR unit (a) | | 5,800 | 72,500 |
Kenya - 0.1% | | | |
Safaricom Ltd. | | 662,100 | 186,484 |
Korea (South) - 1.0% | | | |
CJ E&M Corp. | | 100 | 8,451 |
Hyundai Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. | | 7,648 | 273,162 |
Jeju Air Co. Ltd. | | 9,544 | 436,239 |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 1,039 | 349,268 |
Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. | | 2,262 | 387,587 |
|
TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH) | | | 1,454,707 |
|
Liberia - 0.2% | | | |
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. | | 2,000 | 216,380 |
Luxembourg - 0.3% | | | |
B&M European Value Retail S.A. | | 43,242 | 241,280 |
Stabilus SA | | 1,700 | 153,148 |
|
TOTAL LUXEMBOURG | | | 394,428 |
|
Mexico - 0.6% | | | |
Banco del Bajio SA (b) | | 94,100 | 200,708 |
Credito Real S.A.B. de CV | | 489,100 | 717,617 |
|
TOTAL MEXICO | | | 918,325 |
|
Multi-National - 0.1% | | | |
HKT Trust/HKT Ltd. unit | | 138,000 | 181,565 |
Netherlands - 2.4% | | | |
AerCap Holdings NV (a) | | 1,900 | 99,047 |
ASML Holding NV (Netherlands) | | 1,400 | 266,276 |
Heijmans NV (Certificaten Van Aandelen) (a) | | 26,100 | 310,456 |
Intertrust NV (b) | | 17,100 | 340,724 |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV | | 13,253 | 560,950 |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | | 9,000 | 951,570 |
NSI NV | | 6,385 | 274,880 |
NSI NV rights 5/9/18(a)(d) | | 6,385 | 8,636 |
PostNL NV | | 67,000 | 260,609 |
PostNL NV rights 5/13/18 (a)(d) | | 67,000 | 13,755 |
RELX NV | | 16,125 | 343,009 |
|
TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 3,429,912 |
|
New Zealand - 0.6% | | | |
Ryman Healthcare Group Ltd. | | 26,445 | 197,231 |
Synlait Milk Ltd. (a) | | 52,191 | 367,216 |
The a2 Milk Co. Ltd. (a) | | 31,139 | 266,199 |
|
TOTAL NEW ZEALAND | | | 830,646 |
|
Norway - 0.0% | | | |
Epic Gas Ltd. (a) | | 5,100 | 7,311 |
Panama - 0.2% | | | |
Copa Holdings SA Class A | | 3,000 | 351,510 |
Philippines - 0.1% | | | |
Century Properties Group, Inc. | | 10,350,000 | 90,593 |
Portugal - 0.6% | | | |
Banco Comercial Portugues SA (Reg.) (a) | | 2,676,800 | 898,959 |
Russia - 0.6% | | | |
Bank St. Petersburg PJSC (a) | | 411,100 | 332,941 |
Sberbank of Russia | | 137,860 | 491,401 |
|
TOTAL RUSSIA | | | 824,342 |
|
Singapore - 0.2% | | | |
WAVE Life Sciences (a) | | 100 | 4,445 |
Wing Tai Holdings Ltd. | | 147,000 | 225,229 |
|
TOTAL SINGAPORE | | | 229,674 |
|
South Africa - 0.5% | | | |
Naspers Ltd. Class N | | 3,100 | 755,221 |
Novus Holdings Ltd. | | 1,072 | 345 |
|
TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA | | | 755,566 |
|
Spain - 0.7% | | | |
Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion SA | | 15,900 | 149,383 |
CaixaBank SA | | 143,100 | 695,877 |
Unicaja Banco SA | | 117,400 | 212,800 |
|
TOTAL SPAIN | | | 1,058,060 |
|
Sweden - 0.5% | | | |
Alfa Laval AB | | 100 | 2,486 |
Essity AB Class B | | 11,800 | 300,503 |
Indutrade AB | | 3,200 | 75,792 |
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (B Shares) | | 49,800 | 379,649 |
|
TOTAL SWEDEN | | | 758,430 |
|
Switzerland - 1.2% | | | |
Chubb Ltd. | | 1,400 | 189,938 |
Julius Baer Group Ltd. | | 5,020 | 297,929 |
Oriflame Holding AG | | 7,200 | 342,706 |
Roche Holding AG (participation certificate) | | 4,328 | 961,627 |
|
TOTAL SWITZERLAND | | | 1,792,200 |
|
Taiwan - 0.7% | | | |
Chroma ATE, Inc. | | 39,000 | 195,754 |
St.Shine Optical Co. Ltd. | | 1,000 | 26,763 |
TCI Co. Ltd. | | 23,000 | 336,847 |
United Microelectronics Corp. sponsored ADR | | 145,800 | 389,286 |
|
TOTAL TAIWAN | | | 948,650 |
|
Thailand - 0.0% | | | |
Kasikornbank PCL (For. Reg.) | | 8,700 | 55,141 |
MC Group PCL | | 11,400 | 4,271 |
|
TOTAL THAILAND | | | 59,412 |
|
Turkey - 0.4% | | | |
Bim Birlesik Magazalar A/S JSC | | 11,000 | 186,714 |
Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi A/S | | 137,000 | 81,955 |
Turkiye Is Bankasi A/S Series C | | 126,000 | 191,074 |
Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi A/S | | 521,000 | 179,562 |
|
TOTAL TURKEY | | | 639,305 |
|
United Kingdom - 6.6% | | | |
Admiral Group PLC | | 6,300 | 172,857 |
Alliance Pharma PLC | | 567,026 | 632,306 |
AstraZeneca PLC sponsored ADR | | 13,700 | 486,761 |
Bunzl PLC | | 14,000 | 406,870 |
ConvaTec Group PLC (b) | | 179,686 | 537,296 |
ConvaTec Group PLC ADR | | 1,900 | 22,667 |
Conviviality PLC (e) | | 142,200 | 99,058 |
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC | | 62,216 | 320,598 |
Ensco PLC Class A (c) | | 121,700 | 687,605 |
Fever-Tree Drinks PLC | | 521 | 20,342 |
G4S PLC (United Kingdom) | | 94,700 | 337,537 |
GW Pharmaceuticals PLC ADR (a) | | 800 | 106,328 |
Hastings Group Holdings PLC (b) | | 105,387 | 400,438 |
Ibstock PLC (b) | | 44,800 | 183,425 |
Lloyds Banking Group PLC | | 122,900 | 109,006 |
Melrose Industries PLC | | 49,754 | 156,172 |
Metro Bank PLC (a) | | 3,300 | 150,013 |
Micro Focus International PLC | | 16,488 | 284,305 |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC | | 34,522 | 142,437 |
NMC Health PLC | | 7,700 | 378,229 |
Prudential PLC | | 17,095 | 439,582 |
Safestore Holdings PLC | | 47,619 | 359,253 |
Senior Engineering Group PLC | | 74,700 | 303,788 |
Smiths Group PLC | | 20,500 | 450,852 |
Spire Healthcare Group PLC (b) | | 80,999 | 254,246 |
St. James's Place Capital PLC | | 15,800 | 247,210 |
Tesco PLC | | 228,986 | 741,672 |
The Weir Group PLC | | 14,300 | 420,510 |
Unilever PLC | | 6,456 | 362,130 |
Volution Group PLC | | 84,500 | 229,172 |
Zpg PLC | | 23,700 | 117,134 |
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TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 9,559,799 |
|
United States of America - 42.9% | | | |
Abraxas Petroleum Corp. (a) | | 350,600 | 1,002,716 |
Acceleron Pharma, Inc. (a) | | 3,900 | 136,149 |
Achaogen, Inc. (a)(c) | | 11,700 | 167,427 |
Activision Blizzard, Inc. | | 11,200 | 743,120 |
Acuity Brands, Inc. | | 1,200 | 143,724 |
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a) | | 900 | 199,440 |
Aetna, Inc. | | 3,300 | 590,865 |
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. | | 2,700 | 445,122 |
Air Lease Corp. Class A | | 900 | 37,521 |
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 11,700 | 838,305 |
Alamo Group, Inc. | | 500 | 54,735 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 6,900 | 811,647 |
Allegiant Travel Co. | | 3,600 | 576,900 |
Alliance Data Systems Corp. | | 700 | 142,135 |
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc. | | 4,000 | 155,960 |
Alphabet, Inc.: | | | |
Class A (a) | | 1,400 | 1,426,012 |
Class C (a) | | 1,059 | 1,077,352 |
American International Group, Inc. | | 9,800 | 548,800 |
Amgen, Inc. | | 4,000 | 697,920 |
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | | 18,200 | 1,225,224 |
Anixter International, Inc. (a) | | 4,000 | 235,600 |
Antero Resources Corp. (a) | | 9,000 | 171,000 |
Anthem, Inc. | | 2,100 | 495,579 |
Apache Corp. | | 5,700 | 233,415 |
At Home Group, Inc. (a) | | 10,700 | 376,533 |
Avery Dennison Corp. | | 300 | 31,443 |
Avnet, Inc. | | 4,300 | 168,689 |
Baker Hughes, a GE Co. Class A | | 3,700 | 133,607 |
Bank of America Corp. | | 62,500 | 1,869,997 |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | | 5,900 | 321,609 |
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. | | 7,100 | 332,280 |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a) | | 1,400 | 116,914 |
bluebird bio, Inc. (a) | | 500 | 85,075 |
Brighthouse Financial, Inc. | | 618 | 31,382 |
Capital One Financial Corp. | | 9,100 | 824,642 |
Cardinal Health, Inc. | | 3,200 | 205,344 |
Care.com, Inc. (a) | | 19,600 | 305,760 |
Catalent, Inc. (a) | | 7,900 | 324,769 |
CDW Corp. | | 6,350 | 452,692 |
Celanese Corp. Class A | | 4,700 | 510,749 |
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | | 8,000 | 310,400 |
Charles Schwab Corp. | | 6,200 | 345,216 |
Cheniere Energy, Inc. (a) | | 12,300 | 715,368 |
Cigna Corp. | | 4,300 | 738,826 |
Cimarex Energy Co. | | 4,400 | 442,596 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | | 13,000 | 575,770 |
CIT Group, Inc. | | 9,600 | 508,320 |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 21,600 | 1,474,632 |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A | | 2,800 | 229,096 |
Colfax Corp. (a) | | 5,800 | 179,858 |
Conduent, Inc. (a) | | 61,500 | 1,196,790 |
CVS Health Corp. | | 9,900 | 691,317 |
Delek U.S. Holdings, Inc. | | 10,300 | 487,911 |
DexCom, Inc. (a) | | 100 | 7,318 |
Diamondback Energy, Inc. (a) | | 2,700 | 346,815 |
DineEquity, Inc. | | 15,000 | 1,190,100 |
Dollar Tree, Inc. (a) | | 4,600 | 441,094 |
Dril-Quip, Inc. (a) | | 7,500 | 310,875 |
Drive Shack, Inc. (a) | | 38,496 | 209,033 |
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. | | 1,700 | 196,027 |
E*TRADE Financial Corp. (a) | | 6,600 | 400,488 |
Eastman Chemical Co. | | 4,200 | 428,736 |
Electronic Arts, Inc. (a) | | 5,900 | 696,082 |
EOG Resources, Inc. | | 2,800 | 330,876 |
Epizyme, Inc. (a) | | 1,600 | 20,560 |
Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (a) | | 9,100 | 710,801 |
Exelon Corp. | | 7,000 | 277,760 |
F5 Networks, Inc. (a) | | 1,300 | 212,017 |
FedEx Corp. | | 3,300 | 815,760 |
First Republic Bank | | 2,300 | 213,601 |
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. | | 9,400 | 142,974 |
G-III Apparel Group Ltd. (a) | | 6,000 | 218,940 |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | | 2,200 | 524,326 |
Graphic Packaging Holding Co. | | 13,800 | 197,340 |
Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. | | 1,900 | 100,415 |
H.B. Fuller Co. | | 3,600 | 178,092 |
Halliburton Co. | | 14,600 | 773,654 |
HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 4,900 | 189,679 |
Heartland Financial U.S.A., Inc. | | 3,600 | 193,140 |
Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. | | 1,700 | 145,911 |
Hilton Grand Vacations, Inc. (a) | | 700 | 30,100 |
Hostess Brands, Inc. Class A (a) | | 14,100 | 198,105 |
Humana, Inc. | | 1,300 | 382,434 |
Huntington Bancshares, Inc. | | 54,007 | 805,244 |
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 300 | 20,403 |
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Class A (a) | | 4,700 | 85,164 |
Jabil, Inc. | | 12,100 | 321,860 |
JBG SMITH Properties | | 7,900 | 291,273 |
KeyCorp | | 800 | 15,936 |
KLX, Inc. (a) | | 4,900 | 383,327 |
Las Vegas Sands Corp. | | 2,200 | 161,326 |
Leidos Holdings, Inc. | | 5,100 | 327,573 |
Malibu Boats, Inc. Class A (a) | | 9,500 | 320,150 |
Matrix Service Co. (a) | | 21,800 | 335,720 |
McKesson Corp. | | 2,700 | 421,767 |
MetLife, Inc. | | 24,300 | 1,158,381 |
Micron Technology, Inc. (a) | | 6,800 | 312,664 |
MKS Instruments, Inc. | | 2,300 | 235,520 |
MyoKardia, Inc. (a) | | 1,300 | 64,220 |
Myriad Genetics, Inc. (a) | | 5,100 | 144,279 |
Nektar Therapeutics (a) | | 3,100 | 259,346 |
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (a) | | 2,600 | 210,808 |
Noble Energy, Inc. | | 13,000 | 439,790 |
NVIDIA Corp. | | 1,700 | 382,330 |
ON Semiconductor Corp. (a) | | 15,300 | 337,824 |
Party City Holdco, Inc. (a) | | 7,500 | 118,125 |
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 10,400 | 775,944 |
Planet Fitness, Inc. (a) | | 10,000 | 402,900 |
Plantronics, Inc. | | 1,600 | 104,240 |
Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 2,900 | 104,777 |
Post Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 2,400 | 190,968 |
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (a) | | 1,500 | 123,255 |
Puma Biotechnology, Inc. (a) | | 1,700 | 108,375 |
Pure Storage, Inc. Class A (a) | | 100 | 2,023 |
PVH Corp. | | 5,800 | 926,086 |
Qualcomm, Inc. | | 12,800 | 652,928 |
Radian Group, Inc. | | 9,800 | 140,140 |
Radius Health, Inc. (a) | | 4,000 | 120,800 |
Regal Beloit Corp. | | 6,800 | 484,160 |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 1,000 | 303,680 |
REGENXBIO, Inc. (a) | | 9,800 | 366,030 |
Rexnord Corp. (a) | | 14,500 | 398,895 |
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (a) | | 2,600 | 198,536 |
Starbucks Corp. | | 3,000 | 172,710 |
Steelcase, Inc. Class A | | 2,100 | 27,825 |
Stifel Financial Corp. | | 3,600 | 209,808 |
SunTrust Banks, Inc. | | 4,700 | 313,960 |
Superior Energy Services, Inc. (a) | | 24,800 | 266,104 |
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 7,700 | 361,130 |
Team, Inc. (a)(c) | | 47,300 | 801,735 |
Tenneco, Inc. | | 2,600 | 116,194 |
TESARO, Inc. (a) | | 1,200 | 61,092 |
The AES Corp. | | 107,800 | 1,319,472 |
The Blackstone Group LP | | 9,000 | 278,550 |
The Chemours Co. LLC | | 10,400 | 503,464 |
The J.M. Smucker Co. | | 1,600 | 182,528 |
The Mosaic Co. | | 36,600 | 986,370 |
The New York Times Co. Class A | | 16,800 | 393,960 |
The Simply Good Foods Co. | | 12,000 | 155,520 |
The Walt Disney Co. | | 4,400 | 441,452 |
TherapeuticsMD, Inc. (a) | | 9,800 | 53,900 |
Toll Brothers, Inc. | | 3,700 | 155,992 |
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (a) | | 4,700 | 180,950 |
TriMas Corp. (a) | | 10,700 | 289,970 |
Tyson Foods, Inc. Class A | | 3,800 | 266,380 |
U.S. Bancorp | | 7,300 | 368,285 |
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a) | | 2,700 | 137,268 |
Umpqua Holdings Corp. | | 6,100 | 143,716 |
Under Armour, Inc.: | | | |
Class A (sub. vtg.) (a) | | 100 | 1,776 |
Class C (non-vtg.) (a) | | 6,200 | 95,170 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 1,600 | 378,240 |
Univar, Inc. (a) | | 8,900 | 245,284 |
Virtusa Corp. (a) | | 5,200 | 250,328 |
Vistra Energy Corp. (a) | | 25,300 | 578,105 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 21,300 | 1,106,748 |
WESCO International, Inc. (a) | | 2,800 | 166,740 |
WestRock Co. | | 10,200 | 603,432 |
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (a) | | 12,200 | 498,004 |
WildHorse Resource Development Corp. (a) | | 17,000 | 444,550 |
World Fuel Services Corp. | | 1,200 | 25,764 |
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | | 3,200 | 365,472 |
Yum China Holdings, Inc. | | 7,100 | 303,596 |
Yum! Brands, Inc. | | 1,400 | 121,940 |
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. | | 2,700 | 310,959 |
|
TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 62,468,516 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $126,102,029) | | | 143,228,196 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.9% | | | |
Brazil - 0.9% | | | |
Azul SA (a) | | 18,500 | 192,224 |
Banco ABC Brasil SA | | 98,383 | 526,851 |
Banco do Estado Rio Grande do Sul SA | | 18,900 | 108,387 |
Companhia Paranaense de Energia-Copel (PN-B) | | 36,400 | 278,362 |
Itau Unibanco Holding SA | | 11,400 | 165,995 |
TOTAL NONCONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $1,158,098) | | | 1,271,819 |
| | Principal Amount(f) | Value |
|
Nonconvertible Bonds - 0.0% | | | |
Canada - 0.0% | | | |
Constellation Software, Inc. Canada Consumer Price Index + 6.500% 8.1% 3/31/40(g)(h) | CAD | | |
(Cost $4,599) | | CAD 5,600 | 5,321 |
| | Shares | Value |
|
Money Market Funds - 1.4% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (i) | | 714,258 | 714,401 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (i)(j) | | 1,359,443 | 1,359,579 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $2,074,012) | | | 2,073,980 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.7% | | | |
(Cost $129,338,738) | | | 146,579,316 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.7)% | | | (972,234) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $145,607,082 |
Currency Abbreviations
CAD – Canadian dollar
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
Legend
(a) Non-income producing
(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 $4,587,805 or 3.2% of net assets.
(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
(d) Security or a portion of the security purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis.
(e) Level 3 security
(f) Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
(g) Coupon rates for floating and adjustable rate securities reflect the rates in effect at period end.
(h) Coupon is indexed to a floating interest rate which may be multiplied by a specified factor and/or subject to caps or floors.
(i) 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.
(j) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.
Affiliated Central Funds
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $2,885 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 14,760 |
Total | $17,645 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $18,156,192 | $14,103,068 | $4,053,124 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 8,214,306 | 5,466,085 | 2,649,163 | 99,058 |
Energy | 11,825,504 | 11,649,485 | 176,019 | -- |
Financials | 27,095,250 | 21,443,692 | 5,651,558 | -- |
Health Care | 19,183,141 | 14,980,344 | 4,202,797 | -- |
Industrials | 21,110,007 | 19,106,513 | 2,003,494 | -- |
Information Technology | 21,662,813 | 19,610,566 | 2,052,247 | -- |
Materials | 7,806,890 | 7,352,121 | 454,769 | -- |
Real Estate | 3,551,338 | 2,362,401 | 1,188,937 | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 718,083 | 186,484 | 531,599 | -- |
Utilities | 5,176,491 | 2,741,893 | 2,434,598 | -- |
Corporate Bonds | 5,321 | -- | 5,321 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 2,073,980 | 2,073,980 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $146,579,316 | $121,076,632 | $25,403,626 | $99,058 |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $10,981,566 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $10,295,954 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $1,322,695) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $127,264,726) | $144,505,336 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $2,074,012) | 2,073,980 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $129,338,738) | | $146,579,316 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $11,217) | | 11,170 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 551,277 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 109,537 |
Dividends receivable | | 299,633 |
Interest receivable | | 220 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 1,778 |
Prepaid expenses | | 79 |
Other receivables | | 58,809 |
Total assets | | 147,611,819 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | | |
Regular delivery | $355,683 | |
Delayed delivery | 22,391 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 35,712 | |
Accrued management fee | 93,045 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 40,692 | |
Other affiliated payables | 29,010 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 68,629 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 1,359,575 | |
Total liabilities | | 2,004,737 |
Net Assets | | $145,607,082 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $117,886,648 |
Accumulated net investment loss | | (25,248) |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 10,532,827 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 17,212,855 |
Net Assets | | $145,607,082 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($40,101,646 ÷ 2,186,934 shares) | | $18.34 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $18.34) | | $19.46 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($26,207,527 ÷ 1,497,642 shares) | | $17.50 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $17.50) | | $18.13 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($25,887,604 ÷ 1,642,642 shares)(a) | | $15.76 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($53,410,305 ÷ 2,768,416 shares) | | $19.29 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $1,120,733 |
Interest | | 273 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 17,645 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 1,138,651 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (53,364) |
Total income | | 1,085,287 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | | |
Basic fee | $499,060 | |
Performance adjustment | 67,408 | |
Transfer agent fees | 143,390 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 242,669 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 28,233 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 50,880 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 288 | |
Registration fees | 50,920 | |
Audit | 38,629 | |
Legal | 2,390 | |
Miscellaneous | 491 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 1,124,358 | |
Expense reductions | (37,216) | 1,087,142 |
Net investment income (loss) | | (1,855) |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 11,096,997 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 34 | |
Foreign currency transactions | (23,638) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 11,073,393 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | (6,160,770) | |
Fidelity Central Funds | (37) | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (5,346) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (6,166,153) |
Net gain (loss) | | 4,907,240 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $4,905,385 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $(1,855) | $354,581 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 11,073,393 | 21,205,433 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (6,166,153) | 11,844,051 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 4,905,385 | 33,404,065 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (313,799) | – |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (17,424,360) | (1,458,293) |
Total distributions | (17,738,159) | (1,458,293) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 19,098,689 | (30,525,072) |
Redemption fees | 409 | 2,562 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 6,266,324 | 1,423,262 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 139,340,758 | 137,917,496 |
End of period | $145,607,082 | $139,340,758 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $– | $290,406 |
Accumulated net investment loss end of period | $(25,248) | $– |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $20.21 | $16.18 | $15.89 | $15.32 | $13.64 | $10.40 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .01 | .05 | –B | (.01) | .01 | .04 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .66 | 4.15 | .38 | .58 | 1.76 | 3.20 |
Total from investment operations | .67 | 4.20 | .38 | .57 | 1.77 | 3.24 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.04) | – | – | – | (.02) | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (2.50) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.06) | – |
Total distributions | (2.54) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.09)C | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $18.34 | $20.21 | $16.18 | $15.89 | $15.32 | $13.64 |
Total ReturnD,E,F | 3.68% | 26.17% | 2.39% | 3.72% | 13.03% | 31.15% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.49%I | 1.48% | 1.55% | 1.57% | 1.62% | 1.38% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.45%I | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.38% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.43%I | 1.44% | 1.44% | 1.44% | 1.45% | 1.35% |
Net investment income (loss) | .08%I | .28% | (.02)% | (.07)% | .07% | .33% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $40,102 | $38,710 | $39,565 | $41,225 | $35,987 | $33,694 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 99%I | 137% | 122% | 176% | 249% | 211% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total distributions of $.09 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.024 and distributions from net realized gain of $.064 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $19.37 | $15.56 | $15.32 | $14.81 | $13.19 | $10.09 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.02) | .01 | (.04) | (.05) | (.03) | –B |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .65 | 3.97 | .37 | .56 | 1.71 | 3.10 |
Total from investment operations | .63 | 3.98 | .33 | .51 | 1.68 | 3.10 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (2.50) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.06) | – |
Total distributions | (2.50) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.06) | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $17.50 | $19.37 | $15.56 | $15.32 | $14.81 | $13.19 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 3.59% | 25.80% | 2.15% | 3.44% | 12.77% | 30.72% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.77%H | 1.77% | 1.85% | 1.89% | 1.93% | 1.68% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.70%H | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.68% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.68%H | 1.69% | 1.69% | 1.69% | 1.70% | 1.64% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.18)%H | .03% | (.27)% | (.32)% | (.17)% | .04% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $26,208 | $25,535 | $21,351 | $24,017 | $20,975 | $19,193 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 99%H | 137% | 122% | 176% | 249% | 211% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $17.65 | $14.26 | $14.12 | $13.72 | $12.26 | $9.41 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.05) | (.07) | (.11) | (.12) | (.09) | (.05) |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .58 | 3.63 | .34 | .52 | 1.58 | 2.90 |
Total from investment operations | .53 | 3.56 | .23 | .40 | 1.49 | 2.85 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (2.42) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.03) | – |
Total distributions | (2.42) | (.17) | (.09) | – | (.03) | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,B | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $15.76 | $17.65 | $14.26 | $14.12 | $13.72 | $12.26 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 3.33% | 25.20% | 1.62% | 2.92% | 12.13% | 30.29% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.23%H | 2.23% | 2.31% | 2.34% | 2.40% | 2.16% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.20%H | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.16% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.18%H | 2.19% | 2.19% | 2.19% | 2.20% | 2.13% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.68)%H | (.47)% | (.77)% | (.82)% | (.67)% | (.45)% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $25,888 | $24,215 | $19,942 | $21,186 | $15,747 | $13,055 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 99%H | 137% | 122% | 176% | 249% | 211% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $21.16 | $16.90 | $16.55 | $15.92 | $14.18 | $10.78 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .03 | .11 | .04 | .03 | .05 | .09 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .70 | 4.33 | .40 | .60 | 1.82 | 3.33 |
Total from investment operations | .73 | 4.44 | .44 | .63 | 1.87 | 3.42 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.10) | – | – | – | (.06) | (.02) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (2.50) | (.18) | (.09) | – | (.06) | – |
Total distributions | (2.60) | (.18) | (.09) | – | (.13)B | (.02) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA,C | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.29 | $21.16 | $16.90 | $16.55 | $15.92 | $14.18 |
Total ReturnD,E | 3.79% | 26.52% | 2.66% | 3.96% | 13.27% | 31.74% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.18%H | 1.16% | 1.22% | 1.26% | 1.29% | 1.02% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.18%H | 1.16% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.02% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.15%H | 1.15% | 1.19% | 1.19% | 1.20% | .99% |
Net investment income (loss) | .35%H | .57% | .23% | .18% | .33% | .69% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $53,410 | $50,881 | $57,060 | $59,117 | $39,159 | $30,153 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 99%H | 137% | 122% | 176% | 249% | 211% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Total distributions of $.13 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.064 and distributions from net realized gain of $.064 per share.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C and Class I shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 vendors or from brokers who make markets in such securities. Corporate bonds are valued by pricing vendors 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 vendors. 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
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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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), partnerships 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 | $23,329,132 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (6,264,600) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $17,064,532 |
Tax cost | $129,514,784 |
Short-Term Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held by investors in the Fund less than 30 days may have been subject to a redemption fee equal to 1.00% of the NAV of shares redeemed. All redemption fees, which reduce the proceeds of the shareholder redemption, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital. In November 2017, the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of these redemption fees effective December 18, 2017.
Delayed Delivery Transactions and When-Issued Securities. During the period, the Fund transacted in securities on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis. Payment and delivery may take place after the customary settlement period for that security. The price of the underlying securities and the date when the securities will be delivered and paid for are fixed at the time the transaction is negotiated. The securities purchased on a delayed delivery or when-issued basis are identified as such in the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Losses may arise due to changes in the value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract's terms, or if the issuer does not issue the securities due to political, economic, or other factors.
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $71,957,840 and $70,873,381, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .45% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. In addition, the management fee is subject to a performance adjustment (up to a maximum of +/- .20% of the Fund's average net assets over a 36 month performance period). The upward or downward adjustment to the management fee is based on the relative investment performance of Class I of the Fund as compared to its benchmark index, the MSCI All Country World Index, over the same 36 month performance period. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate, including the performance adjustment, was .78% of the Fund's average net assets. The performance adjustment included in the management fee rate may be higher or lower than the maximum performance adjustment rate due to the difference between the average net assets for the reporting and performance periods.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $49,826 | $1,475 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 66,064 | 773 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 126,779 | 14,663 |
| | | $242,669 | $16,911 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $10,849 |
Class M | 3,116 |
Class C(a) | 621 |
| $14,586 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $43,032 | .22 |
Class M | 32,275 | .24 |
Class C | 26,744 | .21 |
Class I | 41,339 | .16 |
| $143,390 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .04%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $2,597 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $207 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The value of securities loaned to FCM at period end was $25,758. 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 Total security lending income during the period amounted to $14,760, including $157 from securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
The investment adviser contractually agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of class-level average net assets as noted in the table below. This reimbursement will remain in place through December 31, 2018. This waiver will remain in place indefinitely and cannot be changed without approval of the Fund's Board of Trustees. Some expenses, for example the compensation of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, are excluded from this reimbursement.
The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:
| Expense Limitations | Reimbursement |
Class A | 1.45% | $7,512 |
Class M | 1.70% | 8,643 |
Class C | 2.20% | 3,922 |
| | $20,077 |
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $16,441 for the period.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $698.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $80,830 | $– |
Class I | 232,969 | – |
Total | $313,799 | $– |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $4,815,120 | $395,545 |
Class M | 3,297,645 | 223,766 |
Class C | 3,302,442 | 228,025 |
Class I | 6,009,153 | 610,957 |
Total | $17,424,360 | $1,458,293 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 198,965 | 362,115 | $3,722,990 | $6,440,454 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 265,649 | 23,639 | 4,741,835 | 385,077 |
Shares redeemed | (193,337) | (914,786) | (3,594,076) | (15,993,179) |
Net increase (decrease) | 271,277 | (529,032) | $4,870,749 | $(9,167,648) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 86,509 | 258,672 | $1,553,046 | $4,457,991 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 193,277 | 14,111 | 3,295,375 | 220,975 |
Shares redeemed | (100,118) | (326,771) | (1,779,860) | (5,647,103) |
Net increase (decrease) | 179,668 | (53,988) | $3,068,561 | $(968,137) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 213,875 | 277,302 | $3,475,883 | $4,342,182 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 207,670 | 15,260 | 3,196,039 | 218,681 |
Shares redeemed | (150,547) | (318,919) | (2,451,521) | (4,960,464) |
Net increase (decrease) | 270,998 | (26,357) | $4,220,401 | $(399,601) |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 331,254 | 951,425 | $6,578,387 | $17,653,991 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 319,983 | 35,233 | 6,002,888 | 599,659 |
Shares redeemed | (287,799) | (1,957,451) | (5,642,297) | (38,243,336) |
Net increase (decrease) | 363,438 | (970,793) | $6,938,978 | $(19,989,686) |
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, redemption fees and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.45% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,036.80 | $7.32 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.60 | $7.25 |
Class M | 1.70% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,035.90 | $8.58 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,016.36 | $8.50 |
Class C | 2.20% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,033.30 | $11.09 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,013.88 | $10.99 |
Class I | 1.18% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,037.90 | $5.96 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.94 | $5.91 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Microsoft Corp. (United States of America, Software) | 2.5 |
Apple, Inc. (United States of America, Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals) | 2.5 |
British American Tobacco PLC (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom, Tobacco) | 2.3 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (United States of America, Banks) | 2.0 |
Bank of America Corp. (United States of America, Banks) | 1.8 |
| 11.1 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 16.9 |
Consumer Staples | 14.3 |
Information Technology | 12.6 |
Consumer Discretionary | 11.4 |
Health Care | 10.8 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
United States of America | 42.1 |
United Kingdom | 10.7 |
Japan | 6.7 |
Canada | 4.2 |
Switzerland | 3.9 |
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 91.9% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 8.1% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 90.9% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
Australia - 0.1% | | | |
Inghams Group Ltd. | | 3,579 | $10,098 |
Bailiwick of Jersey - 1.3% | | | |
Shire PLC | | 1,192 | 63,474 |
Wolseley PLC | | 1,685 | 129,441 |
WPP PLC | | 4,106 | 70,459 |
|
TOTAL BAILIWICK OF JERSEY | | | 263,374 |
|
Belgium - 1.5% | | | |
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV | | 1,300 | 129,860 |
KBC Groep NV | | 1,511 | 132,107 |
Telenet Group Holding NV (a) | | 800 | 46,913 |
|
TOTAL BELGIUM | | | 308,880 |
|
Bermuda - 0.7% | | | |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 3,196 | 65,515 |
IHS Markit Ltd. (a) | | 1,325 | 65,097 |
|
TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 130,612 |
|
Canada - 4.2% | | | |
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. Class B (sub. vtg.) | | 2,184 | 94,423 |
Constellation Software, Inc. | | 344 | 245,854 |
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (sub. vtg.) | | 143 | 79,169 |
Imperial Oil Ltd. | | 4,583 | 142,528 |
PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. | | 200 | 4,435 |
Suncor Energy, Inc. | | 7,391 | 282,642 |
|
TOTAL CANADA | | | 849,051 |
|
Cayman Islands - 0.7% | | | |
Best Pacific International Holdings Ltd. | | 36,000 | 14,179 |
SITC International Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 124,000 | 132,115 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 146,294 |
|
China - 0.5% | | | |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 11,434 | 89,804 |
Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd. | | 2,700 | 8,723 |
|
TOTAL CHINA | | | 98,527 |
|
France - 1.7% | | | |
Compagnie de St. Gobain | | 2,252 | 118,285 |
Edenred SA | | 800 | 27,533 |
Maisons du Monde SA (b) | | 1,960 | 79,717 |
VINCI SA | | 1,245 | 124,480 |
|
TOTAL FRANCE | | | 350,015 |
|
Germany - 3.0% | | | |
adidas AG | | 468 | 115,235 |
AURELIUS AG | | 149 | 11,309 |
Deutsche Post AG | | 2,337 | 101,436 |
Deutsche Telekom AG | | 2,910 | 50,936 |
Hannover Reuck SE | | 400 | 56,322 |
Linde AG | | 530 | 117,797 |
SAP SE | | 1,463 | 162,548 |
|
TOTAL GERMANY | | | 615,583 |
|
Hong Kong - 0.5% | | | |
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. | | 18,500 | 108,377 |
Ireland - 1.7% | | | |
Accenture PLC Class A | | 1,229 | 185,825 |
Greencore Group PLC | | 9,430 | 20,609 |
Johnson Controls International PLC | | 1,060 | 35,902 |
Paddy Power Betfair PLC (Ireland) | | 700 | 69,274 |
Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | | 700 | 29,891 |
|
TOTAL IRELAND | | | 341,501 |
|
Isle of Man - 0.6% | | | |
Playtech Ltd. | | 10,294 | 114,876 |
Italy - 0.4% | | | |
Prada SpA | | 14,000 | 71,035 |
Japan - 6.7% | | | |
A/S One Corp. | | 1,600 | 108,891 |
Aucnet, Inc. | | 2,300 | 29,855 |
Broadleaf Co. Ltd. | | 9,400 | 44,885 |
Daiichikosho Co. Ltd. | | 5,600 | 294,548 |
Hoya Corp. | | 3,800 | 203,765 |
Inaba Denki Sangyo Co. Ltd. | | 1,900 | 81,426 |
Japan Meat Co. Ltd. | | 4,400 | 78,727 |
Mitani Shoji Co. Ltd. | | 400 | 19,027 |
Morinaga & Co. Ltd. | | 1,900 | 92,636 |
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. | | 3,100 | 147,111 |
Sacs Bar Holdings, Inc. | | 1,400 | 15,009 |
Sony Corp. | | 2,000 | 93,412 |
Tsuruha Holdings, Inc. | | 1,000 | 143,890 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 1,353,182 |
|
Kenya - 0.8% | | | |
Safaricom Ltd. | | 601,900 | 169,528 |
Korea (South) - 0.2% | | | |
Coway Co. Ltd. | | 418 | 34,153 |
Cuckoo Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 55 | 6,112 |
|
TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH) | | | 40,265 |
|
Luxembourg - 1.1% | | | |
B&M European Value Retail S.A. | | 39,588 | 220,892 |
Multi-National - 0.6% | | | |
HKT Trust/HKT Ltd. unit | | 93,280 | 122,727 |
Netherlands - 2.9% | | | |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV | | 2,913 | 123,296 |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | | 1,563 | 165,256 |
Unilever NV (Certificaten Van Aandelen) (Bearer) | | 5,319 | 304,931 |
|
TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 593,483 |
|
Norway - 0.7% | | | |
Statoil ASA | | 5,649 | 144,460 |
Panama - 0.4% | | | |
Carnival Corp. | | 1,325 | 83,555 |
South Africa - 0.0% | | | |
EOH Holdings Ltd. | | 800 | 2,432 |
Spain - 1.2% | | | |
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A | | 1,100 | 80,631 |
CaixaBank SA | | 13,200 | 64,190 |
Prosegur Cash SA (b) | | 33,900 | 99,069 |
|
TOTAL SPAIN | | | 243,890 |
|
Sweden - 1.1% | | | |
Essity AB Class B | | 3,970 | 101,101 |
HEXPOL AB (B Shares) | | 2,200 | 22,863 |
Loomis AB (B Shares) | | 2,640 | 96,536 |
|
TOTAL SWEDEN | | | 220,500 |
|
Switzerland - 3.9% | | | |
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise | | 120 | 95,903 |
Chubb Ltd. | | 954 | 129,429 |
Nestle SA (Reg. S) | | 3,671 | 284,393 |
Roche Holding AG (participation certificate) | | 795 | 176,639 |
Swatch Group AG (Bearer) | | 230 | 111,054 |
|
TOTAL SWITZERLAND | | | 797,418 |
|
Taiwan - 1.2% | | | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 25,000 | 190,096 |
United Microelectronics Corp. | | 95,000 | 51,140 |
|
TOTAL TAIWAN | | | 241,236 |
|
Thailand - 0.4% | | | |
Star Petroleum Refining PCL | | 151,500 | 75,123 |
United Kingdom - 10.7% | | | |
AstraZeneca PLC sponsored ADR | | 3,762 | 133,664 |
British American Tobacco PLC (United Kingdom) | | 8,471 | 464,613 |
Bunzl PLC | | 2,252 | 65,448 |
Cineworld Group PLC | | 19,868 | 71,225 |
Compass Group PLC | | 4,106 | 88,183 |
Conviviality PLC (c) | | 13,550 | 9,439 |
GlaxoSmithKline PLC | | 7,325 | 146,919 |
Hastings Group Holdings PLC (b) | | 18,922 | 71,898 |
Hilton Food Group PLC | | 13,481 | 164,435 |
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC | | 3,114 | 111,656 |
Melrose Industries PLC | | 16,428 | 51,565 |
Micro Focus International PLC | | 14,347 | 247,387 |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC | | 24,436 | 100,822 |
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | | 689 | 54,051 |
St. James's Place Capital PLC | | 6,761 | 105,784 |
Standard Life PLC | | 20,281 | 101,995 |
Victrex PLC | | 2,802 | 101,144 |
Vodafone Group PLC | | 28,065 | 81,900 |
|
TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 2,172,128 |
|
United States of America - 42.1% | | | |
Altria Group, Inc. | | 2,940 | 164,963 |
American Tower Corp. | | 2,321 | 316,492 |
AMETEK, Inc. | | 3,017 | 210,587 |
Amgen, Inc. | | 1,754 | 306,038 |
Apple, Inc. | | 3,086 | 509,992 |
Ball Corp. | | 1,430 | 57,329 |
Bank of America Corp. | | 12,484 | 373,521 |
Becton, Dickinson & Co. | | 768 | 178,076 |
Bluegreen Vacations Corp. | | 4,265 | 99,247 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | | 1,616 | 84,242 |
Capital One Financial Corp. | | 2,411 | 218,485 |
Cedar Fair LP (depositary unit) | | 1,086 | 73,566 |
Charter Communications, Inc. Class A (a) | | 318 | 86,270 |
Chevron Corp. | | 2,931 | 366,697 |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 4,159 | 283,935 |
Comcast Corp. Class A | | 4,954 | 155,506 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | | 4,371 | 286,301 |
Danaher Corp. | | 1,298 | 130,215 |
Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. | | 391 | 76,409 |
DowDuPont, Inc. | | 2,819 | 178,274 |
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. | | 1,282 | 153,789 |
Enterprise Products Partners LP | | 768 | 20,613 |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | | 2,580 | 200,595 |
Fortive Corp. | | 1,113 | 78,255 |
General Electric Co. | | 5,351 | 75,289 |
Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. | | 2,834 | 66,854 |
Johnson & Johnson | | 2,035 | 257,407 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | | 3,655 | 397,591 |
Lowe's Companies, Inc. | | 980 | 80,781 |
Microsoft Corp. | | 5,474 | 511,929 |
Monsanto Co. | | 848 | 106,314 |
MSCI, Inc. | | 636 | 95,292 |
Packaging Corp. of America | | 477 | 55,184 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | | 1,669 | 168,469 |
Philip Morris International, Inc. | | 821 | 67,322 |
Phillips 66 Co. | | 927 | 103,184 |
Qualcomm, Inc. | | 4,212 | 214,854 |
S&P Global, Inc. | | 567 | 106,936 |
SunTrust Banks, Inc. | | 3,181 | 212,491 |
The Coca-Cola Co. | | 4,344 | 187,704 |
The J.M. Smucker Co. | | 927 | 105,752 |
U.S. Bancorp | | 4,657 | 234,946 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 821 | 194,084 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 1,033 | 114,591 |
Verizon Communications, Inc. | | 5,987 | 295,458 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 5,556 | 288,690 |
|
TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 8,550,519 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $15,347,265) | | | 18,439,561 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 1.0% | | | |
Brazil - 0.5% | | | |
Itau Unibanco Holding SA | | 7,200 | 104,839 |
Spain - 0.5% | | | |
Grifols SA Class B | | 5,000 | 103,062 |
TOTAL NONCONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $181,917) | | | 207,901 |
| | Principal Amount(d) | Value |
|
Nonconvertible Bonds - 0.0% | | | |
Canada - 0.0% | | | |
Constellation Software, Inc. Canada Consumer Price Index + 6.500% 8.1% 3/31/40(e)(f) | | | |
(Cost $429) | | CAD 500 | 475 |
| | Shares | Value |
|
Money Market Funds - 9.5% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (g) | | | |
(Cost $1,925,765) | | 1,925,380 | 1,925,765 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 101.4% | | | |
(Cost $17,455,376) | | | 20,573,702 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (1.4)% | | | (282,443) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $20,291,259 |
Currency Abbreviations
CAD – Canadian dollar
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
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(a) Non-income producing
(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 $250,684 or 1.2% of net assets.
(c) Level 3 security
(d) Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
(e) Coupon rates for floating and adjustable rate securities reflect the rates in effect at period end.
(f) Coupon is indexed to a floating interest rate which may be multiplied by a specified factor and/or subject to caps or floors.
(g) 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.
Affiliated Central Funds
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $10,856 |
Total | $10,856 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $2,270,432 | $1,912,970 | $357,462 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 2,912,861 | 1,785,336 | 1,118,086 | 9,439 |
Energy | 1,741,169 | 1,521,586 | 219,583 | -- |
Financials | 3,405,825 | 3,341,635 | 64,190 | -- |
Health Care | 2,209,772 | 1,596,382 | 613,390 | -- |
Industrials | 1,510,949 | 1,054,391 | 456,558 | -- |
Information Technology | 2,578,250 | 1,924,647 | 653,603 | -- |
Materials | 834,052 | 834,052 | -- | -- |
Real Estate | 316,492 | 316,492 | -- | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 867,660 | 464,986 | 402,674 | -- |
Corporate Bonds | 475 | -- | 475 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 1,925,765 | 1,925,765 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $20,573,702 | $16,678,242 | $3,886,021 | $9,439 |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $1,160,993 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $1,123,910 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $15,529,611) | $18,647,937 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $1,925,765) | 1,925,765 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $17,455,376) | | $20,573,702 |
Cash | | 19,603 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $9,845) | | 9,843 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 1,347,882 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 35,928 |
Dividends receivable | | 58,333 |
Interest receivable | | 3 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 2,938 |
Prepaid expenses | | 10 |
Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions | | 34,962 |
Other receivables | | 322 |
Total assets | | 22,083,526 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $1,731,991 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 60 | |
Accrued management fee | 11,688 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 7,436 | |
Other affiliated payables | 5,003 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 36,089 | |
Total liabilities | | 1,792,267 |
Net Assets | | $20,291,259 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $16,817,687 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 39,788 |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 315,334 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 3,118,450 |
Net Assets | | $20,291,259 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($9,628,738 ÷ 669,917 shares) | | $14.37 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $14.37) | | $15.25 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($3,657,616 ÷ 254,645 shares) | | $14.36 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $14.36) | | $14.88 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($4,699,287 ÷ 328,927 shares)(a) | | $14.29 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($2,305,618 ÷ 160,241 shares) | | $14.39 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $233,746 |
Interest | | 16 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 10,856 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 244,618 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (11,835) |
Total income | | 232,783 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | $67,938 | |
Transfer agent fees | 24,034 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 43,855 | |
Accounting fees and expenses | 5,095 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 4,952 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 38 | |
Registration fees | 52,522 | |
Audit | 32,968 | |
Legal | 970 | |
Miscellaneous | 63 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 232,435 | |
Expense reductions | (71,452) | 160,983 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 71,800 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 346,416 | |
Foreign currency transactions | 2,303 | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 348,719 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | (485,266) | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (92) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (485,358) |
Net gain (loss) | | (136,639) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $(64,839) |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $71,800 | $152,280 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 348,719 | 650,678 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (485,358) | 2,291,196 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | (64,839) | 3,094,154 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (37,271) | (152,524) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (324,631) | (9,225) |
Total distributions | (361,902) | (161,749) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 2,980,751 | (4,517,781) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 2,554,010 | (1,585,376) |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 17,737,249 | 19,322,625 |
End of period | $20,291,259 | $17,737,249 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $39,788 | $5,259 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $14.63 | $12.44 | $12.50 | $12.96 | $12.20 | $10.15 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .07 | .13 | .12 | .12 | .25B | .19 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | (.03) | 2.20 | .09 | .24 | .91 | 2.05 |
Total from investment operations | .04 | 2.33 | .21 | .36 | 1.16 | 2.24 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.04) | (.13) | (.11) | (.11) | (.22) | (.18) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.26) | (.01) | (.16) | (.71) | (.18) | (.01) |
Total distributions | (.30) | (.14) | (.27) | (.82) | (.40) | (.19) |
Net asset value, end of period | $14.37 | $14.63 | $12.44 | $12.50 | $12.96 | $12.20 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | .21% | 18.79% | 1.72% | 2.85% | 9.70% | 22.28% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.18%H | 2.05% | 2.13% | 2.42% | 2.63% | 4.37% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.45%H | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.44%H | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.44% | 1.45% | 1.43% |
Net investment income (loss) | .93%H | .96% | .96% | .95% | 1.95%B | 1.66% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $9,629 | $7,441 | $6,068 | $4,552 | $4,025 | $2,115 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 46%H | 48% | 43% | 87% | 112% | 78% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.25%.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $14.62 | $12.44 | $12.49 | $12.95 | $12.20 | $10.14 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .05 | .10 | .09 | .09 | .21B | .16 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | (.03) | 2.18 | .10 | .24 | .91 | 2.06 |
Total from investment operations | .02 | 2.28 | .19 | .33 | 1.12 | 2.22 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.02) | (.10) | (.08) | (.08) | (.19) | (.15) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.26) | (.01) | (.16) | (.71) | (.18) | (.01) |
Total distributions | (.28) | (.10)C | (.24) | (.79) | (.37) | (.16) |
Net asset value, end of period | $14.36 | $14.62 | $12.44 | $12.49 | $12.95 | $12.20 |
Total ReturnD,E,F | .11% | 18.42% | 1.53% | 2.59% | 9.34% | 22.11% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.46%I | 2.35% | 2.46% | 2.73% | 2.96% | 4.80% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.70%I | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.69%I | 1.69% | 1.70% | 1.69% | 1.70% | 1.68% |
Net investment income (loss) | .67%I | .71% | .71% | .70% | 1.70%B | 1.41% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $3,658 | $3,573 | $2,508 | $2,484 | $2,014 | $1,270 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 46%I | 48% | 43% | 87% | 112% | 78% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding, this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.00%.
C Total distributions of $.10 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.096 and distributions from net realized gain of $.007 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $14.57 | $12.39 | $12.46 | $12.93 | $12.18 | $10.14 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .01 | .03 | .03 | .03 | .15B | .10 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | (.03) | 2.19 | .09 | .24 | .91 | 2.06 |
Total from investment operations | (.02) | 2.22 | .12 | .27 | 1.06 | 2.16 |
Distributions from net investment income | –C | (.03) | (.03) | (.05) | (.14) | (.11) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.26) | (.01) | (.16) | (.70) | (.17) | (.01) |
Total distributions | (.26) | (.04) | (.19) | (.74)D | (.31) | (.12) |
Net asset value, end of period | $14.29 | $14.57 | $12.39 | $12.46 | $12.93 | $12.18 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | (.16)% | 17.91% | .99% | 2.10% | 8.83% | 21.40% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.96%J | 2.85% | 2.93% | 3.23% | 3.43% | 5.26% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.20%J | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.19%J | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.19% | 2.20% | 2.18% |
Net investment income (loss) | .17%J | .21% | .21% | .20% | 1.20%B | .91% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $4,699 | $4,190 | $3,588 | $3,225 | $3,173 | $1,445 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 46%J | 48% | 43% | 87% | 112% | 78% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .50%.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total distributions of $.74 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.046 and distributions from net realized gain of $.695 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $14.66 | $12.46 | $12.51 | $12.97 | $12.22 | $10.15 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .09 | .16 | .15 | .15 | .28B | .21 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | (.04) | 2.21 | .10 | .24 | .90 | 2.07 |
Total from investment operations | .05 | 2.37 | .25 | .39 | 1.18 | 2.28 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.06) | (.16) | (.14) | (.14) | (.25) | (.20) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.26) | (.01) | (.16) | (.71) | (.18) | (.01) |
Total distributions | (.32) | (.17) | (.30) | (.85) | (.43) | (.21) |
Net asset value, end of period | $14.39 | $14.66 | $12.46 | $12.51 | $12.97 | $12.22 |
Total ReturnC,D | .30% | 19.12% | 2.04% | 3.09% | 9.86% | 22.71% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsE,F | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.73%G | 1.77% | 1.68% | 2.11% | 2.35% | 4.46% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.20%G | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.19%G | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.19% | 1.20% | 1.18% |
Net investment income (loss) | 1.17%G | 1.21% | 1.21% | 1.20% | 2.20%B | 1.91% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $2,306 | $2,533 | $7,159 | $1,167 | $1,334 | $1,231 |
Portfolio turnover rateH | 46%G | 48% | 43% | 87% | 112% | 78% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net Investment income per share reflects a large, non-recurring dividend which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding this non-recurring dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.50%.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
G Annualized
H Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Global Equity Income Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C and Class I shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 vendors or from brokers who make markets in such securities. Corporate bonds are valued by pricing vendors 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 vendors. 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.
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 April 30, 2018 including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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), partnerships 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 | $3,735,498 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (635,932) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $3,099,566 |
Tax cost | $17,474,136 |
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $6,055,412 and $4,196,958, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .45% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. 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 .69% 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 Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $10,984 | $760 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 9,520 | 78 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 23,351 | 7,042 |
| | | $43,855 | $7,880 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $4,157 |
Class M | 1,141 |
Class C(a) | 267 |
| $5,565 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $10,382 | .24 |
Class M | 5,796 | .30 |
Class C | 6,909 | .30 |
Class I | 947 | .08 |
| $24,034 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for each month. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .05%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $42 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $27 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Expense Reductions.
The investment adviser contractually agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of class-level average net assets as noted in the table below. This reimbursement will remain in place through December 31,2018. Some expenses, for example the compensation of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, are excluded from this reimbursement.
The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:
| Expense Limitations | Reimbursement |
Class A | 1.45% | $31,919 |
Class M | 1.70% | 14,379 |
Class C | 2.20% | 17,789 |
Class I | 1.20% | 6,403 |
| | $70,490 |
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $868 for the period.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $94.
8. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $21,155 | $62,298 |
Class M | 5,559 | 20,993 |
Class C | 916 | 8,251 |
Class I | 9,641 | 60,982 |
Total | $37,271 | $152,524 |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $138,416 | $3,380 |
Class M | 65,448 | 1,411 |
Class C | 79,111 | 1,976 |
Class I | 41,656 | 2,458 |
Total | $324,631 | $9,225 |
9. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 192,538 | 179,123 | $2,860,184 | $2,402,063 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 10,514 | 4,618 | 153,757 | 62,496 |
Shares redeemed | (41,680) | (162,932) | (612,537) | (2,152,063) |
Net increase (decrease) | 161,372 | 20,809 | $2,401,404 | $312,496 |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 63,729 | 106,443 | $932,422 | $1,436,955 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 4,843 | 1,634 | 70,906 | 22,204 |
Shares redeemed | (58,235) | (65,415) | (838,890) | (875,686) |
Net increase (decrease) | 10,337 | 42,662 | $164,438 | $583,473 |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 59,037 | 72,843 | $864,002 | $961,531 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 5,455 | 745 | 79,586 | 10,025 |
Shares redeemed | (23,268) | (75,518) | (338,496) | (992,138) |
Net increase (decrease) | 41,224 | (1,930) | $605,092 | $(20,582) |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 24,852 | 185,075 | $371,299 | $2,445,899 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 2,964 | 1,797 | 43,383 | 24,321 |
Shares redeemed | (40,439) | (588,488) | (604,865) | (7,863,388) |
Net increase (decrease) | (12,623) | (401,616) | $(190,183) | $(5,393,168) |
10. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.45% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,002.10 | $7.20 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.60 | $7.25 |
Class M | 1.70% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,001.10 | $8.43 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,016.36 | $8.50 |
Class C | 2.20% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $998.40 | $10.90 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,013.88 | $10.99 |
Class I | 1.20% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,003.00 | $5.96 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.84 | $6.01 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Cayman Islands, Internet Software & Services) | 1.8 |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (Cayman Islands, Internet Software & Services) | 1.5 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR (Taiwan, Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment) | 1.4 |
AIA Group Ltd. (Hong Kong, Insurance) | 1.0 |
Naspers Ltd. Class N (South Africa, Media) | 1.0 |
| 6.7 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 20.9 |
Industrials | 20.1 |
Information Technology | 19.8 |
Consumer Discretionary | 15.6 |
Materials | 6.4 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
United States of America | 14.6 |
France | 8.6 |
United Kingdom | 8.0 |
Japan | 7.5 |
Germany | 6.3 |
Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 98.0% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 2.0% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 96.8% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
Argentina - 0.5% | | | |
Banco Macro SA sponsored ADR | | 83,500 | $8,092,820 |
Australia - 2.9% | | | |
Amcor Ltd. | | 806,461 | 8,310,560 |
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. | | 493,433 | 9,898,550 |
Challenger Ltd. | | 1,004,829 | 8,124,010 |
CSL Ltd. | | 97,904 | 12,540,430 |
realestate.com.au Ltd. | | 137,245 | 8,309,054 |
|
TOTAL AUSTRALIA | | | 47,182,604 |
|
Bailiwick of Jersey - 0.6% | | | |
Wolseley PLC | | 126,834 | 9,743,370 |
Belgium - 1.7% | | | |
Ageas | | 156,900 | 8,422,050 |
KBC Groep NV | | 107,713 | 9,417,373 |
Umicore SA | | 164,392 | 9,183,525 |
|
TOTAL BELGIUM | | | 27,022,948 |
|
Bermuda - 1.0% | | | |
Credicorp Ltd. (United States) | | 34,461 | 8,011,838 |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 395,100 | 8,099,180 |
|
TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 16,111,018 |
|
Brazil - 1.6% | | | |
BM&F BOVESPA SA | | 1,251,800 | 9,040,460 |
CVC Brasil Operadora e Agencia de Viagens SA | | 454,200 | 7,518,571 |
Equatorial Energia SA | | 426,700 | 8,666,278 |
Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA | | 134,015 | 516,443 |
|
TOTAL BRAZIL | | | 25,741,752 |
|
Canada - 3.6% | | | |
Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. Class A | | 260,300 | 10,317,121 |
Canadian National Railway Co. | | 162,240 | 12,531,127 |
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. | | 54,400 | 9,926,268 |
CCL Industries, Inc. Class B | | 175,350 | 8,505,626 |
Constellation Software, Inc. | | 12,880 | 9,205,245 |
Waste Connection, Inc. (Canada) | | 111,730 | 8,075,505 |
|
TOTAL CANADA | | | 58,560,892 |
|
Cayman Islands - 6.1% | | | |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sponsored ADR (a) | | 131,460 | 23,470,868 |
JD.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a) | | 269,000 | 9,821,190 |
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. sponsored ADR | | 274,900 | 8,579,629 |
New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. sponsored ADR | | 98,800 | 8,876,192 |
Sands China Ltd. | | 1,687,400 | 9,752,128 |
Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd. | | 837,000 | 9,136,889 |
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | | 593,200 | 29,163,447 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 98,800,343 |
|
Chile - 0.5% | | | |
Banco Santander Chile sponsored ADR | | 238,000 | 7,861,140 |
China - 4.4% | | | |
China International Travel Service Corp. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 993,305 | 8,120,489 |
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Class A | | 1,282,300 | 7,766,740 |
Inner Mongoli Yili Industries Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 2,047,100 | 8,475,862 |
Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery Joint-Stock Co. Ltd. Class A | | 490,900 | 8,649,831 |
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 78,300 | 8,153,303 |
Midea Group Co. Ltd. Class A | | 1,019,200 | 8,286,658 |
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. (H Shares) | | 1,242,500 | 12,140,964 |
Shanghai International Airport Co. Ltd. (A Shares) | | 1,118,947 | 8,788,371 |
|
TOTAL CHINA | | | 70,382,218 |
|
Denmark - 0.6% | | | |
DSV de Sammensluttede Vognmaend A/S | | 118,500 | 9,417,079 |
Finland - 0.6% | | | |
Sampo Oyj (A Shares) | | 181,100 | 9,786,662 |
France - 8.6% | | | |
Aeroports de Paris | | 37,400 | 8,237,957 |
Capgemini SA | | 71,500 | 9,843,148 |
Dassault Systemes SA | | 66,200 | 8,573,900 |
Eiffage SA | | 76,800 | 9,153,801 |
Kering SA (b) | | 19,960 | 11,560,133 |
Legrand SA | | 122,800 | 9,564,917 |
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SA | | 45,221 | 15,737,457 |
Orpea | | 65,930 | 8,467,275 |
Pernod Ricard SA | | 64,500 | 10,713,797 |
Rubis | | 108,000 | 8,412,142 |
Safran SA | | 85,600 | 10,040,039 |
SR Teleperformance SA | | 55,700 | 8,939,295 |
Thales SA | | 69,200 | 8,774,422 |
VINCI SA (b) | | 118,600 | 11,858,067 |
|
TOTAL FRANCE | | | 139,876,350 |
|
Germany - 6.3% | | | |
adidas AG | | 44,652 | 10,994,646 |
Allianz SE | | 66,003 | 15,611,287 |
CTS Eventim AG | | 169,990 | 7,973,072 |
Deutsche Borse AG | | 74,900 | 10,073,233 |
Deutsche Wohnen AG (Bearer) | | 202,900 | 9,590,163 |
Hannover Reuck SE | | 59,100 | 8,321,644 |
Infineon Technologies AG | | 385,300 | 9,865,883 |
Symrise AG | | 112,900 | 9,148,283 |
Vonovia SE | | 199,500 | 10,024,523 |
Wirecard AG | | 71,700 | 9,792,754 |
|
TOTAL GERMANY | | | 101,395,488 |
|
Hong Kong - 2.2% | | | |
AIA Group Ltd. | | 1,827,200 | 16,330,052 |
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. | | 1,105,000 | 9,671,659 |
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. | | 1,521,000 | 8,910,310 |
|
TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 34,912,021 |
|
India - 4.6% | | | |
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. | | 1,403,969 | 8,588,200 |
Eicher Motors Ltd. | | 19,481 | 9,102,038 |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | | 270,992 | 8,167,648 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | | 403,367 | 11,412,472 |
IndusInd Bank Ltd. | | 291,369 | 8,288,256 |
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (a) | | 477,520 | 8,683,173 |
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. | | 67,474 | 8,920,258 |
Reliance Industries Ltd. | | 796,140 | 11,494,987 |
|
TOTAL INDIA | | | 74,657,032 |
|
Indonesia - 1.1% | | | |
PT Bank Central Asia Tbk | | 6,076,700 | 9,608,981 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 37,028,500 | 8,537,605 |
|
TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 18,146,586 |
|
Ireland - 2.2% | | | |
Accenture PLC Class A | | 54,500 | 8,240,400 |
DCC PLC (United Kingdom) | | 96,200 | 9,270,698 |
Kerry Group PLC Class A | | 94,120 | 9,604,212 |
Kingspan Group PLC (Ireland) | | 190,260 | 8,615,924 |
|
TOTAL IRELAND | | | 35,731,234 |
|
Israel - 0.5% | | | |
Frutarom Industries Ltd. | | 84,354 | 8,098,003 |
Italy - 0.5% | | | |
Pirelli & C. S.p.A. (c) | | 928,600 | 8,078,403 |
Japan - 7.5% | | | |
Daikin Industries Ltd. | | 92,600 | 10,846,533 |
Kansai Paint Co. Ltd. | | 331,800 | 7,478,551 |
Kao Corp. | | 150,700 | 10,828,289 |
Keyence Corp. | | 20,914 | 12,812,025 |
Makita Corp. | | 200,500 | 9,023,600 |
Misumi Group, Inc. | | 311,700 | 8,639,325 |
Nidec Corp. | | 68,400 | 10,724,259 |
Nissan Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | | 191,200 | 8,526,345 |
Nitori Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 49,400 | 8,350,823 |
Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 410,900 | 9,498,210 |
Relo Group, Inc. | | 337,100 | 7,604,177 |
Sundrug Co. Ltd. | | 178,100 | 9,172,183 |
Tsuruha Holdings, Inc. | | 56,100 | 8,072,201 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 121,576,521 |
|
Kenya - 0.5% | | | |
Safaricom Ltd. | | 28,588,800 | 8,052,179 |
Korea (South) - 1.2% | | | |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 28,306 | 9,515,288 |
LG Household & Health Care Ltd. | | 8,004 | 10,239,260 |
|
TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH) | | | 19,754,548 |
|
Luxembourg - 0.6% | | | |
Eurofins Scientific SA | | 16,420 | 8,879,333 |
Mexico - 0.5% | | | |
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste S.A.B. de CV Series B | | 481,575 | 8,660,447 |
Netherlands - 4.3% | | | |
ASML Holding NV (Netherlands) | | 68,500 | 13,028,495 |
Ferrari NV | | 74,800 | 9,218,021 |
Heineken NV (Bearer) | | 100,800 | 10,626,687 |
Interxion Holding N.V. (a) | | 129,779 | 8,438,231 |
RELX NV | | 540,075 | 11,488,407 |
Wolters Kluwer NV | | 172,200 | 9,322,341 |
Yandex NV Series A (a) | | 239,600 | 7,993,056 |
|
TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 70,115,238 |
|
Philippines - 1.6% | | | |
Ayala Land, Inc. | | 10,970,000 | 8,633,312 |
SM Investments Corp. | | 478,152 | 8,659,656 |
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. | | 12,682,800 | 8,370,840 |
|
TOTAL PHILIPPINES | | | 25,663,808 |
|
South Africa - 2.6% | | | |
Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd. | | 117,000 | 8,329,700 |
FirstRand Ltd. | | 1,707,600 | 9,145,098 |
Naspers Ltd. Class N | | 66,230 | 16,134,924 |
Sanlam Ltd. | | 1,295,500 | 8,183,699 |
|
TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA | | | 41,793,421 |
|
Spain - 0.6% | | | |
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A | | 139,760 | 10,244,593 |
Sweden - 0.5% | | | |
Hexagon AB (B Shares) | | 149,600 | 8,678,753 |
Switzerland - 2.8% | | | |
Givaudan SA | | 4,030 | 9,023,784 |
Julius Baer Group Ltd. | | 150,020 | 8,903,443 |
Lonza Group AG | | 39,603 | 9,758,883 |
Partners Group Holding AG | | 12,120 | 8,885,146 |
Sika AG | | 1,238 | 9,032,028 |
|
TOTAL SWITZERLAND | | | 45,603,284 |
|
Taiwan - 1.4% | | | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR | | 581,470 | 22,357,522 |
United Kingdom - 8.0% | | | |
Ashtead Group PLC | | 319,100 | 8,931,070 |
Beazley PLC | | 963,600 | 7,846,769 |
Bunzl PLC | | 296,100 | 8,605,299 |
Compass Group PLC | | 498,250 | 10,700,676 |
Croda International PLC | | 138,700 | 8,518,203 |
Halma PLC | | 499,200 | 8,405,051 |
Hargreaves Lansdown PLC | | 359,800 | 8,864,050 |
InterContinental Hotel Group PLC | | 149,202 | 9,426,099 |
Intertek Group PLC | | 136,600 | 9,216,684 |
London Stock Exchange Group PLC | | 163,900 | 9,702,569 |
Prudential PLC | | 519,920 | 13,369,254 |
Rentokil Initial PLC | | 2,071,200 | 8,753,863 |
Rightmove PLC | | 125,186 | 7,867,484 |
St. James's Place Capital PLC | | 547,400 | 8,564,727 |
|
TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 128,771,798 |
|
United States of America - 14.6% | | | |
A.O. Smith Corp. | | 130,684 | 8,017,463 |
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a) | | 35,860 | 7,946,576 |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A (a) | | 7,900 | 8,046,782 |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 5,000 | 7,830,650 |
Amphenol Corp. Class A | | 97,062 | 8,125,060 |
Cintas Corp. | | 45,900 | 7,816,770 |
Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A (sub. vtg.) | | 36,200 | 8,439,306 |
Danaher Corp. | | 80,600 | 8,085,792 |
Facebook, Inc. Class A (a) | | 45,800 | 7,877,600 |
Fiserv, Inc. (a) | | 112,858 | 7,997,118 |
Global Payments, Inc. | | 72,900 | 8,241,345 |
HEICO Corp. Class A | | 109,500 | 7,900,425 |
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. | | 103,600 | 8,167,824 |
Intuit, Inc. | | 45,860 | 8,474,469 |
Marriott International, Inc. Class A | | 60,600 | 8,282,808 |
MasterCard, Inc. Class A | | 46,350 | 8,262,815 |
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a) | | 14,300 | 8,006,999 |
Microsoft Corp. | | 87,000 | 8,136,240 |
Moody's Corp. | | 48,740 | 7,905,628 |
MSCI, Inc. | | 54,190 | 8,119,288 |
Northrop Grumman Corp. | | 25,500 | 8,212,020 |
NVIDIA Corp. | | 37,900 | 8,523,710 |
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 110,600 | 8,251,866 |
S&P Global, Inc. | | 42,864 | 8,084,150 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | | 21,480 | 7,897,337 |
The Booking Holdings, Inc. (a) | | 3,940 | 8,581,320 |
TransDigm Group, Inc. | | 26,300 | 8,430,991 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 34,460 | 8,146,344 |
Visa, Inc. Class A | | 65,840 | 8,353,779 |
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TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 236,162,475 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $1,407,907,733) | | | 1,565,911,883 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 1.2% | | | |
Brazil - 1.2% | | | |
Itau Unibanco Holding SA sponsored ADR | | 768,680 | 11,168,920 |
Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA (PN) | | 2,298,700 | 8,930,494 |
TOTAL NONCONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $18,494,817) | | | 20,099,414 |
|
Money Market Funds - 2.4% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (d) | | 22,978,135 | 22,982,731 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (d)(e) | | 15,886,715 | 15,888,304 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $38,871,035) | | | 38,871,035 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.4% | | | |
(Cost $1,465,273,585) | | | 1,624,882,332 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.4)% | | | (7,187,272) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $1,617,695,060 |
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
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(a) Non-income producing
(b) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
(c) 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 $8,078,403 or 0.5% of net assets.
(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
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $179,349 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 62,698 |
Total | $242,047 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $248,529,379 | $143,960,057 | $104,569,322 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 102,974,931 | 77,695,935 | 25,278,996 | -- |
Energy | 11,494,987 | -- | 11,494,987 | -- |
Financials | 340,867,347 | 175,958,472 | 164,908,875 | -- |
Health Care | 63,885,056 | 51,344,626 | 12,540,430 | -- |
Industrials | 323,374,441 | 266,338,070 | 57,036,371 | -- |
Information Technology | 322,294,009 | 267,188,885 | 55,105,124 | -- |
Materials | 103,237,533 | 94,926,973 | 8,310,560 | -- |
Real Estate | 44,223,015 | 27,218,863 | 17,004,152 | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 8,052,179 | 8,052,179 | -- | -- |
Utilities | 17,078,420 | 17,078,420 | -- | -- |
Money Market Funds | 38,871,035 | 38,871,035 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $1,624,882,332 | $1,168,633,515 | $456,248,817 | $-- |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $117,461,903 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $83,132,966 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $15,190,359) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $1,426,402,550) | $1,586,011,297 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $38,871,035) | 38,871,035 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $1,465,273,585) | | $1,624,882,332 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $530,653) | | 530,614 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 29,908,141 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 7,798,087 |
Dividends receivable | | 3,912,101 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 88,018 |
Prepaid expenses | | 377 |
Other receivables | | 634,610 |
Total assets | | 1,667,754,280 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $31,146,045 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 865,921 | |
Accrued management fee | 1,007,506 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 184,688 | |
Other affiliated payables | 274,648 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 691,922 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 15,888,490 | |
Total liabilities | | 50,059,220 |
Net Assets | | $1,617,695,060 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $1,449,259,965 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 1,945,918 |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 7,546,353 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 158,942,824 |
Net Assets | | $1,617,695,060 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($221,295,672 ÷ 11,276,461 shares) | | $19.62 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $19.62) | | $20.82 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($99,225,998 ÷ 5,184,387 shares) | | $19.14 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $19.14) | | $19.83 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($119,206,952 ÷ 6,881,094 shares)(a) | | $17.32 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($1,068,063,784 ÷ 50,970,638 shares) | | $20.95 |
Class Z: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($109,902,654 ÷ 5,240,252 shares) | | $20.97 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $10,274,388 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 242,047 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 10,516,435 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (874,386) |
Total income | | 9,642,049 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | | |
Basic fee | $4,625,866 | |
Performance adjustment | 465,116 | |
Transfer agent fees | 1,165,008 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 1,020,102 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 304,344 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 199,338 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 2,438 | |
Registration fees | 138,525 | |
Audit | 36,625 | |
Legal | 2,089 | |
Miscellaneous | 3,138 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 7,962,589 | |
Expense reductions | (320,135) | 7,642,454 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1,999,595 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (net of foreign taxes of $288,344) | 8,857,305 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 2,403 | |
Foreign currency transactions | (209,475) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 8,650,233 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers (net of decrease in deferred foreign taxes of $579,224) | 10,176,791 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 6 | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (43,102) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | 10,133,695 |
Net gain (loss) | | 18,783,928 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $20,783,523 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $1,999,595 | $1,896,904 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 8,650,233 | 20,956,403 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 10,133,695 | 135,004,752 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 20,783,523 | 157,858,059 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (1,800,404) | (869,640) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 540,687,332 | 498,875,357 |
Redemption fees | – | 19,108 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 559,670,451 | 655,882,884 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 1,058,024,609 | 402,141,725 |
End of period | $1,617,695,060 | $1,058,024,609 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $1,945,918 | $1,746,727 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $19.14 | $15.26 | $15.25 | $14.77 | $13.96 | $11.25 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .02 | .04 | .05 | .05 | .06 | .07 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .47 | 3.86 | (.03) | .46 | .82 | 2.73 |
Total from investment operations | .49 | 3.90 | .02 | .51 | .88 | 2.80 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.01) | (.02) | (.01) | (.03) | (.07) | (.09) |
Total distributions | (.01) | (.02) | (.01) | (.03) | (.07) | (.09) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –B | –B | –B | –B | –B |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.62 | $19.14 | $15.26 | $15.25 | $14.77 | $13.96 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 2.56% | 25.56% | .12% | 3.46% | 6.31% | 24.99% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.31%H | 1.38% | 1.50% | 1.58% | 1.73% | 1.74% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.31%H | 1.37% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.27%H | 1.35% | 1.43% | 1.42% | 1.44% | 1.39% |
Net investment income (loss) | .17%H | .21% | .34% | .30% | .42% | .58% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $221,296 | $173,948 | $127,536 | $89,753 | $51,567 | $49,797 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 152%H | 155% | 167% | 176% | 197% | 138% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $18.68 | $14.92 | $14.94 | $14.47 | $13.68 | $11.03 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.01) | (.01) | .01 | .01 | .02 | .04 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .47 | 3.77 | (.03) | .46 | .81 | 2.66 |
Total from investment operations | .46 | 3.76 | (.02) | .47 | .83 | 2.70 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | (.04) | (.05) |
Total distributions | – | – | – | – | (.04) | (.05) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –B | –B | –B | –B | –B |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.14 | $18.68 | $14.92 | $14.94 | $14.47 | $13.68 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 2.46% | 25.20% | (.13)% | 3.25% | 6.07% | 24.57% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.57%H | 1.63% | 1.76% | 1.86% | 1.94% | 1.96% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.57%H | 1.63% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.52%H | 1.61% | 1.68% | 1.67% | 1.69% | 1.64% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.08)%H | (.04)% | .09% | .05% | .17% | .33% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $99,226 | $86,547 | $62,866 | $60,293 | $58,454 | $60,152 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 152%H | 155% | 167% | 176% | 197% | 138% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $16.95 | $13.61 | $13.69 | $13.33 | $12.63 | $10.18 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.05) | (.08) | (.06) | (.06) | (.04) | (.02) |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .42 | 3.42 | (.02) | .42 | .74 | 2.47 |
Total from investment operations | .37 | 3.34 | (.08) | .36 | .70 | 2.45 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Total distributions | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –B | –B | –B | –B | –B |
Net asset value, end of period | $17.32 | $16.95 | $13.61 | $13.69 | $13.33 | $12.63 |
Total ReturnC,D,E | 2.18% | 24.54% | (.58)% | 2.70% | 5.54% | 24.07% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.07%H | 2.13% | 2.27% | 2.33% | 2.47% | 2.49% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.06%H | 2.12% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% | 2.20% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.02%H | 2.10% | 2.18% | 2.17% | 2.19% | 2.14% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.58)%H | (.54)% | (.41)% | (.45)% | (.33)% | (.17)% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $119,207 | $85,022 | $42,146 | $36,491 | $20,910 | $21,334 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 152%H | 155% | 167% | 176% | 197% | 138% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
F Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $20.44 | $16.30 | $16.28 | $15.75 | $14.87 | $11.99 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .05 | .09 | .10 | .09 | .10 | .11 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .50 | 4.11 | (.04) | .51 | .87 | 2.89 |
Total from investment operations | .55 | 4.20 | .06 | .60 | .97 | 3.00 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.04) | (.06) | (.04) | (.07) | (.09) | (.12) |
Total distributions | (.04) | (.06) | (.04) | (.07) | (.09) | (.12) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –B | –B | –B | –B | –B |
Net asset value, end of period | $20.95 | $20.44 | $16.30 | $16.28 | $15.75 | $14.87 |
Total ReturnC,D | 2.71% | 25.87% | .36% | 3.80% | 6.58% | 25.20% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsE,F | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.03%G | 1.09% | 1.21% | 1.27% | 1.38% | 1.39% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.03%G | 1.08% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
Expenses net of all reductions | .99%G | 1.06% | 1.18% | 1.17% | 1.20% | 1.14% |
Net investment income (loss) | .45%G | .50% | .59% | .55% | .67% | .83% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $1,068,064 | $652,774 | $169,594 | $72,421 | $18,449 | $7,768 |
Portfolio turnover rateH | 152%G | 155% | 167% | 176% | 197% | 138% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
G Annualized
H Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund Class Z
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, |
| 2018 | 2017 A |
Selected Per–Share Data | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $20.46 | $16.22 |
Income from Investment Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss)B | .06 | .06 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .51 | 4.18 |
Total from investment operations | .57 | 4.24 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.06) | – |
Total distributions | (.06) | – |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalB | – | –C |
Net asset value, end of period | $20.97 | $20.46 |
Total ReturnD,E | 2.79% | 26.14% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | |
Expenses before reductions | .91%H | .96%H |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .91%H | .96%H |
Expenses net of all reductions | .86%H | .94%H |
Net investment income (loss) | .58%H | .42%H |
Supplemental Data | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $109,903 | $59,734 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 152%H | 155% |
A For the period February 1, 2017 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2017.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C, Class I and Class Z shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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 includes proceeds received from litigation. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on capital gains by certain countries in which it invests. An estimated deferred tax liability for net unrealized appreciation on the applicable securities is included in Other payables and accrued expenses on the Statement of Assets & Liabilities.
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, certain foreign taxes, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards, expiring 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 | $187,644,540 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (29,868,273) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $157,776,267 |
Tax cost | $1,467,106,065 |
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $1,528,038,280 and $1,004,520,165, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .45% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. In addition, the management fee is subject to a performance adjustment (up to a maximum of +/- .20% of the Fund's average net assets over a 36 month performance period). The upward or downward adjustment to the management fee is based on the relative investment performance of Class I of the Fund as compared to its benchmark index, the MSCI All Country World ex USA Index, over the same 36 month performance period. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate, including the performance adjustment, was .76% of the Fund's average net assets. The performance adjustment included in the management fee rate may be higher or lower than the maximum performance adjustment rate due to the difference between the average net assets for the reporting and performance periods.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $256,539 | $25,821 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 239,336 | 2,987 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 524,227 | 203,031 |
| | | $1,020,102 | $231,839 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $143,041 |
Class M | 25,778 |
Class C(a) | 9,261 |
| $178,080 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund, except for Class Z. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee of Class Z's average net assets. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $206,556 | .20 |
Class M | 98,668 | .21 |
Class C | 106,473 | .20 |
Class I | 734,677 | .17 |
Class Z | 18,634 | .05 |
| $1,165,008 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .05%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $5,502 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $1,735 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $62,698. During the period, there were no securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $313,870 for the period. In addition, 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, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $423.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $5,842.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $85,926 | $139,479 |
Class I | 1,520,196 | 730,161 |
Class Z | 194,282 | – |
Total | $1,800,404 | $869,640 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017(a) | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017(a) |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 3,604,484 | 5,604,681 | $71,758,548 | $95,077,981 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 4,343 | 9,092 | 84,071 | 132,373 |
Shares redeemed | (1,422,249) | (4,879,929) | (28,250,122) | (77,285,834) |
Net increase (decrease) | 2,186,578 | 733,844 | $43,592,497 | $17,924,520 |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 956,287 | 1,315,380 | $18,506,802 | $22,202,958 |
Shares redeemed | (405,362) | (895,515) | (7,868,427) | (14,327,827) |
Net increase (decrease) | 550,925 | 419,865 | $10,638,375 | $7,875,131 |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 2,290,752 | 2,768,623 | $40,251,599 | $42,257,866 |
Shares redeemed | (426,102) | (849,933) | (7,479,761) | (12,496,362) |
Net increase (decrease) | 1,864,650 | 1,918,690 | $32,771,838 | $29,761,504 |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 23,547,459 | 27,999,504 | $500,078,045 | $501,951,139 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 64,781 | 38,510 | 1,337,720 | 597,293 |
Shares redeemed | (4,579,308) | (6,506,957) | (96,817,763) | (114,106,972) |
Net increase (decrease) | 19,032,932 | 21,531,057 | $404,598,002 | $388,441,460 |
Class Z | | | | |
Shares sold | 2,571,354 | 3,021,797 | $54,399,308 | $56,872,882 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 6,285 | – | 129,857 | – |
Shares redeemed | (257,177) | (102,007) | (5,442,545) | (2,000,140) |
Net increase (decrease) | 2,320,462 | 2,919,790 | $49,086,620 | $54,872,742 |
(a) Share transactions for Class Z are for the period February 1, 2017 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2017.
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.31% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,025.60 | $6.58 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.30 | $6.56 |
Class M | 1.57% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,024.60 | $7.88 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.01 | $7.85 |
Class C | 2.06% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,021.80 | $10.33 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,014.58 | $10.29 |
Class I | 1.03% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,027.10 | $5.18 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.69 | $5.16 |
Class Z | .91% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,027.90 | $4.58 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.28 | $4.56 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Five Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Roche Holding AG (participation certificate) (Switzerland, Pharmaceuticals) | 1.5 |
Total SA (France, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels) | 1.4 |
SAP SE (Germany, Software) | 1.4 |
Bayer AG (Germany, Pharmaceuticals) | 1.3 |
Unilever NV (NY Reg.) (Netherlands, Personal Products) | 1.3 |
| 6.9 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 24.4 |
Industrials | 17.1 |
Health Care | 12.8 |
Consumer Discretionary | 11.8 |
Information Technology | 11.2 |
Top Five Countries as of April 30, 2018
(excluding cash equivalents) | % of fund's net assets |
United Kingdom | 20.6 |
Japan | 18.3 |
France | 9.8 |
Germany | 8.5 |
Switzerland | 5.3 |
Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018 |
| Stocks | 97.9% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 2.1% |
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 97.1% | | | |
| | Shares | Value (000s) |
Australia - 1.9% | | | |
Adelaide Brighton Ltd. | | 474,280 | $2,288 |
Amcor Ltd. | | 415,551 | 4,282 |
Aub Group Ltd. | | 215,425 | 2,278 |
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. | | 46,842 | 942 |
Netwealth Group Ltd. | | 52,505 | 283 |
Pact Group Holdings Ltd. (a) | | 487,436 | 2,075 |
realestate.com.au Ltd. | | 8,420 | 510 |
|
TOTAL AUSTRALIA | | | 12,658 |
|
Austria - 0.3% | | | |
Andritz AG | | 41,000 | 2,206 |
Bailiwick of Jersey - 1.0% | | | |
Sanne Group PLC | | 233,319 | 1,995 |
Wolseley PLC | | 63,766 | 4,898 |
|
TOTAL BAILIWICK OF JERSEY | | | 6,893 |
|
Belgium - 1.1% | | | |
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV | | 5,759 | 575 |
KBC Groep NV | | 72,944 | 6,378 |
|
TOTAL BELGIUM | | | 6,953 |
|
Bermuda - 1.7% | | | |
Credicorp Ltd. (United States) | | 11,200 | 2,604 |
Hiscox Ltd. | | 194,800 | 3,993 |
Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd. | | 87,700 | 634 |
IHS Markit Ltd. (b) | | 66,501 | 3,267 |
SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. | | 517,500 | 547 |
|
TOTAL BERMUDA | | | 11,045 |
|
Canada - 0.7% | | | |
Constellation Software, Inc. | | 6,000 | 4,288 |
Cayman Islands - 0.4% | | | |
HKBN Ltd. | | 117,500 | 165 |
Value Partners Group Ltd. | | 670,000 | 634 |
ZTO Express (Cayman), Inc. sponsored ADR | | 121,700 | 2,008 |
|
TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS | | | 2,807 |
|
China - 0.1% | | | |
Yunnan Baiyao Group Co. Ltd. | | 34,163 | 510 |
Denmark - 1.0% | | | |
DSV de Sammensluttede Vognmaend A/S | | 47,100 | 3,743 |
NNIT A/S (a) | | 63,213 | 1,756 |
Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (a) | | 25,643 | 429 |
SimCorp A/S | | 8,500 | 619 |
|
TOTAL DENMARK | | | 6,547 |
|
Finland - 0.1% | | | |
Amer Group PLC (A Shares) | | 14,800 | 454 |
Nokian Tyres PLC | | 11,000 | 442 |
|
TOTAL FINLAND | | | 896 |
|
France - 9.8% | | | |
Altarea SCA | | 2,600 | 662 |
ALTEN | | 28,610 | 2,843 |
Amundi SA (a) | | 46,141 | 3,927 |
BNP Paribas SA | | 79,700 | 6,158 |
Capgemini SA | | 45,000 | 6,195 |
Compagnie de St. Gobain | | 83,600 | 4,391 |
Edenred SA | | 118,700 | 4,085 |
Elis SA | | 121,639 | 2,911 |
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SA (c) | | 19,579 | 6,814 |
Maisons du Monde SA (a) | | 84,100 | 3,421 |
Publicis Groupe SA | | 29,168 | 2,184 |
Sanofi SA | | 79,712 | 6,302 |
Sodexo SA | | 16,541 | 1,638 |
SR Teleperformance SA | | 22,300 | 3,579 |
Total SA | | 147,786 | 9,289 |
|
TOTAL FRANCE | | | 64,399 |
|
Germany - 7.7% | | | |
adidas AG | | 23,190 | 5,710 |
Axel Springer Verlag AG | | 53,500 | 4,384 |
Bayer AG | | 72,913 | 8,715 |
Bertrandt AG | | 5,893 | 660 |
Deutsche Post AG | | 151,729 | 6,586 |
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA | | 41,800 | 4,241 |
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA | | 76,408 | 5,844 |
Hannover Reuck SE | | 24,300 | 3,422 |
JOST Werke AG (a) | | 6,800 | 287 |
SAP SE | | 80,583 | 8,953 |
Scout24 AG (a) | | 32,200 | 1,670 |
|
TOTAL GERMANY | | | 50,472 |
|
Hong Kong - 1.2% | | | |
AIA Group Ltd. | | 793,700 | 7,093 |
Dah Sing Banking Group Ltd. | | 228,400 | 542 |
Dah Sing Financial Holdings Ltd. | | 53,200 | 355 |
|
TOTAL HONG KONG | | | 7,990 |
|
India - 0.7% | | | |
Axis Bank Ltd. | | 313,962 | 2,434 |
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. | | 78,885 | 2,232 |
PC Jeweller Ltd. | | 4,161 | 9 |
|
TOTAL INDIA | | | 4,675 |
|
Indonesia - 0.6% | | | |
PT Astra International Tbk | | 1,054,800 | 540 |
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk | | 13,967,500 | 3,220 |
|
TOTAL INDONESIA | | | 3,760 |
|
Ireland - 3.6% | | | |
CRH PLC | | 101,400 | 3,599 |
DCC PLC (United Kingdom) | | 36,900 | 3,556 |
Kerry Group PLC Class A | | 42,000 | 4,286 |
Kingspan Group PLC (Ireland) | | 95,604 | 4,329 |
Paddy Power Betfair PLC (Ireland) | | 39,600 | 3,919 |
United Drug PLC (United Kingdom) | | 311,526 | 3,924 |
|
TOTAL IRELAND | | | 23,613 |
|
Israel - 0.8% | | | |
Frutarom Industries Ltd. | | 55,400 | 5,318 |
Italy - 1.6% | | | |
Banca Generali SpA | | 88,100 | 2,864 |
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA | | 1,368,570 | 5,206 |
Prada SpA | | 513,000 | 2,603 |
|
TOTAL ITALY | | | 10,673 |
|
Japan - 18.3% | | | |
AEON Financial Service Co. Ltd. | | 149,900 | 3,519 |
Arc Land Sakamoto Co. Ltd. | | 83,730 | 1,323 |
Arcland Service Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 170,100 | 3,644 |
Bridgestone Corp. | | 99,800 | 4,189 |
Credit Saison Co. Ltd. | | 35,700 | 641 |
Daiichikosho Co. Ltd. | | 53,200 | 2,798 |
Daikin Industries Ltd. | | 43,300 | 5,072 |
Dentsu, Inc. | | 57,800 | 2,739 |
GMO Internet, Inc. | | 65,700 | 1,211 |
Hoya Corp. | | 126,600 | 6,789 |
Ichigo, Inc. | | 67,400 | 301 |
Iriso Electronics Co. Ltd. | | 39,800 | 2,527 |
KDDI Corp. | | 11,410 | 306 |
Keyence Corp. | | 9,100 | 5,575 |
KH Neochem Co. Ltd. | | 118,400 | 3,596 |
Miroku Jyoho Service Co., Ltd. | | 66,640 | 1,902 |
Misumi Group, Inc. | | 104,290 | 2,891 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | | 975,800 | 6,539 |
Morinaga & Co. Ltd. | | 53,300 | 2,599 |
Nabtesco Corp. | | 95,600 | 3,459 |
Nakanishi, Inc. | | 208,500 | 4,360 |
Nissan Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | | 53,700 | 2,395 |
Nitori Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 28,400 | 4,801 |
NOF Corp. | | 83,600 | 2,497 |
OBIC Co. Ltd. | | 39,520 | 3,315 |
Olympus Corp. | | 97,580 | 3,646 |
ORIX Corp. | | 400,380 | 7,047 |
Otsuka Corp. | | 76,000 | 3,546 |
Outsourcing, Inc. | | 6,650 | 112 |
PALTAC Corp. | | 30,300 | 1,519 |
Paramount Bed Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 11,400 | 567 |
Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 166,140 | 3,840 |
Renesas Electronics Corp. (b) | | 75,700 | 795 |
S Foods, Inc. | | 42,000 | 1,769 |
SMC Corp. | | 10,200 | 3,893 |
Software Service, Inc. | | 565 | 40 |
Sundrug Co. Ltd. | | 65,600 | 3,378 |
The Suruga Bank Ltd. | | 51,300 | 698 |
Tsubaki Nakashima Co. Ltd. | | 75,700 | 1,791 |
Tsuruha Holdings, Inc. | | 29,900 | 4,302 |
VT Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 45,000 | 205 |
Welcia Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 78,900 | 4,063 |
|
TOTAL JAPAN | | | 120,199 |
|
Kenya - 0.3% | | | |
Safaricom Ltd. | | 7,254,000 | 2,043 |
Korea (South) - 0.3% | | | |
LG Chemical Ltd. | | 5,234 | 1,759 |
Luxembourg - 0.1% | | | |
B&M European Value Retail S.A. | | 88,544 | 494 |
Netherlands - 4.7% | | | |
ASR Nederland NV | | 7,000 | 331 |
Grandvision NV (a) | | 86,000 | 2,119 |
Heineken NV (Bearer) | | 33,300 | 3,511 |
IMCD Group BV | | 76,290 | 4,703 |
ING Groep NV (Certificaten Van Aandelen) | | 285,509 | 4,811 |
Instone Real Estate Group BV (a)(b) | | 17,400 | 417 |
Intertrust NV (a) | | 34,224 | 682 |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV | | 132,028 | 5,588 |
Unilever NV (NY Reg.) | | 147,987 | 8,453 |
|
TOTAL NETHERLANDS | | | 30,615 |
|
New Zealand - 0.6% | | | |
EBOS Group Ltd. | | 191,422 | 2,395 |
Trade Maine Group Ltd. | | 566,330 | 1,853 |
|
TOTAL NEW ZEALAND | | | 4,248 |
|
Norway - 1.4% | | | |
Schibsted ASA: | | | |
(A Shares) | | 99,100 | 2,898 |
(B Shares) | | 27,850 | 750 |
Skandiabanken ASA (a) | | 32,300 | 292 |
Statoil ASA | | 208,811 | 5,340 |
|
TOTAL NORWAY | | | 9,280 |
|
Panama - 0.3% | | | |
Copa Holdings SA Class A | | 17,020 | 1,994 |
Spain - 3.0% | | | |
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A | | 74,896 | 5,490 |
CaixaBank SA | | 797,700 | 3,879 |
Grifols SA ADR | | 216,400 | 4,397 |
Masmovil Ibercom SA (b) | | 12,762 | 1,843 |
Prosegur Cash SA (a) | | 1,445,000 | 4,223 |
|
TOTAL SPAIN | | | 19,832 |
|
Sweden - 3.7% | | | |
Addlife AB | | 62,954 | 1,319 |
Alfa Laval AB | | 131,900 | 3,279 |
Essity AB Class B | | 155,100 | 3,950 |
HEXPOL AB (B Shares) (c) | | 329,100 | 3,420 |
Indutrade AB | | 136,000 | 3,221 |
Nordea Bank AB | | 524,400 | 5,353 |
Swedbank AB (A Shares) | | 165,695 | 3,613 |
|
TOTAL SWEDEN | | | 24,155 |
|
Switzerland - 5.3% | | | |
Credit Suisse Group AG | | 284,129 | 4,792 |
Julius Baer Group Ltd. | | 77,370 | 4,592 |
Kaba Holding AG (B Shares) (Reg.) | | 3,780 | 2,937 |
Lonza Group AG | | 15,831 | 3,901 |
Roche Holding AG (participation certificate) | | 45,536 | 10,116 |
Sika AG | | 434 | 3,166 |
UBS Group AG | | 315,734 | 5,343 |
|
TOTAL SWITZERLAND | | | 34,847 |
|
Taiwan - 1.0% | | | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 374,300 | 2,846 |
United Microelectronics Corp. | | 6,422,000 | 3,457 |
|
TOTAL TAIWAN | | | 6,303 |
|
United Kingdom - 20.6% | | | |
Admiral Group PLC | | 158,500 | 4,349 |
Aggreko PLC | | 21,216 | 214 |
Ascential PLC | | 695,874 | 4,037 |
BCA Marketplace PLC | | 202,000 | 530 |
Beazley PLC | | 273,300 | 2,226 |
British American Tobacco PLC (United Kingdom) | | 146,805 | 8,052 |
Charter Court Financial Services Group PLC | | 105,700 | 458 |
Cineworld Group PLC | | 1,192,995 | 4,277 |
Close Brothers Group PLC | | 16,218 | 343 |
Compass Group PLC | | 240,707 | 5,170 |
Conviviality PLC (d) | | 414,300 | 289 |
Cranswick PLC | | 45,955 | 1,844 |
Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC | | 58,200 | 2,197 |
Diploma PLC | | 185,200 | 3,075 |
DS Smith PLC | | 426,000 | 3,064 |
Halma PLC | | 189,408 | 3,189 |
Hastings Group Holdings PLC (a) | | 601,278 | 2,285 |
Hilton Food Group PLC | | 147,245 | 1,796 |
IntegraFin Holdings PLC (b) | | 509,300 | 2,005 |
Intertek Group PLC | | 50,490 | 3,407 |
James Fisher and Sons PLC | | 87,547 | 2,018 |
John Wood Group PLC | | 244,300 | 1,912 |
JTC PLC (a)(b) | | 242,000 | 1,021 |
Liberty Global PLC Class C (b) | | 16,400 | 477 |
LivaNova PLC (b) | | 45,942 | 4,079 |
Lloyds Banking Group PLC | | 720,280 | 639 |
London Stock Exchange Group PLC | | 87,930 | 5,205 |
Melrose Industries PLC | | 1,528,911 | 4,799 |
Micro Focus International PLC | | 149,561 | 2,579 |
Prudential PLC | | 313,111 | 8,051 |
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | | 81,930 | 6,427 |
Rentokil Initial PLC | | 712,000 | 3,009 |
Rio Tinto PLC | | 85,554 | 4,663 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | | 285,577 | 3,302 |
Rotork PLC | | 612,363 | 2,774 |
Sabre Insurance Group PLC (a)(b) | | 237,600 | 837 |
Schroders PLC | | 79,179 | 3,598 |
Sinclair Pharma PLC (b) | | 949,647 | 196 |
Spectris PLC | | 116,528 | 4,315 |
St. James's Place Capital PLC | | 317,300 | 4,965 |
Standard Life PLC | | 832,757 | 4,188 |
The Weir Group PLC | | 161,600 | 4,752 |
Ultra Electronics Holdings PLC | | 120,209 | 2,330 |
Victrex PLC | | 91,200 | 3,292 |
Volution Group PLC | | 818,300 | 2,219 |
Zpg PLC | | 163,400 | 808 |
|
TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM | | | 135,262 |
|
United States of America - 3.2% | | | |
Alphabet, Inc. Class C (b) | | 3,083 | 3,136 |
Boston Scientific Corp. (b) | | 101,400 | 2,912 |
Moody's Corp. | | 21,230 | 3,444 |
S&P Global, Inc. | | 31,203 | 5,885 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | | 7,600 | 2,794 |
Worldpay, Inc. (b) | | 33,300 | 2,705 |
|
TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | 20,876 |
|
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $530,799) | | | 637,610 |
|
Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.8% | | | |
Germany - 0.8% | | | |
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | | 43,400 | 5,524 |
United Kingdom - 0.0% | | | |
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC Series C (b) | | 20,275,967 | 28 |
TOTAL NONCONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $5,708) | | | 5,552 |
|
Money Market Funds - 3.1% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (e) | | 15,101,274 | 15,104 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (e)(f) | | 5,422,095 | 5,423 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $20,527) | | | 20,527 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 101.0% | | | |
(Cost $557,034) | | | 663,689 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (1.0)% | | | (6,893) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $656,796 |
Categorizations in the Schedule of Investments are based on country or territory of incorporation.
Legend
(a) 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 $25,441,000 or 3.9% of net assets.
(b) Non-income producing
(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
(d) Level 3 security
(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.
Affiliated Central Funds
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
| (Amounts in thousands) |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $58 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 110 |
Total | $168 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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 |
(Amounts in thousands) | | | | |
Investments in Securities: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $78,236 | $66,632 | $11,604 | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 60,818 | 46,050 | 14,479 | 289 |
Energy | 18,559 | 3,930 | 14,629 | -- |
Financials | 162,161 | 103,639 | 58,522 | -- |
Health Care | 83,794 | 48,322 | 35,472 | -- |
Industrials | 111,994 | 105,408 | 6,586 | -- |
Information Technology | 72,474 | 54,129 | 18,345 | -- |
Materials | 48,208 | 31,301 | 16,907 | -- |
Real Estate | 2,014 | 1,380 | 634 | -- |
Telecommunication Services | 4,904 | 3,886 | 1,018 | -- |
Money Market Funds | 20,527 | 20,527 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $663,689 | $485,204 | $178,196 | $289 |
The following is a summary of transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 for the period ended April 30, 2018. Transfers are assumed to have occurred at the beginning of the period, and are primarily attributable to the valuation techniques used for foreign equity securities, as discussed in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements:
Transfers | Total (000s) |
Level 1 to Level 2 | $50,536 |
Level 2 to Level 1 | $122,088 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
Amounts in thousands (except per-share amounts) | | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $5,238) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $536,507) | $643,162 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $20,527) | 20,527 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $557,034) | | $663,689 |
Cash | | 33 |
Foreign currency held at value (cost $267) | | 266 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 526 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 866 |
Dividends receivable | | 3,322 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 35 |
Other receivables | | 83 |
Total assets | | 668,820 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $1,577 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 4,330 | |
Accrued management fee | 358 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 134 | |
Other affiliated payables | 129 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 73 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 5,423 | |
Total liabilities | | 12,024 |
Net Assets | | $656,796 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $535,177 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 3,134 |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 11,896 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 106,589 |
Net Assets | | $656,796 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($56,786 ÷ 2,292.78 shares) | | $24.77 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $24.77) | | $26.28 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($259,458 ÷ 10,198.21 shares) | | $25.44 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $25.44) | | $26.36 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($15,900 ÷ 661.71 shares)(a) | | $24.03 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($315,753 ÷ 12,483.28 shares) | | $25.29 |
Class Z: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($8,899 ÷ 351.82 shares) | | $25.29 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
Amounts in thousands | | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $7,673 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 168 |
Income before foreign taxes withheld | | 7,841 |
Less foreign taxes withheld | | (663) |
Total income | | 7,178 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | | |
Basic fee | $2,225 | |
Performance adjustment | 50 | |
Transfer agent fees | 620 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 841 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 165 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 60 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 1 | |
Registration fees | 58 | |
Audit | 44 | |
Legal | 2 | |
Miscellaneous | 3 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 4,069 | |
Expense reductions | (28) | 4,041 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 3,137 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 12,895 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | (1) | |
Foreign currency transactions | (38) | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 12,856 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | (3,454) | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (24) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (3,478) |
Net gain (loss) | | 9,378 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $12,515 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
Amounts in thousands | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $3,137 | $6,691 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 12,856 | 33,853 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (3,478) | 95,260 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 12,515 | 135,804 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (5,732) | (6,346) |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain | (17,697) | (438) |
Total distributions | (23,429) | (6,784) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | 2,309 | (85,843) |
Redemption fees | – | 3 |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | (8,605) | 43,180 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 665,401 | 622,221 |
End of period | $656,796 | $665,401 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $3,134 | $5,729 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $25.20 | $20.40 | $21.59 | $21.09 | $21.61 | $16.76 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .11 | .23 | .20 | .19 | .24 | .17 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .36 | 4.78 | (1.31) | .33 | (.50) | 4.97 |
Total from investment operations | .47 | 5.01 | (1.11) | .52 | (.26) | 5.14 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.22) | (.20) | (.08) | (.02) | (.18) | (.25) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.69) | (.02) | – | – | (.08) | (.04) |
Total distributions | (.90)B | (.21)C | (.08) | (.02) | (.26) | (.29) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $24.77 | $25.20 | $20.40 | $21.59 | $21.09 | $21.61 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | 1.95% | 24.86% | (5.16)% | 2.46% | (1.24)% | 31.13% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.24%J | 1.25% | 1.36% | 1.35% | 1.30% | 1.37% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.24%J | 1.25% | 1.35% | 1.35% | 1.30% | 1.37% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.23%J | 1.23% | 1.35% | 1.34% | 1.30% | 1.36% |
Net investment income (loss) | .91%J | 1.05% | .96% | .89% | 1.10% | .91% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $57 | $69 | $58 | $78 | $65 | $69 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 34%J | 42% | 94% | 29% | 39% | 37% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Total distributions of $.90 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.219 and distributions from net realized gain of $.685 per share.
C Total distributions of $.21 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.198 and distributions from net realized gain of $.015 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $25.84 | $20.91 | $22.11 | $21.62 | $22.16 | $17.16 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .09 | .19 | .16 | .15 | .21 | .14 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .37 | 4.90 | (1.34) | .34 | (.52) | 5.11 |
Total from investment operations | .46 | 5.09 | (1.18) | .49 | (.31) | 5.25 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.17) | (.15) | (.02) | – | (.15) | (.21) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.69) | (.02) | – | – | (.08) | (.04) |
Total distributions | (.86) | (.16)B | (.02) | – | (.23) | (.25) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –C | –C | –C | –C | –C |
Net asset value, end of period | $25.44 | $25.84 | $20.91 | $22.11 | $21.62 | $22.16 |
Total ReturnD,E,F | 1.82% | 24.57% | (5.34)% | 2.27% | (1.42)% | 30.96% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsG,H | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.47%I | 1.46% | 1.56% | 1.55% | 1.48% | 1.53% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.47%I | 1.46% | 1.56% | 1.55% | 1.48% | 1.53% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.46%I | 1.44% | 1.56% | 1.55% | 1.48% | 1.52% |
Net investment income (loss) | .69%I | .84% | .76% | .69% | .92% | .74% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $259 | $272 | $237 | $285 | $293 | $329 |
Portfolio turnover rateJ | 34%I | 42% | 94% | 29% | 39% | 37% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Total distributions of $.16 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.148 and distributions from net realized gain of $.015 per share.
C Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
E Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
F Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
G Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
H Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
I Annualized
J Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $24.41 | $19.74 | $20.98 | $20.63 | $21.21 | $16.43 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .01 | .05 | .03 | .02 | .07 | .03 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .35 | 4.64 | (1.27) | .33 | (.50) | 4.89 |
Total from investment operations | .36 | 4.69 | (1.24) | .35 | (.43) | 4.92 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.06) | (.01) | – | – | (.07) | (.10) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.69) | (.02) | – | – | (.08) | (.04) |
Total distributions | (.74)B | (.02)C | – | – | (.15) | (.14) |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –D | –D | –D | –D | –D |
Net asset value, end of period | $24.03 | $24.41 | $19.74 | $20.98 | $20.63 | $21.21 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | 1.53% | 23.81% | (5.91)% | 1.70% | (2.06)% | 30.16% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.05%J | 2.06% | 2.16% | 2.15% | 2.08% | 2.12% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.05%J | 2.05% | 2.16% | 2.15% | 2.08% | 2.12% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.05%J | 2.04% | 2.16% | 2.14% | 2.08% | 2.10% |
Net investment income (loss) | .10%J | .24% | .16% | .09% | .32% | .16% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $16 | $17 | $16 | $19 | $19 | $21 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 34%J | 42% | 94% | 29% | 39% | 37% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Total distributions of $.74 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.058 and distributions from net realized gain of $.685 per share.
C Total distributions of $.02 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.009 and distributions from net realized gain of $.015 per share.
D Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $25.74 | $20.86 | $22.06 | $21.55 | $22.07 | $17.11 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .15 | .31 | .27 | .27 | .32 | .24 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .36 | 4.87 | (1.33) | .34 | (.52) | 5.08 |
Total from investment operations | .51 | 5.18 | (1.06) | .61 | (.20) | 5.32 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.28) | (.29) | (.14) | (.10) | (.24) | (.31) |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.69) | (.02) | – | – | (.08) | (.04) |
Total distributions | (.96)B | (.30)C | (.14) | (.10) | (.32) | (.36)D |
Redemption fees added to paid in capitalA | – | –E | –E | –E | –E | –E |
Net asset value, end of period | $25.29 | $25.74 | $20.86 | $22.06 | $21.55 | $22.07 |
Total ReturnF,G | 2.06% | 25.24% | (4.85)% | 2.82% | (.95)% | 31.63% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | .95%J | .95% | 1.04% | 1.03% | .96% | 1.02% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .95%J | .94% | 1.04% | 1.03% | .96% | 1.02% |
Expenses net of all reductions | .95%J | .92% | 1.03% | 1.02% | .96% | 1.01% |
Net investment income (loss) | 1.20%J | 1.35% | 1.28% | 1.21% | 1.44% | 1.26% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $316 | $306 | $311 | $298 | $330 | $307 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 34%J | 42% | 94% | 29% | 39% | 37% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Total distributions of $.96 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.276 and distributions from net realized gain of $.685 per share.
C Total distributions of $.30 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.287 and distributions from net realized gain of $.015 per share.
D Total distributions of $.36 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.314 and distributions from net realized gain of $.041 per share.
E Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
F Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund Class Z
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, |
| 2018 | 2017 A |
Selected Per–Share Data | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $25.76 | $20.88 |
Income from Investment Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss)B | .17 | .19 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .36 | 4.69 |
Total from investment operations | .53 | 4.88 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.31) | – |
Distributions from net realized gain | (.69) | – |
Total distributions | (1.00) | – |
Net asset value, end of period | $25.29 | $25.76 |
Total ReturnC,D | 2.12% | 23.37% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsE,F | | |
Expenses before reductions | .82%G | .82%G |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | .82%G | .82%G |
Expenses net of all reductions | .82%G | .80%G |
Net investment income (loss) | 1.33%G | 1.02%G |
Supplemental Data | | |
Net assets, end of period (in millions) | $9 | $2 |
Portfolio turnover rateH | 34%G | 42% |
A For the period February 1, 2017 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2017.
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
C Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
E Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
G Annualized
H Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
(Amounts in thousands except percentages)
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C, Class I and Class Z shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018, including information on transfers between Levels 1 and 2, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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 includes proceeds received from litigation. 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.
Class Allocations and Expenses. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, common expenses of the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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), deferred trustees compensation, 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 | $126,840 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (20,465) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $106,375 |
Tax cost | $557,314 |
Restricted Securities. The Fund 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 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $111,266 and $128,592, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .424% of the Fund's average net assets and an annualized group fee rate that averaged .24% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. In addition, the management fee is subject to a performance adjustment (up to a maximum of +/- .20% of the Fund's average net assets over a 36 month performance period). The upward or downward adjustment to the management fee is based on the investment performance of the asset-weighted return of all classes as compared to its benchmark index, the MSCI EAFE Index, over the same 36 month performance period. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate, including the performance adjustment, was .68% of the Fund's average net assets. The performance adjustment included in the management fee rate may be higher or lower than the maximum performance adjustment rate due to the difference between the average net assets for the reporting and performance periods.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $82 | $3 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 675 | 31 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 84 | 6 |
| | | $841 | $40 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $8 |
Class M | 1 |
Class C(a) | –(b) |
| $9 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
(b) In the amount of less than five hundred dollars.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund, except for Class Z. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee of Class Z's average net assets. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $70 | .21 |
Class M | 253 | .19 |
Class C | 23 | .28 |
Class I | 273 | .17 |
Class Z | 1 | .05 |
| $620 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .05%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $1 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $1 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $110. During the period, there were no securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $25 for the period.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $3.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $594 | $558 |
Class M | 1,791 | 1,667 |
Class C | 39 | 7 |
Class I | 3,264 | 4,114 |
Class Z | 44 | – |
Total | $5,732 | $6,346 |
From net realized gain | | |
Class A | $1,858 | $42 |
Class M | 7,176 | 169 |
Class C | 467 | 12 |
Class I | 8,100 | 215 |
Class Z | 96 | – |
Total | $17,697 | $438 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017(a) | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017(a) |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 216 | 643 | $5,385 | $14,062 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 97 | 29 | 2,369 | 573 |
Shares redeemed | (762) | (770) | (18,795) | (16,696) |
Net increase (decrease) | (449) | (98) | $(11,041) | $(2,061) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 887 | 1,813 | $22,833 | $41,652 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 354 | 88 | 8,851 | 1,797 |
Shares redeemed | (1,561) | (2,730) | (39,965) | (62,206) |
Net increase (decrease) | (320) | (829) | $(8,281) | $(18,757) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 73 | 124 | $1,777 | $2,679 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 20 | 1 | 477 | 17 |
Shares redeemed | (111) | (233) | (2,695) | (5,021) |
Net increase (decrease) | (18) | (108) | $(441) | $(2,325) |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 2,045 | 1,350 | $51,582 | $30,881 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 332 | 138 | 8,235 | 2,779 |
Shares redeemed | (1,799) | (4,514) | (45,223) | (97,807) |
Net increase (decrease) | 578 | (3,026) | $14,594 | $(64,147) |
Class Z | | | | |
Shares sold | 315 | 67 | $8,039 | $1,653 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 5 | – | 118 | – |
Shares redeemed | (27) | (8) | (679) | (206) |
Net increase (decrease) | 293 | 59 | $7,478 | $1,447 |
(a) Share transactions for Class Z are for the period February1, 2017 (commencement of sale of shares) to October 31, 2017
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
At the end of the period, Strategic Advisers Fidelity International Fund was the owner of record of approximately 12% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.24% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.50 | $6.21 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.65 | $6.21 |
Class M | 1.47% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.20 | $7.36 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.50 | $7.35 |
Class C | 2.05% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,015.30 | $10.24 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,014.63 | $10.24 |
Class I | .95% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.60 | $4.76 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.08 | $4.76 |
Class Z | .82% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,021.20 | $4.11 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,020.73 | $4.11 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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Investment Summary (Unaudited)
Top Ten Stocks as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Class B | 5.3 |
CVS Health Corp. | 4.6 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | 4.4 |
Cigna Corp. | 4.0 |
Amgen, Inc. | 3.9 |
U.S. Bancorp | 3.1 |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | 3.0 |
Prudential PLC | 2.8 |
CBRE Group, Inc. | 2.8 |
Time Warner, Inc. | 2.7 |
| 36.6 |
Top Five Market Sectors as of April 30, 2018
| % of fund's net assets |
Financials | 26.6 |
Health Care | 15.1 |
Consumer Discretionary | 14.1 |
Consumer Staples | 12.1 |
Energy | 11.3 |
Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)
As of April 30, 2018* |
| Stocks | 95.8% |
| Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets (Liabilities) | 4.2% |
* Foreign investments - 24.3%
Schedule of Investments April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)
Showing Percentage of Net Assets
Common Stocks - 95.8% | | | |
| | Shares | Value |
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 14.1% | | | |
Media - 12.2% | | | |
Comcast Corp. Class A | | 24,100 | $756,499 |
Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. | | 21,400 | 504,826 |
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. Class B | | 13,250 | 305,015 |
The Walt Disney Co. | | 6,900 | 692,277 |
Time Warner, Inc. | | 9,000 | 853,200 |
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. Class A | | 19,800 | 723,888 |
| | | 3,835,705 |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.9% | | | |
PVH Corp. | | 3,700 | 590,779 |
|
TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY | | | 4,426,484 |
|
CONSUMER STAPLES - 12.1% | | | |
Beverages - 1.9% | | | |
C&C Group PLC | | 161,002 | 606,609 |
Food & Staples Retailing - 4.6% | | | |
CVS Health Corp. | | 20,500 | 1,431,515 |
Food Products - 3.0% | | | |
Kellogg Co. | | 5,600 | 329,840 |
The J.M. Smucker Co. | | 5,300 | 604,624 |
| | | 934,464 |
Tobacco - 2.6% | | | |
British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR | | 15,100 | 824,762 |
|
TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES | | | 3,797,350 |
|
ENERGY - 11.3% | | | |
Energy Equipment & Services - 1.9% | | | |
Baker Hughes, a GE Co. Class A | | 16,400 | 592,204 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 9.4% | | | |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | | 12,200 | 948,550 |
GasLog Partners LP | | 24,000 | 570,000 |
Golar LNG Partners LP | | 22,000 | 441,320 |
Teekay Corp. (a) | | 16,009 | 141,199 |
Teekay LNG Partners LP | | 29,000 | 529,250 |
Teekay Offshore Partners LP | | 125,900 | 351,261 |
| | | 2,981,580 |
|
TOTAL ENERGY | | | 3,573,784 |
|
FINANCIALS - 26.6% | | | |
Banks - 9.7% | | | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | | 6,425 | 698,912 |
U.S. Bancorp | | 19,171 | 967,177 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 26,426 | 1,373,095 |
| | | 3,039,184 |
Capital Markets - 1.5% | | | |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | | 2,000 | 476,660 |
Consumer Finance - 1.9% | | | |
Discover Financial Services | | 8,600 | 612,750 |
Diversified Financial Services - 5.3% | | | |
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Class B (b) | | 8,600 | 1,666,078 |
Insurance - 8.2% | | | |
Allstate Corp. | | 1,740 | 170,207 |
Chubb Ltd. | | 5,400 | 732,618 |
Prudential PLC | | 34,573 | 889,012 |
The Travelers Companies, Inc. | | 5,900 | 776,440 |
| | | 2,568,277 |
|
TOTAL FINANCIALS | | | 8,362,949 |
|
HEALTH CARE - 15.1% | | | |
Biotechnology - 5.6% | | | |
Amgen, Inc. | | 7,000 | 1,221,360 |
Dyax Corp. rights 12/31/19 (b)(c) | | 15,500 | 54,405 |
Shire PLC sponsored ADR | | 3,019 | 481,319 |
| | | 1,757,084 |
Health Care Providers & Services - 6.5% | | | |
Anthem, Inc. | | 3,300 | 778,767 |
Cigna Corp. | | 7,400 | 1,271,468 |
| | | 2,050,235 |
Pharmaceuticals - 3.0% | | | |
Allergan PLC | | 2,800 | 430,220 |
Bayer AG | | 4,300 | 513,934 |
| | | 944,154 |
|
TOTAL HEALTH CARE | | | 4,751,473 |
|
INDUSTRIALS - 3.7% | | | |
Aerospace & Defense - 2.3% | | | |
United Technologies Corp. | | 6,200 | 744,930 |
Professional Services - 1.4% | | | |
Nielsen Holdings PLC | | 13,800 | 434,010 |
|
TOTAL INDUSTRIALS | | | 1,178,940 |
|
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 8.2% | | | |
Communications Equipment - 2.5% | | | |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | | 17,464 | 773,481 |
Internet Software & Services - 1.5% | | | |
Alphabet, Inc. Class A (b) | | 479 | 487,900 |
IT Services - 3.2% | | | |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A | | 7,300 | 597,286 |
The Western Union Co. | | 21,600 | 426,600 |
| | | 1,023,886 |
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.0% | | | |
Apple, Inc. | | 1,900 | 313,994 |
|
TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | | | 2,599,261 |
|
MATERIALS - 1.4% | | | |
Chemicals - 1.4% | | | |
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A | | 4,200 | 444,066 |
REAL ESTATE - 2.8% | | | |
Real Estate Management & Development - 2.8% | | | |
CBRE Group, Inc. (b) | | 19,200 | 869,952 |
UTILITIES - 0.5% | | | |
Electric Utilities - 0.5% | | | |
Exelon Corp. | | 3,800 | 150,784 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(Cost $26,429,648) | | | 30,155,043 |
|
Money Market Funds - 4.9% | | | |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 1.74% (d) | | 1,365,381 | 1,365,654 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 1.74% (d)(e) | | 157,251 | 157,266 |
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | | |
(Cost $1,522,920) | | | 1,522,920 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.7% | | | |
(Cost $27,952,568) | | | 31,677,963 |
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.7)% | | | (212,272) |
NET ASSETS - 100% | | | $31,465,691 |
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(a) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
(b) Non-income producing
(c) Level 3 security
(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
Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:
Fund | Income earned |
Fidelity Cash Central Fund | $4,472 |
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund | 14,391 |
Total | $18,863 |
Amounts in the 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.
Investment Valuation
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of April 30, 2018, 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: | | | | |
Equities: | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | $4,426,484 | $4,426,484 | $-- | $-- |
Consumer Staples | 3,797,350 | 3,797,350 | -- | -- |
Energy | 3,573,784 | 3,573,784 | -- | -- |
Financials | 8,362,949 | 7,473,937 | 889,012 | -- |
Health Care | 4,751,473 | 4,183,134 | 513,934 | 54,405 |
Industrials | 1,178,940 | 1,178,940 | -- | -- |
Information Technology | 2,599,261 | 2,599,261 | -- | -- |
Materials | 444,066 | 444,066 | -- | -- |
Real Estate | 869,952 | 869,952 | -- | -- |
Utilities | 150,784 | 150,784 | -- | -- |
Money Market Funds | 1,522,920 | 1,522,920 | -- | -- |
Total Investments in Securities: | $31,677,963 | $30,220,612 | $1,402,946 | $54,405 |
Other Information
Distribution of investments by country or territory of incorporation, as a percentage of Total Net Assets, is as follows (Unaudited):
United States of America | 75.7% |
United Kingdom | 6.8% |
Marshall Islands | 6.4% |
Ireland | 3.3% |
Switzerland | 2.3% |
Germany | 1.6% |
Bailiwick of Jersey | 1.5% |
Netherlands | 1.4% |
Canada | 1.0% |
| 100.0% |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Statements
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
| | April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Assets | | |
Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $149,940) — See accompanying schedule: Unaffiliated issuers (cost $26,429,648) | $30,155,043 | |
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $1,522,920) | 1,522,920 | |
Total Investment in Securities (cost $27,952,568) | | $31,677,963 |
Receivable for investments sold | | 15,944 |
Receivable for fund shares sold | | 4,438 |
Dividends receivable | | 33,066 |
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds | | 2,672 |
Prepaid expenses | | 18 |
Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions | | 9,544 |
Other receivables | | 169 |
Total assets | | 31,743,814 |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for investments purchased | $17,831 | |
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 49,939 | |
Accrued management fee | 10,453 | |
Distribution and service plan fees payable | 10,298 | |
Other affiliated payables | 6,845 | |
Audit fees payable | 24,251 | |
Other payables and accrued expenses | 1,256 | |
Collateral on securities loaned | 157,250 | |
Total liabilities | | 278,123 |
Net Assets | | $31,465,691 |
Net Assets consist of: | | |
Paid in capital | | $26,612,904 |
Distributions in excess of net investment income | | (2,424) |
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions | | 1,130,112 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | | 3,725,099 |
Net Assets | | $31,465,691 |
Calculation of Maximum Offering Price | | |
Class A: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($16,181,304 ÷ 843,482 shares) | | $19.18 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/94.25 of $19.18) | | $20.35 |
Class M: | | |
Net Asset Value and redemption price per share ($5,545,718 ÷ 288,230 shares) | | $19.24 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/96.50 of $19.24) | | $19.94 |
Class C: | | |
Net Asset Value and offering price per share ($5,414,118 ÷ 290,744 shares)(a) | | $18.62 |
Class I: | | |
Net Asset Value, offering price and redemption price per share ($4,324,551 ÷ 223,892 shares) | | $19.32 |
(a) Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Operations
| | Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) |
Investment Income | | |
Dividends | | $284,303 |
Income from Fidelity Central Funds | | 18,863 |
Total income | | 303,166 |
Expenses | | |
Management fee | | |
Basic fee | $89,931 | |
Performance adjustment | (19,579) | |
Transfer agent fees | 36,525 | |
Distribution and service plan fees | 64,602 | |
Accounting and security lending fees | 6,538 | |
Custodian fees and expenses | 1,803 | |
Independent trustees' fees and expenses | 66 | |
Registration fees | 32,995 | |
Audit | 30,451 | |
Legal | 1,525 | |
Miscellaneous | 114 | |
Total expenses before reductions | 244,971 | |
Expense reductions | (14,398) | 230,573 |
Net investment income (loss) | | 72,593 |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | 1,495,785 | |
Fidelity Central Funds | (39) | |
Foreign currency transactions | 27 | |
Total net realized gain (loss) | | 1,495,773 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investment securities: | | |
Unaffiliated issuers | (629,937) | |
Fidelity Central Funds | 47 | |
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies | (302) | |
Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (630,192) |
Net gain (loss) | | 865,581 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | $938,174 |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 (Unaudited) | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Operations | | |
Net investment income (loss) | $72,593 | $156,901 |
Net realized gain (loss) | 1,495,773 | 951,998 |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (630,192) | 4,323,474 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | 938,174 | 5,432,373 |
Distributions to shareholders from net investment income | (177,168) | (117,871) |
Share transactions - net increase (decrease) | (2,679,631) | (3,454,904) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | (1,918,625) | 1,859,598 |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of period | 33,384,316 | 31,524,718 |
End of period | $31,465,691 | $33,384,316 |
Other Information | | |
Undistributed net investment income end of period | $– | $102,151 |
Distributions in excess of net investment income end of period | $(2,424) | $– |
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Financial Highlights
Fidelity Advisor Value Leaders Fund Class A
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $18.81 | $16.03 | $16.34 | $15.79 | $13.73 | $10.82 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .06 | .11 | .12 | .29 | .12 | .10 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .44 | 2.75 | (.15)B | .39C | 1.94 | 3.01 |
Total from investment operations | .50 | 2.86 | (.03) | .68 | 2.06 | 3.11 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.13) | (.08) | (.27) | (.12) | – | (.20) |
Distributions from net realized gain | – | – | (.02) | (.01) | – | – |
Total distributions | (.13) | (.08) | (.28)D | (.13) | – | (.20) |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.18 | $18.81 | $16.03 | $16.34 | $15.79 | $13.73 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | 2.63% | 17.87% | (.18)%B | 4.32%C | 15.00% | 29.24% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.32%J | 1.39% | 1.47% | 1.49% | 1.30% | 1.33% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.25%J | 1.25% | 1.25% | 1.25% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.25%J | 1.25% | 1.24% | 1.25% | 1.25% | 1.23% |
Net investment income (loss) | .57%J | .61% | .77% | 1.78% | .78% | .82% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $16,181 | $17,848 | $16,448 | $18,237 | $15,067 | $15,339 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 37%J | 34% | 63% | 54% | 182% | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been (.24)%
C Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been 4.01%
D Total distributions of $.28 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.265 and distributions from net realized gain of $.017 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Value Leaders Fund Class M
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $18.82 | $16.04 | $16.33 | $15.78 | $13.75 | $10.82 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .03 | .07 | .08 | .25 | .08 | .07 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .45 | 2.75 | (.16)B | .39C | 1.95 | 3.02 |
Total from investment operations | .48 | 2.82 | (.08) | .64 | 2.03 | 3.09 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.06) | (.04) | (.20) | (.08) | – | (.16) |
Distributions from net realized gain | – | – | (.02) | (.01) | – | – |
Total distributions | (.06) | (.04) | (.21)D | (.09) | – | (.16) |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.24 | $18.82 | $16.04 | $16.33 | $15.78 | $13.75 |
Total ReturnE,F,G | 2.55% | 17.60% | (.49)%B | 4.04%C | 14.76% | 28.97% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsH,I | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.60%J | 1.67% | 1.77% | 1.78% | 1.58% | 1.60% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.50%J | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.50%J | 1.50% | 1.49% | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.48% |
Net investment income (loss) | .32%J | .37% | .52% | 1.53% | .53% | .57% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $5,546 | $5,866 | $6,732 | $7,672 | $7,819 | $6,569 |
Portfolio turnover rateK | 37%J | 34% | 63% | 54% | 182% | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been (.55)%
C Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been 3.73%
D Total distributions of $.21 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.195 and distributions from net realized gain of $.017 per share.
E Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
F Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
G Total returns do not include the effect of the sales charges.
H Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
J Annualized
K Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Value Leaders Fund Class C
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $18.21 | $15.56 | $15.88 | $15.35 | $13.44 | $10.59 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | (.02) | (.02) | –B | .17 | –B | .01 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .43 | 2.67 | (.16)C | .37D | 1.91 | 2.95 |
Total from investment operations | .41 | 2.65 | (.16) | .54 | 1.91 | 2.96 |
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | (.15) | – | – | (.11) |
Distributions from net realized gain | – | – | (.02) | (.01) | – | – |
Total distributions | – | – | (.16)E | (.01) | – | (.11) |
Net asset value, end of period | $18.62 | $18.21 | $15.56 | $15.88 | $15.35 | $13.44 |
Total ReturnF,G,H | 2.25% | 17.03% | (1.00)%C | 3.54%D | 14.21% | 28.27% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsI,J | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 2.16%K | 2.22% | 2.29% | 2.29% | 2.09% | 2.08% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 2.00%K | 1.99% | 2.00% | 2.00% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 2.00%K | 1.99% | 1.99% | 2.00% | 2.00% | 1.97% |
Net investment income (loss) | (.18)%K | (.13)% | .02% | 1.03% | .03% | .07% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $5,414 | $5,619 | $5,057 | $5,662 | $4,458 | $4,340 |
Portfolio turnover rateL | 37%K | 34% | 63% | 54% | 182% | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Amount represents less than $.005 per share.
C Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been (1.06)%
D Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been 3.23%
E Total distributions of $.16 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.147 and distributions from net realized gain of $.017 per share.
F Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
G Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
H Total returns do not include the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge.
I Fees and expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
K Annualized
L Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Fidelity Advisor Value Leaders Fund Class I
| Six months ended (Unaudited) April 30, | Years endedOctober 31, | | | | |
| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
Selected Per–Share Data | | | | | | |
Net asset value, beginning of period | $18.97 | $16.16 | $16.48 | $15.93 | $13.81 | $10.89 |
Income from Investment Operations | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss)A | .08 | .16 | .16 | .34 | .15 | .14 |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | .45 | 2.77 | (.15)B | .39C | 1.97 | 3.02 |
Total from investment operations | .53 | 2.93 | .01 | .73 | 2.12 | 3.16 |
Distributions from net investment income | (.18) | (.12) | (.31) | (.17) | – | (.24) |
Distributions from net realized gain | – | – | (.02) | (.01) | – | – |
Total distributions | (.18) | (.12) | (.33) | (.18) | – | (.24) |
Net asset value, end of period | $19.32 | $18.97 | $16.16 | $16.48 | $15.93 | $13.81 |
Total ReturnD,E | 2.81% | 18.19% | .03%B | 4.58%C | 15.35% | 29.65% |
Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,G | | | | | | |
Expenses before reductions | 1.04%H | 1.12% | 1.18% | 1.18% | 1.01% | .94% |
Expenses net of fee waivers, if any | 1.00%H | 1.00% | 1.00% | 1.00% | 1.00% | .94% |
Expenses net of all reductions | 1.00%H | 1.00% | .99% | 1.00% | 1.00% | .92% |
Net investment income (loss) | .83%H | .87% | 1.02% | 2.03% | 1.03% | 1.13% |
Supplemental Data | | | | | | |
Net assets, end of period (000 omitted) | $4,325 | $4,052 | $3,287 | $3,052 | $1,261 | $1,767 |
Portfolio turnover rateI | 37%H | 34% | 63% | 54% | 182% | 87% |
A Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
B Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been (.03)%
C Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) per share reflects proceeds received from litigation which amounted to $.05 per share. Excluding these litigation proceeds, the total return would have been 4.27%
D Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.
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 Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.
H Annualized
I Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (Unaudited)
For the period ended April 30, 2018
1. Organization.
Fidelity Advisor Value Leaders Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Advisor Series VIII (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. The Fund offers Class A, Class M, Class C and Class I shares, each of which has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges. Each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect that class
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
The Fund invests 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 Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Annualized expenses of the Money Market Central Funds as of their most recent shareholder report date are less than .005%.
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds are available on the SEC 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 – Investments 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 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 delegated the day to day responsibility for the valuation of the Fund's investments to the Fair Value Committee (the Committee) established by the Fund's investment adviser. In accordance with valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing vendors 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 procedures adopted by the Board. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee oversees the Fund's valuation policies and procedures and reports to the Board on the Committee's activities and fair value determinations. The Board monitors the appropriateness of the procedures used in valuing the Fund's investments and ratifies the fair value determinations of the Committee.
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 – 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 vendor 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, Exchange-Traded Funds (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. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. 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 April 30, 2018 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
Foreign Currency. The Fund 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 includes proceeds received from litigation. 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 the 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 the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions may also differ by class. 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. 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), partnerships, capital loss carryforwards, expiring 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 | $4,929,359 |
Gross unrealized depreciation | (1,308,873) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | $3,620,486 |
Tax cost | $ 28,057,477 |
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010 (the Act), the Fund is permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 22, 2010 for an unlimited period and such capital losses are required to be used prior to any losses that expire. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of prior fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
Fiscal year of expiration | |
2019 | $(169,201) |
Total capital loss carryforward | $(169,201) |
4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.
Purchases and sales of securities , other than short-term securities, aggregated $5,962,447 and $8,440,511, respectively.
5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company (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 .25% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by the investment adviser, including any mutual funds previously advised by the investment adviser that are currently advised by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC, an affiliate of the investment adviser. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. In addition, the management fee is subject to a performance adjustment (up to a maximum of +/- .20% of the Fund's average net assets over a 36 month performance period). The upward or downward adjustment to the management fee is based on the relative investment performance of Class I of the Fund as compared to its benchmark index, the Russell 1000 Value Index, over the same 36 month performance period. For the reporting period, the total annualized management fee rate, including the performance adjustment, was .42% of the Fund's average net assets. The performance adjustment included in the management fee rate may be higher or lower than the maximum performance adjustment rate due to the difference between the average net assets for the reporting and performance periods.
Distribution and Service Plan Fees. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate Distribution and Service Plans for each class of shares. Certain classes pay Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, separate Distribution and Service Fees, each of which is based on an annual percentage of each class' average net assets. In addition, FDC may pay financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund and providing shareholder support services. For the period, the Distribution and Service Fee rates, total fees and amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Distribution Fee | Service Fee | Total Fees | Retained by FDC |
Class A | -% | .25% | $21,377 | $1,075 |
Class M | .25% | .25% | 14,998 | 191 |
Class C | .75% | .25% | 28,227 | 2,040 |
| | | $64,602 | $3,306 |
Sales Load. FDC may receive a front-end sales charge of up to 5.75% for selling Class A shares and 3.50% for selling Class M shares, some of which is paid to financial intermediaries for selling shares of the Fund. Depending on the holding period, FDC may receive contingent deferred sales charges levied on Class A, Class M and Class C redemptions. The deferred sales charges are 1.00% for Class C shares, 1.00% for certain purchases of Class A shares and .25% for certain purchases of Class M shares.
For the period, sales charge amounts retained by FDC were as follows:
| Retained by FDC |
Class A | $2,934 |
Class M | 688 |
Class C(a) | 228 |
| $3,850 |
(a) When Class C shares are initially sold, FDC pays commissions from its own resources to financial intermediaries through which the sales are made.
Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc., (FIIOC), an affiliate of the investment adviser, is the transfer, dividend disbursing and shareholder servicing agent for each class of the Fund. FIIOC receives account fees and asset-based fees that vary according to the account size and type of account of the shareholders of the respective classes of the Fund. FIIOC pays for typesetting, printing and mailing of shareholder reports, except proxy statements.
For the period, transfer agent fees for each class were as follows:
| Amount | % of Class-Level Average Net Assets(a) |
Class A | $17,324 | .20 |
Class M | 7,170 | .24 |
Class C | 8,239 | .29 |
Class I | 3,792 | .17 |
| $36,525 | |
(a) Annualized
Accounting and Security Lending 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. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions. For the period, the fees were equivalent to an annualized rate of .04%.
Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions 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 $161 for the period.
Interfund Trades. The Fund 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. Interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note.
6. Committed Line of Credit.
The Fund participates 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 Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $48 and is reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Fund did not borrow on this line of credit.
7. Security Lending.
The Fund lends portfolio securities through a lending agent from time to time in order to earn additional income. For equity securities, a lending agent is used and may loan securities to certain qualified borrowers, including Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a broker-dealer affiliated with the Fund. On the settlement date of the loan, the 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 the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. The 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, the Fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. The 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. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's 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. Total security lending income during the period amounted to $14,416. During the period, there were no securities loaned to FCM.
8. Expense Reductions.
The investment adviser voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of class-level average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example the compensation of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, are excluded from this reimbursement.
The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:
| Expense Limitations | Reimbursement |
Class A | 1.25% | $5,548 |
Class M | 1.50% | 3,021 |
Class C | 2.00% | 4,364 |
Class I | 1.00% | 891 |
| | $13,824 |
Commissions paid to certain brokers with whom the investment adviser, or its affiliates, places trades on behalf of the Fund include an amount in addition to trade execution, which may be rebated back to the Fund to offset certain expenses. This amount totaled $373 for the period. In addition, 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, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $30.
In addition, during the period the investment adviser reimbursed and/or waived a portion of fund-level operating expenses in the amount of $171.
9. Distributions to Shareholders.
Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
From net investment income | | |
Class A | $113,174 | $78,085 |
Class M | 19,042 | 16,949 |
Class I | 44,952 | 22,837 |
Total | $177,168 | $117,871 |
10. Share Transactions.
Share transactions for each class were as follows and may contain automatic conversions between classes or exchanges between affiliated funds:
| Shares | Shares | Dollars | Dollars |
| Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 | Six months ended April 30, 2018 | Year ended October 31, 2017 |
Class A | | | | |
Shares sold | 41,481 | 133,168 | $813,496 | $2,414,399 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 5,767 | 4,407 | 111,530 | 76,682 |
Shares redeemed | (152,739) | (214,986) | (2,987,101) | (3,879,909) |
Net increase (decrease) | (105,491) | (77,411) | $(2,062,075) | $(1,388,828) |
Class M | | | | |
Shares sold | 7,625 | 47,575 | $148,918 | $846,154 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 959 | 936 | 18,619 | 16,345 |
Shares redeemed | (32,000) | (156,483) | (624,111) | (2,880,230) |
Net increase (decrease) | (23,416) | (107,972) | $(456,574) | $(2,017,731) |
Class C | | | | |
Shares sold | 12,190 | 106,588 | $233,195 | $1,841,507 |
Shares redeemed | (30,088) | (122,931) | (566,117) | (2,160,674) |
Net increase (decrease) | (17,898) | (16,343) | $(332,922) | $(319,167) |
Class I | | | | |
Shares sold | 71,125 | 155,909 | $1,373,235 | $2,906,271 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 2,283 | 1,271 | 44,422 | 22,260 |
Shares redeemed | (63,119) | (146,978) | (1,245,717) | (2,657,709) |
Net increase (decrease) | 10,289 | 10,202 | $171,940 | $270,822 |
11. Other.
The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, and (2) ongoing costs, including 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 the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018).
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund 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 of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Annualized Expense Ratio-A | Beginning Account Value November 1, 2017 | Ending Account Value April 30, 2018 | Expenses Paid During Period-B November 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 |
Class A | 1.25% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,026.30 | $6.28 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,018.60 | $6.26 |
Class M | 1.50% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,025.50 | $7.53 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,017.36 | $7.50 |
Class C | 2.00% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,022.50 | $10.03 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,014.88 | $9.99 |
Class I | 1.00% | | | |
Actual | | $1,000.00 | $1,028.10 | $5.03 |
Hypothetical-C | | $1,000.00 | $1,019.84 | $5.01 |
A Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
B Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).
C 5% return per year before expenses
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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 Fidelity Advisor Series VIII’s Board of Trustees.
Item 11.
Controls and Procedures
(a)(i) The President and Treasurer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Fidelity Advisor Series VIII’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
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(a) | (1) | Not applicable. |
(a) | (2) | Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) is filed and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.CERT. |
(a) | (3) | Not applicable. |
(b) |
| Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)) is furnished and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.906CERT. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Fidelity Advisor Series VIII
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By: | /s/Stacie M. Smith |
| Stacie M. Smith |
| President and Treasurer |
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Date: | June 27, 2018 |
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: | June 27, 2018 |
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By: | /s/Howard J. Galligan III |
| Howard J. Galligan III |
| Chief Financial Officer |
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Date: | June 27, 2018 |