Overview
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Average Client Assets
- $0.5 million
- SEC CRD Number
- 104555
Fee Structure
Primary Fee Schedule (FIDELITY GO)
| Min | Max | Marginal Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | $25,000 | 0.00% |
| $25,001 | and above | 0.35% |
Illustrative Fee Rates
| Total Assets | Annual Fees | Average Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $3,412 | 0.34% |
| $5 million | $17,412 | 0.35% |
| $10 million | $34,912 | 0.35% |
| $50 million | $174,912 | 0.35% |
| $100 million | $349,912 | 0.35% |
Clients
- HNW Share of Firm Assets
- 28.96%
- Total Client Accounts
- 2,973,512
- Discretionary Accounts
- 2,973,485
- Non-Discretionary Accounts
- 27
Services Offered
Services: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management for Individuals, Portfolio Management for Companies, Portfolio Management for Institutional Clients, Investment Advisor Selection, Educational Seminars
Regulatory Filings
Additional Brochure: FIDELITY GO (2026-03-30)
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Fidelity Go®
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
800.343.3548
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Strategic Advisers
LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments® company, as well as information about the Fidelity
Go® program.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not imply a certain level of skill or
training. Please call us at 800.343.3548 with any questions about the contents of this brochure. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
S U M M A R Y O F M A T E R I A L C H A N G E S
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of material
changes to their advisory services program brochure (also referred to as the Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure).
The section below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity Go® Form ADV,
Part 2A Brochure (the “Program Brochure”) from December 5, 2025, through March 30, 2026. Clients and
prospective clients can obtain a copy of the Program Brochure, without charge, by calling 800.343.3548, by
visiting Fidelity.com/information, or by visiting the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov. Capitalized terms
are defined in the Program Brochure.
Material Changes
There have been no material changes since the December 5, 2025, Program Brochure.
Other Changes
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The chart in “Other Considerations” in “Fees and Compensation” has been updated to provide further and
updated information about the programs, accounts, and services available through Strategic Advisers and
its affiliates.
•
“Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation” has been updated to provide
further information about how Fidelity and its representatives are compensated.
•
“Opening and Funding a Program Account” in “Types of Clients” has been updated to clarify that certain
product features dependent on reaching an asset threshold will generally be available in a client’s account
within five business days of reaching the required asset threshold.
•
“Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices” in “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies, and Risk of Loss” has been updated to describe Strategic Advisers’ practices with respect to
investing Program Accounts in mutual funds.
•
“Material Risks” in “Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss” has been updated to
provide further information with respect to the efficacy of tax-smart investing techniques for Program
clients in lower federal income tax brackets.
•
Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes Strategic Advisers’ affiliates in “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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ADVISORY BUSINESS
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FEES AND COMPENSATION
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PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND
SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
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T YPES OF C LIENTS
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ME THODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMEN T STR ATEGIES
AND RISK OF LOSS
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DISC IP L INARY INFOR MATION
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OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIV I TIES
AND AFFILIATIONS
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CODE OF E THICS, PARTICIPATION OR I NTER EST IN CLIENT
TRANSACTIONS AND PERSON AL TRADI NG
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BROKERAGE PRACTIC ES
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REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
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CLIENT REFERRAL S AND OTHER COMPEN SATION
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CUSTODY
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INVESTMENT DISCRE TION
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VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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A D V I S O R Y B U S I N E S S
Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC
(collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates, “Fidelity Investments,” “Fidelity,” “us,” “our,” or “we”). Strategic
Advisers was formed in 1977 and offers a number of investment advisory programs, including the Fidelity Go®
program (the “Program”) described in this Program Brochure. Strategic Advisers provides a variety of investment
management services, including discretionary portfolio management services and nondiscretionary advisory
services to retail and institutional clients, including but not limited to Fidelity affiliates. As of December 31, 2025,
Strategic Advisers total assets under management were approximately $1,321,075,214,792 on a discretionary
basis and $49,050,110,419 on a nondiscretionary basis.
The Program is designed for a client (“client” or “you”) who seeks a digitally provided discretionary investment
management experience. To participate in the Program, you must complete an online enrollment process and
agree to accept electronic delivery of contracts, disclosure documents, prospectuses, trade confirmations, account
statements, and other Program materials and regulatory documents (herein, “Program documents”). You should
not participate in the Program if you do not wish to interact digitally.
Regular and continuous internet access is required to enroll in the Program and to access all related Program
documents. If you are accessing the Program through Fidelity’s mobile application, then you should ensure that
you have downloaded the most up-to-date version of the Fidelity mobile application to access the available
Program services. You also have an obligation to maintain a current and accurate email address to ensure that
you can receive your Program-related communications and/or Program documents, and your participation in
a Program can be terminated by us if you request to unenroll from electronic delivery for your Program-related
communications and/or Program documents.
The Program includes discretionary investment management services made available to clients through the
Fidelity Go website and Fidelity’s mobile applications (the “Program Website”). Strategic Advisers applies tax-
smart investing techniques to taxable Program Accounts, as discussed in more detail below. Tax-loss harvesting in
equity Flex Funds, a component of tax-smart investing techniques, is available to taxable accounts with a balance
of at least $25,000. Trading and custody services are included in the Program’s discretionary management services.
There is no minimum to open a Fidelity Go Program Account; however, a Program Account will not be invested
according to the selected asset allocation strategy until the Program Account has a balance of at least $10.
The Program offers nondiscretionary financial planning through the Program Website or via telephone by a team
of Fidelity representatives. To be eligible for the nondiscretionary financial planning available through the Program,
you must invest and maintain at least $25,000 in at least one Fidelity Go Program Account. Clients who maintain
health savings accounts through the Program and clients who are nearing or in retirement will have access to
the nondiscretionary financial planning offered in the Program, but they should understand that such financial
planning will not address health care spending strategies or retirement income planning.
Identification and Selection of an Asset Allocation Strategy
As part of the Program’s enrollment process, you will be required to provide us with certain initial information
about yourself, including but not limited to your age, goal, initial investment, time horizon, household income,
risk tolerance, and, for taxable accounts, marginal federal income tax rate (collectively, “Initial Information”),
that we will use to identify a long-term asset allocation strategy for your Program Account. Please note that,
if you are converting a Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”) individual retirement account into a Program
Account, we will assume a “retirement” goal for your Program Account. You are able to change the goal for
your Program Account when filling out the Initial Information.
Each asset allocation strategy is composed of Fidelity Flex® mutual funds (“Flex Funds”), as described below,
which provide exposure to a combination of stocks, bonds, and short-term investments and is one in a
series of asset allocations that range from conservative (lower risk and return potential) to aggressive (higher
risk and return potential). You can, and we encourage you to, also provide us with additional information
about yourself (including but not limited to your investment experience and knowledge, emergency fund,
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other assets, and financial situation, collectively, “Additional Information”), which will allow us to know you
better. The Initial Information and Additional Information (together, “Profile Information”) help us create your
personal profile and will impact the asset allocation strategy that is proposed to you. You can update your
Profile Information online anytime, and we encourage you to keep this information current.
For taxable Program Accounts, the marginal federal income tax rate you provide will determine which
investments we select as part of the fixed income portion of your asset allocation strategy, and help inform
how we deploy any additional tax-smart investing techniques available to your Program Accounts. Please note
that joint Program Account owners who file their federal income taxes separately may not be subject to the
same marginal federal income tax rate, and we will consider only the marginal federal income tax rate that
such owners provide. In such a case, the Program Account may not be managed according to both owners’
marginal federal income tax rate.
In the event that you do not provide Additional Information, we will propose an asset allocation strategy for
your Program Account using your Initial Information along with assumed responses based on information
derived from investors in the Program and other Fidelity programs and services (our “profiling assumptions”).
A portion of the profiling assumptions for Program Accounts with a retirement goal are based on similarly
aged investors in Fidelity programs and services, and a portion of the profiling assumptions for Program
Accounts with other goals are based on investors in the Program with a similar investment time horizon. This
means that the profiling assumptions will differ depending on the goal of your Program Account.
We use a proprietary framework based on aggregate investor data to inform our profiling assumptions. You
should understand that if you do not answer certain questions aimed at collecting your Profile Information,
including those concerning your emergency fund, financial situation, and investment knowledge/experience,
we will assume values for those responses. For example, if you have a Program Account with a retirement
goal, our profiling assumptions will generally assume that your emergency fund, investment experience,
and investment knowledge increase as you age. It is also important for you to understand that the profiling
assumptions are periodically reviewed and updated based on the investor information we have in our
database, and such updates can result in changes to the profiling assumptions that are used as part of your
Profile Information. We encourage you to provide the Additional Information to ensure that the Program
services you receive are based on your particular information rather than our profiling assumptions, and to
keep such Additional Information updated as appropriate.
As part of the Program enrollment process, you can select the proposed asset allocation strategy or
another asset allocation strategy that you believe is appropriate for you, subject to certain constraints and
limitations. If you select an asset allocation strategy that differs from the one that we suggest, we will provide
discretionary management for your Program Account consistent with your selected asset allocation strategy.
You should understand that the performance of a Program Account with a client-selected asset allocation
strategy likely will differ, at times significantly, from the performance of a Program Account managed
according to the asset allocation strategy we proposed. Unless you are enrolled in Smart Shift, as described
below, your Program Account’s asset allocation strategy will not change unless (i) you initiate a change, or
(ii) the asset allocation strategy for the account is no longer appropriate based on your Profile Information.
The Program offers Smart Shift, an account feature through which we manage your Program Account to an
investment time horizon that reflects when you anticipate starting to withdraw from your Program Account.
Smart Shift is only available to clients who are invested in the asset allocation strategy that we recommend.
Program Accounts managed with Smart Shift are designed to align with our suggested asset allocation based
on your Profile Information, and, if Additional Information is not provided, our profiling assumptions. The
asset allocation strategy for your Program Account will change over time if Smart Shift is enabled.
Clients with a retirement goal who are within three years of when they, or if planning with a partner through
the Program, they or their partner, anticipate withdrawing from their Program Account (their “Retirement
Year”) must provide an anticipated withdrawal amount as part of their Profile Information for us to manage
their account in Smart Shift. You will not be eligible for Smart Shift if you, or if planning with a partner through
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the Program, you or your partner, are within three years of your Retirement Year and fail to provide your
anticipated withdrawal amount. We reserve the right to discontinue your participation in Smart Shift unless
and until you provide us with your anticipated withdrawal amount. Smart Shift is not available for clients with
a retirement goal once they, or if planning with a partner through the Program, they or their partner, reach
their Retirement Year.
In addition, information regarding the potential value of a Program Account over time can also be provided
to you. Using client-provided inputs and a number of assumptions, we will display information about
hypothetical asset projection scenarios and roughly estimate how those scenarios can perform over time.
It is important for you to understand that the modeling provided is hypothetical in nature, is provided
for illustrative purposes only, does not reflect actual investment results, and does not guarantee future
investment outcomes. The information shown or made available to you can vary with each use and over time.
Discretionary Investment Management Services
Your Program Account, and each asset allocation strategy used in the Program, will be invested in certain Flex
Funds that are available only to certain fee-based accounts offered by Fidelity. The Flex Funds are managed by
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”) and its affiliates. Unlike many other mutual funds, the
Flex Funds do not charge management fees or, with limited exceptions, fund expenses. Instead, compensation
for access to the Flex Funds is paid out of the fees charged by certain fee-based accounts offered by Fidelity that
include Flex Funds as underlying investments, including the Program.
A Program Account will be periodically rebalanced or reallocated to the portfolio identified for your selected
asset allocation strategy as further described in the section below entitled “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies, and Risk of Loss.” The specific Flex Funds or number of Flex Funds in which a Program Account is
invested could change, and the underlying Flex Funds held in a Program Account can differ based on whether a
Program Account is a taxable, health savings, or individual retirement account. For additional information about
the Flex Funds selected for a Program Account, please see the respective fund’s prospectus.
A client can impose reasonable restrictions on the management of any Program Account. You can request a
restriction from the list available on the Program Website. All requested investment restrictions are subject to
our review and approval. If a restriction is accepted, Program Account assets will be invested in a manner that is
appropriate given the restriction. Reasonable restrictions will not apply to the underlying securities or holdings
in the Flex Funds purchased in a Program Account. It is important to understand that imposing an investment
restriction can delay the start of discretionary management on and can impact the performance of a Program
Account, at times significantly, as compared with the performance of a Program Account managed without
restrictions, possibly producing lower overall results. Not all requested restrictions will be considered reasonable
for each asset allocation strategy, and a previously accepted restriction will be removed if we change your asset
allocation strategy to one for which that restriction is not considered reasonable. For Program Accounts that
are not enrolled in Smart Shift, any client-imposed restrictions will be removed if the client changes the asset
allocation strategy for the Program Account, and the client can subsequently request new investment restrictions
for the Program Account on the Program Website. You can reevaluate restrictions at any time.
Strategic Advisers uses certain tax-smart investing techniques in taxable Program Accounts. Tax-loss harvesting
is available only in taxable Program Accounts that invest and maintain at least $25,000. However, please note
that the stated goal that you assign to your Program Account and the asset allocation strategy you select
for that Program Account are of primary importance. Accordingly, the application of tax-smart investing
techniques to that Program Account is a secondary consideration. You should understand that significant
tax consequences can result from investing in a Program Account, even if such a Program Account employs
the available tax-smart investing techniques, as such techniques are not Strategic Advisers’ primary focus in
managing your Program Account. For additional considerations related to tax-smart investing techniques,
including but not limited to tax-loss harvesting, please see the disclosure below under “Methods of Analysis,
Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss.”
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Responsibility of Clients
We rely on client information to provide the services for the Program. As a client, you have a responsibility to
regularly review and, should it become inaccurate, update your Profile Information for your Program Account
and to maintain a current and accurate email address to receive Program-related communications and Program
documents. Your Program Account will continue to be managed on a discretionary basis using your Profile
Information, and it is your responsibility to advise us through the Program’s Website if there are any changes
to your Profile Information. It is important for you to understand that your Profile Information, which is used
to determine an appropriate asset allocation strategy for your Program Account and includes your marginal
federal income tax rate for taxable Program Accounts, will not automatically update as a result of any changes
you model on your own in any financial planning tool that is made available online, information you input
to other Fidelity accounts or investment programs, or pursuant to any changes that you make to recurring
contribution amounts unless also reflected in your Profile Information. If you maintain multiple relationships
with Fidelity, then you should ensure that your personal, financial, and other important information is
independently updated for each respective service or account.
Financial Planning Services and Access to a Fidelity Representative
In addition to the discretionary investment management services described above, clients who invest and
maintain $25,000 or more in at least one Program Account will have access to nondiscretionary financial
planning services designed to assist you in evaluating one or more identified goals. As part of the Program
enrollment, you will assign a goal for each Program Account you open. Once enrolled, you can use the Program
Website to view your Program Accounts and engage with self-guided planning tools and resources. These tools
are designed to help you evaluate your ability to meet your identified goals; identify action steps; and select,
prepare for, and complete financial planning sessions designed to present strategies to help you evaluate your
financial needs (the “Financial Planning Services”).
You have access to the Financial Planning Services through the Program Website and via telephone assistance
from a team of Fidelity representatives, but the Financial Planning Services do not include in-person or in-branch
financial planning services with a Fidelity representative. The team of phone-based Fidelity representatives can
help you evaluate your financial goals and objectives, and provide general assistance with products and services
provided by Fidelity outside of the Program. We use various financial planning analytics and applications to look
at your identified goals, the assets held in your Program Accounts, and any other assets you identify that are
held in other Fidelity programs or accounts, or at a third party that you have designated toward a goal (“Other
Assets”). We will help you in evaluating your ability to meet your identified goals; however, we are not obligated
to provide ongoing financial planning advice, update any analysis provided, or monitor your progress toward
a planning or investment goal. Any self-directed modeling, including any what-if or other changes you model
on your own in any financial planning tool that is made available to you online, either through the Financial
Planning Services or otherwise through Fidelity, will not automatically update your Profile Information or your
asset allocation strategy for your Program Accounts.
It is important to understand that there can be significant differences between any asset allocation modeling
shown in a financial plan and the performance you will experience in a Program Account. The Financial Planning
Services do not include initial or ongoing advice regarding specific securities or other investments, any financial
analysis provided outside this Program (including prior to enrolling in the Program), or any financial planning that
you engage in on your own in a financial planning tool that is made available online.
Other than with respect to your Program Accounts, which are managed on a discretionary basis through
the Program, whether and how to implement any asset allocation or other recommendations provided as
a component of our Financial Planning Services is your responsibility and is separate and distinct from the
Financial Planning Services. Specifically, Other Assets are not managed as part of the Program and are subject
to separate and distinct terms, conditions, and, as applicable, fees. In addition, if you choose to implement
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some or all of the asset allocation or other recommendations provided as part of the Financial Planning Services
through Fidelity, a Fidelity entity will act as a broker-dealer or investment adviser depending on the products
or services selected, and you will be subject to separate, applicable charges, fees, or expenses. Please
see the “Guide to Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services at Fidelity Investments” available at
Fidelity.com/information or speak with a Fidelity representative for more information.
It is important to understand that Fidelity representatives can act in the capacity of a registered representative
of FBS, Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker-dealer. Any financial planning a client receives from a Fidelity
representative prior to us accepting your Program Client Agreement is provided by FBS and is not part of the
Program services.
F E E S A N D C O M P E N S A T I O N
Advisory Fees
The Program charges an advisory fee based on a Program Account’s average daily asset balance, payable after
the end of each quarter. Program Accounts will be charged an advisory fee in accordance with the table below
by calculating average daily assets at the end of each month to determine the advisory fee rate to assess for that
month, and the advisory fees for each month during a quarter are added together to determine the quarterly
advisory fee. If the end of the month falls on a nonbusiness day, the Program Account value on the end of the
last business day of the month will be applied to any subsequent nonbusiness days in that month. The Program
Advisory Fee paid includes the ongoing discretionary management of a Program Account; the brokerage,
clearing, and custody services provided by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates; and, as applicable, the financial
planning and Fidelity representative access noted above. Please see the table below for the advisory fee rates
for the Program.
ADVISORY FEE SCHEDULE FOR PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
Average Daily Assets*
Advisory Fee
Account balances of less than $25,000
No advisory fee
Account balances of $25,000 and above
0.35% annually
* Average daily assets of the Program Accounts are determined on the last business day of the month and used to calculate the
advisory fee rate to assess for that month. The quarterly advisory fee deducted after the end of each quarter from Program
Accounts will be the sum of each month’s advisory fee for that quarter, and the advisory fee rate can vary from month to month
during a quarter based on the average daily assets determined on the last business day of each month during the quarter.
Billing
The advisory fee will be deducted from your Program Account on a quarterly basis after the end of each
quarter. Program Accounts are not aggregated for billing purposes. Certain assets in your Program Account
could be liquidated to pay the advisory fee; this liquidation could generate a taxable gain or loss in a taxable
Program Account.
Accounts that cross from one advisory fee tier to another advisory fee tier during a billing period or that are
funded mid-month will be assessed a pro rata fee for the number of days within the billing period for which
the Program Account was funded. For example, if your average Program Account balance does not exceed
$25,000 during the months of July and August but does exceed $25,000 for the month of September, you
will be assessed the 0.00% advisory fee for the days in July and August and the 0.35% advisory fee for days
in September. If you open a Program Account during the month of September and your average daily assets
for the days in September that your account was funded exceeded $25,000, then you are assessed a 0.35%
advisory fee only for those days in September when your account was funded.
It is important that you understand that the 0.35% advisory fee applies to the entirety of your Program Account
balance. For example, in the scenario described above, you would not pay an advisory fee for the months of
July and August, but the 0.35% advisory fee would be applied to the entirety of your Program Account, not just
the amounts of $25,000 and above, for the month of September.
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Additional Fee Information
Your Program Advisory Fee could be reduced by a Credit Amount, as defined below. The Credit Amount
is intended to address the conflicts of interest that arise from Program Account investments that generate
revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees paid to Strategic Advisers by the amount of compensation,
if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is derived as a direct result of investments imported into
Program Accounts. As stated above, your Program Account assets will be invested in Flex Funds and the fee
structures of the Flex Funds afford transparency into the total fees you pay. The Flex Funds are not subject
to the Credit Amount because Fidelity receives no fees from the Flex Funds for managing or handling
the business affairs of the funds and pays the expenses of each fund, with limited exceptions. See “Client
Referrals and Other Compensation” below for additional information about the Credit Amount and the sale of
transferred securities imported into Program Accounts.
All fees are subject to change. Strategic Advisers has the ability to negotiate the advisory fee for certain
accounts. Strategic Advisers could also agree to waive fees, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion, including
but not limited to (i) in connection with promotional efforts and other programs, including but not limited to
situations designed to facilitate transitions between advisory programs, or (ii) for certain current and former
employees of Fidelity. This will result in certain clients paying less than the standard fee.
In addition, and to the extent applicable, Program Accounts with negotiated or no advisory fees do not receive
the Credit Amount; instead, any Credit Amount generated from such Program Accounts will be allocated,
pro rata based on assets, among the other open Program Accounts at the time the Credit Amount is applied.
Generally, you will not pay any commissions for transactions executed through affiliates of Strategic Advisers,
transaction fees, or sales loads on the securities purchased in a Program Account. You are responsible for any
fees incurred in connection with wash sales that can occur in a non-Program Account, as well as fees resulting
from the sale of any securities used to fund your initial investment in a Program Account (whether such sale
is inside or outside a Program Account) and any subsequent withdrawals that you initiate. If a mutual fund
purchased for a Program Account incurs a redemption or other administrative fee as a result of not being held
for a minimum time period, Fidelity can, in its sole discretion, choose to pay any such redemption fees on
behalf of Program clients, but is under no obligation to do so.
While you will not generally pay commissions for transactions executed through Strategic Advisers’ affiliates,
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates incur costs to make the Flex Funds available to you and incur costs to
execute transactions in your Program Account. This is a conflict of interest, as Strategic Advisers and its affiliates
are disincentivized to execute transactions in your Program Account. Strategic Advisers mitigates this conflict
by conducting investment oversight of its discretionary management, including evaluating its investment
performance in Program Accounts.
Your Program Advisory Fee does not cover the charges resulting from transactions executed with or through
broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic Advisers, including but not limited to commissions, markups
and markdowns, transfer taxes, exchange fees, regulatory fees, odd-lot differentials, handling charges,
electronic fund and wire transfer fees, or any other charges imposed by law or otherwise agreed to with regard
to Program Accounts. These transaction charges will be reflected on trade confirmations and/or Program
Account statements to the extent applicable. Strategic Advisers or an affiliate can voluntarily assume the cost
of certain commissions for equity transactions executed through broker-dealers unaffiliated with Strategic
Advisers; Program clients will not be charged commissions for such transactions. Your Program’s Advisory
Fee also does not cover a regulatory charge of a few cents per $1,000 of securities sold. Please note that
the amount of this regulatory fee varies over time, and because variations will not be immediately known to
Fidelity, the amount will be estimated and assessed in advance. To the extent that such estimated amount
differs from the actual amount of the regulatory fee, Fidelity will retain the excess. These charges will be
reflected on Program Account statements and/or trade confirmations.
The advisory fee does not cover costs associated with implementing any suggestions provided as part of our
Financial Planning Services, other than the discretionary investment management services provided through
the Program.
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Strategic Advisers’ affiliates sponsor promotional offers that provide clients with the ability to receive cash
compensation or a reduced advisory fee for opening and funding certain accounts. Accounts opened through
the Program are, from time to time, included in the list of account types and investment solutions eligible for
such promotional offers. The Program’s eligibility for such promotional offers creates a conflict of interest, as
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are incentivizing clients to use the Program rather than Strategic Advisers‘
other managed account programs or self-directed investment options available through FBS. Strategic Advisers
will also, from time to time, provide cash compensation to Program clients for taking qualifying actions with
respect to their Program Account, such as certain interactions with Program features.
Any compensation will be deposited into the client’s Program Account, will be subject to the advisory fee
applicable to the Program, and may have tax consequences. A promotional offer is not a recommendation to
implement any asset allocation strategy or select a particular account type or investment solution.
Also, during the time you are enrolled in the Program, you could be eligible to receive certain cash or noncash
compensation or services offered by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates based, in whole or in part, on the amount you
invest with the Program. It is important to understand that such services are not part of the Program’s services
for which the Program Advisory Fee is paid. In addition, while enrolled in the Program, you could receive
information about how to access financial wellness and/or professional support resources and services that are
offered by entities unaffiliated with Fidelity, some of which pay compensation to Fidelity as a result of your use
of such resources or services. Such resources and services are not included as part of the Program’s services,
and any applicable costs associated with enrolling in or subscribing to these resources or services would be in
addition to the Program Advisory Fee.
Other Considerations
In evaluating the Program, please consider that Fidelity offers a variety of investment advisory services and
brokerage offerings. These offerings are summarized below to assist you in understanding and comparing
the services and offerings. For more detailed information regarding an investment advisory service, please
review the respective Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure available at Fidelity.com/information or through a Fidelity
representative. Refer to the “Guide to Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services at Fidelity Investments”
available at Fidelity.com/information for more information regarding our roles and responsibilities when
providing brokerage and advisory services. Please note that, other than the self-directed brokerage account
offered by FBS, the advisory programs included in the chart below are each offered by Strategic Advisers.
PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity Go®
No account minimum;
$10 to invest
Less than $25,000
invested: no advisory
fee
Portfolio based on a
client’s investment
profile and composed
of a mix of zero
expense ratio Fidelity
mutual funds
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.35% annually for
$25,000 and above
Invests in zero expense
ratio Fidelity mutual
funds that do not
charge management
fees (or with limited
exceptions, fund
expenses)
Digitally provided
discretionary
investment
management and
planning; access to a
team of phone-based
representatives for
one-on-one financial
coaching for clients
who maintain $25,000
or more in a Fidelity Go
account and tax-loss
harvesting for taxable
accounts with $25,000
or more
Fidelity Managed
FidFolios®
$5,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.40% or 0.70%
annually
Digitally provided
discretionary invest-
ment man agement
of a single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques)
A mix of individual
securities, either stocks
or American Depositary
Receipts, depending
on the client’s selected
strategy
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity® Strategic
Disciplines
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.20%–0.70%
annually for equity
strategies and 0.35%–
0.40% annually for
fixed income strategies,
depending on the
amount invested
Discretionary
investment
management of a single
asset class (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
A mix of individual
securities, including but
not limited to stocks,
bonds, American
Depositary Receipts,
and/or exchange-traded
products and mutual
funds, depending on
the client’s selected
strategy
Depending on
strategy selected,
account investment
minimums of $100,000
(equity strategies)
and $350,000 (bond
strategies), each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
(effective in the second
quarter of 2026, the
account investment
minimum will be
$200,000 for taxable
bond strategies and
$250,000 for municipal
bond strategies)
Fidelity® Wealth
Services
$50,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 1.10% annually,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity as a
direct result of a client’s
investments
Fidelity Advisory
Services provides
customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
by a centralized team
of phone-based
representatives
A mix of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity
mutual funds and
exchange-traded
products invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Wealth Management
and Private Wealth
Management
provide customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
supported by a
service team
A mix of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual
funds and exchange-
traded products
and, depending on a
client’s preferences
and investment
profile, individual
securities, invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.50%–1.50%
annually, depending on
the amount invested,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity
as a direct result of a
client’s investments
(additional fees of up to
0.40% for management
of certain individual
security strategies
can also apply where
advisory services are
not provided solely by
a Strategic Advisers
affiliate)
$50,000 minimum
account investment for
Wealth Management
and $2 million
minimum investment
and $10 million
investable assets
for Private Wealth
Management, each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
Fidelity Wealth
Advisor Solutions®
Investment vehicles
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
strategy
Investment minimums
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
Advisory fees will
vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
A referral network of
unaffiliated investment
advisors that provide
customized wealth
management and
investment strategies
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Self-Directed
Brokerage Account
Transaction fees and
investment expenses
vary based on
investment vehicle
selected; no ongoing
asset-based advisory
fee charged by
Strategic Advisers
Self-directed trading
through FBS, with
access to Fidelity’s
online tools, planning,
and resources, and
support provided
by brokerage
representatives.
A dedicated
representative is
available based on
relationship
No minimum to
open a brokerage
account. Qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative is based
on a variety of factors
(for example, a client
with at least $500,000
invested in an eligible
Fidelity account would
typically qualify)
Brokerage customers
can choose from a wide
variety of investments,
including mutual funds,
exchange-traded
funds, stocks, bonds,
and insurance and
annuity products. Note
that certain securities
available through
Strategic Advisers’
advisory services are
not available in self-
directed brokerage
accounts
As described in the chart above, FBS offers self-directed brokerage accounts and financial planning and can provide
dedicated support from a Fidelity representative depending on a client’s overall relationship with Fidelity. A client
could therefore purchase planning services separately from another firm, plan independently using the tools and
analytics that are used to support the Financial Planning Services provided through the Program that are also
made available by FBS at Fidelity.com without a fee, or, if the client qualifies for dedicated support from a Fidelity
representative, work with the Fidelity representative to receive planning services offered by FBS without a fee.
While you can obtain similar products and services from Fidelity or other firms without enrolling in the
Program, you would not receive the same discretionary services offered through the Program; the Flex Funds
used by the Program would not be generally available for purchase outside of the Program; investments
could be subject to sales loads or transaction and redemption charges that are generally waived as part of
the Program; and, if you invest and maintain at least $25,000 in at least one Program Account, you would not
generally be able to obtain the same combination of investment and financial planning services. The overall
cost of purchasing the products and services separately will most likely differ from the Program Advisory Fee.
Clients should consider the value of these advisory services when making such comparisons.
Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation
Fidelity representatives who support the Program are associated with Strategic Advisers and FBS. Fidelity
representatives act on behalf of FBS when recommending an advisory program offered by Strategic Advisers.
Once a client enrolls in the Program, the Fidelity representative will be providing Strategic Advisers services.
Separate and apart from the Program, Fidelity representatives, including those who support the Program, can
provide clients with a variety of FBS services, including investment education and advice, financial analyses,
planning services, and help with implementing any nondiscretionary recommendations as part of the Financial
Planning Services. When providing services for FBS, these Fidelity representatives are acting solely as
registered representatives of FBS, and the Program’s fees are not related to those FBS services.
Fidelity representatives receive base pay based on their experience and role. In addition to base pay, Fidelity
representatives are also eligible to receive either variable compensation or an annual bonus, and certain
representatives are also eligible to receive longer-term compensation. Fidelity representatives who receive an
annual bonus do not receive compensation based directly on the sale of any product or service, but they do
have an indirect financial incentive to recommend products or services that pay more compensation to Fidelity
because annual bonus funding is based in part on Fidelity’s financial performance. For Fidelity representatives
who receive variable compensation, variable compensation depends on the representative’s role and can be
impacted by client loyalty, the amount of assets a client transfers to Fidelity, the amount of assets invested
initially and on an ongoing basis, referring potential clients to other Fidelity representatives who enroll the
client in a Fidelity investment product or service, and client family members opening Fidelity accounts.
Whether and how much each Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined
based on the representative’s role, responsibilities, performance measures, and their manager’s assessment of
the representative’s performance.
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Fidelity and the Fidelity representatives who support the Program and who are eligible to receive variable
compensation receive different amounts of compensation depending on the type of product or service a client
selects. Fidelity and those representatives will earn more compensation if a client (i) enrolls in any service level
of Fidelity Wealth Services than if a client enrolls in Fidelity Go or Fidelity Managed FidFolios, or (ii) enrolls
in the Wealth Management or Private Wealth Management service level of Fidelity Wealth Services than if a
client enrolls in the Fidelity Advisory Services service level of Fidelity Wealth Services. Please note that Fidelity
representatives do not earn variable compensation with respect to Standalone Planning. The compensation
received by Fidelity and those representatives in connection with FBS offerings (e.g., stocks, bonds, ETFs,
mutual funds) is typically less than the compensation received in connection with a client choosing to
participate in a Fidelity advisory program. Products and services that generally require more time to engage
with a client and/or that are more complex provide greater compensation to a representative and Fidelity.
This compensation structure creates a financial incentive for Fidelity and its representatives to recommend
investments in more complex or time-consuming products and services over others, and to recommend that
a client maintain an investment in such products and services over time. Fidelity addresses these conflicts of
interest by having processes in place that require our representatives to make recommendations that are in
the best interest of clients, paying compensation based on the time and complexity of the relevant product or
service, training and supervising our representatives, and disclosing these conflicts of interest to clients so that
they can consider the conflicts when making financial decisions.
To see specific compensation levels for the managed account programs mentioned above and other
products, including an example of compensation that can be earned by Financial Consultants, please see
the “Fidelity Investments Compensation Disclosure” document (available at Fidelity.com/information), or
contact a Fidelity representative. Clients should read the information contained in the “Fidelity Investments
Compensation Disclosure” document carefully, and can ask a representative at any time whether and how
they are compensated with respect to a particular product or service and about the financial incentives and
conflicts of interest that Fidelity has when making recommendations of products or services.
P E R F O R M A N C E - B A S E D F E E S A N D S I D E - B Y - S I D E
M A N A G E M E N T
Strategic Advisers does not charge performance-based fees in connection with the Program. In addition,
Strategic Advisers does not engage in side-by-side management with respect to the strategies employed
for the Program.
T Y P E S O F C L I E N T S
The Program is generally available to individual investors who are U.S. persons (including a U.S. resident
alien), typically reside in the United States, and have a valid taxpayer identification number. The Program is
not available to foreign investors. You can enroll taxable, health savings, or individual retirement accounts
in the Program. You must also have regular internet access and be comfortable with a digital investment
experience and online services. All Program-related communications, materials, and Program documents
will be delivered electronically. You will be sent an electronic notification regarding the availability of Program
documents, and a link or website address where the Program documents can be accessed. It is important to
note that if you want to revoke your consent to electronic delivery of Program-related communications and/or
Program documents, you will need to terminate your participation in the Program.
Opening and Funding a Program Account
To enroll in the Program, you must agree to the Program Client Agreement, which details the terms and
conditions under which the client appoints Strategic Advisers to provide the Program services. Our advisory
relationship with a client begins when we accept the client’s Program Client Agreement.
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Except with respect to a Program investment proposal, preliminary discussions or recommendations made
before we accept your Program Client Agreement are not intended as investment advice provided by Strategic
Advisers, including but not limited to any financial planning provided by Fidelity representatives, as described
above. The Program Client Agreement requires that you delegate discretionary authority to Strategic Advisers,
which includes the authority to determine which funds to purchase or sell and the total amount of such
purchases and sales, subject to certain Program and regulatory limitations and Strategic Advisers’ internal
policies and procedures. You also acknowledge through the Program Client Agreement that Strategic Advisers
may, but is not obligated to, retain one or more sub-advisors with respect to the management of your Program
Account. Your Program Client Agreement establishes a brokerage account with FBS. During your participation
in the Program, your Program Account will not be available for self-directed brokerage activities.
There is no minimum to open a Program Account; however, once you have enrolled in the Program, you will have
90 days to fund your Program Account. You must deposit at least $10 for us to begin managing your account, and
you must invest and maintain $25,000 or more in at least one Program Account to be eligible for the Financial
Planning Services. Taxable Program Accounts that invest and maintain $25,000 are eligible for tax-loss harvesting.
If you have not funded your Program Account within 90 days, we can terminate your participation in the Program.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove your access to the Financial Planning Services if you do
not maintain $25,000 in at least one Program Account and to cease tax-loss harvesting if your taxable Program
Account falls below $25,000. In general, your Program Advisory Fees will begin to accrue after a Program Account
has been deemed in good order for management purposes. We can, in our sole discretion, change the Program
Account opening minimum, the minimum amount at which we will begin managing your account, or the
minimum amount at which clients become eligible for the Financial Planning Services at any time.
You can fund your Program Account or add further assets to an existing account by depositing cash or
securities acceptable to us. A Program Account will be reviewed for investment once we receive all the
required information and the funding process, including, if applicable, the settlement of funds used to fund
the Program Account, is complete. A Program Account will typically begin trading, and certain features based
on assets, such as the Financial Planning Services or tax-loss harvesting, will become available within five
business days of initial or subsequent deposits. The Program’s general policy is to invest cash deposits in the
core Fidelity money market fund identified as the cash sweep vehicle for your Program Account (“Core Money
Market Fund”) as soon as reasonably practicable, then further invest portions of these assets in accordance
with your selected asset allocation strategy.
Fidelity will determine, in its sole discretion, which securities will be eligible to fund a Program Account. A
Fidelity representative can provide information as to whether a specific mutual fund, exchange-traded product
(“ETP”), or other security is available to fund a Program Account. As a general matter, securities transferred
into a Program Account that are lightly traded; have restrictions on their sale, transfer, or liquidation; or are
otherwise difficult to price, sell, transfer, or redeem will be ineligible to fund a Program Account. Transferred
securities imported into Program Accounts must be held free and clear of any liens, pledges, or other legal
or contractual restrictions. At times, Fidelity will not accept individual securities that are otherwise generally
available to fund a Program Account due to internal guidelines or state or federal regulations.
We will liquidate transferred securities imported into Program Accounts as soon as reasonably practicable, and
the transfer of such securities into a Program Account is deemed to be your directive to Fidelity to sell any such
securities upon transfer. We do not consider the potential tax consequences of these sales when following
your deemed direction to sell such securities. Any tax-smart investing techniques available to taxable Program
Accounts will not be used when liquidating securities transferred into a Program Account. We also reserve
the right to transfer an ineligible security back to the account from which you are transferring the assets or to
another like-registered account held at Fidelity.
Sales of transferred securities will be subject to redemption and other applicable fees, including commissions
on sales of securities; however, under certain circumstances, we can voluntarily assume the costs of certain
commissions. You could realize a taxable gain or loss when these shares are sold. In addition, when Fidelity
Funds are purchased in taxable Program Accounts, you could receive taxable distributions out of earnings that
have accrued before purchase (a situation referred to as “buying a dividend”).
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It is important that you understand that the long-term asset allocation strategy we recommend for your
Program Account will not consider funds deposited into your account by Fidelity pursuant to any promotional
offers, which are described in more detail in the “Fees and Compensation” section of this Program Brochure.
You should add the value of any such funds to the amount you list as your initial investment in the Initial
Information if you want us to consider such funds in recommending an asset allocation strategy to you.
Additional Deposits
Additional deposits can be made to your Program Account at any time, including funding your Program
Accounts with transferred securities as described above and acceptable to us. Discretionary management of
additional deposits will generally occur as soon as reasonably practicable but could be delayed for various
reasons, including time needed to liquidate securities, special handling instructions, or funding your Program
Account in accordance with the investment minimum. Depending on the size of the deposit made and the
size of the positions held in your Program Account, deposits can remain invested in your Core Money Market
Fund until such time as your Program Account is rebalanced. In general, we will begin charging the Program
Advisory Fee on additional deposits once assets have been received into the Program Account and have been
deemed in good order for management purposes.
It is important to understand that additional deposits into a taxable Program Account with assets of $25,000 or
more can limit the tax efficiency of the Program Account, as the additional deposits will be used to purchase
Flex Funds and such purchases could result in wash sales. For more information on wash sales and the
applicability of the wash-sale rule, please see “Investment Universe” and “Material Risks” under “Methods of
Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss.”
Withdrawals, Account Closure, and Program Termination
At any time, you can contact us to request a withdrawal from a Program Account, elect to close one or more
of your Program Accounts, or elect to close all Program Accounts and terminate Program enrollment. If you
instruct us to terminate your participation in the Program, we will cease managing your Program Account,
additional deposits will no longer be accepted into your Program Account, and any Program Account features
will be terminated. In addition, Strategic Advisers reserves the right to terminate your participation in the
Program (or to limit your rights to access any or all Program Account features, products, or services) for any
reason, including but not limited to (i) if you fail to maintain a current, accurate, and valid email address,
(ii) if you revoke your consent to electronic delivery of Program-related communications and/or Program
documents, (iii) if any authorized person on a Program Account resides outside the United States, (iv) if the
balance of your Program Accounts falls below the minimum investment level required for your Program,
(v) if opening multiple Program Accounts to avoid paying Program Advisory Fees in accordance with the fee
schedule included in this brochure, or (vi) if the Program is deemed no longer appropriate for you.
Should either party terminate the investment advisory relationship, the Program Advisory Fee will be prorated
from the beginning of the last quarter to the termination date, which is defined as the date when the Program
Account is no longer managed by Fidelity on a discretionary basis.
You will be required to provide instructions to be used in the event of withdrawals or Program Account closure.
You have the option of electing either that assets be liquidated and the proceeds sent to you by check or
transferred to a bank account (or other account), or, as permitted, having the assets transferred in-kind to
another account.
While the timing of trading and settlement can vary, liquidating trades for partial and full withdrawal requests
will typically be placed within the next five business days of the request. While such instructions are pending,
we could place trading restrictions on the Program Account.
It is important to understand that the Flex Funds purchased in a Program Account can only be held in certain
Fidelity fee-based accounts. When a Program Account holds Flex Funds, termination from the Program will
result in the sale of those securities held in the Program Account unless you transfer the Flex Funds to another
Fidelity fee-based account that includes or accepts the Flex Funds held in your Program Account. Strategic
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Advisers will not transfer the Flex Funds held in your Program Account to another financial institution or to
a Fidelity self-directed brokerage account, and any request a client makes to transfer the Flex Funds to such
an account will result in our redeeming such funds and transferring the proceeds in cash. Taxable Program
Accounts could incur a taxable gain or loss in connection with such sale. If any proceeds remain in a Program
Account after you terminate from a Program, the proceeds will be held in the Core Money Market Fund, and
we will restrict the account pending your liquidation or transfer instructions. Note that liquidation of assets in
taxable accounts could have tax consequences.
There can be instances where we need to place a do-not-trade restriction on one or more Program Accounts,
including when processing a trade correction, when we need to comply with a court order, or when we
need additional Profile Information from a client. For the period when a do-not-trade restriction is in effect,
discretionary management of the Program Accounts will be suspended and we will not monitor the Program
Accounts for potential purchases and sales of securities, and any deposits made during the do-not-trade period
will not be invested until the do-not-trade restriction has been removed.
M E T H O D S O F A N A L Y S I S , I N V E S T M E N T S T R A T E G I E S
A N D R I S K O F L O S S
Investment Approach
As discussed above, we use a proprietary algorithm to identify one in a series of long-term asset allocation
strategies for your Program Account based on your Profile Information. We have created portfolios of Flex
Funds for each asset allocation strategy and invest Program Accounts in alignment with the respective
portfolio, subject to reasonable restrictions that you can impose. Each portfolio of Flex Funds provides an
exposure to stocks, bonds, and short-term investments, or a combination thereof, depending on the particular
Flex Fund, and is one in a series of asset allocations that range from conservative (i.e., a strategy that has a
lower allocation to equities and a lower risk and return potential) to aggressive (i.e., a strategy that has a higher
allocation to equities and a higher risk and return potential).
As described above, you can also provide us with Additional Information about yourself, and providing the
Additional Information will allow us to know you better and can impact the proposed asset allocation strategy.
Strategic Advisers uses a proprietary framework based on aggregate investor data to inform our profiling
assumptions. It is important to understand that the various profiling assumptions we consider will vary over
time and based on your goal. We will periodically review and update the profiling assumptions based on
the investor information we have in our database, and such updates will result in changes to the profiling
assumptions that are used in connection with your Profile Information.
Investment Universe
The Program is designed to provide investors with a portfolio of Flex Funds. For the equity and certain fixed
income portions of a portfolio, Program Account assets will be invested in passively managed Flex Funds that
seek to replicate the performance of relevant market indexes. Short-duration nonmunicipal fixed income and
all municipal asset portions of a Program Account can be invested in both passively and actively managed
Flex Funds. The Flex Funds are managed by affiliates of Strategic Advisers, including FMRCo. For additional
information about the Flex Funds selected for your Program Account and the associated risks, please see the
respective fund’s prospectus.
Program Accounts that have a more conservative asset allocation strategy will typically hold a higher percentage
of bond funds than other Program Accounts. The specific mix of Flex Funds chosen will depend on the asset
allocation strategy selected for your Program Account, could change over time in light of changes to your
personal situation, and could deviate at times from the asset allocation strategy you originally viewed as part of
the Program’s online enrollment process.
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About Tax-Smart Investing Techniques
As stated above, Strategic Advisers will use tax-smart investing techniques in taxable Program Accounts. Over
the long run, tax-smart investing techniques are intended to contribute to helping clients reach their investing
goals. It is important to understand that the Program Account’s goal is of primary importance, and that the
application of tax-smart investing techniques is a secondary consideration. Strategic Advisers can implement
trades in taxable Program Accounts that trigger significant tax consequences in seeking to manage taxable
Program Accounts consistently with long-term strategy investment objectives. The potential federal income tax
consequences of holding, buying, and selling securities are considered as part of the investment services for
taxable Program Accounts, but we do not consider state or local taxes; foreign taxes, including those applied
to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or generation-
skipping transfer taxes. The tax-smart investing techniques Strategic Advisers uses when it makes trading
decisions to buy, hold, or sell securities for a client’s taxable Program Account, will vary depending on the
asset level in the taxable Program Account and the asset allocation strategy selected. The tax-smart investing
techniques referenced throughout this brochure refer to one or more of the following:
Ability to harvest tax losses (available only in taxable Program Accounts that invest and maintain $25,000 or
more). The Flex Funds can experience price declines, possibly below a client’s adjusted tax basis in the security
as determined by the tax basis information on record for the client’s Program Account. In such instances,
losses could be realized in the equity Flex Funds in the client’s Program Account for tax purposes. In cases
where an equity Flex Fund position is sold to realize a capital loss for tax purposes, the position usually will
be replaced with another Flex Fund we believe will maintain comparable market exposure. In harvesting
tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in the client’s
taxable Program Account and will consider factors, such as investment risk, available comparable Flex Fund
alternatives, and potential wash sales in the Program Account when deciding whether to harvest tax losses.
Importantly, Strategic Advisers will only seek to harvest tax losses in the Flex Funds that hold equity securities.
Therefore, tax-loss harvesting opportunities become increasingly limited in asset allocation strategies that are
more heavily weighted in fixed income Flex Funds.
Strategic Advisers considers the potential application of the wash-sale rule when evaluating transactions in a
Program Account. Clients should understand, however, that Strategic Advisers does not prevent or avoid wash
sales in all cases. The wash-sale rule requires taxpayers to defer losses that would otherwise be realized if the
taxpayer acquires a substantially identical investment 30 days before or after the sale. While Strategic Advisers
considers whether its trading in a taxable Program Account may trigger the wash-sale rule, we will nevertheless
engage in transactions that are potentially subject to the wash-sale rule if we determine that such transactions
are consistent with the asset allocation strategy. Strategic Advisers will monitor for wash sales within a taxable
Program Account. However, the wash-sale rule not only applies to investment transactions occurring in a
taxable Program Account, but also to transactions in other accounts held by the client, the client’s spouse,
and certain entities controlled by the client and/or spouse. With respect to the Flex Funds, Strategic Advisers
will only monitor for wash sales in the Program Account in which it is harvesting a potential tax loss; it will not
monitor your other Program Accounts or other accounts within or outside of Fidelity to ensure that purchases
in those Program Accounts do not trigger a wash sale. If the client and/or their spouse maintain more than one
taxable Program Account, Strategic Advisers will employ the tax-smart investing techniques in each Program
Account but will not monitor for wash sales across those taxable Program Accounts.
The wash-sale rule is complex, and while Strategic Advisers seeks to monitor wash sales in a taxable Program
Account, you are ultimately responsible for determining whether the wash-sale rule applies to any particular
transaction in your Program Account and in any other investment accounts. You should consult a tax advisor
with respect to the wash-sale rule based on your individual circumstances.
Opportunities to avoid and/or postpone capital gain realizations. If there are specific lots of Flex Funds in
a Program Account—a block of Flex Fund shares bought at a particular time at a particular price—lots are
reviewed and the potential federal income tax burden associated with selling that lot is weighted against the
potential investment merits of the sale, such as performance potential, added diversification, and support
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of risk-management strategies. Once Strategic Advisers decides to sell an eligible Flex Fund position, it will
attempt to sell the lot(s) that will generate the lowest overall federal income tax burden (or generate a loss for
tax purposes) using the tax basis and holding period information on record, with a preference for long-term
capital gains over short-term capital gains.
Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices
Strategic Advisers generally uses both fundamental and quantitative investment strategies to manage Program
Accounts. This involves both evaluating characteristics such as sector weightings, duration, valuation, and
market capitalization, as well as focusing on key economic indicators and trends. When determining how
to allocate assets among underlying mutual funds, Strategic Advisers considers a variety of objective and
subjective factors, including but not limited to proprietary fundamental and quantitative fund research,
a manager’s experience and investment style, fund availability, current public information about a fund,
performance history, asset size, and portfolio turnover—and overall fit within Program Accounts. Strategic
Advisers’ investment professionals will obtain and use information from various sources to assist in making
allocation decisions among asset classes as well as decisions regarding the purchase and sale of specific mutual
funds. Sources of information used include publicly available information and performance data on mutual
funds, individual securities, equity markets, fixed income markets, international markets, and broad-based
economic indicators. Strategic Advisers will use both primary sources (e.g., talking directly with managers) and
secondary sources (reports prepared by fund companies and other sources that provide data on specific fund
investment strategies, portfolio management teams, fund positioning, portfolio risk characteristics, performance
attribution, and historical fund returns) as inputs into its investment process. However, as described earlier in
this brochure, Program Account assets will be invested in certain Flex Funds.
Strategic Advisers does not seek access to material nonpublic information on any investment used by the
Program. With respect to Fidelity Funds used by the Program, the investment team at Strategic Advisers that
manages Program Accounts does not have access to material nonpublic information of the Fidelity Funds.
If, based on the information you provide, Strategic Advisers determines that your Program Account requires
modification to its asset allocation strategy, Strategic Advisers will generally make such changes as soon
as reasonably possible, even if such changes trigger additional trading or, in the case of taxable accounts,
significant tax consequences.
Strategic Advisers has internal limits and thresholds on how much it will invest Program Accounts in a mutual
fund or ETP, and such limits and thresholds typically apply in the aggregate across all client accounts. Strategic
Advisers can also consult fund managers to understand the manager’s guidelines or policies, if any, concerning
fund share ownership limits.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates can determine that, as a result of regulatory
requirements that apply to Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates due to investments in a particular country
or in an issuer operating in a particular regulated industry, investments in the securities of issuers domiciled
or listed on trading markets in that country or operating in that regulated industry above certain thresholds
are impractical or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds could apply at the Program Account level
or in the aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts) managed, sponsored, or owned by,
or otherwise attributable to, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. For investment risk management and other
purposes, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also generally apply internal aggregate limits on the amount of a
particular issuer’s securities owned by all such accounts, including funds managed by Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates. In such instances, investment flexibility will be restricted, and Strategic Advisers could limit or exclude
a client’s investment in a particular issuer, which can also include investment in related derivative instruments.
Material Risks
Risks Associated with Financial Planning. The projections and other analyses presented to a client in
the course of providing the Financial Planning Services are not guarantees. In particular, projections are
hypothetical in nature; are for illustrative purposes only; do not reflect actual investment, tax, or other
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planning results; and are not guarantees of future outcomes. Any modeling results shown will vary with each
use and over time. In addition, our assumptions and methodologies used in financial planning are adjusted
from time to time, which can have an impact on the results obtained. The financial planning analyses provided
through the Program are based on the information provided by clients and certain static assumptions—for
example, fixed return rates, fixed life expectancies, and fixed rates of income or cash flow. In reality, these
variables will not be static—market fluctuation will affect overall asset performance, and uncertain life
expectancy could cause clients to outlive their resources or fail to accumulate necessary resources. In addition,
financial planning analyses include probabilistic modeling, whereby the probability of success varies based on
differing assumptions and on changing circumstances and market information.
The Financial Planning Services can include asset allocation modeling to help a client evaluate their ability to
meet identified goals; however, there can be significant differences between any asset allocation modeling
shown to a client and the performance a client will actually experience for their Program Accounts. Asset
allocation modeling is performed at the asset class level, assumes broad diversification within each asset class,
and is not designed to predict the future performance of any particular security or investment product, and
results will vary with each use and over time. In addition, the financial planning analyses do not model the
individual return characteristics of every security or investment a client owns, and, as a result, the modeling
process is subject to significant variability based on the differences in performance between the securities
actually owned by a client and the capital market assumptions used in the modeling process. To the extent
that the characteristics of a client’s assets vary significantly from those of the broadly diversified asset class
assumptions used, actual performance can deviate significantly from the projections provided as a component
of our financial planning services.
If an asset allocation recommendation with respect to a particular goal is provided as part of our Financial
Planning Services, it can differ from the asset allocation strategy identified for a Program Account associated
with that goal. Unless otherwise indicated, the financial planning analysis assumes that the asset allocation
of all the accounts associated with a goal, when aggregated, will generally reflect the asset allocation
recommended with respect to the goal. Clients remain responsible for the asset allocation of any Other Assets
associated with a goal. If the aggregated asset allocation for all of a client’s accounts associated with a goal
does not match the goal asset allocation recommended for that goal, the differential can have a significant
impact on the outcome of our financial planning analyses.
As part of the Financial Planning Services, we can identify certain account types or account structures that are
generally designed to help investors reach their goals, including the use of tax-deferred or tax-free retirement,
insurance, and educational savings accounts. There is no guarantee that a client’s use of these account
structures will be beneficial in helping the client reach their goals.
In addition, the legal and tax treatment of these types of accounts could change in the future, leading to
unexpected consequences for any such accounts, and we are under no obligation to update you about
potential changes in the tax law or the tax treatment of any account. Any financial planning analysis services
made available to clients will provide more specific details about the risks and limitations associated with
that analysis.
Fidelity does not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. Accordingly, any resource or information presented
to clients in conjunction with the Program about tax considerations affecting financial transactions or estate
arrangements is provided for informational purposes. Clients should consult their tax and legal advisors
regarding their particular circumstances.
Risks Associated with Investment Strategies. In general, all the portfolios managed by Strategic Advisers in the
Program are subject to the list of investment risks discussed below. However, investment strategies that have
higher concentrations of equity will have greater exposure to the risks associated with equity investments,
such as stock market volatility and foreign exposure. On the other hand, investment strategies that have a
higher exposure to fixed income will have greater exposure to the risks associated with those products, such
as credit risk and bond investment risk.
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The discretionary investment management strategies implemented for clients in the Program, including
conservative investments, involve risk of loss. Investments in a Program Account are not bank deposits and are
not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government
agency. All investments involve risk, the degree of which varies significantly. Investment performance can
never be predicted or guaranteed, and the value of your assets will fluctuate due to market conditions and
other factors. You could lose money by investing in mutual funds. You could lose money by investing in a
Program Account.
Many factors affect each investment’s or Program Account’s performance and potential for loss. Strategies
that pursue investments in equities will be subject to stock market volatility, and can decline significantly in
response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Strategies that pursue
fixed income investments (such as bond or money market funds) will see values fluctuate in response
to changes in interest rates, inflation, and prepayment risks, as well as default risks for both issuers and
counterparties; changing interest rates, including rates that fall below zero, can have unpredictable effects
on markets and can result in heightened market volatility. Developments that disrupt global economies and
financial markets, such as wars, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues,
recessions, or other events, can magnify factors that affect performance. These strategies are also affected by
impacts to the individual issuers, such as changes in an issuer’s credit quality, or changes in tax, regulatory,
market, or economic developments. In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less liquid than
other investments and therefore are more difficult to trade effectively. Municipal bond funds carry additional
risks, which are discussed below.
Nearly all investments or accounts are subject to volatility in non-U.S. markets, through either direct exposure
or indirect effects in U.S. markets from events abroad. Those investments and accounts that are exposed to
emerging markets are potentially subject to heightened volatility from greater social, economic, regulatory, and
political uncertainties, as the extent of economic development, political stability, market depth, infrastructure,
capitalization, and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets.
It is important to understand that a Program Account’s actual asset allocation can deviate from the identified
asset allocation strategy for reasons that include market movement and investment decisions to overweight or
underweight certain asset classes to seek to increase potential returns or reduce risks. If you have selected an
asset allocation strategy for your Program Account that differs from the allocation proposed, the performance
of your Program Account could differ, at times significantly, from the performance of an account managed
according to the asset allocation strategy originally proposed to you.
For more details about the risks associated with discretionary investment management strategies implemented
for clients in the Program, please see the Strategic Advisers Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure included in your
Program materials.
In addition to the risks identified above, a summary of additional risks follows:
Investing in Mutual Funds. Your Program Account bears all the risks of the investment strategies employed
by the mutual funds held in your Program Account, including the risk that a mutual fund will not meet its
investment objectives. For the specific risks associated with a mutual fund, please see its prospectus.
Money Market Funds. Cash balances in Program Accounts will be invested in the Core Money Market
Fund. You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although a money market fund seeks to
preserve the value of a client’s investment at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment
in a money market fund is not a bank account and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other
government agency. Fidelity, the sponsor of Fidelity’s money market funds, is not required to reimburse
money market funds for losses, and a client should not expect that Fidelity will provide financial support to a
Fidelity money market fund at any time, including during periods of market stress. Fidelity’s government and
U.S. Treasury money market funds will not impose a fee upon the sale of a client’s shares.
Quantitative Investing. Funds or securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from
the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, changes
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to the factors’ behavior over time, market volatility, or the quantitative model’s assumption about market
behavior. In addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment strategies rely on algorithmic processes and
therefore are subject to the risks described below under the heading “Operational Risks.”
Foreign Exposure. Investing in foreign securities and securities of U.S. entities with substantial foreign
operations are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, tax, operational, regulatory, and
political risks, all of which are likely to be greater in emerging markets. These risks are particularly significant
for funds that focus on a single country or region or emerging markets. Foreign markets can be more volatile
than U.S. markets and can perform differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets can be subject
to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. Foreign
exchange rates can also be extremely volatile. Foreign markets can also offer less protection to investors than
U.S. markets. For example, foreign issuers are generally not bound by uniform accounting, auditing, and
financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to U.S. issuers.
Adequate public information on foreign issuers might not be available, and it could be difficult to secure
dividends and information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis. Regulatory enforcement can be
influenced by economic or political concerns, and investors could have difficulty enforcing their legal rights
in foreign countries. Furthermore, investments in securities of foreign entities can result in clients owning
an interest in a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”). Clients holding an interest in a PFIC could be
subject to additional tax liabilities and filing requirements as a result of such investments. The rules regarding
investments in PFICs are complex, and clients are urged to consult their tax advisors.
Derivatives. Certain funds used by Strategic Advisers, including the Flex Funds, contain derivatives. Generally
speaking, a derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on the value of a financial asset (such as
a stock, bond, or currency), a physical asset (such as gold, oil, or wheat), or a market index (such as the S&P
500® Index). Investments in derivatives subject these funds to risks different from, and possibly greater than,
those of the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes. Some forms of derivatives, such as exchange-
traded futures and options on securities, commodities, or indexes, have been trading on regulated exchanges
for decades. These types of derivatives are standardized contracts that can easily be bought and/or sold,
and whose market values are determined and published daily. Nonstandardized derivatives (such as swap
agreements), on the other hand, tend to be more specialized or complex and can be more difficult to value.
Derivatives could involve leverage because they can provide investment exposure in an amount exceeding
the initial investment. As a result, the use of derivatives can cause these funds to be more volatile, because
leverage tends to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of a fund’s portfolio securities.
Growth Investing. Growth stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments
from the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Growth stocks tend to be more expensive relative to
their earnings or assets compared with other types of stocks. As a result, growth stocks tend to be sensitive to
changes in their earnings and more volatile than other types of stocks.
Value Investing. Value stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments
from the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks tend to be inexpensive relative to their
earnings or assets compared with other types of stocks. However, value stocks can continue to be inexpensive
for long periods of time and as a result never realize their full expected value.
Stock Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer,
political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market can react differently
to these developments. Value and growth stocks can perform differently from other types of stocks. Growth
stocks can be more volatile. Value stocks can continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of
time. In addition, stock investments are subject to risk related to market capitalization as well as company-
specific risk.
Bond Investments. In general, the bond market is volatile, and fixed income securities carry interest rate
risk. As interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa. This effect is usually more pronounced for
longer-term securities. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, we could be unable to maintain
positive returns on bond investments. Very low or negative interest rates can magnify interest rate risk for
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the markets as a whole and for individual bond investments. Changing interest rates, including rates that fall
below zero, can also have unpredictable effects on markets and can result in heightened market volatility. The
ability of an issuer of a bond to repay principal prior to a security’s maturity can cause greater price volatility,
and if a bond is prepaid, a bond fund might have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields. Fixed
income securities also carry inflation risk, as well as credit and default risks for both issuers and counterparties.
The interest payments of inflation-protected bonds are variable and usually rise with inflation and fall with
deflation. Unlike individual bonds, most bond funds do not have a maturity date, so holding them until
maturity to avoid losses caused by price volatility is not possible. In addition, investments in certain bond
structures are less liquid than other investments and therefore more difficult to trade effectively.
Credit Risk. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, and changes in specific economic
or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, can increase the risk of default by an
issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security’s or instrument’s credit quality or value. Lower-quality debt
securities and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes
in the credit quality of the issuer.
Municipal Bonds and Municipal Bond Funds. The municipal market can be significantly affected by adverse
tax, legislative, or political changes, and by the financial condition of the issuers of municipal securities.
Municipal bond funds normally seek to earn income and pay dividends that are expected to be exempt from
federal income tax. If a fund investor is a resident in the state of issuance of the bonds held by the fund,
interest dividends could also be exempt from state and local income taxes. Income exempt from regular
federal income tax (including distributions from municipal and money market funds) could be subject to state,
local, or federal alternative minimum tax. Certain funds normally seek to invest only in municipal securities
generating income exempt from both federal income taxes and the federal alternative minimum tax; however,
outcomes cannot be guaranteed, and the funds sometimes generate income subject to these taxes. For
federal tax purposes, a fund’s distribution of gains attributable to a fund’s sale of municipal or other bonds
is generally taxable as either ordinary income or long-term capital gains. Tax code changes could impact
the municipal bond market. Tax laws are subject to change, and the preferential tax treatment of municipal
bond interest income could be removed or phased out for investors at certain income levels. Because many
municipal bonds are issued to finance similar projects, especially those relating to education, health care,
transportation, and utilities, conditions in those sectors can affect the overall municipal market. Budgetary
constraints of local, state, and federal governments on which the issuers are relying for funding can also
impact municipal bonds. In addition, changes in the financial condition of an individual municipal insurer can
affect the overall municipal market, and market conditions can directly impact the liquidity and valuation of
municipal bonds.
Risks and Limitations Associated with Tax-Smart Investing Techniques. For taxable Program Accounts utilizing
tax-smart investing techniques, you should understand that there are risks and limitations associated with the
use of such techniques, and these limitations can result in tax-inefficient trades. Strategic Advisers believes
appropriate asset allocation and diversification are of primary importance, and we will make changes to a
Program Account’s asset allocation even if such changes trigger significant tax consequences, including but
not limited to wash sales or the realization of short- and/or long-term capital gains. You should consult a tax
and/or legal advisor prior to enrolling in a Program Account that will use tax-smart investing techniques as
well as on an ongoing basis to determine whether the wash-sale rule or other special tax rules could apply
to your tax situation, and to determine the efficacy of the tax-smart investing techniques to your current and
future tax situation. Strategic Advisers relies on information a client provides in applying tax-smart investing
techniques and does not offer tax advice. Strategic Advisers manages for federal income taxes in deploying
tax-smart investing techniques but does not manage in consideration of state or local taxes; foreign taxes,
including those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or
estate, gift, or generation-skipping transfer taxes. In harvesting tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt
to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in a taxable Program Account. Importantly, Strategic Advisers
does not harvest tax losses in Flex Funds that invest in fixed income securities. Therefore, tax-loss harvesting
opportunities become more limited in asset allocation strategies that invest more heavily in Flex Funds that
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invest in fixed income securities (e.g., a 50/50 equity to fixed income asset allocation strategies will have less
opportunities to harvest tax losses than a 85/15 equity to fixed income asset allocation strategy). You should
also be aware that, in cases where a Flex Fund is sold to realize a capital loss for tax purposes, Strategic
Advisers can replace that position with one or a combination of Flex Funds designed to provide comparable
market exposure, and it is important to understand that in a given year, due to investment decisions or market
conditions, you could receive varying levels of taxable distributions within a Program Account. In general,
Strategic Advisers will not sell a Flex Fund merely to avoid a taxable fund distribution but, in fact, looks at the
overall portfolio to determine the most appropriate action. A Program Account that seeks to harvest tax losses
will generally trade more frequently than other Program Accounts. There are implicit trading opportunity
costs associated with the additional turnover, which can affect the returns of a client’s Program Account. It
is important to note that the performance of any replacement investments will not be the same as that of
the investment sold, and any replacement investments can perform worse than the investment that was
sold. In addition, any tax-related benefits resulting from tax-smart investing techniques can be offset or even
outweighed by investment losses and/or missed gains (realized and unrealized). Furthermore, there are not
clear guidelines on what constitutes a “substantially identical” security for purposes of the wash-sale rule. As
such, there can be no guarantee that the Flex Funds Strategic Advisers selects as a replacement for a Flex Fund
sold in a client’s Program Account will not be deemed substantially identical for purposes of the wash- sale
rule. Although the tax-smart investing techniques seek to enhance after-tax returns, they may not consider
all the tax rules, regulations, and limitations applicable to your particular facts and circumstances, which, in
certain circumstances, will reduce the effectiveness of tax-smart investing techniques. You should understand
that the benefits derived from any tax-smart investing techniques will likely be greater for clients in higher tax
brackets. Since the value of offsetting capital gains or ordinary income is directly tied to your applicable federal
capital gains and ordinary income tax rates, clients in lower federal capital gains and ordinary income tax rates
experience reduced benefits relative to those in higher federal capital gains and ordinary income tax rates.
Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments in your Program Account could be adversely affected by new
(or revised) laws or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations could impact the securities markets as a whole,
specific industries, or individual issuers of securities. Generally, the impact of these changes will not be fully
known for some time.
Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process employed by Strategic Advisers
includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing large amounts of data from external public sources and/
or third-party data providers, including, in some instances, through the use of generative artificial intelligence
(“AI”) and large language models (“LLM”). It is not possible or practicable, however, to factor all relevant,
available data into economic forecasts or trading decisions. In addition, due to the automated nature of this
data gathering and the fact that much of this data comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all
desired or relevant data will be available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should be
aware that there is no guarantee that the data used in generating forecasts or making trading decisions will
be the most accurate data available or even free of errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require
training of the models to be used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order to yield
the desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all scenarios or that
they will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI and LLMs are subject to various risks,
including (i) the data used to train LLMs suffers inaccuracies, biases, or flaws that may cause the AI model to
respond other than as intended; (ii) weak controls in the development and use of AI allow it to be deployed
for use cases for which it was not intended; and (iii) the AI may provide inaccurate or fabricated responses to
queries it is unable to process. Fidelity has adopted a Generative AI policy and governance framework so that
the use of AI and LLMs is targeted and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using known and appropriate
data sources and are subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the use of AI and LLMs is but
one input into the research process. Clients should assume that the foregoing limitation and risks associated
with gathering, cleaning, culling, and analysis of large amounts of data from third-party, other external sources,
and the use of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing.
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There may also be incidents where data fails to load or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for
example, because of changes in the vendor’s or our system configurations due to upgrades, enhancements,
maintenance or errors, or that LLMs provide incorrect information in response to certain prompts. Clients
should assume that these data errors, like other system implementation errors, and their ensuing risks and
impact are an inherent part of investing. Accordingly, unless otherwise required to do so, Strategic Advisers
does not expect to disclose discovered data errors to clients.
Cybersecurity Risks. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business, Strategic Advisers and
its affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. These risks could include
events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and may have a negative effect on our ability to
conduct business activities. We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate these risks, but do
not believe that we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result from deliberate
attacks or unintentional events that can arise from external or internal sources. Cyberattacks include but are
not limited to gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software
coding) for purposes of misappropriating assets or sensitive information; corrupting data, equipment, or
systems; and causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks can also be carried out in a manner that does
not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts
to make network services unavailable to intended users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its
affiliates, or any other service providers (including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents,
and financial intermediaries used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability to cause disruptions
and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the ability to
calculate asset prices, impediments to trading, the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment
and systems, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar adverse consequences
could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in which an account invests, counterparties
with which an account engages in transactions, governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchange and
other financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
(including financial intermediaries and service providers), and other parties.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in internal processes,
people, or systems, such as routine processing incidents or major systems failures, or from external
events, such as exchange outages. In addition, algorithms are used in providing the Program services and
contribute to operational risks. For example, algorithms are used as part of the process whereby Strategic
Advisers recommends an appropriate asset allocation that corresponds to a level of risk consistent with a
client’s Profile Information. In providing Financial Planning Services, algorithms are also used in analyzing
the potential for success of a client’s financial plan. Strategic Advisers uses algorithms in support of its
discretionary portfolio management process. There is a risk that the data input into the algorithms could have
errors, omissions, or imperfections, or that the algorithms do not operate as intended (generally referred to as
“processing incidents”). Any decisions made in reliance on incorrect data or algorithms that do not operate as
intended can expose Program Accounts to potential risks. Issues in the algorithm are often extremely difficult
to detect and could go undetected for long periods of time or never be detected. These risks are mitigated
by testing and human oversight of the algorithms and their output. We believe that the oversight and testing
performed on our algorithms and their output will enable us to identify and address issues appropriately.
However, there is no assurance that the algorithms will always work as intended. In general, we will not assess
each Program Account individually, nor will we override the outcome of the algorithm with respect to any
particular Program Account.
Not all processing incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting from the mistakes of
third parties, will be compensable by Strategic Advisers to clients. Strategic Advisers maintains policies and
procedures that address the identification and resolution of processing incidents, consistent with applicable
standards of care, to ensure that clients are treated fairly when a processing incident has been detected.
The determination of whether, and how, to address a processing incident is made by Strategic Advisers or its
affiliates, in their sole discretion.
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Processing incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact on a client’s Program
Account based on, among other things, the relevant investment strategy, and to evaluate the materiality of the
impact. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred, we will make an appropriate correction
or otherwise reimburse the Program Account in an amount Strategic Advisers or its affiliates determine is
appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Typically, processing incidents that result in a financial impact
of less than $10 per Program Account are not considered material. Other examples of impact that could
affect the performance of a Program Account but would likely not be material include impacts arising from
computer, communications, data processing, network, cloud computing, backup, business continuity or other
operating, information, or technology systems, including those we outsource to other providers, failing to
operate as planned or becoming disabled, overloaded, or damaged as a result of a number of factors. These
factors could include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and could have a negative impact
on our ability to conduct business activities. Though losses arising from operating, information, or technology
systems failures could adversely affect the performance of a Program Account, such losses would likely not be
reimbursable under Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities and other investments
involves a risk of loss that a client should understand and be willing to bear.
D I S C I P L I N A R Y I N F O R M A T I O N
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
Strategic Advisers’ advisory business or the integrity of its management personnel.
O T H E R F I N A N C I A L I N D U S T R Y A C T I V I T I E S
A N D A F F I L I A T I O N S
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that, together with its affiliates
and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct or indirect
subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance businesses.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material business relationships with any of the
subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers
and/or employees of affiliated companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity trading
advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is registered with the
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as
amended (“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National Futures Association
(“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and National Financial Services (“NFS”) share premises
and have common supervision. In addition, certain management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered
representatives of FBS, a Strategic Advisers affiliate and a registered broker-dealer.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated
companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a
registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”). FMRCo provides
investment management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of
funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-advisor to Strategic
Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio management to certain clients and provides model portfolio
recommendations and environmental filtering services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic
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Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo
an administrative fee for handling the business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by
Strategic Advisers, and Strategic Advisers compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available to
managed account programs offered by Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees
from time to time with FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides nondiscretionary investment management
services and sponsors the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
programs (turnkey asset management programs made available to financial intermediaries). Strategic
Advisers provides model portfolio services to FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its institutional
and intermediary clients, and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In addition, Strategic
Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is registered with the Central Bank
of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies
in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers
has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been authorized by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered
with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Japan Financial
Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated
advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Hong
Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on securities, deal in futures contracts, provide asset
management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment management
services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other
affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain
registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and
as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and
sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development companies and
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the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds, and also markets those funds and other
products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a
fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services for other
broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of NFS, provides trade
executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative
trading system (“ATS”) that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against orders
submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for investment company and
other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer agent services and other custodial services to
certain Fidelity clients.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs, the Luminex ATS and the
LeveL ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other
subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC, owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and FMR
Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests in LeveL
Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC, charges a commission to both sides of
each trade executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to execute
transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a clearing
agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act
and provides brokerage products and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment
companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans, and acts
as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates.
In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products
that are issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity Investments Life
Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third parties. FBS provides shareholder
services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the introducing broker for managed accounts offered by
Strategic Advisers and places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS
provides securities brokerage to retail customers through a digital mobile application–based brokerage
platform. DBS receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and marketing
FMRCo products.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance
and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance and
annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to
residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life insurance and annuity
products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC Holdings LLC, which
in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust company organized and operating under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and custodial
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services to employee benefit plans and IRAs through which individuals can invest in affiliated or unaffiliated
registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment management services to
institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift Holding Company, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings bank that offers fiduciary services that
include trustee or co-trustee services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These funds are
privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in
borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”), can from time to time
provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment management
support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is
not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating Affiliate”
of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management in various
no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of
registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland
Associated Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(17)
of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such employees can
contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information concerning securities
that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a Participating
Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the jurisdiction of United States
courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection with investment advisory activities
conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated
Employees whom Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the list
available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
C O D E O F E T H I C S , P A R T I C I P A T I O N O R I N T E R E S T I N
C L I E N T T R A N S A C T I O N S A N D P E R S O N A L T R A D I N G
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The Code of Ethics
applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised persons of Strategic Advisers and requires
that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes
securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an exception exists or
prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access to certain
nonpublic information;
• Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
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• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through acknowledgments of
receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also imposes
additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research analysts, and portfolio
managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include the following:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions;
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval;
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a trade in any
covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such portfolio manager except in
limited circumstances;
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions;
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and annually
thereafter; and
• The disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The Code
of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside
Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any client or prospective
client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are contemplated
in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity
policies are designed to make it clear to Fidelity personnel that they should never place their personal
interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics
and other Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material nonpublic
information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable
laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits the use
of material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other employees and that limits the
transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for Program Accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set standards for
business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make sound decisions with
respect to these activities, and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients come first. Similarly, to
support compliance with applicable “pay to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions
& Activities Policy that requires employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity also
has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that
prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe,
facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly
obtain or retain business or any improper advantage.
B R O K E R A G E P R A C T I C E S
Account Transaction Information
Transactions in your Program Account are facilitated by FBS, which is a registered broker-dealer, a member
NYSE and SIPC, and an affiliate of Strategic Advisers. NFS, another affiliate of Strategic Advisers, is a registered
broker-dealer and member NYSE and SIPC, and has custody of your assets and will perform certain Program
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services, including the implementation of discretionary management instructions as well as custodial and
related services. Clients will be sent prompt confirmations from NFS for any transactions in a Program
Account; however, with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments, and
transactions that involve the Core Money Market Fund, the account statement will serve in lieu of a confirmation.
Clients will also receive a prospectus for any new fund not previously held in a Program Account. In addition,
clients will be sent Program Account statements electronically from NFS. Program Account statements and
transaction confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com. Clients should carefully review all statements
and other communications received from FBS and NFS. Program Account statements will provide holdings and
transaction information, including trades, contributions, withdrawals, advisory fees, and estimated gain/loss and
tax basis information. The routing details of a particular order, if applicable, will be provided upon request, and
an explanation of order routing practices will be provided on an annual basis. In addition, from time to time,
Fidelity will provide aggregated trade execution data to clients and prospective clients.
Broker Selection and Transactions in Program Accounts
In situations where you have imported securities into your Program Account, Strategic Advisers has a duty
to seek best execution for transactions in client accounts. Strategic Advisers will place trades for Program
Accounts with affiliated or unaffiliated registered broker-dealers (“brokers”) and may choose to execute an
order using electronic channels (including broker-sponsored algorithms) or by manually working an order
with a broker. In selecting brokers, Strategic Advisers may consider a range of factors deemed relevant in the
context of a particular trade, including but not limited to price; costs; the size, nature, and type of the order;
speed of execution; financial condition and reputation of the broker; broker-specific considerations (e.g., not all
brokers are able to execute all types of trades); broker willingness to commit capital; our trader’s assessment of
whether and how closely the broker will follow our instructions; and confidentiality and potential for leakage.
As described above in Fees and Compensation, the Program Advisory Fee includes the cost of commissions
associated with transactions executed through affiliated brokers. As a result, most trades for Program Accounts
that involve equity securities and other securities where commissions are charged will be executed with
Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker, NFS.
However, Strategic Advisers has the authority to execute transactions with an unaffiliated broker (also referred
to as “trading away”) consistent with its duty to seek best execution. While the Program Advisory Fee does not
include the cost of commissions for transactions executed through unaffiliated brokers, Strategic Advisers or its
affiliate is voluntarily assuming the cost of commissions for transactions executed by unaffiliated brokers. As a
result, Program clients are not charged commissions for such transactions. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates
reserve the right to stop assuming the cost of commissions associated with trading away, subject to prior notice
to Program clients. The Program fee does not cover transaction charges for securities where the counterparty
imposes a markup, markdown, and/or dealer spread. The net price of the security will include these transaction
charges and Program Accounts will bear these costs.
In seeking best execution for a transaction, Strategic Advisers will have no obligation to solicit competitive
bids for each transaction and Strategic Advisers will not necessarily select the broker that charges the
lowest available price or commission rate; however, Strategic Advisers believes that its policies, taking into
consideration the factors stated above, are designed to result in transaction processing that is favorable to
Program clients. Strategic Advisers conducts periodic reviews of trade execution. Although it is Strategic
Advisers’ policy to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time, there can be no
assurance that all Program Accounts will receive the same execution and certain Program Accounts will
experience a more or less favorable execution depending on market conditions.
Please see the Fees and Compensation section above for further information about Program fees, brokerage
commissions, and additional fees for transactions in a Program Account.
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Trade Aggregation and Allocation
Strategic Advisers’ policy is to treat each of its clients’ accounts in a fair and equitable manner over time when
aggregating and allocating orders for the purchase and sale of securities.
While Strategic Advisers is under no obligation to aggregate orders for Program Accounts, in general, Strategic
Advisers will choose to aggregate trades for Program Accounts and/or aggregate Program Account trades with
trades for other client accounts (including certain proprietary accounts of Strategic Advisers or its affiliates and
Fidelity employee accounts managed by Strategic Advisers) when, in Strategic Advisers’ judgment, aggregation
is in the best interest of all clients involved and it is operationally feasible to do so. Orders are aggregated
into a “block trade” to facilitate seeking best execution, to negotiate more favorable commission rates, or to
allocate equitably among clients the effects of any market fluctuations that might have otherwise occurred had
these orders been placed independently.
Aggregated orders are generally allocated on a pro rata basis among similarly situated client accounts
participating in a block trade until the order is filled. Client accounts included in a block trade receive the same
average price for the trade and shares are allocated according to the purchase and sale orders actually placed
for each client account included in the block trade. Strategic Advisers can create multiple block trades for both
buy and sell orders in the same security, and it is therefore possible that block trades will receive different
prices depending on when the orders for each block trade are filled throughout the day. When a client account
is not part of a block trade, that client account will receive a price different from the prices obtained for
Program Accounts that participate in the aggregated orders.
If Strategic Advisers does not complete an order in a single day (e.g., when an aggregate order for client
accounts exceeds the available supply or to minimize market impact), the partially filled order will be allocated
on a pro rata basis among client accounts in the block.
Strategic Advisers has adopted trade allocation policies for managing client accounts, including Program
Accounts designed to achieve fairness and not to purposefully disadvantage comparable client accounts over
time when allocating purchases and sales.
Cross Trades
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is not
obligated to) execute agency cross trades for Program Accounts. Agency cross trades are trades in which
Strategic Advisers, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with Strategic Advisers,
acts as both investment adviser and broker for a client, and as broker for the party or parties on the other
side of the trade. Agency cross trades will be executed in accordance with Section 206(3) of the Advisers Act,
requiring written consent, confirmations of transactions, annual reporting, and compliance procedures.
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is under no
obligation to) execute advisor cross trades for Program Accounts when Strategic Advisers believes that such
trades are in the best interest of all clients involved. Advisor cross trades are trades in which Strategic Advisers,
or an affiliate, acts as investment adviser to both clients involved in the trade. An advisor cross trade will be
facilitated between client accounts either directly or through a broker-dealer, including FBS or NFS, and the
relevant crossing value will be determined based on one or more third-party pricing services, actual market
bids, and/or closing prices as reflected on a national securities exchange. Neither Strategic Advisers nor its
affiliates will receive transaction-based compensation for advisor cross trades.
Soft Dollars
Strategic Advisers does not have a soft dollar program and therefore does not consider the provision of
research or brokerage as a criterion for broker selection.
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Client-Directed Brokerage
Program Accounts are not available for brokerage activities outside of the activities directed by Strategic
Advisers, including but not limited to margin trading or trading of securities by you or any of your
designated agents.
R E V I E W O F A C C O U N T S
We will contact you at least annually to request that you evaluate whether there have been any changes to
your personal financial situation that could affect your Profile Information or the Program services, including
whether you wish to impose any reasonable restrictions on the management of your Program Account or
reasonably modify any existing restrictions. If you advise us of a change, we will evaluate whether that change
requires us to propose a different asset allocation strategy for your Program Account. If we fail to hear from
you during this process, we will update your investment time horizon and Program Account balance and,
when applicable, the profiling assumptions that can be used for your Profile Information, but we will otherwise
assume that your Profile Information has not changed. We will typically notify you of a proposed change to
your asset allocation in advance; however, if we determine that your current asset allocation strategy is no
longer appropriate based on your Profile Information, we will reassign your Program Account to an appropriate
asset allocation strategy and we will notify you after the change has been made. Your continued acceptance
of a Program’s services subsequent to notification of a change to your asset allocation strategy will be deemed
as your consent to any modification to the discretionary investment management services for your Program
Account. For clients who are eligible for the Financial Planning Services, we can also suggest that you review
and update your Profile Information during your financial planning sessions with a Fidelity representative.
You also have access to periodic reports that detail the performance of your Program Account and summarize
the market activity during the period. Industry standards are applied when calculating performance
information. Strategic Advisers also makes available account performance on a password-protected website.
At least quarterly, we will also send you a reminder to notify us of any change in your financial situation or
investment needs. You can access and update the Profile Information you have provided to us on the Program
Website, and we encourage you to periodically review your Profile Information and provide updated Profile
Information any time there is a change so that we can identify a more personalized asset allocation strategy for
your Program Account.
Ongoing Review and Adjustments of Program Accounts
Strategic Advisers monitors Program Accounts and their investments periodically. Market conditions and/or an
upturn or downturn in a particular security will at times cause a “drift” in your investment portfolio away from
the long-term risk level associated with the Program Account. Strategic Advisers can choose to rebalance a
Program Account to bring it back in line with your selected asset allocation strategy. The number of times your
Program Account is rebalanced will vary based on economic and market conditions, as well as changes in the
attractiveness or appropriateness of specific funds or managers. Strategic Advisers can also modify the funds
held in a Program Account to accommodate new fund allocations and fund closures. As described earlier in
this brochure, we will invest all Program Account assets in certain Flex Funds.
In managing Program Accounts, Strategic Advisers could decide to rebalance or adjust allocations for a
number of reasons, including but not limited to the following:
• The weighting of a particular asset class, sector, or individual security that Strategic Advisers believes has
too much or too little representation in connection with Program allocations;
• Changes in the fundamental attractiveness or appropriateness of a particular mutual fund;
• Changes in a client’s Profile Information and any consequent changes to an associated investment strategy;
• Deposits/withdrawals of cash or securities into/from a Program Account; and
• Accommodating mutual fund closures or limitations.
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Strategic Advisers’ investment management team will make decisions regarding reallocations within the
portfolio in which the Program Account is invested. These decisions are based on the investment management
team’s assessment of market and economic conditions and potential investment opportunities. Strategic
Advisers will generally trade a Program Account when the portfolio to which it is aligned is changed. In
determining whether a Program Account requires trading on a given day, Strategic Advisers relies on the prior
trading day’s closing values of the funds held in a Program Account. In general, Strategic Advisers does not
attempt to conduct intraday account evaluations, and Strategic Advisers does not generally attempt to time
intraday price fluctuations in its decisions to buy or sell securities.
In certain instances, a do-not-trade restriction will be placed on a Program Account for reasons including but
not limited to processing a trade correction, client request, or to comply with a court order. For the period
when a do-not-trade restriction is on a Program Account, Strategic Advisers will suspend management of the
Program Account and will not monitor the Program Account for potential purchases and sales of securities.
Additionally, in certain instances, deposits to a Program Account will not be invested and withdrawal requests
will not be processed during a do-not-trade period. Strategic Advisers is not held responsible for any market
loss experienced as a result of a do-not-trade restriction.
C L I E N T R E F E R R A L S A N D O T H E R C O M P E N S A T I O N
Affiliates of Strategic Advisers are compensated for providing services, including for investment management,
distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services, to certain Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual
funds, ETPs, and other investments a client could use to implement any financial planning recommendations
made through the Program. These affiliates include FMRCo and its affiliates as the investment adviser for the
Fidelity Funds; FDC as the underwriter of the Fidelity Funds; and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations
Company LLC (“FIIOC”) as transfer agent for the Fidelity Funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity funds, and
recordkeeper of certain workplace savings plans. Strategic Advisers affiliates also receive compensation and
other benefits in connection with portfolio transactions executed on behalf of the Fidelity and non-Fidelity
mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments. FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or research services,
consistent with Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in connection with the execution of the
Fidelity Funds’ portfolio security transactions.
FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing, among other things,
clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other
investments, and NFS provides securities lending agent services to certain Fidelity Funds for which it receives
compensation. FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, FundsNetwork®, and provide
shareholder and other services (including, for a limited number of participants on the platform, the sharing
of certain aggregated data regarding ETF holdings in client accounts) to participating mutual funds and ETPs
(or their sponsors) for which FBS, NFS, and FIIOC receive compensation. Neither FBS nor NFS receives any
compensation in connection with directing equity trades for Program Accounts to market makers for execution.
We can execute trades through alternative trading systems or national securities exchanges, including but
not limited to ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, such as Members Exchange, a
registered national securities exchange. Any decision to execute a trade through an alternative trading system
or exchange in which a Fidelity affiliate has an interest would be made in accordance with applicable law,
including best execution obligations. For trades placed on certain national securities exchanges, not limited to
ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, Fidelity could receive exchange rebates from such
trades for Program Accounts, and these rebates will be subject to the Credit Amount (as described below) and
will be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among Program Accounts.
If you transfer securities to fund a Program Account, the advisory fee applied to a Program Account can be
reduced by a Credit Amount. The Credit Amount is intended to address the conflicts of interest that arise from
Program Account investments that generate revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees paid to Strategic
Advisers by the amount of compensation, if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is derived as a
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direct result of investments imported into Program Accounts, as detailed below. A Credit Amount is applied
after the end of each quarter. Fund expenses, which vary by fund and class, are expenses that mutual fund and
ETP shareholders typically pay. Details of mutual fund or ETP expenses can be found in each mutual fund’s
or ETP’s respective prospectus. These expenses are not separately itemized or billed; rather, the published
returns of mutual funds and ETPs are shown net of their expenses.
To the extent applicable, a Credit Amount will be calculated for any mutual funds or ETPs transferred to a
Program Account, as follows:
• For Fidelity Funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the underlying investment management and any
other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and ETPs, as a direct
result of such investments transferred into Program Accounts.
• For non-Fidelity funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the distribution fees, shareholder servicing
fees, and any other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and ETPs
(or their affiliates), as a direct result of such investments transferred into Program Accounts.
A total Credit Amount is allocated to a Program Account to arrive at the net advisory fee you pay. Individual
securities transferred into a Program Account do not affect the calculation of the Credit Amount and
the Flex Funds are not subject to the Credit Amount calculation because the Flex Funds do not charge
management fees or, with limited exceptions, fund expenses. It is important to understand that Strategic
Advisers’ affiliates receive compensation for providing a variety of services to mutual funds and ETPs. Such
compensation is included in the Credit Amount only to the extent that it is retained as a direct result of
investment by Program Accounts. Compensation that is not directly derived from Program Account assets
is not included in the Credit Amount.
Credit Amounts for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs are calculated one month after the end of each month, and
as a result, a Credit Amount for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs will not be applied against the advisory fee for
any partial period during the month in which a Program Account is closed. In such circumstances, Credit
Amounts not applied to a closed Program Account are allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the open
Program Accounts in a Program at the time the Credit Amount is applied. In addition, certain de minimis
revenue received by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates could be donated to charity (rather than included in the
Credit Amount) or could be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the open Program Accounts. This
operational process results in credits that would otherwise be attributable to one Program Account being
received by another Program Account.
The compensation described above that is retained by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates as a direct result of
investments by Program Accounts in Fidelity and non-Fidelity funds and ETPs will be included in the
Credit Amount, which reduces your advisory fee. However, to the extent that Strategic Advisers’ affiliates,
including FBS, NFS, or FIIOC, receive compensation that is neither a direct result of, nor directly derived
from, investments by the Program Accounts, such compensation is not included in the Credit Amount, does
not reduce the advisory fee, and will be retained by such affiliates. Receipt of compensation in addition to
the advisory fee creates a financial incentive for Strategic Advisers and its affiliates to select investments
that will increase such compensation. Strategic Advisers seeks to address this financial conflict of interest
through the application of the Credit Amount, which will reduce the advisory fee, as applicable, and through
personnel compensation arrangements (including those of our investment professionals and the Fidelity
representatives) that are not differentiated based on the investments or share classes selected for Program
Accounts. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates have also implemented controls reasonably designed to
prevent the receipt of compensation from affecting the nature of the advice provided to Program Accounts.
As described herein, Program Account assets will be invested in certain Flex Funds. The Flex Funds are
available only to certain fee-based accounts offered by Fidelity, and compensation for access to Flex
Funds is paid out of the fees charged by Fidelity fee-based accounts that include Flex Funds as underlying
investments, including the Program Account. FMRCo is compensated for its services out of such advisory
fees. FMRCo receives no fee from the Flex Funds for handling the business affairs of the funds, and Fidelity
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pays the expenses of each fund with the limited exceptions of expenses for typesetting, printing, and
mailing proxy materials to shareholders, all other expenses incidental to holding meetings of the fund’s
shareholders (including proxy solicitation), fees and expenses of certain trustees, interest, Rule 12b-1 fees (if
any), taxes, and such nonrecurring expenses as can arise, including costs of any litigation to which the fund
can be a party, and any obligation it can have to indemnify its officers and trustees with respect to litigation.
The fund shall also pay its nonoperating expenses, including brokerage commissions and fees and expenses
associated with the fund’s securities lending program, if applicable.
Strategic Advisers engages certain non-affiliates to promote the Program’s services. These non-affiliates earn
a fixed fee from Strategic Advisers, paid through its affiliates, for each account opened through such non-
affiliates’ promotion of the Program. You will receive a disclosure that describes the particular arrangement if
you open a Program Account through a non-affiliate’s promotion of the Program. These arrangements create a
conflict of interest, as the non-affiliate is incentivized to encourage you to open a Program Account, regardless
of whether the non-affiliate would otherwise do so, due to the compensation it earns from Strategic Advisers.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS or other affiliates, pursuant to referral
agreements where applicable. As noted in “Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative
Compensation,” some Fidelity representatives receive variable compensation or an annual bonus in addition
to their normal base pay for distributing and supporting Program Accounts. Additionally, Strategic Advisers
refers clients to other independent investment advisers in connection with a referral program in which such
independent investment advisers participate for a fee payable to Strategic Advisers.
C U S T O D Y
NFS has custody of your assets and will perform certain services for the benefit of your Program Account,
including the implementation of discretionary management instructions, as well as custodial and related
services. Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have common supervision.
In addition, clients will be sent statements electronically from NFS that will detail all holdings and transaction
information, including trades, additions, withdrawals, shifts in investment allocations, Program Advisory Fees,
and estimated gain/loss and tax basis information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at
Fidelity.com. Clients should carefully review all statements and other communications received from NFS (see
the “Brokerage Practices” section above).
Strategic Advisers is deemed to have custody under the Advisers Act because its affiliate NFS serves as
qualified custodian for Program Accounts.
I N V E S T M E N T D I S C R E T I O N
Strategic Advisers’ portfolio management services for Program Accounts include the discretionary authority to
determine which securities to purchase or sell, the total amount of such purchases and sales, and the brokers
or dealers through which transactions are executed in Program Accounts. Such discretionary authority is subject
to certain limits, including the Program’s investment objectives and policies, regulatory constraints, and those
investment restrictions we agree to impose based on a client’s request, in accordance with applicable laws.
V O T I N G C L I E N T S E C U R I T I E S
Strategic Advisers does not generally acquire authority for, or exercise, proxy voting on a client’s behalf in
connection with managing Program Accounts. Unless you direct us otherwise, you will receive proxy materials
directly from the funds or NFS. Strategic Advisers will not advise you on the voting of proxies. You must
exercise any proxy voting directly.
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Strategic Advisers does not solicit prepayment of client fees.
Strategic Advisers is not aware of any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet
contractual commitments to clients.
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Fidelity Managed FidFolios®
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
617.563.7000
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices
of Strategic Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments® company, as well as information
about Fidelity Managed FidFolios®.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not imply a certain level of skill or
training.
If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please call us at 800.544.3455. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
S U M M A R Y O F M A T E R I A L C H A N G E S
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of material
changes to their advisory services program brochure (also referred to as the Form ADV, Part 2A brochure).
The section below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity Managed FidFolios
Form ADV, Part 2A brochure (the “Program Brochure” or “Brochure”) from March 31, 2025, through March
30, 2026. Clients and prospective clients can obtain a copy of the Program Brochure without charge by calling
800.544.3455, by visiting Fidelity.com/information, or by visiting the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Capitalized terms are defined in the Program Brochure.
Material Changes
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There have been no material changes since the March 31, 2025, Program Brochure.
Other Changes
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The chart in “Other Considerations” has been updated to provide further and updated information about
the programs, accounts, and services available from Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
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“Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation” has been updated to provide
further information about how Fidelity and its representatives are compensated.
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“Material Risks” has been updated to provide further information with respect to the efficacy of tax-smart
investing techniques for Program clients in lower federal income tax brackets.
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Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes Strategic Advisers’ affiliates in “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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S ER VIC ES , F EES A ND COMPEN SATION
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ACCOUNT REQUIREMENTS AN D T YPES OF CLIEN TS
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PORTFOLIO MANAGER SELECTION AN D EVALUATION
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CLIENT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO POR TFOLIO MANAGERS
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CLIENT CONTAC T WITH POR TFOLIO MAN AGERS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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BROKERAGE PRACTIC ES
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S E R V I C E S , F E E S A N D C O M P E N S A T I O N
Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers
Act”) and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (collectively with Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates, “Fidelity Investments,” “Fidelity,” “us,” “our,” or “we”). Strategic Advisers was formed in 1977 and
offers a number of investment advisory programs, including Fidelity Managed FidFolios (the “Program”)
and provides a variety of investment management services, including discretionary portfolio management
services to retail and institutional clients and nondiscretionary advisory services to certain institutional
clients, including but not limited to Fidelity affiliates.
As described below, Fidelity Managed FidFolios is a digitally delivered separately managed account
program in which clients hire Strategic Advisers and authorize us to retain one or more investment
advisers (“sub-advisors”) on their behalf to implement a selected investment strategy on a discretionary
basis (“Program Services”). The Program offers eight investment strategies (each a “Strategy” and,
collectively the “Strategies”):
• U.S. Large Cap Strategy
• Dividend Income Strategy
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International Strategy
• U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy
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International Index Strategy
• U.S. Total Market Index Strategy
• U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy
• Environmental Focus Strategy
Each Strategy is designed to achieve a specific investment objective through investing in stocks. These
Strategies seek to achieve their individual objectives while incorporating enhanced customization and tax-
smart investing techniques for taxable accounts. Fidelity Managed FidFolios uses fractional share trading,
which allows us to allocate a client’s assets efficiently among hundreds of positions based on dollar
amount rather than share size. Discretionary investment management is provided through one or more
accounts (each, a “Program Account”) made available to clients through the Fidelity Managed FidFolios
website and Fidelity’s mobile applications (the “Program website”).
The Program is designed for clients (also referred to as “you” throughout this Brochure) who seek a
personalized and professionally managed stock portfolio facilitated by a digital experience. To participate
in the Program, clients must complete an online enrollment process and agree to accept electronic
delivery of contracts, disclosure documents, prospectuses, trade confirmations, account statements,
and other Program materials and regulatory documents (“Program documents”). Clients should not
participate in the Program if they do not wish to interact digitally. Regular and continuous digital access
is required to enroll in the Program and to access all related Program documents. Clients accessing
the Program through Fidelity’s mobile application should ensure that they have downloaded the most
up-to-date version of the Fidelity mobile application to access the available Program services. Clients also
have an obligation to maintain a current and accurate email address to ensure that they can receive their
Program-related communications and/or Program documents. We reserve the right to terminate a client’s
participation in the Program if they request to unenroll from electronic delivery for Program-related
communications and/or Program documents.
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Discretionary Investment Management Services
The Program’s Strategies generally provide an account consisting of individual stocks and/or American
Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) (i.e., a single asset class). Like all portfolios that are composed exclusively of
equity securities, these Strategies are expected to have increased risk and volatility as compared with an
account that holds a diversified mix of bonds, equities, and other investment types. Accordingly, clients
should be comfortable with the risk of holding only equity securities in their Program Account. As part
of our investment management services in the Program, we will obtain information regarding a client’s
financial situation, risk tolerance, tax situation, and investment horizon (“Profile Information”).
Investment Strategies
Clients can choose from the following investment strategies:
The U.S. Large Cap Strategy invests in stocks and seeks capital appreciation and to outperform the S&P 500®
Index over a full market cycle. The Strategy invests primarily in U.S. large-cap stocks but can also invest in
securities not included in its index, including non-U.S. large-cap stocks, ADRs, real estate investment trusts
(“REITs”), and exchange-traded products (“ETPs”). For taxable accounts, the Strategy seeks to enhance after-
tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting
and deferring the realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers has retained Fidelity Management & Research
Company LLC (“FMRCo”), an affiliate of Strategic Advisers, to provide investment models (each a “Model
Portfolio”) that it will use in managing accounts enrolled in the Strategy. Strategic Advisers will blend Model
Portfolios for multiple investment exposures (e.g., growth, value, and core equity) at its discretion based on
market cycle implications and overall portfolio positioning.
The Dividend Income Strategy invests in stocks and seeks capital appreciation and dividend income
greater than that of the S&P 500® Index over a full market cycle. For taxable accounts, the Strategy seeks
to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive
tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers has retained FMRCo to
provide a Model Portfolio that Strategic Advisers will use in managing accounts enrolled in the Strategy.
The International Strategy invests in securities and seeks capital appreciation and to outperform the MSCI
EAFE Index (Net MA Tax) over a full market cycle. The Strategy invests primarily in ADRs and a proprietary
mutual fund designed for use in Program Accounts that invests in foreign securities where ADRs are
either unavailable or inappropriate. For taxable accounts, the Strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns
of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and
deferring the realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers has retained FMRCo to provide Model
Portfolios that it will use in managing accounts enrolled in the Strategy. Strategic Advisers will blend
Model Portfolios for multiple investment exposures (e.g., growth, value, and core equity) at its discretion
based on market cycle implications and overall portfolio positioning.
The U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax risk and return
characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index℠ (the “Large Cap Index”) while enhancing after-tax
returns using tax-smart investing techniques. The Large Cap Index is designed to reflect the performance
of the stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization. The
Strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of taxable Program Accounts through methods including but
not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. In addition, while
this Strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Large Cap Index, it will
invest in only a subset of the stocks that make up the index.
The International Index Strategy invests in securities and seeks to approximate the pretax risk and
return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net) while
enhancing after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. This Strategy invests
primarily in ADRs. The Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net) is designed
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to reflect the performance of the developed international equity market, including large-cap stocks,
based on float-adjusted market capitalization. This Strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of taxable
Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and
deferring the realization of capital gains. In addition, while this Strategy looks to approximate the pretax
risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net),
it will invest in only a subset of the stocks that make up the index.
The U.S. Total Market Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax return and
overall risk profile of the Fidelity U.S. Total Investable Market Index while actively trading holdings in
an attempt to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity
U.S. Total Investable Market Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to
reflect the performance of the stocks of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market
capitalization. The Strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods
including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains.
While this Strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Total
Investable Market Index, it will purchase only a subset of the stocks that make up the index.
The U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax return and
overall risk profile of the Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility Focus Index while actively trading holdings in an
attempt to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity U.S.
Low Volatility Focus Index is designed to reflect the performance of large- and mid-cap stocks with lower
volatility than the broader market. The Strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts
through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization
of capital gains. While this Strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the
index, it will purchase a subset of the stocks that make up the index as well as a subset of stocks from the
largest 1,000 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization.
The Environmental Focus Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to reduce ownership of securities
in companies that have lower environmental ratings compared with the Large Cap Index while
approximating the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Large Cap Index. This Strategy seeks to
enhance after-tax returns of taxable Program Accounts through the application of tax-smart investing
techniques that include but are not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization
of capital gains. Please note that the Strategy’s goal of delivering a portfolio with a better aggregate
environmental rating compared with the index could constrain the degree to which tax-smart investing
techniques can be implemented. In addition, while this Strategy seeks to approximate the pretax risk and
return characteristics of the Large Cap Index, it will purchase only a subset of the stocks that make up the
index. It is important to understand that the application of environmental sustainability data and filtering
will cause an account invested according to the Environmental Focus Strategy to forgo certain investment
opportunities, which will cause such an account to perform differently, perhaps significantly, compared
with an account that does not exclude issuers based on such criteria.
To develop a portfolio that seeks to reduce the ownership of companies that have lower environmental
ratings compared with the Large Cap Index, Strategic Advisers has retained the services of its affiliate
FMRCo. FMRCo will use a screening process to filter the Large Cap Index. First, FMRCo will reduce
the investment universe by applying six broad exclusionary criteria that seek to exclude issuers that are
directly engaged in, and/or derive significant revenue from, certain industries or product lines. Such
issuers may include but are not limited to:
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companies that are both in the top 30% of their sector and top 10% of the index with respect to
carbon emissions;
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companies that are both in the top 30% of their sector and top 10% of the index with respect to
water usage;
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companies subject to certain FMRCo sustainable portfolio exclusions (including civilian
semiautomatic firearms manufacturers, tobacco producers, for-profit prison companies, cluster
munitions and land mine manufacturers, and thermal coal production and/or mining companies);
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companies with coal reserves;
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companies with oil and gas reserves;
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companies that generate electric power from thermal coal; and
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companies with environmental ratings in or near the bottom 50%.
FMRCo relies on its proprietary research as well as data from third parties in applying these
exclusionary criteria.
FMRCo will rank issuers based on environmental ratings and provide Strategic Advisers with an
investment universe that seeks to include the highest-scoring stocks in each sector (generally, the
top 50%) as measured across a variety of environmental factors (the “Environmental Factors”) as
determined by FMRCo analysts in their discretion to be most relevant for each sub-industry. FMRCo
analysts select these Environmental Factors and assign weights to them for each stock in the Large Cap
Index. These Environmental Factors include but are not limited to carbon emissions, water stress, and
toxic emissions and waste. FMRCo uses data from a number of third-party data vendors (e.g., CDP and
MSCI) as well as proprietary data to analyze the Environmental Factors. FMRCo will generally review
and update stock weighting scores monthly. At any time, FMRCo can change Environmental Factors
and stock-scoring processes as well as its process and data sources for evaluating issuers on any
Environmental Factor.
After the application of these exclusionary criteria and the scoring of all stocks in the index, the
investment universe will generally include the top-scoring 200–300 issuers in the Large Cap Index,
which represents approximately 40%–60% of the Large Cap Index. Strategic Advisers will generally
invest in only a subset of the securities of those issuers included in the environmentally screened
investment universe, resulting in portfolios consisting of 100–200 stocks that, in the aggregate, have a
better environmental rating compared with the Large Cap Index as a whole.
FMRCo’s exclusionary criteria do not capture all possible Environmental Factors, and there is no common
industry standard relating to the development and application of environmental sustainability criteria.
Certain exclusions are based in whole or in part on data provided by one or more third-party vendors and
are, therefore, subject to each vendor’s industry and product line definitions (which may differ from those
of FMRCo and Strategic Advisers) and data limitations. Data used in applying the exclusion criteria may
include inputs self-disclosed by companies as well as estimates where public disclosures are unavailable.
The subjective value that an investor assigns to certain types of environmental sustainability criteria can
differ substantially from that of FMRCo and Strategic Advisers, and reasonable investors can differ in their
views of what constitutes positive or negative environmental sustainability characteristics. As a result,
clients should not assume that the Environmental Focus Strategy will necessarily invest in stocks of issuers
that reflect their own environmental beliefs and values.
In addition, the Environmental Factors that FMRCo considers in evaluating an issuer’s environmental
rating will change over time. Strategic Advisers reserves the right to use a different service provider to
perform the environmental sustainability data assessment at any time. Any change in the service provider
would likely result in the consideration of different factors in evaluating an issuer’s environmental rating,
which could substantially change the portfolio for Environmental Focus Strategy accounts.
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If Strategic Advisers has been directed by a client to act as agent to vote proxies with respect to
the individual securities held in a Program Account, Strategic Advisers will vote proxies pursuant
to the directions provided by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”). Please note that the
Environmental Focus Strategy does not evaluate or consider proxy voting in attempting to reach its
objective. Accordingly, it is possible that ISS’ proxy voting directions can be inconsistent with, or
contrary to, the environmental goal of an Environmental Focus Strategy account.
Additional Information about Investment Techniques
Tax-Smart Investing Techniques
While each Strategy uses tax-smart investing techniques in taxable accounts, please note that the stated
investment objective is of primary importance. Accordingly, the application of tax-smart investing techniques
is a secondary consideration. Clients should understand that significant tax consequences can result from
investing in a Strategy with a primary focus other than tax-smart investing techniques. For example, each
Strategy has a corresponding investable universe of investments that has been constructed by Strategic
Advisers. With respect to the Environmental Focus Strategy, stocks used to fund a Program Account that are
not included in the environmentally screened investable universe for the Strategy will be sold without regard to
potential tax consequences of such sales. Realizing gains could create a tax liability, particularly when offsetting
losses are not available. For additional considerations related to tax-smart investing techniques, please see
the disclosure below under “Opening and Funding a Program Account” and “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies, and Risk of Loss.”
Fractional Share Investing
Each Strategy can invest in fractional shares of individual securities. Please see “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss” below for more information about fractional share investing in Client Accounts.
Investment Restrictions
A client can impose reasonable restrictions on the management of a Program Account. Any proposed
restriction is subject to our and the sub-advisor’s review and approval. Reasonable restrictions for Program
Accounts typically are limited to the restriction of up to five individual securities or up to two industries.
Reasonable restrictions will not apply to underlying securities or holdings that are held in a mutual fund, ETP,
or any other types of pooled vehicles purchased in the Program Account. If a restriction is accepted, assets
will be invested in a manner that is appropriate given the restriction, which can include investment in ETPs.
It is important to understand that imposing an investment restriction can delay the start of discretionary
management and can impact the performance of a Program Account, at times significantly, as compared with
a Program Account managed without restrictions, possibly producing lower overall results. Program Account
restrictions must be requested online.
Responsibility of Clients
We rely on client information to provide the Program Services. It is the client’s responsibility to advise us
of changes to their financial situation, risk tolerance, tax situation, and time horizon. Such changes can
result in modification to the tax-smart investing techniques used for a Program Account. Clients with
multiple relationships with Fidelity should understand that updating information about a Program Account
does not update information about an account enrolled in another advisory service or one that is self-
directed. Accordingly, clients should ensure that their personal, financial, and other important information is
independently updated for each respective service or account.
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FEES AND COMPENSATION
Advisory Fees—General Information. Clients will be charged an annual Gross Advisory Fee of 0.40% for the
U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy, the International Index Strategy, the U.S. Total Market Index Strategy, the U.S.
Low Volatility Index Strategy, and the Environmental Focus Strategy, and 0.70% for the U.S. Large Cap Strategy,
the Dividend Income Strategy, and the International Strategy, in each case, based on average daily assets held
in a Program Account (average daily assets are determined on the last business day of the quarter). The Gross
Advisory Fee includes the Program Services described herein and is payable after the end of each quarter.
The Gross Advisory Fee includes the ongoing discretionary management of a Program Account as well as the
brokerage, clearing, and custody services provided by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates.
The following fees are in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee: (i) certain charges resulting from transactions
executed with or through broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic Advisers; and (ii) markups and
markdowns, transfer taxes, exchange fees, regulatory fees, odd-lot differentials, handling charges, electronic
fund and wire transfer fees, ADR custody fees, or any other charges imposed by law or otherwise agreed to
with regard to a Program Account. Strategic Advisers or its affiliate can voluntarily assume the cost of certain
commissions for equity transactions executed with or through broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic
Advisers; clients will not be charged commissions for such transactions. The Gross Advisory Fee also does not
include underlying expenses charged by the core Fidelity money market fund, which is the cash sweep vehicle
for a Program Account. These fund expenses, which vary by fund and class, are expenses that all mutual fund
shareholders pay. Details of the core money market fund expenses can be found in the fund’s prospectus,
which is provided to clients with their enrollment materials and is available on Fidelity.com. These expenses are
not separately itemized or billed; rather, the published returns of a mutual fund are shown net of its expenses.
Billing. The Net Advisory Fee will be deducted automatically from a client’s Program Account after the end of
each quarter and will not be billed separately. Certain assets in a Program Account could be liquidated to pay
the fees; this liquidation could generate a taxable gain or loss in a taxable Program Account.
Additional Fee Information. A client’s Gross Advisory Fee will be reduced by a credit amount (the “Credit
Amount”) with respect to the core Fidelity money market fund and any securities a client elects to transfer into
a Program Account. The Credit Amount is intended to address the conflicts of interest that arise from Program
Account investments that generate revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees paid to Strategic Advisers
by the amount of compensation, if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is derived as a direct result
of investments held in or transferred into a Program Account. The underlying mutual fund expenses that are
paid to Strategic Advisers or its affiliates as a direct result of investments by a Program Account will be included
in the Credit Amount that reduces the Gross Advisory Fee; the Credit Amount is applied after the end of each
quarter. For Fidelity Funds, the Credit Amount will equal the underlying investment management and any other
fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from such a fund as a direct result of investments
by Program Accounts. For non-Fidelity mutual funds, the Credit Amount will equal the distribution fees,
shareholder servicing fees, and any other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from
these funds (or their affiliates) as a direct result of investments by Program Accounts.
It is important to understand that Strategic Advisers’ affiliates receive compensation for providing a variety
of services to mutual funds, as described below in “Client Referrals and Other Compensation.” Such
compensation is included in the Credit Amount only to the extent that it is retained as a direct result of
investment by Program Accounts. Compensation that is not directly derived from Program Account assets is not
included in the Credit Amount. In addition, certain de minimis revenue received by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates
could be donated to charity (rather than included in the Credit Amount) or could be allocated, pro rata based
on client assets, among open Program Accounts in the Program.
All fees are subject to change and Strategic Advisers has the ability to negotiate advisory fees for certain
accounts. Strategic Advisers also could agree to waive fees, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion, including
but not limited to (i) in connection with promotional efforts and other programs, including but not limited to
situations designed to facilitate transitions between advisory programs; or (ii) for certain current and former
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employees of Fidelity. This will result in certain clients paying less than the standard fee. In addition, accounts
with negotiated advisory fees do not receive the Credit Amount; instead, required Credit Amounts will be
allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the other open Program Accounts in the Program at the time the
Credit Amount is applied. This operational process results in credits that would otherwise be attributable to one
Program Account being received by another Program Account. In certain circumstances, Fidelity will manage
certain other accounts in a manner substantially similar to a Program Account under arrangements that can
include negotiated terms and conditions that depart from the standard service offering.
Generally, except as described above, clients will not pay any commissions, transaction fees, or sales loads
on the securities purchased in a Program Account. Clients are responsible for any fees resulting from the sale
of securities used to fund a client’s investment in a Program Account (whether such sale is inside or outside a
Program Account) and any subsequent withdrawals that the client initiates. The Program Fee includes fees paid
to the sub-advisor for the discretionary portfolio management services provided to Program Accounts; Strategic
Advisers pays the sub-advisor a portion of the Program Fee, which varies based on the amount of assets
under management. The Program Fee does not include amounts charged with respect to a regulatory fee that
applies to all sales of securities and which varies over time. This charge is estimated and assessed in advance;
this process could lead to overestimating or underestimating the actual regulatory fee. To the extent that such
estimated amount is greater than the actual regulatory fee, Fidelity will retain the excess. Account size is a factor
affecting the impact of an overestimated regulatory fee. These charges will be reflected on statements and/or
trade confirmations.
Strategic Advisers’ affiliates sponsor promotional offers that provide clients with the ability to receive cash
compensation or a reduced Advisory Fee for opening and funding certain accounts. Accounts opened through
the Program are, from time to time, included in the list of account types and investment solutions eligible for
such promotional offers. The Program’s eligibility for such promotional offers creates a conflict of interest, as
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are incentivizing clients to use the Program rather than Strategic Advisers’ other
managed account programs or self-directed investment options available through Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
(“FBS”). Strategic Advisers can also, from time to time, provide cash compensation to Program clients for taking
qualifying actions with respect to their Program Account, such as certain interactions with Program features. Any
compensation will be deposited into the client’s Program Account, will be subject to the Advisory Fee applicable
to the Program, and may have tax consequences. A promotional offer is not a recommendation to implement
any asset allocation strategy or select a particular account type or investment solution.
Also, during the time a client is enrolled in the Program, the client could be eligible to receive certain services
offered by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates based, in whole or in part, on the amount invested with the Program.
It is important to understand that such services are not part of the Program Services for which the Program
Fee is paid. In addition, while enrolled in the Program, a client could receive information about how to access
financial wellness and/or professional support resources and services that are offered by entities unaffiliated
with Fidelity, some of which pay compensation to Fidelity as a result of a client’s use of such resources or
services. Such resources and services are not included as part of Program Services and any applicable costs
associated with enrolling in or subscribing to these resources or services would be separate from and in
addition to the Program Fee.
Other Considerations. In evaluating the Program, please consider that Fidelity offers a variety of investment
advisory services and brokerage offerings. These offerings are summarized below to assist clients in
understanding and comparing the services and offerings. For more detailed information regarding each
offering and investment advisory service, please review the respective Form ADV, Part 2A brochure
available at Fidelity.com/information or through a Fidelity representative. Refer to the “Guide to Brokerage
and Investment Advisory Services at Fidelity Investments” (available at Fidelity.com/information) for more
information regarding our roles and responsibilities when providing brokerage and advisory services.
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Please note that, other than the self-directed brokerage account offered by FBS, the advisory programs
included in the chart below are each offered by Strategic Advisers.
PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity Go®
No account minimum;
$10 to invest
Less than $25,000
invested: no advisory
fee
Portfolio based on a
client’s investment
profile and composed
of a mix of zero
expense ratio Fidelity
mutual funds
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.35% annually for
$25,000 and above
Invests in zero expense
ratio Fidelity mutual
funds that do not
charge management
fees (or with limited
exceptions, fund
expenses)
Digitally provided
discretionary
investment
management and
planning; access to a
team of phone-based
representatives for
one-on-one financial
coaching for clients
who maintain $25,000
or more in a Fidelity Go
account and tax-loss
harvesting for taxable
accounts with $25,000
or more
Fidelity Managed
FidFolios®
$5,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.40% or 0.70%
annually
Digitally provided
discretionary invest-
ment man agement
of a single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques)
A mix of individual
securities, either stocks
or American Depositary
Receipts, depending
on the client’s selected
strategy
Fidelity® Strategic
Disciplines
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.20%–0.70%
annually for equity
strategies and 0.35%–
0.40% annually for
fixed income strategies,
depending on the
amount invested
Discretionary
investment
management of a single
asset class (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
A mix of individual
securities, including but
not limited to stocks,
bonds, American
Depositary Receipts,
and/or exchange-traded
products and mutual
funds, depending on
the client’s selected
strategy
Depending on
strategy selected,
account investment
minimums of $100,000
(equity strategies)
and $350,000 (bond
strategies), each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
(effective in the second
quarter of 2026, the
account investment
minimum will be
$200,000 for taxable
bond strategies and
$250,000 for municipal
bond strategies)
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity® Wealth
Services
$50,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 1.10% annually,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity as a
direct result of a client’s
investments
Fidelity Advisory
Services provides
customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
by a centralized team
of phone-based
representatives
A mix of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity
mutual funds and
exchange-traded
products invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Wealth Management
and Private Wealth
Management
provide customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
supported by a
service team
A mix of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual
funds and exchange-
traded products
and, depending on a
client’s preferences
and investment
profile, individual
securities, invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.50%–1.50%
annually, depending on
the amount invested,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity
as a direct result of a
client’s investments
(additional fees of up to
0.40% for management
of certain individual
security strategies
can also apply where
advisory services are
not provided solely by
a Strategic Advisers
affiliate)
$50,000 minimum
account investment for
Wealth Management
and $2 million
minimum investment
and $10 million
investable assets
for Private Wealth
Management, each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
Fidelity Wealth
Advisor Solutions®
Investment vehicles
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
strategy
Investment minimums
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
Advisory fees will
vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
A referral network of
unaffiliated investment
advisors that provide
customized wealth
management and
investment strategies
Self-Directed
Brokerage Account
Transaction fees and
investment expenses
vary based on
investment vehicle
selected; no ongoing
asset-based advisory
fee charged by
Strategic Advisers
Self-directed trading
through FBS, with
access to Fidelity’s
online tools, planning,
and resources, and
support provided
by brokerage
representatives.
A dedicated
representative is
available based on
relationship
No minimum to
open a brokerage
account. Qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative is based
on a variety of factors
(for example, a client
with at least $500,000
invested in an eligible
Fidelity account would
typically qualify)
Brokerage customers
can choose from a wide
variety of investments,
including mutual funds,
exchange-traded
funds, stocks, bonds,
and insurance and
annuity products. Note
that certain securities
available through
Strategic Advisers’
advisory services are
not available in self-
directed brokerage
accounts
A client could invest directly in the individual securities available through the Program through a Fidelity
brokerage account or a brokerage account at another firm without an advisory fee. Also note that
Fidelity Strategic Disciplines, described in the chart above, offers certain investment strategies that are
substantially similar to those in the Program, with the added benefit of support from a dedicated Fidelity
representative, at the same or a lower advisory fee rate, depending on account balance. Fidelity Strategic
Disciplines has a per-account minimum investment of $100,000, subject to qualification for support from
a dedicated Fidelity advisor. Investments in the U.S. Large Cap Strategy, the Dividend Income Strategy,
and the International Strategy would have the same advisory fee rate if a client invests in Fidelity Strategic
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Disciplines for account balances up to $300,000 and will have a lower advisory fee rate for balances
above that amount. Investments in the U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy, the International Index Strategy,
the U.S. Total Market Index Strategy, the U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy, and the Environmental Focus
Strategy would have the same advisory fee rate if a client invests in Fidelity Strategic Disciplines for
account balances up to $1 million and will have a lower advisory fee rate for balances above that amount.
In addition, the Strategies available through the Program, while designed for the Program, could be
similar to a mutual fund or other product available for direct investment by the client, and the operating
expenses of such a mutual fund or other product could differ from the Program Fee.
However, while clients can obtain products and services from Fidelity or other firms that are similar to
one or more of the Program’s services, investments could be subject to sales loads or transaction and
redemption charges that are generally waived as part of the Program; and the overall cost of purchasing
the products and services separately will most likely differ from the Program Fee. Factors that bear upon
the cost of the Program in relation to the cost of the same or similar products and services purchased
separately include, among other things, the amount of brokerage trades executed through Fidelity-
affiliated broker-dealers (the charges for which are included in the Gross Advisory Fee) as compared with
the brokerage trades executed through other broker-dealers (the charges for which are not included in
the Gross Advisory Fee).
Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation. Fidelity representatives who support
the Program are associated with Strategic Advisers and FBS. Fidelity representatives act on behalf of FBS when
recommending an advisory program offered by Strategic Advisers. Please note that Fidelity representatives
are not able to provide investment advice or financial planning in connection with the Program. Once a client
enrolls in the Program, the Fidelity representative will be providing Program Services. Separate and apart
from the Program, Fidelity representatives, including those who support the Program, can provide clients
with a variety of FBS services, including investment education and advice, financial analyses, and financial
planning services. When providing services for FBS, these Fidelity representatives are acting solely as registered
representatives of FBS, and Program Fees are not related to those FBS services. Fidelity representatives
receive base pay based on their experience and role. In addition to base pay, Fidelity representatives are
also eligible to receive either variable compensation or an annual bonus, and certain representatives are
also eligible to receive longer-term compensation. Fidelity representatives who receive an annual bonus do
not receive compensation based directly on the sale of any product or service, but they do have an indirect
financial incentive to recommend products or services that pay more compensation to Fidelity because annual
bonus funding is based in part on Fidelity’s financial performance. For Fidelity representatives who receive
variable compensation, variable compensation depends on the representative’s role and can be impacted by
client loyalty, the amount of assets a client transfers to Fidelity, the amount of assets invested initially and on
an ongoing basis, referring potential clients to other Fidelity representatives who enroll the client in a Fidelity
investment product or service, and client family members opening Fidelity accounts. Whether and how much
each Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined by the representative’s
role, responsibilities, and performance measures, and their manager’s assessment of the representative’s
performance.
Fidelity and the Fidelity representatives who support the Program and who are eligible to receive variable
compensation receive different amounts of compensation depending on the type of product or service a client
selects. The compensation received by Fidelity and those representatives in connection with FBS offerings
(e.g., stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds) is typically less than the compensation received in connection
with a client choosing to participate in a Fidelity advisory program. Products and services that generally
require more time to engage with a client and/or that are more complex provide greater compensation to
a representative and Fidelity. This compensation structure creates a financial incentive for Fidelity and its
representatives to recommend investments in more complex or time-consuming products and services over
others, and to recommend that a client maintain an investment in such products and services over time.
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Fidelity addresses these conflicts of interest by having processes in place that require our representatives to
make recommendations that are in the best interest of clients, paying compensation based on the time and
complexity of the relevant product or service, training and supervising our representatives, and disclosing these
conflicts of interest to clients so that they can consider the conflicts when making financial decisions.
To see specific compensation levels for the managed account programs mentioned above and other
products, including an example of compensation that can be earned by Financial Consultants, please see
the “Fidelity Investments Compensation Disclosure” document (available at Fidelity.com/information), or
contact a Fidelity representative. Clients should read the information contained in the “Fidelity Investments
Compensation Disclosure” document carefully, and can ask a representative at any time whether and how they
are compensated with respect to a particular product or service and about the financial incentives and conflicts
of interest that Fidelity has when making recommendations of products or services.
A C C O U N T R E Q U I R E M E N T S A N D T Y P E S O F C L I E N T S
The Program is generally available to individual investors who are U.S. persons (including a U.S.
resident alien), typically reside in the United States, and have a valid U.S. taxpayer identification
number. The Program is not available to foreign investors. Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion,
decline to permit participation in the Program for any reason. Program Accounts can be either tax-
advantaged accounts (e.g., traditional, Roth, and rollover individual retirement accounts, collectively
“retirement accounts”) or taxable accounts. The U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy, the U.S. Total Market
Index Strategy, the U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy, and the International Index Strategy are each
available only for taxable accounts, while the U.S. Large Cap Strategy, the International Strategy, the
Dividend Income Strategy, and the Environmental Focus Strategy are each available to both taxable
and retirement accounts.
Clients must also have regular internet access and be comfortable with a digital investment
experience and online services. All Program-related communications, materials, and Program
documents will be delivered electronically. Clients will be sent an electronic notification regarding the
availability of Program documents, and a link or website address where the Program documents can
be accessed. It is important to note that if a client wants to revoke their consent to electronic delivery
of Program-related communications and/or Program documents, we will terminate their participation
in the Program.
Each Strategy has a per-account investment minimum (“Strategy Minimum”) of $5,000. Please note
that clients can open a Program Account without reaching the Strategy Minimum; however, assets
used to fund the account will not be invested according to the selected Strategy until the Strategy
Minimum has been reached. Until the Strategy Minimum is reached, assets will be invested in the
core Fidelity money market fund. Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, elect to change or
waive a Strategy Minimum at any time. Please note that if a Program Account balance falls below the
Strategy Minimum stated above, it can affect the sub-advisor’s ability to manage the Program Account
according to the selected Strategy. Program Accounts that fall below the Strategy Minimum can be
removed from the Program.
To enroll in the Program, a client must agree to the Program Client Agreement, which details the
terms and conditions under which the client appoints Strategic Advisers to provide the Program
Services. Our advisory relationship with a client begins when we accept the Program Client
Agreement. Preliminary discussions or recommendations made before we accept a Program Client
Agreement are not intended as investment advice provided by Strategic Advisers. The Program
Client Agreement requires that clients delegate discretionary authority to Strategic Advisers and
authorize Strategic Advisers to hire a sub-advisor to implement the selected Strategy for the client’s
Program Account. The Program Client Agreement will also permit sub-advisors to provide day-to-day
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investment management for the clients’ Program Account, which includes the authority to determine
which securities to purchase or sell, the total amount of such purchases and sales, and the brokers
or dealers through which transactions are executed in Program Accounts, subject to certain Program
and regulatory limitations and a sub-advisor’s internal policies and procedures. The Program Client
Agreement also establishes a brokerage account with FBS, a registered broker-dealer, affiliate of
Strategic Advisers and member of NYSE and SIPC. During a client’s participation in the Program, the
client’s Program Account will not be available for the client’s self-directed brokerage activities.
Another affiliate of Strategic Advisers, National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a registered broker-
dealer and a member of NYSE and SIPC, has custody of client assets and will perform certain account
services, including the implementation of discretionary management instructions, as well as custodial
and related services. Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have
common supervision.
Strategic Advisers does not acquire authority for, or exercise proxy voting on behalf of, a client in
connection with offering Program Accounts. However, clients can direct Strategic Advisers to act as
agent to vote proxies with respect to the investments held in a Program Account whereby clients must
instruct Strategic Advisers to vote proxies for individual securities pursuant to the directions provided
by ISS (a summary of which is available at Fidelity.com/information). The environmental goal of the
Environmental Focus Strategy is applied to the selection of securities in Program Accounts only, and
is not incorporated into proxy voting decisions for Program Accounts. Accordingly, ISS’ proxy voting
directions will not necessarily take sustainability characteristics into consideration and it is possible
that ISS’ proxy voting directions will be inconsistent with, or contrary to, the environmental goal of the
Environmental Focus Strategy.
Opening and Funding a Program Account
Clients can fund a Program Account by depositing cash and/or eligible securities, which will generally
include the following:
• Cash;
• Core Fidelity money market funds;
•
Common stocks and REITs listed in the S&P 500, Russell 3000®, and Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock
Market indexes;
• ADRs that meet certain liquidity requirements; and
• Certain ETPs.
Once we receive all the required information, and the funding processes and settlement of funds used
to fund the Program Account have been completed, a Program Account will be reviewed for investment
and will typically begin trading within five business days. The Program’s general policy is for cash deposits
to be invested in the core Fidelity money market fund identified as the cash sweep vehicle for Program
Accounts as soon as reasonably practicable, then further invest portions of these assets in accordance
with the selected Strategy. Fidelity will determine, in its sole discretion, which securities will be eligible
to fund a Program Account. Transferred securities imported into Program Accounts must be held free
and clear of any liens, pledges, or other legal or contractual restrictions. At times, Fidelity will not accept
individual securities due to internal guidelines or state or federal regulations. Alternatively, Fidelity
reserves the right to transfer an ineligible security back to the account from which the client transferred
the asset or to another like-registered account held at Fidelity.
Each Strategy has a corresponding investable universe of investments that has been constructed by the
sub-advisor. For Program Accounts managed with tax-smart investing techniques, funding with securities
that are included in the investable universe can result in the sub-advisor continuing to hold and manage
such securities, depending on the concentration and tax impact of selling.
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Securities used to fund the account that are not included in the applicable investable universe will be sold
without regard to the potential tax consequences of such sales. Sales of eligible and ineligible transferred
securities will be subject to redemption and other applicable fees, including commissions on sales of
securities; however, under certain circumstances, the Program can voluntarily assume the costs of certain
commissions. A client could realize a taxable gain or loss when these shares are sold. In addition, when
securities are purchased in Program Accounts, the client could receive taxable distributions out of the
earnings that have accrued before such purchases (a situation referred to as “buying a dividend”).
For initial funding or subsequent deposits to a Program Account managed with tax-smart investing
techniques, Fidelity must be provided with tax basis information for all securities that will be managed.
Discretionary portfolio management will not occur for such a Program Account until the completed tax
basis information has been received. Although Fidelity is required to report certain tax basis information
to the Internal Revenue Service, Fidelity will not otherwise verify (and is not otherwise responsible for) the
accuracy of the tax basis information provided.
Additional deposits of cash or securities can be made to a Program Account at any time. Discretionary
management of additional deposits will generally occur as soon as reasonably practicable but can be
delayed for certain reasons, including time needed to liquidate securities, special handling instructions,
or because the additional deposit may not necessitate trading at that time. In general, we will begin
charging advisory fees on additional deposits once assets have been received into the Program Accounts
and have been deemed in good order for management purposes.
Withdrawals, Account Closure, and Program Termination
A client can request a withdrawal from a Program Account, elect to close one or more Program Accounts, or
elect to close all Program Accounts and terminate Program enrollment. If a client instructs us to terminate their
participation in the Program, we will cease managing the Program Account, additional deposits will no longer
be accepted into the Program Account, and any Program Account features will be terminated. In addition,
Strategic Advisers reserves the right to terminate a client’s Program Services (or limit the client’s rights to access
any or all account features, products, or services) for any reason, including (i) if a client fails to maintain a valid
email address, (ii) if a client revokes their consent to electronic delivery of Program-related communications
and/or Program documents, (iii) if any authorized person on a Program Account resides outside the U.S., (iv) if
the balance of a Program Account falls below the Strategy Minimum, or (v) if the Program is deemed no longer
appropriate for a client.
Should either party terminate the investment advisory relationship, the Program Fee will be prorated from the
beginning of any unbilled quarter to the termination date, which is defined as the date when we no longer
manage the Program Account on a discretionary basis.
Clients will be required to provide instructions to be used in the event of withdrawals or Program Account
closure. Clients have the option of electing that assets either be liquidated and the proceeds sent to the client
by check or transferred to a bank account (or other account) or be transferred in-kind to another account.
While the timing of trading and settlement can vary, liquidating trades for partial and full withdrawal requests
will typically be placed within the next five business days of the request. In-kind asset transfer instructions
will typically be placed within five business days of such a request. For partial withdrawal requests, if transfer
instructions are not provided, Fidelity will generally reinvest the cash proceeds of any sales into the client’s
discretionarily managed Program Account after 30 days. Note that liquidation of assets in taxable accounts
could have adverse tax consequences.
It is important to understand that Program Accounts in certain strategies can hold a mutual fund that clients
would not be able to buy or sell directly in a retail brokerage account and are able to hold only as part of the
Program and that specific Strategy. In general, if an investor ceases to be a Program client or requests a transfer
of such fund, shares of such fund will be redeemed, subject to the terms and conditions specified in the fund’s
prospectus.
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There can be instances where we need to place a do-not-trade restriction on a Program Account, including
when a client requests a security be transferred from a Program Account, when processing a trade correction,
when we need to comply with a court order, when a client asks us to process a withdrawal and keep the
proceeds from the sale of securities used to fund the withdrawal in the account until the client provides further
instructions for the transfer of the proceeds, or when we need additional information from a client. For the
period when a do-not-trade restriction is in effect, we generally will not trade or otherwise manage the Program
Account until the do-not-trade restriction has been removed.
Please note that in certain situations, withdrawal or account closure requests by way of liquidation can take
longer to fully process, as the sub-advisor could take additional time to sell securities at a desirable price.
Please note that certain types of securities, such as certain foreign securities, can have extended or less
frequent settlement periods, and their trading markets can be fragmented or thinly traded, which could affect
the amount of time it takes to process withdrawal or closure requests. There can be no assurance as to how
long it might take to obtain a desirable price for such securities or whether a desirable price can be obtained.
P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S E L E C T I O N A N D E V A L U A T I O N
Strategic Advisers offers the Program and provides discretionary investment management services to Program
Accounts directly and, therefore, does not evaluate or select other portfolio managers to provide services
directly to Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers does, however, evaluate and select Model Providers to
provide investment models for certain strategies, as described further below.
While performance information is reviewed for accuracy and compliance with applicable standards,
performance information is not reviewed by a third party to determine or verify its accuracy or compliance
with presentation standards.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
Strategic Advisers does not currently charge performance-based management fees for any of its advisory
services and, therefore, does not engage in side-by-side management.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
About the Use of Model Portfolios. Strategic Advisers has retained its affiliate FMRCo to provide investment
models to be used by Strategic Advisers in rendering discretionary investment advisory services to the
Dividend Income Strategy, International Strategy, and U.S. Large Cap Strategy Program Accounts. FMRCo
provides Strategic Advisers with Model Portfolios and provides periodic updates to each Model Portfolio.
FMRCo is not acting as investment adviser or portfolio manager with respect to Program Accounts. Rather,
Strategic Advisers is the portfolio manager and has the discretion to implement the models as provided by
FMRCo or to make modifications as it deems appropriate. FMRCo could provide a similar Model Portfolio or
manage accounts using a similar investment strategy for its other clients and could provide the model to such
accounts or clients prior to providing it to Strategic Advisers. At any time, Strategic Advisers can determine
to no longer receive a Model Portfolio from FMRCo, in which case Strategic Advisers can engage another
investment firm to provide a Model Portfolio or manage Program Accounts without recommendations from
a Model Portfolio provider.
For the International Strategy and the U.S. Large Cap Strategy, Strategic Advisers will blend the Model
Portfolios it receives from FMRCo in its discretion, based on market cycle implications and overall portfolio
positioning. FMRCo will generally use fundamental and quantitative analysis to select stocks for the Model
Portfolio. Strategic Advisers has designed investment guidelines for the Model Portfolios delivered by FMRCo.
These guidelines can change from time to time.
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About Strategic Advisers’ Model Provider Selection Process. Prior to selecting FMRCo to provide Model
Portfolios, Strategic Advisers performed a comprehensive review of FMRCo and its investment style and
approach. Strategic Advisers’ review included, among other things, assessing information about FMRCo and
its investment strategy. In selecting FMRCo, Strategic Advisers considered a variety of factors, including but
not limited to investment approach, portfolio characteristics, and FMRCo’s experience with similar investment
strategies. Strategic Advisers evaluated information from both quantitative and qualitative analyses, including
but not limited to FMRCo’s investment strategy, security coverage, experience, growth of assets under
management, stability of management, governance program, and trading and operational capabilities.
Strategic Advisers will evaluate FMRCo’s adherence to the investment guidelines not less than semiannually
based on the factors described above. Strategic Advisers, in its sole discretion, can replace FMRCo without
prior notice to clients if, for example, Strategic Advisers determines that FMRCo is not adhering to the
investment guidelines for the Dividend Income Strategy.
Additionally, a Model Portfolio provided by FMRCo could reflect trading decisions previously made by FMRCo
for its discretionary client accounts and funds. As a result, Dividend Income Strategy, International Strategy,
and U.S. Large Cap Strategy Program Accounts could receive prices that are more favorable or less favorable
than the prices obtained by FMRCo’s discretionary client accounts and funds, particularly with respect to
thinly traded securities. Aggregate holding limits and other investment limits applicable to such prior trading
decisions, and collectively to the discretionary accounts of FMRCo, Strategic Advisers, and their affiliates
generally, could result in investment opportunities not being included in a Model Portfolio.
Strategic Advisers does not have a predetermined allocation with respect to the use of Fidelity or non-Fidelity
model providers. To the extent that Strategic Advisers retains a Fidelity model provider, Fidelity will retain
more compensation than if a non-Fidelity model provider were retained, and Fidelity will achieve greater
efficiencies and economies of scale with respect to the research and management services that it provides
to clients. Therefore, the use of a Fidelity model provider presents a conflict of interest. Strategic Advisers’
investment professionals are not compensated based on the use of Fidelity or non-Fidelity model providers.
About Tax-Smart Investing Techniques. While each Strategy uses tax-smart investing techniques in taxable
accounts, please note that the stated investment objective is of primary importance. Accordingly, the
application of tax-smart investing techniques is a secondary consideration. Clients in these Strategies should
understand that significant tax consequences can result from investing in a Strategy with a primary focus other
than tax-smart investing techniques. For example, each Strategy has a corresponding investable universe of
investments that has been constructed by Strategic Advisers. With respect to the Environmental Focus Strategy,
stocks used to fund a Program Account that are not included in the environmentally screened investable
universe for the Strategy will be sold without regard to potential tax consequences of such sales. Realizing
gains could create a tax liability, particularly when offsetting losses are not available. Strategic Advisers cannot
guarantee the effectiveness of its tax-smart investing techniques in serving to reduce or minimize a client’s
overall tax liability or the tax results of a given transaction, and Strategic Advisers does not take direction from a
client on when to take gains or losses from the client’s taxable Program Account.
Over the long run, tax-smart investing techniques are intended to contribute to helping clients reach their
investment goals. However, Strategic Advisers can implement trades in accounts that trigger significant tax
consequences in seeking to manage the Program Accounts consistently with long-term strategy investment
objectives. The potential federal income tax consequences of holding, buying, and selling securities are
considered as part of the investment services, but we do not consider state or local taxes; foreign taxes,
including those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or
estate, gift, or generation-skipping taxes. The tax-smart investing techniques Strategic Advisers uses when
it makes trading decisions to buy, hold, or sell securities for a client’s taxable Program Account, will vary
depending on the size of the Program Account and the investment strategy selected. The tax-smart investing
techniques referenced throughout this brochure refer to one or more of the following:
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Ability to harvest tax losses. Individual stock positions can experience price declines, possibly below a client’s
adjusted tax basis in the security (as determined by the tax basis information on record for the client’s Program
Account). In such instances, losses could be realized in the client’s Program Account for tax purposes. In cases
where a position is sold to realize a capital loss for tax purposes, the position usually will be replaced with
one or a combination of investments we believe will maintain comparable market exposure. In harvesting
tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in the client’s
taxable Program Account and will consider factors such as investment risk, available comparable investment
alternatives, and potential wash sales when deciding whether to harvest tax losses.
Strategic Advisers considers the potential application of the wash-sale rules when evaluating transactions in
taxable Program Accounts. However, clients should understand that Strategic Advisers does not prevent or
avoid wash sales in all cases. The wash-sale rule requires taxpayers to defer losses that would otherwise be
realized if the taxpayer acquires a substantially identical investment 30 days before or after the sale. While
Strategic Advisers considers whether its trading in taxable Program Accounts may trigger the wash-sale rules,
we will nevertheless engage in transactions that are potentially subject to the wash-sale rules if we determine
that such transactions are consistent with the investment objective of the Strategy. Strategic Advisers will
monitor for wash sales within taxable Program Accounts. However, the wash-sale rule not only applies to
investment transactions occurring in a taxable Program Account, but also to transactions occurring in other
investment accounts, whether maintained at Fidelity or at another financial institution, which are held by the
client, the client’s spouse, and certain entities controlled by the client and/or a spouse. As a result, clients can
have wash sales arising from transactions within taxable Program Accounts as well as other accounts (whether
maintained at Fidelity or another institution). The wash-sale rule is complex, and while Strategic Advisers seeks
to monitor wash sales in taxable Program Accounts, clients are ultimately responsible for determining whether
the wash-sale rules apply to any particular transaction in their Program Accounts or in their other investment
accounts. Clients should consult their tax advisors with respect to the application of the wash-sale rules based
on their individual circumstances.
Opportunities to avoid and/or postpone capital gain realizations. If there are specific lots of securities in a
client’s Program Account—a block of shares bought at a particular time at a particular price—lots are reviewed
and the potential federal income tax burden associated with selling that lot is weighed against the potential
investment merits of the sale, such as performance potential, added diversification, and support of risk-
management strategies. Once Strategic Advisers decides to sell an eligible security, it will attempt to sell the
lot(s) that will generate the lowest overall federal income tax burden (or generate a loss for tax purposes) using
the tax basis and holding period information on record, with a preference for long-term capital gains over
short-term capital gains.
For additional considerations related to tax-smart investing techniques, please see the disclosure below under
“Opening and Funding a Program Account.”
Fractional Share Investing
Each Strategy can invest in fractional shares of individual securities. Clients should be aware that the use of
fractional shares can result in the receipt of fewer dividends. Please note that any dividends received that are
valued at less than $0.01 but that round up to $0.01 will be credited to a Program Account, but amounts that
do not round up to $0.01 will not be distributed to the Program Account that held the fractional share. If any
amount is not distributed and the aggregate value is less than or equal to $1.00 per security, it will be retained
by NFS, and when it exceeds $1.00, it will be escheated to the state of Delaware. Also, with respect to proxy
voting, clients are not able to vote a fractional share of an individual security; however, if clients elect to appoint
Strategic Advisers as proxy voting agent on their behalf, such fractional shares can generally be voted because
such fractional shares will be aggregated for purposes of proxy voting. Fractional shares cannot be transferred
to an account outside of Fidelity; in such situations, the fractional share would need to be sold and a taxable
gain or loss incurred.
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Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices
Clients can generally fund their Program Accounts with Fidelity money market funds, certain stocks, and ADRs.
Should a client elect to transfer eligible securities into a Program Account, those securities will be reviewed
and evaluated by Strategic Advisers for possible incorporation into the client’s Program Account, but there can
be no guarantee that any or all eligible securities transferred into a Program Account will be incorporated into
the client’s Program Account. Strategic Advisers retains discretion to sell such eligible securities at any time
and without prior notice to the client, and, by enrolling in the Program, the client acknowledges that Strategic
Advisers can sell any such eligible securities at any time if they determine it is appropriate to do so, without
prior notice to the client. For taxable Program Accounts, clients could realize a taxable gain or loss when those
securities are sold, which could affect the after-tax performance/return of the Program Account as well as
the clients’ tax liability. While Strategic Advisers does consider the potential tax consequences of the sale of
eligible securities, the stated investment objective is of primary importance, and the application of tax-smart
investing techniques is a secondary consideration. Accordingly, clients who fund a taxable Program Account
with appreciated securities should understand that Strategic Advisers can sell such securities, notwithstanding
that the sale could trigger significant tax consequences. Please contact a Fidelity representative for more
information about opening and funding a Program Account. With respect to retirement Program Accounts
enrolled in the Environmental Focus Strategy, the Dividend Income Strategy, the U.S. Large Cap Strategy and
the International Strategy, Strategic Advisers generally does not consider the potential tax consequences of
these sales. In addition, should a client transfer into a Program Account eligible securities that are not included
in a Strategy’s investable universe, or that are part of the investable universe but do not align with Strategic
Advisers’ investment allocation of such securities, Strategic Advisers will generally liquidate those securities in
whole or in part as soon as reasonably practicable.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates can determine that, as a result of regulatory require-
ments that apply to Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates due to investments in a particular country or in
an issuer operating in a particular regulated industry, investments in the securities of issuers domiciled or
listed on trading markets in that country or operating in that regulated industry above certain thresholds are
impractical or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds can apply at the Program Account level or
in the aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts) managed, sponsored, or owned by, or
otherwise attributable to, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. For investment risk management and other pur-
poses, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also generally apply internal aggregate limits on the amount of a
particular issuer’s securities that can be owned by all such accounts. In such instances, investment flexibility
can be restricted, and Strategic Advisers can limit or exclude a client’s investment in a particular issuer, which
can include investment in related derivative instruments and investment flexibility will be restricted. To the
extent that a Program Account already owns securities that directly or indirectly contribute to an ownership
threshold being exceeded, Strategic Advisers could sell securities held in such Program Account in order to
bring account-level and/or aggregate ownership below the relevant threshold. In the event that any such sales
result in realized losses for a Program Account, that Program Account will bear such losses depending on the
particular circumstances.
MATERIAL RISKS
Risks Associated with Investment Strategies. The discretionary investment management strategies
implemented for Program clients involve risk of loss. Investments in a Program Account are not bank deposits
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other
government agency. A client could lose money by investing in individual securities and mutual funds. A client
could lose money by investing in a Program Account. Many factors affect each investment’s or Program
Account’s performance and potential for loss. Strategies that pursue investments in equities will be subject to
stock market volatility and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market,
or economic developments. Strategies that pursue fixed income investments (such as bond or money market
funds) will see values fluctuate in response to changes in interest rates, inflation and prepayment risks, as
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well as default risks for both issuers and counterparties; changing interest rates, including rates that fall below
zero, can have unpredictable effects on markets and can result in heightened market volatility. Developments
that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as wars, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious
illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events, can magnify factors that affect performance.
These strategies are also affected by impacts to the individual issuers, such as changes in an issuer’s credit
quality, or changes in tax, regulatory, market, or economic developments. In addition, investments in certain
bond structures are less liquid than other investments and therefore are more difficult to trade effectively.
Municipal bond funds carry additional risks, which are discussed below. Nearly all investments or accounts are
subject to volatility in non-U.S. markets, through either direct exposure or indirect effects in U.S. markets from
events abroad. Those investments and accounts that are exposed to emerging markets are potentially subject
to heightened volatility from greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties, as the extent of
economic development, political stability, market depth, infrastructure, capitalization, and regulatory oversight
can be less than in more developed markets.
In addition to the risks identified above, a summary of additional risks follows:
Risks of Equity Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse
issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market can react
differently to these developments. Value and growth stocks can perform differently from other types of
stocks. For example, certain growth stocks can be more volatile than the market, and certain value stocks can
continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of time. In addition, stock investments could be
subject to risk related to market capitalization as well as company-specific risk. Foreign securities are subject to
interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, regulatory, and political risks, all of which could be greater in
emerging markets.
Foreign Exposure. Investing in foreign securities and securities of U.S. entities with substantial foreign
operations are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, tax, operational, regulatory, and
political risks, all of which are likely to be greater in emerging markets. These risks are particularly significant
for investment strategies that focus on a single country or region or emerging markets. Foreign markets can
be more volatile than U.S. markets and can perform differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets can
be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
Foreign exchange rates can also be extremely volatile. Foreign markets can also offer less protection to
investors than U.S. markets. For example, foreign issuers are generally not bound by uniform accounting,
auditing, and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to
U.S. issuers. Adequate public information on foreign issuers might be unavailable, and it could be difficult
to secure dividends and information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis. Regulatory enforcement
can be influenced by economic or political concerns, and investors could have difficulty enforcing their legal
rights in foreign countries. Foreign governments may decide to seize or confiscate securities held by foreign
investors or assets held by foreign issuers, restrict an investor’s ability to sell or redeem securities, suspend or
limit an issuer’s ability to make dividend or interest payments, and/or limit or entirely restrict repatriation of
invested capital, profits, and dividends. Furthermore, investments in securities of foreign entities can result in
clients owning an interest in a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”). Clients holding an interest in a
PFIC could be subject to additional tax liabilities and filing requirements as a result of such investments. The
rules regarding investments in PFICs are complex, and clients are urged to consult their tax advisors.
Risks of Investing in ADRs. ADRs are alternatives to directly purchasing foreign securities, but they are subject to
many of the risks associated with investing directly in foreign securities. The depositary bank could charge fees
for various services, including forwarding dividends and interest, and for corporate actions. Investing in ADRs
could make it more difficult for U.S. persons to benefit from applicable tax treaty rates that could otherwise
reduce withholding on any distributions from the underlying foreign issuer. Recovery of any extra foreign tax
withheld can be costly and complex, and recovery could be unavailable for certain registration types, such as
individual retirement accounts.
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Risks and Limitations Associated with Tax-Smart Investing Techniques. Clients should understand that there are
risks and limitations associated with the use of tax-smart investing techniques, and these limitations can result
in tax-inefficient trades. The strategy investment objective is of primary importance, and Strategic Advisers
will make changes to a Program Account even if such changes trigger significant tax consequences, including
but not limited to wash sales and the realization of short- and long-term capital gains. Clients should consult
their tax and/or legal advisor prior to enrolling in the Program as well as on an ongoing basis to determine
whether the wash-sale rule or other special tax rules could apply to their tax situation, and to determine
the efficacy of the tax-smart investing techniques to their current and future tax situation. Strategic Advisers
relies on information a client provides in applying tax-smart investing techniques and does not offer tax
advice. Strategic Advisers actively manages for federal income taxes, but does not actively manage for state
or local taxes; foreign taxes, including those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules
applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or generation-skipping transfer taxes. In harvesting tax losses, Strategic
Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in a taxable Program Account. Clients
should also be aware that, in cases where a position is sold to realize a capital loss for tax purposes, Strategic
Advisers can replace that position with one or a combination of investments designed to provide comparable
market exposure, and it is important to understand that in a given year, due to investment decisions or market
conditions, a client could receive varying levels of taxable distributions within a taxable Program Account. In
general, Strategic Advisers will not sell merely to avoid a taxable distribution but, in fact, looks at the overall
Program Account to determine the most appropriate action. There are implicit trading opportunity costs
associated with the additional turnover, which can affect the returns on a client’s Program Account. A taxable
Program Account will generally trade more frequently than a Program Account that is not managed using tax-
smart investing techniques. There are implicit trading opportunity costs associated with the additional turnover,
which can affect the returns on a client’s Program Account. It is important to note that the performance of any
replacement investments will not be the same as that of the investment sold, and any replacement investments
can perform worse than the investment that was sold. In addition, any tax-related benefits resulting from tax-
smart investing techniques can be offset or even outweighed by investment losses and/or missed gains (realized
and unrealized). Furthermore, there are not clear guidelines on what constitutes a “substantially identical”
security to another ETP or mutual fund for purposes of the wash-sale rule. As such, there can be no guarantee
that a replacement investment selected by Strategic Advisers will not be deemed “substantially identical” for
purposes of the wash-sale rule. Although taxable Program Accounts seek to enhance after-tax returns, tax-smart
investing techniques may not take into account all of the tax rules, regulations, and limitations applicable to a
client’s particular facts and circumstances, which, in certain circumstances, will reduce the effectiveness of tax-
smart investing techniques. Clients should understand that the benefits derived from any tax-smart investing
techniques will likely be greater for clients in higher tax brackets. Since the value of offsetting capital gains or
ordinary income is directly tied to the applicable federal capital gains or ordinary income tax rates, clients in
lower federal capital gains and ordinary income tax rates experience reduced benefits relative to those in higher
federal capital gains and ordinary income tax rates.
Environmental Focus Investing Risk. Because of the subjective nature of environmentally sustainable
investing, there can be no guarantee that environmental sustainability criteria used by Fidelity will reflect the
beliefs or values of any particular client. The incorporation of environmental sustainability factors can affect a
Program Account’s exposure to certain companies or industries and may not work as intended. Clients should
understand that the application of environmental sustainability criteria does not mean that an Environmental
Focus Strategy account will exclude any and all security issuers that are deemed to have negative environmental
sustainability characteristics; rather, the application of environmental sustainability criteria is intended to create
an investment universe that has a higher aggregate environmental rating, as measured by FMRCo, than the
Large Cap Index. Investing based on environmental sustainability factors could cause an Environmental Focus
Strategy Program Account to forgo certain investment opportunities available to Strategies that do not use
such criteria. An account can underperform other investments that do not assess environmental sustainability
factors or that use a different methodology to identify and/or incorporate environmental sustainability factors.
Information regarding environmental practices is obtained through voluntary or third-party reporting, which
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could be inaccurate or incomplete. Information used to evaluate environmental sustainability factors may
not be readily available, complete, or accurate, and can vary across providers and issuers, as environmental
sustainability is not uniformly defined. As a result, there is a risk that FMRCo could incorrectly assess a security
or issuer. There is also a risk that Strategic Advisers or FMRCo does not apply the relevant environmental
sustainability criteria correctly or that an account could have indirect exposure to issuers that do not meet the
relevant environmental sustainability criteria used by such account. There could be limitations with respect to
the readiness of environmental sustainability data in certain sectors as well as limited availability of investments
with relevant environmental sustainability characteristics in certain sectors. FMRCo can change its environmental
sustainability assessment of an issuer over time. Socially responsible norms differ by region. There is no
assurance that the environmental sustainability investing strategy and techniques employed will be successful.
Past performance is not a guarantee or reliable indicator of future results.
Quantitative Investing. Securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from the
market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, changes
to the factors’ behavior over time, market volatility, or the quantitative model’s assumption about market
behavior. In addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment strategies rely on algorithmic processes
and, therefore, are subject to the risks described below under the heading “Operational Risks.” To the extent
that the quantitative models fail to adequately match the risk and return profile of a referenced index used
in managing a particular Strategy, a Program Account could perform differently; it could underperform, or
it could outperform the corresponding reference index on a pretax basis. In addition, to the extent that the
components of the corresponding reference index perform in a highly correlated fashion, the Strategy could
be less effective at harvesting the tax losses on which the after-tax portion of the Strategy relies.
Money Market Fund Risk. A client could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although a money
market fund seeks to preserve the value of a client’s investment at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will
do so. An investment in a money market fund is not a bank account and is not insured or guaranteed by the
FDIC or any other government agency. Fidelity, the sponsor of Fidelity’s money market funds, is not required
to reimburse money market funds for losses, and a client should not expect that Fidelity will provide financial
support to a Fidelity money market fund at any time, including during periods of market stress. Fidelity’s
government and U.S. Treasury money market funds will not impose a fee upon the sale of a client’s shares.
ETPs. An ETP is a security that trades on an exchange and can seek to track an index, a commodity, or a basket
of assets. ETPs can be actively or passively managed. The performance of a passively managed ETP might not
correlate with the performance of the asset it seeks to track. ETPs trade on secondary markets or exchanges
and are exposed to market volatility and the risks of the ETP’s underlying securities. ETPs that use derivatives,
leverage, or complex investment strategies are subject to additional risks.
Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process employed by Strategic Advisers
includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing large amounts of data from external public sources and/
or third-party data providers, including, in some instances, through the use of generative artificial intelligence
(“AI”) and large language models (“LLM”). It is not possible or practicable, however, to factor all relevant,
available data into economic forecasts or trading decisions. In addition, due to the automated nature of this
data gathering and the fact that much of this data comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all
desired or relevant data will be available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should be
aware that there is no guarantee that the data used in generating forecasts or making trading decisions will
be the most accurate data available or even free of errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require
training of the models to be used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order to yield
the desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all scenarios or that they
will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI and LLMs are subject to various risks, including
(i) the data used to train LLMs suffers inaccuracies, biases, or flaws that may cause the AI model to respond
other than as intended; (ii) weak controls in the development and use of AI allow it to be deployed for use
cases for which it was not intended; and (iii) the AI may provide inaccurate or fabricated responses to queries
it is unable to process. Fidelity has adopted a Generative AI policy and governance framework so that the use
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of AI and LLMs is targeted and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using known and appropriate data
sources and are subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the use of AI and LLMs is but one
input into the research process. Clients should assume that the foregoing limitation and risks associated with
gathering, cleaning, culling, and analysis of large amounts of data from third-party, other external sources, and
the use of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing. There may also be incidents where data fails to load
or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for example, because of changes in the vendor’s or our
system configurations due to upgrades, enhancements, maintenance or errors, or that LLMs provide incorrect
information in response to certain prompts. Clients should assume that these data errors, like other system
implementation errors, and their ensuing risks and impact are an inherent part of investing. Accordingly, unless
otherwise required to do so, Strategic Advisers does not expect to disclose discovered data errors to clients.
Cybersecurity Risk. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business, Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. These risks could include
events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and may have a negative effect on our ability to conduct
business activities. We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate these risks, but do not believe
that we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result from deliberate attacks or
unintentional events that can arise from external or internal sources. Cyberattacks include but are not limited
to gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software coding) for
purposes of misappropriating assets or sensitive information; corrupting data, equipment, or systems; and
causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks can also be carried out in a manner that does not require gaining
unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make network
services unavailable to intended users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its affiliates, or any
other service providers (including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents, and financial
intermediaries used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact
business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the ability to calculate the net
asset value (“NAV”), impediments to trading, the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment and
systems, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar adverse consequences
could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in which an account invests, counterparties
with which an account engages in transactions, governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchange and
other financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
(including financial intermediaries and service providers), and other parties.
Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments in a Program Account could be adversely affected by new (or
revised) laws or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations could impact the securities markets as a whole,
specific industries, individual issuers of securities, and a sub-advisor’s determinations with respect to the
expected rate of return, value, or creditworthiness of a particular security. Generally, the impact of these
changes will not be fully known for some time.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in internal processes, people,
or systems, such as routine processing incidents or major systems failures, or from external events, such as
exchange outages. Strategic Advisers uses algorithms in support of its discretionary portfolio management
processes, which can contribute to operational risks. For example, algorithms are used as part of the process
whereby Strategic Advisers recommends an appropriate asset allocation that corresponds to a level of risk
consistent with a client’s Profile Information. In providing financial planning services, algorithms are used in
analyzing the potential for success of a client’s financial plan. A sub-advisor can use algorithms in support of its
discretionary portfolio management process. There is a risk that the data input into the algorithms could have
errors, omissions, or imperfections, or that the algorithms do not operate as intended (generally referred to as
“processing incidents”). Any decisions made in reliance on incorrect data or algorithms that do not operate as
intended can expose Program Accounts to potential risks. Issues in the algorithm are often extremely difficult
to detect and could go undetected for long periods of time or never be detected. These risks are mitigated
by testing and human oversight of the algorithms and their output. We believe that the oversight and testing
performed on our algorithms and their output will enable us to identify and address issues appropriately.
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However, there is no assurance that the algorithms will always work as intended. In general, we will not assess
each Program Account individually, nor will we override the outcome of the algorithm with respect to any
particular Program Account.
Not all processing incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting from the mistakes of
third parties, will be compensable by Strategic Advisers to clients, depending on the applicable facts and
circumstances. Strategic Advisers maintains policies and procedures that address the identification and
resolution of processing incidents, consistent with applicable standards of care, to ensure that clients are
treated fairly when a processing incident has been detected. The determination of whether, and how, to
address a processing incident is made by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates, in their sole discretion.
Processing incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact on a client’s Program
Account based on, among other things, the relevant investment strategy, and to evaluate the materiality of the
impact. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred, we will make an appropriate correction
or otherwise reimburse the Program Account in an amount Strategic Advisers or its affiliates determines is
appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Typically, processing incidents that result in a financial impact
of less than $10 per Program Account are not considered material. Other examples of impact that could
affect the performance of a Program Account but would likely not be material include impacts arising from
computer, communications, data processing, network, cloud computing, backup, business continuity or other
operating, information, or technology systems, including those we outsource to other providers, failing to
operate as planned or becoming disabled, overloaded, or damaged as a result of a number of factors. These
factors could include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and could have a negative impact
on our ability to conduct business activities. Though losses arising from operating, information, or technology
systems failures could adversely affect the performance of a Program Account, such losses would likely not be
reimbursable under Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities and other investments
involves a risk of loss that a client should understand and be willing to bear.
Voting Client Securities
Strategic Advisers does not generally acquire authority for, or exercise, proxy voting on a client’s behalf in
connection with managing Program Accounts. Unless a client directs Strategic Advisers otherwise pursuant to
the paragraph below, the client will receive proxy materials directly from the issuer of the security (or its service
provider). Strategic Advisers will not advise clients on the voting of proxies. Clients must exercise any proxy
voting directly.
Notwithstanding the information above, a client can direct Strategic Advisers to act as agent to vote proxies on
the client’s behalf for the funds and other securities held in Program Accounts. For Fidelity Funds, clients who
make such a direction must instruct Strategic Advisers to vote proxies of a Fidelity Fund in the same proportion
as the vote of all other holders of such Fidelity Fund. For other securities, such clients must instruct Strategic
Advisers to vote proxies pursuant to the directions provided by ISS, an unaffiliated third-party proxy advisory
services provider.
Please note that, unlike general proxy votes, Strategic Advisers generally treats certain voluntary corporate
actions as subject to the exercise of its discretion as an investment manager. Accordingly, Strategic Advisers
will make decisions with respect to voluntary corporate actions directly as part of the investment management
services it provides to Program Accounts. However, clients retain the right to make elections with respect
to voluntary corporate actions if they so choose; if a client would like to make an election with respect to a
security subject to a voluntary corporate action, the client will need to contact us to transfer the security out
of the client’s Program Account. In connection with this election, a client must acknowledge that Strategic
Advisers is acting solely at the client’s direction, and does not exercise discretion with respect to the voting
of any proxy. Clients receive information about ISS’ proxy voting policies in the summary of ISS’ proxy voting
guidelines available at Fidelity.com/information. In some instances, ISS will be unable to provide proxy voting
directions, in which case Strategic Advisers will not vote such proxy because it does not have discretion to
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determine how proxies are voted. To obtain a copy of ISS’ summary proxy voting guidelines or information
on how investment proxies were voted, please contact a Fidelity representative. In addition, a client can
request that Strategic Advisers act as agent for receipt of certain legally required communications, including
prospectuses, annual and semiannual reports, and proxy materials for mutual funds that are not managed by
FMRCo or an affiliate thereof, and other individual securities.
Clients should be aware that, to the extent that a Program Account holds a fractional share of an individual
security, they will not be able to vote the fractional share; however, where Strategic Advisers is acting as proxy
voting agent on the client’s behalf, such fractional share can generally be voted. In addition, clients are not able
to take any discretionary or voluntary corporate action with respect to any fractional share position.
C L I E N T I N F O R M A T I O N P R O V I D E D
T O P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Strategic Advisers has access to the relevant Program Account information, including Profile Information and,
for accounts managed with tax-smart investing techniques, information on record with Strategic Advisers
regarding the client’s tax situation and the tax characteristics of the securities in the client’s Program Account.
The discretionary portfolio management services will be affected by incomplete or inaccurate information. If
changes to a client’s personal, financial, or tax situation occur, the client should promptly update their Profile
Information online using the Program website.
C L I E N T C O N T A C T W I T H P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Clients can visit the Program website at any time to access detailed information about their Program Accounts
or to update their Profile Information. While Strategic Advisers can provide clients with information about
the management of Program Accounts from time to time, Strategic Advisers does not typically meet with or
communicate directly with Program clients.
A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N
Custody
Clients must establish and maintain a brokerage account with FBS to participate in the Program, and NFS
serves as the qualified custodian for Program Accounts. Clients should carefully review all statements and other
communications received from NFS and FBS. NFS and FBS are broker-dealers and affiliates of Strategic Advisers.
Strategic Advisers is deemed to have custody under the Advisers Act because its affiliate NFS serves as
qualified custodian for Program Accounts.
Disciplinary Information
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
Strategic Advisers’ advisory business or the integrity of its management personnel.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that, together with its affiliates
and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct or indirect
subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance businesses.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material business relationships with any of the
subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers
and/or employees of affiliated companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
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Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity trading
advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is registered with the
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as
amended (“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National Futures Association
(“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have common supervision.
Certain management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered representatives of FBS, a Strategic Advisers
affiliate and a registered broker-dealer. In addition, Strategic Advisers has entered into an intercompany
agreement with FBS, pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers various operational, administrative,
analytical, and technical services, and the personnel necessary for the performance of such services.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a
registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FMRCo provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated
and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients and provides model portfolio recommendations and environmental filtering
services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for handling the
business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers, and Strategic Advisers
compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available to managed account programs offered by
Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides nondiscretionary investment management
services and sponsors the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
programs (turnkey asset management programs made available to financial intermediaries). Strategic
Advisers provides model portfolio services to FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its institutional
and intermediary clients, and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In addition, Strategic
Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is registered with the Central Bank
of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies
in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers
has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been authorized by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered
with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Japan Financial
Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated
advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
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• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Hong
Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on securities, deal in futures contracts, provide asset
management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment management
services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other
affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain
registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and
as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and
sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development companies and
the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds, and also markets those funds and other
products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a
fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services for other
broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of NFS, provides trade
executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative
trading system (“ATS”) that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against orders
submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for investment company and
other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer agent services and other custodial services to
certain Fidelity clients.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs, the Luminex ATS and the
LeveL ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other
subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC, owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and FMR
Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests in LeveL
Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC, charges a commission to both sides of
each trade executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to execute
transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a clearing
agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act
and provides brokerage products and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment
companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans, and acts
as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates.
In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products
that are issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity Investments Life
Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third parties. FBS provides shareholder
services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the introducing broker for managed accounts offered by
Strategic Advisers and places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS provides
securities brokerage to retail customers through a digital mobile application–based brokerage platform. DBS
receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and marketing FMRCo products.
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Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance
and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance and
annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to
residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life insurance and annuity
products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC Holdings LLC, which
in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust company organized and operating under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and custodial
services to employee benefit plans and IRAs through which individuals can invest in affiliated or unaffiliated
registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment management services to
institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift Holding Company, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings bank that offers fiduciary services that
include trustee or co-trustee services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These funds are
privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in
borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”), can from time to time
provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment management
support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is
not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating Affiliate”
of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management in various
no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of
registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland
Associated Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(17)
of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such employees can
contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information concerning securities
that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a Participating
Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the jurisdiction of United States
courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection with investment advisory activities
conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated
Employees whom Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the list
available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The Code of Ethics
applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised persons of Strategic Advisers and requires
that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes
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securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an exception exists or
prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access to certain
nonpublic information;
• Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through acknowledgments of
receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also imposes
additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research analysts, and portfolio
managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include the following:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions;
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval;
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a trade in any
covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such portfolio manager except in
limited circumstances;
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions;
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and annually
thereafter; and
• The disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The Code
of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside
Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any client or prospective
client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are contemplated
in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity
policies are designed to make it clear to Fidelity personnel that they should never place their personal
interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics
and other Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material nonpublic
information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable
laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits the use
of material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other employees and that limits the
transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for Program Accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set standards for
business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make sound decisions with
respect to these activities, and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients come first. Similarly, to
support compliance with applicable “pay to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions
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& Activities Policy that requires employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity also
has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that
prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe,
facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly
obtain or retain business or any improper advantage.
B R O K E R A G E P R A C T I C E S
Broker Selection and Transactions in Program Accounts
Strategic Advisers has a duty to seek best execution for transactions in client accounts. Strategic Advisers will
place trades for Program Accounts with affiliated or unaffiliated registered broker-dealers (“brokers”) and may
choose to execute an order using electronic channels (including broker-sponsored algorithms) or by manually
working an order with a broker. In selecting brokers, Strategic Advisers may consider a range of factors
deemed relevant in the context of a particular trade, including but not limited to price; costs; the size, nature,
and type of the order; speed of execution; financial condition and reputation of the broker; broker-specific
considerations (e.g., not all brokers are able to execute all types of trades); broker willingness to commit
capital; our trader’s assessment of whether and how closely the broker will follow our instructions;
and confidentiality and the potential for information leakage.
As described above in Fees and Compensation, the Program’s Advisory Fee includes the cost of commissions
associated with transactions executed through affiliated brokers. As a result, most trades for Program Accounts
that involve equity securities and other securities where commissions are charged will be executed with
Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker, NFS.
However, Strategic Advisers has the authority to execute transactions with an unaffiliated broker (also referred
to as “trading away”) consistent with its duty to seek best execution. While the Program’s Advisory Fee does
not include the cost of commissions for transactions executed through unaffiliated brokers, Strategic Advisers
or its affiliate is voluntarily assuming the cost of commissions for transactions executed by unaffiliated brokers.
As a result, Program clients are not charged commissions for such transactions. Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates reserve the right to stop assuming the cost of commissions associated with trading away, subject to
prior notice to Program clients. The Program Fee does not cover transaction charges for securities where the
counterparty imposes a markup, markdown, and/or dealer spread. The net price of the security will include
these transaction charges and Program Accounts will bear these costs.
In seeking best execution for a transaction, Strategic Advisers will have no obligation to solicit competitive
bids for each transaction and Strategic Advisers will not necessarily select the broker that charges the
lowest available price or commission rate; however, Strategic Advisers believes that its policies, taking into
consideration the factors stated above, are designed to result in transaction processing that is favorable to
Program clients. Strategic Advisers conducts periodic reviews of trade execution. Although it is Strategic
Advisers’ policy to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time, there can be no
assurance that all Program Accounts will receive the same execution and certain Program Accounts will
experience a more or less favorable execution depending on market conditions.
Please see the Fees and Compensation section above for further information about Program Fees, brokerage
commissions, and additional fees for transactions in a Program Account.
Trade Aggregation and Allocation
Strategic Advisers’ policy is to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time when
aggregating and allocating orders for the purchase and sale of securities. While Strategic Advisers is under no
obligation to aggregate orders for Program Accounts, in general, Strategic Advisers will choose to aggregate
trades for Program Accounts and/or aggregate Program Account trades with trades for other client accounts
(including certain proprietary accounts of Strategic Advisers or its affiliates and Fidelity employee accounts
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managed by Strategic Advisers) when, in Strategic Advisers’ judgment, aggregation is in the best interest of all
clients involved and it is operationally feasible to do so. Orders are aggregated into a “block trade” to facilitate
seeking best execution, to negotiate more favorable commission rates, or to allocate equitably among clients
the effects of any market fluctuations that might have otherwise occurred had these orders been placed
independently.
Aggregated orders are generally allocated on a pro rata basis among similarly situated client accounts
participating in a block trade until the order is filled. Client accounts included in a block trade receive the same
average price for the trade and shares are allocated according to the purchase and sale orders actually placed
for each client account included in the block trade. Strategic Advisers can create multiple block trades for both
buy and sell orders in the same security, and it is therefore possible that block trades will receive different
prices depending on when the orders for each block trade are filled throughout the day. When a client account
is not part of a block trade, that client account will receive a different price from the price obtained for Program
Accounts that participate in the aggregated orders.
If Strategic Advisers does not complete an order in a single day (e.g., when an aggregate order for client
accounts exceeds the available supply or to minimize market impact), the partially filled order will be allocated
on a pro rata basis among client accounts in the block.
Strategic Advisers has adopted trade allocation policies for managing client accounts, including Program
Accounts, designed to achieve fairness and not to purposefully disadvantage comparable client accounts over
time when allocating purchases and sales.
Cross Trades
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is not
obligated to) execute “agency cross trades” for Program Accounts. Agency cross trades are trades in which
Strategic Advisers, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with Strategic Advisers,
acts as both investment adviser and broker for a client, and as broker for the party or parties on the other
side of the trade. Agency cross trades will be executed in accordance with Section 206(3) of the Advisers Act,
requiring written consent, confirmations of transactions, annual reporting, and compliance procedures.
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is under
no obligation to) execute “advisor cross trades” for Program Accounts when Strategic Advisers believes such
trades are in the best interest of all clients involved. Advisor cross trades are trades in which Strategic Advisers,
or an affiliate, acts as investment adviser to both clients involved in the trade. An advisor cross trade will be
facilitated between client accounts either directly or through a broker-dealer, including FBS or NFS, and the
relevant crossing value will be determined based on one or more third-party pricing services, actual market
bids, and/or closing prices as reflected on a national securities exchange. Neither Strategic Advisers nor its
affiliates will receive transaction-based compensation for advisor cross trades.
There can be no assurance that agency or advisor cross trades will be executed, or that such transactions will be
executed in a manner that is most favorable to each Program Account that is a party to such transaction. Not all
Program Accounts participate in cross trades, and a client may opt out of cross trading by contacting a Fidelity
representative. Cross trades can be beneficial to clients by reducing transaction costs, and Program Accounts
excluded from cross trading could miss such potential benefits. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates will have a
potentially conflicting division of loyalties and responsibilities regarding both parties to a crossing transaction,
including with respect to the decision to enter into such transactions and the valuation and pricing of such
transactions. Strategic Advisers has developed policies and procedures relating to such transactions and conflicts.
Account Transaction Information
When Strategic Advisers trades in a Program Account, unless Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, is acting as
trustee or co-trustee with respect to the Program Account, clients will receive a confirmation of such transac-
tion from NFS, except with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments,
and transactions that involve the core Fidelity money market fund where a client’s account statement serves
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in lieu of a confirmation. Clients will receive statements from NFS that will provide holdings and transaction
information, including trades, contributions, withdrawals, advisory fees, and estimated gain/loss and tax basis
information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com and by enrolling in the
electronic delivery program. Clients should carefully review all statements and other communications received
from FBS and NFS. Clients will also receive a prospectus for any new mutual fund or ETP not previously held,
unless the client has elected to have Strategic Advisers act as agent for the receipt of any non-Fidelity prospec-
tuses. The routing details of a particular order will be provided on request, and an explanation of order routing
practices will be provided on an annual basis. In addition, from time to time, Fidelity will provide aggregated
trade execution data to clients and prospective clients.
Soft Dollars
Strategic Advisers does not have a soft dollar program and therefore does not consider the provision of
research or brokerage as a criterion for broker selection.
Client-Directed Brokerage
Program Accounts are not available for brokerage activities outside of the activities directed by Strategic
Advisers, including but not limited to margin trading or trading of securities by a client or any of the client’s
designated agents.
Review of Accounts
Client Contact and Review of Personal Financial Situation
We will contact Program clients at least annually to evaluate whether there have been any changes to their
financial situation that could affect their Profile Information or the Program Services, including whether they
wish to impose any reasonable restrictions on the management of the Program Account or reasonably modify
any existing restrictions (the “Annual Review Process”). Clients should provide updated Profile Information
any time there is a change to their goals, time horizon, tax situation, risk tolerance, or personal financial
situation, even outside of the Annual Review Process. If we do not hear from a client during the Annual Review
Process, we will update client information based on known information (e.g., client’s age, time horizon, and
other date-relative elements of the client’s Profile Information), but we will otherwise assume that the client’s
Profile Information has not changed. In some cases, the changes to this updated information will cause us to
determine that a Strategy account is no longer appropriate for the client. In these instances, we will notify the
client and begin the process of terminating the client’s participation in the Program.
Clients will receive prompt confirmations from NFS for any transactions in their Program Accounts; however,
with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments, and transactions that
involve the core Fidelity money market fund, a client’s account statement serves in lieu of a confirmation. In
addition, clients electronically receive statements from NFS that detail all holdings and transaction information,
including trades, additions, withdrawals, shifts in investment allocations, advisory fees, and estimated gain/
loss and tax basis information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com. Clients
should carefully review all statements and other communications received from FBS and NFS.
Strategic Advisers makes available account performance on a password-protected website. At least quarterly,
we will also send each client a reminder to notify us of any change in their financial situation, investment
objectives, or to impose reasonable restrictions on the management of their Program Accounts or reasonably
modify any existing restrictions. Clients can access and update the Profile Information they have provided to us
on the Program website.
To assist in the evaluation of performance, clients will have access to information about the trading activity in
their Program Account as well as information about the performance of their Program Accounts on a pretax
basis. Pretax Program Account performance is calculated consistent with industry standards. In addition,
clients will typically receive performance information comparing their Program Accounts with the performance
of relevant industry standard indexes. Clients with taxable Program Accounts will also be provided with
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performance information on an after-tax basis. After-tax Program Account performance is based on the pretax
performance of the Program Account, and on an evaluation of the potential tax consequences of trading
activity, dividends, income, and distributions in the Program Account. This after-tax performance information
is based on information provided by the client about the client’s tax situation, the tax basis information related
to the securities in the Program Account, and certain assumptions about the potential tax consequences of
trading activity in the Program Account. Detailed information about the methodology and assumptions, and
their related risks and limitations, used in calculating after-tax performance of a Program Account is provided
on the Program website. While performance information is reviewed by Strategic Advisers for accuracy and
compliance with applicable procedures, performance information is not reviewed or approved by a third party.
Clients invested in the Environmental Focus Strategy will have access to certain sustainable investment
reporting provided by FMRCo. This information is based on holdings of a Model Portfolio and a client’s
Program Account. Such information will contain or be based on data compiled from third-party sources that
FMRCo believes to be reliable, but neither FMRCo nor Strategic Advisers can guarantee the accuracy of any
such third-party information. This information will be limited by the fact that issuers in the investment universe
are not subject to reporting requirements for some of the Environmental Factors that FMRCo evaluates as part
of its proprietary methodology. Sustainable investment reporting is provided for informational purposes only
and should not be relied on by clients when making investment decisions or for any other purposes.
Ongoing Review and Adjustments of Program Accounts
On a daily basis, Strategic Advisers will evaluate a Program Account with respect to a variety of factors to
determine whether the account could benefit from trading that day. Common reasons clients can experience
trading in their Program Accounts include changes in the model or index, market fluctuations, tax management
opportunities, and client-requested activities, such as cash deposits or withdrawals.
Please note that Strategic Advisers uses the prior trading day’s closing prices in determining whether a Program
Account requires trading on a given day, and in general does not attempt to conduct ongoing intraday Program
Account evaluations, nor attempt to time intraday price fluctuations in its decisions to buy or sell securities.
Strategic Advisers does not anticipate that each Program Account will be traded each day.
Each of the securities purchased in a Program Account will appear on a client’s account statement. Securities
selected for Program Accounts can be individually tailored based on a client’s existing holdings and unique
financial situation and, where applicable, on the tax attributes of the assets in a Program Account. A client
can expect that the securities that compose their Program Account can vary, perhaps significantly, from the
securities purchased for another client’s Program Account managed using the same Strategy.
There can be instances where we need to place a do-not-trade restriction on one or more Program Accounts,
including when a client requests a security be transferred from a Program Account, when processing a trade
correction, when we need to comply with a court order, when a client asks us to process a withdrawal and
keep the proceeds from the sale of securities used to fund the withdrawal in the account until the client
provides further instructions for the transfer of the proceeds, or when we need additional information from a
client. For the period when a do-not-trade restriction is in effect, we will not trade or otherwise manage the
Program Account until the do-not-trade restriction has been removed.
Clients have periodic performance summaries or similar reports made available to them that detail the
performance of a client’s Program Account(s) and summarize the market activity during the period. Industry
standards are applied when calculating performance information. Strategic Advisers also makes available
account performance information on a password-protected website.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are compensated for providing services, including for investment
management, distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services, to certain Fidelity and non-
Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments in which Program Accounts are invested. These affiliates
include FMRCo and its affiliates as the investment adviser for the Fidelity Funds; FDC as the underwriter of
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the Fidelity Funds; and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (“FIIOC”) as transfer agent
for the Fidelity Funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity mutual funds, and recordkeeper of certain workplace
savings plans. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also receive compensation and other benefits in connection
with portfolio transactions executed on behalf of the Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other
investments. FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or research services, consistent with Section 28(e)
of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in connection with the execution of the Fidelity Funds’ portfolio
security transactions.
FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing, among other things,
clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other
investments, and NFS provides securities lending agent services to certain Fidelity Funds for which it receives
compensation. FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, FundsNetwork®, and provide
shareholder and other services (including, for a limited number of participants on the platform, the sharing
of certain aggregated data regarding exchange-traded fund holdings in Program Accounts) to participating
mutual funds and ETPs (or their sponsors) for which FBS, NFS, and FIIOC receive compensation, including
with respect to those mutual funds in which Program Accounts are invested. Neither FBS nor NFS receives
any compensation in connection with directing equity trades for Program Accounts to market makers for
execution. We can execute trades through alternative trading systems or national securities exchanges,
including ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, such as Members Exchange, a registered
national securities exchange. Any decision to execute a trade through an alternative trading system or
exchange in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest would be made in accordance with applicable
law, including best execution obligations. For trades placed on certain national securities exchanges, including
ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, Fidelity could receive exchange rebates from
such trades for Program Accounts, and these rebates will be subject to the Credit Amount (as described in
“Fees and Compensation”) and will be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among client Program Accounts.
The compensation described above that is retained by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates as a direct result of
investments by the Program Accounts in Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs will be included
in the Credit Amount, which reduces the Gross Advisory Fee. However, to the extent that Strategic Advisers
or its affiliates, including FBS, NFS, or FIIOC, receive compensation that is neither a direct result of, nor
directly derived from, investments by the Program Accounts, such compensation is not included in the Credit
Amount, does not reduce the Gross Advisory Fee, and will be retained by Strategic Advisers or affiliates.
Receipt of compensation in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee creates a financial incentive for Strategic
Advisers and its affiliates to select investments that will increase such compensation. Strategic Advisers seeks
to address this financial conflict of interest through the application of the Credit Amount, which will reduce
the Gross Advisory Fee, as applicable, and through personnel compensation arrangements (including those
of Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals and Fidelity representatives) that are not differentiated based
on the investments or share classes selected for Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates have
also implemented processes reasonably designed to prevent the receipt of compensation from affecting the
nature of the advice provided to Program Accounts.
See “Fees and Compensation” for additional information.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS or other affiliates, pursuant to referral
agreements where applicable. Additionally, Strategic Advisers refers clients to other independent investment
advisers in connection with a referral program in which such independent investment advisers participate for
a fee payable to Strategic Advisers.
Financial Information
Strategic Advisers does not solicit prepayment of client fees. Strategic Advisers is not aware of any financial
condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
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Fidelity® Personalized Planning & Advice at Work
Terms and Conditions
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
866-811-6041
NetBenefits.com
March 30, 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of
Strategic Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments company, as well as
information about Fidelity® Personalized Planning & Advice at Work.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a
“registered investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not imply
a certain level of skill or training.
If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please call us at
866-811-6041. The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at
adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Summary of Material Changes
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual
summary of material changes to their advisory services program brochure. The
section below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity®
Personalized Planning & Advice at Work brochure from March 31, 2025, through
March 30, 2026. Clients and prospective clients can obtain a copy of the Program Terms
and Conditions without charge by visiting Fidelity.com/information, by visiting the SEC’s
website at adviserinfo.sec.gov, or by calling a Fidelity representative at 866-811-6041.
Capitalized terms are defined in the Program Terms and Conditions.
Material Changes
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There have been no material changes since the March 31, 2025, Terms and Conditions.
Other Changes
•
Certain minor revisions have been made to the description of representative
compensation and the associated conflicts in “Information about Fidelity and Fidelity
Representative Compensation.”
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Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes affiliates of
Strategic Advisers in “Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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Minor changes have been made to the text in the following sections: “Fees and
Compensation;” “Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss;”
“Review of Accounts;” “Client Referrals and Other Compensation;” “Custody;”
and “Voting Client Securities.”
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Table of Contents
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Summary of Material Changes ..................................................................................... 2
Advisory Business ........................................................................................................ 4
Fees and Compensation ............................................................................................ 13
Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ........................................ 17
Types of Clients .......................................................................................................... 17
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss .................................. 18
Disciplinary Information ............................................................................................. 30
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations .................................................... 30
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions,
and Personal Trading .................................................................................................. 35
Brokerage Practices .................................................................................................... 36
Review of Accounts .................................................................................................... 36
Client Referrals and Other Compensation ................................................................ 37
Custody ...................................................................................................................... 38
Investment Discretion ................................................................................................ 39
Voting Client Securities .............................................................................................. 39
Financial Information ................................................................................................. 39
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Terms and Conditions
Important Information
Advisory Business
Fidelity® Personalized Planning & Advice at Work (“FPPA” or the “Program”) is a service
of Strategic Advisers (sometimes referred to as “we,” “our,” or “us” throughout this
document). Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates,
“Fidelity Investments” or “Fidelity”). Strategic Advisers was formed in 1977 and offers
retail and workplace investment programs, including FPPA. Strategic Advisers provides
discretionary and nondiscretionary advisory services and acts as the investment manager
to registered investment companies that invest in affiliated and unaffiliated funds.
Strategic Advisers serves as the sponsor and discretionary manager to investment
advisory programs.
Strategic Advisers provides the discretionary and nondiscretionary advisory services
(the “Program Services”) available through FPPA. As described below, the Program
provides the discretionary investment management services of Strategic Advisers for
your workplace savings plan account or assetized nonqualified deferred compensation
account (“Plan Account,” and the managed portion referred to herein as the “Managed
Account” or “Account”), as well as the participant* service, participant profiling, and
nondiscretionary planning services of Strategic Advisers and its representatives (each a
“Fidelity representative”).
Your Managed Account assets will be invested in a portfolio constructed according
to asset allocation and diversification principles. Your portfolio is expected to change
from time to time based on your profile (described below), which is regularly evaluated.
As described below, Strategic Advisers will identify an appropriate long- term asset
allocation (also referred to as your “investment strategy”), which it will consider when
investing your Managed Account in a portfolio (also referred to as your “Managed
Account Allocation”) that consists of investments chosen from among the plan’s eligible
investment options, which can include Fidelity Funds and/or non- Fidelity mutual funds.
Strategic Advisers will have investment discretion over the investments in your Managed
Account, and you will not be able to make any exchanges of assets held in your
Managed Account or otherwise direct or restrict the management of such assets while
enrolled. Through its discretionary authority, Strategic Advisers will invest eligible assets
(both vested and non-vested) that are initially allocated to your Managed Account and
your ongoing payroll contributions. Your Managed Account will regularly be evaluated
for rebalancing and, to the extent that it is rebalanced, the investments in your Managed
Account will change. Note that while you are enrolled in the Program, you remain
eligible to sell unrestricted shares of applicable company stock (if any) and other
Excluded Assets (described below) and to determine the portion of your pay to defer
into your Plan Account.
* Participants who enroll in the Program are sometimes referred to as “members” in materials
associated with the Program.
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In addition to the discretionary services provided as part of the Program, Strategic
Advisers will provide nondiscretionary, web-based financial planning services, which you
can obtain through NetBenefits.com or a Fidelity representative. Fidelity representatives
are available Monday–Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.
Interests in the Digital Assets Account (“DAA”) are ineligible for management by FPPA.
When you enroll in the Program, if you hold any plan investments, including DAA, that
are not included in your proposed portfolio and are not Excluded Assets, they will be
sold at the time your plan assets are rebalanced into your Managed Account Allocation.
Please note that if a Fidelity representative recommends that you enroll in FPPA, it is
because you would benefit from a diversified portfolio created from your workplace
savings plan investment option lineup, which is actively managed through different
market conditions for your specific retirement investment strategy. In addition, you prefer
to have your investments managed so that the level of risk adjusts over time.
Enrolling in the Program
You can enroll in the Program online or through a Fidelity representative. Enrollment
begins with Strategic Advisers identifying an investment strategy for your Managed
Account. To develop this investment strategy, Strategic Advisers obtains initial
information (“Initial Information”) from your plan sponsor (e.g., date of birth, estimated
retirement age, Plan Account balance) and information about any other retirement-
related accounts for which Fidelity is the recordkeeper (“Other Fidelity Retirement
Account Assets”) as well as certain retirement benefit information recordkept at
Fidelity and/or provided by a third party to Fidelity. You can, and we encourage you
to, provide additional information about your financial situation and/or update the
information provided by your plan sponsor through the Investor Profile Questionnaire,
which includes questions about your risk tolerance, investment knowledge, investment
experience, financial situation, contributions, estimated retirement expenses, etc. This
information can be updated online at any time or through a Fidelity representative, and
we encourage you to provide this information and keep it current so that we can further
personalize an investment strategy for you. The information we use to provide Program
Services is referred to as your “Personal Profile” herein.
To the extent that you have not provided additional information through the Investor
Profile Questionnaire, we will propose an investment strategy for you using your Initial
Information and Other Fidelity Retirement Account Assets as well as certain retirement
benefit information recordkept at Fidelity and/or provided by a third party to Fidelity
along with assumed responses regarding risk tolerance, financial situation, investment
knowledge, and investment experience, among other things, based on similarly aged
investors in Fidelity’s programs and services (our “profiling assumptions”). We use
a proprietary framework based on aggregate investor data to inform our profiling
assumptions. You should understand that if you do not answer the questions about
risk tolerance, emergency fund, financial situation, investment knowledge, investment
experience, essential expenses, reaction to stock market decline, and income, for
example, we will assume values for those responses.
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Our profiling assumptions will generally assume that your risk tolerance decreases as
you age; that your emergency fund, investment knowledge, and investment experience
increase as you age; and that your income could increase or decrease depending on
your age. It is important to understand that the profiling assumptions are periodically
reviewed and updated based on the information we have about similarly aged investors.
To the extent that the profiling assumptions affect our proposed investment strategy, an
update in profiling assumptions can result in an update to your Managed Account.
In some limited instances, information about you that we have on file will not be
used for your Managed Account until you have confirmed its use via the Investor
Profile Questionnaire. If you want to receive Program Services based on your specific
information rather than our profiling assumptions, which we encourage, and to ensure
that information about you that we have on file is used as part of your Personal Profile,
please complete your Investor Profile Questionnaire at any time by going to
NetBenefits.com or calling a Fidelity representative.
In addition to accounting for Other Fidelity Retirement Account Assets as part of your
Personal Profile, we can account for your other nonretirement recordkept assets and
your other assets not recordkept at Fidelity (collectively, “Other Account Assets”). We
encourage you to provide information regarding your Other Account Assets so that
we can identify a more personalized investment strategy for you. This information can
be provided to us at any time, including by authorizing a third-party service provider to
provide us with this data.
Adjusting Your Account to Consider Other Retirement Assets (defined below)
Unless you tell us not to, if warranted, we will automatically adjust your Managed
Account Allocation based on our consideration of any Other Fidelity Retirement
Account Assets or other retirement assets not recordkept at Fidelity (collectively, “Other
Retirement Assets”). This “Complementary Adjustment” will consider the riskiness of
your Other Retirement Assets and seek to better align your Managed Account and
your Other Retirement Assets (together, your “Overall Retirement Portfolio”) to your
investment strategy.
In addition, we will automatically adjust your Managed Account Allocation based on
any non-managed assets within your Plan Account, such as self-directed brokerage
assets and/or Other Excluded Investment Options (as described below). Please see
the information below on how we consider self-directed brokerage assets, Excluded
Investment Options, and company stock held within your Plan Account.
We have two methods to provide the Complementary Adjustment. See NetBenefits.com
to determine which version of the Complementary Adjustment is available for your plan.
For the Standard Complementary Adjustment methodology, we consider account
balances and the equity balance of your Other Retirement Assets.
For the Revised Complementary Adjustment, we consider account balance, equity
exposure, and certain risk characteristics, such as market capitalization or style of your
Other Retirement Assets.
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Fidelity maintains eligibility criteria for securities that can be used in your
Complementary Adjustment based on factors such as asset characteristics, data
availability, and alignment with our investment approach. Fidelity continuously reviews
its criteria, which can result in updates to the securities included or excluded in your
Complementary Adjustment.
In cases where an asset does not meet our eligibility criteria or we are unable to identify
the nature of an asset we may underestimate or overestimate the risk of your Other
Retirement Assets when performing the Complementary Adjustment. This can lead to
our proposing a different Managed Account Allocation than we would have suggested
if we could have fully recognized all your Other Retirement Assets. This risk also exists
following enrollment whenever we review your investment strategy and Managed
Account Allocation. Please see the “Updates to Your Managed Account” section below.
Based on the Initial Information or Personal Profile and any Other Retirement Assets
(collectively, “your information”), we will create an investment proposal for you. After
reviewing your investment proposal along with the Terms and Conditions and pricing
information for the Program, you can choose to enroll in the Program. Under normal
circumstances, Strategic Advisers will then begin its discretionary management by
investing your Managed Account within the next five business days in alignment
with your investment strategy and Managed Account Allocation. See “Discretionary
Investment Management” below.
The process used to determine your investment strategy and Managed Account
Allocation is intended to identify an appropriate asset allocation consistent with
our applicable standard of care. From time to time, the process for identifying or
implementing an asset allocation may not operate as intended. If this occurs, we will
repeat the asset allocation process and prospectively adjust your investment strategy
and/or the Managed Account Allocation as needed.
Unless you are notified otherwise, pending completion of your enrollment, your plan
assets will typically remain in their then-current investments and future contributions will
be invested per current investment elections on file or, if no investment elections are on
file, in the Plan’s default investment option. If you make updates to your Personal Profile
while your initial enrollment is pending, it is possible that discretionary management
could be delayed.
You should note that your plan assets immediately prior to enrollment will be used to
determine an appropriate asset allocation for your Managed Account. The value of your
plan assets could potentially change significantly once your enrollment is complete
and assets that cannot be managed as part of the Program (other than self- directed
brokerage assets, company stock, and Other Excluded Investment Options, as described
below) are sold. The value of your plan assets is reevaluated at the time of your next
scheduled review or when you review your Personal Profile online, whichever comes
first. We encourage you to review your Managed Account Allocation on NetBenefits.com
once we have started managing your Account.
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Passive Enrollment in the Program or Enrollment as a Default Investment Option
If your plan sponsor has directed that the eligible assets in your Plan Account be enrolled
in the Program (referred to as “passive enrollment”), your decision to remain enrolled in
the Program constitutes your approval of the investment strategy and Managed Account
Allocation with which your Managed Account is aligned. In addition, certain plans use
FPPA as a default investment option (i.e., your Account will be enrolled in the Program if
you fail to select a portfolio of investments from your plan’s investment lineup). If either
of these enrollment processes is applicable to you, you can opt out of the Program by
calling a Fidelity representative.
If you are being passively enrolled or you are being enrolled in FPPA as a default
investment option for the first time and you do not have another Plan Account already
enrolled in the Program, we will identify a Managed Account Allocation based on
information provided by your plan sponsor, which may include date of birth, estimated
retirement age, Plan Account balance, Other Fidelity Retirement Account Assets, and
certain retirement benefit information recordkept at Fidelity and/or provided by a third
party to Fidelity as well as applicable profiling assumptions. Assuming that you do not
opt out of the Program, your Managed Account will then generally be invested within
the next five business days to align with the Managed Account Allocation we identified.
Unless you are notified otherwise, pending completion of your enrollment, your plan
assets will typically remain in their then-current investments and future contributions will
be invested per current investment elections on file or, if no investment elections are on
file, in the Plan’s default investment option.
If you are already enrolled in the Program in one or more Plan Accounts and you are
being passively enrolled or enrolled in FPPA as a default investment option in a new
plan, we will review the Personal Profile information we have for each Plan Account. If
different information is identified for each Plan Account, we will use the following multi-
account hierarchy to determine which information to use across all your Plan Accounts
so that we leverage the same Personal Profile information to manage your enrolled
accounts in alignment with a consistent investment strategy. Note that if you are enrolled
in more than one plan, your individual Plan Accounts could have different Managed
Account Allocations for a variety of reasons.
• If you have enrolled in or reviewed and confirmed data in an FPPA account online,
we will use the information from the most recent account you enrolled in or
confirmed online; or
• If you have not enrolled in or reviewed and confirmed data in an FPPA account
online and have one or more previously enrolled plans in which your plan sponsor
has indicated that you are an active participant, we will use the data from the most
recent previously enrolled plan in which your plan sponsor has indicated that you
are an active participant; or
• If you have not enrolled in or reviewed and confirmed data in an FPPA account
online and your plan sponsor has indicated that you are not an active participant
in any previously enrolled plan, we will use data from the most recent previously
enrolled plan.
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Additionally, if you are already enrolled in the Program in one or more Plan Accounts
that did not include certain Other Retirement Assets or retirement benefit information
recordkept at Fidelity and/or provided by a third party to Fidelity, we will not use such
information to determine your Managed Account Allocation for your subsequently
opened account. If you would like this information to be used, you must go online or
call a representative to authorize that these assets and/or information be included in
your Personal Profile and used in determining your investment strategy and Managed
Account Allocation.
Discretionary Investment Management
Strategic Advisers will manage your Managed Account assets using investments chosen
from among the plan’s eligible investment options. Strategic Advisers will periodically
rebalance the assets in your Managed Account to align with your investment strategy.
In addition, as discussed in “Updates to Your Managed Account” below, we will
periodically review your investment strategy and Managed Account Allocation to
determine whether they remain appropriate for you. In making this determination, we
consider, among other things, any updated Plan Account data and any changes to your
Personal Profile. Your investment strategy and/or your Managed Account Allocation
change as a result of this review.
Plan sponsors can direct us to include among the plan’s eligible investment options
supplemental funds chosen by the plan sponsor and available only to participants
enrolled in FPPA. In such cases, references to the “plan lineup” herein and in other
Program collateral shall be deemed to include the plan’s supplemental funds. Because
supplemental funds are only available to participants enrolled in FPPA, once enrollment
in FPPA is terminated, a participant’s interest in such supplemental funds will be
redeemed, and participants must provide direction to a Fidelity representative as to how
to invest assets held in supplemental funds. If no direction is provided at the time of a
participant’s unenrollment, we will follow the plan sponsor’s direction as to how to invest
those assets. In addition, plan sponsors can elect to exclude specific plan investment
options from the Program but allow participants to continue holding these investments
outside the Managed Account.
The Program offers plan sponsors the option of two discretionary investment
management approaches:
• The FPPA core investment approach (“FPPA Core”), which seeks to construct
portfolios by evaluating all the plan’s eligible investment options (including actively
managed funds, index-based funds, and extended asset class investment options);
or,
• The FPPA index-based approach (“FPPA Index”), which seeks to construct portfolios
that are diversified across asset classes and reflect a preference for the plan’s eligible
index-based investment options.
Fidelity does not recommend one approach over the other, and you are limited to the
approach your plan sponsor has chosen to offer. Log in to NetBenefits.com or see your
enrollment materials for more information regarding whether your plan sponsor has
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selected FPPA Core or FPPA Index. Please refer to the section below entitled “Methods of
Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss” for more information on FPPA Core and
FPPA Index and about Strategic Advisers’ investment methodology.
Updates to Your Managed Account
• We will periodically contact you to encourage you to review and, if needed, update
your Personal Profile. This review is important because it allows us to confirm that your
investment strategy remains appropriate for you.
• We will also automatically review your investment strategy and Managed Account
Allocation periodically using updated data for any previously confirmed Other
Retirement Assets as well as certain retirement benefit information recordkept at
Fidelity and/or provided by a third party to Fidelity. If through this review we determine
that updates are needed, your investment strategy and/or Managed Account
Allocation will be changed. Your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your
approval of such changes.
• As described above, from time to time, the process for identifying or implementing an
asset allocation may not operate as intended. If this occurs, we will repeat the process
and prospectively adjust your investment strategy and/or your Managed Account
Allocation as needed. Your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your
approval of such changes.
• If you are enrolled in the Program in two or more Plan Accounts and your Personal
Profile information differs between or among the Plan Accounts, when we review your
information, we will make updates using the multi- account hierarchy described above
to determine if your investment strategy or your Managed Account Allocation should
be changed. Additionally, if you are already enrolled in the Program in one or more
Plan Accounts and you excluded (or failed to confirm the inclusion of) Other Account
Assets and retirement benefit information recordkept at Fidelity and/or provided
by a third party to Fidelity in a previous enrollment, we will not use this information
to determine your investment strategy or the Managed Account Allocation to be
implemented for your Managed Account. If you would like this information to be
used, you must go online or call a Fidelity representative to authorize these assets or
information to be included.
• Strategic Advisers can also modify the methodology used to select the funds for
investment in your Managed Account. In addition, Strategic Advisers regularly
evaluates the available plan investment options for each Plan and may make changes
to your Managed Account Allocation. (See “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies, and Risk of Loss—Investment Approach” for more information.)
• If a reallocation occurs in connection with an automatic review and update, we will
send you confirmations for any resulting trades in your Managed Account to notify you
that these changes have been made. You can then go online to review your updated
Managed Account Allocation. Your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes
your approval of such Managed Account Allocation and/or investment strategy.
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• Changes you make to your Personal Profile: You can update your Personal Profile
information as changes occur in your situation. Changes to your Personal Profile could
result in changes to the holdings in your existing Managed Account. If your Personal
Profile changes result in changes to your investment strategy and/or Managed Account
Allocation, we will notify you of the changes in your Account and your continued
enrollment in the Program constitutes your approval of such changes.
• Enrollment of an additional workplace plan in the Program: Your enrollment of an
additional workplace plan in the Program could result in changes to the holdings in
your existing Managed Account. See the multi-account hierarchy information above
for information about how we align your asset allocation strategy if you have multiple
Plan Accounts enrolled in the Program. If your enrollment of an additional workplace
plan in the Program results in changes to your investment strategy or Managed
Account Allocation, we will notify you of the changes in your Account and your
continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your approval of such changes.
• Modifications to methodology: Strategic Advisers uses assumptions and calculation
processes to identify investment strategy and/or Managed Account Allocation,
which use your Initial Information or Personal Profile and to identify the holdings
in your Managed Account. Strategic Advisers reviews the methodologies it
uses in the Program and can make adjustments or updates. If a new investment
strategy or Managed Account Allocation for your Account is identified as a result
of a methodology change, we will notify you of the changes in your Account and
your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your approval of such
new investment strategy and/or Managed Account Allocation. Aside from the
Complementary Adjustment methodology described above, note that, where a
participant has multiple workplace Plan Accounts enrolled in the Service, we will
generally seek to apply methodology adjustments and updates to all of a Participant’s
Plan Accounts at the same time.
• Evaluation of Personal Profile information and determination of whether additional
or different Personal Profile information should be considered to identify the
Managed Account Allocation: In such cases, the investment strategy and/or Managed
Account Allocation will be modified prospectively, but no retrospective evaluation or
adjustment will be made. Your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your
approval of such changes.
If a reallocation occurs in connection with any update activity described above, we will
send you confirmations for any resulting trades in your Managed Account to notify you that
changes have been made. You can then go online to review your updated asset allocation.
Your continued enrollment in the Program constitutes your approval of such new asset
allocation strategy.
Financial Planning and Representative Assistance
In addition to the discretionary investment management services described above,
Strategic Advisers provides nondiscretionary, web-based financial planning assistance as
part of the Program. Financial planning is designed to help enrolled participants who wish
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to create, implement, and track a retirement plan. Should you choose to take advantage
of these planning services, Fidelity representatives are able to assist you if requested,
generally Monday–Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.
As part of its nondiscretionary services, Strategic Advisers can provide you with an
online financial planning analysis of your retirement situation. This analysis is based
on certain assumptions, such as rates of return, market values, and inflation rates, and
the information you provide and/or authorize to be provided. Changes in assumptions
or information can affect the planning results. You should revisit the online experience
regularly or contact a Fidelity representative to ensure that your analysis reflects current
information and assumptions. We are not obligated to update any analysis provided,
and we do not monitor your progress toward an investment goal, including any changes
you model on your own in any other financial planning tool that is made available to you
by Fidelity.
Your financial planning analysis includes deterministic and/or probabilistic modeling and
use of algorithms to model potential financial results. Deterministic modeling assumes
a fixed rate of return for certain asset classes across time periods and, therefore, does
not account for market uncertainty. Probabilistic simulations estimate the likelihood of a
particular outcome based on simulation of market performance combining both historical
market behavior and estimates of expected future behavior. In addition, our assumptions
and methodologies used in financial planning are adjusted from time to time, which can
have an impact on the results obtained. It is important to understand that the modeling
provided in conjunction with our financial planning services is hypothetical in nature; is
for illustrative purposes only; does not reflect actual investment, tax, or other planning
results; and is not a guarantee of future investment outcomes. The modeling results
shown will vary with each use and over time.
The implementation of any recommendations provided through FPPA’s financial planning
services or by a Fidelity representative is separate and distinct from the Program Services.
If you choose to implement some or all of the planning recommendations through
Fidelity or its representatives, a Fidelity entity will act as a broker-dealer or investment
adviser, depending on the products or services you select, and you will be subject to
separate, applicable charges, fees, or expenses.
It is important to understand that a Fidelity representative can act in the capacity of a
registered representative of Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC (“FBS”), Strategic Advisers’
affiliated broker-dealer. Any financial planning a participant receives from a Fidelity
representative prior to the participant’s enrolling in the Program is provided in that
Fidelity representative’s capacity as a registered representative of FBS and is not part of
the Program Services.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2025, Strategic Advisers’ total assets under management were
$1,321,075,214,792 on a discretionary basis, and $49,050,110,419 on a nondiscretionary
basis.
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Your Responsibility
We rely on your Personal Profile information to provide the Program Services. It is your
responsibility to periodically review as well as advise us of changes to your Personal
Profile, which includes but is not limited to your time horizon, risk tolerance, and
personal financial situation. Such changes can affect the Program Services and, as
discussed above, can result in changes to your investment strategy and/or Managed
Account Allocation to which your Managed Account is aligned. If you have multiple
discretionary investment advisory relationships with Fidelity, you should ensure that
your personal, financial, and other important information is updated for each respective
advisory service, because changes to your Personal Profile for the Program will not result
in changes to other advisory services.
In addition, changes to your Personal Profile or information provided by your plan can
also trigger the need for you to revisit the Program’s online experience to update or
revise any analyses generated in providing the financial planning services.
Fees and Compensation
Advisory Fees—Gross and Net of Fee Credit
The Program charges an annual net advisory fee, based on the average daily balance
of the assets held in your Managed Account, payable after the end of each billing
quarter, and calculated by deducting a plan credit amount (the “Plan Credit Amount”),
as discussed below, from your plan’s annual gross advisory fee. The Plan Credit Amount
reduces your annual gross advisory fee by the amount of certain compensation, if any,
received by Fidelity affiliates as a direct result of the investments held in your Managed
Account. The Plan Credit Amount is designed to reduce the conflict of interest that arises
from investing your Managed Account in Fidelity Funds as compared to non-Fidelity
mutual funds that are included in the plan’s eligible investment options, although it
might not eliminate this differential in all cases. (Please see “Client Referrals and Other
Compensation” below for additional information.)
The Plan Credit Amount will be calculated daily, and, for each investment option in
which FPPA invests, an amount will be calculated equal to the sum of (i) the underlying
investment management fees received by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates from such
investment if it is a Fidelity Fund or other Fidelity investment option (but, if applicable,
not other fund expenses) and (ii) the distribution, shareholder servicing, or other fees
received by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates as a result of Managed Account assets
being invested in a non-Fidelity Fund or other investment product (unless, for certain
plans, such amounts are paid to your plan in the form of a participant revenue credit
or plan-level account/revenue credit). The Plan Credit Amount will be applied (as a
percentage) equally across all Managed Accounts enrolled in the Program and deducted
from the gross advisory fee to arrive at the net advisory fee for your Managed Account.
It is expected that the Plan Credit Amount will vary over time, based on the investment
management fees and servicing or other fees as described in (i) and (ii) above and the
total amount of Managed Account assets, the funds selected for investment, as well as
the plan sponsor’s investment options. Therefore, it is expected that your net advisory
fee will vary over time, based on the variation of the Plan Credit Amount.
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It is important to understand that Fidelity affiliates are compensated for providing
a variety of services to mutual funds as described in “Client Referrals and Other
Compensation” below. Such compensation is included in the Plan Credit Amount only
to the extent that it is received as a direct result of investment by Managed Accounts.
Compensation that is not directly derived from Managed Account assets is not included
in the Plan Credit Amount.
The standard fee schedule below reflects the maximum gross advisory fees we charge
for plans that are enrolled in the Program. The annual gross advisory fees applicable to
your plan might have been negotiated between your plan and Fidelity and, therefore,
could differ from the fees noted below. Strategic Advisers can waive the advisory fee, in
whole or in part, at its sole discretion, in connection with promotional efforts and other
programs. Certain plan sponsors, including Fidelity, pay the fees for plan participants.
For information about the specific annual gross advisory fees applicable to your plan,
please see the Pricing Supplement applicable to your plan available on NetBenefits.
com. The Program fees are solely attributable to advisory services associated with
Managed Accounts.
FPPA CORE: BASIC ANNUAL GROSS ADVISORY FEE SCHEDULE*
Average daily
account balance
Less than 20% eligible
participant enrollment
Greater than 20% eligible
participant enrollment†
0.85%
0.80%
For the first $100,000
or portion thereof
0.80%
0.70%
For assets between
$100,000 and $250,000
or portion thereof
0.70%
0.60%
All additional assets
over $250,000
* Company stock assets and other ineligible assets (“Excluded Assets”) are not
considered as part of the managed assets and are not included in the fee calculation.
† The gross advisory fees applicable to plans that exceed 20% enrollment will take effect
beginning with the first day of the quarter in which the 20% threshold was exceeded.
Fund and Recordkeeping Expenses
Underlying fund expenses also apply to the funds in your Managed Account and are
standard expenses that all fund shareholders pay. Details of a mutual fund’s expenses
can be found in its prospectus. In addition, the advisory fee does not include the
recordkeeping or administrative fees charged to your Plan Account; those fees are
separately charged, nonnegotiable, and subject to change, pursuant to an agreement
between Fidelity and the plan’s named fiduciary.
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Billing
The net advisory fee will be deducted from your Managed Account after the end of each
billing quarter, based on the average daily assets of your Managed Account over the
course of the billing quarter. Unless paid by the plan sponsor, the fee will be deducted
directly from your Managed Account, and your quarterly plan statement will disclose the
net advisory fee assessed on your assets in the Program.
There is no fee to terminate your participation in FPPA and you can terminate at any
time by calling a Fidelity representative. In the event that your participation in FPPA is
terminated, the gross advisory fee applicable to that quarter will be prorated based on
the number of days the account was managed during the quarter, and the net advisory
fees for the prorated quarter will be calculated using the partial period fee credits
generated by your investments or an end-of-quarter prorated Plan Credit Amount if you
remain invested in your plan.
Redemption Fees
Some plans offer investment options with short-term trading fees, otherwise known as
redemption fees. If Strategic Advisers initiates a transaction in your Managed Account
while you are enrolled in the Program, any resulting short-term trading fees will be
paid by Fidelity. However, if short-term trading fees are assessed as a result of the sale
of your Plan Account holdings at the time of your enrollment in the Program, you will
be responsible for paying the fees. You are also responsible for paying any short-term
trading fees resulting from a loan or withdrawal from your Plan Account or from any
transactions you initiate after you terminate your enrollment in the Program, including
the fees incurred for the exchange from supplemental funds, if applicable for your plan.
Additional Fee Information
All fees are subject to change. We can agree to waive fees, in whole or in part, in our
sole discretion, including but not limited to for certain current and former employees
of Fidelity. This will result in certain participants paying less than the standard fee. In
addition, participants with waived advisory fees do not receive fee credits; instead,
required Plan Credit Amounts will be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the
open Plan Accounts in the Program at the time the Plan Credit Amount is applied.
The advisory fee does not cover costs associated with implementing any suggestions
provided as part of our nondiscretionary financial planning service.
Some plans offer prime money market mutual funds, which are subject to liquidity
fees (as described in your fund’s prospectus). If Fidelity initiates a transaction in your
Account while you are enrolled in FPPA, you will be responsible for paying any resulting
liquidity fees. In addition, if liquidity fees are assessed as a result of the sale of your Plan
Account holdings at enrollment, you will be responsible for paying the fees. You are
also responsible for paying any liquidity fees resulting from a loan or a withdrawal from
your Plan Account or from any transactions you initiate after the termination of your
enrollment in FPPA.
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Availability of Separate Services
The tools and analytics used to support the nondiscretionary financial planning
services provided through the Program are also used in connection with other services
available to Fidelity clients or prospective clients, electronically or otherwise, without
a fee, including tools and analytics provided in support of Fidelity brokerage services
available to participants in your plan. In addition, you can invest in the investment
options available in your Plan Account without enrolling in the Program and incurring
the Program fee, and, in such cases, your overall costs will be lower. However, when you
invest independently in the investment options available in your Plan Account, you will
not receive Strategic Advisers’ discretionary management services or financial planning
offered through FPPA.
Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation
Fidelity representatives who support the Program are associated with Strategic
Advisers and FBS. Fidelity representatives act on behalf of FBS when recommending
an advisory program offered by Strategic Advisers. Separate and apart from the
Program Services, these Fidelity representatives, or other Fidelity representatives,
can provide you with investment education, research, and planning services offered
by FBS, and these Fidelity representatives will be acting as registered representatives
of FBS when providing such services or when providing a recommendation for a
Strategic Advisers investment advisory service. When providing services for FBS,
Fidelity representatives are acting solely as registered representatives of FBS, and
Program fees are not related to those additional services provided by FBS. When
these Fidelity representatives provide discretionary and nondiscretionary investment
advisory services, they will be acting as investment advisory representatives of
Strategic Advisers.
Fidelity representatives receive base pay based on their experience and role.
In addition to base pay, Fidelity representatives are also eligible to receive
either variable compensation or an annual bonus. How much, if anything, each
Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined by
the representative’s role, responsibilities, and performance measures. Fidelity
representatives who receive an annual bonus do not receive compensation based
directly on the sale of any product or service, but they do have an indirect financial
incentive to recommend products or services that pay more compensation to Fidelity
because annual bonus funding is based in part on Fidelity’s financial performance.
Variable compensation of the Fidelity representatives who service plan participants
in FPPA is not dependent on the number of FPPA conversations they have with
participants or the number of FPPA enrollments they generate. Fidelity associates
who sell FPPA to plan sponsors are compensated for entering into a successful
FPPA relationship with a plan sponsor client but are not compensated based on the
enrollment of any particular participant in the Program.
For additional information about how Fidelity compensates its representatives
in connection with the sale of FPPA and other products, please see the
“Fidelity Investments Compensation Disclosure” document available on
Fidelity.com/information or through a Fidelity representative.
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Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
Strategic Advisers does not currently charge performance-based fees in connection with
the Program Services provided, nor do we engage in side-by- side management with
respect to the portfolios that are created for FPPA.
Types of Clients
Plan Eligibility Requirements
FPPA is available exclusively through retirement plans that have selected us to provide
investment advisory services to eligible plan participants.
We require that plans offer their participants a set of investment options that can provide
broad market exposure across diversifying asset classes. The investment options in the
plan should include vehicles/options that provide diversified exposure to a range of asset
classes, including short-term investments, bonds, domestic stocks, and international stocks.
Participant Eligibility Requirements
FPPA has no established asset minimums for managing participants’ Managed Accounts;
however, we reserve the right to terminate a participant’s Managed Account at any time
in our sole discretion. To be eligible to enroll in FPPA, you must: (i) be a U.S. person
(including a U.S. resident alien) and have a valid U.S. taxpayer identification number,
(ii) be currently participating in your employer’s plan, and (iii) meet any plan sponsor
eligibility requirements. The Program is not available to investors residing outside of the
U.S. Some plans also have restrictions for participants who hold certain nontraditional
investment options (such as self-directed brokerage or company stock assets). If the plan
sponsor elects to enroll your Plan Account in FPPA on your behalf, this enrollment will
override any other investment elections, including any third-party trading authorization
that you have selected prior to enrollment.
Under certain circumstances, the Program can be offered to nonqualified deferred
compensation (“NQDC”) plans. Participants and plans acknowledge that the Program
(i) is only appropriate for NQDC plans that hold assets that are to be used for a
retirement goal, as determined by the participant, and (ii) does not take into account any
tax consequences associated with a disbursement from NQDC plans.
During the time you are enrolled in FPPA, you are prohibited from initiating exchanges
of assets held and from directing how new contributions are allocated in your Managed
Account. Distributions, withdrawals, or loans will be executed according to plan rules
and can temporarily affect our ability to maintain alignment with your Managed
Account Allocation.
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Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss
Investment Approach
This section contains information about how Strategic Advisers provides discretionary
investment management services to Managed Accounts. In servicing Managed
Accounts, Strategic Advisers manages each portfolio by applying a quantitative
investment methodology that attempts to achieve reasonable risk- adjusted returns over
time. In constructing portfolios, Strategic Advisers employs a process that is objective
with respect to fund family and/or investment manager.
About the FPPA Investment Approaches. We offer the following investment approaches
to plan sponsors:
• FPPA Core. The FPPA Core investment process seeks to construct portfolios that
are diversified across asset classes and that seek to enhance risk-adjusted returns
for participants, with varying risk profiles and investment time horizons. Our
process aims to build portfolios using investment options drawn from all the plan’s
eligible investment options, focusing on those that have demonstrated consistency
in both risk characteristics and security selection discipline. Eligible investment
options include actively managed funds, index-based funds, and extended asset
class investment options. This approach includes active asset allocation (described
below), unless otherwise directed by the plan sponsor.
• FPPA Index. Like FPPA Core, the FPPA Index investment process seeks to
construct portfolios that are diversified across asset classes and that seek to
provide benchmark-appropriate risk-adjusted returns for participants, with varying
risk profiles and investment time horizons. FPPA Index aims to build portfolios
using index investments drawn from the plan’s eligible investment options, when
applicable. Eligible investment options are limited to index- based funds in the
primary asset classes (U.S. equity, non-U.S. equity, fixed income, and short term); if
no index fund is available in the short-term asset class, the Program can select from
non-index-based options in that asset class. As discussed below, this approach does
not include active asset allocation, unless otherwise directed by the plan sponsor.
With respect to any stable value option within a plan lineup, Strategic Advisers will use
the stable value option as the short-term position in constructing its portfolios. When
stable value funds are incorporated in FPPA Index portfolios, stable value funds are used
as a non-index-based option to fill the short-term component of each portfolio.
Active Asset Allocation. By default, the FPPA Core approach includes active asset
allocation; however, a plan sponsor can elect whether to implement this feature.
The active asset allocation process seeks to adjust the portfolios’ primary asset class
weightings to increase return potential and/or diversification benefits. This process also
uses extended asset classes—such as real estate, high-yield debt, Treasury Inflation-
Protected Securities (TIPS), and commodities—to the extent that these extended
asset classes are available in your plan’s investment lineup. Conversely, by default,
the FPPA Index approach does not include active asset allocation, but a plan sponsor
can elect to implement this feature. If a plan sponsor has selected the index approach
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and elects to implement active asset allocation, non-index funds can be used for
extended asset classes. Log in to NetBenefits.com or see your enrollment materials
for more information as to whether your plan sponsor has elected to implement
active asset allocation. It is important to note that the active asset allocation process
used by Strategic Advisers can result in asset allocation weightings for your Managed
Account that differ from those shown in your investment proposal based on your Initial
Information or Personal Profile.
Fund Evaluation. For plans using FPPA Core, the historical performance of the eligible
primary asset class investment options (U.S. equity, non-U.S. equity, and fixed income)
in the plan lineup are evaluated using a proprietary algorithm that considers relative
attractiveness, the ability to maintain appropriate portfolio diversification, and ways of
combining these investment options to generate additional value. Fundamental inputs
are also occasionally considered for the eligible investment options. For plans using
FPPA Index, a quantitative, algorithmic analysis is used to evaluate a plan’s index-based
investment options to identify appropriate investments for inclusion in the portfolios in
order to seek market-like returns, before expenses.
Portfolio Construction. Strategic Advisers’ portfolio construction process for FPPA uses a
quantitative, algorithmic approach to combine a set of investment options whose overall
risk characteristics, when viewed as a portfolio, are similar to those of an appropriate
asset allocation strategy for a particular risk profile of an investor. These investment
strategies are defined by a series of long-term asset allocation benchmarks, which
consist of weighted market index benchmarks designed to represent an appropriate
asset mix for a given investor risk profile, from conservative to aggressive growth.
Additionally, when identified as a part of the participant’s retirement goal, Strategic
Advisers will consider Other Retirement Assets and the holdings mix of those other
accounts when constructing the Managed Account Allocation.
When viewed holistically, the participant’s retirement accounts will, in aggregate,
approximate the risk and diversification attributes of an investment strategy that is
consistent with the long-term asset allocation benchmarks for stock, bond, and/or short-
term asset classes.
Investment Universe. Based on the Core or Index option selected by your plan
sponsor, Strategic Advisers considers mutual fund data provided by an independent
third-party information service to evaluate investment options. Information concerning
other investment options can be provided by Fidelity affiliates, third-party sources, or
the plan sponsor. In addition, a variety of publicly available information and internally
developed tools is used to evaluate the investment options.
Certain plan investment options are ineligible for management by FPPA for a variety
of reasons. For example, asset allocation, lifecycle, and lifestyle investment options
are ineligible for FPPA due to the potential for overlapping asset allocations. Specialty
investment options, such as sector, industry, country, or regional funds, as defined
by Morningstar category and/or prospectus objective, are also generally ineligible for
FPPA due to the inherent risk in the concentrated investment mandate. In addition,
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as noted above, DAA is ineligible for management by FPPA. Lastly, the algorithms
underlying our investment methodology do not consider extraordinary circumstances
that might rule out a certain investment. However, to the extent that Strategic Advisers
becomes aware of these instances and believes they might have adverse effects on the
portfolio, such funds can be considered for exclusion or removal from the portfolios.
When you enroll in FPPA, if a prime money market mutual fund included in your Plan
Account holdings cannot be sold due to a trading restriction on that fund, we will not
be able to rebalance your Plan Account holdings to align with the appropriate FPPA
portfolio until the trading restriction has been lifted. In addition, if the appropriate
FPPA portfolio contains a prime money market mutual fund that cannot be purchased
due to a trading restriction on that fund, we will not be able to rebalance your Plan
Account holdings to align with the appropriate FPPA portfolio until the trading
restriction has been lifted. To the extent applicable, you will not be responsible for
FPPA advisory fees until the trading restriction has been lifted and your Plan Account
holdings have been aligned with the FPPA portfolio. Finally, while you are enrolled
in FPPA, if your portfolio contains a prime money market mutual fund that cannot
be purchased and/or sold due to a trading restriction on that fund, reallocations of
your Plan Account holdings could be delayed until the trading restriction has been
lifted. Please note, however, that if your plan contains both prime money market and
government money market funds in the plan investment lineup, Strategic Advisers will
use the government money market fund when creating the FPPA portfolios.
Reviewing, Rebalancing, and Reallocating Managed Accounts
On a regular basis, Strategic Advisers will evaluate the performance of portfolios,
investment option changes, and time lag since the participant portfolio’s last reallocation.
Generally, the portfolios will be reallocated and rebalanced three to four times a year,
as well as when plan option changes necessitate the review of new portfolio allocations.
These reviews are independent of the changes to your Account that can result from
periodic reconsideration of your Personal Profile (including Other Retirement Assets).
The investments in your Account will change either when Strategic Advisers reallocates
the Account or, as discussed in “Advisory Business,” when your asset allocation changes.
When plan options change, new portfolios will be created as soon as reasonably
possible or as needed. In addition, your Managed Account is also reviewed periodically
to determine, for example, if additional or other Personal Profile information should be
considered or if the Managed Account differs from an applicable portfolio. Your Account
can be adjusted.
Excluded Assets
Self-Directed Brokerage in Plan Accounts (if applicable). Unless limited by your plan
sponsor, participants who hold a portion of their plan balance in a Self- Directed
Brokerage (“SDB”) account can also enroll in the FPPA service offering. However, we
will not manage or advise you on your SDB assets and they are not considered part of
your Managed Account. In addition, all future contributions into your Plan Account will
be directed into your Managed Account. You have the opportunity, if you choose, to
reinvest assets from your SDB account into your Managed Account.
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We will consider the value of any SDB assets when assessing your overall financial
situation as part of determining an appropriate investment strategy and Managed
Account Allocation. In managing your Managed Account, we will consider any SDB
assets as “Other Fidelity Retirement Account Assets” as described in the section titled
“Adjusting Your Account to Consider Other Retirement Assets.”
Company Stock. Participants who hold company stock in their Plan Account can also
enroll in the FPPA service offering. However, we will not manage or advise you on your
company stock position, and company stock is not considered part of the Managed
Account. If you decide to retain a portion of your Plan Account in company stock, we
will consider the value of your company stock when assessing your overall financial
situation as part of determining an appropriate investment strategy for your Managed
Account. In addition, you can choose to have us take into account the risk of your
company stock holdings or direct us to ignore the risk of your company stock holdings
when suggesting a Managed Account Allocation. Each of these options is described in
more detail below.
Option 1. We can, at your direction, assign a Managed Account Allocation that
attempts to consider the risk of company stock holdings. As a result, the Managed
Account Allocation identified will be more conservative than the Managed
Account Allocation made without considering the risk of any company stock
holdings. However, there is no guarantee that Strategic Advisers will be able to
completely offset the risk of company stock held in your Plan Account. Thereafter,
we will evaluate the company stock allocation each time your Managed Account
is reallocated (which happens generally three to four times per year), to help
ensure that the Managed Account is assigned to an appropriate Managed
Account Allocation.
Option 2. Alternatively, we can assign a Managed Account Allocation that does not
attempt to consider the risk of your company stock holdings. With this option, we
will consider the value of your company stock when assessing your overall financial
situation, but we will not attempt to consider any issuer-specific risk. Therefore,
your Managed Account may be more aggressively invested than if you had
requested that we attempt to offset your company stock risk.
In the event that you do not inform us of how to handle the company stock holdings
in your Plan Account or if you receive an employer stock grant without having elected
a treatment option, we will follow the plan sponsor’s default direction for treatment of
company stock, which in most cases is Option 1.
You can contact us at any time to change the company-stock-handling option. While
enrolled in FPPA, you cannot purchase additional shares of company stock, but you can
sell unitized or other company stock holdings subject to your company’s policy, and the
proceeds will be invested in your Managed Account.
Other Excluded Investment Options. In rare cases, your plan sponsor will direct us not
to manage specific investment options (“Excluded Investment Options”). Excluded
Investment Options held by you will not be managed by Strategic Advisers as part of
the portfolio. While your plan sponsor can make future contributions into an Excluded
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Investment Option on your behalf, all other future contributions into your Plan Account
will be directed into the FPPA portfolio. You have the opportunity, if you choose, to
reinvest assets from Excluded Investment Options into your FPPA portfolio. We will
consider the value of any Excluded Investment Options when assessing your overall
financial situation as part of determining an appropriate investment strategy and
Managed Account Allocation. We will consider any Excluded Investment Options as
“Other Fidelity Retirement Account Assets” as described in the section titled “Adjusting
Your Account to Consider Other Retirement Assets.”
Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices
When investing in Fidelity Funds and non-Fidelity mutual funds, Strategic Advisers
from time to time consults the fund’s investment manager to understand the manager’s
guidelines concerning general limitations, if any, on the aggregate percentage of fund
shares that can be held under management by us on behalf of all our clients. Funds
are not required to accept investments and can limit how much we can purchase.
Additionally, Strategic Advisers can establish internal limits on how much it invests in any
one fund across the programs it manages. Regulatory restrictions sometimes limit the
amount that one fund can invest in another, which means that Strategic Advisers can be
limited in the amount that it can invest in any particular fund.
Strategic Advisers will work closely with fund management to limit any potentially
negative impact of its reallocation activities on funds held in Managed Accounts. In
certain situations, liquidating positions in underlying funds will be accomplished over an
extended period of time as a result of operational considerations, legal considerations,
or input from underlying fund managers.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates can determine that, as a result of
regulatory requirements that apply to the adviser and/or its affiliates due to investments
in a particular country or in an issuer operating in a particular regulated industry,
investments in the securities of issuers domiciled or listed on trading markets in that
country or operating in that regulated industry above certain thresholds are impractical
or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds will be applied at the Managed
Account level or in the aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts)
managed, sponsored, or owned by, or otherwise attributable to, us and our affiliates. For
investment risk management and other purposes, we and our affiliates also generally
apply internal aggregate limits on the amount of a particular issuer’s securities that can
be owned by all such accounts. In such instances, the adviser can limit or exclude your
investment in a particular issuer, which can include investment in related derivative
instruments, and investment flexibility can be restricted.
To the extent that your Managed Account already owns securities that directly or
indirectly contribute to an ownership threshold being exceeded, Strategic Advisers
could sell securities held in such Managed Account in order to bring account-level and/or
aggregate ownership below the relevant threshold. In the event that any such sales result
in realized losses for a Managed Account, that Managed Account will bear such losses
depending on the particular circumstances.
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The only Fidelity Funds considered by FPPA are those that have been included in the
investment menu chosen by the plan sponsor (or other responsible plan fiduciary) to
be offered to plan participants and beneficiaries. To the extent that FPPA includes one
or more Fidelity mutual funds in portfolios to be used in managing plan participants’
Managed Accounts, it is because the plan sponsor (or other responsible plan fiduciary)
has determined that such funds are appropriate to be included in the investment
menu. In constructing portfolios, we employ a process that is objective with respect to
fund family and/or investment manager. The Program includes a Plan Credit Amount
mechanism designed to mitigate financial conflicts of interest associated with revenue
received from underlying mutual fund investments and Strategic Adviser’s assignment
of plan participants to portfolios containing Fidelity Funds. Please see “Fees and
Compensation” above for additional information about the Plan Credit Amount.
There is no predetermined allocation of Fidelity Funds to non-Fidelity mutual funds
(except that, with respect to the inclusion of money market funds in FPPA portfolios, the
money market funds will be Fidelity Funds if your plan’s fund lineup includes Fidelity
money market funds and some plans offer only Fidelity Funds in the investment menu).
Funds are selected based on an objective, quantitative model that does not consider
whether a given fund is managed by Fidelity or a third party when deciding to include
a fund in an FPPA portfolio. Certain factors in the fund selection process can result in a
significant portion of the portfolio invested in Fidelity Funds. Strategic Advisers does not
compensate its investment managers based on the inclusion of Fidelity Funds in FPPA
portfolios. Strategic Advisers’ investment manager compensation is partly based on
performance of the portfolios, although other objective and subjective factors will apply.
Material Risks
Risks Associated with Financial Planning. The projections and other analyses presented
to a participant in the course of providing our financial planning services are not
guarantees. In particular, projections are hypothetical in nature, are for illustrative
purposes only, do not reflect actual investment or other planning results, and are
not guarantees of future outcomes. The modeling results shown will vary with each
use and over time. In addition, our assumptions and methodologies used in financial
planning are adjusted from time to time, which can have an impact on results obtained.
The financial planning projections provided through the Program are based on the
information provided by participants and, in certain cases, on static assumptions—e.g.,
fixed return rates, fixed life expectancies, and fixed rates of income or cash flow. In
reality, these variables will not be static—market fluctuation will affect overall asset
performance, and uncertain life expectancy could cause participants to outlive their
resources or fail to accumulate necessary resources.
In addition, financial planning analyses include probabilistic modeling, whereby
the probability of success varies based on differing assumptions and on changing
circumstances and market information. Results reflect only one point in time and are
only one factor that participants should consider as they determine how to best plan
for their future. There can be significant differences between the financial planning
projections shown and the performance a participant actually experiences.
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Changes in your Personal Profile or the information provided by your plan sponsor, as
well as changes made to our online methodologies, including underlying algorithms,
will affect the results obtained and can result in changes to your asset allocation. In
addition, financial planning projections are performed at the asset class level, assume
broad diversification within each asset class, rely on certain estimates about the
performance of the securities markets, and are not designed to predict the future
performance of any particular security or investment product. As such, the financial
planning analyses do not model the individual return characteristics of the securities
or investments a participant owns, and, as a result, the modeling process is subject to
significant variability based on the differences in performance between the securities
actually owned by a participant and the market assumptions used in the modeling
process. To the extent that the characteristics of a participant’s assets vary significantly
from those of the broadly diversified asset class assumptions used, actual performance
can deviate significantly from the projections provided as a component of our financial
planning services. Each financial planning analysis provides more specific details on the
risks and limitations associated with that analysis.
Risks Associated with Investment Strategies. All investment strategies employed by the
Program involve risk of loss. Investments in a Managed Account are not bank deposits
and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) or any other government agency. All investments involve risk, the degree
of which varies significantly. Investment performance can never be predicted or
guaranteed, and the value of your assets will fluctuate due to market conditions and
other factors. You could lose money by investing in a Managed Account. Many factors
affect each investment’s or Managed Account’s performance and potential for loss.
In addition to the risks discussed below, developments that disrupt global economies
and financial markets, such as wars, acts of terrorism, economic sanctions, the spread
of infectious illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events, can
magnify factors that affect performance. Nondiversified funds and accounts that invest
in a smaller number of individual issuers can be more sensitive to these changes, and
funds or accounts that pursue strategies that concentrate in particular industries or
are otherwise subject to particular segments of the market (e.g., money market funds’
exposure to the financial services industry, municipal funds’ exposure to the municipal
bond market, or the international or emerging market funds’ exposure to a particular
country or region) could be significantly impacted by events affecting those industries
or markets.
It is important to understand that your Managed Account’s actual asset allocation can
deviate from your investment strategy for reasons that include consideration of Other
Retirement Assets, market movement, and investment decisions to overweight or
underweight certain asset classes to seek to increase potential returns or reduce risks.
In addition to the risks identified above, a summary of additional risks follows:
Quantitative Investing. Funds or securities assessed using quantitative analysis can
perform differently from the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the
analysis, the weight placed on each factor, changes to the factors’ behavior over time,
market volatility, or the quantitative model’s assumption about market behavior. In
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addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment strategies rely on algorithmic
processes and, therefore, are subject to the risks described below under the heading
“Operational Risks.” To the extent that the quantitative models fail to adequately
match the risk and return profile of a reference index used in managing a particular
strategy, an Account could perform differently; it could underperform or outperform
the corresponding reference index.
Investing in Mutual Funds. Your Managed Account bears all the risks of the investment
strategies employed by the mutual funds held in your Managed Account, including
the risk that these funds will not meet their investment objectives. For the specific risks
associated with a fund, please see the fund’s prospectus.
Money Market Fund Risk. You could lose money by investing in a money market fund.
Although a money market fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at
$1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market
fund is not a bank account and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other
government agency. The fund’s sponsor is not required to reimburse money market
funds for losses, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial
support to the fund at any time, including during periods of market stress. Fidelity’s
government and U.S. Treasury money market funds will not impose a fee upon the sale
of your shares.
Stock Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response
to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different
parts of the market can react differently to these developments. Value and growth
stocks can perform differently from other types of stocks. Growth stocks can be more
volatile. Value stocks can continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of
time. In addition, stock investments are subject to risk related to market capitalization
as well as company-specific risk.
Foreign Exposure. Nearly all investments or accounts are subject to volatility in
non-U.S. markets, either through direct exposure or indirect effects in U.S. markets
from abroad. Foreign securities are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate,
economic, regulatory, and political risks, all of which can be greater in emerging
markets. These risks are particularly significant for mutual funds and exchange-traded
funds that focus on a single country or region or emerging markets. Foreign markets
can be more volatile than U.S. markets and can perform differently from the U.S.
market. Emerging markets can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and
political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. Foreign exchange rates can also
be extremely volatile.
Foreign governments may decide to seize or confiscate securities held by foreign
investors or assets held by foreign issuers, restrict an investor’s ability to sell or redeem
securities, suspend or limit an issuer’s ability to make dividend or interest payments,
and/or limit or entirely restrict repatriation of invested capital, profits, and dividends.
Bond Investments. In general, the bond market is volatile, and fixed income securities
carry interest rate risk. (As interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa.
This effect is usually more pronounced for longer-term securities.) During periods of
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Terms and Conditions
very low or negative interest rates, we could be unable to maintain positive returns on
bond investments. Very low or negative interest rates can magnify interest rate risk for
the markets as a whole and for individual bond investments. Changing interest rates,
including rates that fall below zero, can also have unpredictable effects on markets and
can result in heightened market volatility. The ability of an issuer of a bond to repay
principal before a security’s maturity can cause greater price volatility, and, if a bond is
prepaid, a bond fund could have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields.
Fixed income securities also carry inflation risk as well as credit and default risks for
both issuers and counterparties. Unlike individual bonds, most bond funds do not have
a maturity date, so holding them until maturity to avoid losses caused by price volatility
is not possible. In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less liquid than
other investments and, therefore, are more difficult to trade effectively.
Credit Risk. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, and
changes in specific economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of
security or issuer, can increase the risk of default by an issuer or counterparty, which
can affect a security’s or instrument’s credit quality or value. Lower-quality debt
securities and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price
changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer.
Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments in your Managed Account could be
adversely affected by new (or revised) laws or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations
could impact the securities markets as a whole, specific industries, or individual issuers of
securities. Generally, the impact of these changes will not be fully known for some time.
Derivatives. Certain funds used by Strategic Advisers can contain derivatives. Generally
speaking, a derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on the value of a
financial asset (such as a stock, bond, or currency), a physical asset (such as gold, oil,
or wheat), or a market index (such as the S&P 500® Index). Investments in derivatives
subject these funds to risks different from, and possibly greater than, those of the
underlying securities, assets, or market indexes. Some forms of derivatives, such as
exchange-traded futures and options on securities, commodities, or indexes, have been
trading on regulated exchanges for decades. These types of derivatives are standardized
contracts that can easily be bought or sold and whose market values are determined and
published daily. Nonstandardized derivatives (such as swap agreements), on the other
hand, tend to be more specialized or complex and can be more difficult to value and are
illiquid. Derivatives can involve leverage, because they can provide investment exposure
in an amount exceeding the initial investment. As a result, the use of derivatives can
cause these funds to be more volatile, because leverage tends to exaggerate the effect
of any increase or decrease in the value of a fund’s portfolio securities.
Real Estate. Real estate is a cyclical industry that is sensitive to interest rates, economic
conditions (both nationally and locally), property tax rates, and other factors. Changes
in real estate values or economic downturns can have a significant negative effect on
issuers in the real estate industry.
Alternative Investments. Alternatives are classified as assets whose investment
characteristics and/or performance differ substantially from the primary asset classes
(stocks, bonds, short-term investments) and, therefore, offer opportunities for
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additional diversification. Strategic Advisers does not invest in private equity, hedge
funds, or similar investments directly in Managed Accounts; however, Strategic
Advisers can invest in mutual funds that invest significantly in these instruments and,
therefore, participants could have indirect exposure to these types of investments.
Generally, alternatives can be illiquid. The performance of alternative investments can
be volatile and may have limited liquidity. Such investments often have concentrated
positions and may carry higher risks. Participants should understand that some
alternative investment products often engage in leveraging and other speculative
investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss; are not required to
provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors; may involve complex
tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information; are not subject to
the same regulatory requirements as other registered products; and, in many cases,
the underlying investments are not transparent and are known only to the investment
manager of the alternative investment product.
Cybersecurity Risks. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business,
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security,
and related risks. These risks could include events that are wholly or partially beyond
our control and may have a negative effect on our ability to conduct business activities.
We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate these risks, but do not
believe that we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result
from deliberate attacks or unintentional events that can arise from external or internal
sources. Cyberattacks include but are not limited to gaining unauthorized access to
digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software coding) for purposes
of misappropriating assets or sensitive information; corrupting data, equipment, or
systems; and causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks can also be carried out in
a manner that does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-
of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to
intended users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its affiliates, or any other
service providers (including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents,
and financial intermediaries used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability
to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial
losses, interference with the ability to calculate asset prices, impediments to trading,
the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment and systems, violations of
applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar
adverse consequences could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in
which an account invests, counterparties with which an account engages in transactions,
governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchange and other financial market
operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
(including financial intermediaries and service providers), and other parties.
Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process
employed by Strategic Advisers includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing
large amounts of data from external public sources and/or third-party data providers,
including, in some instances, through the use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”)
and large language models (“LLM”). It is not possible or practicable, however, to factor
all relevant, available data into economic forecasts or trading decisions. In addition,
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due to the automated nature of this data gathering and the fact that much of this data
comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all desired or relevant data
will be available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should
be aware that there is no guarantee that the data utilized in generating forecasts or
making trading decisions will be the most accurate data available or even free of
errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require training of the models to be
used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order to yield the
desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all
scenarios or that they will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI
and LLMs are subject to various risks, including (i) the data used to train LLMs suffers
inaccuracies, biases, or flaws that may cause the AI model to respond other than as
intended; (ii) weak controls in the development and use of AI allow it to be deployed
for use cases for which it was not intended; and (iii) the AI may provide inaccurate
or fabricated responses to queries it is unable to process. Fidelity has adopted a
Generative AI policy and governance framework so that the use of AI and LLMs is
targeted and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using known and appropriate
data sources and are subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the
use of AI and LLMs is but one input into the research process. Clients should assume
that the foregoing limitation and risks associated with gathering, cleaning, culling, and
analyzing of large amounts of data from third-party, other external sources, and the use
of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing. There may also be incidents where
data fails to load or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for example,
because of changes in the vendor’s or our system configurations due to upgrades,
enhancements, maintenance or errors, or that LLMs provide incorrect information in
response to certain prompts. Clients should assume that these data errors, like other
system implementation errors, and their ensuing risks and impact are an inherent part
of investing. Accordingly, unless otherwise required to do so, Strategic Advisers does
not expect to disclose discovered data errors to clients.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in
internal processes, people, or systems, such as routine processing incidents or major
systems failures, or from external events, such as exchange outages. In addition,
algorithms are used in providing the Program Services. For example, algorithms are
used as part of the process whereby we recommend an appropriate asset allocation
strategy that corresponds to a level of risk consistent with your Personal Profile.
In providing financial planning services, algorithms are also used in analyzing the
potential for success of your financial plan. We also use algorithms in support of our
discretionary investment management process.
There is a risk that the data input into the algorithms could have errors, omissions, or
imperfections, or that the algorithms do not operate as intended (generally referred to as
“processing incidents”). Any decisions made in reliance on incorrect data or algorithms
that do not operate as intended (e.g., assigning a participant to an inappropriate
portfolio) can expose Managed Accounts to potential risks. Issues in the algorithm are
often extremely difficult to detect and could go undetected for long periods of time
or never be detected. These risks are mitigated by testing and human oversight of the
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algorithms and their output. We believe that the oversight and testing performed on our
algorithms and their output will enable us to identify and address issues appropriately.
However, there is no assurance that the algorithms will always
work as intended. In general, we will not assess each Managed Account individually,
nor will we override the outcome of the algorithm with respect to any particular
Managed Account.
Not all processing incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting
from mistakes of third parties, will be compensable by us to you. We maintain policies
and procedures that address the identification and resolution of processing incidents,
consistent with applicable standards of care, to ensure that participants are treated fairly
when a processing incident has been detected. The determination of whether, and how,
to address a processing incident is made by us in our sole discretion.
Processing incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact
on your Managed Account, and to evaluate the materiality of the impact, among other
things. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred, we will make an
appropriate correction or otherwise reimburse the Managed Account in an amount
we determine is appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Typically, processing
incidents that result in a financial impact of less than $10 per Managed Account are
not considered material. Other examples of impact that could affect the performance
of a Managed Account but would likely not be material include impacts arising from
computer, communications, data processing, network, cloud computing, backup,
business continuity or other operating information, or technology systems, including
those we outsource to other providers, failing to operate as planned or becoming
disabled, overloaded, or damaged as a result of a number of factors. These factors could
include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and could have a negative
impact on our ability to conduct business activities.
In addition, as described above, to the extent that the process for identifying or
implementing an asset allocation did not operate as intended and the Managed Account
Allocation for your Account is determined to have been outside a predetermined range
that we believe is appropriate and prudent based on our investment judgment, subject
to the other conditions described above, we will put the Managed Account in the
position it would have been in had the asset allocation methodology initially operated as
intended.
We will evaluate each situation independently, and unless prohibited by applicable
regulation or a specific agreement with the plan sponsor, we will net your gains
and losses from the error or a series of related errors with the same root cause and
compensate you for the net loss. This corrective action could result in financial or other
restitution to the Managed Account, or in inadvertent gains being reversed out of the
Managed Account.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities and
other investments involves a risk of loss that participants should understand and
be willing to bear. Participants are encouraged to discuss these risks with a Fidelity
representative.
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Other Information about the Management of Your Account
Except as otherwise required by law, Fidelity will not be liable for the following:
• Any loss resulting from following your instructions or the instructions of the plan
fiduciary, or using inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete information provided by you
or your plan fiduciary;
• Any act or failure to act by a fund or any of its agents or any other third party; or
• Any loss in the market value of your Managed Account for any reason, except
for losses resulting from Fidelity’s breach of fiduciary duty, bad faith, or gross
negligence.
Nothing herein is intended to operate as a waiver of our applicable fiduciary duties.
Disciplinary Information
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective
client’s evaluation of Strategic Advisers or the integrity of the firm’s management
personnel.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC,
which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited
liability company that, together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, is generally known
to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct or indirect subsidiaries
of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance
businesses. From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material
business relationships with any of the subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition,
the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers and/or employees of affiliated
companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or
commodity trading advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such.
Strategic Advisers is registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended (“CEA”), as a
commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National Futures Association
(“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and
have common supervision. Certain management persons of Strategic Advisers are
registered representatives, employees, and/or management persons of FBS and/or
Fidelity Distributors Company LLC, Strategic Advisers affiliates, and registered broker-
dealers. In addition, Strategic Advisers has entered into an intercompany agreement
with FBS pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers various operational,
promotional, administrative, analytical, and technical services, and the personnel
necessary for the performance of such services.
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Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the
following affiliated companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned
subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”). FMRCo provides investment
management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity
group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo
acts as sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients and provides portfolio recommendations and
environmental filtering services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic
Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio management to certain clients.
Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for handling the business
affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers, and
Strategic Advisers compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available
to managed account programs offered by Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic
Advisers shares employees from time to time with FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary
of FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA
provides nondiscretionary investment management services and sponsors the
Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
Essentials programs (turn-key asset management programs made available to
financial intermediaries). Strategic Advisers provides model portfolio services to
FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its institutional and intermediary clients,
and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In addition, Strategic
Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn
is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers
Act and is registered with the Central Bank of Ireland. FIAM provides investment
management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity
group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic
Advisers has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares
employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned
subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has
been authorized by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority to provide investment
advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered with the Central
Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of
other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub- advisory agreements with
FMR UK for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
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• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned
subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act
and has been authorized by the Japan Financial Services Agency (Kanto Local
Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to
clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory
agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies advised
by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a
wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the
Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Hong Kong Securities & Futures
Commission to advise on securities, deal in future contracts, provide asset
management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides
investment management services, including to registered investment companies in
the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers.
FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain registered
investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the
CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and as a commodity trading advisor.
FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and sub-advisory
services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary
portfolio management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Global Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a
registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange
Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development companies
and the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and also
markets those funds and other products to third-party financial intermediaries and
certain institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Global Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a
registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a fully disclosed clearing
broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services for other
broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a
division of NFS, provides trade executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients.
Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative trading system ("ATS")
that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against orders
submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for
investment company and other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer
agent services and other custodial services to certain Fidelity clients.
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• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs, operates
the Luminex ATS and the Level ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers
to be crossed against orders submitted by other subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC,
owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and FMR Sakura
Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership
interests in LeveL Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC,
charges a commission to both sides of each trade executed in the Luminex ATS
and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to execute transactions for
Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a
clearing agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Global Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a
registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act and provides brokerage products
and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment companies in the
Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans,
and acts as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised
by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates. In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency,
Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products, that are issued by Fidelity
Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity Investments Life
Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third-parties.
FBS provides shareholder services to certain of Strategic Advisers’ clients. FBS is
the introducing broker for managed accounts offered by Strategic Advisers and
places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity
Global Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is
a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS provides securities
brokerage to retail customers through a digital/mobile application-based
brokerage platform. DBS receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses
incurred in servicing and marketing FMRCo products.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and
issuance of life insurance and annuity products that offer shares of registered
investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance
of life insurance and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment
companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life
insurance and annuity products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
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Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMTC Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-
purpose trust company organized and operating under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and
custodial services to employee benefit plans and individual retirement accounts
through which individuals can invest in affiliated or unaffiliated registered
investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment management
services to institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift
Holding Company, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal
savings bank that offers fiduciary services that include trustee or co- trustee
services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and
limited liability companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by
Strategic Advisers. These funds are privately offered consistent with stated investment
objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in borrowing, lending,
purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”),
can from time to time provide certain services, including but not limited to research,
operations, and investment management support services for Strategic Advisers,
which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is not registered as
an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating
Affiliate” of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of
Investment Management in various no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers
Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of registered investment advisers).
Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland Associated
Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section
202(a)(17) of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic
Ireland through such employees can contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process
and could have access to information concerning securities that are being selected for
clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a Participating Affiliate
of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the jurisdiction of
United States courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection
with investment advisory activities conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients.
Strategic Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated Employees whom
Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the
list available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
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Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions,
and Personal Trading
We have adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The
Code of Ethics applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised
persons of Fidelity’s registered investment advisers and requires that they place the
interests of clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes securities transaction
requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
(i) Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary
obligations;
(ii) Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
(iii) Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS, unless
an exception exists or prior approval has been granted;
(iv) Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons
with access to certain nonpublic information;
(v) Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings, unless an exception
has been approved;
(vi) Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
(vii) Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through
acknowledgments of receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The
Code of Ethics also imposes additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain
advisory personnel, research analysts, and portfolio managers. Such restrictions and
reporting obligations include (i) the preclearing of transactions in covered securities with
limited exceptions, (ii) a prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior
approval, (iii) a prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days
before or after a trade in any covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account
managed by such portfolio manager except in limited circumstances, (iv) the reporting
of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions, (v) the
reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and
annually thereafter, and (vi) the disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions,
with limited exceptions. Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in
the imposition of remedial action. The Code of Ethics will generally be supplemented
by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside Information, Rules
for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any
client or prospective client on request.
From time to time, our related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities
are contemplated in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular,
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the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity policies are designed to make it clear to Fidelity
personnel that they should never place their personal interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients
in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics and other
Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
From time to time, in connection with their business, certain supervised persons of
Strategic Advisers obtain material nonpublic information that is usually not available
to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable laws, Strategic
Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits
the use of material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other
employees and limits the transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for
Managed Accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended
to set standards for business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help
employees make sound decisions with respect to these activities, and to ensure that
the interests of clients come first. Similarly, to support compliance with applicable “pay
to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions & Activities Policy
that requires all employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity
also has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of
government officials that prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing,
promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe, facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff
(whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly obtain or retain
business or any improper advantage.
Brokerage Practices
Strategic Advisers does not select or recommend broker-dealers to execute any trades
for the Program or recommend, request, require, or permit participants to direct
brokerage transactions in connection with the Program. Strategic Advisers does not
aggregate, or have the opportunity to aggregate, the purchase or sale of securities for
Plan Accounts.
Strategic Advisers does not have a soft dollar program.
Review of Accounts
We will contact you periodically to request that you update your Personal Profile. This
periodic review is important to help us confirm that your investment strategy remains
appropriate for you. If we do not hear from you, we will automatically review your
Managed Account using your Personal Profile information, including updated Plan
Account data from your Fidelity workplace savings plan, as well as updated account
balances for Other Account Assets of which we are aware and certain retirement benefit
information recordkept at Fidelity or provided by a third party to Fidelity. If our review
results in changes to your long-term asset allocation, your Managed Account Allocation
will be reallocated to align with your updated Personal Profile information. In addition,
if we modify the assumptions and/or methodologies used to identify your investment
strategy, your Managed Account Allocation could be reallocated. We will notify you
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about any changes that occur in your Account and/or send confirmations of any trades
executed as a result of a reallocation, and your continued enrollment in the Program
constitutes your approval of your investment strategy.
Participants can and are encouraged to provide updated Personal Profile information
any time there is a change to their Personal Profile information, even outside of the
periodic review. You will receive confirmations of any transaction made in your Managed
Account. You will also receive any other information that pertains to activity in your Plan
Account that you would receive if you were not enrolled in the Program.
On a regular basis, we will evaluate the performance of portfolios, investment option
changes, and time lag since the portfolios’ last reallocation. The portfolios generally will
be reallocated and rebalanced three to four times a year and when plan option changes
necessitate the review of new portfolio allocations. As noted above, your Plan Account is
also regularly monitored. Because of account activity you can initiate, such as loans and
withdrawals, or as a result of market fluctuations, among other things, your investments
can deviate from the your intended asset allocation and your Managed Account might
be reallocated to ensure alignment.
We and your plan will provide you with information about the performance of your
Managed Account. Performance is presented in compliance with industry standards,
and performance information is not reviewed or approved by any third party. We and
your plan will also provide you with information about the performance of the individual
mutual funds held in your Managed Account, in accordance with regulatory standards
for mutual fund performance information. We will also provide you with information
about the performance of non-mutual funds used in your Managed Account to the
extent that we are able to obtain such information from the fund’s trustee or manager or
your plan sponsor.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Affiliates of Strategic Advisers are compensated for providing services, including for
investment management, distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services,
to certain Fidelity Funds, non-Fidelity mutual funds, and other investments in which
Managed Accounts are invested or which a participant could use to implement the
Program’s financial planning recommendations. These affiliates include FMRCo and its
affiliates as the investment advisers for the Fidelity Funds; FDC as the underwriter of the
Fidelity Funds; and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (“FIIOC”)
as transfer agent for the Fidelity Funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity mutual funds,
and recordkeeper of certain workplace savings plans. Affiliates of Strategic Advisers
also receive compensation and other benefits in connection with portfolio transactions
executed on behalf of Fidelity Funds, non-Fidelity mutual funds, and other investments.
FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or research services, consistent with
Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in connection with the execution
of the Fidelity Funds’ portfolio security transactions.
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FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing,
among other things, clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity
Funds, non-Fidelity mutual funds, and other investments, and NFS provides securities
lending agent services to certain Fidelity Funds for which it receives compensation.
FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, the FundsNetwork®, and
provide participating mutual funds with shareholder and other services for which FBS,
NFS, and FIIOC receive compensation, including with respect to those mutual funds in
which Managed Accounts are invested.
The compensation described above that is received by affiliates of Strategic Advisers for
investment management services provided to Fidelity mutual funds held in Managed
Accounts, as well as the compensation received by affiliates of Strategic Advisers as
a result of investments by the Managed Accounts in non-Fidelity mutual funds will
be included in the Plan Credit Amount (as described in “Fees and Compensation”),
which reduces the gross advisory fee. However, to the extent that affiliates of Strategic
Advisers, including FBS, NFS, or FIIOC, receive compensation from Fidelity mutual
funds other than management fees, as well as the compensation from non-Fidelity
mutual funds that is neither a direct result of, nor directly derived from, investments by
the Managed Accounts, such compensation is not included in the Plan Credit Amount,
does not reduce the gross advisory fee, and will be retained by such affiliates. Receipt
of compensation in addition to the gross advisory fee creates a financial incentive for
Strategic Advisers to recommend or select portfolios that contain a higher allocation to
investments that will increase such compensation. Strategic Advisers seeks to address
this financial conflict of interest through the application of the Plan Credit Amount,
which will reduce the gross advisory fee, as applicable, through personnel compensation
arrangements (including those of Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals and the
Fidelity representatives) that are not differentiated based on the investments selected
for Managed Accounts, or through other means under applicable law. Strategic Advisers
and its affiliates have also implemented processes reasonably designed to prevent
the receipt of compensation from affecting the nature of the advice provided to plan
participants.
See “Fees and Compensation” for additional information.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS or other affiliates,
pursuant to referral or other agreements where applicable. Fidelity Financial Advisor
Solutions and certain of its operating divisions, including FIIOC, receive compensation
for services that facilitate delivery of FPPA to plan sponsor clients. Additionally, Strategic
Advisers refers clients to other independent investment advisers in connection with a
referral program in which such independent investment advisers participate for a fee
payable to Strategic Advisers. Additional details are available upon request.
Custody
Account records, confirmations, and client account statements are maintained by FIIOC,
a Fidelity affiliate and a registered transfer agent that provides transfer agency and
recordkeeping services for the plan. You should carefully review all statements received
from FIIOC with respect to your Managed Account. Strategic Advisers is deemed to have
custody under the Advisers Act in certain circumstances.
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Investment Discretion
A plan sponsor must agree to the terms of the investment management agreement with
Strategic Advisers, which includes the plan sponsor’s delegation of investment authority
to provide discretionary investment management for Plan Accounts that have enrolled
in the Program. Participants can enroll in the Program by proactively contacting us or, in
some cases, through a default enrollment process selected by their plan sponsor.
Voting Client Securities
Strategic Advisers does not have authority for or exercise proxy voting discretion on your
behalf in connection with the Program. You will receive proxies or other solicitations
directly from the custodian or the transfer agent to the extent permitted by your plan, but
we will not advise you on the voting of proxies for shares held in your Managed Account.
In addition, we will not advise you on solicitations or legal proceedings, including
bankruptcies and class actions, involving investment options.
Financial Information
Strategic Advisers does not solicit the prepayment of client fees. Strategic Advisers is not
aware of any financial conditions that are reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet
contractual commitments to clients.
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Keep in mind that investing involves risk. The value of your investment will fluctuate
over time, and you may gain or lose money.
Diversification and asset allocation do not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
Fidelity does not provide legal or tax advice, and the information provided is general in
nature and should not be considered legal or tax advice. Clients and participants should
consult an attorney, tax professional, or other advisor regarding their specific legal or tax
situation.
Fidelity® Personalized Planning & Advice at Work (“FPPA”) is a service of Strategic
Advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser and a Fidelity Investments company. This
service provides advisory services for a fee.
Distribution support services are provided by Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, Member
NYSE, SIPC, 900 Salem Street, Smithfield, RI 02917. Recordkeeping and transfer agency
services are provided by Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC, 245
Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210.
Any third-party trademarks or service marks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners. All other trademarks and service marks appearing herein are the
property of FMR LLC or an affiliated company and may be registered.
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, Member NYSE, SIPC, 900 Salem Street,
Smithfield, RI 02917
© 2026 FMR LLC. All rights reserved.
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Additional Brochure: FIDELITY STRATEGIC DISCIPLINES (2026-03-30)
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Fidelity® Strategic Disciplines
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
617.563.7000
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices
of Strategic Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments® company, as well as information
about Fidelity Strategic Disciplines.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not imply a certain level of skill or
training.
If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please call us at 800.544.3455. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
S U M M A R Y O F M A T E R I A L C H A N G E S
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of material
changes to their advisory services program brochure (also referred to as the Form ADV, Part 2A brochure).
The section below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity Strategic Disciplines
Form ADV, Part 2A brochure (the “Program Brochure” or “Brochure”) from March 31, 2025, through March 30,
2026. Clients and prospective clients can obtain a copy of the Program Brochure without charge by calling
800.544.3455, by visiting Fidelity.com/information, by visiting the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov, or by
contacting their Fidelity representative. Capitalized terms are defined in the Program Brochure.
Material Changes
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Effective Q4 2025, state-preference options will be available for the Fidelity Limited Duration Municipal
Strategy. Please see “Investment Strategies” for more information.
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Effective the second quarter of 2026, the account investment minimum will be lowered to $200,000
for taxable bond strategies and $250,000 for municipal bond strategies. Please see page 21 for further
information.
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The discussion of the Bond Strategies has been updated to explain that each sub-advisor generally will
consider tax-loss harvesting as part of its standard portfolio management practices.
Other Changes
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The chart in “Other Considerations” has been updated to provide further and updated information about
the programs, accounts, and services available from Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
•
“Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation” has been updated to provide
further information about how Fidelity and its representatives are compensated.
•
“Material Risks” has been updated to provide further information with respect to the efficacy of tax-smart
investing techniques for Program clients in lower federal income tax brackets.
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Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes Strategic Advisers’ affiliates in “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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SERVICES, FEES AND COMPENSAT IO N
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ACCOUNT REQUI REMENTS AND T YP ES OF C LIENTS
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PORTFOLIO MANAGER SELECTIO N AN D EVALUATIO N
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CLIENT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO P ORTFO LIO MAN AGERS
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CLIENT CONTACT WITH POR TF O LIO MAN AGERS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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BROKERAGE PRACTICES
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S E R V I C E S , F E E S A N D C O M P E N S A T I O N
Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers
Act”) and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates,
“Fidelity Investments,” “Fidelity,” “us,” “our,” or “we”). Strategic Advisers was formed in 1977 and offers a number
of investment advisory programs, including Fidelity® Strategic Disciplines (the “Program”) and provides a
variety of investment management services, including discretionary portfolio management services to retail
and institutional clients and nondiscretionary advisory services to certain institutional clients, including but not
limited to Fidelity affiliates. This brochure provides information only about Strategic Advisers’ role with respect
to the Program.
As described below, Fidelity Strategic Disciplines is a separately managed account program in which clients
(also referred to as "you” throughout this Brochure) hire Strategic Advisers and authorize us to retain one or
more investment advisers (“sub-advisors”) on their behalf to implement a selected investment strategy on
a discretionary basis (“Program Services”). For Equity Strategies (listed below), Strategic Advisers has not
retained sub-advisors and provides discretionary management services for accounts in the Program (“Program
Accounts”). For Bond Strategies (listed below), Strategic has retained sub-advisors who provide discretionary
portfolio management services for Program Accounts.
The Program offers 14 investment strategies: the Breckinridge Intermediate Municipal Strategy, the
Breckinridge Limited Duration Municipal Strategy, the Fidelity® Intermediate Municipal Strategy, the Fidelity®
Limited Duration Municipal Strategy, the Fidelity® Core Bond Strategy, the Fidelity® Limited Duration Bond
Strategy (each individually a “Bond Strategy” and collectively the “Bond Strategies”), the Fidelity® U.S. Large
Cap Index Strategy, the Fidelity® U.S. Large Cap Strategy, the Fidelity® Dividend Income Strategy, the Fidelity®
International Strategy, the Fidelity International Index Strategy, the Fidelity® U.S. Total Market Index Strategy,
the Fidelity® U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy, and the Fidelity® Environmental Focus Strategy (each individually
an “Equity Strategy” and collectively the “Equity Strategies”).
Discretionary Investment Management Services
The Program’s strategies provide a portfolio consisting of bonds or equities (i.e., a single asset class). These
strategies are expected to have increased risk and volatility as compared with a portfolio that holds a mix of
bonds, equities, and other investment types. Accordingly, clients should be comfortable with the risk of holding
a single asset class in their Program Account. As part of the Program’s investment management services, we
will obtain information regarding the client’s financial situation, planned investment horizon and objectives, risk
tolerance, and tax situation (“Profile Information”). A Fidelity representative can assist the client in choosing
from among the following investment strategies:
Investment Strategies
The Breckinridge Intermediate Municipal Strategy and the Breckinridge Limited Duration Municipal Strategy
each invest in investment-grade municipal bonds (as well as prerefunded and escrowed-to-maturity municipal
bonds, regardless of credit rating). These strategies seek to limit risk to principal while generating federal
tax-exempt interest income. A state-preference option is available for eligible clients in either strategy. With
the state-preference option, state tax-exempt interest income is emphasized over national diversification.
Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Inc. (“Breckinridge”), an unaffiliated registered investment adviser, is the
sub-advisor for both strategies. Breckinridge conducts tax-loss harvesting as part of its standard portfolio
management process for these strategies. Please refer to the Breckinridge Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for
more information about its approach to tax-loss harvesting.
The Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Strategy and the Fidelity Limited Duration Municipal Strategy invest
in investment-grade municipal bonds (as well as prerefunded and escrowed-to-maturity municipal bonds,
regardless of credit rating). These strategies seek to generate federal tax-exempt interest income while limiting
risk to principal over a full market cycle. A state-preference option is available for eligible clients in the Fidelity
Intermediate Municipal Strategy and Fidelity Limited Duration Municipal Strategy. With the state-preference
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option, state tax-exempt interest income is emphasized over national diversification. Fidelity Management
& Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), an affiliate of Strategic Advisers, is the sub-advisor for both strategies.
FMRCo generally will consider tax-loss harvesting as part of its standard portfolio management practices,
but FMRCo has full discretion to determine whether to harvest losses in client accounts and it is under no
obligation to harvest all losses. Please see the FMRCo Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for more information about
its approach to tax-loss harvesting.
The Fidelity Core Bond Strategy invests in investment-grade bonds, including government-related bonds,
corporate bonds, mortgage bonds, asset-backed bonds, and taxable municipal bonds (as well as prerefunded
and escrowed-to-maturity bonds, regardless of credit rating), and can invest in a Fidelity exchange-traded
fund (“ETF”) that primarily holds securitized bonds, such as residential mortgage-backed, commercial
mortgage-backed, or asset-backed securities. This strategy seeks to generate interest income while limiting
risk to the client’s original investment over a full market cycle. FMRCo is the sub-advisor for the Fidelity Core
Bond Strategy. FMRCo generally will consider tax-loss harvesting as part of its standard portfolio management
practices, but FMRCo has full discretion to determine whether to harvest losses in client accounts and it
is under no obligation to harvest all losses. Please see the FMRCo Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for more
information about its approach to tax-loss harvesting.
The Fidelity Limited Duration Bond Strategy invests in investment-grade bonds, including corporate bonds and
government-related bonds, and can invest in a proprietary mutual fund designed for use in Program Accounts.
The fund primarily holds securitized investments, such as asset-backed securities and mortgage-backed
securities. This strategy seeks to generate interest income while limiting risk to the client’s original investment
over a full market cycle. FMRCo is the sub-advisor for the Fidelity Limited Duration Bond Strategy. FMRCo
generally will consider tax-loss harvesting as part of its standard portfolio management practices, but FMRCo
has full discretion to determine whether to harvest losses in client accounts and it is under no obligation to
harvest all losses. Please see the FMRCo Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for more information about its approach
to tax-loss harvesting.
The Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax risk and return
characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index℠ (the “Large Cap Index”), which is designed to reflect the
performance of the stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies based on a float-adjusted market capitalization,
while actively trading holdings in an attempt to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing
techniques. The strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including
but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. In addition, while
the strategy looks to approximate the risk and return characteristics of the Large Cap Index, it will purchase only
a subset of the stocks that make up the index.
The Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Strategy invests in stocks and seeks capital appreciation and to outperform the
S&P 500® Index over a full market cycle. The strategy invests primarily in U.S. large-cap stocks but can also
invest in securities not included in its index, including non-U.S. large-cap stocks, American Depositary Receipts
(“ADRs”), real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), and exchange-traded products (“ETPs”). For taxable accounts,
the strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited
to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers will manage
the strategy’s accounts on a discretionary basis and has retained FMRCo to provide investment models (each
a “Model Portfolio”) that it will use in managing accounts enrolled in the strategy. Strategic Advisers will blend
Model Portfolios for multiple investment exposures (e.g., growth, value, and core equity) at its discretion based
on market cycle implications and overall portfolio positioning.
The Fidelity Dividend Income Strategy invests in stocks and seeks capital appreciation and dividend income
greater than that of the S&P 500 Index over a full market cycle. For taxable accounts, the strategy seeks to
enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss
harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers will manage the strategy’s accounts
on a discretionary basis and has retained FMRCo to provide a Model Portfolio that Strategic Advisers will use in
managing accounts enrolled in the strategy.
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The Fidelity International Strategy invests in securities and seeks capital appreciation and to outperform the
MSCI EAFE Index (Net MA Tax) over a full market cycle. This investment strategy invests primarily in ADRs and
a proprietary mutual fund designed for use in Program Accounts that invests in foreign securities where ADRs
are either unavailable or inappropriate. For taxable accounts, the strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of
Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the
realization of capital gains. Strategic Advisers will manage the strategy’s accounts on a discretionary basis and
has retained FMRCo to provide Model Portfolios that it will use in managing accounts enrolled in the strategy.
Strategic Advisers will blend Model Portfolios for multiple investment exposures (e.g., growth, value, and core
equity) at its discretion based on market cycle implications and overall portfolio positioning.
The Fidelity International Index Strategy invests in securities and seeks to approximate the pretax risk and
return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net) by investing
primarily in ADRs and ETPs while actively trading holdings in an attempt to enhance after-tax returns through
the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index
(Net) is designed to reflect the performance of the developed international equity market, including large-
capitalization stocks, based on float-adjusted market capitalization. The strategy seeks to enhance after-tax
returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and
deferring the realization of capital gains. In addition, while the strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk
and return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net), it will
purchase only a subset of the securities that make up the index.
The Fidelity U.S. Total Market Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax return and
overall risk profile of the Fidelity U.S. Total Investable Market Index while actively trading holdings in an attempt
to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity U.S. Total Investable
Market Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to reflect the performance of
the stocks of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization. This index spans
across the market capitalization of large-, mid-, and small-cap companies. The strategy seeks to enhance after-
tax returns of Program Accounts through methods including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and
deferring the realization of capital gains. While this strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return
characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Total Investable Market Index, it will purchase only a subset of the stocks that
make up the index.
The Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to approximate the pretax return and
overall risk profile of the Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility Focus Index while actively trading holdings in an attempt
to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques The Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility
Focus Index is designed to reflect the performance of large- and mid-cap stocks with lower volatility than
the broader market. The strategy seeks to enhance after-tax returns of Program Accounts through methods
including but not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. While this
strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity® U.S. Low Volatility Focus
Index, it will purchase a subset of the stocks that make up the index, as well as a subset of stocks from the
largest 1,000 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization.
The Fidelity Environmental Focus Strategy invests in stocks and seeks to reduce ownership of securities in
companies that have lower environmental ratings compared with the Large Cap Index while approximating
the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Large Cap Index. This strategy seeks to enhance after-tax
returns of taxable Program Accounts through the application of tax-smart investing techniques that include but
are not limited to proactive tax-loss harvesting and deferring the realization of capital gains. Please note that
the strategy’s goal of delivering a portfolio with a better aggregate environmental rating compared with the
index could constrain the degree to which tax-smart investing techniques can be implemented. In addition,
while this strategy looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Large Cap Index, it will
purchase only a subset of the stocks that make up the index. It is important to understand that the application
of environmental sustainability data and filtering will cause an account invested according to the Environmental
Focus Strategy to forgo certain investment opportunities, which will cause such an account to perform
differently, perhaps significantly, compared with an account that does not exclude issuers based on such criteria.
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To develop a portfolio that seeks to reduce the ownership of companies that have lower environmental ratings
compared with the Large Cap Index, Strategic Advisers has retained the services of its affiliate FMRCo. FMRCo
will use a screening process to filter the Large Cap Index. First, FMRCo will reduce the investment universe by
applying six broad exclusionary criteria that seek to exclude issuers that are directly engaged in, and/or derive
significant revenue from, certain industries or product lines. Such issuers may include but are not limited to:
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companies that are both in the top 30% of their sector and top 10% of the index with respect to
carbon emissions;
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companies that are both in the top 30% of their sector and top 10% of the index with respect to water usage;
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companies subject to certain FMRCo sustainable portfolio exclusions (including civilian semiautomatic
firearms manufacturers, tobacco producers, for-profit prison companies, cluster munitions and land mine
manufacturers, and thermal coal production and/or mining companies);
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companies with coal reserves;
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companies with oil and gas reserves;
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companies that generate electric power from thermal coal; and
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companies with environmental ratings in or near the bottom 50%.
FMRCo relies on its own proprietary research as well as data from third parties in applying these
exclusionary criteria.
FMRCo will rank issuers based on environmental ratings and provide Strategic Advisers with an investment
universe that seeks to include the highest-scoring stocks in each sector (generally, the top 50%) as measured
across a variety of environmental factors (the “Environmental Factors”) as determined by FMRCo analysts
in their discretion to be most relevant for each sub-industry. FMRCo analysts select these Environmental
Factors and assign weights to them for each stock in the Large Cap Index. These Environmental Factors
include but are not limited to carbon emissions, water stress, and toxic emissions and waste.
FMRCo uses data from a number of third-party data vendors (e.g., CDP and MSCI) as well as proprietary
data to analyze the Environmental Factors. FMRCo will generally review and update stock weighting scores
monthly. At any time, FMRCo can change Environmental Factors and stock-scoring processes as well as its
process and data sources for evaluating issuers on any Environmental Factor.
After the application of these exclusionary criteria and the scoring of all stocks in the index, the investment
universe will generally include the top-scoring 200–300 issuers in the Large Cap Index, which represents
approximately 40%–60% of the Large Cap Index. Strategic Advisers will generally invest in only a subset
of the stocks of those issuers included in the environmentally screened investment universe, resulting in
portfolios consisting of 100–200 stocks that, in the aggregate, have a better environmental rating compared
with the Large Cap Index as a whole.
FMRCo’s exclusionary criteria do not capture all possible Environmental Factors, and there is no common
industry standard relating to the development and application of environmental sustainability criteria.
Certain exclusions are based in whole or in part on data provided by one or more third-party vendors and
are, therefore, subject to each vendor’s industry and product line definitions (which may differ from those of
FMRCo and Strategic Advisers) and data limitations. Data used in applying the exclusion criteria may include
inputs self-disclosed by companies as well as estimates where public disclosures are unavailable. The
subjective value that an investor assigns to certain types of environmental sustainability criteria can differ
substantially from that of FMRCo and Strategic Advisers, and reasonable investors can differ in their views of
what constitutes positive or negative environmental sustainability characteristics. As a result, clients should
not assume that the Fidelity Environmental Focus Strategy will necessarily invest in stocks of issuers that
reflect their own environmental beliefs and values.
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In addition, the Environmental Factors that FMRCo considers in evaluating an issuer’s environmental rating
will change over time. Strategic Advisers reserves the right to use a different service provider to perform the
environmental sustainability data assessment at any time. Any change in the service provider would likely
result in the consideration of different factors in evaluating an issuer’s environmental rating, which could
substantially change the portfolio for Environmental Focus Strategy accounts.
Please note: If Strategic Advisers has been directed by a client to act as agent to vote proxies with respect
to the individual securities held in an Equity Strategy Program Account, Strategic Advisers will vote proxies
pursuant to the directions provided by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”). The Environmental
Focus Strategy does not evaluate or consider proxy voting in attempting to reach its objective. Accordingly,
it is possible that ISS’ proxy voting directions can be inconsistent with, or contrary to, the environmental goal
of an Environmental Focus Strategy account.
Additional Information about Investment Techniques
Preferences
A values-based preference and a sustainable investing preference are available with the Fidelity U.S. Large
Cap Index Strategy and the Breckinridge Intermediate Municipal Strategy, respectively, on a pilot basis. These
pilots are not currently open to new investors. Clients should understand that the performance of the Program
Account with a values-based investing or a sustainable investing preference could differ, at times significantly,
from the performance of a Program Account managed without such a preference. Additionally, the use of such
a preference is subject to the agreement of Strategic Advisers and the applicable sub-advisor.
Tax-Smart Investing Techniques
While each Equity Strategy and each Bond Strategy use tax-smart investing techniques in taxable accounts,
please note that the stated investment objective for each strategy is of primary importance. Accordingly, while
the application of tax-smart investing techniques such as tax-loss harvesting generally will be considered as
part of the portfolio management process, the implementation of tax-smart investing techniques is not the
primary consideration. Clients in all strategies should understand that significant tax consequences can result
from investing in a strategy with a primary focus other than tax-smart investing techniques. For example, each
Equity Strategy has a corresponding investable universe of investments that has been constructed by Strategic
Advisers. With respect to the Environmental Focus Strategy, stocks used to fund a Program Account that are
not included in the environmentally screened investable universe for the strategy will be sold without regard to
potential tax consequences of such sales. Realizing gains could create a tax liability, particularly when offsetting
losses are not available. For additional considerations related to tax-smart investing techniques for Equity
Strategies, please see the disclosure below under “Opening and Funding a Program Account” and “Methods
of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss.” For additional information about tax-smart investing
techniques for Bond Strategies, please see the relevant sub-advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A brochure.
Fractional Share Investing
Each Equity Strategy can invest in fractional shares of individual securities. Please see “Methods of Analysis,
Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss” below for more information about fractional share trading in Program
Accounts.
Investment Restrictions
A client can impose reasonable restrictions on the management of a Program Account. Any proposed
restriction is subject to our or the applicable sub-advisor’s review and approval. Reasonable restrictions typically
are specific to the purchase of a particular individual security or industry.
Reasonable restrictions will not apply to underlying securities or holdings that are held in a mutual fund, ETP,
or any other type of pooled vehicles purchased in a Program Account. If a restriction is accepted, assets will be
invested in a manner that is appropriate given the restriction, which can include investment in ETPs.
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It is important to understand that imposing an investment restriction can delay the start of discretionary
management on a Program Account and can impact the performance of a Program Account, at times
significantly, as compared with the performance of a Program Account managed without restrictions,
possibly producing lower overall results. Program Account restrictions should be requested through a Fidelity
representative.
Access to a Fidelity Representative
Program clients have access to a dedicated Fidelity representative who can work with the client to help
evaluate the Program and how it can help meet the client’s financial goals and objectives, provide assistance
with enrolling in the Program, deliver Program Services, and also provide general assistance with products
and services provided by Fidelity outside of the Program. It is important to understand that each Fidelity
representative also acts in the capacity of a registered representative of Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
(“FBS”), Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker-dealer. Any financial planning a client receives from a Fidelity
representative prior to us accepting the client’s Program Client Agreement is provided by FBS and is not
part of the Program Services.
Access to Financial Planning Services
At a client’s request, a Fidelity representative can provide financial planning services to help evaluate the
client’s ability to meet identified goals. We use various financial planning analytics and applications to provide
financial planning services; the specific analysis provided to a client will be based on the assets allocated to a
goal and the complexity of the client’s financial situation. Typically, financial planning begins by understanding
needs and goals related to a Program Account, as well as any “Other Assets” a client has identified (e.g., assets
held in other Fidelity programs or accounts, or at a third party, that are aligned with the same goal as a Program
Account). If requested, financial planning can also include goals unrelated to a Program Account. We then
work with the client to obtain information regarding the client’s financial situation. Next, we will review a client’s
information and prepare an analysis. Our financial planning services typically include asset allocation modeling,
which helps clients evaluate their ability to meet an identified goal based on their current asset allocation
and can also provide recommendations for changes to an asset allocation. In general, our asset allocation
recommendations will include allocations to stock, bond, and short-term asset classes and, for qualifying
clients, can include an allocation to alternative investments. Our financial planning services do not include initial
or ongoing advice regarding specific securities or other investments, any financial analysis provided outside this
Program (including prior to enrolling in the Program), or any financial planning that a client engages in on their
own in a financial planning tool that is made available online.
Depending on the complexity of the client’s financial situation, and/or assets held in a Fidelity program, we
can also help a client evaluate other financial planning needs, such as retirement planning, education funding,
insurance planning, employee benefits planning (e.g., equity compensation arrangements), and consideration
of tax and estate planning strategies.
Please note that financial planning services are available to Program Accounts owned by a natural person, but
typically are not provided to an entity, such as a corporation, limited liability company, or trust.
Other than with respect to Program Accounts, which are managed on a discretionary basis through the
Program, whether and how to implement any asset allocation or other recommendations provided as a
component of our financial planning services is the responsibility of each client and is separate and distinct
from the Program Services. Specifically, Other Assets are not managed as part of the Program and are subject
to separate and distinct terms, conditions, and, as applicable, fees. In addition, if a client chooses to implement
some or all of the asset allocation or other recommendations provided as part of the Program’s financial
planning services through Fidelity, a Fidelity entity will act as a broker-dealer or investment adviser depending
on the products or services selected, and the client will be subject to separate, applicable charges, fees, or
expenses. For more information, please see the “Guide to Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services at
Fidelity Investments” available at Fidelity.com/information, or speak with a Fidelity representative.
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It is important to understand that there can be significant differences between the asset allocation modeling
shown in a financial plan and the performance a client will actually experience. Asset allocation modeling
is performed at the asset class level, assumes broad diversification within each asset class, relies on certain
estimates about the performance of the securities markets, and is not designed to predict the future
performance of any particular security or investment product. In addition, our assumptions and methodologies
used in financial planning are adjusted from time to time, which can have an impact on the results obtained.
It is important to understand that the modeling provided in conjunction with our financial planning services is
hypothetical in nature; is for illustrative purposes only; does not reflect actual investment, tax, or other planning
results; and is not a guarantee of future investment outcomes. The modeling results shown will vary with each
use and over time.
Responsibility of Clients
We rely on client information to provide the Program Services. It is the client’s responsibility to advise us
of changes to their goals, time horizon, tax situation, risk tolerance, and personal financial situation. Such
changes can result in modification to the tax-smart investing techniques used for a Program Account Clients
with multiple relationships with Fidelity should understand that updating information about a Program
Account does not update information about an account enrolled in another advisory service or one that is self-
directed. Accordingly, clients should ensure that their personal, financial, and other important information is
independently updated for each respective service or account.
FEES AND COMPENSATION
Advisory Fees—Gross and Net of the Credit Amount. The Program charges an annual Gross Advisory Fee
that includes the Program Services and is payable after the end of each quarter. The Gross Advisory Fee
includes any fees paid by Strategic Advisers to a sub-advisor in consideration of the applicable sub-advisor’s
discretionary investment management services provided to Program Accounts.
The following fees are in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee: (i) certain charges resulting from transactions
executed with or through broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic Advisers and (ii) markups and
markdowns, transfer taxes, exchange fees, regulatory fees, odd-lot differentials, handling charges, electronic
fund and wire transfer fees, ADR custody fees, or any other charges imposed by law or otherwise agreed to
with regard to a Program Account. Strategic Advisers or its affiliate can voluntarily assume the cost of certain
commissions for equity transactions executed with or through broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic
Advisers; clients will not be charged commissions for such transactions.
Where a mutual fund or ETP is purchased for a client account, and with respect to the core Fidelity money
market fund, the Gross Advisory Fee will not include expenses of the mutual fund or ETP. These fund
expenses, which vary by fund and class, are expenses that all mutual fund and ETP shareholders pay. Details
of mutual fund or ETP expenses can be found in each mutual fund’s or ETP’s respective prospectus. These
expenses are not separately itemized or billed; rather, the published returns of mutual funds and ETPs are
shown net of their expenses. Some of these underlying mutual fund and ETP expenses are paid to Strategic
Advisers or its affiliates as a result of investments by a Program Account and will be included in a Credit
Amount as described below.
Advisory Fees—Credit Amount. The Gross Advisory Fee applied to a Program Account is reduced by a Credit
Amount. The Credit Amount is intended to address the conflicts of interest that arise in selecting investments
that generate revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees paid to Strategic Advisers by the amount of
compensation, if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is derived as a direct result of investments by
Program Accounts, as detailed below. A Credit Amount is applied after the end of each quarter.
To the extent applicable, a Credit Amount will be calculated for each mutual fund or ETP held by Program
Accounts as follows:
•
For Fidelity Funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the underlying investment management and any
other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and ETPs as a direct
result of investments by Program Accounts.
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•
For non-Fidelity funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the distribution fees, shareholder servicing
fees, and any other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and
ETPs as a direct result of investments by Program Accounts.
An aggregate Credit Amount is then allocated to each Program Account to arrive at the Net Advisory Fee.
Please note that individual securities held in a Program Account do not impact the calculation of the Credit
Amount. It is important to understand that Strategic Advisers’ affiliates receive compensation for providing a
variety of services to mutual funds and ETPs, as described below in “Client Referrals and Other Compensation.”
Such compensation is included in the Credit Amount only to the extent that it is retained as a direct result of
investment by Program Accounts. Compensation that is not directly derived from Program Account assets is not
included in the Credit Amount. Credit Amounts for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs are calculated one month in
arrears. As a result, when a Program Account is closed, certain Credit Amounts for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs
will not be applied against the Gross Advisory Fee for any partial period during the month in which a Program
Account is closed. In such circumstances, Credit Amounts not applied to a closed Program Account are
allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the open Program Accounts in the Program at the time the Credit
Amount is applied. In addition, certain de minimis revenue received by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates could be
donated to charity (rather than included in the Credit Amount) or could be allocated, pro rata based on client
assets, among open Program Accounts in the Program. This operational process results in credits that would
otherwise be attributable to one Program Account being received by another Program Account.
Net Advisory Fee = Gross Advisory Fee – Credit Amount
Please see the charts below for the annual advisory fee charged to Program Accounts. Please note that all fees
are subject to change and that Strategic Advisers has the ability to negotiate advisory fees for certain accounts.
ANNUAL ADVISORY FEE SCHEDULE FOR BOND STRATEGIES
Average Daily Assets*
Gross Advisory Fee
Up to $3,000,000
0.40%
For amounts greater than $3,000,000
0.35%
*Subject to applicable limitations, clients can aggregate the assets of multiple Bond Strategy accounts to take advantage of the
reduced Gross Advisory Fee breakpoints shown in the chart above. Upon account opening, we automatically aggregate certain Bond
Strategy account registrations that share the same tax reporting identification number (such as IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, individual,
joint, and certain trust account registrations). To aggregate other accounts not eligible for automatic aggregation, including those
with immediate family members (the client’s legal spouse, or the client’s ancestor, descendant, or sibling (or their legal spouse)), or
to request aggregation of accounts after account opening, clients must complete an Account Aggregation Form or contact a Fidelity
representative. Clients are responsible for verifying that all eligible accounts have been aggregated appropriately.
ANNUAL ADVISORY FEE SCHEDULE FOR EQUITY STRATEGIES
Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy,
Fidelity International Index Strategy,
Fidelity U.S. Total Market Index
Strategy, Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility
Index Strategy, Fidelity Environmental
Focus Strategy
Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Strategy, Fidelity
Dividend Income Strategy, Fidelity
International Strategy
Average Daily Assets†
Gross Advisory Fee
Gross Advisory Fee
Up to $300,000
0.40%
0.70%
For the next $200,000
0.40%
0.50%
For the next $500,000
0.40%
0.45%
For the next $1,000,000
0.26%
0.40%
For the next $1,000,000
0.23%
0.35%
For amounts greater than $3,000,000
0.20%
0.30%
† Subject to applicable limitations, clients can aggregate the assets of multiple Equity Strategy accounts to take advantage of the
reduced Gross Advisory Fee breakpoints shown in the chart above. Upon account opening, we automatically aggregate certain
Equity Strategy account registrations that share the same tax reporting identification number (such as IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA,
individual, joint, and certain trust account registrations). To aggregate other accounts not eligible for automatic aggregation,
including those with immediate family members (the client’s legal spouse, or the client’s ancestor, descendant, or sibling (or
their legal spouse)), or to request aggregation of accounts after account opening, clients must complete an Account Aggregation
Form or contact a Fidelity representative. Clients are responsible for verifying that all eligible accounts have been aggregated
appropriately.
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Billing. The Net Advisory Fee will be deducted from a client’s Program Account or another Fidelity account
identified by the client for this purpose, after the end of each quarter. Certain assets in a Program Account
could be liquidated to pay the fees; this liquidation could generate a taxable gain or loss in a taxable
Program Account.
Additional Fee for Complex Financial Planning. Where a client has a highly complex financial situation, in
addition to the applicable Net Advisory Fee, a fee can be assessed for financial planning services. This fee will
be negotiated with the client.
Additional Fee Information. All fees are subject to change. In rare circumstances, Strategic Advisers negotiates
the advisory fee for certain accounts. Strategic Advisers could also agree to waive fees, in whole or in part,
in its sole discretion, including but not limited to in connection with promotional efforts and other programs,
including but not limited to situations designed to facilitate transitions between advisory programs, or for
certain current and former employees of Fidelity. This will result in certain clients paying less than the standard
fee. If a waived or discounted fee results in a Credit Amount that is greater than the Gross Advisory Fee for a
Program Account, the excess credits will not be allocated to the Program Account but will instead be allocated,
pro rata based on assets, among the other open Program Accounts in the Program at the time the Credit
Amount is applied. This operational process results in credits that would otherwise be attributable to one
Program Account being received by another Program Account. In certain circumstances, Fidelity will manage
certain other accounts in a manner substantially similar to a Program Account under arrangements that can
include negotiated terms and conditions that depart from the standard service offering.
Generally, except as described above, clients will not pay any commissions, transaction fees, or sales loads
on the securities purchased in a Program Account. Clients are responsible for any fees resulting from the sale
of securities used to fund a client’s investment in a Program Account (whether such sale is inside or outside
a Program Account) and any subsequent withdrawals that the client initiates. If mutual funds and/or ETPs
purchased for a client account incur a redemption or other administrative fee as a result of not being held for a
minimum time period, Fidelity can, in its sole discretion, choose to pay any such redemption fees on behalf of a
Program client but is under no obligation to do so.
The Advisory Fee includes fees paid to any applicable sub-advisor for the discretionary portfolio management
services provided to Program Accounts; Strategic Advisers pays sub-advisors a portion of the Program fee,
which varies based on the amount of assets under management and the applicable strategy. The Advisory
Fee does not cover costs associated with implementing any recommendations provided as part of our
financial planning services, other than the discretionary services provided through the Program. The Gross
Advisory Fee does not include amounts charged with respect to a regulatory fee that applies to all sales
of securities and which varies over time. This charge is estimated and assessed in advance; this process
could lead to overestimating or underestimating the actual regulatory fee. To the extent that such estimated
amount is greater than the actual regulatory fee, Fidelity will retain the excess. These charges will be reflected
on statements and/or trade confirmations.
Strategic Advisers’ affiliates sponsor promotional offers that provide clients with the ability to receive cash
compensation or a reduced advisory fee for opening and funding or maintaining certain accounts. Accounts
opened through the Program are, from time to time, included in the list of account types and investment
solutions eligible for such promotional offers. The Program’s eligibility for such promotional offers creates a
conflict of interest, as Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are incentivizing clients to use the Program rather than
Strategic Advisers’ other managed account programs or self-directed investment options available through
FBS. Strategic Advisers can also, from time to time, provide cash compensation to Program clients for taking
qualifying actions with respect to their Program Account, such as certain interactions with Program features.
Any compensation will be deposited into the client’s Program Account, will be subject to the advisory fee
applicable to the Program, and may have tax consequences. A promotional offer is not a recommendation to
implement any asset allocation strategy or select a particular account type or investment solution.
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Also, during the time a client is enrolled in the Program, the client could be eligible to receive certain services
offered by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates based, in whole or in part, on the amount invested with the Program. It
is important to understand that such services are not part of the Program Services for which the Program fee is
paid. In addition, while enrolled in the Program, a client could receive information about how to access financial
wellness and/or professional support resources and services that are offered by entities unaffiliated with Fidelity,
some of which pay compensation to Fidelity as a result of the client’s use of such resources or services. Such
resources and services are not included as part of the Program Services and any applicable costs associated
with enrolling in or subscribing to these resources or services would be in addition to the Program fee.
Other Considerations. In evaluating the Program, please consider that Fidelity offers a variety of investment
advisory services and brokerage offerings. These offerings are summarized below to assist clients in
understanding and comparing the services and offerings. For more detailed information regarding each
offering and investment advisory service, please review the respective Program Brochure available at
Fidelity.com/information or through a Fidelity representative. Refer to the “Guide to Brokerage and
Investment Advisory Services at Fidelity Investments” (available at Fidelity.com/information) for more
information regarding our roles and responsibilities when providing brokerage and advisory services.
Please note that, other than the self-directed brokerage account offered by FBS, the advisory programs
included in the chart below are each offered by Strategic Advisers.
PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity Go®
No account minimum;
$10 to invest
Less than $25,000
invested: no advisory
fee
Portfolio based on
a client’s investment
profile and composed
of a mix of zero
expense ratio Fidelity
mutual funds
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.35% annually for
$25,000 and above
Invests in zero expense
ratio Fidelity mutual
funds that do not
charge management
fees (or with limited
exceptions, fund
expenses)
Digitally provided
discretionary
investment
management and
planning; access to a
team of phone-based
representatives for
one-on-one financial
coaching for clients
who maintain $25,000
or more in a Fidelity Go
account and tax-loss
harvesting for taxable
accounts with $25,000
or more
Fidelity Managed
FidFolios®
$5,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.40% or 0.70%
annually
Digitally provided
discretionary invest-
ment man agement
of a single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques)
A mix of individual
securities, either stocks
or American Depositary
Receipts, depending
on the client’s selected
strategy
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity® Strategic
Disciplines
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.20%–0.70%
annually for equity
strategies and 0.35%–
0.40% annually for
fixed income strategies,
depending on the
amount invested
Discretionary
investment
management of a
single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques);
planning and
advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
A mix of individual
securities, including but
not limited to stocks,
bonds, American
Depositary Receipts,
and/or exchange-traded
products and mutual
funds, depending on
the client’s selected
strategy
Depending on
strategy selected,
account investment
minimums of $100,000
(equity strategies)
and $350,000 (bond
strategies), each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
(effective in the second
quarter of 2026, the
account investment
minimum will be
$200,000 for taxable
bond strategies and
$250,000 for municipal
bond strategies)
Fidelity® Wealth
Services
$50,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 1.10% annually,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity as a
direct result of a client’s
investments
Fidelity Advisory
Services provides
customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
by a centralized team
of phone-based
representatives
A mix of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity
mutual funds and
exchange-traded
products invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Wealth Management
and Private Wealth
Management
provide customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
supported by a
service team
A mix of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual
funds and exchange-
traded products
and, depending on a
client’s preferences
and investment
profile, individual
securities, invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.50%–1.50%
annually, depending on
the amount invested,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity
as a direct result of a
client’s investments
(additional fees of up to
0.40% for management
of certain individual
security strategies
can also apply where
advisory services are
not provided solely by
a Strategic Advisers
affiliate)
$50,000 minimum
account investment for
Wealth Management
and $2 million
minimum investment
and $10 million
investable assets
for Private Wealth
Management, each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
Fidelity Wealth
Advisor Solutions®
Investment vehicles
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
strategy
Investment minimums
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
Advisory fees will
vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
A referral network of
unaffiliated investment
advisors that provide
customized wealth
management and
investment strategies
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Self-Directed
Brokerage Account
Transaction fees and
investment expenses
vary based on
investment vehicle
selected; no ongoing
asset-based advisory
fee charged by
Strategic Advisers
Self-directed trading
through FBS, with
access to Fidelity’s
online tools, planning,
and resources, and
support provided
by brokerage
representatives.
A dedicated
representative is
available based on
relationship
No minimum to
open a brokerage
account. Qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative is based
on a variety of factors
(for example, a client
with at least $500,000
invested in an eligible
Fidelity account would
typically qualify)
Brokerage customers
can choose from a wide
variety of investments,
including mutual funds,
exchange-traded
funds, stocks, bonds,
and insurance and
annuity products. Note
that certain securities
available through
Strategic Advisers’
advisory services are
not available in self-
directed brokerage
accounts
As described in the chart above, FBS offers self-directed brokerage accounts and financial planning, and can
provide dedicated support from a Fidelity representative depending on a client’s overall relationship with
Fidelity. A client could therefore invest directly in the individual securities and ETPs available through the
Program through a Fidelity brokerage account or a brokerage account at another firm without incurring an
advisory fee. In addition, the investment strategies available through the Program, while designed for the
Program, could be similar to a mutual fund or other product available for direct investment by the client, and
the operating expenses of such a mutual fund or other product could differ from that of the Program. Finally,
a client could purchase planning services separately from another firm, plan independently using the tools
and analytics that are used to support the financial planning services provided through the Program that are
also made available by FBS at Fidelity.com without a fee, or, if the client qualifies for dedicated support from a
Fidelity representative, work with the Fidelity representative to receive planning services offered by FBS without
a fee. However, while clients can obtain similar products and services from Fidelity or other firms without
enrolling in the Program, the same combination of services would not be provided, certain investment products
used by the Program are not available for purchase outside of the Program, investments could be subject to
sales loads or transaction and redemption charges that are generally waived as part of the Program, and the
overall cost of purchasing the products and services separately will most likely differ from the Program Fee.
Factors that bear on the cost of the Program in relation to the cost of the same or similar products and services
purchased separately include, among other things, the amount of brokerage trades executed through Fidelity-
affiliated broker-dealers (the charges for which are included in the Gross Advisory Fee) as compared with the
brokerage trades executed through other broker-dealers (the charges for which are not included in the Gross
Advisory Fee).
Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation. Fidelity representatives who support
the Program are associated with Strategic Advisers and FBS. Fidelity representatives act on behalf of FBS
when recommending an advisory program offered by Strategic Advisers. Once a client enrolls in the Program,
the Fidelity representative will be providing Program Services. Separate and apart from the Program, Fidelity
representatives, including those who support the Program, can provide clients with a variety of FBS services,
including investment education and advice, financial analyses, financial planning services, and help with
implementing any nondiscretionary recommendations provided as part of the Program’s financial planning
services. When providing services for FBS, these Fidelity representatives are acting solely as registered
representatives of FBS, and the Program Fee is not related to those FBS services.
Fidelity representatives receive base pay based on their experience and role. In addition to base pay, Fidelity
representatives are also eligible to receive either variable compensation or an annual bonus, and certain
representatives are also eligible to receive longer-term compensation. Fidelity representatives who receive an
annual bonus do not receive compensation based directly on the sale of any product or service, but they do
have an indirect financial incentive to recommend products or services that pay more compensation to Fidelity
because annual bonus funding is based in part on Fidelity’s financial performance. For Fidelity representatives
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who receive variable compensation, variable compensation depends on the representative’s role and can be
impacted by client loyalty, the amount of assets a client transfers to Fidelity, the amount of assets invested
initially and on an ongoing basis, referring potential clients to other Fidelity representatives who enroll the
client in a Fidelity investment product or service, and client family members opening Fidelity accounts. Whether
and how much each Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined based on
the representative’s role, responsibilities, performance measures, and their manager’s assessment of the
representative’s performance.
Fidelity and the Fidelity representatives who support the Program and who are eligible to receive variable
compensation receive different amounts of compensation depending on the type of product or service a client
selects. Fidelity and those Fidelity representatives will earn more compensation if a client enrolls in the Program
than if a client enrolls in Fidelity Go, Fidelity Managed FidFolios, or the Fidelity Advisory Services service level
of Fidelity Wealth Services. The compensation received by Fidelity and those representatives in connection
with FBS offerings (e.g., stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds) is typically less than the compensation received in
connection with a client choosing to participate in a Fidelity advisory program.
Products and services that generally require more time to engage with a client and/or that are more complex
provide greater compensation to a representative and Fidelity. This compensation structure creates a
financial incentive for Fidelity and its representatives to recommend investments in more complex or time-
consuming products and services over others, and to recommend that a client maintain an investment in such
products and services over time. Fidelity addresses these conflicts of interest by having processes in place
that require our representatives to make recommendations that are in the best interest of clients, paying
compensation based on the time and complexity of the relevant product or service, training and supervising
our representatives, and disclosing these conflicts of interest to clients so that they can consider the conflicts
when making financial decisions.
To see specific compensation levels for the managed account programs mentioned above and other products,
including an example of compensation that can be earned by Financial Consultants, please see the “Fidelity
Investments Compensation Disclosure” document (available at Fidelity.com/information), or contact a Fidelity
representative. Clients should read the information contained in the “Fidelity Investments Compensation
Disclosure” document carefully, and can ask a representative at any time whether and how they are
compensated with respect to a particular product or service and about the financial incentives and conflicts
of interest that Fidelity has when making recommendations of products or services.
A C C O U N T R E Q U I R E M E N T S A N D T Y P E S O F C L I E N T S
The Program is generally available to individuals, trusts, and certain corporate entities. To participate in the
Program, a client must be a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien), typically reside in the U.S., and have a
valid U.S. taxpayer identification number. The Program is not available to non-U.S. trusts and foreign investors.
Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, decline to permit participation in the Program for any reason.
Program Accounts can be either tax-advantaged accounts (e.g., Traditional, Roth, and SEP Individual
Retirement Accounts, collectively “retirement accounts”) or taxable accounts. The Breckinridge Intermediate
and Limited Duration Municipal Strategies, the Fidelity Intermediate and Limited Duration Municipal
Strategies, the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index Strategy, the Fidelity International Index Strategy, the Fidelity
U.S. Total Market Index Strategy, and the Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility Index Strategy are each available only
for taxable accounts, while the Fidelity Core Bond Strategy, the Fidelity Limited Duration Bond Strategy, the
Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Strategy, the Fidelity International Strategy, the Fidelity Dividend Income Strategy, and
the Fidelity Environmental Focus Strategy are each available to both taxable and retirement accounts.
The Program’s investment strategies have a per-account investment minimum (“Strategy Minimum”) of
$350,000 for a Bond Strategy and $100,000 for an Equity Strategy. Effective in the second quarter of 2026,
the account investment minimum will be $200,000 for taxable Bond Strategies and $250,000 for municipal
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Bond Strategies. In addition, Program clients must generally qualify for support from a dedicated Fidelity
representative, which is based on a variety of factors, including Program Account investment levels, assets
held at Fidelity outside of the Program, and the complexity of the client’s financial situation. Private Wealth
Management (“PWM”) clients are subject to a qualification and acceptance process and must typically invest
at least $2 million, in the aggregate, in Program Accounts (or combined with assets invested in Fidelity Wealth
Services) and have investable assets of at least $10 million.
Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, change or waive a Strategy Minimum or the eligibility
requirements to qualify for PWM Program Services at any time. Please note that if a Program Account balance
falls below the applicable Strategy Minimum stated above, it can affect the sub-advisor’s ability to manage the
Program Account according to the selected investment strategy. Program Accounts that fall below the Strategy
Minimum can be removed from the Program. Once the client has agreed to the terms of the Program Client
Agreement, the client will have 90 days to fund the Program Account with the applicable minimum investment
to satisfy the eligibility requirements for PWM Program Services. If the client has not satisfied such eligibility
requirements within 90 days, Fidelity can terminate the client’s eligibility to receive PWM Program Services.
Certain limitations apply to the management of a retirement Program Account holding defined benefit plan
assets. Generally, only single participant defined benefit plan assets will be managed (except in the case of a
retirement Program Account holding defined benefit plan assets where the plan benefits only the owner of
the business sponsoring the plan and their spouse), and it will be treated as if it were a defined contribution
plan. Plan-specific provisions and any plan-related documents will not be considered in the discretionary
management of these assets.
To enroll in the Program, a client must agree to the Program Client Agreement, which details the terms and
conditions under which the client appoints Strategic Advisers to provide the Program Services. Our advisory
relationship with a client begins when we accept the Program Client Agreement. Except with respect to a
Program investment proposal, preliminary discussions or recommendations made before we accept a Program
Client Agreement are not intended as investment advice or financial planning provided by Strategic Advisers.
The Program Client Agreement requires that clients delegate discretionary authority to Strategic Advisers
and direct Strategic Advisers to hire a sub-advisor to implement the selected strategy for the clients’ Program
Account. The Program Client Agreement will also permit sub-advisors to provide day-to-day investment
management for the clients’ Program Account, which includes the authority to determine which securities
to purchase or sell, the total amount of such purchases and sales, and the brokers or dealers through which
transactions are executed in Program Accounts, subject to certain Program and regulatory limitations and a
sub-advisor’s internal policies and procedures. The Program Client Agreement also establishes a brokerage
account with FBS, a registered broker-dealer, affiliate of Strategic Advisers, and member of NYSE and SIPC.
During a client’s participation in the Program, the client’s Program Account will not be available for the
client’s self-directed brokerage activities. Another affiliate of Strategic Advisers, National Financial Services
LLC (“NFS”), a registered broker-dealer and a member of NYSE and SIPC, has custody of client assets and will
perform certain account services, including the implementation of discretionary management instructions, as
well as custodial and related services. Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises
and have common supervision.
Neither Strategic Advisers nor the relevant sub-advisor acquires authority for, or exercises proxy voting on
behalf of, a client in connection with offering Program Accounts. However, with respect to Equity Strategies
only, clients can direct Strategic Advisers to act as agent to vote proxies with respect to the investments
held in a Program Account. As part of this direction, clients must instruct Strategic Advisers to vote proxies
for individual securities pursuant to the directions provided by ISS (a summary of which is available at
Fidelity.com/information).
Opening and Funding a Program Account
Bond Strategies. Clients can initially fund a Bond Strategy Program Account with cash and/or eligible
securities, which include Fidelity core money market funds, individual bonds, and investment-grade municipal
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bonds, as well as prerefunded and escrowed-to-maturity bonds, regardless of credit rating. All other
security types are generally considered ineligible for funding purposes. Please note that for the Breckinridge
Intermediate and Limited Duration Municipal Strategies, eligible bonds are limited to individual investment-
grade municipal bonds, as well as prerefunded and escrowed-to-maturity bonds, regardless of credit rating.
For taxable Program Accounts, clients could realize a taxable gain or loss when securities are sold.
Equity Strategies. For Equity Strategies, clients can fund a Program Account with cash and/or eligible
securities, which will generally include the following:
• Cash;
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Fidelity core money market funds;
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Common stocks and REITs listed in the S&P 500, Russell 3000, and Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock
Market indexes;
• ADRs that meet certain liquidity requirements; and
• Certain ETPs.
For taxable Program Accounts, clients could realize a taxable gain or loss when those securities are sold, which
could affect the after-tax performance/return of the Program Account as well as the clients’ tax liability. With
respect to retirement Program Accounts enrolled in the Dividend Income Strategy, the International Strategy,
the U.S. Large Cap Strategy, or the Environmental Focus Strategy, Strategic Advisers generally does not
consider the potential tax consequences of these sales. In the event that a client funds a Program Account with
eligible securities, Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, sell any such securities to other Program clients
or to other clients of Strategic Advisers, in accordance with its fiduciary duties and subject to its obligation to
seek best execution. In addition, for the Dividend Income Strategy, the International Strategy, the U.S. Large
Cap Strategy, and the Environmental Focus Strategy Program Accounts, should a client transfer into a Program
Account eligible securities that are not included in the Model Portfolio or investment universe, or that are part
of the Model Portfolio or investment universe but do not align with the allocations therein, Strategic Advisers
will generally liquidate those securities in whole or in part as soon as reasonably practicable.
Sales of eligible and ineligible transferred securities will be subject to redemption and other applicable fees,
including commissions on sales of securities; however, under certain circumstances, the Program can voluntarily
assume the costs of certain commissions. A client could realize a taxable gain or loss when these shares
are sold. In addition, when securities are purchased in Program Accounts, the client could receive taxable
distributions out of the earnings that have accrued before such purchases (a situation referred to as “buying a
dividend”).
Information for All Strategies. A Fidelity representative can provide information as to whether a specific security
is eligible for funding or management within a Program Account. Fidelity will determine, in its sole discretion,
which securities will be eligible to fund a client’s Program Account. These securities must be held free and clear
of any liens, pledges, or other legal or contractual restrictions. At times, Fidelity will not accept individual securities
that are otherwise generally available to fund a Program Account due to internal guidelines or state or federal
regulations. If a client elects to transfer ineligible securities into a Program Account, such transfer is a directive
to Fidelity by the client to sell any such securities as soon as reasonably practicable. Note that potential tax
consequences of these sales are not considered. Clients should be aware that such sales can trigger significant
tax consequences, including in Program Accounts that are managed with tax-smart investing techniques.
Fidelity reserves the right to transfer an ineligible security back to the account from which the client transferred
the assets or to another like-registered account held at Fidelity. Funding with securities can result in Strategic
Advisers or the applicable sub-advisor continuing to hold and manage such securities depending on the
concentration and tax impact of selling. A Fidelity representative will work with a client to collect Profile
Information and will also assist the client with the account opening process, which includes but is not limited to
funding the Program Account with cash and/or eligible securities, the sale of ineligible securities used to fund
the Program Account, and our receipt of tax basis information for taxable accounts (described below). Once we
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receive all required information and the funding process, including the sale of ineligible securities, is complete,
an account will be reviewed for investment by Strategic Advisers or the relevant sub-advisor. Equity Strategy
Program Accounts will typically begin trading within seven business days. For Bond Strategy Program Accounts,
it can take a substantial period of time to invest a Program Account. (Under normal circumstances and market
conditions, accounts are typically invested within 90 days of the day on which a client initially funds or makes a
subsequent contribution to a Program Account, although specific circumstances can vary.) In general, Program
fees will begin to accrue once a Program Account has been deemed in good order for management purposes.
For initial funding or subsequent deposits to a taxable Program Account, Fidelity must be provided with tax
basis information for all securities that will be managed. Discretionary portfolio management will not occur for
a taxable Program Account until the completed tax basis information has been received. We will rely on the
tax information provided by the client and will not verify the tax basis information provided; clients are able to
update such tax basis information by contacting a Fidelity representative. If securities received by the client as
a gift are deposited into a Program Account, we will use the tax basis information provided to us in connection
with the gift.
Additional deposits of cash or securities can be made to a Program Account at any time. Discretionary
management of additional deposits will generally occur as soon as reasonably practicable but can be delayed
for certain reasons, including time needed to liquidate securities, special handling instructions, or because the
additional deposit may not necessitate trading at that time. In general, we will begin charging advisory fees
on additional deposits once assets have been received into the Program Accounts and have been deemed in
good order for management purposes.
Wealth Management clients who are eligible and have elected to have one or more Program Accounts
included in a goal-based plan are required to alter the terms pursuant to which they previously granted (or
in the future will grant) someone else with authority over their Program Accounts. Such clients who wish to
have their Program Accounts included in a goal-based plan with Program Accounts they do not jointly own
are also required to grant us an authorization to accept certain instructions from either Program Account
owner regarding the management of these Program Accounts. Please see the Program Client Agreement and
Program documentation or contact a Fidelity representative for more information.
Withdrawals, Account Closure, and Program Termination
A client can request a withdrawal from a Program Account, elect to close one or more Program Accounts, or
elect to close all Program Accounts and terminate Program enrollment, including with respect to the receipt
of financial planning services. Generally, closure and termination instructions must be processed through a
Fidelity representative. Strategic Advisers reserves the right to terminate a client’s Program Services (or limit
the client’s rights to access any or all account features, products, or services) for any reason, including (i) if
any authorized person on a Program Account resides outside the U.S., (ii) if the balance of a client’s Program
Account falls below the required minimum investment level, or (iii) if the Program is deemed no longer
appropriate for a client.
Should either party terminate the investment advisory relationship, the Program fee will be prorated from the
beginning of any unbilled quarter to the termination date, which is defined as the date when we no longer
manage the Program Account on a discretionary basis.
Clients will be required to provide instructions to be used in the event of withdrawals or Program Account
closure. Clients have the option of electing that assets either be liquidated and the proceeds sent to the client
by check or transferred to a bank account (or other account), or be transferred in-kind to another account.
While the timing of trading and settlement can vary, for Equity Strategy accounts, liquidating trades for partial
and full withdrawal requests will typically be placed within the next seven business days of the request, and
in-kind asset transfer instructions will typically be placed within seven business days of such a request. For
partial withdrawal requests, if transfer instructions are not provided, Fidelity will generally reinvest the cash
proceeds of any sales into the client’s discretionarily managed Program Account after 30 days. Note that
liquidation of assets in taxable accounts could have adverse tax consequences.
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It is important to understand that Program Accounts can hold certain mutual funds and other securities that
clients would not be able to buy or sell directly in a retail brokerage account and are able to hold only as part
of the Program and that specific strategy. In general, if an investor ceases to be a Program client, a client of
a specific Program Strategy, or requests a transfer of mutual funds that cannot be held outside the Program,
shares of such funds will be redeemed, subject to the terms and conditions specified in the fund’s prospectus.
Similarly, mortgage-backed securities, which generally cannot be purchased directly in a retail brokerage
account, will be sold at the time an investor ceases to be a Program client or a client of a specific Program
Strategy, with the proceeds being distributed in cash. However, if an advisory relationship is terminated due
to the death, divorce, or incapacity of the account owner, the mortgage-backed securities will be liquidated
in accordance with Fidelity’s operational procedures, which generally require that clients or their authorized
representatives provide instructions or take other action before the securities can be sold. As a result, there
likely will be a significant price difference (higher or lower) between the time the advisory relationship is
terminated and the point at which the mortgage-backed securities are sold. Clients should speak with their
Fidelity representative if they have any questions about this process.
There can be instances where we need to place a do-not-trade restriction on one or more Program Accounts,
including when a client requests a security be transferred from a Program Account, when processing a trade
correction, when we need to comply with a court order, when a client asks us to process a withdrawal and keep
the proceeds from the sale of securities used to fund the withdrawal in the account until the client provides
further instructions for the transfer of the proceeds, or when we need additional information from a client. For
the period when a do-not-trade restriction is in effect, we generally will not trade or otherwise manage the
Program Account until the do-not-trade restriction has been removed. Clients continue to have access to financial
planning services and their Fidelity representative(s) during the time when a do-not-trade restriction is in place.
Please note that in certain situations, withdrawal or account closure requests by way of liquidation or in-kind
transfer can take longer to fully process, as we or the respective sub-advisor could take additional time to sell
securities at a desirable price. Please note that certain types of securities, such as municipal bonds, mortgage-
backed securities, and certain foreign securities, can have extended or less frequent settlement periods, and
their trading markets can be fragmented or thinly traded, which could affect the amount of time it takes to
process withdrawal or closure requests. There can be no assurance as to how long it might take to obtain a
desirable price for such securities or whether a desirable price can be obtained.
Depending on the size of the Program Account, some bonds could be purchased for a Program Account
in positions that are smaller than marketable round lots (sometimes called “broken lots” or “odd lots”). If a
Program Account has an odd-lot bond position, it could be more difficult to sell than a round lot, and the sale
price could be substantially lower than the price paid or the price at which the position was previously valued.
With respect to taxable Program Accounts, a client can elect to have all dividends, interest, and capital gains
on eligible holdings set aside for automatic distribution by completing and submitting an Earnings Automatic
Withdrawal Plan form at Fidelity.com or by speaking with a Fidelity representative. Please note that upon
providing these instructions to Fidelity, the amounts awaiting distribution will not be subject to Fidelity’s
discretionary authority.
P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S E L E C T I O N A N D E V A L U A T I O N
Strategic Advisers is the investment adviser for the Program to which clients delegate discretion and authorize
to hire a specific sub-advisor to implement the selected strategy. Currently, Strategic Advisers has engaged
sub-advisors for Bond Strategies, and directly provides discretionary investment services to Equity Strategy
Program Accounts. Where Strategic has hired a sub-advisor, the sub-advisor (not Strategic Advisers) will
be responsible for investment selection, portfolio construction, and execution of transactions for Program
Accounts. Please refer to the applicable sub-advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for information about
their investment management and trading practices.
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Prior to identifying a sub-advisor to implement a specific investment strategy, we will review the sub-advisor’s
qualifications for managing assets. In doing so, a variety of factors can be considered, including but not limited
to investment approach, portfolio characteristics, total assets under management, experience, and trading
and operational capabilities. Each sub-advisor will also be periodically reviewed to evaluate management
of Program Accounts invested in the respective strategy. We will use the same process to select and review
affiliated and unaffiliated sub-advisors. To the extent that a Fidelity sub-advisor is retained to implement a
Program investment strategy, Fidelity will retain more compensation than if a non-Fidelity sub-advisor were
retained; however, the use of a Fidelity sub-advisor will result in greater efficiencies and economies of scale
with respect to the research and management services provided to clients. Strategic Advisers’ investment
professionals are not compensated based on the use of Fidelity or non-Fidelity sub-advisors.
If we decide, in our sole discretion, that circumstances make a change of sub-advisor necessary or appropriate,
clients authorize Strategic Advisers to remove or replace the sub-advisor. The replacement sub-advisor could
be an affiliate or independent of Strategic Advisers. We will notify clients before any change in sub-advisor. A
client’s continued acceptance of Program Services after notification of the change in sub-advisor will constitute
approval and agreement of any replacement sub-advisor.
While performance information is reviewed for accuracy and compliance with applicable standards,
performance information is not reviewed by a third party to determine or verify its accuracy or compliance with
presentation standards.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
Strategic Advisers does not currently charge performance-based management fees for any of its advisory
services and, therefore, does not engage in side-by-side management.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
About the Use of Model Portfolios in Equity Strategies. Strategic Advisers has retained its affiliate FMRCo to
provide investment models to be used by Strategic Advisers in rendering discretionary investment advisory
services to the Dividend Income Strategy, International Strategy, and U.S. Large Cap Strategy Program
Accounts. FMRCo provides Strategic Advisers with model portfolios (each, a “Model Portfolio” and together
the “Model Portfolios”) and provides periodic updates to each Model Portfolio. FMRCo is not acting as
investment adviser or portfolio manager with respect to Program Accounts. Rather, Strategic Advisers is
the portfolio manager and has the discretion to implement the models as provided by FMRCo or to make
modifications as it deems appropriate. FMRCo could provide a similar Model Portfolio or manage accounts
using a similar investment strategy for its other clients and could provide the model to such accounts or clients
prior to providing it to Strategic Advisers. At any time, Strategic Advisers can determine to no longer receive a
Model Portfolio from FMRCo, in which case Strategic Advisers can engage another investment firm to provide
a Model Portfolio or manage Program Accounts without recommendations from a Model Portfolio provider.
For the International Strategy and the U.S. Large Cap Strategy, Strategic Advisers will blend the Model
Portfolios it receives from FMRCo in its discretion, based on market cycle implications and overall portfolio
positioning. FMRCo will generally use fundamental and quantitative analysis to select stocks for the Model
Portfolio. Strategic Advisers has designed investment guidelines for the Model Portfolios delivered by
FMRCo. These guidelines can change from time to time.
About Strategic Advisers’ Model Provider Selection Process. Prior to selecting FMRCo to provide Model
Portfolios, Strategic Advisers performed a comprehensive review of FMRCo and its investment style and
approach. Strategic Advisers’ review included, among other things, assessing information about FMRCo and
its investment strategy. In selecting FMRCo, Strategic Advisers considered a variety of factors, including but
not limited to investment approach, portfolio characteristics, and FMRCo’s experience with similar investment
strategies. Strategic Advisers evaluated information from both quantitative and qualitative analyses, including
but not limited to FMRCo’s investment strategy, security coverage, experience, growth of assets under
management, stability of management, governance program, and trading and operational capabilities.
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Strategic Advisers will evaluate FMRCo’s adherence to the investment guidelines not less than semiannually
based on the factors described above. Strategic Advisers, in its sole discretion, can replace FMRCo without
prior notice to clients if, for example, Strategic Advisers determines that FMRCo is not adhering to the
investment guidelines for the Dividend Income Strategy.
Additionally, a Model Portfolio provided by FMRCo could reflect trading decisions previously made by FMRCo
for its discretionary client accounts and funds. As a result, the Dividend Income Strategy, the International
Strategy, and the U.S. Large Cap Strategy Program Accounts could receive prices that are more favorable or
less favorable than the prices obtained by FMRCo’s discretionary client accounts and funds, particularly with
respect to thinly traded securities. Aggregate holding limits and other investment limits applicable to such
prior trading decisions, and collectively to the discretionary accounts of FMRCo, Strategic Advisers, and their
affiliates generally, could result in investment opportunities not being included in a Model Portfolio.
Strategic Advisers does not have a predetermined allocation with respect to the use of Fidelity or non-Fidelity
model providers. To the extent that Strategic Advisers retains a Fidelity model provider, Fidelity will retain
more compensation than if a non-Fidelity model provider were retained, and Fidelity will achieve greater
efficiencies and economies of scale with respect to the research and management services that it provides
to clients. Therefore, the use of a Fidelity model provider presents a conflict of interest. Strategic Advisers’
investment professionals are not compensated based on the use of Fidelity or non-Fidelity model providers.
About Tax-Smart Investing Techniques for Equity Strategies. While each Equity Strategy uses tax-smart
investing techniques in taxable accounts, please note that the stated investment objective is of primary
importance. Accordingly, the application of tax-smart investing techniques is a secondary consideration.
Clients in Equity Strategies should understand that significant tax consequences can result from investing
in a strategy with a primary focus other than tax-smart investing techniques. For example, each strategy has
a corresponding investable universe of investments that has been constructed by Strategic Advisers. With
respect to the Environmental Focus Strategy, stocks used to fund a Program Account that are not included in
the environmentally screened investable universe for the strategy will be sold without regard to potential tax
consequences of such sales.
Realizing gains could create a tax liability, particularly when offsetting losses are not available. Strategic
Advisers cannot guarantee the effectiveness of its tax-smart investing techniques in serving to reduce or
minimize a client’s overall tax liability or the tax results of a given transaction, and Strategic Advisers does not
take direction from a client on when to take gains or losses from the client’s taxable Program Account.
Over the long run, tax-smart investing techniques are intended to contribute to helping clients reach their
investment goals. However, Strategic Advisers can implement trades in accounts that trigger significant tax
consequences in seeking to manage the Program Accounts consistently with long-term strategy investment
objectives. The potential federal income tax consequences of holding, buying, and selling securities are
considered as part of the investment services, but we do not consider state or local taxes; foreign taxes,
including those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities;
or estate, gift, or generation-skipping taxes. The tax-smart investing techniques Strategic Advisers uses
when making trading decisions to buy, hold, or sell securities for a client’s taxable Program Account will
vary depending on the size of the account and the investment strategy selected. The tax-smart investing
techniques referenced throughout this brochure refer to one or more of the following:
Ability to harvest tax losses. Individual stock positions can experience price declines, possibly below a client’s
adjusted tax basis in the security (as determined by the tax basis information on record for the client’s Program
Account). In such instances, losses could be realized in the client’s Program Account for tax purposes. In cases
where a position is sold to realize a capital loss for tax purposes, the position usually will be replaced with
one or a combination of investments we believe will maintain comparable market exposure. In harvesting
tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in the client’s
taxable Program Account and will consider factors such as investment risk, available comparable investment
alternatives, and potential wash sales in the account(s) that Strategic Advisers monitors for wash sales when
deciding whether to harvest tax losses.
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Strategic Advisers considers the potential application of the wash-sale rules when evaluating transactions in
taxable Program Accounts. However, clients should understand that Strategic Advisers does not prevent or
avoid wash sales in all cases. The wash-sale rule requires taxpayers to defer losses that would otherwise be
realized if the taxpayer acquires a substantially identical investment 30 days before or after the sale. While
Strategic Advisers considers whether its trading in taxable Program Accounts may trigger wash-sale rules, we
will nevertheless engage in transactions that are potentially subject to the wash-sale rules if we determine
that such transactions are consistent with the Program Strategy. Strategic Advisers will monitor for wash sales
within taxable Program Accounts. However, the wash-sale rule not only applies to investment transactions
occurring in a Program Account, but also to transactions occurring in other investment accounts, whether
maintained at Fidelity or at another financial institution, which are held by the client, the client’s spouse, and
certain entities controlled by the client and/or a spouse. As a result, clients can have wash sales as a result of
transactions within taxable Program Accounts as well as other accounts (whether maintained at Fidelity or
another institution). The wash-sale rule is complex, and while Strategic Advisers seeks to monitor wash sales
in taxable Program Accounts, clients are ultimately responsible for determining whether the wash-sale rules
apply to any particular transaction in their Program Accounts or in their other investment accounts. Clients
should consult their tax advisors with respect to the application of the wash-sale rules based on their individual
circumstances. A client can work with a Fidelity representative to identify their other accounts enrolled in the
managed account programs offered by Strategic Advisers (whether the account is owned by the client or the
client’s spouse) to review which accounts could be eligible related accounts for wash-sale monitoring. Clients
should contact a Fidelity representative with any questions regarding how to provide relevant tax information
for their Program Accounts. Eligible Private Wealth Management clients can have access to additional support
and planning services.
Opportunities to avoid and/or postpone capital gain realizations. If there are specific lots of securities (a
block of shares bought at a particular time at a particular price) in a client’s taxable Program Account, they
are reviewed and the potential federal income tax burden associated with selling a specific lot is weighed
against the potential investment merits of the sale, such as performance potential, added diversification,
and support of risk-management strategies. Once Strategic Advisers decides to sell an eligible security, it will
attempt to sell the lot(s) that will generate the lowest overall federal income tax burden (or generate a loss for
tax purposes) using the tax basis and holding period information on record, with a preference for long-term
capital gains over short-term capital gains.
Fractional Share Investing
Each Equity Strategy can invest in whole shares or fractional shares of individual securities. Clients should
be aware that the use of fractional shares could result in the receipt of fewer dividends. Please note that any
dividends received that are valued at less than $0.01 but that round up to $0.01 will be credited to a Program
Account, but amounts that do not round up to $0.01 will not be distributed to the Program Account that held
the fractional share. If any amount is not distributed and the aggregate value is less than or equal to $1.00
per security, it will be retained by NFS, an affiliate of Strategic Advisers, and when it exceeds $1.00, it will be
escheated to the state of Delaware. Also, with respect to proxy voting, clients are not able to vote a fractional
share of an individual security; however, if clients elect to appoint Strategic Advisers as proxy voting agent on
their behalf, such fractional shares can generally be voted because such fractional shares will be aggregated
for purposes of proxy voting. Fractional shares cannot be transferred to an account outside of Fidelity; in such
situations, the fractional share would need to be sold and a taxable gain or loss incurred.
Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates can determine that, as a result of regulatory
requirements that apply to Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates due to investments in a particular country
or in an issuer operating in a particular regulated industry, investments in the securities of issuers domiciled
or listed on trading markets in that country or operating in that regulated industry above certain thresholds
are impractical or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds can apply at the Program Account level
or in the aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts) managed, sponsored, or owned by,
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or otherwise attributable to, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. For investment risk management and other
purposes, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also generally apply internal aggregate limits on the amount
of a particular issuer’s securities owned by all such accounts. In such instances, investment flexibility can be
restricted, and Strategic Advisers can limit or exclude a client’s investment in a particular issuer, which can
include investment in related derivative instruments. To the extent that a client’s Program Account already
owns securities that directly or indirectly contribute to an ownership threshold being exceeded, Strategic
Advisers could sell securities held in such Program Account in order to bring account-level and/or aggregate
ownership below the relevant threshold. In the event that any such sales result in realized losses for a Program
Account, that Program Account will bear such losses depending on the particular circumstances.
Material Risks
Risks Associated with Financial Planning. The projections and other analyses presented to a client in
the course of providing our financial planning services are not guarantees. In particular, projections are
hypothetical in nature; are for illustrative purposes only; do not reflect actual investment, tax, or other planning
results; and are not guarantees of future outcomes. The modeling results shown will vary with each use and
over time. In addition, our assumptions and methodologies used in financial planning are adjusted from time
to time, which can have an impact on the results obtained.
The financial planning analyses provided through the Program are based on the information provided by
clients and certain static assumptions—for example, fixed return rates, fixed life expectancies, and fixed rates
of income or cash flow. In reality, these variables will not be static—market fluctuation will affect overall asset
performance, and uncertain life expectancy could cause clients to outlive their resources or fail to accumulate
necessary resources. In addition, financial planning analyses include probabilistic modeling, whereby the
probability of success varies based on differing assumptions and on changing circumstances and market
information. In addition, the financial planning analyses do not model the individual return characteristics
of the securities or investments a client owns. Instead, our analyses model the return characteristics of asset
classes, and, as a result, the modeling process is subject to significant variability based on the differences in
performance between the securities actually owned by a client and the assumptions used in the modeling
process with respect to asset classes.
A client may own securities or investments for which we cannot determine an appropriate asset class
classification; in some cases, we may assign an asset class and in others we may be unable to model the
return characteristics of such a security or investment. Our financial planning analyses assume that the
diversification within each asset class is consistent with broadly diversified market indexes. In addition, where
our management of one or more Program Accounts is based on information a client has told us about Other
Assets assigned to a particular goal, our coordinated management of the Program Accounts assumes that the
diversification of the Other Assets is consistent with broadly diversified market indexes. To the extent that the
characteristics of a client’s assets vary significantly from those of the broadly diversified asset class assumptions
used, actual performance can deviate significantly from the projections provided as
a component of our financial planning services.
Unless otherwise indicated, the financial planning analyses assume that the asset allocation of the accounts
associated with a goal, when aggregated, will generally reflect the Asset Allocation recommended for the goal.
Accordingly, the Asset Allocation recommended with respect to a particular goal can differ from the Asset
Allocation identified for discretionary management services provided to a Program Account associated with
that goal, and clients are responsible for implementing the asset allocation of any Other Assets associated with
a goal. If the actual aggregated asset allocation for all of a client’s accounts associated with a goal does not
match the Asset Allocation recommended for that goal, the differential can have a significant impact.
Although Fidelity can consider the potential effect of certain estate or tax strategies, Fidelity does not provide
tax, accounting, or legal advice. Accordingly, any information presented in conjunction with the Program,
including in providing the financial planning services, about tax considerations affecting financial transactions
or estate arrangements is provided for informational purposes. Clients should consult their tax and legal
advisors regarding their particular circumstances.
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As part of the financial planning services, we can identify certain account types or account structures that are
generally designed to help investors reach their goals, including the use of tax-deferred or tax-free retirement,
insurance, and educational savings accounts. There is no guarantee that a client’s use of these account
structures will be beneficial in helping the client reach their goals.
In addition, the legal and tax treatment of these types of accounts could change in the future, leading to
unexpected consequences for any such accounts, and we are under no obligation to update clients about
potential changes in the tax law or the tax treatment of any account. Each financial planning analysis provides
detailed information regarding the analysis, including risks and limitations.
Risks Associated with Investment Strategies. The discretionary investment management strategies
implemented for Program clients, including conservative investments, involve risk of loss. Investments in a
Program Account are not bank deposits and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. All investments involve risk, the degree of which varies
significantly. Investment performance can never be predicted or guaranteed, and the value of a client’s assets
will fluctuate due to market conditions and other factors. A client could lose money by investing in mutual
funds, ETPs, and/or individual securities. A client could lose money by investing in a Program Account.
Many factors affect each investment’s or Program Account’s performance and potential for loss. Strategies
that pursue investments in equities will be subject to stock market volatility and can decline significantly in
response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Strategies that pursue
fixed income investments (such as bond or money market funds) will see values fluctuate in response
to changes in interest rates, inflation and prepayment risks, as well as default risks for both issuers and
counterparties; changing interest rates, including rates that fall below zero, can have unpredictable effects
on markets and can result in heightened market volatility. Developments that disrupt global economies and
financial markets, such as wars, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues,
recessions, or other events, can magnify factors that affect performance. These strategies are also affected by
impacts to the individual issuers, such as changes in an issuer’s credit quality, or changes in tax, regulatory,
market, or economic developments. In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less liquid than
other investments and therefore are more difficult to trade effectively. Municipal bond funds carry additional
risks, which are discussed below.
Nearly all investments or accounts are subject to volatility in non-U.S. markets, through either direct exposure
or indirect effects in U.S. markets from events abroad. Those investments and accounts that are exposed to
emerging markets are potentially subject to heightened volatility from greater social, economic, regulatory,
and political uncertainties, as the extent of economic development, political stability, market depth,
infrastructure, capitalization, and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets.
Stock Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer,
political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market can react differently
to these developments. Value and growth stocks can perform differently from other types of stocks. Growth
stocks can be more volatile. Value stocks can continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of
time. In addition, stock investments are subject to risk related to market capitalization as well as company-
specific risk.
Quantitative Investing. Funds or securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from
the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, changes
to the factors’ behavior over time, market volatility, or the quantitative model’s assumption about market
behavior. In addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment strategies rely on algorithmic processes,
and, therefore, are subject to the risks described below under the heading “Operational Risks.” To the extent
that the quantitative models fail to adequately match the risk and return profile of a referenced index used
in managing a particular strategy, a Program Account could perform differently; it could underperform
or outperform the corresponding reference index on a pretax basis. In addition, to the extent that the
components of the corresponding reference index perform in a highly correlated fashion—such as most stocks
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in the index rising or falling at the same time—the strategy could be less effective at harvesting the tax losses
on which the after-tax portion of the strategy relies.
Fundamental Investing. Funds or securities selected using fundamental analysis (i.e., evaluating an issuer’s
financial condition and/or industry position and valuation as well as forecasting market and economic
conditions) can perform differently from the market when the fundamental model fails to accurately forecast
risk and return. Therefore, a Program Account could underperform or outperform the index on a pretax
basis. To the extent that securities become more correlated, a strategy could be less effective in achieving
outperformance.
Foreign Exposure. Investing in foreign securities and securities of U.S. entities with substantial foreign
operations are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, tax, operational, regulatory, and
political risks, all of which are likely to be greater in emerging markets. These risks are particularly significant
for investment strategies that focus on a single country or region or emerging markets. Foreign markets can
be more volatile than U.S. markets and can perform differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets can
be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
Foreign exchange rates can also be extremely volatile. Foreign markets can also offer less protection to
investors than U.S. markets. For example, foreign issuers are generally not bound by uniform accounting,
auditing, and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to
U.S. issuers. Adequate public information on foreign issuers might be unavailable, and it could be difficult
to secure dividends and information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis. Regulatory enforcement
can be influenced by economic or political concerns, and investors could have difficulty enforcing their legal
rights in foreign countries. Foreign governments may decide to seize or confiscate securities held by foreign
investors or assets held by foreign issuers, restrict an investor’s ability to sell or redeem securities, suspend or
limit an issuer’s ability to make dividend or interest payments, and/or limit or entirely restrict repatriation of
invested capital, profits, and dividends. Furthermore, investments in securities of foreign entities can result in
clients owning an interest in a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”). Clients holding an interest in a
PFIC could be subject to additional tax liabilities and filing requirements as a result of such investments. The
rules regarding investments in PFICs are complex, and clients are urged to consult their tax advisors.
Risks of Investing in ADRs. ADRs are certificates evidencing ownership of shares of an underlying foreign
issuer that are issued by depositary banks and generally trade on an established market in the U.S. or
elsewhere. Certain ADRs are not traded on a national securities exchange, can be less liquid than other
investments, and can therefore be more difficult to trade effectively. ADRs are alternatives to directly
purchasing the underlying foreign securities in their national markets and currencies. However, ADRs are
subject to many of the risks associated with investing directly in foreign securities. The depositary bank can
charge fees for various services, including forwarding dividends and interest, and for corporate actions.
Investing in ADRs can make it more difficult for U.S. persons to benefit from applicable treaty rates that could
otherwise reduce withholding on any distributions from the underlying foreign issuer. Recovery of any extra
foreign tax withheld can be costly and complex, and recovery might not be available for certain registration
types, such as individual retirement accounts.
Values-Based Investing. Because of the subjective nature of values-based investing, there can be no
guarantee that values-based investing preferences and the related values-based themes used by Strategic
Advisers will reflect the beliefs or values of any particular client. The incorporation of values-based themes
can affect an account’s exposure to certain securities or ETPs. Clients should understand that a Program
Account invested with a values-based investing preference will not exclude any and all security issuers that
are deemed to have negative values-based characteristics. Investing based on values-based themes could
cause a Program Account with a values-based investing preference to forgo certain investment opportunities
available to an account without such a preference.
Real Estate. Real estate is a cyclical industry that is sensitive to interest rates, economic conditions (both
nationally and locally), property tax rates, and other factors. Changes in real estate values or economic
downturns can have a significant negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry.
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Money Market Fund Risk. Cash balances in a Program Account will be invested in the core Fidelity money
market fund, the cash sweep vehicle for a Program Account. A client could lose money by investing in a
money market fund. Although a money market fund seeks to preserve the value of a client’s investment
at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not a bank
account and is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Fidelity, the sponsor
of Fidelity’s money market funds, is not required to reimburse money market funds for losses, and a client
should not expect that Fidelity will provide financial support to a Fidelity money market fund at any time,
including during periods of market stress. Fidelity’s government and U.S. Treasury money market funds will
not impose a fee upon the sale of a client’s shares.
Risks of Bond Investments. Because of the fragmented and thinly traded nature of the bond market, and
because of client-specific factors, two clients who invest in bonds in the same amount and on the same date
could have entirely different individual securities in their portfolios. The bond market can be significantly
affected by tax, legislative, interest rate, or political changes, and by the financial condition of the issuers.
Changing interest rates, including rates that fall below zero, can have unpredictable effects on markets and
can result in heightened market volatility. Tax code changes could impact the bond market. Tax laws are
subject to change, and the preferential tax treatment that could apply to bond interest income could be
removed or phased out for investors at certain income levels.
Investing in Mutual Funds and ETPs. A Program Account bears all the risks of the investment strategies
employed by the mutual funds and ETPs held in the Program Account, including the risk that a mutual fund
or ETP will not meet its investment objectives. ETPs can trade at a premium or discount to their net asset
value and can also be affected by the market fluctuations of their underlying investments. They can also have
unique risks depending on their structure and underlying investments. For the specific risks associated with a
mutual fund or ETP, please see its prospectus.
Risks and Limitations Associated with Tax-Smart Investing Techniques. Clients should understand that there
are risks and limitations associated with the use of tax-smart investing techniques, and these limitations
can result in tax-inefficient trades. The strategy investment objective is of primary importance, and Strategic
Advisers (for Equity Strategies) and the applicable sub-advisor (for Bond Strategies) will make changes to a
Program Account even if such changes trigger significant tax consequences, including but not limited to wash
sales and the realization of short- and long-term capital gains. Clients should consult their tax and/or legal
advisor prior to enrolling in the Program as well as on an ongoing basis to determine whether the wash-sale
rule or other special tax rules could apply to their tax situation, and to determine the efficacy of the tax-smart
investing techniques to their current and future tax situation. Strategic Advisers (for Equity Strategies) and
the applicable sub-advisor (for Bond Strategies) rely on information a client provides in applying tax-smart
investing techniques and do not offer tax advice. Please see the applicable sub-advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A
brochure for information about risks associated with tax-smart investing techniques such as tax-loss harvesting
in Bond Strategies.
For Equity Strategies, Strategic Advisers actively manages for federal income taxes, but does not actively
manage for state or local taxes; foreign taxes, including those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim;
federal tax rules applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or generation-skipping transfer taxes.
In harvesting tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs
in a taxable Program Account. Clients should also be aware that, in cases where a position is sold to realize
a capital loss for tax purposes, Strategic Advisers can replace that position with one or a combination of
investments designed to provide comparable market exposure, and it is important to understand that in a
given year, due to investment decisions or market conditions, a client could receive varying levels of taxable
distributions within a taxable Program Account.
In general, Strategic Advisers will not sell merely to avoid a taxable distribution but, in fact, looks at the
overall Program Account to determine the most appropriate action. There are implicit trading opportunity
costs associated with the additional turnover, which can affect the returns on a client’s Program Account. A
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taxable Program Account will generally trade more frequently than a Program Account that is not managed
using tax-smart investing techniques. There are implicit trading opportunity costs associated with the
additional turnover, which can affect the returns on a client’s Program Account. It is important to note that the
performance of any replacement investments will not be the same as that of the investment sold, and any
replacement investments can perform worse than the investment that was sold. In addition, any tax-related
benefits resulting from tax-smart investing techniques can be offset or even outweighed by investment losses
and/or missed gains (realized and unrealized). Furthermore, there are not clear guidelines on what constitutes
a “substantially identical” security to another ETP or mutual fund for purposes of the wash-sale rule. As such,
there can be no guarantee that a replacement investment selected by Strategic Advisers will not be deemed
“substantially identical” for purposes of the wash-sale rule.
Although taxable Program Accounts seek to enhance after-tax returns, tax-smart investing techniques may not
take into account all of the tax rules, regulations, and limitations applicable to a client’s particular facts and
circumstances, which, in certain circumstances, will reduce the effectiveness of tax-smart investing techniques.
For example, if a Tax-Smart Program Account is held by an entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal
income tax purposes, the tax-smart investing techniques used will not take into account all the tax rules
applicable to that entity, such as rules limiting the use of capital losses, the potential expiration of unused
capital losses from prior years, and the corporate tax rate applicable to capital gains and losses. Clients should
understand that the benefits derived from any tax-smart investing techniques will likely be greater for clients
in higher tax brackets. Since the value of offsetting capital gains or ordinary income is directly tied to the
applicable federal capital gains or ordinary income tax rates, clients in lower federal capital gains and ordinary
income tax rates experience reduced benefits relative to those in higher federal capital gains and ordinary
income tax rates.
Environmental Focus Investing Risk. Because of the subjective nature of environmentally sustainable investing,
there can be no guarantee that environmental sustainability criteria used by Fidelity will reflect the beliefs or
values of any particular client. The incorporation of environmental sustainability factors can affect a Program
Account’s exposure to certain companies or industries and may not work as intended. Clients should
understand that the application of environmental sustainability criteria does not mean that an Environmental
Focus Strategy account will exclude any and all security issuers that are deemed to have negative
environmental sustainability characteristics; rather, the application of environmental sustainability criteria is
intended to create an investment universe that has a higher aggregate environmental rating, as measured by
FMRCo, than the Large Cap Index.
Investing based on environmental sustainability factors could cause an Environmental Focus Strategy Program
Account to forgo certain investment opportunities available to strategies that do not use such criteria. An
account could underperform other investments that do not assess environmental sustainability factors
or that use a different methodology to identify and/or incorporate environmental sustainability factors.
Information regarding environmental practices is obtained through voluntary or third-party reporting, which
could be inaccurate or incomplete. Information used to evaluate environmental sustainability factors may
not be readily available, complete, or accurate, and can vary across providers and issuers, as environmental
sustainability is not uniformly defined. As a result, there is a risk that FMRCo could incorrectly assess a security
or issuer. There is also a risk that Strategic Advisers or FMRCo does not apply the relevant environmental
sustainability criteria correctly or that an account could have indirect exposure to issuers that do not meet
the relevant environmental sustainability criteria used by such account. There could be limitations with
respect to the readiness of environmental sustainability data in certain sectors, as well as limited availability of
investments with relevant environmental sustainability characteristics in certain sectors. FMRCo can change
its environmental sustainability assessment of an issuer over time. Socially responsible norms differ by region.
There is no assurance that the environmental sustainability investing strategy and techniques employed will
be successful. Past performance is not a guarantee or reliable indicator of future results.
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Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process employed by Strategic Advisers
includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing large amounts of data from external public sources and/
or third-party data providers, including, in some instances, through the use of generative artificial intelligence
(“AI”) and large language models (“LLM”). It is not possible or practicable, however, to factor all relevant,
available data into economic forecasts or trading decisions. In addition, due to the automated nature of this
data gathering and the fact that much of this data comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all
desired or relevant data will be available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should be
aware that there is no guarantee that the data utilized in generating forecasts or making trading decisions will
be the most accurate data available or even free of errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require
training of the models to be used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order to
yield the desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all scenarios or
that they will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI and LLMs are subject to various
risks, including (i) the data used to train LLMs suffers inaccuracies, biases, or flaws that may cause the AI
model to respond other than as intended; (ii) weak controls in the development and use of AI allow it to be
deployed for use cases for which it was not intended; and (iii) the AI may provide inaccurate or fabricated
responses to queries it is unable to process. Fidelity has adopted a Generative AI policy and governance
framework so that the use of AI and LLMs is targeted and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using
known and appropriate data sources and are subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the
use of AI and LLMs is but one input into the research process. Clients should assume that the foregoing
limitation and risks associated with gathering, cleaning, culling, and analysis of large amounts of data from
third-party, other external sources, and the use of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing. There
may also be incidents where data fails to load or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for
example, because of changes in the vendor’s or our system configurations due to upgrades, enhancements,
maintenance or errors, or that LLMs provide incorrect information in response to certain prompts. Clients
should assume that these data errors, like other system implementation errors, and their ensuing risks and
impact are an inherent part of investing. Accordingly, unless otherwise required to do so, Strategic Advisers
does not expect to disclose discovered data errors to clients.
Cybersecurity Risk. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business, Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. These risks could include
events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and may have a negative effect on our ability to conduct
business activities. We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate these risks, but do not believe
that we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result from deliberate attacks or
unintentional events that can arise from external or internal sources. Cyberattacks include but are not limited
to gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software coding)
for purposes of misappropriating assets or sensitive information; corrupting data, equipment, or systems;
and causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks can also be carried out in a manner that does not require
gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make
network services unavailable to intended users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its affiliates, or
any other service providers (including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents, and financial
intermediaries used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact
business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the ability to calculate the net
asset value (“NAV”), impediments to trading, the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment and
systems, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar adverse consequences
could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in which an account invests, counterparties
with which an account engages in transactions, governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchange and
other financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
(including financial intermediaries and service providers), and other parties.
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Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments in a Program Account could be adversely affected by new (or
revised) laws or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations could impact the securities markets as a whole,
specific industries, individual issuers of securities, and a sub-advisor’s determinations with respect to the
expected rate of return, value, or creditworthiness of a particular security. Generally, the impact of these
changes will not be fully known for some time.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in internal processes, people,
or systems, such as routine processing incidents or major systems failures, or from external events, such as
exchange outages. Strategic Advisers uses algorithms in support of its discretionary portfolio management
processes, which can contribute to operational risks. For example, algorithms are used as part of the process
whereby Strategic Advisers recommends an appropriate asset allocation that corresponds to a level of risk
consistent with a client’s Profile Information. In providing financial planning services, algorithms are used in
analyzing the potential for success of a client’s financial plan. A sub-advisor can use algorithms in support
of its discretionary portfolio management process. There is a risk that the data input into the algorithms
could have errors, omissions, or imperfections, or that the algorithms do not operate as intended (generally
referred to as “processing incidents”). Any decisions made in reliance on incorrect data or algorithms that do
not operate as intended can expose Program Accounts to potential risks. Issues in the algorithm are often
extremely difficult to detect and could go undetected for long periods of time or never be detected. These
risks are mitigated by testing and human oversight of the algorithms and their output. We believe that the
oversight and testing performed on our algorithms and their output will enable us to identify and address
issues appropriately. However, there is no assurance that the algorithms will always work as intended. In
general, we will not assess each Program Account individually, nor will we override the outcome of the
algorithm with respect to any particular Program Account.
Not all processing incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting from the mistakes of
third parties, will be compensable by Strategic Advisers to clients. Strategic Advisers maintains policies and
procedures that address the identification and resolution of processing incidents, consistent with applicable
standards of care, to ensure that clients are treated fairly when a processing incident has been detected.
The determination of whether, and how, to address a processing incident is made by Strategic Advisers or its
affiliates, in their sole discretion.
Processing incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact on a client’s Program
Account based on, among other things, the relevant investment strategy, and to evaluate the materiality
of the impact. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred, we will make an appropriate
correction or otherwise reimburse the Program Account in an amount Strategic Advisers or its affiliates
determines is appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Typically, processing incidents that result
in a financial impact of less than $10 per Program Account are not considered material. Other examples
of impact that could affect the performance of a Program Account but would likely not be material include
impacts arising from computer, communications, data processing, network, cloud computing, backup,
business continuity or other operating, information, or technology systems, including those we outsource
to other providers, failing to operate as planned or becoming disabled, overloaded, or damaged as a result
of a number of factors. These factors could include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control
and could have a negative impact on our ability to conduct business activities. Though losses arising from
operating, information, or technology systems failures could adversely affect the performance of a Program
Account, such losses would likely not be reimbursable under Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities and other investments
involves a risk of loss that a client should understand and be willing to bear. Clients are encouraged to
discuss these risks with a Fidelity representative.
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Voting Client Securities
Strategic Advisers does not acquire authority for, or exercise, proxy voting on a client’s behalf in connection
with managing Program Accounts. Unless an Equity Strategy client directs Strategic Advisers otherwise
pursuant to the paragraph below, the client will receive proxy materials directly from the issuer of the security
(or its service provider). Strategic Advisers will not advise clients on the voting of proxies. Clients must exercise
any proxy voting directly.
Notwithstanding the information above, an Equity Strategy client can direct Strategic Advisers to act as agent
to vote proxies on the client’s behalf for the funds and other securities held in Program Accounts. For Fidelity
Funds, clients who make such a direction must instruct Strategic Advisers to vote proxies of a Fidelity Fund in
the same proportion as the vote of all other holders of such Fidelity Fund. For non-Fidelity funds and other
securities, such clients must instruct Strategic Advisers to vote proxies pursuant to the directions provided by
ISS, an unaffiliated third-party proxy advisory services provider.
Please note that, unlike general proxy votes, Strategic Advisers and, for Bond Strategies, the appliable sub-
advisor, generally treat certain voluntary corporate actions as subject to the exercise of their discretion as
investment managers. Accordingly, Strategic Advisers and the applicable sub-advisor will make decisions with
respect to voluntary corporate actions directly as part of the investment management services they provide
to Program Accounts. However, clients retain the right to make elections with respect to voluntary corporate
actions if they so choose; if a client would like to make an election with respect to a security subject to a
voluntary corporate action, the client will need to contact us to transfer the security out of the client’s Program
Account. In connection with this election, a client must acknowledge that Strategic Advisers or the applicable
sub-advisor is acting solely at the client’s direction and does not exercise discretion with respect to the voting
of any proxy.
Clients receive information about ISS’ proxy voting policies in the summary of ISS’ proxy voting guidelines
available at Fidelity.com/information. In some instances, ISS will be unable to provide proxy voting directions,
in which case Strategic Advisers will not vote such proxy because it does not have discretion to determine
how proxies are voted. To obtain a copy of ISS’ summary proxy voting guidelines or information on how
investment proxies were voted, please contact a Fidelity representative. In addition, an Equity Strategy
client can request that Strategic Advisers act as agent for receipt of certain legally required communications,
including prospectuses, annual and semiannual reports, and proxy materials for mutual funds and ETPs that
are not managed by FMRCo or an affiliate thereof, and other individual securities.
Clients should be aware that, to the extent that a Program Account holds a fractional share of an ETP or
individual security, they will not be able to vote the fractional share; however, where Strategic Advisers is acting
as proxy voting agent on the client’s behalf, such fractional share can generally be voted. In addition, clients are
not able to take any discretionary or voluntary corporate action with respect to any fractional share position.
C L I E N T I N F O R M A T I O N P R O V I D E D T O
P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Strategic Advisers has access to the relevant Program Account information, including certain Profile
Information and, for accounts managed with tax-smart investing techniques, information on record with
Strategic Advisers regarding the client’s tax situation and the tax characteristics of the securities in the client’s
Program Account. Through Strategic Advisers, Bond Strategy sub-advisors have ongoing access to the relevant
Program Account information, including certain Profile Information. The discretionary portfolio management
services will be impacted by incomplete or inaccurate information. If changes to a client’s personal, financial,
or tax situation occur, the client should promptly contact a Fidelity representative.
Strategic Advisers does not provide client information to any of the Model Portfolio providers that provide
models for certain Program Strategies.
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C L I E N T C O N T A C T W I T H P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Clients should contact a Fidelity representative regarding questions about their Program Accounts, to update
their Profile Information, or to provide an update about their personal situation or any other information that
could affect how their Program Accounts are managed. A Fidelity representative will act as a liaison between
a client and Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals or the relevant sub-advisor and will help ensure
appropriate management of the client’s Program Account by updating client Profile Information used by
the investment professionals or sub-advisor in managing a Program Account. While Strategic Advisers or the
sub-advisors could provide clients with information about the management of Program Accounts from time
to time, they do not typically meet or communicate directly with Program clients. Model Portfolio providers
do not meet with clients.
A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N
Custody
Clients must establish and maintain a brokerage account with FBS to participate in the Program, and NFS
serves as the qualified custodian for Program Accounts. Clients should carefully review all statements and other
communications received from NFS and FBS. NFS and FBS are broker-dealers and affiliates of Strategic Advisers.
Strategic Advisers is deemed to have custody under the Advisers Act because its affiliate NFS serves as
qualified custodian for Program Accounts.
Disciplinary Information
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
Strategic Advisers’ advisory business or the integrity of its management personnel.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that, together with its affiliates
and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct or indirect
subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance businesses.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material business relationships with any of the
subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers
and/or employees of affiliated companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity trading
advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is registered with the
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as
amended (“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National Futures Association
(“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have common supervision.
Certain management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered representatives of FBS, a Strategic Advisers
affiliate and a registered broker-dealer. In addition, Strategic Advisers has entered into an intercompany
agreement with FBS, pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers various operational, administrative,
analytical, and technical services, and the personnel necessary for the performance of such services.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated
companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a
registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FMRCo provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated
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and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients and provides model portfolio recommendations and environmental filtering
services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for handling the
business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers, and Strategic Advisers
compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available to managed account programs offered by
Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides nondiscretionary investment management
services and sponsors the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
programs (turnkey asset management programs made available to financial intermediaries). Strategic
Advisers provides model portfolio services to FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its institutional
and intermediary clients, and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In addition, Strategic
Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is registered with the Central Bank
of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies
in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers
has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been authorized by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered
with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Japan Financial
Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated
advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Hong
Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on securities, deal in futures contracts, provide asset
management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment management
services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other
affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain
registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and
as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and
sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients.
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Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development companies and
the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds, and also markets those funds and other
products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a
fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services for other
broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of NFS, provides trade
executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative
trading system (“ATS”) that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against orders
submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for investment company and
other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer agent services and other custodial services to
certain Fidelity clients.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs, the Luminex ATS and the
LeveL ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other
subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC, owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and
FMR Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests
in LeveL Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC, charges a commission to both
sides of each trade executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to
execute transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a
clearing agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act
and provides brokerage products and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment
companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans, and acts
as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates.
In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products
that are issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity Investments Life
Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third parties. FBS provides shareholder
services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the introducing broker for managed accounts offered by
Strategic Advisers and places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS
provides securities brokerage to retail customers through a digital mobile application–based brokerage
platform. DBS receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and marketing
FMRCo products.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance
and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance and
annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to
residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life insurance and annuity
products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
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Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC Holdings LLC, which
in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust company organized and operating under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and custodial
services to employee benefit plans and IRAs through which individuals can invest in affiliated or unaffiliated
registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment management services to
institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift Holding Company, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings bank that offers fiduciary services that
include trustee or co-trustee services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These funds are
privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in
borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”), can from time to time
provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment management
support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is
not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating Affiliate”
of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management in various
no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of
registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland
Associated Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(17)
of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such employees can
contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information concerning securities
that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a Participating
Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the jurisdiction of United States
courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection with investment advisory activities
conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated
Employees whom Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the list
available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The Code of Ethics
applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised persons of Strategic Advisers and requires
that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes
securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an exception exists or
prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access to certain
nonpublic information;
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• Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through acknowledgments of
receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also imposes
additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research analysts, and portfolio
managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include the following:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions;
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval;
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a trade in any
covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such portfolio manager except in
limited circumstances;
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions;
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and annually
thereafter; and
• The disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The Code
of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside
Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any client or prospective
client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are contemplated
in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity
policies are designed to make it clear to Fidelity personnel that they should never place their personal
interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics
and other Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material nonpublic
information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable
laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits the use
of material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other employees and that limits the
transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for Program Accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set standards for
business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make sound decisions with
respect to these activities, and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients come first. Similarly, to
support compliance with applicable “pay to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions
& Activities Policy that requires employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity also
has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that
prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe,
facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly
obtain or retain business or any improper advantage.
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B R O K E R A G E P R A C T I C E S
Broker Selection and Transactions in Equity Strategy Program Accounts
Strategic Advisers has a duty to seek best execution for transactions in client accounts. Strategic Advisers
will place trades for Equity Strategy Program Accounts with affiliated or unaffiliated registered broker-dealers
(“brokers”) and may choose to execute an order using electronic channels (including broker-sponsored
algorithms) or by manually working an order with a broker. In selecting brokers, Strategic Advisers may
consider a range of factors deemed relevant in the context of a particular trade, including but not limited to
price; costs; the size, nature, and type of the order; speed of execution; financial condition and reputation of
the broker; broker-specific considerations (e.g., not all brokers are able to execute all types of trades); broker
willingness to commit capital; our trader’s assessment of whether and how closely the broker will follow our
instructions; and confidentiality and the potential for information leakage.
As described above in Fees and Compensation, the Program’s Advisory Fee includes the cost of commissions
associated with transactions executed through affiliated brokers. As a result, most trades for Program Accounts
that involve equity securities and other securities where commissions are charged will be executed with
Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker, NFS.
However, Strategic Advisers has the authority to execute transactions with an unaffiliated broker (also referred
to as “trading away”) consistent with its duty to seek best execution. While the Program’s Advisory Fee does
not include the cost of commissions for transactions executed through unaffiliated brokers, Strategic Advisers
or its affiliate is voluntarily assuming the cost of commissions for transactions executed by unaffiliated brokers.
As a result, Program clients are not charged commissions for such transactions. Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates reserve the right to stop assuming the cost of commissions associated with trading away, subject to
prior notice to Program clients. The Program fee does not cover transaction charges for securities where the
counterparty imposes a markup, markdown, and/or dealer spread. The net price of the security will include
these transaction charges and Program Accounts will bear these costs.
In seeking best execution for a transaction, Strategic Advisers will have no obligation to solicit competitive
quotes for each transaction and Strategic Advisers will not necessarily select the broker that charges the
lowest available price or commission rate; however, Strategic Advisers believes that its policies, taking into
consideration the factors stated above, are designed to result in transaction processing that is favorable to
Program clients. Strategic Advisers conducts periodic reviews of trade execution. Although it is Strategic
Advisers’ policy to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time, there can be no
assurance that all Program Accounts will receive the same execution and certain Program Accounts will
experience a more or less favorable execution depending on market conditions.
Please see the Fees and Compensation section above for further information about Program fees, brokerage
commissions, and additional fees for transactions in a Program Account.
Broker Selection for Bond Strategy Program Accounts
For Bond Strategies, the sub-advisors trade away for substantially all fixed income investments through brokers
unaffiliated with Strategic Advisers. The Program fee does not cover transaction charges on trades placed for
fixed income investments where the executing broker imposes a markup, markdown, and/or a dealer spread.
The net price of the bond will include such transaction charges and Program Accounts enrolled in the Bond
Strategies will bear these costs. These transaction charges are in addition to your Program fee and will not be
listed as separate charges on your trade confirmation or account statement. Program Accounts enrolled in the
Bond Strategies incur both transaction charges paid to the executing broker for trading away and transaction
charges that are already included in the Program fee. Clients should consider the impact of trading away and
the related transaction charges when enrolling in the Bond Strategies. Please see the relevant sub-advisor’s
Form ADV Brochure for additional information regarding trading practices and selection of brokers in
accordance with the sub-advisor’s best execution obligations.
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Trade Aggregation and Allocation
Strategic Advisers’ policy is to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time when
aggregating and allocating orders for the purchase and sale of securities. While Strategic Advisers is under no
obligation to aggregate orders for Program Accounts, in general, Strategic Advisers will choose to aggregate
trades for Program Accounts and/or aggregate Program Account trades with trades for other client accounts
(including certain proprietary accounts of Strategic Advisers or its affiliates and Fidelity employee accounts
managed by Strategic Advisers) when, in Strategic Advisers’ judgment, aggregation is in the best interest of all
clients involved and it is operationally feasible to do so. Orders are aggregated into a “block trade” to facilitate
seeking best execution, to negotiate more favorable commission rates, or to allocate equitably among clients
the effects of any market fluctuations that might have otherwise occurred had these orders been placed
independently.
Aggregated orders are generally allocated on a pro rata basis among similarly situated client accounts
participating in a block trade until the order is filled. Client accounts included in a block trade receive the same
average price for the trade and shares are allocated according to the purchase and sale orders actually placed
for each client account included in the block trade. Strategic Advisers can create multiple block trades for both
buy and sell orders in the same security, and it is therefore possible that block trades will receive different
prices depending on when the orders for each block trade are filled throughout the day. When a client account
is not part of a block trade, that client account will receive a different price from the price obtained for Program
Accounts that participate in the aggregated orders.
If Strategic Advisers does not complete an order in a single day (e.g., when an aggregate order for client
accounts exceeds the available supply or to minimize market impact), the partially filled order will be allocated
on a pro rata basis among client accounts in the block.
Strategic Advisers has adopted trade allocation policies for managing client accounts, including Program
Accounts, designed to achieve fairness and not to purposefully disadvantage comparable client accounts over
time when allocating purchases and sales.
Cross Trades
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is not
obligated to) execute “agency cross trades” for Program Accounts. Agency cross trades are trades in which
Strategic Advisers, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with Strategic Advisers,
acts as both investment adviser and broker for a client, and as broker for the party or parties on the other
side of the trade. Agency cross trades will be executed in accordance with Section 206(3) of the Advisers Act,
requiring written consent, confirmations of transactions, annual reporting, and compliance procedures.
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is under
no obligation to) execute “advisor cross trades” for Program Accounts when Strategic Advisers believes such
trades are in the best interest of all clients involved. Advisor cross trades are trades in which Strategic Advisers,
or an affiliate, acts as investment adviser to both clients involved in the trade. An advisor cross trade will be
facilitated between client accounts either directly or through a broker-dealer, including FBS or NFS, and the
relevant crossing value will be determined based on one or more third-party pricing services, actual market
bids, and/or closing prices as reflected on a national securities exchange. Neither Strategic Advisers nor its
affiliates will receive transaction-based compensation for advisor cross trades.
There can be no assurance that agency or advisor cross trades will be executed, or that such transactions will be
executed in a manner that is most favorable to each Program Account that is a party to such transaction. Not all
Program Accounts participate in cross trades, and a client may opt out of cross trading by contacting a Fidelity
representative. Cross trades can be beneficial to clients by reducing transaction costs, and Program Accounts
excluded from cross trading could miss such potential benefits. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates will have a
potentially conflicting division of loyalties and responsibilities regarding both parties to a crossing transaction,
including with respect to the decision to enter into such transactions and the valuation and pricing of such
transactions. Strategic Advisers has developed policies and procedures relating to such transactions and conflicts.
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Account Transaction Information
When Strategic Advisers trades in a Program Account, unless Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, is
acting as trustee or co-trustee with respect to the Program Account, clients will receive a confirmation of
such transaction from NFS, except with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend
reinvestments, and transactions that involve the core Fidelity money market fund where a client’s account
statement serves in lieu of a confirmation. Clients will receive statements from NFS that will provide holdings
and transaction information, including trades, contributions, withdrawals, advisory fees, and estimated
gain/loss and tax basis information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com
and by enrolling in the electronic delivery program. Clients should carefully review all statements and other
communications received from FBS and NFS. Clients will also receive a prospectus for any new mutual fund
or ETP not previously held, unless the client has elected to have Strategic Advisers act as agent for the receipt
of any non-Fidelity prospectuses. The routing details of a particular order will be provided on request, and
an explanation of order routing practices will be provided on an annual basis. In addition, from time to time,
Fidelity will provide aggregated trade execution data to clients and prospective clients.
Soft Dollars
Strategic Advisers does not have a soft dollar program and therefore does not consider the provision of
research or brokerage as a criterion for broker selection.
Client-Directed Brokerage Activities
Program Accounts are not available for brokerage activities outside of the activities directed by Strategic
Advisers, including but not limited to margin trading or trading of securities by a client or any of the client’s
designated agents.
Review of Accounts
Client Contact and Review of Personal Financial Situation
We will contact Program clients at least annually to evaluate whether there have been any changes to their
financial situation that could affect their Profile Information or the Program Services, including whether they
wish to impose any reasonable restrictions on the management of the Program Account or reasonably modify
any existing restrictions (the “Annual Review Process”). Clients should provide updated Profile Information any
time there is a change to their goals, time horizon, tax situation, risk tolerance, or personal financial situation,
even outside of the Annual Review Process. If we do not hear from a client during the Annual Review Process,
we will update client information based on known information (e.g., client’s age, planned investment horizon,
other date-relative elements of the client’s Profile Information, updated account balances of the client’s
Program Accounts and other Fidelity accounts, as well as updated balances of certain outside accounts a client
has provided), but we will otherwise assume that the client’s Profile Information has not changed. In some
cases, the changes to this updated information will cause us to determine that a strategy account is no longer
appropriate for the client. In these instances, we will notify the client and begin the process of terminating the
client’s participation in the Program.
Clients will receive prompt confirmations from NFS for any transactions in their Program Accounts; however,
with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments, and transactions that
involve the core Fidelity money market fund, a client’s account statement serves in lieu of a confirmation. In
addition, clients receive statements from NFS that detail all holdings and transaction information, including
trades, additions, withdrawals, shifts in investment allocations, advisory fees, and estimated gain/loss
and tax basis information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com and by
enrolling in the electronic delivery program. Clients will not pay a different fee because of their decision to
receive electronic statements or trade confirmations. Clients should carefully review all statements and other
communications received from FBS and NFS.
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There can be instances where we need to place a do-not-trade restriction on one or more Program Accounts,
including when a client requests a security be transferred from a Program Account, when processing a trade
correction, when we need to comply with a court order, when a client asks us to process a withdrawal and
keep the proceeds from the sale of securities used to fund the withdrawal in the account until the client
provides further instructions for the transfer of the proceeds, or when we need additional information from
a client. For the period when a do-not-trade restriction is in effect, we generally will not trade or otherwise
manage the Program Account until the do-not-trade restriction has been removed.
To assist in the evaluation of the applicable sub-advisor’s performance, clients will have access to information
about trading activity in their Program Account as well as information about the performance of their Program
Accounts on a pretax basis. Pretax Program Account performance is calculated consistent with industry standards.
Clients with taxable Program Accounts in strategies managed with tax-smart investing techniques will also be
provided with performance information on an after-tax basis. After-tax Program Account performance is based
on the pretax performance of the Program Account, and on an evaluation of the potential tax consequences
of trading activity, dividends, income, and distributions in the Program Account. This after-tax performance
information is based on information provided by the client about the client’s tax situation, the tax basis
information related to the securities in the Program Account, and certain assumptions about the potential tax
consequences of trading activity in the Program Account. Detailed information about the methodology and
assumptions and their related risks and limitations, used in calculating after-tax performance of a Program
Account is provided in each client’s periodic performance summary, or can be obtained by contacting a
Fidelity representative. While performance information is reviewed by Strategic Advisers for accuracy and
compliance with applicable procedures, performance information is not reviewed or approved by a third party.
Ongoing Review and Adjustments of Program Accounts
On a daily basis, Strategic Advisers will evaluate a Program Account with respect to a variety of factors
to determine whether the account could benefit from trading that day. Common reasons clients can
experience trading in their Program Accounts include changes in the model or index, market fluctuations,
tax management opportunities, and client-requested activities, such as cash deposits or withdrawals.
Please note that Strategic Advisers uses the prior trading day’s closing prices in determining whether a
Program Account requires trading on a given day, and in general does not attempt to conduct ongoing
intraday Program Account evaluations, nor attempt to time intraday price fluctuations in its decisions to buy or
sell securities. Strategic Advisers does not anticipate that each Program Account will be traded each day.
Each of the securities purchased in a Program Account will appear on a client’s account statement. Securities
selected for Program Accounts can be individually tailored based on a client’s existing holdings and unique
financial situation and, where applicable, on the tax attributes of the assets in a Program Account. A client
can expect that the securities that compose their Program Account can vary, perhaps significantly, from the
securities purchased for another client’s Program Account managed using the same strategy.
Clients have periodic performance summaries or similar reports made available to them that detail the
performance of a client’s Program Account and summarize the market activity during the period. Industry
standards are applied when calculating performance information. Strategic Advisers also makes available
account performance information on a password-protected website.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are compensated for providing services, including for investment
management, distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services, to certain Fidelity and non-
Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments in which Program Accounts are invested or which a client
could use to implement the Program’s financial planning recommendations. These affiliates include FMRCo
and its affiliates as the investment adviser for the Fidelity Funds; FDC as the underwriter of the Fidelity Funds;
and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (“FIIOC”) as transfer agent for the Fidelity
Funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity funds, and recordkeeper of certain workplace savings plans.
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Certain funds used in Program Accounts are available only to fee-based accounts offered by Fidelity. Unlike
many other mutual funds, these funds do not charge fees or expenses for certain services provided by a
Fidelity affiliate (but do charge fees for other services). Instead, compensation for such uncharged services is
paid by Strategic Advisers or an affiliate. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also receive compensation and
other benefits in connection with portfolio transactions executed on behalf of the Fidelity and non-Fidelity
mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments. FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or research
services, consistent with Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in connection with the
execution of the Fidelity Funds’ portfolio security transactions.
FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing, among other things,
clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and
other investments, and NFS provides securities lending agent services to certain Fidelity Funds for which
it receives compensation. FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, FundsNetwork®,
and provide shareholder and other services (including, for a limited number of participants on the platform,
the sharing of certain aggregated data regarding ETF holdings in Program Accounts) to participating mutual
funds and ETPs (or their sponsors) for which FBS, NFS, and FIIOC receive compensation, including with
respect to those mutual funds and ETPs in which Program Accounts are invested. Neither FBS nor NFS
receives any compensation in connection with directing equity trades for Program Accounts to market
makers for execution. We can execute trades through alternative trading systems or national securities
exchanges, including but not limited to ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, such as
Members Exchange, a registered national securities exchange. Any decision to execute a trade through an
alternative trading system or exchange in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest would be made
in accordance with applicable law, including best execution obligations. For trades placed on certain national
securities exchanges, including ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, Fidelity could
receive exchange rebates from such trades for Program Accounts, and these rebates will be subject to the
Credit Amount (as described in “Fees and Compensation”) and will be allocated, pro rata based on assets,
among client Program Accounts.
The compensation described above that is retained by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates as a direct result of
investments by the Program Accounts in Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs will be included
in the Credit Amount, which reduces the Gross Advisory Fee. However, to the extent that Strategic Advisers
or its affiliates, including FBS, NFS, or FIIOC, receive compensation that is neither a direct result of, nor
directly derived from, investments by the Program Accounts, such compensation is not included in the Credit
Amount, does not reduce the Gross Advisory Fee, and will be retained by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates.
Receipt of compensation in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee creates a financial incentive for Strategic
Advisers and its affiliates to select investments that will increase such compensation. Strategic Advisers seeks
to address this financial conflict of interest through the application of the Credit Amount, which will reduce
the Gross Advisory Fee, as applicable, and through personnel compensation arrangements (including those
of Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals and the Fidelity representatives) that are not differentiated
based on the investments or share classes selected for Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates
have also implemented processes reasonably designed to prevent the receipt of compensation from affecting
the nature of the advice provided to Program Accounts.
See “Fees and Compensation” for additional information.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS or other affiliates, pursuant to referral
agreements where applicable. Additionally, Strategic Advisers refers clients to other independent investment
advisers in connection with a referral program in which such independent investment advisers participate for
a fee payable to Strategic Advisers.
Financial Information
Strategic Advisers does not solicit prepayment of client fees. Strategic Advisers is not aware of any financial
condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
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Fidelity Wealth Advisor Solutions®
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
800.544.3455
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This brochure was developed for those who are considering a referral from the Fidelity Wealth Advisor
Solutions® program. It provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Strategic
Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments® company, as well as information about the
Fidelity Wealth Advisor Solutions program.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not in any way imply a certain level
of skill or training.
If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us at 800.544.3455. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
S U M M A R Y OF M A TE R I A L C H A N GE S
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of material
changes to their advisory services program brochure (also referred to as the Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure).
The section below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity Wealth Advisor
Solutions Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure from March 31, 2025, through March 30, 2026. Clients and
prospective clients can obtain a copy of the Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure without charge by calling
800.544.3455, by visiting Fidelity.com/information, by visiting the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov, or
by contacting a Fidelity representative. Capitalized terms are defined herein in this Form ADV, Part 2A
Brochure.
Material Changes
No material changes were made to the Fidelity Wealth Advisor Solutions Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure from
March 31, 2025, through March 30, 2026.
Other Changes
“Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation” has been updated to provide
further information about how Fidelity and its representatives are compensated.
The chart in “Other Considerations” has been updated to provide further and updated information about
the programs, accounts, and services available from Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes affiliates of Strategic Advisers in “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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T A B L E O F C O NT E N T S
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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ADVISORY BUSINESS
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FEES AND COMPENSATION
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PERFORMANCE -BASED FEES AND SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
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TYPES OF CLIENTS
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METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
AND RISK OF LOSS
DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
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OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
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CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT
TRANSACTIONS AND PERSONAL TRADING
BROKERAGE PRACTICES
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REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
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CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION
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CUSTODY
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INVESTMENT DISCRETION
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VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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A D V I S O R Y B U S I N E SS
Strategic Advisers (sometimes referred to as “we,” “our,” or “us” in this document) is a registered
investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”) and an indirect, wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates, “Fidelity Investments”
or “Fidelity”). Strategic Advisers was formed in 1977 and provides the referral services for the Fidelity
Wealth Advisor Solutions program (herein, the “Service” or “WAS”).
As of December 31, 2025, Strategic Advisers had total assets under management of $1,321,075,214,792
on a discretionary basis and $49,050,110,419 on a nondiscretionary basis.
The Fidelity Wealth Advisor Solutions Program
WAS is a referral service designed for current and prospective clients of Fidelity who seek to receive
referrals to unaffiliated third-party independent investment advisory firms (each an “Advisor” and
together “Advisors”) that can help those clients meet their asset management, wealth management,
and/or financial planning needs. Participating Advisors can include other business names of the
same operating Advisor that also participate in the Service. Based on the information you provide
as part of the profiling process, we will identify two or more Advisors for you to consider. If
requested within 90 days of executing a Referral Agreement and Acknowledgment, we can run
additional analysis to provide you with information about other Advisors that align with your
screening criteria. Alternatively, separate from the profiling process, you can request to be
referred directly to a specific Advisor or Advisors. It is solely your responsibility to determine
whether to meet with and/or retain any Advisor.
We will provide you with documentation and information about each Advisor that is identified for a
referral. The information has been provided to us by each Advisor, and we have not reviewed or verified
the accuracy of such information. It is important that you understand that you have no obligation to
contact or retain the services of any Advisor you learn about through the Service. You should interview
and evaluate each Advisor you consider hiring to ensure that the Advisor and the advisory services each
Advisor can provide are right for you. Each Advisor has its own account minimums and client restrictions.
Advisors are identified from among a universe of registered investment advisers or are entities that are
exempt from registration that (i) have a business relationship with affiliates of Strategic Advisers, including
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”) and National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), and (ii) meet the
participation criteria for the Service (as described below). Advisors are not affiliated with or agents of
Fidelity, and Advisors pay a fee to Strategic Advisers for referrals as explained in more detail in the section
below titled “Fees and Compensation.” Certain affiliates of Strategic Advisers, namely FBS and NFS,
receive additional compensation from the Advisors and/or the Advisors’ clients for the clearing, custody,
and other brokerage services associated with any accounts held or serviced by these affiliates.
Additionally, other affiliates of Strategic Advisers can receive compensation for other services
provided to the Advisors and/or the Advisors’ clients.
The Referral Process
A Fidelity representative will work with you to gather certain information including but not limited to
your investing preferences, geographic preferences, the amount you anticipate investing with an Advisor,
and the types of strategies and/or services you want to receive. To arrive at a list of Advisors that align
with your criteria, the Fidelity representative will use our screening process to compare the profile
information you have provided with the information provided by the Advisors. We have not verified
the information provided by the Advisors, and we do not make any representation that any Advisor
that aligns with your screening criteria offers certain expertise or experience in a given advisory service.
Separate from the profiling process, you can request to be referred directly to a specific Advisor or
Advisors and not receive a list based on your screening criteria. Such Advisor will still be considered a
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referral for purposes of the Service.
Following the execution of a Referral Agreement and Acknowledgment, along with the names of the
referred Advisors, you will receive (i) a summary of the profile information provided and used to facilitate
the referral and (ii) a firm profile for each Advisor, which includes a summary of relevant information
provided by the Advisor. You should review all these documents carefully. In addition, we will typically
provide your name and contact information to the Advisors referred along with the profile information
you provided as part of the referral process. Please see the Referral Agreement for further details about
sharing your contact information with the referred Advisors.
Whether specifically directed by you or using the screening process, the Service does not constitute a
recommendation with respect to any Advisor identified by the Service. In addition, Strategic Advisers does
not provide investment advice or recommendations to buy or sell securities or other property in
connection with the Service.
Your Responsibility
The decision as to which Advisor to hire, if any, is yours. If you decide to hire an Advisor, it is your
responsibility to work with your Advisor to determine if the services it provides are appropriate for you. If
you decide to give an Advisor trading discretion or other authority over your Fidelity account(s) and the
Advisor directs transactions to affiliates of Strategic Advisers, such affiliates will act on the instructions
received from the Advisor and will not review or evaluate the Advisor’s trading activity to determine if
such trading is consistent with the Advisor’s investment strategies or is otherwise appropriate or suitable
for you. We have no authority or control with respect to the assets under management at any Advisor,
and we have no ongoing duty to you with respect to the Advisor’s management of such assets.
It is also your responsibility to monitor your selected Advisor, including the Advisor’s management of
your assets and the Advisor’s performance. All questions about your investment strategy, portfolio
performance, and the Advisor’s activity should be directed to your selected Advisor. We will play no role
in monitoring or evaluating any advisory services that you receive from any Advisor you choose to work
with, and we have no duty to update you regarding any referred Advisor once you receive your referral,
including whether such Advisor continues to participate in the Service.
F E E S A N D C O M P E N S AT I ON
Fees Paid to Strategic Advisers for Your Referral
You do not directly pay any fee for participating in the Service. If you decide to hire an Advisor referred
by the Service, you will pay fees to that Advisor based on the terms and conditions of any investment
management and advisory agreements between you and the Advisor. Fees will be disclosed in the
Advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure. We are not acting as a fiduciary or providing investment advice
within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or the Internal Revenue
Code, or regulations thereunder with respect to your account as a result of the Service.
As described below, Advisors pay referral fees to Strategic Advisers to participate in the Service. The
referral fees are separate from (i) any advisory fees you pay to an Advisor, (ii) any fees you pay to Strategic
Advisers for investment management services, (iii) any fees paid to affiliates of Strategic Advisers,
including FBS and NFS for brokerage services, and (iv) any other fees for products or services you pay
to any other Fidelity Investments company. Advisors have agreed that the fees paid by the Advisor to
Strategic Advisers pursuant to the WAS referral program will not impact the fees that the Advisor charges
a referred client. Please see the Advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure for information regarding the fees
charged by the Advisor or discuss any questions you may have regarding fees that you will pay directly
with the Advisor.
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Advisors pay referral fees to Strategic Advisers for each client referral pursuant to the agreement between
Strategic Advisers and each Advisor (“Participation Agreement”). The Participation Agreement provides
that the Advisor will pay an annual $50,000 program fee (“Program Fee”) to participate in the Service and
a fee based on the value of the assets in a referred client’s accounts opened or maintained with FBS, and
custodied at NFS, that are managed or advised pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between
that Advisor and a client or that client’s household members, which includes persons/entities sharing
the same residence address as the Advisor’s client (collectively, “Client Accounts”). In the event that an
Advisor or Strategic Advisers terminates the Participation Agreement prior to the end of a full calendar
year, the Program Fee is prorated based on the number of completed quarters in which the Participation
Agreement was in effect for such year, but the Advisor’s obligations to pay the asset-based referral fee will
remain in effect.
Each Advisor has agreed to pay Strategic Advisers an amount equal to the sum of (i) an annual
percentage of 0.10% of “fixed-income and cash equivalent assets” (as defined by internal FBS systems)
held in Client Accounts and (ii) an annual percentage of 0.25% of all other assets held in Client Accounts.
In addition, if an Advisor’s client transfers custody of the assets held in Client Accounts to a financial
institution not affiliated with Strategic Advisers, each Advisor has agreed to pay Strategic Advisers a
one-time fee of 0.75% of the transferred assets (the “Non-Fidelity Custody Fee”). The Non-Fidelity
Custody Fee could incentivize an Advisor to encourage clients to maintain custody of their assets with
affiliates of Strategic Advisers rather than transferring custody to another financial institution.
If you terminate your advisory agreement with an Advisor, the Advisor shall have no ongoing obligation to
pay Strategic Advisers referral fees with respect to your Client Accounts.
Under certain circumstances, Strategic Advisers can waive or reduce the referral fees payable to Strategic
Advisers by an Advisor. Agreements, including the Participation Agreement, between Strategic Advisers
and each Advisor are subject to change.
The compensation received by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from Advisors, both from within and
outside the Service, creates conflicts of interest both when we select Advisors to participate in the Service
and when we refer you to those Advisors. Strategic Advisers addresses these conflicts in several ways,
including (i) establishing participation criteria (described below) and securing the Advisors’ agreement
to adhere to those criteria before admission into the Service and on a periodic basis thereafter, (ii)
excluding the revenue received by Strategic Advisers and its affiliates from consideration in the
screening criteria used by the tool to align Advisors with clients, and (iii) periodically evaluating and
overseeing the referral process for compliance with the policies and procedures governing the Service.
In addition, as a result of an Advisor’s participation in the Service, it is likely that the Advisor will use
affiliates of Strategic Advisers, namely FBS and NFS, to execute securities transactions for Client
Accounts, which will generate brokerage commissions and other revenue for affiliates of Strategic
Advisers, including FBS and NFS. There are different account options made available by affiliates of
Strategic Advisers for Participating Advisors, including core sweep account options (i.e., money awaiting
investment or withdrawal). Such core sweep account options could produce a higher or lower return
than other options and certain core sweep account investment products can generate higher revenue
for Strategic Advisers affiliates as compared with other investment products, which presents a conflict
of interest. Please note, however, that Advisors are not required to maintain assets in any core sweep
account position and may trade out of any such position at any time. Please see the FBS and NFS
brokerage account client agreement for further details regarding the core sweep account and speak
with the Advisor if you have any questions.
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Other Considerations
In evaluating the Service, please consider that Fidelity offers a variety of investment advisory services and
brokerage offerings. These offerings are summarized below to assist you in understanding and comparing
the services and offerings. For more detailed information regarding an investment advisory service,
please review the respective Form ADV, Part 2A Brochures available to you at Fidelity.com/information
or through a Fidelity representative. Refer to the “Guide to Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services
at Fidelity Investments” (available at Fidelity.com/information) for more information regarding our roles and
responsibilities when providing brokerage and advisory services. Please note that, other than the self-
directed brokerage account offered by FBS, the advisory programs included in the chart below are each
offered by Strategic Advisers.
PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity Go®
No account minimum;
$10 to invest
Less than $25,000
invested: no advisory
fee
Portfolio based on a
client’s investment
profile and composed
of a mix of zero
expense ratio Fidelity
mutual funds
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.35% annually for
$25,000 and above
Invests in zero expense
ratio Fidelity mutual
funds that do not
charge management
fees (or with limited
exceptions, fund
expenses)
Digitally provided
discretionary
investment
management and
planning; access to a
team of phone-based
representatives for
one-on-one financial
coaching for clients
who maintain $25,000
or more in a Fidelity Go
account and tax-loss
harvesting for taxable
accounts with $25,000
or more
Fidelity Managed
FidFolios®
$5,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.40% or 0.70%
annually
A mix of individual
securities, either stocks
or American Depositary
Receipts, depending
on the client’s selected
strategy
Digitally provided
discretionary invest-
ment management
of a single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques)
Fidelity® Strategic
Disciplines
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.20%–0.70%
annually for equity
strategies and 0.35%–
0.40% annually for
fixed income strategies,
depending on the
amount invested
Discretionary
investment
management of a single
asset class (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
A mix of individual
securities, including but
not limited to stocks,
bonds, American
Depositary Receipts,
and/or exchange-traded
products and mutual
funds, depending on
the client’s selected
strategy
Depending on
strategy selected,
account investment
minimums of $100,000
(equity strategies)
and $350,000 (bond
strategies), each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
(effective in the
second quarter of
2026, the account
investment minimum
will be $200,000 for
taxable bond
strategies and
$250,000 for municipal
bond strategies)
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
FEE STRUCTURE
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
Fidelity® Wealth
Services
$50,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 1.10% annually,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity as a
direct result of a client’s
investments
Fidelity Advisory
Services provides
customized planning,
advice, and
discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
by a centralized team
of phone-based
representatives
A mix of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity
mutual funds and
exchange-traded
products invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Wealth Management
and Private Wealth
Management
provide customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
supported by a
service team
A mix of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual
funds and exchange-
traded products
and, depending on a
client’s preferences
and investment
profile, individual
securities, invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.50%–1.50%
annually, depending on
the amount invested,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity
as a direct result of a
client’s investments
(additional fees of up to
0.40% for management
of certain individual
security strategies
can also apply where
advisory services are
not provided solely by
a Strategic Advisers
affiliate)
$50,000 minimum
account investment for
Wealth Management
and $2 million
minimum investment
and $10 million
investable assets
for Private Wealth
Management, each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
Fidelity Wealth
Advisor Solutions®
Investment vehicles
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
strategy
Investment minimums
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
Advisory fees will
vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
A referral network of
unaffiliated investment
advisors that provide
customized wealth
management and
investment strategies
Self-Directed
Brokerage Account
Transaction fees and
investment expenses
vary based on
investment vehicle
selected; no ongoing
asset-based advisory
fee charged by
Strategic Advisers
No minimum to
open a brokerage
account. Qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative is based
on a variety of factors
(for example, a client
with at least $500,000
invested in an eligible
Fidelity account would
typically qualify)
Self-directed trading
through FBS, with
access to Fidelity’s
online tools, planning,
and resources, and
support provided
by brokerage
representatives.
A dedicated
representative is
available based on
relationship
Brokerage customers
can choose from a wide
variety of investments,
including mutual funds,
exchange-traded
funds, stocks, bonds,
and insurance and
annuity products. Note
that certain securities
available through
Strategic Advisers’
advisory services are
not available in self-
directed brokerage
accounts
As described in the chart above, FBS offers self-directed brokerage accounts and financial planning and
can provide dedicated support from a Fidelity representative depending on a client’s overall relationship
with Fidelity. In addition, a client could receive similar services through other advisors not participating in
the Service. You should interview and evaluate any advisor you consider hiring to ensure the services are
right for you.
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Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation
Fidelity representatives who support the Service are associated with Strategic Advisers and FBS.
Educational information about the Service is provided by representatives acting on behalf of FBS. Once
a client enrolls in the Service, the Fidelity representative will be providing services for Strategic Advisers.
Separate and apart from the Service, Fidelity representatives, including those who support the Service,
can provide clients with a variety of FBS services, including investment education and advice, financial
analyses, and planning services. When providing services for FBS, these Fidelity representatives are
acting solely as registered representatives of FBS.
Fidelity representatives receive base pay based on their experience and role. In addition to base pay,
Fidelity representatives are also eligible to receive either variable compensation or an annual bonus,
and certain representatives are also eligible to receive longer-term compensation. Fidelity
representatives who receive an annual bonus do not receive compensation based directly on the sale
of any product or service, but they do have an indirect financial incentive to recommend products or
services that pay more compensation to Fidelity because annual bonus funding is based in part on
Fidelity’s financial performance. For Fidelity representatives who receive variable compensation,
variable compensation depends on the representative’s role and can be impacted by client loyalty, the
amount of assets a client transfers to Fidelity, the amount of assets invested initially and on an ongoing
basis, referring potential clients to other Fidelity representatives who enroll the client in a Fidelity
investment product or service, and client family members opening Fidelity accounts. Whether and
how much each Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined based on
the representative’s role, responsibilities, performance measures, and their manager’s assessment of
the representative’s performance.
Fidelity and the Fidelity representatives who support the Service and who are eligible to receive variable
compensation receive different amounts of compensation depending on the type of product or service a
client selects. The compensation received by Fidelity and those representatives in connection with FBS
offerings (e.g., stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds) is typically less than the compensation received in connection
with a client choosing to participate in a Fidelity advisory program. A Fidelity representative will earn more
compensation if a client enrolls in the Service than if a client enrolls in Fidelity Go, Fidelity Managed
FidFolios, or the Fidelity Advisory Services service level of Fidelity Wealth Services. Products and services
that generally require more time to engage with a client and/or that are more complex provide greater
compensation to a representative and Fidelity. This compensation structure creates a financial incentive
for Fidelity and its representatives to recommend investments in more complex and time-consuming
products and services over others, and to recommend that a client maintain an investment in such
products and services over time. Fidelity addresses these conflicts of interest by having processes in place
that require our representatives to make recommendations that are in the best interest of clients, paying
compensation based on the time and complexity of the relevant product or service, training and
supervising our representatives, and disclosing these conflicts of interest to clients so that they can
consider the conflicts when making their financial decisions.
To see specific compensation levels for the managed account programs mentioned above and other
products, including an example of compensation that can be earned by Financial Consultants, please
see the “Fidelity Investments Compensation Disclosure” document (available at Fidelity.com/information)
or contact a Fidelity representative. Clients should read the information contained in the “Fidelity
Investments Compensation Disclosure” document carefully, and can ask a Fidelity representative at any
time whether and how they are compensated with respect to a particular product or service and about
the financial incentives and conflicts of interest that Fidelity has when making recommendations of
products and services.
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Additional Fee Information
Affiliates of Strategic Advisers receive additional compensation for the clearing, custody, and other
brokerage services associated with the Advisors’ Client Accounts maintained with FBS and/or NFS. As a
result of an Advisor’s participation in the Service, it is likely that the Advisor will use affiliates of Strategic
Advisers to execute securities transactions for your account(s) held at Fidelity, which will generate
brokerage commissions and other revenue for affiliates of Strategic Advisers, including FBS and NFS, and
creates conflicts of interest. In general, you have the ability to direct the Advisor to use any brokerage firm
you choose to support your trading activity, and any such direction is between you and the Advisor.
P E R F OR M A N C E - BA S E D F E E S A N D S I D E- BY-S I D E
M A N A G E M E N T
Strategic Advisers does not charge advisory fees, including performance-based advisory fees,
under the Service. Strategic Advisers provides only referrals to unaffiliated third-party independent
investment advisers under the Service, and is not responsible for discretionary management of
accounts or assets through the Service. Therefore, Strategic Advisers has no opportunity to engage in
side-by-side management.
TY P E S OF C L I E N T S
The Service is generally available to current and prospective clients of Strategic Advisers and its
affiliates, including FBS, who inquire about receiving asset management, wealth management, or
financial planning services from Advisors.
In order to participate in the Service, you must be a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien),
typically reside in the United States, and have a valid U.S. taxpayer identification number. We reserve
the right to terminate your participation in the Service (or limit your rights to access any or all account
features, products, or services) for any reason. The Service is not available to foreign investors, non-
U.S. trusts, and government entities as defined by the SEC’s “pay to play” rule according to Rule
206(4)-5 under the Advisers Act. These include federal, state, or local governments, boards,
commissions, public schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, health care organizations, and public
entity retirement plans, such as Internal Revenue Code sections 403(b), 401(a), and 457 plans.
ME T H ODS OF A N A LYS I S , I N V E S T M E N T S T R A TEG I E S A N D
R I S K OF LOS S
As directed by current or prospective clients or through the use of our screening process, we seek to
refer current and prospective clients to Advisors based on a comparison of the information you share
with us about your asset management, wealth management, and financial planning needs, with the
information Advisors have provided to us about their firms and the types of advisory services they
provide to their clients. In no event shall providing documentation and/or information by Strategic
Advisers about any of the Advisors constitute a recommendation or opinion as to the quality of an
Advisor’s investment products, services, or investment performance.
We have relied on the information and representations of each Advisor as part of the Advisor’s
eligibility to participate in the Service and to align the Advisor with your stated needs and preferences
for the referral. All investment strategies employed by the Advisors that participate in the Service
are subject to certain risks, including the risk of loss that each client should understand and
be willing to bear. Please see the relevant Advisor’s Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure for additional
information about risks associated with an Advisor’s investment strategies.
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Advisors that participate in the Service are limited to unaffiliated third-party independent investment
advisers or entities that are exempt from registration as an investment adviser that have business
relationships with affiliates of Strategic Advisers, namely FBS and NFS. There could be other
investment advisers, apart from those we make available to you through the Service, that are equally
or more appropriate for your specific circumstances.
We use the following objective factors, among others, to determine which Advisors are eligible to
participate in the Service:
1.
Federal Registration. A Participating Advisor must be an investment adviser registered and in good
standing with the SEC and/or any applicable state securities regulatory authorities or an entity that
is exempt from registration as an investment adviser pursuant to Section 202(a)(11) (A) under the
Advisers Act.
2.
Representative Registration. Representatives of a Participating Advisor who meet the definition of
“Investment Adviser Representative” under Rule 203A-3 under the Advisers Act and who provide
services to you must be registered/licensed appropriately in the required jurisdictions.
3.
Fee-Based Compensation. Participating Advisors must charge fee-based, asset-based, or flat-rate
investment advisory service fees (including hourly fees).
4. Assets Under Management. Participating Advisors must maintain a minimum of $1 billion in total
regulatory assets under management, as reported in response to Item 5 in Part 1A of the Advisor’s
Form ADV, throughout the duration of the Advisor’s participation in the Service.
5.
Errors and Omissions Liability. Participating Advisors and all associated persons of the Advisor who manage
client assets or who supervise such associated persons must at all times be covered through both errors
and omissions liability insurance and fidelity bond coverage, with a minimum of $2 million in errors and
omissions liability insurance and $1 million in fidelity bond coverage.
6.
Principals and Employees. Participating Advisors must maintain a minimum of two principals as well as a
minimum of five employees.
We can, in our sole discretion, modify these criteria in whole or in part with respect to any Advisor at any time,
and we reserve the right to suspend referrals to any Advisor or terminate an Advisor’s participation in the
Service for any reason. While we have evaluated the referred Advisors based on the participation criteria for
the Service, as noted above, we have not made an independent evaluation of any particular product, strategy,
or service, including financial planning or wealth planning services, that is offered by any Advisor.
DI S C I P L I N A R Y INFORMATION
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
the advisory business of Strategic Advisers or the integrity of its management personnel.
OT H E R F I N A N C I A L I N D U S T R Y AC T I V I T I E S A N D
A F F I L I A T I ONS
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that, together with its
affiliates and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct
or indirect subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance
businesses. From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material business relationships
with any of the subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers
serve as officers and/or employees of affiliated companies that are engaged in various aspects of the
financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity
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trading advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is registered
with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act
of 1936, as amended (“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National
Futures Association (“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have
common supervision. Certain management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered representatives of
FBS, a Strategic Advisers affiliate and a registered broker-dealer. In addition, Strategic Advisers has
entered into an intercompany agreement with FBS, pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers
various operational, administrative, analytical, and technical services, and the personnel necessary for
the performance of such services.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated
companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a
registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FMRCo provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated
and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary
portfolio management to certain clients and provides model portfolio recommendations and environmental
filtering services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic Advisers’ provision of discretionary
portfolio management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for handling
the business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers, and Strategic
Advisers compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available to managed account programs
offered by Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with
FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides nondiscretionary investment management
services and sponsors the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
Essentials programs (turnkey asset management programs made available to financial intermediaries).
Strategic Advisers provides model portfolio services to FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its
institutional and intermediary clients, and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In
addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is registered with the Central Bank
of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies
in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers
has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been authorized by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered
with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Japan Financial
Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated
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advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary
of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the
Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on securities, deal in futures contracts, provide
asset management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment
management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to
clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong
for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and
as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and
sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage
Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development
companies and the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and also markets
those funds and other products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain institutional
investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act.
NFS is a fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services
for the other broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of
NFS, provides trade executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates
CrossStream®, an alternative trading system (“ATS”) that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be
crossed against orders submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for
investment company and other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or sub–transfer agent services and
other custodial services to certain Fidelity clients.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act and
provides brokerage products and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment
companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans, and
acts as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers’
affiliates. In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance
products that are issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity
Investments Life Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third-parties. FBS
provides shareholder services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the introducing broker for managed
accounts offered by Strategic Advisers and places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker,
NFS.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs, the Luminex ATS and the LeveL
ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other
subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC, owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and
FMR Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests in
LeveL Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC, charges a commission to both sides
of each trade executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to
execute transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a
clearing agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
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• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act.
DBS provide securities brokerage to retail customers through a digital mobile application-based
brokerage platform. DBS receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and
marketing FMRCo products.
Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC Holdings LLC,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust company organized and operating
under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and
custodial services to employee benefit plans and IRAs through which individuals can invest in affiliated or
unaffiliated registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment
management services to institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift Holding Company, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings bank that offers fiduciary services that
include trustee or co-trustee services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance
and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance and
annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to
residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life insurance and annuity
products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These funds are
privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in
borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”) can from time to time
provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment management
support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is
not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating Affiliate”
of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management in
various no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of
registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland
Associated Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section
202(a)(17) of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such
employees can contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information
concerning securities that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such
selections. As a Participating Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the
jurisdiction of United States courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection with
investment advisory activities conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic Advisers maintains a
list of Strategic Ireland Associated Employees whom Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and
Strategic Advisers will make the list available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
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CODE OF ET H I C S , P A R T I C I P A T I ON OR I N T E R E S T I N C L I E N T
T R A N S AC T I ONS A N D P E R S ON A L T R A D I N G
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The Code of Ethics
applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised persons of Strategic Advisers and requires
that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes
securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an exception exists
or prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access to certain
nonpublic information;
• Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through acknowledgments of
receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also
imposes additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research analysts,
and portfolio managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include the following:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions;
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval;
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a trade in
any covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such portfolio manager
except in limited circumstance;
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions,
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and
annually thereafter; and
• The disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The Code
of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside
Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any client or prospective
client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are contemplated
in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity
policies are designed to make clear to Fidelity personnel that they should never place their personal interests
ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics and other
Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material nonpublic
information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable
laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits the use of
material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other employees.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set standards for
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business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make sound decisions with
respect to these activities, and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients come first. Similarly, to
support compliance with applicable “pay to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions
& Activities Policy that requires employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity also
has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that
prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe,
facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly
obtain or retain business or any improper advantage.
B R OK E R A GE P R A C T I C E S
Strategic Advisers does not select or recommend broker-dealers for client transactions as part of the Service.
However, as described above, an Advisor’s participation in the Service can create incentives for an Advisor to
recommend the use of affiliates of Strategic Advisers, namely FBS and NFS, for the execution of brokerage
transactions and/or the custody of their Client Accounts.
R E V I E W OF ACCOU N T S
Strategic Advisers does not conduct an ongoing review of accounts post-referral. Strategic Advisers has no
discretionary authority or control with respect to the assets under management at any Advisor, and Strategic
Advisers has no ongoing duty to you with respect to the management of any such assets. Strategic Advisers
does not monitor or evaluate any advisory services that you receive from any Advisor you choose to work
with, and Strategic Advisers has no duty to update you regarding the status of any Advisor in the Service once
you receive your referral.
C L I E N T R E F E R R A L S A N D OT H E R COM P E N S AT I ON
As described herein, Strategic Advisers receives compensation from Advisors for referrals made through
the Service. Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS, pursuant to referral or other
agreements where applicable.
C U S T ODY
As described herein, Strategic Advisers does not have custody of client securities or accounts with respect to
the Service. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates, including NFS as described above, can have custody of client
securities in connection with activities unrelated to the Service. Clients should carefully review statements
they receive from their custodian regarding their accounts.
I N V E S T M E N T DI S C R E T I ON
Strategic Advisers does not exercise any investment discretion in connection with referrals made pursuant to
the Service.
VOT I N G C L I E N T S E C U R I T I E S
Strategic Advisers does not acquire authority or exercise proxy voting on your behalf as part of the Service.
F I N A N C I A L I N F OR M A T I ON
Strategic Advisers does not solicit prepayment of client fees. Strategic Advisers is not aware of any financial
condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
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Additional Brochure: FIDELITY WEALTH SERVICES (2026-03-30)
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Fidelity® Wealth Services
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
Strategic Advisers LLC
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
617.563.7000
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of Strategic Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments® company, as well as
information about Fidelity Wealth Services.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as being “registered.” These statements do not imply a certain level of skill or
training.
Please contact us at 800.544.3455 with any questions about the contents of this brochure. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at
adviserinfo.sec.gov.
S U M M A R Y O F M A T E R I A L C H A N G E S
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of material changes
to their advisory services program brochure (also referred to as the Form ADV, Part 2A brochure). The section
below highlights only material revisions that have been made to the Fidelity Wealth Services Form ADV,
Part 2A brochure (the “Program Brochure”) from March 31, 2025, through March 30, 2026. Clients and
prospective clients can obtain a copy of this Program Brochure without charge by calling 800.544.3455,
by visiting Fidelity.com/information, by visiting the SEC’s website at adviserinfo.sec.gov, or by contacting a
Fidelity representative. Capitalized terms are defined in this Program Brochure.
Material Changes
•
New BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio accounts are no longer available, and we expect to close all
BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio accounts by the end of 2026. BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio
clients can work with their Fidelity representative to reposition assets prior to account closure.
Other Changes
•
The Advisory Services Team service level of the Program has been renamed as the Fidelity Advisory
Services service level. References have been updated accordingly.
•
The chart in “Other Considerations” has been updated to provide further and updated information about
the programs, accounts, and services available from Strategic Advisers and its affiliates.
•
“Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation” has been updated to provide
further information about how Fidelity and its representatives are compensated.
•
The timing of liquidating trades and in-kind asset transfer instructions in “Withdrawals, Account Closure,
and Program Termination” has been updated from five to seven business days.
•
“Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices” in “Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies, and Risk of Loss” has been updated to describe Strategic Advisers’ practices with respect to
investing Program Accounts in mutual funds.
•
“Material Risks” has been updated to provide further information with respect to the efficacy of tax-smart
investing techniques for Program clients in lower federal income tax brackets.
•
Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes Strategic Advisers’ affiliates in “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations.”
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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S ER VIC ES , F EES A ND COMPEN SATION
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ACCOUNT REQUIREMENTS AN D T YPES OF CLIEN TS
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PORTFOLIO MANAGER SELECTION AN D EVALUATION
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CLIENT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO POR TFOLIO MAN AGERS
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CLIENT CONTAC T WITH POR TFOLIO MAN AGERS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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S E R V I C E S , F E E S A N D C O M P E N S A T I O N
Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC
(collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates, “Fidelity Investments,” “Fidelity,” “us,” “our,” or “we”). Strategic
Advisers was formed in 1977 and provides a variety of investment management services, including discretionary
and nondiscretionary advisory services to retail and institutional clients. This Program Brochure provides
information about Fidelity Wealth Services (the “Program”). For information about the additional services that
Strategic Advisers provides, please see Strategic Advisers’ other Form ADV, Part 2A brochures.
As described below, the Program offers three service levels that provide a range of (i) discretionary investment
management services, (ii) access to financial planning, and (iii) assistance from one or more Fidelity representatives
(together, the “Program Services”). The Program service levels are Fidelity Advisory Services (formerly the Advisory
Services Team), Wealth Management, and Private Wealth Management. Discretionary investment management is
provided through one or more Personalized Portfolios accounts (each a “Program Account”). Program Accounts
can include tax-advantaged accounts (e.g., traditional, Roth, and SEP individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”), and
health savings accounts, collectively, “Retirement Program Accounts”), taxable accounts that are managed using
tax-smart investing techniques (each a “Tax-Smart Program Account”), and tax-advantaged and taxable BlackRock®
Diversified Income Portfolio (“BDIP”) Program Accounts, which are not managed using tax-smart investing
techniques. Program Accounts will be invested in mutual funds and/or exchange-traded products (“ETPs”). In
addition, eligible Tax-Smart Program Accounts of certain asset levels can be invested in individual securities.
Discretionary Investment Management Services
Profile and Asset Allocation. As a first step in the delivery of Program Services, we obtain information
regarding the client’s financial situation, investment goals and objectives, risk tolerance, planned investment
time horizon, and other assets (“Profile Information”). Based on this Profile Information, we will propose
an allocation among stock, bond, and short-term asset classes for one or more Program Accounts. These
asset class exposures are referred to as an asset allocation, each of which is designed to correspond to a
level of risk ranging from conservative (lower risk and return potential) to aggressive (higher risk and return
potential). Subject to certain limitations, clients can select an asset allocation that differs from the allocation
we propose. Clients should understand that the performance of the Program Account with a client-selected
asset allocation could differ, at times significantly, from the performance of an account managed according
to the asset allocation we proposed.
Program Account Investment. Each Program Account will be invested on a discretionary basis to align with the
identified asset allocation as well as investment approach and universe selected by the client for an account
or goal. Program Accounts receive ongoing discretionary management and rebalancing, as appropriate, to
generally maintain alignment with the target asset allocation. Mutual funds and ETPs selected for Program
Accounts will typically hold investments in a combination of the primary asset classes: domestic stocks (U.S.
equity securities), foreign stocks (non-U.S. equity securities), bonds (fixed income securities of all types and
maturities, including lower-quality debt securities), and short-term assets (short-duration investments). Program
Accounts can also hold shares of mutual funds and ETPs that invest in nontraditional and/or extended asset
classes, including but not limited to real estate, inflation-protected debt securities, commodities, or other
alternative investments. At times, investments in these asset classes could make up a substantial portion of
a Program Account. As a result, a client’s exposure to the primary asset classes, particularly bond and short-
term investments, can be reduced to gain exposure to these nontraditional and/or extended asset classes. It
is important to note that the actual asset allocation of a Program Account can and will deviate from the target
asset allocation based on market movements and investment decisions intended to increase potential returns
or manage risk in response to our views of the economic business cycle. Mutual funds and ETPs used in the
Program are managed by Fidelity, including Strategic Advisers, and/or third-party investment managers, and the
mutual funds are selected from among those available through FundsNetwork®, Fidelity’s mutual fund platform.
ETPs include exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), exchange-traded notes, unit investment trusts, closed-end funds,
master limited partnerships, and certain trusts.
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The selection and allocation of assets to Fidelity Funds or to third-party funds that pay fees to Strategic
Advisers’ affiliates creates conflicts of interest for Strategic Advisers. For funds managed by a Fidelity affiliate,
these affiliates receive fees for services, including management and administration of the fund. For any third-
party fund, Strategic Advisers’ affiliates receive fees in connection with the fund’s FundsNetwork participation.
Strategic Advisers seeks to address these conflicts through the application of the Credit Amount, which is
described in “Fees and Compensation” below, and through personnel compensation arrangements, which are
not differentiated based on the investments selected for Program Accounts.
Retirement Program Accounts are generally invested in a portfolio composed of mutual funds and/or ETPs. Tax-
Smart Program Accounts are invested in a portfolio of mutual funds and/or ETPs, and, for certain eligible Tax-
Smart Program Accounts, individual securities through separately managed account sleeves (“SMA Sleeves”),
which are discussed below.
Investment Approaches and Universes. After selecting an asset allocation, clients select either a Total Return or
a Defensive investment approach for their Program Accounts. The Total Return investment approach seeks to
enhance total return for a given level of risk through broad diversification across asset classes. The Defensive
investment approach seeks to temper downside risk in an effort to provide a smoother investment experience
over the long term (as compared with a Total Return approach) by implementing “defensive” strategies. Clients
also select from the following investment universes for their Total Return Program Accounts (please note that
only the Blended investment universe is available for Defensive Program Accounts):
• the Blended and Sustainable Blended investment universes each use both Fidelity and non-
Fidelity investments;
• the Fidelity-Focused and Sustainable Fidelity-Focused investment universes each have a preference for
investments from Fidelity, as available and appropriate; and
• the Index-Focused and Sustainable Index-Focused investment universes each use both Fidelity and non-
Fidelity investments and have a preference for index-based investments, as available and appropriate.
Clients should expect that, depending on the investment approach and universe selected and whether the
account is managed with tax-smart investing techniques, a significant percentage, which can be substantially
all of the assets in a Program Account, will be invested in Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs. It is possible that
non-Fidelity investments may outperform Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs. Clients should refer to their account
statements or investment proposal documentation for more information about the funds held, or proposed to
be held, in a Program Account. Please see “About the Investment Approaches and Universes” below for more
information.
Tax-Smart Investing Techniques and SMA Sleeves. Tax-Smart Program Accounts are managed using investing
techniques that seek to enhance after-tax returns, including, without limitation, harvesting tax losses, analyzing
tax lots, and managing exposure to mutual fund distributions. Certain qualified Wealth Management and
Private Wealth Management Program Accounts can have tax-smart investing techniques applied across a group
of designated Program Accounts associated with a single goal, referred to as household tax-smart strategies,
including the use of asset location strategies to position assets within the type of account that could help
enhance marginal federal after-tax returns. The specific tax-smart investing techniques used will depend on
the service level selected by the client, the type and size of the account, and the asset allocation selected. Tax-
smart investing can invest in mutual funds and/or ETPs, and, if elected by an eligible Wealth Management or
Private Wealth Management client, individual securities in an SMA Sleeve. The SMA Sleeves can be invested
using investment models provided by a Strategic Advisers’ affiliate or a third-party investment adviser (together,
“Model Providers”). Please note that there is an additional fee of up to 0.40% (the “SMA Sleeve Fee”) for SMA
Sleeves (or a portion thereof) where a Model Provider that is unaffiliated with Strategic Advisers (“Unaffiliated
Model Provider”) is used (see “Fees for SMA Sleeves” below). There is no SMA Sleeve Fee for SMA Sleeves
where the investment models are provided solely by an affiliated Model Provider. SMA Sleeves can be actively
managed or index-based and focus on either domestic or foreign stocks, and the particular SMA Sleeves used
vary according to the investment approach and universe selected by the client. Please note that BDIP Program
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Accounts are not managed using tax-smart investing techniques and that SMA Sleeves and household tax-smart
strategies are not currently available for Program Accounts using the Sustainable investment universes. Please
see “About Tax-Smart Investing Techniques” and “About the SMA Sleeves” below for more information.
Please note: We believe that appropriate asset allocation and diversification are of primary importance, and
we apply tax-smart investing techniques as a secondary consideration in managing a Tax-Smart Program
Account. Tax-smart investing techniques can involve trading that triggers taxable gains if the securities traded
have appreciated in value since they were purchased. Accordingly, clients should understand that they can
have significant tax consequences as a result of the management of a Tax-Smart Program Account. In addition,
in a given year, a client can receive varying levels of taxable fund distributions within a Tax-Smart Program
Account. Tax-Smart Program Accounts are actively managed for federal income taxes but are not managed
in consideration of state or local taxes; foreign taxes; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or
generation-skipping transfer taxes.
BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio. Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management clients are
eligible to hold tax-advantaged and taxable Program Account assets in a BDIP Program Account, for which
BlackRock Investment Management LLC (“BlackRock”) serves as the Model Provider. As applicable to all
Program Accounts, discretionary investment management is provided by Strategic Advisers, and BlackRock
does not have any discretionary authority over any BDIP Program Account. BDIP Program Accounts are not
managed according to an asset allocation, are not subject to the investment universes or approaches, and do
not use the tax-smart investing techniques described above. BlackRock seeks to generate a higher yield and
a lower risk profile for its model portfolio than that of a balanced portfolio that holds 50% equity investments
and 50% investment-grade fixed income (including short-term assets), but BlackRock has wide flexibility in the
relative investment weightings identified for each asset class and typically identifies an asset allocation that is
20%–80% equity and 80%–20% fixed income (including high-yield and short-term investments). In constructing
the model portfolio for BDIP, BlackRock seeks to identify ETPs and mutual funds that can provide risk-adjusted
income in response to prevailing market conditions, and will primarily identify mutual funds and ETPs offered
by BlackRock or its affiliates. See “About BDIP Program Accounts” below for more information. Please note
that new BDIP accounts are no longer available, and we expect to close all BDIP accounts by the end of 2026.
Clients can work with their Fidelity representative to reposition those assets prior to account closure. More
information will be provided to clients prior to the end of 2026.
Personalizations and Investment Restrictions. A client can elect to personalize a Program Account by imposing
reasonable restrictions on the management of the Program Account, or by modifying the asset allocation of the
account (other than a BDIP Program Account) by increasing or decreasing the exposure to foreign stocks within
certain limits. Reasonable restrictions can include limitations on the purchase of a particular fund, individual
security, industry, or sub–asset class, subject to our initial and ongoing review and approval. Please note that
Program Accounts managed using household tax-smart strategies must have personalizations and restrictions
consistently applied within the same goal. It is important to understand that imposing an investment restriction
can delay the start of discretionary management on a Program Account and can impact the performance of a
Program Account, at times significantly, as compared with the performance of a Program Account managed
without personalizations and/or restrictions, possibly producing lower overall results. Program Account
personalizations and restrictions should be requested through a Fidelity representative.
Access to a Fidelity Representative
Each Program client has access to one or more Fidelity representatives who can work with the client to help
evaluate the Program and how it can help meet the client’s financial goals and objectives, provide assistance
with enrolling in the Program, deliver Program Services, and also provide general assistance with products and
services provided by Fidelity outside of the Program. Clients enrolled in the Fidelity Advisory Services service
level have access to assistance provided by a centralized team of phone-based Fidelity representatives. Clients
enrolled in the Wealth Management service level have access to a dedicated Fidelity representative who is
supported by a service team. Clients enrolled in the Private Wealth Management service level have access to a
dedicated Fidelity representative, a dedicated service team, and an investment specialist along with a team of
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advanced planners who specialize in multigenerational financial planning and engagement. It is important to
understand that each Fidelity representative also acts in the capacity of a registered representative of Fidelity
Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker-dealer. Any financial planning a client
receives from a Fidelity representative prior to us accepting the client’s Program Client Agreement is provided
by FBS and is not part of the Program Services.
Access to Financial Planning Services
At a client’s request, a Fidelity representative can provide nondiscretionary financial planning services to
help evaluate the client’s ability to meet identified goals. We use various financial planning analytics and
applications to provide financial planning services; the specific analysis provided to a client will be based on
the assets allocated to a goal and the complexity of the client’s financial situation. Typically, financial planning
begins by understanding needs and goals related to a Program Account as well as any “Other Assets” a client
has identified (e.g., assets held in other Fidelity programs or accounts, or at a third party, that are aligned with
the same goal as a Program Account). If requested, financial planning can also include goals unrelated to a
Program Account. We then work with the client to obtain information regarding the client’s financial situation.
Next, we will review a client’s information and prepare an analysis. Our financial planning services typically
include asset allocation modeling, which helps clients evaluate their ability to meet an identified goal based
on their current asset allocation and can also provide recommendations for changes to an asset allocation. In
general, our asset allocation recommendations will include allocations to stock, bond, and short-term asset
classes. Our financial planning services do not include initial or ongoing advice regarding specific securities
or other investments, any financial analysis provided outside this Program (including prior to enrolling in the
Program), or any financial planning that a client engages in on their own in a financial planning tool that is
made available online.
Depending on the client’s service level within the Program, the complexity of the financial situation,
and/or assets held in a Fidelity program, we can also help a client evaluate other financial planning needs,
such as retirement planning, education funding, insurance planning, employee benefits planning (e.g., equity
compensation arrangements), and consideration of tax and estate planning strategies.
Please note that financial planning services are available to Program Accounts owned by a natural person, but
typically are not provided to an entity, such as a corporation, limited liability company, or trust. Clients enrolled
in the Fidelity Advisory Services service level generally will not have access to certain advanced planning
capabilities intended for clients with more complex financial planning needs, such as the consideration of the
potential effect of certain employee benefits, tax, or estate planning strategies; instead, the financial planning
services available to Fidelity Advisory Services clients are focused on retirement and retirement income
planning needs.
Other than with respect to Program Accounts, which are managed on a discretionary basis through the
Program, whether and how to implement any asset allocation or other recommendations provided as a
component of our financial planning services is the responsibility of each client and is separate and distinct
from the Program Services. Specifically, Other Assets are not managed as part of the Program and are subject
to separate and distinct terms, conditions, and, as applicable, fees. In addition, if a client chooses to implement
some or all of the asset allocation or other recommendations provided as part of the Program’s financial
planning services through Fidelity, a Fidelity entity will act as a broker-dealer or investment adviser depending
on the products or services selected, and the client will be subject to separate, applicable charges, fees, or
expenses. For more information, please see the “Guide to Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services at
Fidelity Investments” available at Fidelity.com/information, or speak with a Fidelity representative.
It is important to understand that there can be significant differences between the asset allocation modeling
shown in a financial plan and the performance a client will actually experience. Asset allocation modeling
is performed at the asset class level, assumes broad diversification within each asset class, relies on certain
estimates about the performance of the securities markets, and is not designed to predict the future
performance of any particular security or investment product. In addition, our assumptions and methodologies
used in financial planning are adjusted from time to time, which can have an impact on the results obtained.
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It is important to understand that the modeling provided in conjunction with our financial planning services is
hypothetical in nature; is for illustrative purposes only; does not reflect actual investment, tax, or other planning
results; and is not a guarantee of future investment outcomes. The modeling results shown will vary with each
use and over time.
Responsibility of Clients
We rely on client information to provide the Program Services. It is the responsibility of clients to advise us
of changes to their goals (including the alignment and allocation of an account with a goal), time horizon, tax
situation, risk tolerance, expected account funding amounts, expected investment of Other Assets, and personal
financial situation. Such changes can result in modification of an asset allocation or the tax-smart investing
techniques used for a Program Account. For clients who have engaged us to plan for one or more Program
Accounts and Other Assets associated with a single goal, our financial planning analysis and our management
of Program Accounts associated with such a goal depends on a client’s agreement to make planned changes
with respect to the management of any Other Assets associated with the goal and on a client completing all
planned funding of Program Accounts. Clients should contact their Fidelity representative if there are delays
in implementing any previously agreed-to changes with respect to Other Assets or the funding of Program
Accounts, as this can impact the investment decisions that are made for Program Accounts. Clients with multiple
relationships with Fidelity should understand that updating information about a Program Account does not
update information about an account enrolled in another advisory service or one that is self-directed. Accordingly,
clients should ensure that their personal, financial, and other important information is independently updated for
each respective service or account.
Fees and Compensation
Advisory Fees—Gross and Net of Credit Amount. The Program charges an annual Gross Advisory Fee that
includes the Program Services as well as the brokerage, clearing, and custody services provided by Strategic
Advisers’ affiliates. The amount of the Gross Advisory Fee differs depending on the service level selected by
the client and is payable after the end of each quarter.
The following fees are in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee: (i) any fees associated with investment
through an SMA Sleeve where an Unaffiliated Model Provider is used (see below); (ii) underlying mutual
fund and ETP expenses charged at the individual fund level for any such investments in a Program Account;
(iii) certain charges resulting from transactions executed with or through broker-dealers that are not
affiliates of Strategic Advisers; (iv) markups and markdowns, transfer taxes, exchange fees, regulatory fees,
odd-lot differentials, handling charges, electronic fund and wire transfer fees, or any other charges imposed
by law or otherwise agreed to with regard to a Program Account; or (v) any additional expenses, including
trading fees and management expenses, a client incurs with respect to any non-Program account. Strategic
Advisers or an affiliate can voluntarily assume the cost of certain commissions for equity transactions
executed with or through broker-dealers that are not affiliates of Strategic Advisers; clients will not be
charged commissions for such transactions. Fund expenses, which vary by fund and class, are expenses
that all mutual fund and ETP shareholders pay. Details of mutual fund or ETP expenses can be found in
each mutual fund’s or ETP’s respective prospectus. These expenses are not separately itemized or billed;
rather, the published returns of mutual funds and ETPs are shown net of their expenses. Some of these
underlying mutual fund and ETP expenses are paid to Strategic Advisers or its affiliates and will be included
in a Credit Amount as described below.
Advisory Fees—Credit Amount. The Gross Advisory Fee applied to a Program Account is reduced by a Credit
Amount. The Credit Amount is intended to address the conflicts of interest that arise in selecting investments
that generate revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees paid to Strategic Advisers by the amount of
compensation, if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is derived as a direct result of investments by
Program Accounts, as detailed below. A Credit Amount is applied after the end of each quarter.
To the extent applicable, a Credit Amount will be calculated for each mutual fund or ETP held by Program
Accounts as follows:
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• For Fidelity Funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the underlying investment management and
any other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and ETPs as a
direct result of investments by Program Accounts.
• For non-Fidelity funds and ETPs, the Credit Amount will equal the distribution fees, shareholder servicing
fees, and any other fees or compensation Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain from these funds and
ETPs (or their affiliates) as a direct result of investments by Program Accounts.
An aggregate Credit Amount is then allocated to each Program Account to arrive at the Net Advisory Fee. In
addition, amounts held in the core position in a short-term position sleeve of a Tax-Smart Program Account
(used in connection with periodic withdrawal requests) are considered for purposes of the breakpoints
described below but are not managed on a discretionary basis and are not assessed a Gross Advisory Fee or
subject to the Credit Amount calculation. It is important to understand that Strategic Advisers’ affiliates receive
compensation for providing a variety of services to mutual funds and ETPs, as described below in “Client
Referrals and Other Compensation.” Such compensation is included in the Credit Amount only to the extent
that it is retained as a direct result of investment by Program Accounts. Compensation that is not directly
derived from Program Account assets is not included in the Credit Amount.
Credit Amounts for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs are calculated one month in arrears. As a result, when a
Program Account is closed, certain Credit Amounts for non-Fidelity funds and ETPs will not be applied against
the Gross Advisory Fee for any partial period during the month in which a Program Account is closed. In
such circumstances, Credit Amounts not applied to a closed Program Account are allocated, pro rata based
on assets, among the open Program Accounts in the Program at the time the Credit Amount is applied. In
addition, certain de minimis revenue received by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates could be donated to charity
(rather than included in the Credit Amount) or could be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the
open Program Accounts in the Program. This operational process results in credits that would otherwise be
attributable to one Program Account being received by another Program Account.
Net Advisory Fee = Gross Advisory Fee – Credit Amount
Please see the table below for the Gross Advisory Fees charged to Program Accounts. Please note that
all fees are subject to change and that Strategic Advisers has the ability to negotiate advisory fees for
certain accounts.
ANNUAL ADVISORY FEE SCHEDULE FOR PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
Average Daily Assets*
Gross Advisory Fee
Fidelity Advisory Services
All Average Daily Assets
1.10%
Less Credit
Amount
Equals Net
Advisory Fee
Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management
If Average Daily Assets total $500,000 or less, then:
1.50% (up to a
maximum of $6,250)
For Average Daily Assets from $0 to $500,000
If Average Daily Assets total more than $500,000, then:
1.25%
For the first $500,000 in Average Daily Assets
For the next $500,000 or portion thereof in Average Daily Assets
1.10%
Less Credit
Amount
Equals Net
Advisory Fee
For the next $1,000,000 or portion thereof in Average Daily Assets
0.90%
For the next $3,000,000 or portion thereof in Average Daily Assets
0.70%
For Average Daily Assets in excess of $5,000,000
0.50%
* Average Daily Assets of Program Accounts are determined on the last business day of the quarter. Subject to applicable
limitations, clients can aggregate the assets of multiple Program Accounts to take advantage of the reduced Gross Advisory
Fee breakpoints shown in the chart above. Upon account opening, we automatically aggregate certain account registrations
that share the same tax reporting identification number (such as IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, individual, joint, and certain trust
account registrations). To aggregate other accounts not eligible for automatic aggregation, including those with immediate
family members (the client’s legal spouse, or the client’s ancestor, descendant, or sibling (or their legal spouse)), or to request
aggregation of accounts after account opening, clients must complete an Account Aggregation Form or contact a Fidelity
representative. Clients are responsible for verifying that all eligible accounts have been aggregated appropriately.
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Clients should be aware that the Gross Advisory Fee for Fidelity Advisory Services accounts will be higher
than the Gross Advisory Fee for Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management accounts when
Fidelity Advisory Services account balances exceed $1.375 million in Average Daily Assets individually or
when aggregated with other eligible accounts.
Fees for SMA Sleeves. No SMA Sleeve Fee is charged for an investment model provided with respect to
an SMA Sleeve solely by an affiliated Model Provider. However, for the SMA Sleeves where an Unaffiliated
Model Provider provides an investment model (Strategic Advisers Equity Growth SMA Sleeve, Strategic
Advisers Equity Value SMA Sleeve, and Fidelity Strategic Advisers Blended International Equity SMA Sleeve),
an additional fee of up to 0.35% (domestic stock SMA Sleeves) or 0.40% (foreign stock SMA Sleeves) is
charged to cover the costs associated with obtaining and implementing the model(s). The SMA Sleeve Fee is
based on the blended rate of the fees charged by the Unaffiliated Model Providers who provide investment
recommendations. The SMA Sleeve Fee can change on a quarterly basis as a result of (i) changes in the
number of Unaffiliated Model Providers used for these SMA Sleeves or (ii) changes in the asset levels assigned
to a Model Provider for a given SMA Sleeve. The SMA Sleeve Fee will be equal to the blended rate for the
relevant calendar quarter. While the fee level can vary among Model Providers, the total SMA Sleeve Fee will
not exceed the amounts reflected above. The Credit Amount identified above is applicable to the SMA Sleeve
Fee only to the extent that the SMA Sleeve holds mutual funds or ETPs for which Strategic Advisers or an
affiliate retains compensation.
Additional Fee for Complex Financial Planning. Where a client has a highly complex financial situation, in
addition to the Net Advisory Fee and any applicable SMA Sleeve Fee (in the aggregate, the “Program Fee”), a
fee can be assessed for financial planning services. This fee will be negotiated with the client.
Standalone Financial Planning. The nondiscretionary financial planning services described above under
“Access to Financial Planning Services” could be made available separately through the Program for qualifying
clients who do not want to retain Strategic Advisers to provide discretionary investment management services
(“Standalone Planning”). Standalone Planning is generally available to clients with a net worth or assets
with Fidelity of $3,000,000 or more, as well as to employees of business entities that have retained Strategic
Advisers to provide Standalone Planning to such employees. Clients will be required to enter into a written
agreement with Strategic Advisers that identifies the Standalone Planning services to be provided, the time
period over which such services will be provided, and the fees to be charged for those services. Unless we
have agreed otherwise in writing, a Standalone Planning engagement will be complete upon the delivery
of, and consultation with the client regarding, our Standalone Planning services. Unless we have agreed
otherwise, we are not obligated to update any analysis provided or monitor a client’s progress toward an
investment and/or other financial planning goal. Where we have agreed to provide Standalone Planning on
an annual basis, we will contact the client to evaluate whether there have been any changes to the client’s
personal financial situation that would make it appropriate to update or revise our Standalone Planning
analysis. The fee for Standalone Planning will vary based on a number of factors that include but are not
limited to the complexity of the client’s situation, the number of financial planning focus areas analyzed, the
scope of our engagement, and the nature and amount of the client’s assets. Typically, the maximum annual fee
that will be charged for Standalone Planning is $20,000.
Trust Accounts Where Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, Serves as Trustee or Co-Trustee. For Program
Accounts where Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB (“FPTC”), serves as trustee or co-trustee, FPTC can
provide additional services, including management of certain assets held by the trust but not included in the
trust’s Program Account. All trust accounts where FPTC serves as trustee or co-trustee will be subject to a trust
administration fee that is separate from, and in addition to, the Program Fee described above. Please see
FPTC’s separate fee schedule for a complete listing of its fees. These accounts will not directly participate in the
financial planning services described herein. Also, when FPTC is acting as the trustee or co-trustee for Program
Accounts, references to “client” throughout this Program Brochure refer to FPTC acting as trustee or co-trustee
of the applicable trust.
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Billing. The Program Fee and, if applicable, any trust administration fees will be deducted, pro rata, from a
client’s Program Account or another Fidelity account identified by the client for this purpose after the end of
each quarter. Certain assets in a Program Account could be liquidated to pay the fees; this liquidation could
generate a taxable gain or loss in a taxable Program Account.
Additional Fee Information. All fees are subject to change. In rare circumstances, Strategic Advisers negotiates
the Program Fee for certain accounts. Strategic Advisers could also agree to waive fees, in whole or in part,
in its sole discretion, including but not limited to in connection with promotional efforts and other programs
(including situations designed to facilitate transitions between advisory programs), or for certain current and
former employees of Fidelity. This will result in certain clients paying less than the standard fee. Please note
that any negotiated advisory fee, fee waiver, or fee discount will not be applied if a client moves to a different
service level in the Program. If a waived or discounted fee results in a Credit Amount that is greater than the
Gross Advisory Fee for a Program Account, the excess credits will not be allocated to the Program Account but
will instead be allocated, pro rata based on assets, among the other Program Accounts in the Program at the
time the Credit Amount is applied.
Generally, except as described above, clients will not pay any commissions, transaction fees, or sales loads on
the securities purchased in a Program Account. Clients are responsible for any fees resulting from the sale of
securities used to fund their investment in a Program Account (whether such sale is inside or outside a Program
Account) and any subsequent withdrawals that the client initiates. If a fund purchased for a client account incurs
a redemption or other administrative fee as a result of not being held for a minimum time period, Fidelity can,
in its sole discretion, choose to pay any such redemption fees on behalf of Program clients but is under no
obligation to do so.
The Program Fee does not cover costs associated with implementing any recommendations provided as part
of our financial planning services, other than the discretionary services provided through the Program. The
Program Fee does not include amounts charged with respect to a regulatory fee that applies to all sales of
securities and which varies over time. This charge is estimated and assessed in advance; this process could
lead to overestimating or underestimating the actual regulatory fee. To the extent that such estimated amount
is greater than the actual regulatory fee, Fidelity will retain the excess. These charges will be reflected on
statements and/or trade confirmations.
Strategic Advisers’ affiliates sponsor promotional offers that provide clients with the ability to receive cash
compensation or a reduced advisory fee for opening and funding or maintaining certain accounts. Accounts
opened through the Program are, from time to time, included in the list of account types and investment
solutions eligible for such promotional offers. The Program’s eligibility for such promotional offers creates a
conflict of interest, as Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are incentivizing clients to use the Program rather than
Strategic Advisers’ other managed account programs or self-directed investment options available through
FBS. Strategic Advisers can also, from time to time, provide cash compensation to Program clients for taking
qualifying actions with respect to their Program Account, such as certain interactions with Program features.
Any compensation will be deposited into the client’s Program Account, will be subject to the Program Fee, and
may have tax consequences. A promotional offer is not a recommendation to implement any asset allocation
strategy or select a particular account type or investment solution.
Also, during the time a client is enrolled in the Program, the client could be eligible to receive certain services
offered by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates based, in whole or in part, on the amount invested with the Program. It
is important to understand that such services are not part of the Program Services for which the Program Fee is
paid. In addition, while enrolled in the Program, a client could receive information about how to access financial
wellness and/or professional support resources and services that are offered by entities unaffiliated with Fidelity,
some of which pay compensation to Fidelity as a result of the client’s use of such resources or services. Such
resources and services are not included as part of the Program Services, and any applicable costs associated
with enrolling in or subscribing to these resources or services would be in addition to the Program Fee.
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Other Considerations. In evaluating the Program, please consider that Fidelity offers a variety of
investment advisory services and brokerage offerings. These offerings are summarized below to assist
clients in understanding and comparing the services and offerings. For more detailed information
regarding an investment advisory service, please review the respective Form ADV, Part 2A brochure
available at Fidelity.com/information or through a Fidelity representative. Refer to the “Guide to
Brokerage and Investment Advisory Services at Fidelity Investments” (available at Fidelity.com
/information) for more information regarding our roles and responsibilities when providing brokerage
and advisory services. Please note that, other than the self-directed brokerage account offered by
FBS, the advisory programs included in the chart below are each offered by Strategic Advisers.
PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity Go®
No account minimum;
$10 to invest
Less than $25,000
invested: no advisory
fee
Portfolio based on a
client’s investment
profile and composed
of a mix of zero
expense ratio Fidelity
mutual funds
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.35% annually for
$25,000 and above
Invests in zero expense
ratio Fidelity mutual
funds that do not
charge management
fees (or with limited
exceptions, fund
expenses)
Digitally provided
discretionary
investment
management and
planning; access to a
team of phone-based
representatives for
one-on-one financial
coaching for clients
who maintain $25,000
or more in a Fidelity Go
account and tax-loss
harvesting for taxable
accounts with $25,000
or more
Fidelity Managed
FidFolios®
$5,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.40% or 0.70%
annually
Digitally provided
discretionary invest-
ment man agement
of a single asset class
(including tax-smart
investing techniques)
A mix of individual
securities, either stocks
or American Depositary
Receipts, depending
on the client’s selected
strategy
Fidelity® Strategic
Disciplines
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.20%–0.70%
annually for equity
strategies and 0.35%–
0.40% annually for
fixed income strategies,
depending on the
amount invested
Discretionary
investment
management of a single
asset class (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
A mix of individual
securities, including but
not limited to stocks,
bonds, American
Depositary Receipts,
and/or exchange-traded
products and mutual
funds, depending on
the client’s selected
strategy
Depending on
strategy selected,
account investment
minimums of $100,000
(equity strategies)
and $350,000 (bond
strategies), each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
(effective in the second
quarter of 2026, the
account investment
minimum will be
$200,000 for taxable
bond strategies and
$250,000 for municipal
bond strategies)
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PRODUCT
DESCRIPTION
INVESTMENT
GENERAL
ELIGIBILITY
FEE STRUCTURE
Fidelity® Wealth
Services
$50,000 minimum
investment
Asset-based advisory
fee: 1.10% annually,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity as a
direct result of a client’s
investments
Fidelity Advisory
Services provides
customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
by a centralized team
of phone-based
representatives
A mix of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity
mutual funds and
exchange-traded
products invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Wealth Management
and Private Wealth
Management
provide customized
planning, advice,
and discretionary
investment
management (including
tax-smart investing
techniques); planning
and advice is provided
through a dedicated
representative
supported by a
service team
A mix of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual
funds and exchange-
traded products
and, depending on a
client’s preferences
and investment
profile, individual
securities, invested
using a dynamic asset
allocation that can
respond to changes in
the economic business
cycle; offered with
multiple investment
approaches and
universes
Asset-based advisory
fee: 0.50%–1.50%
annually, depending on
the amount invested,
less a fee credit that
reflects compensation
retained by Fidelity
as a direct result of a
client’s investments
(additional fees of up to
0.40% for management
of certain individual
security strategies
can also apply where
advisory services are
not provided solely by
a Strategic Advisers
affiliate)
$50,000 minimum
account investment for
Wealth Management
and $2 million
minimum investment
and $10 million
investable assets
for Private Wealth
Management, each
subject to qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative, which
is based on a variety of
factors (for example,
a client with at least
$500,000 invested in an
eligible Fidelity account
would typically qualify)
Fidelity Wealth
Advisor Solutions®
Investment vehicles
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
strategy
Investment minimums
will vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
Advisory fees will
vary by unaffiliated
investment advisor and
services provided
A referral network of
unaffiliated investment
advisors that provide
customized wealth
management and
investment strategies
Self-Directed
Brokerage Account
Transaction fees and
investment expenses
vary based on
investment vehicle
selected; no ongoing
asset-based advisory
fee charged by
Strategic Advisers
Self-directed trading
through FBS, with
access to Fidelity’s
online tools, planning,
and resources, and
support provided
by brokerage
representatives.
A dedicated
representative is
available based on
relationship
No minimum to
open a brokerage
account. Qualification
for support from a
dedicated Fidelity
representative is based
on a variety of factors
(for example, a client
with at least $500,000
invested in an eligible
Fidelity account would
typically qualify)
Brokerage customers
can choose from a wide
variety of investments,
including mutual funds,
exchange-traded
funds, stocks, bonds,
and insurance and
annuity products. Note
that certain securities
available through
Strategic Advisers’
advisory services are
not available in self-
directed brokerage
accounts
As described in the chart above, FBS offers self-directed brokerage accounts and financial planning, and can
provide dedicated support from a Fidelity representative depending on a client’s overall relationship with
Fidelity. A client could, therefore, invest directly in the individual securities, ETPs, and certain mutual funds
available through the Program through a Fidelity brokerage account or a brokerage account at another firm
without incurring the Program Fee charged by the Program. In addition, the investment strategies available
through the Program’s SMA Sleeves, while designed for the Program, could be similar to a mutual fund or
other product available for direct investment by the client, and the operating expenses of such a mutual fund
or other product will likely differ from that of the Program. Finally, a client could purchase planning services
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separately from another firm, plan independently using the tools and analytics that are used to support the
financial planning services provided through the Program that are also made available by FBS at Fidelity.com
without a fee, or, if the client qualifies for dedicated support from a Fidelity representative, work with the
Fidelity representative to receive planning services offered by FBS without a fee. However, while clients can
obtain similar products and services from Fidelity or other firms without enrolling in the Program, the same
combination of services would not be provided, certain investment products used by the Program are not
available for purchase outside of the Program, investments could be subject to sales loads or transaction and
redemption charges that are generally waived as part of the Program, and the overall cost of purchasing the
products and services separately will most likely differ from the Program Fee. Factors that bear on the cost of
the Program in relation to the cost of the same or similar products and services purchased separately include,
among other things, the amount of brokerage trades executed through Fidelity-affiliated broker-dealers (the
charges for which are included in the Program Fee) as compared with the brokerage trades executed through
other broker-dealers (the charges for which are not included in the Program Fee), and the number and range
of supplementary advisory and other services provided to the Program Account. Clients should consider the
value of these advisory services when making such comparisons.
Information about Fidelity and Fidelity Representative Compensation. Fidelity representatives who support
the Program are associated with Strategic Advisers and FBS. Fidelity representatives act on behalf of FBS
when recommending an advisory program offered by Strategic Advisers. Once a client enrolls in the Program,
the Fidelity representative will be providing Program Services. Separate and apart from the Program, Fidelity
representatives, including those who support the Program, can provide clients with a variety of FBS services,
including investment education and advice, financial analyses, financial planning services, and help with
implementing any nondiscretionary recommendations provided as part of the Program’s financial planning
services. When providing services for FBS, these Fidelity representatives are acting solely as registered
representatives of FBS, and the Program Fee is not related to those FBS services.
Fidelity representatives receive base pay based on their experience and role. In addition to base pay, Fidelity
representatives are also eligible to receive either variable compensation or an annual bonus, and certain
representatives are also eligible to receive longer-term compensation. Fidelity representatives who receive an
annual bonus do not receive compensation based directly on the sale of any product or service, but they do
have an indirect financial incentive to recommend products or services that pay more compensation to Fidelity
because annual bonus funding is based in part on Fidelity’s financial performance. For Fidelity representatives
who receive variable compensation, variable compensation depends on the representative’s role and can be
impacted by client loyalty, the amount of assets a client transfers to Fidelity, the amount of assets invested
initially and on an ongoing basis, referring potential clients to other Fidelity representatives who enroll the
client in a Fidelity investment product or service, and client family members opening Fidelity accounts.
Whether and how much each Fidelity representative receives in each component is generally determined
based on the representative’s role, responsibilities, performance measures, and their manager’s assessment of
the representative’s performance.
Fidelity and the Fidelity representatives who support the Program and who are eligible to receive variable
compensation receive different amounts of compensation depending on the type of product or service a client
selects. Fidelity and those representatives will earn more compensation if a client (i) enrolls in any service level
of Fidelity Wealth Services than if a client enrolls in Fidelity Go or Fidelity Managed FidFolios, or (ii) enrolls
in the Wealth Management or Private Wealth Management service level of Fidelity Wealth Services than if a
client enrolls in the Fidelity Advisory Services service level of Fidelity Wealth Services. Please note that Fidelity
representatives do not earn variable compensation with respect to Standalone Planning. The compensation
received by Fidelity and those representatives in connection with FBS offerings (e.g., stocks, bonds, ETFs,
mutual funds) is typically less than the compensation received in connection with a client choosing to
participate in a Fidelity advisory program. Products and services that generally require more time to engage
with a client and/or that are more complex provide greater compensation to a representative and Fidelity.
This compensation structure creates a financial incentive for Fidelity and its representatives to recommend
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investments in more complex or time-consuming products and services over others, and to recommend that
a client maintain an investment in such products and services over time. Fidelity addresses these conflicts of
interest by having processes in place that require our representatives to make recommendations that are in
the best interest of clients, paying compensation based on the time and complexity of the relevant product or
service, training and supervising our representatives, and disclosing these conflicts of interest to clients so that
they can consider the conflicts when making financial decisions.
To see specific compensation levels for the managed account programs mentioned above and other products,
including an example of compensation that can be earned by Financial Consultants, please see the “Fidelity
Investments Compensation Disclosure” document (available at Fidelity.com/information), or contact a Fidelity
representative. Clients should read the information contained in the “Fidelity Investments Compensation
Disclosure” document carefully, and can ask a representative at any time whether and how they are
compensated with respect to a particular product or service and about the financial incentives and conflicts
of interest that Fidelity has when making recommendations of products or services.
A C C O U N T R E Q U I R E M E N T S A N D T Y P E S O F C L I E N T S
The Program is generally available to individuals, trusts, and certain corporate entities. To participate in the
Program, a client must be a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien), typically reside in the U.S., and have a
valid U.S. taxpayer identification number. The Program is not available to non-U.S. trusts and foreign investors.
Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, decline to permit participation in the Program for any reason.
The Program’s minimum investment starts at $50,000 per Program Account. Wealth Management clients
must generally qualify for support from a dedicated Fidelity representative, which is based on a variety of
factors, including Program Account investment levels, assets held at Fidelity outside of the Program, and the
complexity of the client’s financial situation. Private Wealth Management clients are subject to a qualification
and acceptance process and must typically invest at least $2 million, in the aggregate, in Program Accounts
(or combined with assets invested in Fidelity® Strategic Disciplines) and have investable assets of at least
$10 million. Access to SMA Sleeves is available only for eligible Wealth Management and Private Wealth
Management Tax-Smart Program Accounts and is generally determined based on account balance. In
general, new accounts for business entities, including irrevocable trusts, can only be opened in the Wealth
Management service level. Strategic Advisers can, in its sole discretion, change or waive an identified Program
minimum at any time. Program Accounts that fall below a required minimum can be removed from the
Program. Once the client has agreed to the terms of the Program Client Agreement, the client will have 120
days to fund the Program Account with the applicable minimum investment. If the client has not reached the
applicable Program minimum within 120 days, Fidelity can terminate the client’s participation in the Program.
In general, clients in the Fidelity Advisory Services service level of the Program are not eligible to invest in the
Fidelity Strategic Disciplines program. Clients typically can have Program Accounts in only one Program service
level, and qualifying clients can move between service levels upon request.
With respect to a client’s Retirement Program Account, the Program Fee is solely attributable to Program
Services provided to that Program Account. In addition, certain limitations apply to the management of a
Retirement Program Account holding defined benefit plan assets. Generally, only single-participant defined
benefit plan assets will be managed (except in the case of a Retirement Program Account holding defined
benefit plan assets where the plan benefits only the owner of the business sponsoring the plan and the
owner’s spouse), and they will be treated as if they were in a defined contribution plan. Plan-specific provisions
and any plan-related documents will not be considered in the discretionary management of these assets.
To enroll in the Program, a client must agree to the Program Client Agreement, which details the terms and
conditions under which the client appoints Strategic Advisers to provide the Program Services. Our advisory
relationship with a client begins when we accept the client’s Program Client Agreement. Except with respect
to a Program investment proposal, preliminary discussions or recommendations made before we accept a
Program Client Agreement are not intended as investment advice or financial planning provided by Strategic
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Advisers. The Program Client Agreement requires that clients delegate discretionary authority to Strategic
Advisers to provide discretionary portfolio management for their Program Account, which includes the
authority to determine which securities to purchase or sell, the total amount of such purchases and sales,
and the brokers or dealers through which transactions are executed in Program Accounts, subject to certain
Program and regulatory limitations and Strategic Advisers’ internal policies and procedures. Clients also
acknowledge through the Program Client Agreement that Strategic Advisers may, but is not obligated to,
retain one or more sub-advisors with respect to the management of Program Accounts. The Program Client
Agreement also establishes a brokerage account with FBS, a registered broker-dealer, affiliate of Strategic
Advisers, and a member of NYSE and SIPC. During a client’s participation in the Program, the client’s Program
Account will not be available for the client’s self-directed brokerage activities. Another affiliate of Strategic
Advisers, National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a registered broker-dealer and a member of NYSE and
SIPC, has custody of client assets and will perform certain account services, including the implementation of
discretionary management instructions, as well as custodial and related services. Certain personnel of Strategic
Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have common supervision.
Opening and Funding a Program Account
Clients can fund Program Accounts with cash and/or securities acceptable to us. These securities must be held
free and clear of any liens, pledges, or other legal or contractual restrictions. Fidelity will determine, in its sole
discretion, which securities will be eligible to fund a Program Account. A Fidelity representative can provide
information as to whether a specific mutual fund, ETP, or other security is eligible to be managed in a Program
Account. At times, Fidelity will not accept individual securities that are otherwise generally available to fund a
Program Account due to internal guidelines or state or federal regulations. If a client elects to transfer ineligible
securities into a Program Account, Fidelity will liquidate those securities as soon as reasonably practicable,
and the transfer of such securities into a Program Account is deemed a directive by the client to Fidelity to sell
any such securities upon transfer. Fidelity also reserves the right to transfer an ineligible security back to the
account from which the client transferred the assets or to another like-registered account held at Fidelity.
We do not consider the potential tax consequences of the sale of ineligible securities in any Program Account,
and do not consider the potential tax consequences of the sale of eligible securities in BDIP Program Accounts.
While we do consider the potential tax consequences of the sale of eligible securities in a Tax-Smart Program
Account, we believe that appropriate asset allocation and diversification are of primary importance, and we
apply tax-smart investing techniques as a secondary consideration in managing such accounts. Accordingly,
clients who fund a Tax-Smart Program Account with appreciated securities should understand that we could
sell such securities notwithstanding that the sale could trigger significant tax consequences. Sales of eligible
and ineligible transferred securities will be subject to redemption and other applicable fees, including
commissions on sales of securities; however, under certain circumstances, the Program can voluntarily assume
the costs of certain commissions. In addition, where securities are purchased in a taxable Program Account,
the client could receive taxable distributions out of earnings that have accrued before purchase (a situation
referred to as buying a dividend).
As described above, a Fidelity representative will work with a client to collect Profile Information and will also
assist the client with the account opening process, which includes but is not limited to funding the Program
Account with cash and/or eligible securities, the sale of the ineligible securities used to fund the Program
Account, and our receipt of tax basis information described below for Tax-Smart Program Accounts. Once we
receive all required information and the account opening process, including the sale of ineligible securities
and the receipt of sufficient funding (which may be our per account minimum or a different amount included
in the client’s account documentation), is complete, a Program Account will be reviewed for investment and
will typically begin trading within seven business days. In general, the Program Fee will begin to accrue once a
Program Account has been deemed in good order for management purposes.
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Clients who have engaged us to plan for and invest multiple Program Accounts associated with a single goal
should discuss Program Account investment timing with their Fidelity representative. Such clients should
note that in some instances we will delay investment of those Program Accounts until account funding has
been substantially completed; in other instances, we could begin investing those Program Accounts before
the completion (or substantial completion) of all client-initiated funding transfers into the Program Accounts
associated with the goal. In addition, such clients should be aware that if we are unable to manage one or
more of the multiple Program Accounts associated with a single goal or plan, we may not be able to manage
any of the other Program Accounts associated with the goal or plan.
For initial funding or subsequent deposits to a Tax-Smart Program Account, Fidelity must be provided with tax
basis information for all securities that will be managed. Discretionary portfolio management will not occur for
a Tax-Smart Program Account until the completed tax basis information has been received. We will rely on the
tax information provided by the client and will not verify the tax basis information provided; clients are able to
update such tax basis information by contacting a Fidelity representative. If securities received by the client as
a gift are deposited into a Program Account, we will use the tax basis information provided to us in connection
with the gift.
Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management clients can request to have concentrated funding
positions in a Tax-Smart Program Account potentially sold off over time (over a maximum of three successive
tax years), subject to acceptance by us and our ability to accelerate the sale of such concentrated positions if
we believe it is more appropriate to do so based on asset allocation and diversification considerations. Such
requests should be made through a Fidelity representative. For all Fidelity Advisory Services clients, and for
Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management clients who do not elect to have funding positions sold
off over time, concentrated funding positions will generally be sold within the first 90 days after funding.
Additional deposits of cash or securities can be made to a Program Account at any time. Discretionary
management of additional deposits will generally occur as soon as reasonably practicable but could be
delayed for various reasons, including time needed to liquidate securities, special handling instructions, or
because the additional deposit might not necessitate trading in all cases. In general, the Program Fee will begin
to accrue with respect to additional deposits once those assets have been received into the Program Account
and have been deemed in good order for management purposes.
Wealth Management clients who are eligible and have elected to have one or more Program Accounts
included in a goal-based plan are required to alter the terms pursuant to which they previously granted (or in
the future will grant) someone else with authority over their Program Accounts. Such clients who wish to have
their Program Accounts included in a goal-based plan with Program Accounts they do not jointly own are also
required to grant us an authorization to accept certain instructions from any Program Account owner regarding
the management of these Program Accounts. Please see the Program Client Agreement and Program
documentation or contact a Fidelity representative for more information.
Withdrawals, Account Closure, and Program Termination
A client can request a withdrawal from a Program Account, elect to close one or more Program Accounts, or elect
to close all Program Accounts and terminate Program enrollment, including with respect to the receipt of financial
planning services. Generally, all closure and termination instructions must be processed through a Fidelity
representative. Strategic Advisers reserves the right to terminate a client’s Program Services (or limit the client’s
rights to access any or all account features, products, or services) for any reason, including (i) if any authorized
person on a Program Account resides outside the U.S., (ii) if the balance of a client’s Program Account falls below
the minimum investment level, or (iii) if the Program is deemed no longer appropriate for a client.
Should either party terminate the investment advisory relationship, the Program Fee will be prorated from the
beginning of any unbilled quarter to the termination date, which is defined as the date when we no longer
manage the Program Account on a discretionary basis.
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Clients will be required to provide instructions to be used in the event of withdrawals or Program Account
closure. Clients have the option of electing that assets either be liquidated and the proceeds sent to the client
by check or transferred to a bank account (or other account) or be transferred in kind to another account.
Clients should understand that if they close their Program Account but do not provide further instructions,
certain mutual funds that cannot be held outside of the Program will generally be liquidated, and the
remaining assets will be held in the account (but not managed) until the client provides instructions.
While the timing of trading and settlement can vary, liquidating trades for partial and full withdrawal requests
will typically be placed within the next seven business days of the request. In-kind asset transfer instructions
will typically be placed within seven business days of such a request. For partial withdrawal requests, Fidelity
will generally reinvest the cash proceeds of any sales into the client’s discretionarily managed Program Account
after 30 days if transfer instructions are not provided. Note that liquidation of assets in taxable accounts could
have adverse tax consequences.
It is important to understand that Program Accounts can hold certain mutual funds that clients would not
be able to purchase directly or that are able to be held only as part of an advisory program. In general, if
an investor ceases to be a Program client or requests a transfer of such funds, shares of those funds will be
redeemed, subject to the terms and conditions specified in the applicable fund’s prospectus.
There can be instances where we need to place a “do-not-trade” restriction on one or more Program Accounts,
including when a client requests a security be transferred from a Program Account, when processing a
trade correction, when we need to comply with a court order, when a client asks us to process a withdrawal
and keep the proceeds from the sale of securities used to fund the withdrawal in the account until the
client provides further instructions for the transfer of the proceeds, when a client closes (including through
withdrawal) an account that is invested along with other Program Accounts associated with a single goal, or
when we need additional Profile Information from a client. For the period when a do-not-trade restriction is in
effect, we generally will not trade or otherwise manage the Program Account until the do-not-trade restriction
is removed. Clients continue to have access to financial planning services and their Fidelity representative(s)
during the time when a do-not-trade restriction is in place.
With respect to taxable Program Accounts, a client can elect to have all dividends, interest, and capital gains
on eligible holdings set aside for automatic distribution by completing and submitting an Earnings Automatic
Withdrawal Plan form on Fidelity.com or by speaking with a Fidelity representative. Please note that upon a
client providing these instructions to Fidelity, the amounts awaiting distribution will not be subject to Fidelity’s
discretionary authority.
Where Strategic Advisers elects to close a Program Account that has fallen below a required minimum, all
securities held in the Program Account can be sold and the proceeds will be made available to the client. The
sale of securities can result in capital gains for taxable Program Accounts. Clients can avoid the liquidating
sale of all securities held in the Program Account by electing to close their Program Account when notified by
Strategic Advisers (though certain funds that clients are not able to hold outside of the Program will be sold
upon account closure) or by adding funds to the account such that it meets the minimum required balance.
P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S E L E C T I O N A N D E V A L U A T I O N
Strategic Advisers offers the Program and provides discretionary investment management services to Program
Accounts directly and, therefore, does not evaluate or select other portfolio managers to provide services
directly to Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers does, however, evaluate and select Model Providers to provide
investment models for the BDIP Program Accounts and SMA Sleeves. Prior to selecting a Model Provider for
the Program, Strategic Advisers performs a comprehensive review of the Model Provider and its investment
style and approach. Strategic Advisers’ review generally includes, among other things, assessing information
about the Model Provider and its investment strategy collected from third-party sources and information
received directly from the Model Provider. In selecting a Model Provider, Strategic Advisers will consider a
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variety of factors, including but not limited to investment approach, portfolio characteristics, and total assets of
the Model Provider. Strategic Advisers will evaluate information from both quantitative and qualitative analyses,
including but not limited to the Model Provider’s investment strategy and ability to adhere to the investment
guidelines, credit research capabilities, security coverage, experience, growth of assets under management,
stability of management, governance program, and trading and operational capabilities. Strategic Advisers
evaluates a Model Provider’s adherence to the investment strategy not less than semiannually based on the
factors described above.
A model portfolio provided by a Model Provider for an SMA Sleeve or a BDIP Program Account could reflect
trading decisions previously made by the Model Provider for its discretionary client accounts. As a result, such
Program Accounts could receive prices that are more favorable or less favorable than the prices obtained
by the Model Provider’s discretionary client accounts, particularly with respect to thinly traded securities.
In addition, aggregate holding limits and other investment limits applicable to such prior trading decisions,
and collectively to the discretionary accounts of Strategic Advisers and its affiliates generally, could result in
investment opportunities not being included in a model portfolio.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
Strategic Advisers does not currently charge performance-based management fees for any of its advisory
services and, therefore, does not engage in side-by-side management.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Mutual funds and ETPs used in the Program are managed by Fidelity and/or non-Fidelity advisers and could
include mutual funds managed by Strategic Advisers or an affiliate that have been developed specifically for
use in programs offered or managed by Strategic Advisers or an affiliate (the “Fidelity Program Dedicated
Funds”) and/or other funds that are not available for investment directly to retail investors (together with
Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds, “Program Only Funds”). The Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds can invest
in individual equity and fixed income securities, mutual funds, ETPs, and derivatives, and engage the use of
Fidelity and non-Fidelity sub-advisors (“Fund Sub-advisors”). The selection and allocation of assets to Fidelity
Funds or to third-party funds that pay fees to Strategic Advisers’ affiliates creates conflicts of interest for
Strategic Advisers. For funds managed by a Fidelity affiliate, these affiliates receive fees for services, including
management and administration of the fund. For any third-party fund, Strategic Advisers’ affiliates receive fees
in connection with the fund’s FundsNetwork participation. Strategic Advisers seeks to address these conflicts
through the application of the Credit Amount, described in “Fees and Compensation” above, and through
personnel compensation arrangements that are not differentiated based on the investments selected for
Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers also establishes internal limits, and can be subject to external limits, on
how much it will invest client accounts in a particular security.
Strategic Advisers generally uses both fundamental and quantitative investment strategies to manage
Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers uses sophisticated research tools to gauge when certain primary
and extended asset classes should be used. This involves both evaluating characteristics, such as sector
weightings, duration, valuation, and market capitalization, as well as focusing on key economic indicators
and trends. When determining how to allocate assets among underlying mutual funds and ETPs, Strategic
Advisers considers a variety of objective and subjective factors, including but not limited to proprietary
fundamental and quantitative fund research, a manager’s experience and investment style, fund company
infrastructure, fund availability, current public information about a fund, such as expense ratio, performance
history, asset size, and portfolio turnover, and overall fit within Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers’
investment professionals will obtain and use information from various sources to assist in making allocation
decisions among asset classes, as well as decisions regarding the purchase and sale of specific mutual
funds, ETPs, and individual securities. Sources of information used include publicly available information and
performance data on mutual funds and ETPs, individual securities, equity markets, fixed income markets,
foreign markets, and broad-based economic indicators. Strategic Advisers will use both primary sources
(e.g., talking directly with fund companies and managers) and secondary sources (reports prepared by fund
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companies and other sources that provide data on specific fund investment strategies, portfolio management
teams, fund positioning, portfolio risk characteristics, performance attribution, and historical fund returns) as
inputs into its investment process.
In general, Strategic Advisers will evaluate the mutual funds available on the FundsNetwork platform and
make fund investment determinations based on investment methodology. Strategic Advisers will review the
share classes offered by identified funds and seek to choose the share class of a fund that is appropriate for
clients after the application of the Credit Amount. Strategic Advisers generally chooses share classes of the
funds it invests in on a Program-wide basis, and generally does not vary its share class selections among
Program Accounts or modify its share class selections for clients who receive fee waivers (primarily Fidelity
employees) or discounts. On an annual basis, Strategic Advisers will assess whether the mutual funds held in
Program Accounts offer less expensive share classes (after the application of the Credit Amount) and, if so, will
make appropriate conversions thereafter. Clients should understand that a Program Account can hold a more
expensive share class of a fund for an extended amount of time until the share class review and conversion
process is complete. Investors who hold a more expensive share class will pay higher fees over time—and earn
lower investment returns—than investors who hold a less expensive share class of the same fund.
About the Investment Approaches and Universes
The Program offers the following two investment approaches and six investment universes for the management
of Program Accounts, other than BDIP Program Accounts, to accommodate investor preferences. Clients select
either the Total Return or the Defensive investment approach. The Total Return investment approach seeks to
enhance total return for a given level of risk through broad diversification across asset classes. The Defensive
investment approach seeks to temper downside risk in an effort to provide a smoother investment experience
over the long term (as compared with a Total Return approach) by implementing “defensive” strategies.
Defensive Program Accounts will have increased exposures to defensive investments that, in the judgment
of Strategic Advisers, could cause the account to have lower sensitivity to broader market price movements.
These defensive investments include conservative equity (those with stable earnings growth, low financial
leverage, and a high return on equity; or those that are expected to have lower volatility and to rise and fall in
price less than the market generally), which can be combined with increased exposure to longer-term high-
quality bonds to help reduce variability in returns and reduce some of the equity and credit risk associated
with the other investments used in Defensive Program Accounts. As part of its evaluation of the business
cycle, Strategic Advisers can manage Defensive Program Accounts to have lower equity exposure than the
identified long-term asset allocation, with the amount of variation expected to be greater in Defensive Program
Accounts with higher long-term allocations to equity. There is no guarantee that the defensive strategies used
in managing Defensive Program Accounts will produce the desired results, and clients should be aware that
this approach is generally expected to limit a client’s gains during rising market environments. Please note that
only the Blended investment universe is available for Defensive Program Accounts.
Blended, Sustainable Blended, Fidelity-Focused, and Sustainable Fidelity-Focused Program Accounts seek
to enhance risk-adjusted returns through broad diversification across asset classes. Blended and Sustainable
Blended Program Accounts use both Fidelity and non-Fidelity investments.
Fidelity-Focused and Sustainable Fidelity-Focused Program Accounts primarily use investments from Fidelity.
Blended, Sustainable Blended, Fidelity-Focused, and Sustainable Fidelity-Focused Program Accounts will
generally invest in actively managed investments, but can also invest in index-based investments based on
market conditions, risk management, and trading considerations, and the availability of actively managed and
index-based investments used to gain exposure to a particular asset or sub–asset class, in each case in the
judgment of Strategic Advisers.
Index-Focused and Sustainable Index-Focused Program Accounts also seek to enhance risk-adjusted returns
through broad diversification across asset classes, but will have a preference for index-based investments.
Index-Focused and Sustainable Index-Focused Program Accounts use both Fidelity and non-Fidelity
investments. Index-Focused and Sustainable Index-Focused Program Accounts can also invest in non-index-
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based investments when deemed appropriate by the investment team, based on market conditions and
the availability of actively managed and index-based investments used to gain exposure to a particular asset
or sub–asset class, in each case in the judgment of Strategic Advisers. In general, for Index-Focused and
Sustainable Index-Focused Program Accounts, the investment management team can use actively managed
investments to gain exposure to certain fixed income asset classes, including municipal and high-yield bonds,
though this could change in the future depending on the availability and appropriateness of index-based
investments with exposure to certain asset or sub–asset classes. Accordingly, Index-Focused and Sustainable
Index-Focused Program Accounts that are taxable or that have a more conservative asset allocation can hold
a higher percentage of actively managed investments than other accounts with the same asset allocation or
investment universe.
Strategic Advisers expects that Retirement Program Accounts will more quickly achieve desired allocations to
investments identified as part of the investment universe than comparable Tax-Smart Program Accounts, due
to the consideration of the tax impact of selling securities that have appreciated since purchase.
For the Sustainable Blended, Sustainable Fidelity-Focused, and Sustainable Index-Focused investment universes
(together, the “Sustainable Universes”), Strategic Advisers applies its fundamental research processes to identify
mutual funds and ETPs that, in its judgment, have meaningfully integrated sustainability practices into the
mutual fund’s or ETP’s investment research and decision-making processes (such mutual funds and ETPs are
referred to herein as “Sustainable Funds”). The Sustainable Universes will have a preference for Sustainable
Funds, but will also invest in non-Sustainable Funds when deemed appropriate by the investment team, based
on market conditions and the availability of Sustainable Funds used to gain exposure to a particular asset
or sub–asset class. Except as provided below with respect to mutual funds or ETPs that invest primarily in
debt securities issued by governmental entities, Strategic Advisers generally reviews a mutual fund’s or ETP’s
manager as part of its fundamental research process to identify Sustainable Funds in an effort to determine (i)
the extent to which the manager has integrated environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) criteria into its
investment processes; (ii) the extent to which the manager engages with issuers of securities in which it invests
regarding ESG criteria; and (iii) the extent to which the mutual fund’s or ETP’s investment holdings appear to
be consistent with an investment approach based on ESG criteria. In assessing a potential Sustainable Fund
as part of its fundamental research process, Strategic Advisers can review a number of factors that can include
but are not limited to the extent to which the fund’s manager has demonstrated capabilities and management-
level commitment to sustainable investing, evidence of support and consistency of approach across the fund’s
investment team, the level of resources of the fund’s manager has dedicated to sustainable investing, the fund
manager’s proxy voting record with respect to ESG issues, the fund’s underlying investments in securities based
on ESG factors, and the fund’s demonstrated differences relative to a benchmark that does not consider ESG
factors. With respect to mutual funds or ETPs that invest primarily in debt securities issued by governmental
entities, Strategic Advisers generally relies on third-party ratings (including by its affiliates) of the governmental
issuer to determine whether the fund is a Sustainable Fund.
Strategic Advisers generally looks for mutual fund and ETP managers who assess security issuers based on
multiple ESG factors. With respect to environmental factors, Strategic Advisers generally looks for managers
who assess issuers based on factors that include but are not limited to the issuer’s carbon and toxic emissions,
water management, waste management, vulnerability to the physical impacts of climate change, and research
and investment into products, services, and energies that reduce emissions and/or provide opportunities to
achieve a low carbon transition. With respect to social factors, Strategic Advisers generally looks for managers
who assess issuers based on factors that include but are not limited to the issuer’s approach to diversity
and inclusion, human capital management, data privacy, product safety, and human rights. With respect to
governance factors, Strategic Advisers generally looks for managers who assess issuers based on factors that
include but are not limited to the independence and diversity of the issuer’s board, the issuer’s compensation
practices, and the issuer’s board’s oversight of critical ESG issues. The evaluation of index-based mutual funds
and ETPs generally centers on the index that the fund’s manager has selected to track and the manager’s ability
to adhere to the index. Some factors, such as engagement practices, can be less relevant for index-based funds
or those with quantitative investment processes.
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In addition, for the Sustainable Index-Focused universe, Strategic Advisers will prioritize index-based
investments offered by BlackRock or its affiliates over other index-based investments. It is possible that non-
BlackRock index-based funds will outperform mutual funds and ETPs offered by BlackRock or its affiliates
(“BlackRock funds”). As described in “Client Referrals and Other Compensation” below, affiliates of Strategic
Advisers and BlackRock have a marketing relationship. While this marketing relationship does not apply to
the services offered by Strategic Advisers, and employees responsible for selecting investments for Program
Accounts are not compensated based on the investments selected for Program Accounts, clients should be
aware of this conflict of interest.
Strategic Advisers’ determination as to whether a mutual fund or ETP will be considered a Sustainable Fund
is based on a subjective, qualitative assessment made based on the judgment of the Strategic Advisers
investment team; none of the categories of review performed as part of an assessment is dispositive, and the
weighting Strategic Advisers gives to ESG criteria can differ. Strategic Advisers generally expects that the ESG
criteria it evaluates in determining whether a mutual fund or ETP is a Sustainable Fund can differ depending
on the availability of data regarding underlying ESG criteria, or the mutual fund’s or ETP’s exposure to specific
asset classes, sub–asset classes, sectors, industries, or investment styles. Strategic Advisers’ review of these
fund managers can be based on its own proprietary research as well as data provided by third parties, and
the ESG criteria it considers as well as Strategic Advisers’ assessment of a Sustainable Fund can change over
time. Please note that Strategic Advisers can, based on its subjective, qualitative assessment, determine that
a mutual fund or ETP is a Sustainable Fund even if the mutual fund or ETP is not categorized as such by the
mutual fund’s or ETP’s manager.
Clients should be aware that Strategic Advisers’ assessment of a mutual fund or ETP does not capture
all possible ESG criteria, and there is no common industry standard relating to the development and
application of ESG criteria. The subjective value that an investor assigns to certain types of ESG criteria can
differ substantially from that of Strategic Advisers, and reasonable investors can differ in their views of what
constitutes positive or negative ESG characteristics. As a result, clients should not assume that a Sustainable
Universe account will necessarily invest in mutual funds or ETPs that reflect their own ESG beliefs and values.
The application of Strategic Advisers’ ESG criteria will cause an account invested using a Sustainable Universe
to forgo certain investment opportunities, which will cause such an account to perform differently, perhaps
significantly, compared with an account that does not exclude mutual funds and ETPs based on such criteria.
As described below in “Voting Client Securities,” clients can direct Strategic Advisers to act as agent to
vote proxies with respect to the investments held in a Program Account pursuant to instructions provided
in advance by the client. Please note that the Sustainable Universe Program Accounts do not evaluate
or consider proxy voting of securities held in a Program Account in attempting to reach their objectives.
Accordingly, it is possible that proxy votes will be inconsistent with, or contrary to, the sustainable goal of a
Sustainable Universe Program Account.
About Tax-Smart Investing Techniques
Strategic Advisers believes appropriate asset allocation and diversification are of primary importance to the
portfolio management of all Program Accounts. The application of tax-smart investing techniques to provide
portfolio management services to clients in a more tax-sensitive manner is a secondary consideration in
managing Tax-Smart Program Accounts. Strategic Advisers cannot guarantee the effectiveness of its tax-smart
investing techniques in serving to reduce or minimize a client’s overall tax liability or the tax results of a given
transaction, and Strategic Advisers does not take direction from a client on when to take gains or losses from
the client’s Tax-Smart Program Account.
If, based on information the client provides, Strategic Advisers determines that the client’s Tax-Smart Program
Account requires modification to its asset allocation, it will generally make such changes as soon as reasonably
possible, even if such changes would trigger significant tax consequences. The potential federal income tax
consequences of holding, buying, and selling securities are considered as part of the investment services
provided to Tax-Smart Program Accounts, but we do not consider state or local taxes; foreign taxes, including
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those applied to dividends and any potential reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or
generation-skipping transfer taxes.
The tax-smart investing techniques Strategic Advisers uses when it makes trading decisions to buy, hold, or sell
mutual funds, ETPs, or other types of securities for a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account will vary depending
on the service level selected by the client, the type and size of the Program Account, and the investment
strategy selected. The tax-smart investing techniques referenced throughout this Program Brochure refer to
one or more of the following:
Ability to harvest tax losses. Individual mutual fund, ETP, stock, or bond positions can experience price
declines, possibly below a client’s adjusted tax basis in the security (as determined by the tax basis information
on record for the client’s Tax-Smart Program Account). In such instances, losses can be realized in the client’s
Tax-Smart Program Account for tax purposes. In cases where a position is sold to realize a capital loss for
tax purposes, the position usually will be replaced with one or a combination of investments we believe will
maintain comparable market exposure. In harvesting tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest
every potential tax loss that occurs in the client’s Tax-Smart Program Account and will consider factors such as
investment risk, available comparable investment alternatives, and potential wash sales in the account(s) that
Strategic Advisers monitors for wash sales when deciding whether to harvest tax losses. For the Sustainable
Universes, the general priority is to attempt to preserve exposure to Sustainable Funds while harvesting tax
losses. However, the Sustainable Universes have fewer available comparable investment alternatives than the
other investment universes, which can result in Strategic Advisers selecting investment alternatives that do
not conform to the other aspects of the investment universe selected by the client (such as a focus on Fidelity
Funds or index-based investments) in order to maintain exposure to Sustainable Funds.
Strategic Advisers considers the potential application of the wash-sale rules when evaluating transactions in
Tax-Smart Program Accounts. However, clients should understand that Strategic Advisers does not prevent
or avoid wash sales in all cases. The wash-sale rule requires taxpayers to defer losses that would otherwise
be realized if the taxpayer acquires a substantially identical investment 30 days before or after the sale. While
Strategic Advisers considers whether its trading in Tax-Smart Program Accounts may trigger the wash-sale
rules, we will nevertheless engage in transactions that are potentially subject to the wash-sale rules if we
determine that such transactions are consistent with the Program Account’s asset allocation. Strategic Advisers
will monitor for wash sales within Tax-Smart Program Accounts. However, the wash-sale rule not only applies
to investment transactions occurring in a Tax-Smart Program Account, but also to transactions occurring in
other investment accounts, whether maintained at Fidelity or at another financial institution, which are held by
the client, the client’s spouse, and certain entities controlled by the client and/or a spouse. As a result, clients
can have wash sales arising from transactions within Tax-Smart Program Accounts as well as other accounts
(whether maintained at Fidelity or another institution). The wash-sale rule is complex, and while Strategic
Advisers seeks to monitor wash sales in Tax-Smart Program Accounts, clients are ultimately responsible for
determining whether the wash-sale rules apply to any particular transaction in their Program Accounts or in
their other investment accounts. Clients should consult their tax advisors with respect to the application of the
wash-sale rules based on their individual facts and circumstances.
A client can work with a Fidelity representative to identify their other accounts enrolled in the managed
account programs offered by Strategic Advisers (whether the account is owned by the client or the client’s
spouse) to review which accounts could be eligible related accounts for wash-sale monitoring. Clients should
contact a Fidelity representative with any questions regarding how to provide relevant tax information for their
Program Accounts. Eligible Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management Program Accounts included
in a goal-based plan can have wash-sale monitoring applied to trading activity occurring across the Program
Accounts, including SMA Sleeves, associated with a goal (see “Household tax-smart strategies” below).
Opportunities to avoid and/or postpone capital gain realizations. If there are specific lots of securities (a block
of shares bought at a particular time at a particular price) in a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account, they are
reviewed and the potential federal income tax burden associated with selling a specific lot is weighed against
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the potential investment merits of the sale, such as performance potential, added diversification, and support
of risk-management strategies. Once Strategic Advisers decides to sell an eligible security, it will attempt to sell
the lots that will generate the lowest overall federal income tax burden (or generate a loss for tax purposes)
using the tax basis and holding period information on record, with a preference for long-term capital gains over
short-term capital gains.
Seeking to manage exposure to fund distributions. After taking other factors into consideration, Strategic
Advisers seeks to manage exposure to taxable fund distributions by considering historical and projected
dividend and capital gain distributions when selecting and trading funds for the Program Account. It is
important to understand that in a given year, due to investment decisions or market conditions, a client could
receive varying levels of taxable fund distributions within a Tax-Smart Program Account. In general, Strategic
Advisers will not sell a fund merely to avoid a taxable fund distribution, but rather looks at the overall portfolio
to determine the most appropriate action.
Purchasing municipal bond funds based on factors including tax bracket and estimated tax-equivalent yields.
When appropriate, Program Accounts will be invested in state-specific municipal bond funds (as alternatives
to comparable taxable bond funds) to seek to generate income generally exempt from federal income taxes
(and state income taxes, if the client is a resident of the issuer’s state or another exemption applies). When
consistent with overall portfolio objectives, Program Accounts will also invest in non-state-specific (i.e., national)
municipal bond funds to seek to generate income generally exempt from federal income taxes.
Household tax-smart strategies. For eligible Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management clients with
both Tax-Smart and Retirement Program Accounts, Strategic Advisers can apply tax-smart strategies across a
group of designated Program Accounts associated with a single goal. These strategies include the use of asset
location strategies that seek to strategically position assets within the type of account (taxable, tax-deferred,
or tax-exempt) that could help enhance marginal after-tax returns. Generally, this means locating more tax-
efficient investments in a Tax-Smart Program Account and less tax-efficient investments in a Retirement
Program Account. Health savings accounts are treated as tax-exempt for asset location purposes. In addition,
having at least one Tax-Smart and one Retirement Program Account associated with a goal also allows Strategic
Advisers to coordinate decisions around transitioning securities used to fund a Program Account, rebalancing,
and satisfying client-initiated withdrawal needs, in an effort to enhance the tax-smart strategies applied in
managing the Program Accounts.
Funding with a concentrated position. If a client funds a Tax-Smart Program Account with eligible equity
securities that Strategic Advisers considers to be a concentrated position, Strategic Advisers will generally sell
down such positions within the first 90 days after funding in an effort to appropriately diversify the Program
Account, and, accordingly, a client will incur tax gains or losses as a result of such sales. A Wealth Management
or Private Wealth Management client can elect to have Strategic Advisers seek to spread the capital gain over
a longer period of time by selling the concentrated positions on a more gradual schedule, subject to Strategic
Advisers’ determinations regarding appropriate asset allocation and diversification. Such requests should be
made through a Fidelity representative. Clients who elect the gradual sell-down schedule should understand
that Strategic Advisers could sell a significant portion of a concentrated position within a short period of time
after account funding consistent with Strategic Advisers’ prioritization of asset allocation and diversification
considerations over the amount of taxable gain associated with selling the concentrated position. Thereafter,
Strategic Advisers will sell any remaining concentrated positions opportunistically over a maximum of three
successive tax years to defer the realization of taxable gains associated with the client’s concentrated positions.
Please note that Strategic Advisers uses its discretion in determining how much of a concentrated position will
be sold in each of the three successive tax years, and clients should not expect that any associated tax gains
will be spread out equally over the three tax year period. As noted above, tax considerations are secondary to
asset allocation and diversification considerations, and clients who elect to have concentrated positions sold
off over time should understand that Strategic Advisers will accelerate the sale of such concentrated positions
if Strategic Advisers believes it is more appropriate to do so based on asset allocation and diversification
considerations.
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Target capital gain amount. Clients in the Private Wealth Management service level can provide Strategic
Advisers with a target capital gain amount for the year and Strategic Advisers will take this into consideration
in managing these clients’ Tax-Smart Program Accounts; however, there is no guarantee that Strategic Advisers
will achieve this target.
About the SMA Sleeves
If a Wealth Management or Private Wealth Management client’s Tax-Smart Program Account qualifies, a
portion of the account can be invested in the SMA Sleeves offered by Strategic Advisers. These SMA Sleeves
provide an additional layer of tax-smart investing techniques within a Tax-Smart Program Account. Strategic
Advisers uses its discretion in allocating a client’s assets between mutual funds/ETPs and the SMA Sleeves,
and within and among the SMA Sleeves. Strategic Advisers reserves the right to remove, consolidate, or make
additional SMA Sleeves available from time to time. Once a client has agreed to the use of SMA Sleeves
within one of the primary asset classes, we will have the discretion to use any such additional SMA Sleeve
from that primary asset class within a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account, provided that Strategic Advisers will
provide advance notice regarding the use of an SMA Sleeve for which there is an additional SMA Sleeve fee.
A client can impose a restriction on the use of SMA Sleeves entirely, or on the use of certain SMA Sleeves, by
contacting a Fidelity representative.
Domestic Stock SMA Sleeves
The Strategic Advisers Tax-Managed U.S. Large Cap SMA Sleeve invests in stocks and seeks to approximate
the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap IndexSM while actively trading holdings
in an attempt to enhance after-tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity U.S.
Large Cap Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to reflect the performance
of the stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization. While this SMA
Sleeve looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index, it will
purchase only a subset of the stocks that make up the index.
The Strategic Advisers Equity Growth SMA Sleeve and the Strategic Advisers Equity Value SMA Sleeve are
each actively managed to seek additional opportunities for return and tax-smart investing, as compared with
the Russell 1000® Growth Index and Russell 1000® Value Index, respectively. The Russell 1000 Growth Index
is an unmanaged market capitalization–weighted index of those stocks of the 1,000 largest U.S.-domiciled
companies that exhibit growth-oriented characteristics. The Russell 1000 Value Index is an unmanaged market
capitalization–weighted index of those stocks of the 1,000 largest U.S.-domiciled companies that exhibit
value-oriented characteristics. These SMA Sleeves will invest in stocks that are designed to complement the
Strategic Advisers Tax-Managed U.S. Large Cap SMA Sleeve, which provides core market exposure. Each of
these SMA Sleeves will hold a subset of the stocks that make up their respective indexes, but can also invest in
stocks not included in their respective benchmark indexes, in each case selected by Strategic Advisers based
on the portfolio recommendations of multiple Model Providers. The Model Providers are selected by Strategic
Advisers to have complementary investment styles and can be affiliated or unaffiliated with Strategic Advisers.
Strategic Advisers then blends those stock portfolio recommendations for each of these SMA Sleeves. These
SMA Sleeves can also invest in American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), real estate investment trusts (“REITs”),
and ETPs.
The Fidelity Strategic Advisers U.S. Large Cap Equity SMA Sleeve invests in stocks and seeks capital
appreciation and to outperform the S&P 500® Index over a full market cycle. This SMA Sleeve primarily
invests in U.S. large-cap stocks but can also invest in securities not included in its index, including non-U.S.
large-cap stocks, ADRs, REITs, and ETPs, in each case selected by Strategic Advisers based on the portfolio
recommendations of the affiliated Model Provider. The S&P 500 Index is a market capitalization–weighted
index of 500 common stocks chosen for market size, liquidity, and industry group representation to represent
U.S. equity performance. This SMA Sleeve will have a blend of equity exposures (e.g., growth, value, and core
domestic equity), based on Strategic Advisers’ view of market cycle implications and overall positioning.
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International Stock SMA Sleeves
The Fidelity Strategic Advisers Blended International Equity SMA Sleeve and the Fidelity Strategic Advisers
International Equity SMA Sleeve each seek the potential for capital appreciation and to outperform the
MSCI® EAFE® Index (Net MA Tax) over a full market cycle. The MSCI EAFE Index (Net MA Tax) is an
unmanaged market capitalization–weighted index that is designed to measure the investable equity market
performance for global investors in developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada, and its returns are
adjusted for tax withholding rates applicable to U.S.-based mutual funds organized as Massachusetts business
trusts. Each SMA Sleeve invests primarily in ADRs and a mutual fund designed for use in Program Accounts
that invests in foreign securities to obtain foreign exposures where Strategic Advisers believes ADRs are either
unavailable or inappropriate. Strategic Advisers will blend model portfolios for international equity exposure
provided by the Model Providers at its discretion, based on market cycle implications and overall positioning.
The Model Provider(s) for the Fidelity Strategic Advisers International Equity SMA Sleeve will be affiliated with
Strategic Advisers, while the Model Provider(s) for the Fidelity Strategic Advisers Blended International Equity
SMA Sleeve will include at least one Model Provider that is unaffiliated with Strategic Advisers.
The Fidelity Strategic Advisers Tax-Managed International Equity Index SMA Sleeve seeks to approximate
the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index
(Net) by investing primarily in ADRs and ETPs while actively trading holdings in an attempt to enhance after-
tax returns through the use of tax-smart investing techniques. The Fidelity Developed International ex North
America Focus Index (Net) is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to reflect the
performance of the developed international equity market, including large-capitalization stocks. While this SMA
Sleeve looks to approximate the pretax risk and return characteristics of the Fidelity Developed International ex
North America Focus Index (Net), it will purchase only a subset of the securities that make up the index.
For additional information about the Model Providers who provide stock portfolio recommendations to
Strategic Advisers, please contact a Fidelity representative. At any time, Strategic Advisers, in its discretion, can
change the weight allocated to a particular Model Provider’s stock portfolio recommendations within client
accounts. In addition, Strategic Advisers can, in its discretion, replace the Model Providers from which it receives
stock portfolio recommendations, or can contract with additional Model Providers to provide stock portfolio
recommendations. Where Strategic Advisers uses more than one investment model with respect to a particular
SMA Sleeve, Strategic Advisers uses its discretion to blend those investment models. If deemed appropriate,
Strategic Advisers can substitute other securities or ETPs for securities identified by a Model Provider. Strategic
Advisers can also use ETPs to obtain certain exposures within an SMA Sleeve while implementing a client-
imposed investment restriction. The number of securities used by Strategic Advisers within an SMA Sleeve
will vary over time. There is expected to be an overlap among the securities held in each of the SMA Sleeves
associated with a particular asset class. Each of the securities purchased in the SMA Sleeves will appear on the
account statement and on Fidelity.com. Securities selected for the SMA Sleeves are individually tailored based
on a client’s existing holdings and unique financial situation, and on the tax attributes of the assets in the client’s
Tax-Smart Program Account. A client can expect that the securities that make up the SMA Sleeves can vary,
perhaps significantly, from the securities purchased for other clients in the Program.
When determining the appropriateness of implementing SMA Sleeves, Strategic Advisers considers the trade-
offs inherent in managing a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account toward the appropriate risk and return while
monitoring the potential tax consequences. This could mean that the implementation of the SMA Sleeves
might not happen on the first set of trades, and indeed could happen in small amounts over the course of
months or even years from the start date. In some circumstances, a client’s account could have such large,
embedded gains that it is not in the client’s best interest to sell their existing mutual fund or ETP holdings to
invest in SMA Sleeves. In the future, Strategic Advisers might offer additional SMA Sleeves. These SMA Sleeves
can be managed by Strategic Advisers or by affiliated or unaffiliated third-party registered investment advisers
retained by Strategic Advisers. If such additional SMA Sleeves become available, Strategic Advisers will
consider whether these SMA Sleeves are appropriate for a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account and could offer
these additional SMA Sleeves to a client.
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About the Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds and Program Only Funds
Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds enable Strategic Advisers to choose from an expanded group of Fidelity
and non-Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs and Fund Sub-advisors. All Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds are
considered to be Fidelity Funds; however, these funds can have a blend of both affiliated and unaffiliated
mutual funds, ETPs, and Fund Sub-advisors, or a preference for affiliated mutual funds, ETPs, and Fund
Sub-advisors. One way that Strategic Advisers deals with potential fund capacity issues is to use the Fidelity
Program Dedicated Funds. Certain of these funds are structured so that, within one fund, Strategic Advisers
can hire and/or fire Fund Sub-advisors who will purchase equity or fixed income securities for the fund,
and buy and sell mutual funds, ETPs, and certain types of derivatives. This structure is designed to simplify
Program Accounts and provide Strategic Advisers with greater visibility into the underlying holdings of the
funds. Regulatory restrictions limit the amount that one fund can invest in another, which means that the
Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds are limited in the amount they can invest in any particular fund. For more
information on the investment strategies employed by the Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds, please see the
prospectuses for those funds.
Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds can be used in any Program Account and are available only to clients of
certain of Fidelity’s managed account programs. A significant portion (up to 100%) of the assets in a Program
Account, other than Tax-Smart and BDIP Program Accounts, could be invested in the Fidelity Program
Dedicated Funds.
If an investor ceases to be a client of the Program, in general, Strategic Advisers will redeem any and all
Program Only Fund shares as well as shares of other funds that can no longer be held by the client due to
other restrictions, such as minimum balance requirements, and a client could incur gains or losses as a result of
such redemptions.
About BDIP Program Accounts
Wealth Management and Private Wealth Management clients can select the BDIP strategy, which seeks an
attractive level of investment income for an appropriate level of risk by investing in mutual funds and ETPs
that invest in (or track) the following primary asset classes: domestic stocks, foreign stocks, investment-grade
and high-yield bonds, and short-term investments. Strategic Advisers has retained BlackRock as the Model
Provider for this strategy. Strategic Advisers can select investments for a BDIP Program Account that differ from
BlackRock’s model portfolio, but could also implement BlackRock’s model portfolio without change. Strategic
Advisers is responsible for portfolio management, trading, and supervision of BDIP Program Accounts.
BlackRock is not acting as an investment adviser or portfolio manager with respect to BDIP Program Accounts.
Mutual funds and ETPs included in the model portfolio are identified by BlackRock based on a variety of
objective and subjective factors, including but not limited to performance, expenses, quality, history of portfolio
management, understanding of style consistency, asset size, availability, trading characteristics, current public
information on the investment and its management, and overall fit within the model portfolio. BDIP Program
Accounts are not intended to provide a complete investment program. Clients are responsible for appropriate
diversification of assets outside BDIP Program Accounts to help guard against the risk of loss. Cash flows from
dividend distributions or interest payments will be reinvested in the portfolio unless a client elects otherwise. In
selecting mutual funds and ETPs for inclusion in the model portfolio provided to Strategic Advisers, BlackRock
will primarily select BlackRock funds. These investments pay fees and other compensation to BlackRock (or one
of its affiliates) and include iShares® ETPs. It is possible that non-BlackRock funds will outperform BlackRock
funds. As described in “Client Referrals and Other Compensation” below, affiliates of Strategic Advisers and
BlackRock have a marketing relationship. While this marketing relationship does not apply to the services
offered by Strategic Advisers, and employees responsible for selecting investments for Program Accounts
are not compensated based on the investments selected for Program Accounts, clients should be aware of
this conflict of interest. BlackRock can also include mutual funds or ETPs advised by third parties, including
Strategic Advisers or its affiliates, if BlackRock determines, in its sole discretion, that a BlackRock fund might
not achieve the investment objective. The mutual funds and ETPs included in the model portfolio provided by
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BlackRock will vary in their exposure to different asset classes as well as to different styles (e.g., investing for
capital appreciation or income). Strategic Advisers has designed investment guidelines for the mutual funds
and ETPs held in BDIP Program Accounts. These guidelines can change from time to time. BlackRock can
provide a similar model portfolio to, or manage accounts using a similar investment strategy for, its other clients
and could provide the model to such accounts or clients before providing it to Strategic Advisers.
BlackRock seeks to generate a higher yield and a lower risk profile for its model portfolio than that of a
balanced portfolio that holds 50% equity investments and 50% investment-grade fixed income (including
short-term assets). However, in constructing the model portfolio, BlackRock has wide flexibility in the relative
investment weightings given to each asset class and generally can allocate from 20% to 80% to equity
investments and correspondingly from 80% to 20% to fixed income investments (including high-yield and
short-term assets). BlackRock seeks to balance income and risk in the model portfolio by targeting lower
volatility over a rolling three-year period that is in line with a balanced portfolio (as measured by the annualized
standard deviation of monthly returns).
Please note that new BDIP accounts are no longer available, and we expect to close all BDIP accounts by the
end of 2026. Clients can work with their Fidelity representative to reposition those assets prior to account
closure. More information will be provided to clients prior to the end of 2026.
Fractional Share Investing
Clients should be aware that the use of fractional shares could result in the receipt of fewer dividends. Please
note that any dividends received that are valued at less than $0.01 but that round up to $0.01 will be credited
to a Program Account, but amounts that do not round up to $0.01 will not be distributed to the Program
Account that held the fractional share; this operational process results in dividend amounts that could
otherwise be received by a Program Account being received by another Program Account. If any amount is not
distributed and the aggregate value is less than or equal to $1.00 per security, it will be retained by NFS, and
when it exceeds $1.00, it will be escheated to the state of Delaware. Also, with respect to proxy voting, clients
are not able to vote a fractional share of an individual security; however, if clients elect to appoint Strategic
Advisers as proxy voting agent on their behalf, such fractional shares can generally be voted. Please see
“Voting Client Securities” below for information regarding the voting of client securities. In addition, clients are
not able to take any discretionary or voluntary corporate action with respect to any fractional share position.
Fractional shares cannot be transferred to an account outside of Fidelity; in such situations, the fractional
shares would need to be sold and a taxable gain or loss incurred.
Additional Information about Strategic Advisers’ Investment Practices
In managing Program Accounts, Strategic Advisers will obtain information from various sources. Strategic
Advisers will use both primary sources (e.g., talking directly with fund companies and fund managers) and
secondary sources (e.g., analysts’ reports from fund companies that will provide data on the investment
strategies, risk profiles, and historical returns). Secondary sources also include a variety of publicly available
market and economic information and third-party research as well as proprietary research generated by
Strategic Advisers. Strategic Advisers will analyze this information to assist in making allocation decisions
among asset classes as well as in making purchase and sale decisions. Strategic Advisers does not seek access
to material nonpublic information on any investment used by the Program. With respect to Fidelity mutual
funds or ETPs used by the Program, the investment team at Strategic Advisers that manages Program Accounts
does not have access to material nonpublic information of the Fidelity mutual funds or ETPs.
Strategic Advisers has internal limits on how much it will invest Program Accounts in a mutual fund or ETP,
and such limits typically apply in the aggregate across all client accounts. Strategic Advisers can also consult
fund managers to understand the manager’s guidelines or policies, if any, concerning fund share ownership
limits. Strategic Advisers will invest Program Accounts in mutual funds available through FundsNetwork,
Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, and ETPs available for sale through Fidelity. Strategic Advisers does not have
a predetermined allocation to Fidelity or non-Fidelity mutual funds or ETPs, other than the exclusive use of
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Fidelity money market funds. Similarly, Strategic Advisers does not have a predetermined allocation with
respect to the use of affiliated or Unaffiliated Model Providers for the SMA Sleeves. The application of the
Credit Amount, lack of additional fees associated with the use of affiliated Model Providers, and that Strategic
Advisers’ investment professionals are not compensated based on the amount of Fidelity or non-Fidelity
mutual funds or ETPs used in the Program mitigates Strategic Advisers’ economic conflict in choosing between
Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and Model Providers. However, Strategic Advisers will achieve
greater efficiencies and economies of scale with respect to the research and management services that it
provides to clients when it invests in Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and Model Providers and can consider these
efficiencies when selecting investments for Program Accounts.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates can determine that, as a result of regulatory
requirements that apply to Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates due to investments in a particular country or
in an issuer operating in a particular regulated industry, investments in the securities of issuers domiciled or
listed on trading markets in that country or operating in that regulated industry above certain thresholds are
impractical or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds can apply at the Program Account level or in the
aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts) managed, sponsored, or owned by, or otherwise
attributable to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. For investment risk management and other purposes,
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also generally apply internal aggregate limits on the amount of a particular
issuer’s securities that can be owned by all such accounts. In such instances, the adviser can limit or exclude
a client’s investment in a particular issuer, which can also include investment in related derivative instruments,
and investment flexibility will be restricted. To the extent that a Program Account already owns securities that
directly or indirectly contribute to an ownership threshold being exceeded, securities held in such a Program
Account could be sold to bring account-level and/or aggregate ownership below the relevant threshold. In the
event that any such sales result in realized losses for a Program Account, that Program Account will bear such
losses depending on the particular circumstances.
Additionally, many of the mutual funds Strategic Advisers invests in have policies that restrict excessive trading.
As a result, a fund can reject trade orders if they are deemed to represent excessive trading. In general, a fund
will restrict future trade activity if it deems the excessive trading policy, as outlined in the fund prospectus, has
been violated (for example, a purchase and sale within a 30-day period). As a result, to comply with a fund’s
trading policies, Strategic Advisers will be required to suspend investment management of a Program Account.
Strategic Advisers will cease to manage a Program Account as soon as reasonably practicable. The imposition
of any such order can take up to one business day to implement, and will stop any trading activity that is
occurring in a Program Account.
Material Risks
Risks Associated with Financial Planning. The projections and other analyses presented to a client in the course
of providing our financial planning services are not guarantees. In particular, projections are hypothetical in
nature; are for illustrative purposes only; do not reflect actual investment, tax, or other planning results; and
are not guarantees of future outcomes. The modeling results shown will vary with each use and over time. In
addition, our assumptions and methodologies used in financial planning are adjusted from time to time, which
can have an impact on the results obtained.
The financial planning analyses provided through the Program are based on the information provided by clients
and certain static assumptions—e.g., fixed return rates, fixed life expectancies, and fixed rates of income or cash
flow. In reality, these variables will not be static—market fluctuation will affect overall asset performance, and
uncertain life expectancy could cause clients to outlive their resources or fail to accumulate necessary resources.
Financial planning analyses include probabilistic modeling, whereby the probability of success varies based on
differing assumptions and on changing circumstances and market information. In addition, financial planning
analyses do not model the individual return characteristics of the securities or investments a client owns. Instead,
our analyses model the return characteristics of asset classes, and, as a result, the modeling process is subject to
significant variability based on the differences in performance between the securities actually owned by a client
and the assumptions used in the modeling process with respect to asset classes.
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A client may own securities or investments for which we cannot determine an appropriate asset class
classification; in some cases, we may assign an asset class and in others we may be unable to model the
return characteristics of such a security or investment. Our financial planning analyses assume that the
diversification within each asset class is consistent with broadly diversified market indexes. In addition, where
our management of one or more Program Accounts is based on information a client has told us about Other
Assets assigned to a particular goal, our coordinated management of the Program Accounts assumes that the
diversification of the Other Assets is consistent with broadly diversified market indexes. To the extent that the
characteristics of a client’s assets vary significantly from those of the broadly diversified asset class assumptions
used, actual performance can deviate significantly from the projections provided as a component of our
financial planning services.
Unless otherwise indicated, the financial planning analyses assume that the asset allocation of the accounts
associated with a goal, when aggregated, will generally reflect the asset allocation recommended for the goal.
Accordingly, the asset allocation recommended with respect to a particular goal can differ from the asset
allocation identified for discretionary management services provided to a Program Account associated with
that goal, and clients are responsible for implementing the asset allocation of any Other Assets associated with
a goal. If the actual aggregated asset allocation for all of a client’s accounts associated with a goal does not
match the asset allocation recommended for that goal, the differential can have a significant impact.
Although Fidelity can consider the potential effect of certain estate or tax strategies, Fidelity does not provide
tax, accounting, or legal advice. Accordingly, any information presented in conjunction with the Program,
including in providing the financial planning services, about tax considerations affecting financial transactions
or estate arrangements is provided for informational purposes only. Clients should consult their tax and legal
advisors regarding their particular circumstances.
As part of the financial planning services, we can identify certain account types or account structures that are
generally designed to help investors reach their goals, including the use of tax-deferred or tax-free retirement,
insurance, and educational savings accounts. There is no guarantee that a client’s use of these account
structures will be beneficial in helping the client reach their goals.
In addition, the legal and tax treatment of these types of accounts could change in the future, leading to
unexpected consequences for any such accounts, and we are under no obligation to update clients about
potential changes in the tax law or the tax treatment of any account. Each financial planning analysis provides
detailed information regarding the analysis, including risks and limitations.
Risks Associated with Investment Strategies. The discretionary investment management strategies
implemented for clients in the Program, including conservative investments, involve risk of loss.
Investments in a Program Account are not bank deposits and are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. All investments involve risk, the
degree of which varies significantly. Investment performance can never be predicted or guaranteed, and the
value of a client’s assets will fluctuate due to market conditions and other factors. A client could lose money
by investing in mutual funds, ETPs, and/or individual securities. A client could lose money by investing in a
Program Account.
Many factors affect each investment’s or Program Account’s performance and potential for loss. Strategies that
pursue investments in equities will be subject to stock market volatility and can decline significantly in response
to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Strategies that pursue fixed income
investments (such as bond or money market funds) will see values fluctuate in response to changes in interest
rates, inflation and prepayment risks, as well as default risks for both issuers and counterparties; changing
interest rates, including rates that fall below zero, can have unpredictable effects on markets and can result in
heightened market volatility. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as wars,
acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events, can
magnify factors that affect performance. These strategies are also affected by impacts to the individual issuers,
such as changes in an issuer’s credit quality, or changes in tax, regulatory, market, or economic developments.
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In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less liquid than other investments and, therefore, are
more difficult to trade effectively. Municipal bond funds carry additional risks, which are discussed below.
Nearly all investments or accounts are subject to volatility in non-U.S. markets, through either direct exposure
or indirect effects in U.S. markets from events abroad. Those investments and accounts that are exposed to
emerging markets are potentially subject to heightened volatility from greater social, economic, regulatory, and
political uncertainties, as the extent of economic development, political stability, market depth, infrastructure,
capitalization, and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets.
Nondiversified funds, SMA Sleeves, and accounts that invest in a smaller number of individual issuers can be
more sensitive to these changes, and funds, SMA Sleeves, or accounts that pursue strategies that concentrate
in particular industries or are otherwise subject to particular segments of the market (e.g., money market funds’
exposure to the financial services industry, municipal funds’ exposure to the municipal bond market, or foreign
or emerging markets funds’ exposure to a particular country or region) could be significantly impacted by
events affecting those industries or markets.
Strategies that lead funds, SMA Sleeves, or accounts to invest in other funds bear all the risks inherent in
the underlying investments in which those funds invest, and strategies that pursue leveraged risk, including
investment in derivatives—such as swaps (interest rate, total return, and credit default) and futures contracts—
and forward-settling securities, magnify market exposure and losses.
It is important to understand that a Program Account’s actual asset allocation can deviate from the identified
asset allocation for reasons that include market movement and investment decisions that seek to increase
potential returns or reduce risks. Subject to certain limitations, clients can select an asset allocation that differs
from the allocation we propose. Clients should understand that the performance of a Program Account with a
client-selected asset allocation could differ, at times significantly, from the performance of an account managed
according to the asset allocation we proposed. In addition, please note that the composition of Program
Accounts managed using the same model portfolio can differ for a variety of reasons, including but not limited
to the timing of client investments and withdrawals, and any client-imposed investment restrictions.
In addition to the risks identified above, a summary of additional risks follows:
Investing in Mutual Funds and ETPs. A Program Account bears all the risks of the investment strategies
employed by the mutual funds and ETPs held in the Program Account, including the risk that a mutual fund
or ETP will not meet its investment objectives. For the specific risks associated with a mutual fund or ETP,
please see its prospectus. An ETP is a security that trades on an exchange and can seek to track an index,
a commodity, or a basket of assets. ETPs can be actively or passively managed. ETPs trade on secondary
markets or exchanges and are exposed to market volatility and the risks of the ETP’s underlying securities. ETP
share trading can be halted or the security could cease to trade on an exchange. Trading volume and liquidity
can vary and could affect the ability to buy or sell ETP shares, or could cause the market price of shares to
experience significant premiums or discounts relative to the value of the assets underlying the shares. Because
ETPs trade on exchanges, buyers and sellers experience a spread between the bidding price and the asking
price, and the size of these spreads can vary significantly.
Stock Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer,
political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market can react differently
to these developments. Value and growth stocks can perform differently from other types of stocks. Growth
stocks can be more volatile. Value stocks can continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of
time. In addition, stock investments are subject to risk related to market capitalization as well as company-
specific risk.
Bond Investments. In general, the bond market is volatile, and fixed income securities carry interest rate risk.
As interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa. This effect is usually more pronounced for longer-
term securities. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, we could be unable to maintain positive
returns on bond investments. Very low or negative interest rates can magnify interest rate risk for the markets
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as a whole and for individual bond investments. Changing interest rates, including rates that fall below zero,
can also have unpredictable effects on markets, and can result in heightened market volatility. The ability of
an issuer of a bond to repay principal before a security’s maturity can cause greater price volatility, and, if a
bond is prepaid, a bond fund could have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields. Fixed income
securities also carry inflation risk as well as credit and default risks for both issuers and counterparties. The
interest payments of inflation-protected bonds are variable and usually rise with inflation and fall with deflation.
Unlike individual bonds, most bond funds do not have a maturity date, so holding them until maturity to avoid
losses caused by price volatility is not possible. In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less
liquid than other investments and, therefore, are more difficult to trade effectively.
Credit Risk. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, and changes in specific economic
or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, can increase the risk of default by an
issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security’s or instrument’s credit quality or value. Lower-quality debt
securities and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in
the credit quality of the issuer.
Municipal Bonds. The municipal market can be significantly affected by adverse tax, legislative, or political
changes, and by the financial condition of the issuers of municipal securities. Municipal bond funds normally
seek to earn income and pay dividends that are expected to be exempt from federal income tax. If a fund
investor is a resident in the state of issuance of the bonds held by the fund, interest dividends could also
be exempt from state and local income taxes. Income exempt from regular federal income tax (including
distributions from municipal and money market funds) can be subject to state, local, or federal alternative
minimum tax. Certain funds normally seek to invest only in municipal securities generating income exempt
from both federal income taxes and the federal alternative minimum tax; however, outcomes cannot be
guaranteed, and the funds sometimes generate income subject to these taxes. For federal tax purposes, a
fund’s distribution of gains attributable to a fund’s sale of municipal or other bonds is generally taxable as
either ordinary income or long-term capital gains.
Redemptions, including exchanges, can result in a capital gain or loss for federal and/or state income tax
purposes. Tax code changes could impact the municipal bond market. Tax laws are subject to change, and the
preferential tax treatment of municipal bond interest income could be removed or phased out for investors
at certain income levels. Because many municipal bonds are issued to finance similar projects, especially
those relating to education, health care, transportation, and utilities, conditions in those sectors can affect the
overall municipal market. Budgetary constraints of local, state, and federal governments on which the issuers
are relying for funding can also impact municipal bonds. In addition, changes in the financial condition of an
individual municipal insurer can affect the overall municipal market, and market conditions can directly impact
the liquidity and valuation of municipal bonds.
Foreign Exposure. Investing in foreign securities and securities of U.S. entities with substantial foreign
operations are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, tax, operational, regulatory, and
political risks, all of which are likely to be greater in emerging markets. These risks are particularly significant
for investment strategies that focus on a single country or region or emerging markets, or for clients who elect
to increase foreign stock exposure. Foreign markets can be more volatile than U.S. markets and can perform
differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and
political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. Foreign exchange rates can also be extremely volatile.
Foreign markets can also offer less protection to investors than U.S. markets. For example, foreign issuers are
generally not bound by uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting requirements and standards of
practice comparable to those applicable to U.S. issuers. Adequate public information on foreign issuers might
not be available, and it could be difficult to secure dividends and information regarding corporate actions on
a timely basis. Regulatory enforcement can be influenced by economic or political concerns, and investors
could have difficulty enforcing their legal rights in foreign countries. Foreign governments may decide to seize
or confiscate securities held by foreign investors or assets held by foreign issuers, restrict an investor’s ability to
sell or redeem securities, suspend or limit an issuer’s ability to make dividend or interest payments, and/or limit
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or entirely restrict repatriation of invested capital, profits, and dividends. Furthermore, investments in securities
of foreign entities can result in clients owning an interest in a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”).
Clients holding an interest in a PFIC could be subject to additional tax liabilities and filing requirements as a
result of such investments. The rules regarding investments in PFICs are complex, and clients are urged to
consult their tax advisors.
Risks of Investing in ADRs. ADRs are certificates evidencing ownership of shares of an underlying foreign issuer
that are issued by depositary banks and generally trade on an established market in the U.S. or elsewhere.
ADRs are alternatives to directly purchasing the underlying foreign securities in their national markets and
currencies. However, ADRs are subject to many of the risks associated with investing directly in foreign
securities. The depositary bank can charge fees for various services, including forwarding dividends and
interest, and for corporate actions. In addition, certain ADRs are not traded on a national securities exchange,
can be less liquid than other investments, and could, therefore, be more difficult to trade effectively. Investing
in ADRs can make it more difficult for U.S. persons to benefit from applicable treaty rates that could otherwise
reduce withholding on any distributions from the underlying foreign issuer. Recovery of any extra foreign tax
withheld can be costly and complex, and recovery might not be available for certain registration types such as
individual retirement accounts.
Money Market Funds. Cash balances in a Program Account will be invested in the core Fidelity money market
fund, the cash sweep vehicle for a Program Account. A client could lose money by investing in a money market
fund. Although a money market fund seeks to preserve the value of a client’s investment at $1.00 per share, it
cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not a bank account and is not insured
or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Fidelity, the sponsor of Fidelity’s money market
funds, is not required to reimburse money market funds for losses, and a client should not expect that Fidelity
will provide financial support to a Fidelity money market fund at any time, including during periods of market
stress. Fidelity’s government and U.S. Treasury money market funds will not impose a fee upon the sale of a
client’s shares.
Alternative Investments. Alternative investments are classified as assets whose investment characteristics and/
or performance differ substantially from the primary asset classes (stocks, bonds, and short-term investments)
and, therefore, offer opportunities for additional diversification and returns, but that also offer increased volatility
and risk of loss due to their nontraditional or complex investment strategies. Strategic Advisers does not invest
in unregistered privately offered alternative investment vehicles such as private equity, hedge funds, or similar
investments (referred to as “private funds”) directly in Program Accounts; however, Strategic Advisers can invest
in publicly available registered funds (referred to as “public funds”) that invest significantly in private funds and,
therefore, clients could have indirect exposure to these types of investments. Generally speaking, public funds
offer more investor protections as compared with private funds, including limits on illiquid investments and
the use of leverage and derivatives, diversification requirements, daily pricing and liquidity features, regular
reporting of fund holdings, and enhanced portfolio security valuation requirements. However, clients should
understand that while public funds that invest in alternative investments offer greater investment protections as
compared with private funds, both public and private funds that invest in alternative investments offer enhanced
risks that clients should be aware of. Alternative investment strategies are not appropriate for all clients.
The performance of alternative investments can be volatile and private funds can have extremely limited
liquidity opportunities. Such investments often have concentrated positions, invest in illiquid investments,
and can carry higher risks. Clients should understand that some alternative investment products often engage
in leveraging and other speculative investment practices, including the use of derivatives (described below),
that can magnify the risk of investment loss and volatility regardless of whether they are used for speculative
investment purposes or for the hedging of risk. In addition, private funds are not required to provide periodic
pricing or valuation information to investors and can involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing
important tax information. In many cases, the alternative investments underlying both public and private funds
are not transparent and are known only to the investment manager of the alternative investment fund. Please
refer to the applicable private or public fund’s offering documents or prospectus for additional information on
the alternative investments used by the fund and their related risks.
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Derivatives. Certain funds and ETPs used by Strategic Advisers contain derivatives. Generally speaking, a
derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on the value of a financial asset (such as a stock, bond,
or currency), a physical asset (such as gold, oil, or wheat), or a market index (such as the S&P 500 Index).
Investments in derivatives subject these funds to risks different from, and possibly greater than, those of the
underlying securities, assets, or market indexes. Funds that invest in derivatives could experience losses if
the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes do not perform as anticipated, and changes in the value
of a derivative might not correlate as anticipated with the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes,
thereby reducing their effectiveness. Some forms of derivatives, such as exchange-traded futures and options
on securities, commodities, or indexes, have been trading on regulated exchanges for decades. These types
of derivatives are standardized contracts that can easily be bought and sold, and whose market values are
determined and published daily. Nonstandardized derivatives (such as swap agreements), on the other hand,
tend to be more specialized or complex, can be more difficult to value, and are illiquid. Derivatives could
involve leverage because they can provide investment exposure in an amount exceeding the initial investment;
certain derivatives require low margin deposits, which make it possible for a fund to employ a high degree of
leverage. As a result, the use of derivatives can cause these funds to be more volatile, because leverage tends
to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of a fund’s portfolio securities. Leverage can
magnify investment risks and cause losses to be realized more quickly, and a small change in the underlying
security, asset, or market index can lead to significant losses for a fund. Certain derivatives have the potential
for unlimited losses, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivative investments are subject to credit
risks associated with the issuer of, or counterparty to, the derivative investment.
Real Estate. Real estate is a cyclical industry that is sensitive to interest rates, economic conditions (both
nationally and locally), property tax rates, and other factors. Changes in real estate values or economic
downturns can have a significant negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry.
Commodity-Linked Investing. Commodity-linked investments can be leveraged and can be more volatile and
less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures. The performance of commodity-linked
investments can be affected by the performance of individual commodities and the overall commodities
markets, as well as by weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market developments. A commodity-
linked investment is subject to credit risks associated with the issuer of, or counterparty to, the commodity-
linked investment. The commodities industries can be significantly affected by the level and volatility of
commodity prices; the rate of commodity consumption; world events including international monetary
and political developments; import controls, export controls, and worldwide competition; exploration and
production spending; and tax and other government regulations and economic conditions.
Currency Exposure. Certain funds and ETPs used by Strategic Advisers can be exposed to foreign currencies
and, as a result, could experience losses based solely on the weakness of foreign currencies versus the U.S.
dollar and changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Currency transactions
tied to emerging markets can present market, credit, liquidity, legal, political, and other risks different from, or
greater than, the risks of currency transactions tied to developed foreign countries.
Illiquid Investments. Illiquid securities sometimes trade infrequently in the secondary market. As a result,
valuing an illiquid security can be more difficult, and buying and selling an illiquid security at an acceptable
price can be more difficult or delayed. Difficulty in selling an illiquid security can result in a loss. The relative
liquidity of any investment, particularly those that trade on exchanges, can vary, at times significantly.
Sustainable Investing. Because of the subjective nature of investing based on sustainable criteria, there can be
no guarantee that any of the sustainable investment preferences and the related ESG criteria used by Strategic
Advisers will reflect the beliefs or values of any particular client. Clients should understand that the application
of ESG criteria does not mean that a Program Account invested using one of the sustainable investment
universes will exclude any and all mutual funds or ETPs that are deemed to have negative ESG characteristics;
rather, the application of ESG criteria in Strategic Advisers’ fundamental research process is intended to include
mutual funds and ETPs in Program Accounts that Strategic Advisers believes have meaningfully integrated
sustainability practices into their investment research and decision-making processes.
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Investing based on ESG criteria could cause a Program Account invested in a sustainable investment universe
to forgo certain investment opportunities available to strategies that do not use such criteria. An account could
underperform other investments that do not assess ESG criteria or that use a different methodology to identify
and/or incorporate ESG criteria. Information regarding ESG practices is obtained through voluntary or third-
party reporting, which could be inaccurate or incomplete. Information used to evaluate ESG criteria may not be
readily available, complete, or accurate, and can vary across providers, issuers, and regions as ESG investing is
not uniformly defined. As a result, there is a risk that Strategic Advisers could incorrectly assess a mutual fund
or ETP based on ESG criteria. There could be limitations with respect to the readiness of ESG data for certain
mutual funds or ETPs, as well as limited availability of investments with relevant ESG characteristics in certain
asset classes or sectors. Strategic Advisers can change the ESG criteria it uses to assess mutual funds and ETPs
over time. There is no assurance that an investment strategy using an ESG focus will be successful.
Growth Investing. Growth stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments
than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Growth stocks tend to be more expensive relative to
their earnings or assets compared with other types of stocks. As a result, growth stocks tend to be sensitive to
changes in their earnings and more volatile than other types of stocks.
Value Investing. Value stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than
the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks tend to be inexpensive relative to their earnings
or assets compared with other types of stocks. However, value stocks can continue to be inexpensive for long
periods of time and, as a result, might never realize their full expected value.
Quantitative Investing. Funds or securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from the
market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, changes to the
factors’ behavior over time, market volatility, or the quantitative model’s assumption about market behavior. In
addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment strategies rely on algorithmic processes, and, therefore, are
subject to the risks described below under the heading, “Operational Risks.” To the extent that the quantitative
models fail to adequately match the risk and return profile of a reference index used in managing a particular
strategy, a Program Account could perform differently; it could underperform or outperform the corresponding
reference index on a pretax basis. In addition, to the extent that the components of the corresponding reference
index perform in a highly correlated fashion—such as most stocks in the index rising or falling at the same time—
the strategy could be less effective at harvesting the tax losses on which the after-tax portion of the strategy relies.
Investing for Volatility Management. The ability of Defensive and BDIP Program Accounts to manage the
overall level of account volatility in response to market volatility depends on Strategic Advisers’ ability (and,
for BDIP Program Accounts, BlackRock’s ability as model provider to Strategic Advisers) to correctly estimate
the volatility of the investments it chooses relative to the broader market. Volatility could be higher than
anticipated, and the specific investments used to manage volatility might not be as correlated or uncorrelated
with the broader market as expected. There can be no guarantee of success in managing the overall level of
volatility. These accounts might not realize the anticipated benefits from the volatility management process
or could realize losses because of the investment techniques used to manage volatility, or because of the
limitations of volatility management processes in periods of extremely high or low volatility. Under certain
market conditions, the use of volatility management processes could also result in less favorable performance
than if such processes had not been used. The volatility management strategies used in managing these
accounts can cause them to underperform when markets rise, and there can be no guarantee that these
strategies will help mitigate losses when markets fall.
Risks and Limitations Associated with Tax-Smart Investing Techniques. For Tax-Smart Program Accounts, clients
should understand that there are risks and limitations associated with the use of tax-smart investing techniques,
and these limitations can result in tax-inefficient trades. Strategic Advisers believes appropriate asset allocation
and diversification are of primary importance, and we will make changes to a Tax-Smart Program Account’s asset
allocation even if such changes trigger significant tax consequences, including but not limited to wash sales or
the realization of short- and/or long-term capital gains. Clients should consult their tax and/or legal advisor prior
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to enrolling in a Tax-Managed Program Account as well as on an ongoing basis to determine whether the wash-
sale rule or other special tax rules could apply to their tax situation, and to determine the efficacy of the tax-
smart investing techniques to their current and future tax situation.
Strategic Advisers relies on information a client provides in applying tax-smart investing techniques and does
not offer tax advice. Strategic Advisers actively manages for federal income taxes, but does not manage in
consideration of state or local taxes; foreign taxes, including those applied to dividends and any potential
reclaim; federal tax rules applicable to entities; or estate, gift, or generation-skipping transfer taxes.
In harvesting tax losses, Strategic Advisers does not attempt to harvest every potential tax loss that occurs in
a Tax-Smart Program Account. Clients should also be aware that, in cases where a position is sold to realize
a capital loss for tax purposes, Strategic Advisers can replace that position with one or a combination of
investments designed to provide comparable market exposure, and it is important to understand that in a
given year, due to investment decisions or market conditions, a client could receive varying levels of taxable
distributions within a Tax-Smart Program Account. In general, Strategic Advisers will not sell a fund merely to
avoid a taxable fund distribution but, in fact, looks at the overall portfolio to determine the most appropriate
action. A Tax-Smart Program Account will generally trade more frequently than other Program Accounts that
are not managed using tax-smart investing techniques. There are implicit trading opportunity costs associated
with the additional turnover, which can affect the returns of a client’s Program Account. It is important to note
that the performance of any replacement investments will not be the same as that of the investment sold, and
any replacement investments can perform worse than the investment that was sold. In addition, any tax-related
benefits resulting from tax-smart investing techniques can be offset or even outweighed by investment losses
and/or missed gains (realized and unrealized). Furthermore, there are not clear guidelines on what constitutes
a “substantially identical” security for purposes of the wash-sale rule. As such, there can be no guarantee
that a replacement investment selected by Strategic Advisers will not be deemed “substantially identical” for
purposes of the wash-sale rule.
Although Tax-Smart Program Accounts seek to enhance after-tax returns, tax-smart investing techniques
may not take into account all of the tax rules, regulations, and limitations applicable to a client’s particular
facts and circumstances, which, in certain circumstances, will reduce the effectiveness of tax-smart investing
techniques. For example, if a Tax-Smart Program Account is held by an entity treated as a corporation for U.S.
federal income tax purposes, the tax-smart investing techniques used will not take into account all the tax
rules applicable to that entity, such as rules limiting the use of capital losses, the potential expiration of unused
capital losses from prior years, and the corporate tax rate applicable to capital gains and losses. Clients should
understand that the benefits derived from any tax-smart investing techniques will likely be greater for clients in
higher tax brackets. Since the value of offsetting capital gains or ordinary income is directly tied to the applicable
federal capital gains or ordinary income tax rates, clients in lower federal capital gains and ordinary income tax
rates experience reduced benefits relative to those in higher federal capital gains and ordinary income tax rates.
Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments in a Program Account could be adversely affected by new (or
revised) laws or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations could impact the securities markets as a whole,
specific industries, or individual issuers of securities. Generally, the impact of these changes will not be fully
known for some time.
Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process employed by Strategic Advisers
includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing large amounts of data from external public sources and/
or third-party data providers, including, in some instances, through the use of generative artificial intelligence
(“AI”) and large language models (“LLM”). It is not possible or practicable, however, to factor all relevant,
available data into economic forecasts or trading decisions. In addition, due to the automated nature of this
data gathering and the fact that much of this data comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all
desired or relevant data will be available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should be
aware that there is no guarantee that the data used in generating forecasts or making trading decisions will
be the most accurate data available or even free of errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require
training of the models to be used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order to yield
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the desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all scenarios or that
they will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI and LLMs are subject to various risks,
including (i) the data used to train LLMs suffers inaccuracies, biases, or flaws that may cause the AI model to
respond other than as intended; (ii) weak controls in the development and use of AI allow it to be deployed
for use cases for which it was not intended; and (iii) the AI may provide inaccurate or fabricated responses to
queries it is unable to process. Fidelity has adopted a Generative AI policy and governance framework so that
the use of AI and LLMs is targeted and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using known and appropriate
data sources and are subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the use of AI and LLMs is but
one input into the research process. Clients should assume that the foregoing limitation and risks associated
with gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing of large amounts of data from third parties and other external
sources, and the use of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing. There may also be incidents where
data fails to load or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for example, because of changes in
the vendor’s or our system configurations due to upgrades, enhancements, maintenance, or errors, or that
LLMs provide incorrect information in response to certain prompts. Clients should assume that these data
errors, like other system implementation errors, and their ensuing risks and impact are an inherent part of
investing. Accordingly, unless otherwise required to do so, Strategic Advisers does not expect to disclose
discovered data errors to clients.
Cybersecurity Risks. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business, Strategic Advisers and
its affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. These risks could include
events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and may have a negative effect on our ability to
conduct business activities. We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate these risks, but do
not believe that we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result from deliberate
attacks or unintentional events that can arise from external or internal sources. Cyberattacks include but are
not limited to gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g., through “hacking” or malicious software
coding) for purposes of misappropriating assets or sensitive information; corrupting data, equipment, or
systems; and causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks can also be carried out in a manner that does
not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts
to make network services unavailable to intended users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its
affiliates, or any other service providers (including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents,
and financial intermediaries used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability to cause disruptions
and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the ability to
calculate asset prices, impediments to trading, the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment
and systems, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar adverse consequences
could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in which an account invests, counterparties
with which an account engages in transactions, governmental and other regulatory authorities, exchange and
other financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
(including financial intermediaries and service providers), and other parties.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in internal processes, people, or
systems, such as routine processing incidents or major systems failures, or from external events, such as exchange
outages. In addition, algorithms are used in providing the Program Services and contribute to operational risks.
For example, algorithms are used as part of the process whereby Strategic Advisers recommends an appropriate
asset allocation that corresponds to a level of risk consistent with a client’s Profile Information. In providing
financial planning services, algorithms are also used in analyzing the potential for success of a client’s financial
plan. Strategic Advisers uses algorithms in support of its discretionary portfolio management process. There is a
risk that the data input into the algorithms could have errors, omissions, or imperfections, or that the algorithms
do not operate as intended (generally referred to as “processing incidents”). Any decisions made in reliance on
incorrect data or algorithms that do not operate as intended can expose Program Accounts to potential risks.
Issues in the algorithm are often extremely difficult to detect and could go undetected for long periods of time
or never be detected. These risks are mitigated by testing and human oversight of the algorithms and their
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output. We believe that the oversight and testing performed on our algorithms and their output will enable us to
identify and address issues appropriately. However, there is no assurance that the algorithms will always work as
intended. In general, we will not assess each Program Account individually, nor will we override the outcome of
the algorithm with respect to any particular Program Account.
Not all processing incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting from the mistakes of
third parties, will be compensable by Strategic Advisers to clients. Strategic Advisers maintains policies and
procedures that address the identification and resolution of processing incidents, consistent with applicable
standards of care, to ensure that clients are treated fairly when a processing incident has been detected.
The determination of whether, and how, to address a processing incident is made by Strategic Advisers or its
affiliates, in their sole discretion.
Processing incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact on a client’s Program
Account based on, among other things, the relevant investment strategy, and to evaluate the materiality of the
impact. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred, we will make an appropriate correction
or otherwise reimburse the Program Account in an amount Strategic Advisers or its affiliates determines is
appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Typically, processing incidents that result in a financial impact
of less than $10 per Program Account are not considered material. Other examples of impact that could affect
the performance of a Program Account but would likely not be material include impacts arising from computer,
communications, data processing, network, cloud computing, backup, business continuity or other operating,
information, or technology systems, including those we outsource to other providers, failing to operate as
planned or becoming disabled, overloaded, or damaged as a result of a number of factors. These factors could
include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and could have a negative impact on our ability to
conduct business activities. Though losses arising from operating, information, or technology systems failures
could adversely affect the performance of a Program Account, such losses would likely not be reimbursable
under Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities and other investments
involves a risk of loss that a client should understand and be willing to bear. Clients are encouraged to
discuss these risks with a Fidelity representative.
Voting Client Securities
Strategic Advisers does not generally acquire authority for, or exercise, proxy voting on a client’s behalf in
connection with managing Program Accounts. Unless a client directs Strategic Advisers otherwise pursuant to
the paragraph below, the client will receive proxy materials directly from the funds, the issuer of the individual
security (or their service providers), or NFS. Strategic Advisers will not advise clients on the voting of proxies.
Clients must exercise any proxy voting directly.
Notwithstanding the information above, during the account opening process or at any time thereafter at a client’s
election, a client can direct Strategic Advisers to act as agent to vote proxies on the client’s behalf for the funds
and other securities held in Program Accounts. For Fidelity Funds, clients who make such a direction must instruct
Strategic Advisers to vote proxies of a Fidelity Fund in the same proportion as the vote of all other holders of such
Fidelity Fund (referred to as “echo voting”). For non-Fidelity funds and other securities, such clients must instruct
Strategic Advisers to vote proxies pursuant to the directions provided by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
(“ISS”), an unaffiliated third-party proxy advisory services provider. Please note that, unlike general proxy votes,
Strategic Advisers generally treats certain voluntary corporate actions as subject to the exercise of its discretion as
an investment manager. Accordingly, Strategic Advisers will make decisions with respect to voluntary corporate
actions directly as part of the investment management services it provides to Program Accounts. However, a
client retains the right to make elections with respect to voluntary corporate actions if they so choose; if a client
would like to make an election with respect to a security subject to a voluntary corporate action, the client will
need to contact us to transfer the security out of the client’s Program Account.
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In connection with this election, a client must acknowledge that Strategic Advisers is acting solely at the client’s
direction, and does not exercise discretion with respect to the voting of any proxy. Clients receive information
about ISS’ proxy voting policies in the summary of ISS’ proxy voting guidelines available at Fidelity.com/
information. In some instances, ISS will be unable to provide proxy voting directions, in which case Strategic
Advisers will not vote such proxy because it does not have discretion to determine how proxies are voted. To
obtain a copy of ISS’ summary proxy voting guidelines or information on how investment proxies were voted,
please contact a Fidelity representative. In addition, a client can request that Strategic Advisers act as agent for
receipt of certain legally required communications, including prospectuses, annual and semiannual reports,
and proxy materials for mutual funds and ETPs that are not managed by FMRCo or an affiliate thereof, and
other individual securities.
C L I E N T I N F O R M A T I O N P R O V I D E D
T O P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Strategic Advisers has access to the relevant Program Account information, including certain Profile Information
and, for Tax-Smart Program Accounts, information on record regarding the client’s tax situation and the tax
characteristics of the securities in a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account. The discretionary portfolio management
services will be impacted by incomplete or inaccurate information. If changes to a client’s personal, financial,
or tax situation occur, the client should promptly contact a Fidelity representative. Strategic Advisers does not
provide client information to any of the Model Providers.
C L I E N T C O N T A C T W I T H P O R T F O L I O M A N A G E R S
Clients should contact a Fidelity representative regarding questions about their Program Accounts, to update
their Profile Information, or to provide an update about their personal situation or any other information that
could affect how their Program Accounts are managed. A Fidelity representative will act as a liaison between
a client and Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals, and will help ensure appropriate management of
the client’s Program Account by updating client Profile Information used by the investment professionals
in managing a Program Account. While Strategic Advisers could provide clients with information about
the management of Program Accounts from time to time, Strategic Advisers typically does not meet or
communicate directly with Program clients. The Model Providers do not meet with clients.
A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N
Custody
Clients must establish and maintain a brokerage account with FBS to participate in the Program, and NFS
serves as the qualified custodian for Program Accounts. Clients should carefully review all statements and
other communications received from NFS and FBS. NFS and FBS are broker-dealers and affiliates of Strategic
Advisers. Strategic Advisers is deemed to have custody under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers
Act”) because its affiliate, NFS, serves as qualified custodian for Program Accounts.
Disciplinary Information
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
Strategic Advisers’ advisory business or the integrity of its management personnel.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that, together with its affiliates
and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or Fidelity. Various direct or indirect
subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory, brokerage, banking, or insurance businesses.
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From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will have material business relationships with any of the
subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers
and/or employees of affiliated companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity trading
advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is registered with the U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended
(“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”).
Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and NFS share premises and have common supervision. Certain
management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered representatives of FBS, a Strategic Advisers affiliate
and a registered broker-dealer. In addition, Strategic Advisers has entered into an intercompany agreement with
FBS, pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers various operational, administrative, analytical, and
technical services, and the personnel necessary for the performance of such services.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated
companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a
registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FMRCo provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated
and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients and provides model portfolio recommendations and environmental filtering
services to Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for handling the
business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers, and Strategic Advisers
compensates FMRCo for making certain mutual funds available to managed account programs offered by
Strategic Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FMRCo.
• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides nondiscretionary investment management
services and sponsors the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange
Essentials programs (turnkey asset management programs made available to financial intermediaries).
Strategic Advisers provides model portfolio services to FIWA in connection with FIWA’s services to its
institutional and intermediary clients, and FIWA compensates Strategic Advisers for such services. In
addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is registered with the Central Bank
of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies
in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers
has sub-advisory agreements with FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been authorized by the U.K. Financial
Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and portfolio management services, and is registered
with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK provides investment management services, including to
registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment
companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
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• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMRCo,
is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Japan Financial
Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide investment advisory and discretionary investment
management services. FMR Japan provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated
advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been authorized by the Hong
Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on securities, deal in futures contracts, provide asset
management services, and conduct trading services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment management
services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other
affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain
registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is a registered
investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC under the CEA as a CPO and
as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA. FDS provides discretionary advisory and
sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-advisor to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (“FDC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development companies and
the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds, and also markets those funds and other
products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a
fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides clearing, settlement, and execution services for other
broker-dealers, including its affiliate FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of NFS, provides trade
executions for Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative
trading system (“ATS”) that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against orders
submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for investment company and
other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer agent services and other custodial services to
certain Fidelity clients.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two ATSs the Luminex ATS and the LeveL
ATS, which allow orders submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other
subscribers. LeveL Holdings, LLC, owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and FMR
Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests in LeveL
Holdings, LLC, along with other members. LeveL Markets, LLC, charges a commission to both sides of
each trade executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS. Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS are used to execute
transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients. NFS serves as a clearing
agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act
and provides brokerage products and services, including the sale of shares of registered investment
companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals and institutions, including retirement plans, and acts
as placement agent for certain privately offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates.
In addition, along with Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products
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that are issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity Investments Life
Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third parties. FBS provides shareholder
services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the introducing broker for managed accounts offered by
Strategic Advisers and places orders for execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group,
Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS
provides securities brokerage to retail customers through a digital mobile application–based brokerage
platform. DBS receives remuneration from FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and marketing
FMRCo products.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance
and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of life insurance and
annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies managed by Fidelity affiliates to
residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life insurance and annuity
products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC Holdings LLC, which
in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust company organized and operating under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides nondiscretionary trustee and custodial
services to employee benefit plans and IRAs through which individuals can invest in affiliated or unaffiliated
registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment management services to
institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift Holding Company, Inc.,
which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings bank that offers fiduciary services that
include trustee or co-trustee services, custody, principal and income accounting, investment management
services, and recordkeeping and administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These funds are
privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not currently engage in
borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”), can from time to time
provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment management
support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers could use for its clients. Strategic Ireland is
not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be a “Participating Affiliate”
of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management in various
no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s registration requirement for certain affiliates of
registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland
Associated Employees as “associated persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(17)
of the Advisers Act. Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such employees can
contribute to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information concerning securities
that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a Participating
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Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the jurisdiction of United States
courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in connection with investment advisory activities
conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated
Employees whom Strategic Ireland has deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the list
available to its current U.S. clients upon request.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The Code of Ethics
applies to all officers, directors, employees, and other supervised persons of Strategic Advisers and requires
that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The Code of Ethics establishes
securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their covered persons, including their
spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an exception exists or
prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access to certain
nonpublic information;
• Prohibition of purchasing securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through acknowledgments of
receipt.
Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also imposes
additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research analysts, and portfolio
managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include the following:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions;
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval;
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a trade in any
covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such portfolio manager except in
limited circumstances;
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited exceptions;
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and annually
thereafter; and
• The disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The Code
of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the Policy on Inside
Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and procedures adopted by
Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided to any client or prospective
client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves and
recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are contemplated
in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of Ethics and other Fidelity
policies are designed to make it clear to Fidelity personnel that they should never place their personal
interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or another party. The Code of Ethics
and other Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements are violated.
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From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material nonpublic
information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In compliance with applicable
laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that prohibits the use
of material nonpublic information by investment professionals or any other employees and that limits the
transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for Program Accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set standards for
business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make sound decisions with
respect to these activities, and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients come first. Similarly, to
support compliance with applicable “pay to play” laws, Fidelity has adopted a Personal Political Contributions
& Activities Policy that requires employees to preclear any political contributions and activities. Fidelity also
has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that
prohibits directly or indirectly giving, offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe,
facilitation payment, kickback, or payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly
obtain or retain business or any improper advantage.
Brokerage Practices
Clients will receive prompt confirmations from NFS for any transactions in their Program Accounts; however,
with respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments, and transactions that
involve the core Fidelity money market fund, a client’s account statement serves in lieu of a confirmation. In
addition, clients receive statements from NFS that detail all holdings and transaction information, including
trades, additions, withdrawals, shifts in investment allocations, advisory fees, and estimated gain/loss and tax
basis information. Statements and confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com and by enrolling in the
electronic delivery program. Clients will not pay a different fee because of their decision to receive electronic
statements or trade confirmations. Clients should carefully review all statements and other communications
received from FBS and NFS.
Broker Selection and Transactions in Program Accounts
Strategic Advisers has a duty to seek best execution for transactions in client accounts.
Strategic Advisers will place trades for Program Accounts with affiliated or unaffiliated registered broker-
dealers (“brokers”) and may choose to execute an order using electronic channels (including broker-sponsored
algorithms) or by manually working an order with a broker. In selecting brokers, Strategic Advisers may
consider a range of factors deemed relevant in the context of a particular trade, including but not limited to
price; costs; the size, nature, and type of the order; speed of execution; financial condition and reputation of
the broker; broker-specific considerations (e.g., not all brokers are able to execute all types of trades); broker
willingness to commit capital; our trader’s assessment of whether and how closely the broker will follow our
instructions; and confidentiality and the potential for information leakage.
As described above in Fees and Compensation, the Program Fee includes the cost of commissions associated
with transactions executed through affiliated brokers. As a result, most trades for Program Accounts that
involve equity securities and other securities where commissions are charged will be executed with Strategic
Advisers’ affiliated broker, NFS.
However, Strategic Advisers has the authority to execute transactions with an unaffiliated broker (also referred
to as “trading away”) consistent with its duty to seek best execution. While the Program Fee does not include
the cost of commissions for transactions executed through unaffiliated brokers, Strategic Advisers or its affiliate
is voluntarily assuming the cost of commissions for transactions executed by unaffiliated brokers. As a result,
Program clients are not charged commissions for such transactions. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates reserve
the right to stop assuming the cost of commissions associated with trading away, subject to prior notice to
Program clients. The Program Fee does not cover transaction charges for securities where the counterparty
imposes a markup, markdown, and/or dealer spread. The net price of the security will include these transaction
charges and Program Accounts will bear these costs.
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In seeking best execution for a transaction, Strategic Advisers will have no obligation to solicit competitive
bids for each transaction and Strategic Advisers will not necessarily select the broker that charges the
lowest available price or commission rate; however, Strategic Advisers believes that its policies, taking into
consideration the factors stated above, are designed to result in transaction processing that is favorable to
Program clients. Strategic Advisers conducts periodic reviews of trade execution. Although it is Strategic
Advisers’ policy to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time, there can be no
assurance that all Program Accounts will receive the same execution and certain Program Accounts will
experience a more or less favorable execution depending on market conditions.
Please see the Fees and Compensation section above for further information about the Program Fee,
brokerage commissions, and additional fees for transactions in a Program Account.
Trade Aggregation and Allocation
Strategic Advisers’ policy is to treat each client’s account in a fair and equitable manner over time when
aggregating and allocating orders for the purchase and sale of securities.
While Strategic Advisers is under no obligation to aggregate orders for Program Accounts, in general,
Strategic Advisers will choose to aggregate trades for Program Accounts and/or aggregate Program Account
trades with trades for other client accounts (including certain proprietary accounts of Strategic Advisers or
its affiliates and Fidelity employee accounts managed by Strategic Advisers) when, in Strategic Advisers’
judgment, aggregation is in the best interest of all clients involved and it is operationally feasible to do so.
Orders are aggregated into a “block trade” to facilitate seeking best execution, to negotiate more favorable
commission rates, or to allocate equitably among clients the effects of any market fluctuations that might have
otherwise occurred had these orders been placed independently.
Aggregated orders are generally allocated on a pro rata basis among similarly situated client accounts
participating in a block trade until the order is filled. Client accounts included in a block trade receive the
same average price for the trade and shares are allocated according to the purchase and sale orders actually
placed for each client account included in the block trade. Strategic Advisers can create multiple block trades
for both buy and sell orders in the same security, and it is therefore possible that block trades will receive
different prices depending on when the orders for each block trade are filled throughout the day. When
a client account is not part of a block trade, that client account will receive a different price from the price
obtained for Program Accounts that participate in the aggregated orders.
If Strategic Advisers does not complete an order in a single day (e.g., when an aggregate order for client
accounts exceeds the available supply or to minimize market impact), the partially filled order will be
allocated on a pro rata basis among client accounts in the block.
Strategic Advisers has adopted trade allocation policies for managing client accounts, including Program
Accounts, designed to achieve fairness and not to purposefully disadvantage comparable client accounts over
time when allocating purchases and sales.
Cross Trades
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is not
obligated to) execute “agency cross trades” for Program Accounts. Agency cross trades are trades in which
Strategic Advisers, or any person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with Strategic Advisers,
acts as both investment adviser and broker for a client, and as broker for the party or parties on the other
side of the trade. Agency cross trades will be executed in accordance with Section 206(3) of the Advisers Act,
requiring written consent, confirmations of transactions, annual reporting, and compliance procedures.
To the extent permitted by law and applicable policies and procedures, Strategic Advisers can (but is not
obligated to) execute “advisor cross trades” for Program Accounts when Strategic Advisers believes such trades
are in the best interest of all clients involved. Advisor cross trades are trades in which Strategic Advisers, or an
affiliate, acts as investment adviser to both clients involved in the trade. An advisor cross trade will be facilitated
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between client accounts either directly or through a broker-dealer, including FBS or NFS, and the relevant
crossing value will be determined based on one or more third-party pricing services, actual market bids, and/
or closing prices as reflected on a national securities exchange. Neither Strategic Advisers nor its affiliates will
receive transaction-based compensation for advisor cross trades.
There can be no assurance that agency or advisor cross trades will be executed, or that such transactions will be
executed in a manner that is most favorable to each Program Account that is a party to such transaction. Not all
Program Accounts participate in cross trades, and a client may opt out of cross trading by contacting a Fidelity
representative. Cross trades can be beneficial to clients by reducing transaction costs, and Program Accounts
excluded from cross trading could miss such potential benefits. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates will have a
potentially conflicting division of loyalties and responsibilities regarding both parties to a crossing transaction,
including with respect to the decision to enter into such transactions and the valuation and pricing of such
transactions. Strategic Advisers has developed policies and procedures relating to such transactions and conflicts.
Account Transaction Information
When Strategic Advisers trades in a Program Account, unless FPTC is acting as trustee or co-trustee with
respect to the Program Account, clients will receive a confirmation of such transaction from NFS, except with
respect to automatic investments, automatic withdrawals, dividend reinvestments, and transactions that involve
the core Fidelity money market fund where a client’s account statement serves in lieu of a confirmation. Clients
will receive statements from NFS that will provide holdings and transaction information, including trades,
contributions, withdrawals, advisory fees, and estimated gain/ loss and tax basis information. Statements and
confirmations are also available online at Fidelity.com and by enrolling in the electronic delivery program.
Clients should carefully review all statements and other communications received from FBS and NFS. Clients
will also receive a prospectus for any new mutual fund or ETP not previously held, unless the client has elected
to have Strategic Advisers act as agent for the receipt of any non-Fidelity prospectuses. The routing details of a
particular order will be provided on request, and an explanation of order routing practices will be provided on
an annual basis. In addition, from time to time, Fidelity will provide aggregated trade execution data to clients
and prospective clients.
Soft Dollars
Strategic Advisers does not have a soft dollar program and, therefore, does not consider the provision of
research or brokerage as a criterion for broker selection.
Client-Directed Brokerage Activities
Program Accounts are not available for brokerage activities outside of the activities directed by Strategic
Advisers, including but not limited to margin trading or trading of securities by a client or any of the client’s
designated agents.
Review of Accounts
Client Contact and Review of Personal Financial Situation
Strategic Advisers will contact Program clients at least annually to evaluate whether there have been any
changes to their personal financial situation that could affect their Profile Information or the Program Services,
including whether the client wishes to impose any reasonable restrictions on the management of the Program
Account or reasonably modify any existing restrictions (the “Annual Review Process”). Clients should provide
updated Profile Information any time there is a change to their goals (including significant changes in the
amount of assets assigned to a goal), time horizon, tax situation, risk tolerance, management of Other Assets
(including significant changes to the amount of risk exposure in Other Assets), or personal financial situation,
even outside of the Annual Review Process. If a client indicates a change to any Profile Information, either
as part of the Annual Review Process or otherwise, this can result in a proposed change to the client’s asset
allocation recommendation. If we do not hear from a client during the Annual Review Process, we will update
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client information based on known information (e.g., client’s age, planned investment time horizon, other
date-relative elements of the client’s Profile Information, updated account balances and asset allocations of
the client’s Program Accounts and other Fidelity accounts as well as updated balances and asset allocations of
certain outside accounts a client has provided) or Fidelity-estimated values, such as withdrawal needs, but we
will otherwise assume that the client’s Profile Information has not changed. In some cases, the changes to this
updated information will result in a proposed change to the client’s asset allocation recommendation. We will
not implement the proposed asset allocation change for a Program Account until the client has agreed to such
change. Clients should refer to the Program documentation provided in connection with the Annual Review
Process for more information.
Ongoing Review and Adjustments of Program Accounts
Strategic Advisers monitors Program Accounts and their investments periodically. Market conditions and/
or an upturn or downturn in a particular security will at times cause a “drift” in a client’s investment portfolio
away from the asset allocation associated with the client’s Program Account. Strategic Advisers can choose to
rebalance a client’s Program Account to bring it back in line with the asset allocation. The number of times a
Program Account is rebalanced will vary based on economic and market conditions as well as changes in the
attractiveness or appropriateness of specific funds or managers. Strategic Advisers can also modify the funds
held in a Program Account to accommodate new fund allocations and fund closures.
In managing Program Accounts, Strategic Advisers could decide to adjust allocations for a number of reasons,
including but not limited to the following:
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The weighting of a particular asset class, sector, mutual fund, ETP, or individual security that Strategic
Advisers believes has too much or too little representation in a Program Account;
• Changes in the fundamental attractiveness or appropriateness of a particular mutual fund, ETP, or security;
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Changes in a client’s Profile Information and any consequent changes to an associated investment strategy;
• Deposit or withdrawal of cash or securities into or from a Program Account;
• Accommodating mutual fund or ETP closures;
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Internal or external investment limits;
• Mutual fund liquidity or capacity issues; or
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For Tax-Smart Program Accounts, certain changes in the client’s tax situation or in the tax treatment of the
investments in the Tax-Smart Program Account.
For Program Accounts other than Tax-Smart and BDIP Program Accounts, Strategic Advisers’ investment
management team will make decisions regarding reallocations within the model portfolio on which such
Program Account is invested. These decisions are based on the investment management team’s assessment
of market and economic conditions and potential investment opportunities. Each model portfolio will be
rebalanced periodically. Strategic Advisers will generally trade a Program Account when the model portfolio
to which it is aligned is changed, subject to any restrictions a client requests. The Fidelity Program Dedicated
Funds are reviewed daily and assets within the Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds are reallocated based on
the discretion of the applicable fund’s portfolio managers. As a result, reallocation activity applicable to such
a Program Account’s assets invested in the Fidelity Program Dedicated Funds could take place at the fund
level, rather than directly in a client’s Program Account. Strategic Advisers can work closely with fund managers
to minimize the impact of its reallocation activities. There are certain situations when fund investments and
redemptions can be accomplished over an extended period of time as a result of operational considerations,
legal considerations, or input from underlying fund managers.
Generally, Strategic Advisers reviews and adjusts account holdings in Tax-Smart Program Accounts as needed,
based on the criteria listed above, with additional consideration given to the potential impact of federal
income taxes. Periodically, Strategic Advisers will evaluate a client’s Tax-Smart Program Account with respect
to a variety of factors to determine whether the Tax-Smart Program Account could benefit from trading that
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day. Strategic Advisers does not anticipate that each Tax-Smart Program Account will be traded each day.
Rather, Strategic Advisers’ proprietary account evaluation system monitors each Tax-Smart Program Account
periodically to identify those accounts that could benefit from trading, and Strategic Advisers then evaluates
those Tax-Smart Program Accounts to determine if trading is required.
In determining whether a Program Account requires trading on a given day, Strategic Advisers relies on the
prior trading day’s closing values of the securities held in a Program Account. In general, Strategic Advisers
does not attempt to conduct intraday account evaluations, and Strategic Advisers does not generally attempt
to time intraday price fluctuations in its decisions to buy or sell securities.
To assist in the evaluation of the performance of their Program Accounts, clients will have access to
information about trading activity in their Program Accounts as well as information about the performance
of their Program Accounts on a pretax basis and, for Tax-Smart Program Accounts, on an after-tax basis.
Pretax Program Account performance is calculated consistent with industry standards. After-tax Program
Account performance is based on the pretax performance of the Program Account and the application
of our methodology to consider the impact of U.S. federal income taxes. Detailed information about
the methodology and assumptions, and their related risks and limitations, used in calculating after-tax
performance of a Program Account is provided in each client’s periodic performance summary. While
performance information is reviewed by Strategic Advisers for accuracy and compliance with applicable
procedures, performance information is not reviewed or approved by a third party.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are compensated for providing services, including for investment
management, distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services, to certain Fidelity and non-
Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments in which Program Accounts are invested or which a client
could use to implement the Program’s financial planning recommendations. These affiliates include FMRCo
and its affiliates as the investment advisers for the Fidelity Funds; FDC as the underwriter of the Fidelity
Funds; and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC (“FIIOC”) as transfer agent for the
Fidelity Funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity funds, and recordkeeper of certain workplace savings plans.
Certain funds used in Program Accounts are available only to fee based accounts offered by Fidelity. Unlike
many other mutual funds, these funds do not charge fees or expenses for certain services provided by a
Fidelity affiliate (but do charge fees for other services). Instead, compensation for such uncharged services
is paid by Strategic Advisers or an affiliate. Strategic Advisers’ affiliates also receive compensation and other
benefits in connection with portfolio transactions executed on behalf of the Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual
funds, ETPs, and other investments. FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or research services,
consistent with Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in connection with the execution of the
Fidelity Funds’ portfolio security transactions.
FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing, among other things,
clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and
other investments, and NFS provides securities lending agent services to certain Fidelity Funds for which it
receives compensation. FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer FundsNetwork, Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, and
provide shareholder and other services (including, for a limited number of participants on the platform, the
sharing of certain aggregated data regarding ETF holdings in Program Accounts) to participating mutual
funds and ETPs (or their sponsors) for which FBS, NFS, and FIIOC receive compensation, including with
respect to those mutual funds and ETPs in which Program Accounts are invested. Neither FBS nor NFS
receives any compensation in connection with directing equity trades for Program Accounts to market
makers for execution. We can execute trades through alternative trading systems or national securities
exchanges, including but not limited to ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, such as
Members Exchange, a registered national securities exchange. Any decision to execute a trade through an
alternative trading system or exchange in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest would be made
in accordance with applicable law, including best execution obligations. For trades placed on certain national
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securities exchanges, including ones in which a Fidelity affiliate has an ownership interest, Fidelity could
receive exchange rebates from such trades for Program Accounts, and these rebates will be subject to the
Credit Amount (as described in “Fees and Compensation”) and will be allocated, pro rata based on assets,
among Program Accounts.
Fidelity receives compensation from BlackRock Fund Advisors, an affiliate of BlackRock, in connection with
an exclusive, long-term marketing program that includes promotion of ETFs advised by BlackRock (or an
affiliate) and inclusion of the funds in certain FBS platforms and investment programs. Additional information
about the sources, amounts, and terms of compensation is provided in the ETF’s prospectus and related
documents. Fidelity does not retain additional compensation as a direct result of a Program Account holding
BlackRock funds.
The compensation described above that is retained by Strategic Advisers or its affiliates as a direct result of
investments by the Program Accounts in Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds and ETPs will be included in the
Credit Amount (described in “Fees and Compensation”), which reduces the Gross Advisory Fee. However, to
the extent that Strategic Advisers’ affiliates, including FBS, NFS, or FIIOC, receive compensation that is neither
a direct result of, nor directly derived from, investments by the Program Accounts, such compensation is not
included in the Credit Amount, does not reduce the Gross Advisory Fee, and will be retained by Strategic
Advisers or its affiliates. Receipt of compensation in addition to the Gross Advisory Fee creates a financial
incentive for Strategic Advisers and its affiliates to select investments that will increase such compensation.
Strategic Advisers seeks to address this financial conflict of interest through the application of the Credit
Amount, which will reduce the Gross Advisory Fee, as applicable, and through personnel compensation
arrangements (including those of Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals and the Fidelity representatives)
that are not differentiated based on the investments or share classes selected for Program Accounts. Strategic
Advisers and its affiliates have also implemented processes reasonably designed to prevent the receipt of
compensation from affecting the nature of the advice provided to Program clients.
See “Fees and Compensation” for additional information.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS, pursuant to referral agreements where
applicable. Additionally, Strategic Advisers refers clients to other independent investment advisers in
connection with a referral program in which such independent investment advisers participate for a fee
payable to Strategic Advisers.
Financial Information
Strategic Advisers does not solicit prepayment of client fees. Strategic Advisers is not aware of any financial
condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
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Keep in mind that investing involves risk. The value of your investment will fluctuate over time, and you may
gain or lose money.
Diversification and asset allocation do not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
Fidelity does not provide legal or tax advice, and the information provided is general in nature and should not be
considered legal or tax advice. Consult an attorney, tax professional, or other advisor regarding your specific legal
or tax situation.
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC ( “BlackRock”), is an independent entity that is not affiliated with any
Fidelity Investments company. Strategic Advisers is the portfolio manager for BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio
Program Accounts and implements trades for the accounts based on the model portfolio of investments it receives
from BlackRock. Strategic Advisers can select investments for an account that differ from BlackRock’s model.
For iShares® ETFs, Fidelity receives compensation from the ETF sponsor and/or its affiliates in connection with an
exclusive, long-term marketing program that includes promotion of iShares® ETFs and inclusion of iShares® funds in
certain FBS platforms and investment programs. Additional information about the sources, amounts, and terms of
compensation can be found in the ETF’s prospectus and related documents. Fidelity can add or waive commissions
on ETFs without prior notice. BlackRock and iShares® are registered trademarks of BlackRock, Inc., and its affiliates.
The Fidelity U.S. Large Cap IndexSM is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to reflect the
performance of the stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization.
The Russell 1000® Growth Index is a market capitalization–weighted index designed to measure the performance of
the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity market.
The Russell 1000® Value Index is a market capitalization–weighted index designed to measure the performance of
the large-cap value segment of the U.S. equity market.
The S&P 500® Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to reflect the performance of
the stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies based on float-adjusted market capitalization.
The MSCI EAFE Index (Net MA Tax) is a float-adjusted market capitalization–weighted index designed to
reflect the performance of the developed international equity market, including large-capitalization stocks.
Index returns are adjusted for tax withholding rates applicable to U.S.-based mutual funds organized as
Massachusetts business trusts.
The Fidelity Developed International ex North America Focus Index (Net) is a float-adjusted market capitalization–
weighted index designed to reflect the performance of the developed international equity market, including large-
capitalization stocks. Index returns are adjusted for tax withholding rates applicable to U.S.-based mutual funds
organized as Massachusetts business trusts.
Indexes are unmanaged. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
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Additional Brochure: STRATEGIC ADVISERS LLC (2026-03-30)
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Strategic Advisers LLC
Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2698
617.563.7000
Fidelity.com
March 30, 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Strategic
Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”), a Fidelity Investments company.
Throughout this brochure and related materials, Strategic Advisers refers to itself as a “registered
investment adviser” or as “being registered.” These statements do not imply a certain level of skill or
training.
Please contact us at 1.800.544.3455 with any questions about the contents of this brochure. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Strategic Advisers is available on the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
The SEC requires registered investment advisers to provide and deliver an annual summary of
material changes to their Form ADV, Part 2A brochure (the “Brochure”).
Material Changes
No material changes were made to the Strategic Advisers LLC Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure from
September 10, 2025 through March 30, 2026.
Other Changes
Certain minor revisions have been made to the text that describes Strategic Advisers’ affiliates in
"Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations."
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF MATERIAL CHANGES
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ADVISORY BUSINESS
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FEES AND COMPENSATION
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PERFORMANCE BASED FEES AND SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
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TYPES OF CLIENTS
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METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
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DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
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OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
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CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS AND
PERSONAL TRADING
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BROKERAGE PRACTICES
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REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
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CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION
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CUSTODY
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INVESTMENT DISCRETION
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VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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ADVISORY BUSINESS
Strategic Advisers LLC (“Strategic Advisers”) is a registered investment adviser and an indirect,
wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC (collectively with Strategic Advisers and its affiliates,
“Fidelity Investments,” “Fidelity,” “us,” “our,” or “we”). Strategic Advisers was formed in 1977 and
provides a variety of investment management services, including discretionary portfolio management
services and non-discretionary advisory services to retail and institutional clients. The non-
discretionary advisory services include, but are not limited to, developing and maintaining asset
allocation, methodologies, and model portfolios for use by its affiliates.
This Brochure covers the following Strategic Advisers products and services: Fidelity® Charitable
Gift Fund, registered investment companies, and management, consulting, and model delivery
services.
For information about the additional services that Strategic Advisers provides, please see Strategic
Advisers’ other Form ADV, Part 2A brochures.
Fidelity Investments® Charitable Gift Fund ("Charitable Gift Fund" or “CGF”)
Strategic Advisers performs discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services for
IRS-qualified charitable organizations, including the Charitable Gift Fund, by recommending
affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds for investment portfolios composed of irrevocable
contributions from individual and institutional donors. In this capacity, Strategic Advisers acts as
adviser to the charitable organization and not as adviser to any donor to such organization.
Strategic Advisers Mutual Funds (collectively, the “Strategic Advisers Funds” or “Funds”)
Strategic Advisers serves as adviser to investment companies registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”). Strategic Advisers acts as adviser to Funds that use both a multi-
manager and fund-of-funds investment structure.
The fund-of-funds managed by Strategic Advisers primarily invest in a combination of underlying
affiliated and unaffiliated equity, fixed-income, and short-term mutual funds; real estate investment
trusts (“REITs”); exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”); and funds that have commodity exposure. The
Funds that use a multi-manager and a fund-of-funds investment structure are also permitted to invest
directly in securities through one or more affiliated or unaffiliated sub-advisers. The Strategic
Advisers Funds are offered only to clients of Strategic Advisers who have granted discretionary
authority to Strategic Advisers to invest in a portfolio of mutual funds. To the extent permitted by its
advisory contracts, Strategic Advisers is authorized to delegate investment discretion to affiliated or
unaffiliated sub-advisers that manage all or a portion of the assets within a Fund.
Management, Consulting, and Model Delivery Services
Management and consulting services offered by Strategic Advisers are designed to meet various
investment needs of certain institutional clients and Strategic Advisers affiliates. Strategic Advisers
provides services to its affiliates offering products and services to their clients or customers, that
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include, but are not limited to, methodologies, algorithms, tools, asset allocation, risk modeling and
portfolio analysis, due diligence, and oversight services. Strategic Advisers also constructs non-
discretionary model portfolios for use by affiliates. The scope and duration of such services are
negotiated for each engagement.
FIWA Model Portfolio Delivery
Strategic Advisers has been retained by its affiliate, Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC
(“FIWA”), to provide non-discretionary model portfolios (“Model Portfolios”) that are constructed
from the universe of mutual funds and exchange-traded products (“ETPs”), including exchange-traded
funds (“ETFs”), selected for consideration by FIWA (“Investable Universe”). FIWA distributes
Model Portfolios to financial institutions, such as banks, broker-dealers, and other investment advisers
(each, an “Intermediary” and collectively, the “Intermediaries”). Strategic Advisers does not have an
advisory relationship with an Intermediary or any of the Intermediaries clients who access the Model
Portfolios.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2025, Strategic Advisers’ total assets under management were
$1,321,075,214,792 on a discretionary basis and $49,050,110,419 on a non-discretionary basis.
FEES AND COMPENSATION
Charitable Gift Fund
Fees and terms for investment advisory services provided to charitable institutions, including the
Charitable Gift Fund, are negotiated on a case-by-case basis and generally based on assets under
management or advisement. With respect to the Charitable Gift Fund, if such services are terminated
during any period for which Strategic Advisers has or has not been compensated, the fee due to
Strategic Advisers for such period shall be prorated to the date of termination.
Strategic Advisers’ affiliate, National Charitable Services Corporation (“NCS”), a Fidelity
Investments company, will generally receive compensation for administrative and investment services
provided to CGF under a separate Master Services Agreement. In the absence of any other
arrangements, Strategic Advisers’ compensation for its discretionary and non-discretionary
investment advisory services shall be paid to Strategic Advisers out of the aggregate NCS
administrative services fee payable under the Master Services Agreement, pursuant to an arrangement
between Strategic Advisers and NCS.
The Charitable Gift Fund will pay the mutual fund expenses associated with the respective mutual
funds recommended or selected by Strategic Advisers as investments for the pools advised by
Strategic Advisers. Fund expenses, which vary by fund and share class, are expenses that mutual fund
shareholders typically pay. Details of a mutual fund’s expenses can be found in its prospectus. These
expenses are not separately itemized or billed; rather, the published returns of mutual funds are shown
net of their expenses. The overall revenue received by affiliates of Strategic Advisers will vary based
on the funds suggested or selected by Strategic Advisers; accordingly, Strategic Advisers has an
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economic incentive and a potential conflict of interest to suggest funds that pay more revenue to its
affiliates. However, for the non-discretionary assets that Strategic Advisers oversees, the investments
to be used are reviewed and approved by the CGF Board of Trustees as part of the investment
mandate for such non-discretionary pools prior to the inclusion of any such fund. In addition, for both
non-discretionary assets overseen by Strategic Advisers and the discretionary assets that Strategic
Advisers manages as part of CGF, the portfolio managers with responsibility for the investment
recommendations and management of the assets and related portfolio management staff are
compensated based on the performance of the underlying investments recommended or selected, and
no portion of the compensation of these Strategic Advisers personnel is based on the percentage of
affiliated funds used in CGF or the revenue that Strategic Advisers or its affiliates derive from the
purchase of any underlying affiliated or unaffiliated fund by CGF. Furthermore, all investments used
in both the discretionary and non-discretionary portfolios are reviewed with the CGF Board of
Trustees on a periodic basis.
Strategic Advisers Funds
For the Strategic Advisers Funds, Strategic Advisers receives a management fee based on a Fund’s
average net assets. For Funds that employ sub-advisers, sub-advisory fees are paid by the Funds,
based on contractual terms with such sub-advisers. In certain circumstances, Strategic Advisers either
charges no management fee or, from time to time, will voluntarily or contractually agree to reimburse
certain of its mutual fund clients for management fees and other expenses above a specified limit.
Strategic Advisers retains the ability to be repaid by such clients if expenses fall below the specified
limit prior to the end of the client fiscal year. Reimbursement arrangements can decrease a Fund’s
expenses and enhance its performance. Voluntary reimbursement arrangements can be discontinued
by Strategic Advisers at any time.
In the case of the Funds, the advisory contract with Strategic Advisers is subject to approval by the
Board of Trustees for the relevant Fund, including trustees who are not interested persons of each
Fund (as defined in the 1940 Act, the “Independent Trustees”). Strategic Advisers’ fees for providing
these services are negotiated on an individual basis and vary significantly among Funds. Fees charged
to mutual fund clients are subject to negotiation prior to the initiation of Strategic Advisers’ services.
Compensation to Strategic Advisers is deducted from a Fund’s assets and payable on a monthly basis
at the end of the month or on such other terms as Strategic Advisers and the particular Fund from time
to time agree. In accordance with the Investment Company Act of 1940, any investment advisory
agreement concerning a Fund will terminate within two years of the effective date of the investment
advisory agreement unless renewed by the Fund in a manner permitted by Section 15 of the 1940 Act.
Any such agreement shall also terminate upon assignment or upon sixty (60) days advance written
notice by any party to the agreement or by the Fund concerned.
In addition to any management fee payable to Strategic Advisers and the fees payable to the transfer
agent and pricing and bookkeeping agent, and the costs associated with securities lending, most funds
in the Fidelity group of funds or classes thereof, as applicable, pay all of their expenses that are not
assumed by those parties. Most Funds pay for the typesetting, printing, and mailing of their proxy
materials to shareholders; legal expenses; and the fees of the custodian, auditor, and Independent
Trustees. Most Funds’ management contracts further provide that the Fund will pay for typesetting,
printing, and mailing of prospectuses, statements of additional information, notices, and reports to
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shareholders; however, under the terms of Strategic Advisers’ transfer agent agreement, the transfer
agent bears these costs. Other expenses paid by a Fund include interest, taxes, brokerage
commissions, the Fund’s proportionate share of insurance premiums and Investment Company
Institute dues, and the costs of registering shares under federal securities laws and making necessary
filings under state securities laws. A Fund is also liable for such non-recurring expenses that arise,
including costs of any litigation to which the Fund is a party, and any obligation the Fund must
indemnify its officers and trustees with respect to litigation. For information regarding Strategic
Advisers’ brokerage arrangements with respect to the Funds, please see the section entitled
“Brokerage Practices.”
Management, Consulting, and Model Delivery Services
Fees and terms for asset management, model portfolio services, and risk modeling services to
institutions are negotiated on a case-by-case basis and are generally based on assets under
management. Fees and terms for the other management, consulting, and non-discretionary services to
institutional clients and affiliates will vary and are negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
Strategic Advisers is compensated by its affiliates for the development and delivery of model
portfolios. Fidelity also has arrangements to receive compensation from other third-party ETP
sponsors for making certain ETPs available on Fidelity’s brokerage platform commission free. If a
model portfolio includes such third-party ETPs in the model portfolio, Fidelity is entitled to receive
compensation from the ETP sponsor for any accounts custodied on Fidelity’s brokerage platform that
elect to invest in such model portfolios. Additional information about the sources, amounts, and terms
of compensation is described in the ETP's prospectus and related documents.
The mutual fund share classes for a given model portfolio fund to be used in such model portfolios are
selected by Strategic Advisers’ affiliates based on various considerations including revenue yield to
such affiliates and other affiliates of Strategic Advisers.
FIWA Model Portfolio Delivery
As part of the Model Portfolio arrangement with FIWA, certain Model Portfolios include Fidelity
mutual funds, ETFs, and ETPs, which are subject to fees, as provided for in the prospectus to each
such mutual fund, ETF or ETP (“Fidelity Funds”). In addition, ETFs advised by BlackRock
Investment Management, LLC (or one of its affiliates, collectively “BlackRock”), such as iShares®
ETFs, can be included in the Investable Universe. The fees received from Fidelity Funds will be
shared by various affiliates of Strategic Advisers involved in distributing and advising the Fidelity
Funds. Each Fidelity Fund incurs advisory, administrative, and custodial fees, as well as other fees
and expenses that it pays out of the assets of each mutual fund or ETP, meaning such costs are
indirectly borne by the shareholders of each applicable mutual fund or ETP. Additional information
about the expense ratio of any specific Fidelity Fund is available in the applicable prospectus. Within
a given Model Portfolio, the cost to shareholders and benefits to Strategic Advisers’ affiliates across
the Model Portfolio will vary. As a result, an economic incentive exists for Strategic Advisers when
constructing model portfolios to include allocations to underlying mutual funds and ETPs that pay
additional revenue to its affiliates. However, conflicts of interest associated with this potential
incentive are mitigated as further described in this Brochure. Strategic Advisers does not select the
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investment universe for Model Portfolios and Model Portfolios are constructed by Strategic Advisers’
portfolio management team using a systematic approach, in conjunction with a quantitative
methodology. In addition, the amount paid to Strategic Advisers and its employees under the services
does not vary based on the underlying funds and ETPs selected when constructing the Model
Portfolios and the compensation arrangements for Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals do not
vary based on the underlying funds and ETPs selected for such Model Portfolios.
Strategic Advisers is compensated by FIWA for the development and delivery of Model Portfolios in
connection with the model portfolio services provided by FIWA. Intermediaries who utilize the
Model Portfolios do not pay any compensation to Strategic Advisers.
As further described in “Client Referrals and Other Compensation” below, Fidelity receives
compensation from BlackRock in connection with a marketing program.
The applicable share classes for a given Fidelity Fund included in the Investable Universe for the
Model Portfolios are limited to the share classes selected by FIWA. FIWA does not always seek to
include mutual funds or share classes in the Investable Universe that are necessarily the least
expensive. Other affiliated funds have different fees and expenses, which could be lower than the fees
and expenses of the Fidelity Funds and mutual fund share classes included in the Investable Universe.
In some cases, the mutual fund share classes for a Fidelity Fund have a lower cost share class
available on a stand-alone basis for purchase or are available to other types of investors. Investors
who hold a less-expensive share class of a fund will pay lower fees over time – and earn higher
investment returns – than investors who hold a more expensive share class of the same fund.
PERFORMANCE BASED FEES AND SIDE-BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
Strategic Advisers does not currently charge performance-based management fees for any of its
advisory services and, therefore, does not engage in side-by-side management.
TYPES OF CLIENTS
Charitable Gift Fund
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to the Charitable
Gift Fund, an IRS-qualified charitable organization, by recommending affiliated and unaffiliated
mutual funds and ETFs for investment portfolios composed of irrevocable contributions from
individual and institutional donors.
Strategic Advisers Funds
Strategic Advisers offers investment management services on listed equities, ETPs, mutual fund
shares, bonds, derivatives, or other securities in connection with its service as adviser to the Strategic
Advisers Funds.
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Management, Consulting, and Model Delivery Services
Strategic Advisers provides management, consulting, and model delivery services to its affiliates.
Management and consulting arrangements can include asset allocation, risk modeling and portfolio
analysis, due diligence, and oversight services. Strategic Advisers develops and delivers a range of
methodologies and model portfolios services, and provides resources to affiliates offering non-
discretionary investment advisory services.
METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
Charitable Gift Fund
Through an Investment Management Agreement with CGF, Strategic Advisers renders discretionary
and non-discretionary investment management services by investing in and/or recommending Fidelity
and non-Fidelity mutual funds and ETFs it deems appropriate for use in a number of investment
portfolios composed of CGF assets derived from irrevocable and tax-deductible contributions from
individual and institutional donors.
Strategic Advisers relies on both proprietary fundamental and quantitative fund research in managing
or providing investment advice. Factors considered when investing in underlying funds include fund
performance, a fund manager’s experience and investment style, fund company infrastructure, and
fund characteristics such as expense ratio, asset size, and portfolio turnover. With respect to the sub-
portfolios where Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management services, Strategic
Advisers pursues a disciplined, benchmark-guided approach to portfolio construction, and monitors
and adjusts allocations to underlying funds as necessary to attempt to control overall fund risk and
pursue appropriate returns. With respect to investments made for CGF, the available investment
universe for each sub-portfolio is determined by contract in conjunction with CGF.
Strategic Advisers has implemented oversight processes and controls designed to achieve an
appropriate level of supervision of the selected funds’ activities and reports out to the CGF Board of
Trustees on these processes and controls. While Strategic Advisers selects the underlying funds of the
sub-portfolios and has implemented a program to provide ongoing oversight of their activities, the
funds’ managers make the day-to-day investment decisions for the funds they manage.
With respect to the discretionary management services provided to CGF, Strategic Advisers will
review the share classes offered by identified funds and seek to choose the appropriate share class that
is available for purchase by CGF.
Strategic Advisers Funds
Strategic Advisers is authorized to invest (depending on the specific product or fund) a Fund’s assets
in a combination of securities, including derivatives (e.g., futures contracts); affiliated (e.g., Fidelity
funds) and unaffiliated domestic and international equity funds; investment grade, high- yield and
international fixed- income funds; short-term funds; alternative investment class funds; and ETFs and
closed-end funds. In general, Strategic Advisers will evaluate the mutual funds available through
Fidelity’s mutual fund platform, FundsNetwork®, and make mutual fund investment determinations
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based on investment methodology. To the extent permitted by its advisory contracts, Strategic
Advisers is authorized to delegate investment discretion to affiliated and unaffiliated sub-advisers for
management of all or part of the Fund.
Multi-manager and fund-of-funds structures. Strategic Advisers’ multi-manager funds and fund-of-
funds allow Strategic Advisers to choose from an expanded group of Fidelity and non-Fidelity money
managers, taking advantage of Fidelity’s scale to provide the potential for improved pricing through
the use of sub-advisers. The multi-manager funds and fund-of-funds are structured so that Strategic
Advisers can hire sub-advisers to manage sub-portfolios of individual securities, buy and sell mutual
funds and ETFs, and hold all these securities within one Fund. A Strategic Advisers portfolio manager
manages each multi-manager fund and fund-of-funds by allocating the Fund’s assets between Fidelity
and non-Fidelity sub-advisers, mutual funds, ETFs, and derivatives.
In managing the Funds that use a multi-manager and fund-of-funds investment structure, Strategic
Advisers considers a variety of factors when determining how to allocate the respective Funds’ assets
among sub-advisers, funds, and/or other securities, including, but not limited to, investment approach,
portfolio characteristics, performance patterns in different market environments, and the total assets of
the fund.
While Strategic Advisers selects the sub-advisers and has implemented a program to provide ongoing
oversight of their activities, the sub-advisers of the Fund make the day-to-day investment decisions
for the portions of the Fund they manage. Strategic Advisers is authorized to allocate each Fund’s
assets among any number of sub-advisers or underlying funds at any time. Regulatory restrictions
limit the amount that one fund can invest in another, which means that the Funds are limited in the
amount they can invest in any particular underlying fund. For more information on the investment
strategies employed by the multi-manager funds and fund-of-funds, please see the prospectuses for
those Funds.
With respect to the discretionary management services provided to the Funds, Strategic Advisers will
review the share classes offered by identified funds and seek to choose the share class of a fund that is
appropriate for clients after the application of a credit amount that is applicable to clients in the
Fidelity Wealth Services program. The credit amount is intended to address the conflicts of interest
that arise in selecting investments that generate revenue for Fidelity by reducing the advisory fees
paid to Fidelity by the amount of compensation, if any, Strategic Advisers or its affiliates retain that is
derived as a direct result of the investments by Fidelity Wealth Services program accounts. Please see
the Fidelity Wealth Services Form ADV, Part 2A brochure for additional information about the fees
and credit amount applicable to that managed account program.
FIWA Model Portfolios
Strategic Advisers constructs the Model Portfolios from an Investable Universe of mutual funds,
ETPs, and ETFs provided by FIWA. The Model Portfolios are portfolios designed to implement
specified strategies and can be aligned to specified fixed income/equity allocations. In certain cases,
the Model Portfolios include an allocation to cash.
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The Fidelity Funds used in the Model Portfolios represent only a subset of all affiliated mutual funds,
affiliated ETPs, and third-party funds/ETPs. The universe of Fidelity Funds has been selected by
FIWA for inclusion based on eligibility for the mutual funds or ETPs to be distributed as part of the
model portfolio services provided by FIWA to their Intermediary clients, as well as other measures
designed to be consistent with the model parameters around the asset allocation goals of the model,
expenses, asset classes, internal guidelines, and the interests of Intermediaries and whether such
products result in compensation to Fidelity. Affiliates of Strategic Advisers manage mutual funds and
ETPs that can be similar to the Fidelity Funds but have different fees and expenses that are not
available for investment through the model portfolio service offered by FIWA.
Model portfolios provided to FIWA are constructed by Strategic Advisers’ portfolio management
team using a systematic approach, in conjunction with a quantitative methodology, for selecting
mutual funds and ETPs from the Investable Universe. When constructing certain model portfolios,
Strategic Advisers uses an algorithmic approach to combine a set of investment options whose overall
risk characteristics, when viewed as a portfolio, are designed to be similar to those of an appropriate
asset allocation strategy for a particular risk profile. An important objective of this process is to
enhance expected risk-adjusted returns while adhering to this set of risk constraints. These strategies
use a series of long-term asset allocation benchmarks as a basis for portfolio construction; these
benchmarks consist of weighted market index benchmarks designed to represent an appropriate asset-
class mix for a given investor profile, from conservative to aggressive growth. Using the outcome of
the evaluation described above, the portfolio construction process identifies the model portfolio based
on the long-term asset allocation benchmarks for stock, bond, and/or short-term asset classes. For
certain other model portfolios, Strategic Advisers uses an algorithmic approach to combine a set of
investment options designed to maximize yield for a particular risk profile. As noted above, in
selecting third-party ETPs for inclusion in model portfolios, Strategic Advisers will select among
ETPs advised by BlackRock, including iShares® ETFs and ETPs managed by other third parties. Each
mutual fund and/or ETP included in the asset allocation model portfolios bears the risks as described
in that fund’s registration statement. Equity and fixed income securities included in model portfolios
include securities in various markets, including the U.S. and foreign markets, which are subject to the
risks described below.
Additional General Information
Strategic Advisers establishes internal limits, and can be subject to external limits, on how much it
will invest client accounts in Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds or ETPs. Strategic Advisers can
also consult fund managers to understand the manager’s guidelines or policies, if any, concerning
fund share ownership limits.
Strategic Advisers can work closely with fund managers to minimize the impact of its reallocation
activities. There are certain situations when fund investment and redemptions can be accomplished
over an extended period of time as a result of operational considerations, legal considerations, or input
from underlying fund managers.
Due to regulatory and issuer-specific limits that apply to the ownership of securities of certain issuers,
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates could limit investments in the securities of such issuers. Similar
limitations could apply to futures and derivatives, such as options. In addition, Strategic Advisers
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and/or its affiliates can from time to time determine that, because of regulatory requirements that
apply to Strategic Advisers and/or its affiliates due to investments in a particular country or in an
issuer operating in a particular regulated industry, investments in the securities of issuers domiciled or
listed on trading markets in that country or operating in that regulated industry above certain
thresholds are impractical or undesirable. The foregoing limits and thresholds could apply at the
account level or in the aggregate across all accounts (or certain subsets of accounts) managed,
sponsored, owned by, or otherwise attributable to Strategic Advisers and its affiliates. For investment
risk management and other purposes, Strategic Advisers and its affiliates also generally apply internal
aggregate limits on the amount of a particular issuer’s securities that can be owned by all such
accounts. In connection with the foregoing limits and thresholds, Strategic Advisers can limit or
exclude clients’ investment in a particular issuer, future, derivative, and/or other instrument (or limit
the exercise of voting or other rights), and investment flexibility will be restricted. In addition, to the
extent that client accounts already own securities that directly or indirectly contribute to such an
ownership threshold being exceeded, Strategic Advisers could sell securities held in such accounts in
order to bring account-level and/or aggregate ownership below the relevant threshold. In the event
that any such sales result in realized losses for client accounts, those client accounts will bear such
losses depending on the particular circumstances.
Strategic Advisers or its affiliates provide certain investment management personnel to, or use the
investment management personnel of, certain affiliated investment advisers under personnel sharing
arrangements or other inter-company agreements.
MATERIAL INVESTMENT RISKS
Risk of loss. Many factors affect each investment or account’s performance and potential for loss.
Strategies that pursue investments in equities will be subject to stock market volatility and can decline
significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.
Strategies that pursue fixed-income investments (such as bond or money market funds) will see values
fluctuate in response to changes in interest rates, inflation and prepayment risks, as well as default
risks for both issuers and counterparties; changing interest rates, including rates that fall below zero,
can have unpredictable effects on markets and can result in heightened market volatility.
Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as war, acts of terrorism, the
spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events, can magnify
factors that affect performance. These strategies are also affected by impacts to the individual issuers,
such as changes in an issuer’s credit quality, or changes in tax, regulatory, market, or economic
developments. In addition, investments in certain bond structures are less liquid than other
investments and, therefore, are more difficult to trade effectively.
Non-diversified funds and accounts that invest in a smaller number of individual issuers can be more
sensitive to these changes. Nearly all investments or accounts are subject to volatility in non-U.S.
markets, either through direct exposure or indirect effects on U.S. markets from events abroad
including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and, in the case of less-developed markets,
currency illiquidity. Those investments and accounts that are exposed to emerging markets are
potentially subject to heightened volatility from greater social, economic, regulatory, and political
uncertainties, as the extent of economic development, political stability, market depth, infrastructure,
capitalization, and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets.
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Trading, settlement, and custodial practices (including those involving securities settlement where
fund or account assets could be released prior to receipt of payment) in non-U.S. markets could be
less developed than those in U.S. markets and could result in increased investment or valuation risks,
increased counterparty exposure, or substantial delays (including those arising from failed trades or
the insolvency of, or breach of duty by, a broker-dealer, securities depository, sub-custodian,
clearinghouse, or other party). Additionally, investments or accounts that pursue debt exposure are
subject to risks of prepayment or default, and funds or accounts that pursue strategies that concentrate
in particular industries or are otherwise subject to particular segments of the market (e.g., money
market funds’ exposure to the financial services industry, municipal funds’ exposure to the municipal
bond market, or foreign or emerging markets funds’ exposure to a particular country or region) can be
significantly impacted by events affecting those industries or markets.
Strategies that lead funds or accounts to invest in other funds bear all the risks inherent in the
underlying investments in which those funds invest, and strategies that pursue leveraged risk,
including investment in derivatives – such as swaps (interest rate, total return, and credit default),
futures contracts – and forward-settling securities, magnify market exposure and losses.
Ultimately, an investment or account’s share price and/or net asset value changes daily based on
changes in market conditions, foreign currency exchange rates, and interest rates, and in response to
other economic, political, or financial developments. An investment or account’s reaction to these
events will be affected by the types of securities in which the mutual fund, ETP, or account invests;
the financial condition, industry and economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer; and the
level of investment in the securities of that issuer. An investment in such securities involves risk of
loss that clients of the mutual fund, ETP, or account would, and should, be prepared to bear. When a
shareholder sells or redeems shares in the mutual fund or ETP, the shares could be worth more or less
than what the shareholder paid for them, which means that the shareholder could lose money by
investing in the fund or ETP. Similarly, an account owner could lose money due to a decline in the
account’s net asset value.
With respect to Strategic Advisers’ mutual funds, more detailed information relating to the methods
and strategies and their associated risk are set forth in that fund or account’s prospectus and registration
statement filed with the SEC or other applicable offering document.
Cybersecurity Risks. With the increased use of technologies to conduct business, Strategic Advisers
and its affiliates are susceptible to operational, information security, and related risks. These risks
could include events that are wholly or partially beyond our control and may have a negative effect on
our ability to conduct business activities. We believe that we have taken reasonable steps to mitigate
these risks, but do not believe we can eliminate them altogether. In general, cyber incidents can result
from deliberate attacks or unintentional events that may arise from external or internal sources.
Cyberattacks include but are not limited to gaining unauthorized access to digital systems (e.g.,
through “hacking” or malicious software coding) for purposes of misappropriating assets or sensitive
information; corrupting data, equipment, or systems; and causing operational disruption. Cyberattacks
can also be carried out in a manner that does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing
denial-of-service attacks on websites (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to intended
users). Cyber incidents affecting Strategic Advisers, its affiliates, or any other service providers
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(including but not limited to accountants, custodians, transfer agents, and financial intermediaries
used by Fidelity or by an issuer of securities) have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business
operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, interference with the ability to calculate asset
prices, impediments to trading, the inability to transact business, destruction to equipment and
systems, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational
damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs. Similar adverse
consequences could result from cyber incidents affecting issuers of securities in which an account
invests, counterparties with which an account engages in transactions, governmental and other
regulatory authorities, exchange and other financial market operators, banks, brokers, dealers,
insurance companies and other financial institutions (including financial intermediaries and service
providers), and other parties.
Operational Risks. Operational risks can include risk of loss arising from failures in internal
processes, people, or systems, such as routine processing incidents or major systems failures, or from
external events, such as exchange outages. Strategic Advisers uses algorithms in support of its
discretionary portfolio management process. There is a risk that the data input into the algorithms
could have errors, omissions, imperfections, or that the algorithms do not operate as intended. Any
decisions made in reliance on incorrect data or algorithms that do not operate as intended can expose
clients to potential risks. Issues in the algorithms are often extremely difficult to detect and could go
undetected for long periods of time or never be detected. These risks are mitigated by testing and
human oversight of the algorithms and their output. We believe that the oversight and testing of our
algorithms and their output will enable us to identify and address issues appropriately. However, there
is no assurance that the algorithms will always work as intended. In general, we will not assess each
account individually, nor will we override the outcome of any algorithm with respect to any particular
account.
Not all incidents arising from operational failures, including those resulting from the mistakes of third
parties, will be compensable by Strategic Advisers to a client. Strategic Advisers maintains policies
and procedures that address the identification and correction of errors, consistent with the applicable
standards of care, to ensure that clients are treated fairly when an error has been detected. The
determination of how to assess an incident, and whether it constitutes an error, is made by Strategic
Advisers or its affiliates, in their sole discretion.
Incidents will be reviewed to determine whether there was a financial impact on accounts, and to
evaluate the materiality of the impact. If we determine that a material financial impact has occurred,
we will make an appropriate correction or otherwise reimburse the account in an amount Strategic
Advisers or its affiliates determines is appropriate based on all relevant circumstances. Unless
prohibited by applicable regulation or a specific agreement with the client, we can net a client’s gains
and losses from the error or a series of related errors with the same root cause and compensate clients
for the net loss. This corrective action could result in financial or other restitution to an account, or
inadvertent gains being reversed out of the account.
Examples on impact that could affect the performance of an account but would not be material
include impacts arising from computer, communications, data processing, network, cloud computing,
backup, business continuity or other operating, information, or technology systems, including those
we outsource to other providers, could fail to operate properly or become disabled, overloaded or
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damaged as a result of a number of factors. These factors could include events that are wholly or
partially beyond our control and could have a negative impact on our ability to conduct business
activities. Though losses arising from operating, information, or technology systems failures could
adversely affect the performance of a client account, such losses would likely not be reimbursable
under Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures.
Typically, incidents or errors that result in a financial impact of less than $10 per account are not
considered material. In such cases, we have instituted controls designed to prevent Fidelity from
receiving economic benefits from limiting the correction of such errors. All errors requiring
reimbursement to a Fidelity affiliated mutual fund of $100,000 or more must be reported to the
Compliance Committee (or other applicable Committee) of the fund’s Board of Trustees at its next
scheduled meeting.
Underlying investments recommended or purchased by Strategic Advisers are subject to the following
material investment risks:
Investing in Mutual Funds and ETPs. An individual account bears all the risks of the investment
strategies employed by the mutual funds and ETPs held in the account, including the risk that a
mutual fund or ETP will not meet its investment objectives. For the specific risks associated with a
mutual fund or ETP, please see its prospectus. An ETP is a security that trades on an exchange and
can seek to track an index, a commodity, or a basket of assets. ETPs can be actively or passively
managed. ETPs trade on secondary markets or exchanges and are exposed to market volatility and the
risks of the ETP’s underlying securities. ETP share trading can be halted or the security could cease to
trade on an exchange. Trading volume and liquidity can vary and could affect the ability to buy or sell
shares or could cause the market price of shares to experience significant premiums or discounts
relative to the value of the assets underlying the shares. Because ETPs trade on exchanges, buyers and
sellers experience a spread between the bidding price and the asking price, and the size of these
spreads can vary significantly.
Money Market Funds. An investor could lose money by investing in a money market fund.
Although the money market fund seeks to preserve the value of an investment at $1.00 per share, it
cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not a bank account and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Fidelity, the sponsor of Fidelity’s money market funds, is not required to reimburse money market
funds for losses, and a client should not expect that Fidelity will provide financial support to a Fidelity
money market fund, at any time, including during periods of market stress. Fidelity’s government and
U.S. Treasury money market funds will not impose a fee upon the sale of a client’s shares.
Quantitative Investing. Funds or securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform
differently from the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed
on each factor, changes to the factors’ behavior over time, market volatility, or the quantitative
model’s assumption about market behavior. In addition, Strategic Advisers’ quantitative investment
strategies rely on algorithmic processes, and, therefore, are subject to the risks described above under
the heading, “Operational Risks.”
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Stock Investments. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse
issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market can
react differently to these developments. Value and growth stocks can perform differently from other
types of stocks. Growth stocks can be more volatile. Value stocks can continue to be undervalued by
the market for long periods of time. In addition, stock investments are subject to risk related to market
capitalization, as well as company-specific risk.
Bond Investments. In general, the bond market is volatile, and fixed-income securities carry interest
rate risk. As interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa. This effect is usually more
pronounced for longer-term securities. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, we could
be unable to maintain positive returns on bond investments. Very low or negative interest rates can
magnify interest rate risk for the markets as whole and for individual bond investments. Changing
interest rates, including rates that fall below zero, can also have unpredictable effects on markets, and
can result in heightened market volatility. The ability of an issuer of a bond to repay principal prior to
a security’s maturity can cause greater price volatility, and if a bond is prepaid, a bond fund could
have to invest the proceeds in securities with lower yields. Fixed-income securities also carry inflation
risk, as well as credit and default risks for both issuers and counterparties. The interest payments of
inflation-protected bonds are variable and usually rise with inflation and fall with deflation. Unlike
individual bonds, most bond funds do not have a maturity date, so holding them until maturity to
avoid losses caused by price volatility is not possible. In addition, investments in certain bond
structures are less liquid than other investments and, therefore, are more difficult to trade
effectively.
Foreign Exposure. Investing in foreign securities and securities of U.S. entities with substantial
foreign operations are subject to interest rate, currency exchange rate, economic, tax, operational,
regulatory, and political risks, all of which are likely to be greater in emerging markets. These risks
are particularly significant for investment strategies that focus on a single country or region or
emerging markets, or for clients who elect to increase foreign stock exposure. Foreign markets can be
more volatile than U.S. markets and can perform differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets
can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely
volatile. Foreign exchange rates can also be extremely volatile.
Foreign markets can also offer less protection to investors than U.S. markets. For example, foreign
issuers are generally not bound by uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting requirements
and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to U.S. issuers. Adequate public information
on foreign issuers might not be available, and it could be difficult to secure dividends and information
regarding corporate actions on a timely basis. Regulatory enforcement can be influenced by economic
or political concerns, and investors could have difficulty enforcing their legal rights in foreign
countries. Foreign governments may decide to seize or confiscate securities held by foreign investors
or assets held by foreign issuers, restrict an investor's ability to sell or redeem securities, suspend or
limit an issuer's ability to make dividend or interest payments, and/or limit or entirely restrict
repatriation of invested capital, profits, and dividends. Furthermore, investments in securities of
foreign entities can result in clients owning an interest in a “passive foreign investment company”
(“PFIC”). Clients holding an interest in a PFIC could be subject to additional tax liabilities and filing
requirements as a result of such investments. The rules regarding investments in PFICs are complex,
and clients are urged to consult with their tax advisors.
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Credit Risk. Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty, and changes in specific
economic or political conditions that affect a particular type of security or issuer, can increase the risk
of default by an issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security or instrument’s credit quality or
value. Lower-quality debt securities and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default
or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer.
Derivatives. Certain funds and ETPs used by Strategic Advisers contain derivatives. Generally
speaking, a derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on the value of a financial asset
(such as a stock, bond, or currency), a physical asset (such as gold, oil, or wheat), or a market index
(such as the S&P 500 Index). Investments in derivatives subject these funds to risks different from,
and possibly greater than, those of the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes. Funds that
invest in derivatives could experience losses if the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes do
not perform as anticipated, and changes in the value of a derivative might not correlate as anticipated
with the underlying securities, assets, or market indexes, thereby reducing their effectiveness. Some
forms of derivatives, such as exchange traded futures and options on securities, commodities, or
indexes, have been trading on regulated exchanges for decades. These types of derivatives are
standardized contracts that can easily be bought and sold and whose market values are determined and
published daily. Nonstandardized derivatives (such as swap agreements), on the other hand, tend to be
more specialized or complex, can be more difficult to value, and are illiquid. Derivatives could
involve leverage, because they can provide investment exposure in an amount exceeding the initial
investment; certain derivatives require low margin deposits, which make it possible for a fund to
employ a high degree of leverage. As a result, the use of derivatives can cause these funds to be more
volatile, because leverage tends to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of a
fund’s portfolio securities. Leverage can magnify investment risks and cause losses to be realized
more quickly, and a small change in the underlying security, asset, or market index can lead to
significant losses for a fund. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited losses, regardless of
the size of the initial investment. Derivative investments are subject to credit risks associated with the
issuer of, or counterparty to, the derivative investment.
Alternative Investments. Alternatives are classified as assets whose investment characteristics and/or
performance differ substantially from the primary asset classes (stocks, bonds, and short-term
investments) and, therefore, offer opportunities for additional diversification and returns, but that also
offer increased volatility and risk of loss due to their non-traditional or complex investment strategies.
Strategic Advisers does not invest in unregistered privately offered alternative investment vehicles
such as private equity, hedge funds, or similar investments (referred to as “private funds”) directly in
Program Accounts; however, Strategic Advisers can invest in publicly available registered funds
(referred to as “public funds”) that invest significantly in private funds and, therefore, clients could
have indirect exposure to these types of investments. Generally speaking, public funds offer more
investor protections as compared with private funds, including limits on illiquid investments and the
use of leverage and derivatives, diversification requirements, daily pricing and liquidity features,
regular reporting of fund holdings, and enhanced portfolio security valuation requirements. However,
clients should understand that while public funds that invest in alternative investments offer greater
protections as compared with private funds, both public and private funds that invest in alternative
investments offer enhanced risks that clients should be aware of. Alternative investment strategies are
not appropriate for all clients.
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The performance of alternative investments can be volatile and private funds have extremely limited
liquidity opportunities. Such investments often have concentrated positions, invest in illiquid
investments, and can carry higher risks. Clients should understand that some alternative investment
products often engage in leveraging and other speculative investment practices, including the use of
derivatives, that can magnify the risk of investment loss and volatility regardless of whether they are
used for speculative investment purposes or for the hedging of risk. In addition, private funds are not
required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors and can involve complex tax
structures and delays in distributing important tax information. In many cases, the alternative
investments underlying both public and private funds are not transparent and are known only to the
investment manager of the alternative investment fund. Please refer to the applicable private or public
fund’s offering documents or prospectus for additional information on the alternative investments
used by the fund and their related risks.
Real Estate. Real estate is a cyclical industry that is sensitive to interest rates, economic conditions
(both nationally and locally), property tax rates, and other factors. Changes in real estate values or
economic downturns can have a significant negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry.
Commodity-Linked Investing. Commodity-linked investments can be leveraged and can be more
volatile and less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures. The performance of
commodity-linked investments can be affected by the performance of individual commodities and the
overall commodities markets, as well as by weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market
developments. A commodity-linked investment is subject to credit risks associated with the issuer of,
or counterparty to, the commodity-linked investment. The commodities industries can be significantly
affected by the level and volatility of commodity prices; the rate of commodity consumption; world
events including international monetary and political developments; import controls, export controls,
and worldwide competition; exploration and production spending; and tax and other government
regulations and economic conditions.
Currency Exposure. Certain funds and ETPs used by Strategic Advisers can be exposed to foreign
currencies and, as a result, could experience losses based solely on the weakness of foreign currencies
versus the U.S. dollar and changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S.
dollar. Currency transactions tied to emerging markets can present market, credit, liquidity, legal,
political, and other risks different from, or greater than, the risks of currency transactions tied to
developed foreign countries.
Illiquid Investments. Illiquid securities sometimes trade infrequently in the secondary market. As a
result, valuing an illiquid security can be more difficult, and buying and selling an illiquid security at
an acceptable price can be more difficult or delayed. Difficulty in selling an illiquid security can result
in a loss. The relative liquidity of any investment, particularly those that trade on exchanges, can vary,
at times significantly.
Growth Investing. Growth stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Growth stocks tend to be more
expensive relative to their earnings or assets compared with other types of stocks. As a result, growth
stocks tend to be sensitive to changes in their earnings and more volatile than other types of stocks.
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Value Investing. Value stocks can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks tend to be
inexpensive relative to their earnings or assets compared with other types of stocks. However, value
stocks can continue to be inexpensive for long periods of time and, as a result, might never realize
their full expected value.
Legislative and Regulatory Risk. Investments could be adversely affected by new (or revised) laws
or regulations. Changes to laws or regulations can impact the securities markets as a whole, specific
industries, and individual issuers of securities. Generally, the impact of these changes will not be fully
known for some time.
Investment Research Risks and Limitations. The investment research process employed by
Strategic Advisers includes gathering, cleaning, culling, and analyzing large amounts of data from
external public sources and/or third-party data providers, including, in some instances, through the use
of generative artificial intelligence ("AI") and large language models ("LLM"). It is not possible or
practicable, however, to factor all relevant, available data into economic forecasts or trading
decisions. In addition, due to the automated nature of this data gathering and the fact that much of this
data comes from third-party sources, it is inevitable that not all desired or relevant data will be
available to, or processed by, Strategic Advisers at all times. Clients should be aware that there is no
guarantee that the data used in generating forecasts or making trading decisions will be the most
accurate data available or even free of errors. Furthermore, the use of AI and LLMs may require
training of the models to be used in the research process and proper engagement by analysts in order
to yield the desired outcome. There can be no guarantee that LLMs can be trained to address all
scenarios or that they will provide complete and accurate responses in all situations. AI and LLMs are
subject to various risks, including (1) the data used to train LLMs suffers inaccuracies, biases, or
flaws that may cause the AI model to respond other than as intended; (2) weak controls in the
development and use of AI allow it to be deployed for use cases for which it was not intended; and (3)
the AI may provide inaccurate or fabricated responses to queries it is unable to process. Fidelity has
adopted a Generative AI policy and governance framework so that the use of AI and LLMs is targeted
and limited, and that AI and LLMs are trained using known and appropriate data sources and are
subject to controls and oversight, which helps ensure that the use of AI and LLMs is but one input
into the research process. Clients should assume that the foregoing limitation and risks associated with
gathering, cleaning, culling and analyzing of large amounts of data from third parties and other
external sources, and the use of AI and LLMs, are an inherent part of investing. There may also be
incidents where data fails to load or internal systems fail to retrieve or capture the data, for example,
because of changes in the vendor’s or our system configurations due to upgrades, enhancements,
maintenance, or errors, or that LLMs provide incorrect information in response to certain prompts.
Clients should assume that these data errors, like other system implementation errors, and their
ensuing risks and impact are an inherent part of investing. Accordingly, unless otherwise required to
do so, Strategic Advisers does not expect to disclose discovered data errors to clients.
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DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s
evaluation of Strategic Advisers’ advisory business or the integrity of its management personnel.
OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Strategic Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Advisory Holdings LLC, which in turn is
a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC. FMR LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that,
together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, is generally known to the public as Fidelity Investments or
Fidelity. Various direct or indirect subsidiaries of FMR LLC are engaged in investment advisory,
brokerage, banking, or insurance businesses. From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its clients will
have material business relationships with any of the subsidiaries and affiliates of FMR LLC. In
addition, the principal officers of Strategic Advisers serve as officers and/or employees of affiliated
companies that are engaged in various aspects of the financial services industry.
Strategic Advisers is not registered as a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or commodity
trading advisor, nor does it have an application pending to register as such. Strategic Advisers is
registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissions (“CFTC”) under the Commodity
Exchange Act of 1936, as amended (“CEA”), as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) and is a member
of the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Certain personnel of Strategic Advisers, FBS, and
National Financial Services share premises and have common supervision. In addition, certain
management persons of Strategic Advisers are registered representatives of Fidelity Brokerage
Services LLC (“FBS”) and Fidelity Distributions Company LLC (“FDC”), both Strategic Advisers
affiliates and registered broker-dealers. In addition, Strategic Advisers has entered into an
intercompany agreement with FBS, pursuant to which FBS provides to Strategic Advisers various
operational, administrative, analytical, and technical services, and the personnel necessary for the
performance of such services.
Strategic Advisers has, and its clients could have, a material relationship with the following affiliated
companies:
Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
• Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (“FMRCo”), a wholly owned subsidiary of
FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FMRCo provides
investment management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity
group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FMRCo acts as sub-
adviser to Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio management to certain
clients and provides model portfolio recommendations and environmental filtering services to
Strategic Advisers in connection with Strategic Advisers’ provision of discretionary portfolio
management to certain clients. Strategic Advisers pays FMRCo an administrative fee for
handling the business affairs of the registered investment companies advised by Strategic
Advisers. In addition, Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FMRCo.
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• Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC (“FIWA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR
LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FIWA provides non-
discretionary investment advice to financial institutions in connection with the provision of
model asset allocation portfolios (“Fidelity Model Portfolios”) and model-delivered
separately managed accounts (“Fidelity Institutional Model SMAs”). FIWA also offers
Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® and Fidelity Managed Account Xchange® Essentials,
turn-key asset management programs, to financial intermediaries and provides separately
managed account services to clients (“Fidelity Institutional Custom SMAs”). In addition,
Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIWA.
• FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is
wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, and is
registered with the Central Bank of Ireland. FIAM provides investment management services,
including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of
other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. Strategic Advisers has sub-advisory agreements with
FIAM for certain registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers. In addition,
Strategic Advisers shares employees from time to time with FIAM.
• FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (“FMR UK”), an indirect, wholly owned
subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, has been
authorized by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority to provide investment advisory and
portfolio management services, and is registered with the Central Bank of Ireland. FMR UK
provides investment management services, including to registered investment companies in
the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM
has sub-advisory agreements with FMR UK for certain registered investment companies
advised by Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (“FMR Japan”), a wholly owned
subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act and has been
authorized by the Japan Financial Services Agency (Kanto Local Finance Bureau) to provide
investment advisory and discretionary investment management services. FMR Japan provides
investment management services, including to registered investment companies in the Fidelity
group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-
advisory agreements with FMR Japan for certain registered investment companies advised by
Strategic Advisers.
• Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (“FMR Hong Kong”), a wholly
owned subsidiary of FMRCo, is a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act, and
has been authorized by the Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission to advise on
securities, deal in futures contracts, provide asset management services, and conduct trading
services. FMR Hong Kong provides investment management services, including to registered
investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds and to clients of other affiliated and
unaffiliated advisers. FIAM has sub-advisory agreements with FMR Hong Kong for certain
registered investment companies advised by Strategic Advisers.
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• Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC (“FDS”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and
a registered investment adviser under the Advisers Act. FDS is registered with the CFTC
under the CEA as a CPO and as a commodity trading advisor. FDS is a member of the NFA.
FDS provides discretionary advisory and sub-advisory services. FDS acts as a sub-adviser to
Strategic Advisers in providing discretionary portfolio management to certain clients.
Broker-Dealers
• FDC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is
wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). FDC acts as principal underwriter of business development
companies and the registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds, and also
markets those funds and other products to third-party financial intermediaries and certain
institutional investors.
• National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global
Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-
dealer under the Exchange Act. NFS is a fully disclosed clearing broker-dealer that provides
clearing, settlement, and execution services for other broker-dealers, including its affiliate
FBS. Fidelity Capital Markets (“FCM”), a division of NFS, provides trade executions for
Fidelity affiliates and other clients. Additionally, FCM operates CrossStream®, an alternative
trading system ("ATS") that allows orders submitted by its subscribers to be crossed against
orders submitted by other subscribers. CrossStream is used to execute transactions for
investment company and other clients. NFS provides transfer agent or subtransfer agent
services and other custodial services to certain Fidelity clients.
• LeveL Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and operator of two alternative trading
systems (“ATSs”), operates the Luminex ATS and the Level ATS, which allow orders
submitted by subscribers to be crossed against orders submitted by other subscribers. LeveL
Holdings, LLC, a Delaware LLC and holding company owns LeveL Markets, LLC. Fidelity
Global Brokerage Group, Inc., and FMR Sakura Holdings, Inc., each a wholly owned
subsidiary of FMR LLC, have membership interests in LeveL Holdings, LLC, along with
other members. LeveL Markets, LLC charges a commission to both sides of each trade
executed in the Luminex ATS and Level ATS. Luminex ATS and Level ATS are used to
execute transactions for Fidelity affiliates’ investment company and other advisory clients.
NFS serves as a clearing agent for transactions executed in the Luminex ATS and Level
ATS.
• Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (“FBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global
Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-
dealer under the Exchange Act and provides brokerage products and services, including the
sale of shares of registered investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds to individuals
and institutions, including retirement plans, and acts as placement agent for certain privately
offered investment funds advised by Strategic Advisers' affiliates. In addition, along with
Fidelity Insurance Agency, Inc. (“FIA”), FBS distributes variable insurance products that are
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issued by Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (“FILI”) and Empire Fidelity
Investments Life Insurance Company® (“EFILI”), both Fidelity affiliates, as well as by third
parties. FBS provides shareholder services to certain of Fidelity’s clients. FBS is the
introducing broker for managed accounts offered by Strategic Advisers and places orders for
execution with its affiliated clearing broker, NFS.
• Digital Brokerage Services LLC (“DBS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Global
Brokerage Group, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a registered broker-
dealer under the Exchange Act. DBS provides securities brokerage to retail customers through
a digital/mobile application-based brokerage platform. DBS receives remuneration from
FMRCo for expenses incurred in servicing and marketing FMRCo products.
Insurance Companies or Agencies
• FILI, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the distribution and issuance of
life insurance and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies
managed by Fidelity affiliates.
• EFILI is a wholly owned subsidiary of FILI and is engaged in the distribution and issuance of
life insurance and annuity products that offer shares of registered investment companies
managed by Fidelity affiliates to residents of New York.
• FIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, is engaged in the business of selling life
insurance and annuity products of affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Banking Institutions
• Fidelity Management Trust Company (“FMTC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of FMTC
Holdings LLC, which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a limited-purpose trust
company organized and operating under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that
provides non-discretionary trustee and custodial services to employee benefit plans and
individual retirement accounts through which individuals can invest in affiliated or
unaffiliated registered investment companies. FMTC also provides discretionary investment
management services to institutional clients.
• Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity Thrift
holding Company, Inc., which in turn is wholly owned by FMR LLC, is a federal savings
bank that offers fiduciary services that include trustee or co‐trustee services, custody,
principal and income accounting, investment management services, and recordkeeping and
administration.
Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Company Investments
Strategic Advisers provides discretionary investment management to partnerships and limited liability
companies designed to facilitate acquisitions by mutual funds offered by Strategic Advisers. These
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funds are privately offered consistent with stated investment objectives. Strategic Advisers does not
currently engage in borrowing, lending, purchasing securities on margin, short selling, or trading in
commodities.
Participating Affiliate
Certain employees of Fidelity Strategic Advisers Ireland, Limited (“Strategic Ireland”) can from time
to time provide certain services, including but not limited to research, operations, and investment
management support services for Strategic Advisers, which Strategic Advisers can use for its clients.
Strategic Ireland is not registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act and is deemed to be
a “Participating Affiliate” of Strategic Advisers (as this term has been used by the SEC’s Division of
Investment Management in various no-action letters granting relief from the Advisers Act’s
registration requirement for certain affiliates of registered investment advisers). Strategic Advisers
deems Strategic Ireland and each of the Strategic Ireland Associated Employees as “associated
persons” of Strategic Advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(17) of the Advisers Act.
Strategic Ireland Associated Employees and Strategic Ireland through such employees, can contribute
to Strategic Advisers’ research process and could have access to information concerning securities
that are being selected for clients prior to the effective implementation of such selections. As a
Participating Affiliate of Strategic Advisers, Strategic Ireland has agreed to submit itself to the
jurisdiction of United States courts for actions arising under United States securities laws in
connection with investment advisory activities conducted for Strategic Advisers’ clients. Strategic
Advisers maintains a list of Strategic Ireland Associated Employees whom Strategic Ireland has
deemed associated persons, and Strategic Advisers will make the list available to its current U.S.
clients upon request.
CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS AND
PERSONAL TRADING
Strategic Advisers has adopted a Code of Ethics for Personal Trading (the “Code of Ethics”). The
Code of Ethics applies to all officers, directors, employees and other supervised persons of Strategic
Advisers and requires that they place the interests of Strategic Advisers’ clients above their own. The
Code of Ethics establishes securities transaction requirements for all covered employees and their
covered persons, including their spouses. More specifically, the Code of Ethics contains provisions
requiring the following:
• Standards of general business conduct reflecting the investment advisers’ fiduciary
obligations;
• Compliance with applicable federal securities laws;
• Employees and their covered persons to move their covered accounts to FBS unless an
exception exists or prior approval has been granted;
• Reporting and review of personal securities transactions and holdings for persons with access
to certain nonpublic information;
• Prohibition of purchasing of securities in initial public offerings unless an exception has been
approved;
• Reporting of Code of Ethics violations; and
• Distribution of the Code of Ethics to all supervised persons, documented through
acknowledgements of receipt.
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Core features of the Code of Ethics generally apply to all Fidelity employees. The Code of Ethics also
imposes additional restrictions and reporting obligations on certain advisory personnel, research
analysts, and portfolio managers. Such restrictions and reporting obligations include:
• The preclearing of transactions in covered securities with limited exceptions,
• A prohibition on investments in limited offerings without prior approval,
• A prohibition on personal trading by a portfolio manager within seven days before or after a
trade in any covered security of the same issuer by a fund or account managed by such
portfolio manager except in limited circumstances,
• The reporting of transactions in covered securities on a quarterly basis with limited
exceptions,
• The reporting of securities accounts and holdings of covered securities at the time of hire and
annually thereafter, and
• Disgorgement of profits from short-term transactions with limited exceptions.
Violation of the Code of Ethics requirements can also result in the imposition of remedial action. The
Code of Ethics will generally be supplemented by other relevant Fidelity policies, including the
Policy on Inside Information, Rules for Broker-Dealer Employees, and other written policies and
procedures adopted by Fidelity and Strategic Advisers. A copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided
to any client or prospective client on request.
From time to time, Strategic Advisers and its related persons can buy or sell securities for themselves
and recommend those securities to clients. The conflicts of interest involved in such activities are
contemplated in the Code of Ethics and other relevant Fidelity policies. In particular, the Code of
Ethics and other Fidelity policies are designed to make clear to Fidelity personnel that they should
never place their personal interests ahead of Fidelity’s clients in an attempt to benefit themselves or
another party. The Code of Ethics and other Fidelity policies impose sanctions if these requirements
are violated.
From time to time, in connection with our business, certain supervised persons obtain material
nonpublic information that is usually not available to other investors or the general public. In
compliance with applicable laws, Strategic Advisers has adopted a comprehensive set of policies and
procedures that prohibit the use of material non-public information by investment professionals or any
other employees and that limit the transactions that Strategic Advisers can implement for accounts.
In addition, Fidelity has implemented a Corporate Gifts & Entertainment Policy intended to set
standards for business entertainment and the giving or receiving of gifts, to help employees make
sound decisions with respect to these activities and to ensure that the interests of Strategic Advisers’
clients come first. Similarly, to support compliance with applicable “pay-to-play” laws, Fidelity has
adopted a Personal Political Contributions & Activities policy that requires employees to preclear any
political contributions and activities. Fidelity also has a Global Anti-Corruption Policy regarding
commercial bribery and bribery of government officials that prohibits directly or indirectly giving,
offering, authorizing, promising, accepting, or receiving any bribe, facilitation payment, kickback, or
payoff (whether in cash or any other form) with the intent to improperly obtain or retain business or
any improper advantage.
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BROKERAGE PRACTICES
Strategic Advisers Funds and Charitable Gift Fund
On behalf of the Strategic Advisers Funds, Strategic Advisers invests in a combination of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual funds, derivative securities (e.g., futures contracts), and ETFs. On behalf of the
Charitable Gift Fund, Strategic Advisers invests in, or recommends, a combination of Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and ETFs. Trades for the Charitable Gift Fund and trades for
Strategic Advisers Funds that are not managed by a sub-adviser are placed with the trading desks of
its affiliate and delegate, FMRCo and then executed with unaffiliated broker dealers. The FMRCo
trading desk is permitted to direct futures and ETF trades to an affiliated broker dealer.
The FMRCo trading desk's policies and procedures apply to orders for the Strategic Advisers Funds
and Charitable Gift Fund that are executed on the FMRCo trading desks. FMRCo does not consider,
in selecting or recommending broker-dealers, whether Strategic Advisers or a related person to
Strategic Advisers receives client referrals from a broker-dealer or third party. FMRCo is authorized
to allocate brokerage transactions to brokers who are not affiliates of Strategic Advisers who have
entered into arrangements with Strategic Advisers or its affiliates under which the broker, using
predetermined methodology, rebates a portion of the compensation paid by the fund to offset that
fund’s expenses, which is paid to Strategic Advisers or its affiliates. Not all brokers with whom a fund
trades have been asked to participate in brokerage commission recapture.
For a complete description of FMRCo trading policies and procedures, including trade allocation,
please refer to the FMRCo Form ADV, Part 2A Brochure found at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Sub-advisers of the Strategic Advisers Funds are authorized to place portfolio transactions
with Strategic Advisers’ affiliated broker-dealers in accordance with regulatory guidelines. Sub-
adviser orders placed for the purchase and sale of securities, including ETFs, will be subject to the
individual sub-adviser’s trade allocation policy.
Strategic Advisers does not maintain a soft dollar program. Some sub-advisers to the Strategic
Advisers Funds use soft dollar or other commission-sharing arrangements in connection with
transactions effected for those Funds. Sub-advisers could, pursuant to their policies and procedures,
direct brokerage transactions of sub-advised funds to broker-dealers in exchange for research-related
or brokerage-related goods or services, provided that such arrangements meet the requirements of
Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act.
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
Charitable Gift Fund
For the institutional advisory services provided to CGF, Strategic Advisers’ portfolio managers
review each portfolio regularly and make appropriate investment changes in CGF’s portfolios or make
recommendations to CGF as market conditions warrant. Portfolios are managed or advised in
accordance with the governing investment management agreements. For CGF, the client’s governing
body (the CGF Board) is supplied periodic reports providing performance data, and, among other
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items, information on changes to the composition of the underlying investments within the investment
pools.
Strategic Advisers Funds
Fund manager assignments are made based on a number of factors including the experience and
seniority of the managers, the complexity of the Funds, and similarities between Funds assigned to a
manager. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates might organize investment activity on a group basis,
with fund managers of similar funds forming these groups. The group establishes general policy and
coordinates advice and recommendations for the Funds within the groups. Managers review their
Funds on a regular basis, with the group leader reviewing the Funds periodically.
Management, Consulting Services, and Model Delivery Services
Given the customized nature of such management and consulting arrangements, Strategic Advisers
develops a management and oversight process for each such arrangement to best fit the circumstances
of the arrangement. With respect to Strategic Advisers model portfolio services, Strategic Advisers
reviews the model portfolios on a periodic basis, making adjustments as necessary in alignment with
the mandate for any such portfolios.
CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION
Strategic Advisers and its affiliates are compensated for providing services, including for investment
management, distribution, transfer agency, servicing, and custodial services, to certain Fidelity and
non-Fidelity mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments. These entities include Strategic Advisers;
FMRCo and their affiliates as the investment advisers for the Fidelity funds; FDC as the underwriter
of the Fidelity funds; and Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company LLC. (“FIIOC”) as
transfer agent for the Fidelity funds, servicing agent for non-Fidelity funds, and recordkeeper of
certain workplace savings plans. Strategic Advisers’ affiliates also receive compensation and other
benefits in connection with portfolio transactions effected on behalf of the Fidelity and non-Fidelity
mutual funds, ETPs, and other investments. FMRCo and its affiliates also obtain brokerage or
research services, consistent with Section 28(e) of the Exchange Act, from broker-dealers in
connection with the execution of the Fidelity funds’ portfolio security transactions.
FBS and NFS receive compensation for executing portfolio transactions and providing, among other
things, clearance, settlement, custodial, and other services to Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds,
ETPs, and other investments, and NFS provides securities lending agent services to certain Fidelity
funds for which it receives compensation. FBS, NFS, and FIIOC also offer FundsNetwork, Fidelity’s
mutual fund platform, and provide shareholder and other services to participating mutual funds for
which FBS, NFS and FIIOC receive compensation, including with respect to those mutual funds in
which client accounts are invested.
Fidelity receives compensation from BlackRock or its affiliate in connection with a marketing
program that includes promotion of iShares® ETFs and inclusion of the funds in certain Fidelity
platforms and investment programs. Additional information about the sources, amounts, and terms of
compensation is provided in these ETFs’ prospectuses and related documents.
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Strategic Advisers seeks to address any potential financial conflicts of interest through personnel
compensation arrangements (including those of Strategic Advisers’ investment professionals and the
Fidelity representatives) that are not differentiated based on the investments or share classes selected
for client accounts. Strategic Advisers and its affiliates have also implemented processes reasonably
designed to prevent the receipt of compensation from affecting the nature of the advice provided to
client accounts.
Client referrals are provided by affiliated entities, including FBS, or other affiliates, pursuant to
referral agreements where applicable.
CUSTODY
Strategic Advisers is deemed to have custody under the Advisers Act in certain circumstances,
including when its affiliate serves as a qualified custodian of client assets. In circumstances where
NFS serves as qualified custodian of client assets, investments will be held in street name by NFS (or
at a securities depository on its behalf).
Affiliates of Strategic Advisers, including NFS, FBS, or FIIOC, perform custodial or brokerage
services for compensation with respect to client assets. Clients should carefully review statements,
reports and other communications from those Fidelity entities.
INVESTMENT DISCRETION
Charitable Gift Fund and Strategic Advisers Funds
Strategic Advisers’ investment management services generally include discretionary authority to
determine which securities to purchase or sell, the total amount of such purchases and sales, and the
brokers or dealers through which transactions are effected. However, Strategic Advisers’ discretionary
authority is subject to certain limits, including the applicable investment objectives, policies, and
restrictions. These limitations are based on a variety of factors, such as regulatory constraints as well
as those imposed by the client and agreed on by Strategic Advisers in accordance with applicable
laws. In addition, Strategic Advisers does not have investment discretion with respect to assets
managed by sub-advisers to the Strategic Funds.
In general, Strategic Advisers manages investments in Fidelity and non-Fidelity mutual funds on a
discretionary basis. In the case of CGF, Strategic Advisers provides non-discretionary investment
advice to certain portfolios based on its agreements with CGF. For CGF accounts where Strategic
Advisers maintains discretion, Strategic Advisers has authority to allocate assets among various
mutual funds, ETPs, and ETFs, subject to certain product-specific conditions.
Strategic Advisers will decide to buy or sell individual securities and mutual fund shares for a number
of reasons, including but not limited to the need to respond to the weighting of a particular asset class,
industry sector, mutual fund peer group, or individual security that Strategic Advisers believes has too
much representation in an account; diversification needs based on a client’s objectives and on market
conditions; and a change in the fundamental attractiveness of a particular security or mutual fund.
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When investing in Fidelity-managed funds, Strategic Advisers could from time to time consult
FMRCo, the investment manager, to understand FMRCo’s guidelines or policies, if any, on the
aggregate percentage of Fidelity mutual fund’s shares that can be held under management by Strategic
Advisers on behalf of all its clients.
The Strategic Advisers Funds invest in mutual funds, individual securities, derivatives securities (e.g.,
futures contracts), ETFs, and other securities, including affiliated and unaffiliated sub-advisers.
Strategic Advisers manages Strategic Advisers Funds by allocating the fund’s assets between Fidelity
and/or non-Fidelity sub-advisers and mutual funds, ETFs, or other securities. While Strategic
Advisers selects the sub-advisers and provides ongoing oversight of their activities, the sub-advisers
of the fund make the day-to-day investment decisions for the portions of the fund they manage, and
Strategic Advisers does not exercise investment discretion for this sub-advised portion of assets.
Management and Consulting Services
For its management and consulting services, Strategic Advisers’ level of investment discretion is
negotiated by contract and generally is customized to suit the particular arrangement. Strategic
Advisers does not typically exercise any investment discretion in connection with respect to the
provision of model portfolios services. However, pursuant to an agreement with FIWA, Strategic
Advisers provides discretionary investment management services for certain nominal seed accounts of
proprietary assets for the FIWA Model Portfolios solely for the purpose of FIWA generating and
maintaining a performance track record. The nominal seed accounts can trade in the same ETPs as
client accounts. Strategic Advisers has oversight practices in place to ensure that the trading and
allocations for such nominal seed accounts do not disadvantage any other client accounts.
VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES
CGF and Management and Consulting Services
Strategic Advisers generally does not acquire authority for, or exercise or advise on, proxy voting
with respect to the services provided to CGF or management and consulting services as described
herein. Proxies are provided to clients by the relevant custodian or service provider. Strategic
Advisers will not advise clients on the voting of proxies. However, FIWA has delegated to Strategic
Advisers the authority to vote proxies for nominal seed accounts of proprietary assets for the FIWA
Model Portfolios, as described above, pursuant to Strategic Advisers’ policies and procedures and
according to Strategic Advisers’ proxy voting guidelines as further described below.
Strategic Advisers Funds
The Board of Trustees of the Strategic Advisers Funds has delegated to Strategic Advisers the
authority to vote shares owned by the Strategic Advisers Funds, except as otherwise delegated to the
funds’ sub-advisers. Strategic Advisers or its affiliates generally cast votes on behalf of the Strategic
Advisers Funds by proxy at shareholder meetings of issuers in which Strategic Advisers or its
affiliates invest the funds’ assets. Strategic Advisers has established proxy voting guidelines (the
“Guidelines”) that are designed to ensure that proxies on behalf of the Strategic Advisers Funds are
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voted in a manner consistent with the best interests of the funds. Strategic Advisers has also adopted
these Guidelines as part of its proxy voting policies and procedures in accordance with Rule 206(4)-6
under the Advisers Act. Strategic Advisers casts its votes on behalf of the Strategic Advisers Funds in
accordance with the Guidelines through Investment Proxy Research Group (“IPR”), which is part of
its affiliates’ Investment Operations department.
Strategic Advisers generally intends to vote shares of underlying funds held by a Strategic Advisers
Fund (except where Strategic Advisers has delegated investment management to a sub-adviser) in the
same proportion as all other voting shareholders of the underlying funds (this is known as “echo
voting”). When a Strategic Advisers Fund holds individual securities (i.e., non-fund shares), Strategic
Advisers will vote in accordance with the Guidelines. Strategic Advisers will vote on proposals not
specifically addressed by the Guidelines based on an evaluation of a proposal’s likelihood to enhance
the long-term economic returns or profitability of the company or to maximize long-term shareholder
value.
The Board of Trustees of the Strategic Advisers Funds has delegated to each sub-adviser the authority
to vote proxies relating to the portfolio securities of the sub-advised funds in accordance with the
respective sub-adviser’s own proxy voting policies and procedures. Each sub-adviser certifies to
Strategic Advisers that proxy votes cast on behalf of the relevant sub-advised funds were voted in
accordance with the sub-adviser’s proxy voting policies and procedures. For any securities not
managed by a sub-adviser to the Strategic Adviser Funds, Strategic Advisers will vote in accordance
with the Guidelines.
Information on how the Strategic Advisers Funds’ proxies were voted is available at
www.fidelity.com/about-fidelity/proxy-voting-overview.
Conflicts of Interest
Voting of shares is conducted in a manner consistent with the best interests of the Strategic Advisers
Funds. In other words, securities of a company generally will be voted in a manner consistent with the
Guidelines and without regard to any other Fidelity companies' business relationships. For example,
Strategic Advisers’ affiliates manage or administer employee benefit plans, or provide brokerage,
underwriting, insurance, or banking services to companies whose management is soliciting proxies.
Strategic Advisers or its affiliates could also have business or personal relationships with participants
in proxy contests, corporate directors, or candidates for directorships. Strategic Advisers or its
affiliates vote shares in a manner consistent with the Guidelines and without regard to any other
relationship, business or otherwise, that Strategic Advisers or its affiliates have with companies in
which Strategic Advisers, or its affiliates invest client assets. Strategic Advisers takes its
responsibility to vote shares in the best interests of the Strategic Advisers Funds seriously and has
implemented policies and procedures to address actual and potential conflicts of interest.
IPR is charged with administering the Guidelines as agent to facilitate the voting of proxies. IPR votes
proxies without regard to any other Fidelity companies’ relationship, business or otherwise, with that
portfolio company. Like other Fidelity employees, IPR employees have a fiduciary duty to never
place their own personal interest ahead of the interests of fund shareholders or clients. In the event of
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a conflict of interest, IPR employees, like other Fidelity employees, are required to follow the
escalation process included in Fidelity’s corporate policy on conflicts of interest.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Strategic Advisers does not solicit pre-payment of client fees. Furthermore, there are no financial
conditions that are reasonably likely to impair Strategic Advisers’ ability to meet any of its contractual
commitments to its clients.
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Keep in mind that investing involves risk. The value of your investment will fluctuate over time,
and you may gain or lose money.
Diversification and asset allocation do not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
Fidelity does not provide legal or tax advice, and the information provided is general in nature and
should not be considered legal or tax advice. Consult an attorney, tax professional, or other advisor
regarding your specific legal or tax situation.
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC is an independent entity that is not affiliated with any
Fidelity Investments company. BlackRock and iShares® are registered trademarks of BlackRock Inc.,
and its affiliates.
Strategic Advisers LLC is a registered investment adviser and a Fidelity Investments company.
Fidelity, Fidelity Investments, the Fidelity Investments, FundsNetwork, Empire Fidelity Investments
Life Insurance Company, Fidelity Managed Account Xchange, Fidelity Advisor and CrossStream are
registered service marks of FMR LLC.
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