Fidelity Investments^® Significantly Expands Spartan^® Equity Index Line-Up With Five New Funds

Also Adds Low-Cost Institutional Share Classes to Three Existing Index Funds

BOSTON -- Fidelity Investments^®, a leading global asset management firm, today announced it significantly expanded its Spartan^® equity index mutual fund line-up with the launch of five new low-cost fundsⁱ : Spartan Emerging Markets Index Fund, Spartan Global ex U.S. Index Fund, Spartan Mid Cap Index Fund, Spartan Real Estate Index Fund and Spartan Small Cap Index Fund. Each new fund will be offered with multiple share classes at very competitive prices.

With the launch of its five new funds, Fidelity now offers investors and retirement plan sponsors access to 13 equity and bond Spartan index funds across the major investment categories, with total assets under management of more than $80 billion.ⁱⁱ

Fidelity also added low-cost institutional share classes to three existing Spartan Index Funds: Spartan Total Market Index Fund, Spartan Extended Market Index Fund and Spartan International Index Fund. This is in addition to the new low-cost institutional share classes launched in May 2011 for the Spartan 500 Index Fund and Spartan U.S. Bond Index Fund.

“As the nation’s No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and individual retirement accountsⁱⁱⁱ, Fidelity has had a longstanding focus on offering investors a wide variety of both passive and actively-managed funds to help them build well-balanced portfolios that meet their financial goals,” said John McNichols, senior vice president of Investment Product Management at Fidelity Investments. “With these new competitively priced funds, we’re broadening our index fund line-up and adding to the list of products we can offer investors, the financial advisors they may work with as well as our retirement plan clients and their participants.”

New Equity Index Funds Broaden Investment Categories
Seeking to provide investment results that correspond to the performance of their respective market benchmarks, the five new equity index funds are:

• Spartan Emerging Markets Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of emerging stock markets, as represented by the FTSE^® Emerging Index.¹

• Spartan Global ex U.S. Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of foreign developed and emerging stock markets, as represented by the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) ex USA Index.²

• Spartan Mid Cap Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of stocks of mid-capitalization United States companies, as represented by the Russell Midcap^® Index.³

• Spartan Real Estate Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of equity REITs and other real estate-related investments, as represented by the Dow Jones U.S. Select Real Estate Securities Index^SM.⁴

• Spartan Small Cap Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the total return of stocks of small capitalization United States companies, as represented by the Russell 2000^® Index.⁵

Competitive Pricing and Various Share Classes Benefit Plan Sponsors
In order to ensure appropriate investment options for both retail investors and plan sponsors and their participants, each new fund is offered with multiple share classes at very competitive prices. The Investor class and Fidelity Advantage^® class are available to retail investors and also may be available through certain retirement plans. The Institutional class and Fidelity Advantage Institutional class are available exclusively to employer-sponsored retirement plans recordkept by Fidelity Workplace Investing.

The new funds and the corresponding share classes are:



Institutional Share Classes Added to Three Existing Spartan Index Funds
Fidelity also added low-cost institutional share classes to three existing funds: Spartan Total Market Index Fund, Spartan Extended Market Index Fund and Spartan International Index Fund. Adding the institutional share classes creates even lower-fee index fund alternatives for Fidelity plan sponsor clients and their participants.

The new institutional share classes on the existing equity index funds are:


“The new competitively priced Spartan Index Funds and institutional share classes are part of our broader strategy to offer our clients a more robust fund line-up and even lower fee index fund alternatives,” said McNichols.

About Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services, with assets under administration of $3.4 trillion, including managed assets of more than $1.5 trillion, as of August 31, 2011. Founded in 1946, the firm is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and many other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals and institutions, as well as through 5,000 financial intermediary firms. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.

iGeode Capital Management, LLC, the sub-adviser to Fidelity’s existing equity index funds, will serve as sub-adviser for the new funds and manage the funds.
iiAugust 31, 2011.
iiiPensions & Investments’ annual Defined Contribution Record Keepers Survey, Dec. 31, 2010, and Cerulli Edge Retirement Edition, First Quarter 2011.

1The FTSE® Emerging Index is a market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of large and medium-capitalization companies domiciled in emerging markets countries across the world.

2The MSCI ACWI ex USA Index is a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the investable equity market performance for global investors of developed and emerging markets, excluding the United States.

3The Russell Midcap Index is a market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of the mid cap segment of the U.S. equity market.

4The Dow Jones U.S. Select Real Estate Securities Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index of publicly traded real estate securities such as real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate operating companies.

5The Russell 2000 Index is a market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of the small cap segment of the U.S. equity market.

Before investing, consider the funds investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Please visit www.fidelity.com or advisor.fidelity.com for a prospectus or if available, a summary prospectus, containing this information.

Investments in smaller companies may involve greater risks than those in larger, more well-known companies.

Changes in real estate values or economic downturns can have a significant negative effect on issuers in the real estate industry.

Foreign markets can be more volatile than U.S. markets due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, market or economic developments, all of which are magnified in emerging markets.

Indices are unmanaged and you cannot invest directly in an index.

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