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Retail | Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Fund Summary
Fund/Class:
Fidelity® Global Bond Fund/Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Investment Objective
The fund seeks a high level of current income.
Fee Table
The following table describes the fees and expenses that may be incurred when you buy, hold, or sell shares of the fund.
Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees (USD $)
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Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Class: Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment) none
Annual class operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Annual Class Operating Expenses
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Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Class: Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Management fee 0.57%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) fees none
Other expenses [1] 0.74%
Total annual operating expenses 1.31%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement [2] 0.56%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement 0.75%
[1] Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) has contractually agreed to reimburse the class of shares of the fund to the extent that total operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, certain securities lending costs, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses, if any), as a percentage of its average net assets, exceed 0.75%. This arrangement will remain in effect through February 28, 2014. FMR may not discontinue or modify this arrangement without the approval of the Board of Trustees.

This example helps compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

Let's say, hypothetically, that the annual return for shares of the fund is 5% and that your shareholder fees and the annual operating expenses for shares of the fund are exactly as described in the fee table. This example illustrates the effect of fees and expenses, but is not meant to suggest actual or expected fees and expenses or returns, all of which may vary. For every $10,000 you invested, here's how much you would pay in total expenses if you sell all of your shares at the end of each time period indicated:

Expense Example (USD $)
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Fidelity Global Bond Fund
Class: Fidelity Global Bond Fund
1 year 77
3 years 314
Portfolio Turnover
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund's performance.
Principal Investment Strategies
  • Investing in securities issued throughout the world, including securities of issuers located in emerging markets.
  • Normally investing at least 80% of the fund's assets in debt securities of all types and repurchase agreements for those securities.
  • Normally investing primarily in investment-grade debt securities.
  • Allocating investments across different market sectors, countries and regions.
  • Investing up to 20% of the fund's assets in lower-quality debt securities.
  • Actively managing the fund's currency exposures.
  • Analyzing the credit quality of the issuer, security-specific features, current and potential future valuation, and trading opportunities to select investments.
  • Engaging in transactions that have a leveraging effect on the fund, including investments in derivatives - such as swaps (interest rate, total return, and credit default), options and futures contracts - and forward-settling securities, to adjust the fund's risk exposure.
  • Investing in Fidelity's central funds (specialized investment vehicles used by Fidelity funds to invest in particular security types or investment disciplines).
Principal Investment Risks
  • Interest Rate Changes. Interest rate increases can cause the price of a debt security to decrease.
  • Foreign Exposure. Foreign markets, particularly emerging markets, can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments 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 also can be extremely volatile.
  • Prepayment. The ability of an issuer of a debt security to repay principal prior to a security's maturity can cause greater price volatility if interest rates change.
  • Issuer-Specific Changes. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than, and can perform differently from, the market as a whole. A decline in the credit quality of an issuer or a provider of credit support or a maturity-shortening structure for a security can cause the price of a security to decrease. Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality) involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer. The value of lower-quality debt securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments.
  • Leverage Risk. Leverage can increase market exposure, magnify investment risks, and cause losses to be realized more quickly.

In addition, the fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities of a smaller number of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a more diversified fund.

An investment in the fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Unlike individual debt securities, which typically pay principal at maturity, the value of an investment in the fund will fluctuate. You could lose money by investing in the fund.

Performance
Performance history will be available for the fund after the fund has been in operation for one calendar year.