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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-3759

Variable Insurance Products Fund IV
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

82 Devonshire St., Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of principal executive offices)       (Zip code)

Scott C. Goebel, Secretary

82 Devonshire St.

Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 617-563-7000

Date of fiscal year end:

December 31

 

 

Date of reporting period:

December 31, 2009

Item 1. Reports to Stockholders

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Consumer Discretionary Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

Standard & Poor's, S&P and S&P 500 are registered service marks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Fidelity Distributors Corporation.

Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listings, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

Annual Report

Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of
fund
A

VIP Consumer Discretionary - Initial Class C

38.32%

-0.59%

0.92%

VIP Consumer Discretionary - Investor Class B, C

38.17%

-0.66%

0.88%

A From July 18, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

C Prior to October 1, 2006, VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio operated under certain different investment policies. The historical performance for the fund may not represent its current investment policies.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio - Initial Class on July 18, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Annual Report

Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from John Harris, Portfolio Manager of VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio: For the year ending December 31, 2009, the fund's shares underperformed the 46.75% return of its sector benchmark, the MSCI® U.S. Investable Market Consumer Discretionary Index, but outperformed the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) The top detractor to the fund's performance relative to the MSCI index was its underweighting in automaker Ford Motor, which performed very strongly as the only one of the ´Big Three' automakers to avoid government assistance. Weak stock selection in restaurants also hampered results, with stakes in fast-food chains Burger King Holdings, which I sold during the period, and Sonic lagging, while an underweighted position in strong-performing coffee giant Starbucks hurt as well. An overweighting in home improvement retailer Lowe's - the fund's largest position - and a non-benchmark position in discount retail giant Costco further detracted. On the positive side, an out-of-index stake in Hong Kong-based global sourcing agent Li & Fung led the way, benefiting from strong relationships with high-quality, value-oriented retailers looking for exclusive brands with more cachet than their own store-label names. Elsewhere, the fund's stake in casino operator Las Vegas Sands was a winner when the company was able to restructure its Macau, China, property credit facility, while an out-of-index position in search engine and online advertising leader Google further boosted returns.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

Annual Report

Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.00%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,266.50

$ 5.71

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.16

$ 5.09

Investor Class

1.08%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,265.20

$ 6.17

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.76

$ 5.50

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

Annual Report

Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

6.0

7.4

Target Corp.

5.8

6.8

The Walt Disney Co.

5.6

5.5

McDonald's Corp.

4.9

7.1

Amazon.com, Inc.

3.9

2.4

Staples, Inc.

2.7

2.9

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

2.3

2.6

Ford Motor Co.

2.3

0.0

Comcast Corp. Class A

2.2

3.8

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

2.0

1.0

 

37.7

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Specialty Retail

22.2%

 

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Media

20.8%

 

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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

20.2%

 

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Multiline Retail

8.1%

 

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Internet & Catalog Retail

5.3%

 

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All Others*

23.4%

 

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As of June 30, 2009

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Specialty Retail

27.2%

 

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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

20.3%

 

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Media

19.8%

 

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Multiline Retail

7.2%

 

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Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

5.6%

 

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All Others*

19.9%

 

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* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

Annual Report

Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.0%

Shares

Value

AUTO COMPONENTS - 2.6%

Auto Parts & Equipment - 2.6%

BorgWarner, Inc.

2,100

$ 69,762

Johnson Controls, Inc.

5,500

149,820

 

219,582

AUTOMOBILES - 3.0%

Automobile Manufacturers - 2.3%

Ford Motor Co. (a)

18,900

189,000

Motorcycle Manufacturers - 0.7%

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

2,400

60,480

TOTAL AUTOMOBILES

249,480

DISTRIBUTORS - 0.5%

Distributors - 0.5%

Li & Fung Ltd.

10,000

41,343

DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES - 3.4%

Education Services - 2.2%

Apollo Group, Inc. Class A (non-vtg.) (a)

1,060

64,215

DeVry, Inc.

900

51,057

Navitas Ltd.

3,559

13,107

Strayer Education, Inc.

275

58,435

 

186,814

Specialized Consumer Services - 1.2%

Coinstar, Inc. (a)

900

25,002

Sotheby's Class A (ltd. vtg.)

2,101

47,230

Steiner Leisure Ltd. (a)

700

27,832

 

100,064

TOTAL DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES

286,878

FOOD & STAPLES RETAILING - 2.3%

Food Retail - 0.6%

Susser Holdings Corp. (a)

6,000

51,540

Hypermarkets & Super Centers - 1.7%

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (a)

400

13,084

Costco Wholesale Corp.

2,100

124,257

 

137,341

TOTAL FOOD & STAPLES RETAILING

188,881

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE - 20.2%

Casinos & Gaming - 3.9%

Bally Technologies, Inc. (a)

700

28,903

International Game Technology

900

16,893

Las Vegas Sands Corp. unit

363

92,881

MGM Mirage, Inc. (a)

6,100

55,632

Sands China Ltd.

6,400

7,723

WMS Industries, Inc. (a)

2,750

110,000

Wynn Macau Ltd.

10,800

13,156

 

325,188

 

Shares

Value

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines - 4.7%

Carnival Corp. unit

3,600

$ 114,084

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

3,100

113,367

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

8,100

163,377

 

390,828

Leisure Facilities - 0.4%

Vail Resorts, Inc. (a)

1,000

37,800

Restaurants - 11.2%

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (a)

2,116

39,823

Darden Restaurants, Inc.

3,300

115,731

Jack in the Box, Inc. (a)

1,400

27,538

McDonald's Corp.

6,560

409,606

P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. (a)

1,413

53,567

Sonic Corp. (a)

3,410

34,339

Starbucks Corp. (a)

6,800

156,808

Texas Roadhouse, Inc. Class A (a)

3,800

42,674

Yum! Brands, Inc.

1,400

48,958

 

929,044

TOTAL HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE

1,682,860

HOUSEHOLD DURABLES - 4.6%

Home Furnishings - 1.2%

Mohawk Industries, Inc. (a)

1,300

61,880

Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. (a)

1,500

35,445

 

97,325

Homebuilding - 1.9%

Lennar Corp. Class A

3,300

42,141

M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.

300

9,312

Meritage Homes Corp. (a)

1,000

19,330

Pulte Homes, Inc.

6,055

60,550

Toll Brothers, Inc. (a)

1,500

28,215

 

159,548

Household Appliances - 0.9%

Whirlpool Corp.

929

74,933

Housewares & Specialties - 0.6%

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

3,300

49,533

TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DURABLES

381,339

INTERNET & CATALOG RETAIL - 5.3%

Catalog Retail - 0.3%

Liberty Media Corp. Interactive
Series A (a)

2,400

26,016

Internet Retail - 5.0%

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

2,440

328,229

Blue Nile, Inc. (a)

473

29,955

Expedia, Inc. (a)

2,100

53,991

 

412,175

TOTAL INTERNET & CATALOG RETAIL

438,191

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

INTERNET SOFTWARE & SERVICES - 1.6%

Internet Software & Services - 1.6%

Google, Inc. Class A (a)

173

$ 107,257

GREE, Inc.

100

6,186

NetEase.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

200

7,522

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

400

8,651

 

129,616

LEISURE EQUIPMENT & PRODUCTS - 0.4%

Leisure Products - 0.4%

Polaris Industries, Inc.

800

34,904

MEDIA - 20.8%

Advertising - 2.0%

Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (a)

12,417

91,637

Lamar Advertising Co. Class A (a)

1,482

46,075

National CineMedia, Inc.

1,400

23,198

 

160,910

Cable & Satellite - 7.6%

Cablevision Systems Corp. - NY Group Class A

2,300

59,386

Comcast Corp. Class A

10,755

181,329

DIRECTV (a)

4,300

143,405

DISH Network Corp. Class A

2,000

41,540

Liberty Media Corp. Starz Series A (a)

280

12,922

Time Warner Cable, Inc.

3,382

139,981

Virgin Media, Inc.

3,300

55,539

 

634,102

Movies & Entertainment - 10.1%

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Class A (a)

617

24,649

News Corp.:

Class A

3,000

41,070

Class B

2,900

46,168

The Walt Disney Co.

14,400

464,400

Time Warner, Inc.

3,909

113,908

Viacom, Inc. Class B (non-vtg.) (a)

5,100

151,623

 

841,818

Publishing - 1.1%

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

2,700

90,477

TOTAL MEDIA

1,727,307

MULTILINE RETAIL - 8.1%

Department Stores - 2.3%

Kohl's Corp. (a)

2,000

107,860

Nordstrom, Inc.

2,218

83,352

 

191,212

 

Shares

Value

General Merchandise Stores - 5.8%

Target Corp.

10,000

$ 483,700

TOTAL MULTILINE RETAIL

674,912

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - 0.2%

Human Resource & Employment Services - 0.2%

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (a)

1,000

17,400

SPECIALTY RETAIL - 22.2%

Apparel Retail - 4.7%

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.

1,800

30,564

Citi Trends, Inc. (a)

3,147

86,920

Gymboree Corp. (a)

2,105

91,546

Ross Stores, Inc.

1,800

76,878

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a)

2,000

69,980

Zumiez, Inc. (a)

2,555

32,500

 

388,388

Automotive Retail - 2.9%

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

4,670

189,042

O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

1,400

53,368

 

242,410

Computer & Electronics Retail - 1.7%

Best Buy Co., Inc.

1,500

59,190

Conn's, Inc. (a)

2,400

14,016

hhgregg, Inc. (a)

1,800

39,654

RadioShack Corp.

1,652

32,214

 

145,074

Home Improvement Retail - 8.1%

Home Depot, Inc.

3,649

105,566

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

21,305

498,323

Lumber Liquidators, Inc. (a)

2,800

75,040

 

678,929

Homefurnishing Retail - 0.4%

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

1,500

31,170

Specialty Stores - 4.4%

Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.

2,400

41,232

Cabela's, Inc. Class A (a)

1,200

17,112

OfficeMax, Inc. (a)

2,600

32,994

Signet Jewelers Ltd. (a)

300

8,016

Staples, Inc.

9,086

223,425

Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.

1,100

24,464

Zale Corp. (a)

6,833

18,586

 

365,829

TOTAL SPECIALTY RETAIL

1,851,800

TEXTILES, APPAREL & LUXURY GOODS - 3.8%

Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods - 1.1%

G-III Apparel Group Ltd. (a)

1,800

39,006

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.

200

8,136

VF Corp.

620

45,409

 

92,551

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

TEXTILES, APPAREL & LUXURY GOODS - CONTINUED

Footwear - 2.7%

Deckers Outdoor Corp. (a)

500

$ 50,860

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (a)

2,100

26,565

NIKE, Inc. Class B

2,200

145,354

 

222,779

TOTAL TEXTILES, APPAREL & LUXURY GOODS

315,330

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $7,437,564)

8,239,823

Money Market Funds - 0.6%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (b)
(Cost $53,323)

53,323

53,323

Cash Equivalents - 0.4%

Maturity Amount

Value

Investments in repurchase agreements in a joint trading account at 0.01%, dated 12/31/09 due 1/4/10 (Collateralized by U.S. Government Obligations) #
(Cost $31,000)

$ 31,000

$ 31,000

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 100.0%

(Cost $7,521,887)

8,324,146

NET OTHER ASSETS - 0.0%

(2,151)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 8,321,995

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

# Additional information on each counterparty to the repurchase agreement is as follows:

Repurchase Agreement / Counterparty

Value

$31,000 due 1/04/10 at 0.01%

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

$ 2,675

Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

28,325

 

$ 31,000

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 576

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the tables below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 8,239,823

$ 8,069,883

$ 169,940

$ -

Money Market Funds

53,323

53,323

-

-

Cash Equivalents

31,000

-

31,000

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 8,324,146

$ 8,123,206

$ 200,940

$ -

The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:

Investments in Securities:

Beginning Balance

$ 31,050

Total Realized Gain (Loss)

30,406

Total Unrealized Gain (Loss)

52,331

Cost of Purchases

23,200

Proceeds of Sales

(44,106)

Amortization/Accretion

-

Transfers in/out of Level 3

(92,881)

Ending Balance

$ -

The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at December 31, 2009

$ -

The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represents either the beginning value (for transfers in), or the ending value (for transfers out) of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations.

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $2,054,868 of which $966,651 and $1,088,217 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including repurchase agreements of $31,000) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $7,468,564)

$ 8,270,823

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $53,323)

53,323

 

Total Investments (cost $7,521,887)

 

$ 8,324,146

Cash

685

Receivable for investments sold

146,223

Dividends receivable

9,016

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

4

Prepaid expenses

36

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

2,644

Other receivables

233

Total assets

8,482,987

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 121,802

Payable for fund shares redeemed

128

Accrued management fee

3,946

Other affiliated payables

1,043

Other payables and accrued expenses

34,073

Total liabilities

160,992

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 8,321,995

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 9,760,242

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(2,240,504)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

802,257

Net Assets

$ 8,321,995

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($4,097,617 ÷ 427,610 shares)

$ 9.58

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($4,224,378 ÷ 441,354 shares)

$ 9.57

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Investment Income

 

 

Dividends

 

$ 108,524

Interest

 

9

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

576

Total income

 

109,109

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 39,291

Transfer agent fees

14,681

Accounting fees and expenses

2,722

Custodian fees and expenses

12,447

Independent trustees' compensation

46

Audit

33,105

Legal

40

Miscellaneous

530

Total expenses before reductions

102,862

Expense reductions

(30,748)

72,114

Net investment income (loss)

36,995

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(649,497)

Foreign currency transactions

35

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(649,462)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

2,832,343

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(1)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

2,832,342

Net gain (loss)

2,182,880

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 2,219,875

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 36,995

$ 33,831

Net realized gain (loss)

(649,462)

(1,541,532)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

2,832,342

(1,650,912)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

2,219,875

(3,158,613)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(39,751)

(30,645)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(72,042)

Total distributions

(39,751)

(102,687)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

1,609,010

(1,561,450)

Redemption fees

8,313

5,640

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

3,797,447

(4,817,110)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

4,524,548

9,341,658

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and $671, respectively)

$ 8,321,995

$ 4,524,548

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 6.96

$ 10.72

$ 12.84

$ 11.45

$ 11.12

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .04

.04

(.01)

.11 F

(.02)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.62

(3.68)

(1.02)

1.33

.35

Total from investment operations

  2.66

(3.64)

(1.03)

1.44

.33

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

(.05)

(.02)

(.06)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.09)

(1.08)

-

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.13) I

(1.10)

(.06)

-

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  .01

.01

.01

.01

- H

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.58

$ 6.96

$ 10.72

$ 12.84

$ 11.45

Total Return A,B

  38.32%

(34.10)%

(8.14)%

12.63%

2.97%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.43%

1.40%

1.10%

1.20%

1.19%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.00%

1.00%

1.01%

1.15%

1.14%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .99%

1.00%

1.01%

1.14%

1.12%

Net investment income (loss)

  .57%

.48%

(.07)%

.90% F

(.19)%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 4,098

$ 3,212

$ 6,989

$ 13,866

$ 9,616

Portfolio turnover rate E

  166%

81%

114%

189%

74%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects special dividends which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding these special dividends, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .13%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment ad-viser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.13 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.046 and distributions from net realized gain of $.085 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 I

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 6.96

$ 10.72

$ 12.83

$ 11.44

$ 11.49

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.04

(.03)

.10 H

(.01)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.61

(3.68)

(1.02)

1.33

(.04)

Total from investment operations

  2.65

(3.64)

(1.05)

1.43

(.05)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

(.05)

(.02)

(.05)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.09)

(1.05)

-

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.13) L

(1.07)

(.05)

-

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

.01

.01

- K

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.57

$ 6.96

$ 10.72

$ 12.83

$ 11.44

Total Return B,C,D

  38.17%

(34.10)%

(8.29)%

12.62%

(.44)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,J

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.51%

1.54%

1.24%

1.41%

1.61% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.08%

1.09%

1.15%

1.25%

1.25% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.08%

1.09%

1.15%

1.24%

1.23% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .48%

.39%

(.21)%

.80% H

(.20)% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 4,224

$ 1,313

$ 2,352

$ 4,256

$ 339

Portfolio turnover rate G

  166%

81%

114%

189%

74%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H Investment income per share reflects special dividends which amounted to $.09 per share. Excluding these special dividends, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .03%. I For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. K Amount represents less than $.01 per share. L Total distributions of $.13 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.046 and distributions from net realized gain of $.085 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 securities, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards, and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 1,290,200

Gross unrealized depreciation

(659,039)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 631,161

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 7,692,985

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (2,054,868)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 631,160

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 39,751

$ 51,833

Long-term Capital Gains

-

50,854

Total

$ 39,751

$ 102,687

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

Repurchase Agreements. FMR has received an Exemptive Order from the SEC which permits the Fund and other affiliated entities of FMR to transfer uninvested cash balances into joint trading accounts which are then invested in repurchase agreements. The Fund may also invest directly with institutions in repurchase agreements. Repurchase agreements are collateralized by government or non-government securities. Upon settlement date, collateral is held in segregated accounts with custodian banks and may be obtained in the event of a default of the counterparty. The Fund monitors, on a daily basis, the value of the collateral to ensure it is at least equal to the principal amount of the repurchase agreement (including accrued interest). In the event of a default by the counterparty, realization of the collateral proceeds could be delayed, during which time the value of the collateral may decline.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $12,910,584 and $11,321,526, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 6,672

Investor Class

8,009

 

$ 14,681

Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,396 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $31 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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7. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

Initial Class

1.00%

$ 16,829

Investor Class

1.08%

13,402

 

 

$ 30,231

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $517 for the period.

8. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 19,436

$ 22,246

Investor Class

20,315

8,399

Total

$ 39,751

$ 30,645

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 53,286

Investor Class

-

18,756

Total

$ -

$ 72,042

9. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

387,558

200,837

$ 2,878,099

$ 1,839,241

Reinvestment of distributions

2,071

8,451

19,436

75,532

Shares redeemed

(423,292)

(400,279)

(3,190,755)

(3,312,456)

Net increase (decrease)

(33,663)

(190,991)

$ (293,220)

$ (1,397,683)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

573,242

124,737

$ 4,445,239

$ 1,182,888

Reinvestment of distributions

2,151

3,058

20,315

27,155

Shares redeemed

(322,598)

(158,673)

(2,563,324)

(1,373,810)

Net increase (decrease)

252,795

(30,878)

$ 1,902,230

$ (163,767)

10. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

VIP Consumer Discretionary Portfolio

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The Board stated that the investment performance of Initial Class of the fund compared favorably to its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it was lower than the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

VCONIC-ANN-0210
1.817355.104

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Consumer Staples Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Life of
fund
A

VIP Consumer Staples - Initial Class

20.73%

2.29%

VIP Consumer Staples - Investor Class

20.68%

2.21%

A From April 24, 2007.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio - Initial Class on April 24, 2007, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Robert Lee, Portfolio Manager of VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio: During the past year, the fund solidly outperformed the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Consumer Staples Index, which returned 15.56%. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Leading the way was strong stock picking within brewers, including an out-of-index stake in Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev, which posted solid gains in response to a successful merger between two major brewers. Security selection in the soft drinks area also helped, such as stakes in bottlers Coca-Cola Enterprises and Turkey's Coca-Cola Icecek AS, as well as Canada's private-label manufacturer Cott. Stock picks within packaged food and meats were significant contributors, including an out-of-index holding in Anglo-Dutch Unilever and Switzerland's Nestle. Underweighting the hypermarket and super center space - most notably major index component Wal-Mart Stores - was a positive as well. On the negative side, an overweighting and weak stock selection within food retailing detracted, including stakes in grocery chains Safeway and Kroger. Underweighting the strong-performing tobacco group - including index components Altria Group and Lorillard - hurt as well. Lorillard was sold prior to period end. Lastly, overweighting the distillers and vintners industry detracted, including a position in Constellation Brands.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.00%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,177.20

$ 5.49

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.16

$ 5.09

Investor Class

1.08%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,176.60

$ 5.93

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.76

$ 5.50

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Procter & Gamble Co.

14.4

12.6

CVS Caremark Corp.

6.8

8.0

The Coca-Cola Co.

6.7

7.4

PepsiCo, Inc.

6.0

6.2

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

5.4

5.1

British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR

5.1

4.8

Walgreen Co.

3.9

1.0

Altria Group, Inc.

3.6

2.2

Avon Products, Inc.

3.4

3.0

Nestle SA (Reg.)

3.1

4.1

 

58.4

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Beverages

26.8%

 

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Food & Staples Retailing

22.2%

 

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Household Products

17.2%

 

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Food Products

12.3%

 

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Tobacco

12.0%

 

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All Others*

9.5%

 

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As of June 30, 2009

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Beverages

30.1%

 

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Food & Staples Retailing

19.2%

 

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Household Products

17.3%

 

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Food Products

16.2%

 

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Tobacco

9.6%

 

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All Others*

7.6%

 

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* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 97.2%

Shares

Value

BEVERAGES - 26.8%

Brewers - 6.0%

Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanyii AS

4,700

$ 52,774

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV

7,768

404,751

Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (AmBev) (PN) sponsored ADR

930

94,014

Molson Coors Brewing Co. Class B

12,955

585,048

 

1,136,587

Distillers & Vintners - 4.0%

Brown-Forman Corp. Class B (non-vtg.)

900

48,213

Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A
(sub. vtg.) (a)

30,489

485,690

Diageo PLC sponsored ADR

3,215

223,153

 

757,056

Soft Drinks - 16.8%

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

12,388

262,626

Coca-Cola FEMSA SAB de CV sponsored ADR

1,420

93,322

Coca-Cola Icecek AS

5,450

54,638

Cott Corp. (a)

100

824

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

8,003

226,485

Embotelladora Andina SA sponsored ADR

4,500

91,800

Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV sponsored ADR

985

47,162

Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.

150

5,625

PepsiCo, Inc.

18,863

1,146,870

The Coca-Cola Co.

22,150

1,262,550

 

3,191,902

TOTAL BEVERAGES

5,085,545

FOOD & STAPLES RETAILING - 22.2%

Drug Retail - 10.7%

CVS Caremark Corp.

40,012

1,288,787

Walgreen Co.

19,850

728,892

 

2,017,679

Food Retail - 4.9%

Kroger Co.

20,364

418,073

Safeway, Inc.

22,240

473,490

Susser Holdings Corp. (a)

1,100

9,449

The Pantry, Inc. (a)

2,291

31,135

 

932,147

Hypermarkets & Super Centers - 6.6%

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (a)

7,130

233,222

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

19,100

1,020,895

 

1,254,117

TOTAL FOOD & STAPLES RETAILING

4,203,943

 

Shares

Value

FOOD PRODUCTS - 12.3%

Agricultural Products - 3.3%

Archer Daniels Midland Co.

9,010

$ 282,103

Bunge Ltd.

2,805

179,043

Corn Products International, Inc.

2,748

80,324

SLC Agricola SA

5,100

47,694

Viterra, Inc. (a)

4,900

46,032

 

635,196

Packaged Foods & Meats - 9.0%

Ausnutria Dairy Hunan Co. Ltd. Class H

58,000

47,569

Brasil Foods SA

100

2,579

Cadbury PLC sponsored ADR

59

3,032

Cermaq ASA (a)

4,600

44,445

Cosan Ltd. Class A (a)

1,300

11,310

Danone

1,254

76,892

Dean Foods Co. (a)

12,000

216,480

General Mills, Inc.

2,141

151,604

Lindt & Spruengli AG

2

49,070

Nestle SA (Reg.)

12,210

591,957

Tyson Foods, Inc. Class A

6,686

82,037

Unilever NV (NY Shares)

13,125

424,331

 

1,701,306

TOTAL FOOD PRODUCTS

2,336,502

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS - 17.2%

Household Products - 17.2%

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

2,692

221,148

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (a)

4,795

293,838

Procter & Gamble Co.

45,217

2,741,507

 

3,256,493

PERSONAL PRODUCTS - 3.7%

Personal Products - 3.7%

Avon Products, Inc.

20,192

636,048

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. Class A

600

26,220

Natura Cosmeticos SA

2,200

46,512

 

708,780

PHARMACEUTICALS - 3.0%

Pharmaceuticals - 3.0%

Johnson & Johnson

8,838

569,256

Perrigo Co.

53

2,112

 

571,368

TOBACCO - 12.0%

Tobacco - 12.0%

Altria Group, Inc.

35,180

690,583

British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR

14,820

958,261

KT&G Corp.

756

41,752

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

TOBACCO - CONTINUED

Tobacco - continued

Philip Morris International, Inc.

11,370

$ 547,920

Souza Cruz Industria Comerico

1,400

47,068

 

2,285,584

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $18,795,947)

18,448,215

Money Market Funds - 3.6%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (b)
(Cost $681,800)

681,800

681,800

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 100.8%

(Cost $19,477,747)

19,130,015

NET OTHER ASSETS - (0.8)%

(152,428)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 18,977,587

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 1,353

Total

$ 1,353

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 18,448,215

$ 18,400,646

$ 47,569

$ -

Money Market Funds

681,800

681,800

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 19,130,015

$ 19,082,446

$ 47,569

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

80.7%

United Kingdom

6.3%

Switzerland

3.4%

Netherlands

2.2%

Belgium

2.1%

Brazil

1.2%

Bermuda

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

3.1%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the Fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $1,107,172, of which $176,480 and $930,692 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $18,795,947)

$ 18,448,215

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $681,800)

681,800

 

Total Investments (cost $19,477,747)

 

$ 19,130,015

Receivable for investments sold

21,330

Dividends receivable

44,774

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

144

Prepaid expenses

76

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

2,434

Other receivables

37

Total assets

19,198,810

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 125,161

Payable for fund shares redeemed

46,651

Accrued management fee

8,635

Other affiliated payables

2,326

Other payables and accrued expenses

38,450

Total liabilities

221,223

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 18,977,587

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 20,623,704

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(1,298,359)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(347,758)

Net Assets

$ 18,977,587

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

 

December 31, 2009

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($8,531,508 ÷ 834,514 shares)

$ 10.22

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($10,446,079 ÷ 1,023,049 shares)

$ 10.21

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 465,955

Interest

 

7

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

1,353

Total income

 

467,315

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 98,588

Transfer agent fees

30,080

Accounting fees and expenses

6,817

Custodian fees and expenses

35,465

Independent trustees' compensation

128

Audit

32,265

Legal

322

Miscellaneous

1,494

Total expenses before reductions

205,159

Expense reductions

(22,823)

182,336

Net investment income (loss)

284,979

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(814,723)

Foreign currency transactions

(1,041)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(815,764)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

3,023,140

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

473

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

3,023,613

Net gain (loss)

2,207,849

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 2,492,828

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 284,979

$ 278,021

Net realized gain (loss)

(815,764)

(472,434)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

3,023,613

(4,299,638)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

2,492,828

(4,494,051)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(282,510)

(286,028)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(6,462,234)

12,995,494

Redemption fees

5,770

25,741

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

(4,246,146)

8,241,156

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

23,223,733

14,982,577

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and distributions in excess of net investment income of $5,678, respectively)

$ 18,977,587

$ 23,223,733

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.60

$ 11.08

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .15

.15

.08

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.63

(2.53)

1.11

Total from investment operations

  1.78

(2.38)

1.19

Distributions from net investment income

  (.16)

(.11)

(.04)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.07)

Total distributions

  (.16)

(.11)

(.11)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.01

- J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.22

$ 8.60

$ 11.08

Total Return B,C,D

  20.73%

(21.35)%

11.92%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.12%

1.12%

1.66% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.00%

1.00%

1.00% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.00%

1.00%

1.00% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.68%

1.47%

1.05% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 8,532

$ 9,706

$ 7,964

Portfolio turnover rate G

  71%

91%

35% A

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2007. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.59

$ 11.07

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .14

.14

.07

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.63

(2.52)

1.11

Total from investment operations

  1.77

(2.38)

1.18

Distributions from net investment income

  (.15)

(.11)

(.04)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.07)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.11)

(.11)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.01

- J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.21

$ 8.59

$ 11.07

Total Return B,C,D

  20.68%

(21.41)%

11.82%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.22%

1.22%

1.79% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.08%

1.08%

1.15% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.08%

1.08%

1.15% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.60%

1.39%

.90% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 10,446

$ 13,518

$ 7,018

Portfolio turnover rate G

  71%

91%

35% A

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2007. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 1,108,916

Gross unrealized depreciation

(1,647,835)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ (538,919)

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 19,668,934

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (1,107,172)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ (538,945)

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 282,510

$ 286,028

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $12,267,130 and $18,431,041, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 9,269

Investor Class

20,811

 

$ 30,080

Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $386 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $98 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

Initial Class

1.00%

$ 8,921

Investor Class

1.08%

13,486

 

 

$ 22,407

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $416 for the period.

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8. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 131,298

$ 121,735

Investor Class

151,212

164,293

Total

$ 282,510

$ 286,028

9. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

438,229

1,195,732

$ 4,041,941

$ 11,605,548

Reinvestment of distributions

13,013

14,597

131,298

121,735

Shares redeemed

(745,202)

(800,693)

(6,159,466)

(7,779,005)

Net increase (decrease)

(293,960)

409,636

$ (1,986,227)

$ 3,948,278

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

562,478

1,623,656

$ 5,117,088

$ 15,815,233

Reinvestment of distributions

15,001

19,723

151,212

164,293

Shares redeemed

(1,127,994)

(703,808)

(9,744,307)

(6,932,310)

Net increase (decrease)

(550,515)

939,571

$ (4,476,007)

$ 9,047,216

10. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the periods indicated and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed in December 2009, during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following chart considered by the Board shows, for the one-year period ended December 31, 2008, the total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the total return of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the period shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class. The Board stated that it is difficult to evaluate in any comprehensive fashion the performance of the fund, in light of its relatively recent commencement of operations.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month (or shorter) periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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VIP Consumer Staples Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company
Quincy, MA

VCSP-ANN-0210
1.850994.102

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Emerging Markets Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

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Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Life of
fund
A

VIP Emerging Markets - Initial Class

75.40%

-6.97%

VIP Emerging Markets - Service Class B

75.49%

-7.03%

VIP Emerging Markets - Service Class 2 C

75.41%

-7.17%

A From January 23, 2008.

B Performance of Service Class shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

C Performance of Service Class 2 shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio - Initial Class on January 23, 2008, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the MSCI® Emerging Markets Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Robert von Rekowsky, Portfolio Manager of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio: During the past year, the fund modestly lagged the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Versus that benchmark, the fund's gains were dampened by its cash position. Beyond that, unrewarding stock selection and an underweighting in information technology hurt, as did weak picks in financials, industrials and utilities. From a country standpoint, stock selection in South Korea, India and Taiwan worked against us. Mexican bank Grupo Financiero Banorte performed poorly early in the period and was the fund's largest relative detractor. A small out-of-index position in IT services provider Rolta India also detracted, and I sold the stock. Meanwhile, CEZ, an electric utility based in the Czech Republic, performed well but lagged the huge gain of the broader market. Modestly underweighting major index component Samsung Electronics worked against us, as the Korean electronics giant's stock price rallied in response to prospects for improving demand for cellular handsets and DRAM computer memory, among other products. In the case of China's Ping An Insurance, our position delivered solid results, but underweighting the stock early in the period hurt performance. Another detractor, Korean steel maker POSCO, was sold around the middle of the period, which, in retrospect, was too early. Positive sector influences included stock selection and an overweighting in consumer discretionary, as well as solid picks in telecommunication services and energy. Geographically, favorable stock picks and overweightings in Indonesia and Turkey were beneficial. CNPC is a Hong Kong-based crude oil and natural gas exploration/production company with properties in China, Kazakhstan and Thailand, among other locations. An attractive valuation to start the period and rising oil prices aided the stock. Also contributing were Astra International, a conglomerate that's a good proxy for the Indonesian economy, and two Turkish stocks: Turk Hava Yollari, also known as Turkish Airlines, and Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, a bank. Hungary's OTP Bank and China's Geely Automobile Holdings also added value.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.10

$ 6.46

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.80

$ 7.05

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,327.10

$ 7.92

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Initial Class R

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.10

$ 6.46

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class 2R

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,327.10

$ 7.92

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Investor Class R

1.18%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.70

$ 6.93

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.26

$ 6.01

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Geographic Diversification (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Brazil

15.5%

 

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Korea (South)

10.0%

 

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China

9.3%

 

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Russia

9.2%

 

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Taiwan

7.9%

 

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India

7.2%

 

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United States of America

6.4%

 

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South Africa

5.3%

 

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Hong Kong

5.0%

 

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Other

24.2%

 

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Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

As of June 30, 2009

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Brazil

12.2%

 

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United States of America

10.9%

 

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China

9.9%

 

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Korea (South)

8.8%

 

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India

8.1%

 

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Russia

7.3%

 

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Taiwan

7.1%

 

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Hong Kong

6.0%

 

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South Africa

5.7%

 

fid270

Other

24.0%

 

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Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

Asset Allocation

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Stocks and Investment Companies

94.4

91.9

Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets

5.6

8.1

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras (PN) (Brazil, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

3.8

3.3

Vale SA (PN-A) sponsored ADR (Brazil, Metals & Mining)

3.2

2.1

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea (South), Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment)

3.1

1.7

OAO Gazprom (Russia, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

2.2

2.4

Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo SA ADR (Brazil, Commercial Banks)

2.1

0.0

America Movil SAB de CV Series L sponsored ADR (Mexico, Wireless Telecommunication Services)

1.7

1.8

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn) (Taiwan, Electronic Equipment & Components)

1.6

1.3

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares) (China, Commercial Banks)

1.6

1.9

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares) (China, Commercial Banks)

1.5

1.8

Reliance Industries Ltd. (India, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

1.2

1.2

 

22.0

Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Financials

24.1

23.0

Energy

14.7

15.3

Materials

14.2

12.5

Information Technology

14.2

10.4

Telecommunication Services

8.2

8.9

Consumer Discretionary

7.3

7.7

Industrials

3.8

5.7

Consumer Staples

3.7

2.7

Utilities

2.3

2.4

Health Care

1.9

1.7

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 94.4%

Shares

Value

Argentina - 0.2%

Banco Macro SA sponsored ADR

3,600

$ 107,136

BAILIWICK OF JERSEY - 0.4%

Randgold Resources Ltd. sponsored ADR

3,400

269,008

Bermuda - 0.6%

Aquarius Platinum Ltd.:

(Australia) (a)

59,369

391,962

(United Kingdom) (a)

1,666

10,959

TOTAL BERMUDA

402,921

Brazil - 15.5%

Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes SA unit (a)

4,337

60,837

Banco Bradesco SA (PN) sponsored ADR

9,900

216,513

BM&F BOVESPA SA

42,400

299,938

Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras):

(PN-B) sponsored ADR

13,300

248,710

sponsored ADR

6,400

134,976

Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) (PN) sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

75

1,355

Companhia Siderurgica Nacional SA (CSN) sponsored ADR

18,000

574,740

Fibria Celulose SA sponsored ADR (a)

12,513

285,797

Gerdau SA sponsored ADR

33,900

577,317

Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo SA ADR

65,170

1,488,483

Localiza Rent A Car SA

7,500

82,186

Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA sponsored ADR

25,400

343,662

OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA

40,000

388,985

PDG Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participacoes

26,500

263,936

Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras:

(PN) (non-vtg.)

46,100

966,434

(PN) sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

42,000

1,780,380

sponsored ADR

7,500

357,600

Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

20,500

439,110

Vale SA (PN-A) sponsored ADR

92,179

2,287,883

Vivo Participacoes SA sponsored ADR

12,300

381,300

TOTAL BRAZIL

11,180,142

Canada - 1.1%

Eldorado Gold Corp. (a)

5,300

75,264

Eldorado Gold Corp. unit (a)

7,594

106,208

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

3,900

297,924

Niko Resources Ltd.

700

65,559

Sherritt International Corp.

7,700

48,150

Sino-Forest Corp. (a)

7,200

132,809

Uranium One, Inc. (a)

18,100

52,027

TOTAL CANADA

777,941

 

Shares

Value

Cayman Islands - 1.8%

BaWang International (Group) Holding Ltd.

108,000

$ 74,784

China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd.

108,000

78,396

Daphne International Holdings Ltd.

158,000

126,882

Eurasia Drilling Co. Ltd. GDR (Reg. S)

7,100

120,700

Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.

695,000

379,311

Hidili Industry International Development Ltd. (a)

163,000

202,777

Integra Group Holdings unit (a)

31,600

94,800

Mindray Medical International Ltd. sponsored ADR

4,957

168,141

PCD Stores Group Ltd.

210,000

80,626

TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS

1,326,417

China - 9.3%

Baidu.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

600

246,738

China Citic Bank Corp. Ltd. Class H

182,000

154,051

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares)

1,286,000

1,098,389

China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd. (a)

83,000

295,038

China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

190,050

494,472

China Shenhua Energy Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

130,500

633,463

China Yurun Food Group Ltd.

77,000

228,489

Golden Eagle Retail Group Ltd. (H Shares)

139,000

281,937

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares)

1,364,000

1,123,297

Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (H Shares) (a)

122,000

88,386

Minth Group Ltd.

89,000

130,645

PICC Property & Casualty Co. Ltd. (H Shares) (a)

178,000

159,276

Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China, Ltd. (H Shares)

68,500

595,596

Sina Corp. (a)

1,600

72,288

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

35,800

774,242

Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co. (B Shares)

11,400

101,404

ZTE Corp. (H Shares)

32,600

200,423

TOTAL CHINA

6,678,134

Cyprus - 0.1%

Bank of Cyprus Public Co. Ltd.

10,000

70,580

XXI Century Investments Public Ltd. (a)

600

145

TOTAL CYPRUS

70,725

Czech Republic - 1.1%

Ceske Energeticke Zavody AS

8,400

393,750

Komercni Banka AS

1,800

383,691

TOTAL CZECH REPUBLIC

777,441

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Egypt - 0.4%

Commercial International Bank Ltd. sponsored GDR

30,149

$ 301,490

Hong Kong - 5.0%

China Agri-Industries Holding Ltd.

217,000

283,501

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd.

86,000

800,157

China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.

154,000

322,662

CNOOC Ltd.

514,000

800,751

CNPC (Hong Kong) Ltd.

330,000

435,170

Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Ltd.

11,600

206,384

Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd.

73,000

370,259

Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd.

275,500

252,949

Texwinca Holdings Ltd.

110,000

102,235

TOTAL HONG KONG

3,574,068

Hungary - 0.6%

OTP Bank Ltd. (a)

15,500

447,462

India - 7.2%

Bank of Baroda

11,392

126,156

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

7,742

400,912

DLF Ltd.

12,596

98,032

Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd. (a)

18,016

140,079

Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd.

10,070

580,593

Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. (a)

21,565

105,804

Infosys Technologies Ltd. sponsored ADR

15,670

866,081

Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.

6,816

128,118

JSW Steel Ltd.

17,657

385,479

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

15,000

349,337

Patni Computer Systems Ltd. sponsored ADR

3,400

69,530

Power Finance Corp. Ltd.

2,989

16,838

Reliance Industries Ltd.

37,096

871,688

Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd. (a)

18,356

96,032

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

26,011

420,486

Tata Power Co. Ltd.

7,388

219,913

Tata Steel Ltd.

21,219

282,417

Ultratech Cement Ltd.

1,378

27,144

TOTAL INDIA

5,184,639

Indonesia - 4.3%

Delta Dunia Petroindo Tbk PT (a)

670,500

120,228

Gudang Garam PT Perusahaan

53,000

121,183

PT Astra International Tbk

115,000

423,396

PT Bank Mandiri Persero Tbk

642,000

320,149

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk

475,000

385,545

PT Bumi Resources Tbk

692,500

178,177

PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk

221,000

321,242

PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk

725,500

273,266

PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk Series B

977,300

404,401

PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia Tbk Series B

516,000

517,370

TOTAL INDONESIA

3,064,957

 

Shares

Value

Ireland - 0.1%

Dragon Oil PLC (a)

14,809

$ 92,982

Israel - 1.9%

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a)

6,000

203,280

Israel Chemicals Ltd.

15,203

200,435

Partner Communications Co. Ltd. ADR

8,931

181,746

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

14,500

814,610

TOTAL ISRAEL

1,400,071

Kazakhstan - 0.7%

JSC Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan unit (a)

30,566

290,377

KazMunaiGas Exploration & Production JSC (Reg. S) GDR

8,000

199,200

TOTAL KAZAKHSTAN

489,577

Korea (South) - 10.0%

Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. (a)

23,370

463,963

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd.

5,833

354,660

Hyundai Industrial Development & Construction Co.

8,600

278,413

Hyundai Mobis

3,340

489,797

Hyundai Motor Co.

7,153

742,245

Industrial Bank of Korea (a)

26,060

312,879

KB Financial Group, Inc. (a)

13,130

672,222

Korea Exchange Bank

33,200

412,838

Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. (a)

2,120

99,812

LG Innotek Co. Ltd.

2,050

174,221

Lumens Co. Ltd. (a)

17,855

136,737

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

3,287

2,252,268

Samsung SDI Co. Ltd.

1,692

215,477

Shinhan Financial Group Co. Ltd. (a)

16,850

622,663

TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH)

7,228,195

Luxembourg - 1.1%

ArcelorMittal SA (NY Shares) Class A

6,400

292,800

Evraz Group SA GDR

13,184

372,448

Ternium SA sponsored ADR (a)

4,000

141,680

TOTAL LUXEMBOURG

806,928

Mexico - 3.4%

America Movil SAB de CV Series L sponsored ADR

25,600

1,202,688

Banco Compartamos SA de CV

17,600

90,897

Corporacion Geo SA de CV Series B (a)

69,500

184,678

Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV sponsored ADR

9,400

450,072

Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV Series O

83,100

303,996

Telmex Internacional SAB de CV Series L ADR

13,800

244,950

TOTAL MEXICO

2,477,281

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Nigeria - 0.1%

Guaranty Trust Bank PLC GDR (Reg. S)

14,400

$ 86,400

Norway - 0.1%

Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (DNO) (A Shares) (a)

56,000

48,986

Panama - 0.2%

Copa Holdings SA Class A

2,600

141,622

Papua New Guinea - 0.1%

Oil Search Ltd.

9,716

53,499

Peru - 0.4%

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA sponsored ADR

9,590

320,977

Philippines - 0.6%

Megaworld Corp.

3,210,000

102,168

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. sponsored ADR

5,400

306,018

TOTAL PHILIPPINES

408,186

Poland - 1.0%

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA (a)

7,100

400,331

Bank Zachodni WBK SA (a)

5,014

332,192

TOTAL POLAND

732,523

Russia - 9.2%

Cherkizovo Group OJSC GDR (a)

3,000

31,500

Magnit OJSC GDR (Reg. S)

19,200

304,320

Mechel Steel Group OAO sponsored ADR

12,900

242,778

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port JSC (a)

86,500

14,273

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port JSC GDR (Reg. S)

700

8,057

OAO Gazprom

8,900

54,317

OAO Gazprom sponsored ADR

60,442

1,514,072

OAO NOVATEK GDR

6,622

437,052

OAO Tatneft sponsored ADR

13,503

393,477

OGK-2 JSC (a)

423,500

13,171

OGK-6 JSC (a)

261,400

6,666

OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel sponsored ADR (a)

41,744

599,026

OJSC Oil Company Rosneft GDR (Reg. S)

74,500

640,700

Polymetal JSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

20,800

190,736

RusHydro JSC sponsored ADR (a)

49,344

188,988

Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation)

232,600

653,373

Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation) GDR

1,350

378,815

Sistema JSFC sponsored GDR (a)

14,675

308,175

Vimpel Communications sponsored ADR

24,000

446,160

VTB Bank JSC unit

37,700

177,944

TOTAL RUSSIA

6,603,600

Singapore - 0.3%

Straits Asia Resources Ltd.

124,000

230,332

 

Shares

Value

South Africa - 5.3%

African Bank Investments Ltd.

71,500

$ 287,544

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.

6,000

248,008

Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. (a)

32,464

322,449

Aveng Ltd.

53,500

288,077

Clicks Group Ltd.

69,561

255,808

Illovo Sugar Ltd.

17,116

73,707

Mr. Price Group Ltd.

48,000

226,721

MTN Group Ltd.

46,008

732,030

Mvelaphanda Resources Ltd. (a)

39,874

263,674

Raubex Group Ltd.

47,496

153,769

Shoprite Holdings Ltd.

26,988

237,538

Standard Bank Group Ltd.

38,800

534,089

Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.

76,422

214,208

TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA

3,837,622

Taiwan - 7.9%

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. sponsored ADR

40,200

178,086

Asia Cement Corp.

253,200

273,858

AU Optronics Corp. sponsored ADR

30,900

370,491

Cathay Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (a)

171,000

319,122

Epistar Corp.

27,000

101,282

First Financial Holding Co. Ltd.

564,657

350,373

Formosa Epitaxy, Inc.

114,000

190,653

Fubon Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (a)

265,000

325,555

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn)

239,232

1,132,968

Macronix International Co. Ltd.

400,506

229,111

MediaTek, Inc.

39,032

680,833

Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd.

208,560

282,622

Taiwan Mobile Co. Ltd.

167,000

325,752

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

244,609

493,194

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR

36,064

412,572

TOTAL TAIWAN

5,666,472

Thailand - 0.7%

Advanced Info Service PCL (For. Reg.)

65,000

168,087

Siam Commercial Bank PCL (For. Reg.)

125,200

324,697

Total Access Communication PCL (For. Reg.)

400

428

TOTAL THAILAND

493,212

Turkey - 2.2%

Hurriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik AS (a)

85,656

107,056

Koc Holding AS

16,000

47,266

Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi AS

84,924

267,906

Turk Hava Yollari AO

89,000

339,059

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS

106,000

449,873

Turkiye Is Bankasi AS Series C

88,929

374,450

TOTAL TURKEY

1,585,610

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

United Kingdom - 0.7%

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

10,646

$ 87,748

Tullow Oil PLC

2,458

51,841

Xstrata PLC (a)

21,851

395,875

TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM

535,464

United States of America - 0.8%

Central European Distribution Corp. (a)

7,300

207,393

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

4,800

385,392

TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

592,785

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $56,170,306)

67,994,805

Money Market Funds - 5.7%

Shares

Value

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (b)
(Cost $4,086,573)

4,086,573

$ 4,086,573

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 100.1%

(Cost $60,256,879)

72,081,378

NET OTHER ASSETS - (0.1)%

(94,894)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 71,986,484

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 6,019

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Brazil

$ 11,180,142

$ 11,180,142

$ -

$ -

Korea (South)

7,228,195

6,605,532

622,663

-

China

6,678,134

420,430

6,257,704

-

Russia

6,603,600

6,603,600

-

-

Taiwan

5,666,472

5,666,472

-

-

India

5,184,639

5,184,639

-

-

South Africa

3,837,622

3,837,622

-

-

Hong Kong

3,574,068

-

3,574,068

-

Indonesia

3,064,957

3,064,957

-

-

Other

14,976,976

14,034,200

942,776

-

Money Market Funds

4,086,573

4,086,573

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 72,081,378

$ 60,684,167

$ 11,397,211

$ -

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $4,615,107 of which $1,790,850 and $2,824,257 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $56,170,306)

$ 67,994,805

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,086,573)

4,086,573

 

Total Investments (cost $60,256,879)

 

$ 72,081,378

Cash

14,570

Foreign currency held at value (cost $11,026)

11,024

Receivable for investments sold

153,440

Receivable for fund shares sold

141,014

Dividends receivable

57,976

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

424

Prepaid expenses

188

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

16,691

Other receivables

9,423

Total assets

72,486,128

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 268,099

Accrued management fee

45,808

Distribution fees payable

60

Other affiliated payables

9,289

Other payables and accrued expenses

176,388

Total liabilities

499,644

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 71,986,484

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 65,695,206

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(5,436,095)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

11,727,373

Net Assets

$ 71,986,484

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($250,351 ÷ 29,409.4 shares)

$ 8.51

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,551 ÷ 13,772.1 shares)

$ 8.54

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,439 ÷ 13,727.5 shares)

$ 8.56

 

 

 

Initial Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($31,314,149 ÷ 3,678,469.9 shares)

$ 8.51

 

 

 

Service Class 2R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,439 ÷ 13,727.5 shares)

$ 8.56

 

 

 

Investor Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($40,069,555 ÷ 4,714,242.0 shares)

$ 8.50

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 552,011

Interest

 

9

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

6,019

 

 

558,039

Less foreign taxes withheld

 

(55,709)

Total income

 

502,330

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 250,829

Transfer agent fees

41,743

Distribution fees

2,093

Accounting fees and expenses

16,032

Custodian fees and expenses

245,770

Independent trustees' compensation

163

Audit

93,877

Legal

110

Miscellaneous

1,753

Total expenses before reductions

652,370

Expense reductions

(320,749)

331,621

Net investment income (loss)

170,709

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(1,720,774)

Foreign currency transactions

(55,463)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(1,776,237)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $97,033)

16,723,971

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(167)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

16,723,804

Net gain (loss)

14,947,567

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 15,118,276

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

For the period
January 23, 2008
(commencement of operations) to
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 170,709

$ 120,318

Net realized gain (loss)

(1,776,237)

(3,448,972)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

16,723,804

(4,996,431)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

15,118,276

(8,325,085)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(171,137)

(118,460)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

(219,436)

-

Total distributions

(390,573)

(118,460)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

48,999,079

16,664,085

Redemption fees

22,594

16,568

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

63,749,376

8,237,108

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

8,237,108

-

End of period

$ 71,986,484

$ 8,237,108

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.13

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.64

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.06)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.51

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.40%

(50.45)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.85%

3.92% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.02%

1.02% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .60%

1.54% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 250

$ 516

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .03

.12

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.65

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.07)

Distributions from net investment income

  - J

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.02)

-

Total distributions

  (.02)

(.07)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.54

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.49%

(50.53)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.02%

4.02% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.12%

1.12% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .50%

1.44% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 118

$ 396

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .02

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.66

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.08)

Distributions from net investment income

  -

(.06)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.41%

(50.65)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.17%

4.17% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.27%

1.27% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .35%

1.29% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 395

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Initial Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.63

(5.16)

Total from investment operations

  3.67

(5.05)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.51

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.40%

(50.45)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.03%

3.71% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.02%

1.02% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .60%

1.54% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 31,314

$ 3,158

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .02

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.66

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.08)

Distributions from net investment income

  -

(.06)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.41%

(50.65)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.17%

4.17% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.27%

1.27% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .35%

1.29% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 395

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.87

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.63

(5.16)

Total from investment operations

  3.67

(5.06)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.50

$ 4.87

Total Return B, C, D

  75.56%

(50.55)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.07%

3.81% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.18%

1.18% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.10%

1.10% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .52%

1.46% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 40,070

$ 3,377

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares, Initial Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares and Investor Class R shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 16, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on short term capital gains on securities of certain issuers domiciled in India. The Fund records an estimated deferred tax liability included in Other payables and accrued expenses in the accompanying Statement of Assets & Liabilities for net unrealized gains on these securities in an amount that would be payable if the securities were disposed of at period end.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 12,407,172

Gross unrealized depreciation

(1,349,306)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 11,057,866

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 61,023,512

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 25,253

Capital loss carryforward

$ (4,615,107)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 11,057,772

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 390,573

$ 118,460

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Initial Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares and Investor Class R shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $66,246,826 and $20,858,501, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .55% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .81% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's and Service Class 2R's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 349

Service Class 2

872

Service Class 2R

872

 

$ 2,093

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class R) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class R pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 496

Service Class

362

Service Class 2

362

Initial Class R

12,367

Service Class 2R

362

Investor Class R

27,794

 

$ 41,743

Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $697 for the period.

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6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $81 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

 

 

 

Initial Class

1.10%

$ 8,520

Service Class

1.20%

6,385

Service Class 2

1.35%

6,373

Initial Class R

1.10%

129,562

Service Class 2R

1.35%

6,373

Investor Class R

1.18%

138,186

 

 

$ 295,399

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $25,350 for the period.

8. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008 A

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 596

$ 7,875

Service Class

41

5,365

Service Class 2

-

4,404

Initial Class R

75,536

46,484

Service Class 2R

-

4,404

Investor Class R

94,964

49,928

Total

$ 171,137

$ 118,460

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ 762

$ -

Service Class

275

-

Service Class 2

-

-

Initial Class R

96,805

-

Service Class 2 R

-

-

Investor Class R

121,594

-

Total

$ 219,436

$ -

A For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

9. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008 A

2009

2008 A

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

16,945

107,445

$ 120,071

$ 1,068,509

Reinvestment of distributions

165

1,615

1,358

7,875

Shares redeemed

(93,578)

(3,183)

(691,714)

(22,468)

Net increase (decrease)

(76,468)

105,877

$ (570,285)

$ 1,053,916

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

38

1,098

316

5,365

Shares redeemed

(67,365)

-

(502,507)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,327)

81,099

$ (502,191)

$ 805,375

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

-

902

-

4,404

Shares redeemed

(67,175)

-

(501,199)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,175)

80,903

$ (501,199)

$ 804,414

Initial Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

3,509,051

856,743

$ 24,423,527

$ 8,037,340

Reinvestment of distributions

20,952

9,532

172,342

46,484

Shares redeemed

(499,141)

(218,667)

(3,003,566)

(1,627,362)

Net increase (decrease)

3,030,862

647,608

$ 21,592,303

$ 6,456,462

Service Class 2R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

-

902

-

4,404

Shares redeemed

(67,175)

-

(501,199)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,175)

80,903

$ (501,199)

$ 804,414

Investor Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

4,321,090

938,957

$ 31,280,354

$ 8,629,449

Reinvestment of distributions

26,389

10,240

216,557

49,928

Shares redeemed

(326,280)

(256,154)

(2,015,261)

(1,939,873)

Net increase (decrease)

4,021,199

693,043

$ 29,481,650

$ 6,739,504

A For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

10. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of approximately 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and Shareholders of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio (the Fund), a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV, including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2009, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, and the statements of changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year ended December 31, 2009 and for the period from January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2009, by correspondence with the custodians and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio as of December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, and the statements of changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year ended December 31, 2009 and for the period from January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 16, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Eric M. Wetlaufer (47)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of Fidelity's International Equity Funds. Mr. Wetlaufer also serves as Group Chief Investment Officer of FMR. Mr. Wetlaufer is a Director (2007-present), Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2007-present) and President and a Director (2006-present) of Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. and President and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2006-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments in 2005, Mr. Wetlaufer was a partner in Oxhead Capital Management (2004-2005).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

The Board of Trustees of Fidelity VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio voted to pay to shareholders of record at the opening of business on record date, the following distributions per share derived from capital gains realized from sales of portfolio securities:

 

Pay Date

Record Date

Capital Gains

Initial Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

Service Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

Service Class 2

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

The amounts per share which represent income derived from sources within, and taxes paid to, foreign countries or possessions of the United States are as follows:

 

Pay Date

Income

Taxes

Initial Class

12/18/2009

$0.051

$0.006

 

12/30/2009

$0.003

$-

Service Class

12/18/2009

$0.026

$0.006

 

12/30/2009

$0.003

$-

Service Class 2

12/18/2009

$-

$-

 

12/30/2009

$-

$-

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. The Board noted that it is not possible to evaluate performance in any comprehensive fashion because the fund had been in operation for less than one calendar year. Once the fund has been in operation for at least one calendar year, the Board will review the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a broad-based securities market index and, if a meaningful peer group exists, a peer group of mutual funds.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the period of the fund's operations shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 36% means that 64% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for the period.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

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The Board noted that the total expenses of each of Initial Class and Initial Class R ranked equal to its competitive median for the period and the total expenses of each of Investor Class R, Service Class, Service Class 2, and Service Class 2 R ranked above its competitive median for the period. The Board considered that the total expenses of Investor Class R were above the median primarily due to its higher transfer agent fee. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in some cases above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company
Quincy, MA

VIPEM-ANN-0210
1.858135.101

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Emerging Markets Portfolio - Class R

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Life of
fund
A

VIP Emerging Markets - Initial Class R

75.40%

-6.97%

VIP Emerging Markets - Service Class 2 R B

75.41%

-7.17%

VIP Emerging Markets - Investor Class R

75.56%

-7.03%

A From January 23, 2008.

B Performance of Service Class 2 R shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio - Initial Class R on January 23, 2008, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the MSCI® Emerging Markets Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Robert von Rekowsky, Portfolio Manager of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio: During the past year, the fund modestly lagged the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Versus that benchmark, the fund's gains were dampened by its cash position. Beyond that, unrewarding stock selection and an underweighting in information technology hurt, as did weak picks in financials, industrials and utilities. From a country standpoint, stock selection in South Korea, India and Taiwan worked against us. Mexican bank Grupo Financiero Banorte performed poorly early in the period and was the fund's largest relative detractor. A small out-of-index position in IT services provider Rolta India also detracted, and I sold the stock. Meanwhile, CEZ, an electric utility based in the Czech Republic, performed well but lagged the huge gain of the broader market. Modestly underweighting major index component Samsung Electronics worked against us, as the Korean electronics giant's stock price rallied in response to prospects for improving demand for cellular handsets and DRAM computer memory, among other products. In the case of China's Ping An Insurance, our position delivered solid results, but underweighting the stock early in the period hurt performance. Another detractor, Korean steel maker POSCO, was sold around the middle of the period, which, in retrospect, was too early. Positive sector influences included stock selection and an overweighting in consumer discretionary, as well as solid picks in telecommunication services and energy. Geographically, favorable stock picks and overweightings in Indonesia and Turkey were beneficial. CNPC is a Hong Kong-based crude oil and natural gas exploration/production company with properties in China, Kazakhstan and Thailand, among other locations. An attractive valuation to start the period and rising oil prices aided the stock. Also contributing were Astra International, a conglomerate that's a good proxy for the Indonesian economy, and two Turkish stocks: Turk Hava Yollari, also known as Turkish Airlines, and Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, a bank. Hungary's OTP Bank and China's Geely Automobile Holdings also added value.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.10

$ 6.46

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.80

$ 7.05

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,327.10

$ 7.92

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Initial Class R

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.10

$ 6.46

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class 2R

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,327.10

$ 7.92

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Investor Class R

1.18%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,329.70

$ 6.93

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.26

$ 6.01

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Geographic Diversification (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Brazil

15.5%

 

fid254

Korea (South)

10.0%

 

fid256

China

9.3%

 

fid258

Russia

9.2%

 

fid260

Taiwan

7.9%

 

fid262

India

7.2%

 

fid264

United States of America

6.4%

 

fid266

South Africa

5.3%

 

fid268

Hong Kong

5.0%

 

fid270

Other

24.2%

 

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Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

As of June 30, 2009

fid252

Brazil

12.2%

 

fid254

United States of America

10.9%

 

fid256

China

9.9%

 

fid258

Korea (South)

8.8%

 

fid260

India

8.1%

 

fid262

Russia

7.3%

 

fid264

Taiwan

7.1%

 

fid266

Hong Kong

6.0%

 

fid268

South Africa

5.7%

 

fid270

Other

24.0%

 

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Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

Asset Allocation

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Stocks and Investment Companies

94.4

91.9

Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets

5.6

8.1

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras (PN) (Brazil, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

3.8

3.3

Vale SA (PN-A) sponsored ADR (Brazil, Metals & Mining)

3.2

2.1

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea (South), Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment)

3.1

1.7

OAO Gazprom (Russia, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

2.2

2.4

Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo SA ADR (Brazil, Commercial Banks)

2.1

0.0

America Movil SAB de CV Series L sponsored ADR (Mexico, Wireless Telecommunication Services)

1.7

1.8

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn) (Taiwan, Electronic Equipment & Components)

1.6

1.3

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares) (China, Commercial Banks)

1.6

1.9

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares) (China, Commercial Banks)

1.5

1.8

Reliance Industries Ltd. (India, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

1.2

1.2

 

22.0

Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Financials

24.1

23.0

Energy

14.7

15.3

Materials

14.2

12.5

Information Technology

14.2

10.4

Telecommunication Services

8.2

8.9

Consumer Discretionary

7.3

7.7

Industrials

3.8

5.7

Consumer Staples

3.7

2.7

Utilities

2.3

2.4

Health Care

1.9

1.7

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 94.4%

Shares

Value

Argentina - 0.2%

Banco Macro SA sponsored ADR

3,600

$ 107,136

BAILIWICK OF JERSEY - 0.4%

Randgold Resources Ltd. sponsored ADR

3,400

269,008

Bermuda - 0.6%

Aquarius Platinum Ltd.:

(Australia) (a)

59,369

391,962

(United Kingdom) (a)

1,666

10,959

TOTAL BERMUDA

402,921

Brazil - 15.5%

Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes SA unit (a)

4,337

60,837

Banco Bradesco SA (PN) sponsored ADR

9,900

216,513

BM&F BOVESPA SA

42,400

299,938

Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras):

(PN-B) sponsored ADR

13,300

248,710

sponsored ADR

6,400

134,976

Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) (PN) sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

75

1,355

Companhia Siderurgica Nacional SA (CSN) sponsored ADR

18,000

574,740

Fibria Celulose SA sponsored ADR (a)

12,513

285,797

Gerdau SA sponsored ADR

33,900

577,317

Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo SA ADR

65,170

1,488,483

Localiza Rent A Car SA

7,500

82,186

Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA sponsored ADR

25,400

343,662

OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA

40,000

388,985

PDG Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participacoes

26,500

263,936

Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras:

(PN) (non-vtg.)

46,100

966,434

(PN) sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

42,000

1,780,380

sponsored ADR

7,500

357,600

Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA sponsored ADR (non-vtg.)

20,500

439,110

Vale SA (PN-A) sponsored ADR

92,179

2,287,883

Vivo Participacoes SA sponsored ADR

12,300

381,300

TOTAL BRAZIL

11,180,142

Canada - 1.1%

Eldorado Gold Corp. (a)

5,300

75,264

Eldorado Gold Corp. unit (a)

7,594

106,208

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

3,900

297,924

Niko Resources Ltd.

700

65,559

Sherritt International Corp.

7,700

48,150

Sino-Forest Corp. (a)

7,200

132,809

Uranium One, Inc. (a)

18,100

52,027

TOTAL CANADA

777,941

 

Shares

Value

Cayman Islands - 1.8%

BaWang International (Group) Holding Ltd.

108,000

$ 74,784

China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd.

108,000

78,396

Daphne International Holdings Ltd.

158,000

126,882

Eurasia Drilling Co. Ltd. GDR (Reg. S)

7,100

120,700

Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.

695,000

379,311

Hidili Industry International Development Ltd. (a)

163,000

202,777

Integra Group Holdings unit (a)

31,600

94,800

Mindray Medical International Ltd. sponsored ADR

4,957

168,141

PCD Stores Group Ltd.

210,000

80,626

TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS

1,326,417

China - 9.3%

Baidu.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

600

246,738

China Citic Bank Corp. Ltd. Class H

182,000

154,051

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares)

1,286,000

1,098,389

China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd. (a)

83,000

295,038

China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

190,050

494,472

China Shenhua Energy Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

130,500

633,463

China Yurun Food Group Ltd.

77,000

228,489

Golden Eagle Retail Group Ltd. (H Shares)

139,000

281,937

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (H Shares)

1,364,000

1,123,297

Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (H Shares) (a)

122,000

88,386

Minth Group Ltd.

89,000

130,645

PICC Property & Casualty Co. Ltd. (H Shares) (a)

178,000

159,276

Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China, Ltd. (H Shares)

68,500

595,596

Sina Corp. (a)

1,600

72,288

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

35,800

774,242

Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine Co. (B Shares)

11,400

101,404

ZTE Corp. (H Shares)

32,600

200,423

TOTAL CHINA

6,678,134

Cyprus - 0.1%

Bank of Cyprus Public Co. Ltd.

10,000

70,580

XXI Century Investments Public Ltd. (a)

600

145

TOTAL CYPRUS

70,725

Czech Republic - 1.1%

Ceske Energeticke Zavody AS

8,400

393,750

Komercni Banka AS

1,800

383,691

TOTAL CZECH REPUBLIC

777,441

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Egypt - 0.4%

Commercial International Bank Ltd. sponsored GDR

30,149

$ 301,490

Hong Kong - 5.0%

China Agri-Industries Holding Ltd.

217,000

283,501

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd.

86,000

800,157

China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.

154,000

322,662

CNOOC Ltd.

514,000

800,751

CNPC (Hong Kong) Ltd.

330,000

435,170

Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Ltd.

11,600

206,384

Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd.

73,000

370,259

Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd.

275,500

252,949

Texwinca Holdings Ltd.

110,000

102,235

TOTAL HONG KONG

3,574,068

Hungary - 0.6%

OTP Bank Ltd. (a)

15,500

447,462

India - 7.2%

Bank of Baroda

11,392

126,156

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

7,742

400,912

DLF Ltd.

12,596

98,032

Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd. (a)

18,016

140,079

Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd.

10,070

580,593

Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. (a)

21,565

105,804

Infosys Technologies Ltd. sponsored ADR

15,670

866,081

Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.

6,816

128,118

JSW Steel Ltd.

17,657

385,479

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

15,000

349,337

Patni Computer Systems Ltd. sponsored ADR

3,400

69,530

Power Finance Corp. Ltd.

2,989

16,838

Reliance Industries Ltd.

37,096

871,688

Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd. (a)

18,356

96,032

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

26,011

420,486

Tata Power Co. Ltd.

7,388

219,913

Tata Steel Ltd.

21,219

282,417

Ultratech Cement Ltd.

1,378

27,144

TOTAL INDIA

5,184,639

Indonesia - 4.3%

Delta Dunia Petroindo Tbk PT (a)

670,500

120,228

Gudang Garam PT Perusahaan

53,000

121,183

PT Astra International Tbk

115,000

423,396

PT Bank Mandiri Persero Tbk

642,000

320,149

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk

475,000

385,545

PT Bumi Resources Tbk

692,500

178,177

PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk

221,000

321,242

PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk

725,500

273,266

PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk Series B

977,300

404,401

PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia Tbk Series B

516,000

517,370

TOTAL INDONESIA

3,064,957

 

Shares

Value

Ireland - 0.1%

Dragon Oil PLC (a)

14,809

$ 92,982

Israel - 1.9%

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a)

6,000

203,280

Israel Chemicals Ltd.

15,203

200,435

Partner Communications Co. Ltd. ADR

8,931

181,746

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

14,500

814,610

TOTAL ISRAEL

1,400,071

Kazakhstan - 0.7%

JSC Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan unit (a)

30,566

290,377

KazMunaiGas Exploration & Production JSC (Reg. S) GDR

8,000

199,200

TOTAL KAZAKHSTAN

489,577

Korea (South) - 10.0%

Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. (a)

23,370

463,963

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd.

5,833

354,660

Hyundai Industrial Development & Construction Co.

8,600

278,413

Hyundai Mobis

3,340

489,797

Hyundai Motor Co.

7,153

742,245

Industrial Bank of Korea (a)

26,060

312,879

KB Financial Group, Inc. (a)

13,130

672,222

Korea Exchange Bank

33,200

412,838

Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. (a)

2,120

99,812

LG Innotek Co. Ltd.

2,050

174,221

Lumens Co. Ltd. (a)

17,855

136,737

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

3,287

2,252,268

Samsung SDI Co. Ltd.

1,692

215,477

Shinhan Financial Group Co. Ltd. (a)

16,850

622,663

TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH)

7,228,195

Luxembourg - 1.1%

ArcelorMittal SA (NY Shares) Class A

6,400

292,800

Evraz Group SA GDR

13,184

372,448

Ternium SA sponsored ADR (a)

4,000

141,680

TOTAL LUXEMBOURG

806,928

Mexico - 3.4%

America Movil SAB de CV Series L sponsored ADR

25,600

1,202,688

Banco Compartamos SA de CV

17,600

90,897

Corporacion Geo SA de CV Series B (a)

69,500

184,678

Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV sponsored ADR

9,400

450,072

Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV Series O

83,100

303,996

Telmex Internacional SAB de CV Series L ADR

13,800

244,950

TOTAL MEXICO

2,477,281

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Nigeria - 0.1%

Guaranty Trust Bank PLC GDR (Reg. S)

14,400

$ 86,400

Norway - 0.1%

Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (DNO) (A Shares) (a)

56,000

48,986

Panama - 0.2%

Copa Holdings SA Class A

2,600

141,622

Papua New Guinea - 0.1%

Oil Search Ltd.

9,716

53,499

Peru - 0.4%

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA sponsored ADR

9,590

320,977

Philippines - 0.6%

Megaworld Corp.

3,210,000

102,168

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. sponsored ADR

5,400

306,018

TOTAL PHILIPPINES

408,186

Poland - 1.0%

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA (a)

7,100

400,331

Bank Zachodni WBK SA (a)

5,014

332,192

TOTAL POLAND

732,523

Russia - 9.2%

Cherkizovo Group OJSC GDR (a)

3,000

31,500

Magnit OJSC GDR (Reg. S)

19,200

304,320

Mechel Steel Group OAO sponsored ADR

12,900

242,778

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port JSC (a)

86,500

14,273

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port JSC GDR (Reg. S)

700

8,057

OAO Gazprom

8,900

54,317

OAO Gazprom sponsored ADR

60,442

1,514,072

OAO NOVATEK GDR

6,622

437,052

OAO Tatneft sponsored ADR

13,503

393,477

OGK-2 JSC (a)

423,500

13,171

OGK-6 JSC (a)

261,400

6,666

OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel sponsored ADR (a)

41,744

599,026

OJSC Oil Company Rosneft GDR (Reg. S)

74,500

640,700

Polymetal JSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

20,800

190,736

RusHydro JSC sponsored ADR (a)

49,344

188,988

Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation)

232,600

653,373

Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation) GDR

1,350

378,815

Sistema JSFC sponsored GDR (a)

14,675

308,175

Vimpel Communications sponsored ADR

24,000

446,160

VTB Bank JSC unit

37,700

177,944

TOTAL RUSSIA

6,603,600

Singapore - 0.3%

Straits Asia Resources Ltd.

124,000

230,332

 

Shares

Value

South Africa - 5.3%

African Bank Investments Ltd.

71,500

$ 287,544

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.

6,000

248,008

Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. (a)

32,464

322,449

Aveng Ltd.

53,500

288,077

Clicks Group Ltd.

69,561

255,808

Illovo Sugar Ltd.

17,116

73,707

Mr. Price Group Ltd.

48,000

226,721

MTN Group Ltd.

46,008

732,030

Mvelaphanda Resources Ltd. (a)

39,874

263,674

Raubex Group Ltd.

47,496

153,769

Shoprite Holdings Ltd.

26,988

237,538

Standard Bank Group Ltd.

38,800

534,089

Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.

76,422

214,208

TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA

3,837,622

Taiwan - 7.9%

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. sponsored ADR

40,200

178,086

Asia Cement Corp.

253,200

273,858

AU Optronics Corp. sponsored ADR

30,900

370,491

Cathay Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (a)

171,000

319,122

Epistar Corp.

27,000

101,282

First Financial Holding Co. Ltd.

564,657

350,373

Formosa Epitaxy, Inc.

114,000

190,653

Fubon Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (a)

265,000

325,555

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn)

239,232

1,132,968

Macronix International Co. Ltd.

400,506

229,111

MediaTek, Inc.

39,032

680,833

Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd.

208,560

282,622

Taiwan Mobile Co. Ltd.

167,000

325,752

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

244,609

493,194

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR

36,064

412,572

TOTAL TAIWAN

5,666,472

Thailand - 0.7%

Advanced Info Service PCL (For. Reg.)

65,000

168,087

Siam Commercial Bank PCL (For. Reg.)

125,200

324,697

Total Access Communication PCL (For. Reg.)

400

428

TOTAL THAILAND

493,212

Turkey - 2.2%

Hurriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik AS (a)

85,656

107,056

Koc Holding AS

16,000

47,266

Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi AS

84,924

267,906

Turk Hava Yollari AO

89,000

339,059

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS

106,000

449,873

Turkiye Is Bankasi AS Series C

88,929

374,450

TOTAL TURKEY

1,585,610

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

United Kingdom - 0.7%

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

10,646

$ 87,748

Tullow Oil PLC

2,458

51,841

Xstrata PLC (a)

21,851

395,875

TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM

535,464

United States of America - 0.8%

Central European Distribution Corp. (a)

7,300

207,393

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

4,800

385,392

TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

592,785

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $56,170,306)

67,994,805

Money Market Funds - 5.7%

Shares

Value

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (b)
(Cost $4,086,573)

4,086,573

$ 4,086,573

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 100.1%

(Cost $60,256,879)

72,081,378

NET OTHER ASSETS - (0.1)%

(94,894)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 71,986,484

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 6,019

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Brazil

$ 11,180,142

$ 11,180,142

$ -

$ -

Korea (South)

7,228,195

6,605,532

622,663

-

China

6,678,134

420,430

6,257,704

-

Russia

6,603,600

6,603,600

-

-

Taiwan

5,666,472

5,666,472

-

-

India

5,184,639

5,184,639

-

-

South Africa

3,837,622

3,837,622

-

-

Hong Kong

3,574,068

-

3,574,068

-

Indonesia

3,064,957

3,064,957

-

-

Other

14,976,976

14,034,200

942,776

-

Money Market Funds

4,086,573

4,086,573

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 72,081,378

$ 60,684,167

$ 11,397,211

$ -

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $4,615,107 of which $1,790,850 and $2,824,257 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $56,170,306)

$ 67,994,805

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,086,573)

4,086,573

 

Total Investments (cost $60,256,879)

 

$ 72,081,378

Cash

14,570

Foreign currency held at value (cost $11,026)

11,024

Receivable for investments sold

153,440

Receivable for fund shares sold

141,014

Dividends receivable

57,976

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

424

Prepaid expenses

188

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

16,691

Other receivables

9,423

Total assets

72,486,128

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 268,099

Accrued management fee

45,808

Distribution fees payable

60

Other affiliated payables

9,289

Other payables and accrued expenses

176,388

Total liabilities

499,644

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 71,986,484

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 65,695,206

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(5,436,095)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

11,727,373

Net Assets

$ 71,986,484

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($250,351 ÷ 29,409.4 shares)

$ 8.51

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,551 ÷ 13,772.1 shares)

$ 8.54

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,439 ÷ 13,727.5 shares)

$ 8.56

 

 

 

Initial Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($31,314,149 ÷ 3,678,469.9 shares)

$ 8.51

 

 

 

Service Class 2R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,439 ÷ 13,727.5 shares)

$ 8.56

 

 

 

Investor Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($40,069,555 ÷ 4,714,242.0 shares)

$ 8.50

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 552,011

Interest

 

9

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

6,019

 

 

558,039

Less foreign taxes withheld

 

(55,709)

Total income

 

502,330

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 250,829

Transfer agent fees

41,743

Distribution fees

2,093

Accounting fees and expenses

16,032

Custodian fees and expenses

245,770

Independent trustees' compensation

163

Audit

93,877

Legal

110

Miscellaneous

1,753

Total expenses before reductions

652,370

Expense reductions

(320,749)

331,621

Net investment income (loss)

170,709

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(1,720,774)

Foreign currency transactions

(55,463)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(1,776,237)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $97,033)

16,723,971

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(167)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

16,723,804

Net gain (loss)

14,947,567

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 15,118,276

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

For the period
January 23, 2008
(commencement of operations) to
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 170,709

$ 120,318

Net realized gain (loss)

(1,776,237)

(3,448,972)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

16,723,804

(4,996,431)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

15,118,276

(8,325,085)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(171,137)

(118,460)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

(219,436)

-

Total distributions

(390,573)

(118,460)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

48,999,079

16,664,085

Redemption fees

22,594

16,568

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

63,749,376

8,237,108

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

8,237,108

-

End of period

$ 71,986,484

$ 8,237,108

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.13

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.64

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.06)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.51

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.40%

(50.45)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.85%

3.92% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.02%

1.02% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .60%

1.54% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 250

$ 516

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .03

.12

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.65

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.07)

Distributions from net investment income

  - J

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.02)

-

Total distributions

  (.02)

(.07)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.54

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.49%

(50.53)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.02%

4.02% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.12%

1.12% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .50%

1.44% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 118

$ 396

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .02

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.66

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.08)

Distributions from net investment income

  -

(.06)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.41%

(50.65)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.17%

4.17% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.27%

1.27% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .35%

1.29% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 395

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Initial Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.63

(5.16)

Total from investment operations

  3.67

(5.05)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.51

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.40%

(50.45)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.03%

3.71% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.02%

1.02% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .60%

1.54% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 31,314

$ 3,158

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.88

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .02

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.66

(5.19)

Total from investment operations

  3.68

(5.08)

Distributions from net investment income

  -

(.06)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 4.88

Total Return B, C, D

  75.41%

(50.65)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  3.17%

4.17% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.27%

1.27% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .35%

1.29% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 395

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.87

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .04

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.63

(5.16)

Total from investment operations

  3.67

(5.06)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.03)

-

Total distributions

  (.05)

(.08)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.50

$ 4.87

Total Return B, C, D

  75.56%

(50.55)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.07%

3.81% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.18%

1.18% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.10%

1.10% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .52%

1.46% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 40,070

$ 3,377

Portfolio turnover rate G

  70%

79%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares, Initial Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares and Investor Class R shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 16, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on short term capital gains on securities of certain issuers domiciled in India. The Fund records an estimated deferred tax liability included in Other payables and accrued expenses in the accompanying Statement of Assets & Liabilities for net unrealized gains on these securities in an amount that would be payable if the securities were disposed of at period end.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 12,407,172

Gross unrealized depreciation

(1,349,306)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 11,057,866

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 61,023,512

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 25,253

Capital loss carryforward

$ (4,615,107)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 11,057,772

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 390,573

$ 118,460

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Initial Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares and Investor Class R shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $66,246,826 and $20,858,501, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .55% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .81% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's and Service Class 2R's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 349

Service Class 2

872

Service Class 2R

872

 

$ 2,093

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class R) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class R pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 496

Service Class

362

Service Class 2

362

Initial Class R

12,367

Service Class 2R

362

Investor Class R

27,794

 

$ 41,743

Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $697 for the period.

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6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $81 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

 

 

 

Initial Class

1.10%

$ 8,520

Service Class

1.20%

6,385

Service Class 2

1.35%

6,373

Initial Class R

1.10%

129,562

Service Class 2R

1.35%

6,373

Investor Class R

1.18%

138,186

 

 

$ 295,399

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $25,350 for the period.

8. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008 A

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 596

$ 7,875

Service Class

41

5,365

Service Class 2

-

4,404

Initial Class R

75,536

46,484

Service Class 2R

-

4,404

Investor Class R

94,964

49,928

Total

$ 171,137

$ 118,460

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ 762

$ -

Service Class

275

-

Service Class 2

-

-

Initial Class R

96,805

-

Service Class 2 R

-

-

Investor Class R

121,594

-

Total

$ 219,436

$ -

A For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

9. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008 A

2009

2008 A

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

16,945

107,445

$ 120,071

$ 1,068,509

Reinvestment of distributions

165

1,615

1,358

7,875

Shares redeemed

(93,578)

(3,183)

(691,714)

(22,468)

Net increase (decrease)

(76,468)

105,877

$ (570,285)

$ 1,053,916

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

38

1,098

316

5,365

Shares redeemed

(67,365)

-

(502,507)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,327)

81,099

$ (502,191)

$ 805,375

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

-

902

-

4,404

Shares redeemed

(67,175)

-

(501,199)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,175)

80,903

$ (501,199)

$ 804,414

Initial Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

3,509,051

856,743

$ 24,423,527

$ 8,037,340

Reinvestment of distributions

20,952

9,532

172,342

46,484

Shares redeemed

(499,141)

(218,667)

(3,003,566)

(1,627,362)

Net increase (decrease)

3,030,862

647,608

$ 21,592,303

$ 6,456,462

Service Class 2R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

80,001

$ -

$ 800,010

Reinvestment of distributions

-

902

-

4,404

Shares redeemed

(67,175)

-

(501,199)

-

Net increase (decrease)

(67,175)

80,903

$ (501,199)

$ 804,414

Investor Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

4,321,090

938,957

$ 31,280,354

$ 8,629,449

Reinvestment of distributions

26,389

10,240

216,557

49,928

Shares redeemed

(326,280)

(256,154)

(2,015,261)

(1,939,873)

Net increase (decrease)

4,021,199

693,043

$ 29,481,650

$ 6,739,504

A For the period January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008.

10. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of approximately 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and Shareholders of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio (the Fund), a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV, including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2009, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, and the statements of changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year ended December 31, 2009 and for the period from January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2009, by correspondence with the custodians and brokers; where replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio as of December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, and the statements of changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year ended December 31, 2009 and for the period from January 23, 2008 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2008, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 16, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Eric M. Wetlaufer (47)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of Fidelity's International Equity Funds. Mr. Wetlaufer also serves as Group Chief Investment Officer of FMR. Mr. Wetlaufer is a Director (2007-present), Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2007-present) and President and a Director (2006-present) of Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. and President and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2006-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments in 2005, Mr. Wetlaufer was a partner in Oxhead Capital Management (2004-2005).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

The Board of Trustees of VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio voted to pay to shareholders of record at the opening of business on record date, the following distributions per share derived from capital gains realized from sales of portfolio securities:

 

Pay Date

Record Date

Capital Gains

Initial Class R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

Investor Class R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

Service Class 2 R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$.003

The amounts per share which represent income derived from sources within, and taxes paid to, foreign countries or possessions of the United States are as follows:

 

Pay Date

Income

Taxes

Initial Class R

12/18/2009

$0.051

$0.006

 

12/30/2009

$0.003

$-

Investor Class R

12/18/2009

$0.051

$0.006

 

12/30/2009

$0.003

$-

Service Class 2 R

12/18/2009

$-

$-

 

12/30/2009

$-

$-

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. The Board noted that it is not possible to evaluate performance in any comprehensive fashion because the fund had been in operation for less than one calendar year. Once the fund has been in operation for at least one calendar year, the Board will review the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a broad-based securities market index and, if a meaningful peer group exists, a peer group of mutual funds.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the period of the fund's operations shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 36% means that 64% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

VIP Emerging Markets Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for the period.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

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The Board noted that the total expenses of each of Initial Class and Initial Class R ranked equal to its competitive median for the period and the total expenses of each of Investor Class R, Service Class, Service Class 2, and Service Class 2 R ranked above its competitive median for the period. The Board considered that the total expenses of Investor Class R were above the median primarily due to its higher transfer agent fee. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in some cases above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company
Quincy, MA

VIPEMR-ANN-0210
1.888698.101

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Energy Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of
fund
A

VIP Energy Portfolio - Initial Class C

47.90%

11.05%

10.59%

VIP Energy Portfolio - Investor ClassB, C

47.79%

10.94%

10.53%

A From July 19, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. If Investor Class's transfer agent fee had been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

C Prior to October 1, 2006, VIP Energy Portfolio operated under certain different investment policies. The historical performance for the fund may not represent its current investment policies.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Energy Portfolio - Initial Class on July 19, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from John Dowd, Portfolio Manager of VIP Energy Portfolio: The fund solidly outperformed the 19.44% gain of the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Energy Index, as well as the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio performance results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Despite an overweighting in oil and gas refining/marketing stocks, which underperformed other energy segments, and a couple of individual stock miscalculations, superior security selection and beneficial industry positioning propelled the fund's return past that of the MSCI benchmark. Our underweighting in weak-performing integrated oil companies, notably Exxon Mobil and Chevron, provided the biggest boost, as did overweighting more-volatile energy services stocks. In particular, large positions in low-cost natural gas exploration and production firms Southwestern Energy and Cabot Oil & Gas both generated strong returns. Additionally, surging coal prices led our overweighted stakes in coal producers Massey Energy and Foundation Coal to become key contributors. Foundation Coal was acquired by Alpha Natural Resources during the period. Disappointments included oil refiners Sunoco and Valero Energy, natural gas exploration and production firm Comstock Resources and an underweighting in strong-performing oil-services giant Schlumberger.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.70%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,275.30

$ 4.01

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.68

$ 3.57

Service Class 2

.95%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,272.60

$ 5.44

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.42

$ 4.84

Investor Class

.79%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,274.10

$ 4.53

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.22

$ 4.02

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Schlumberger Ltd.

6.7

3.7

Southwestern Energy Co.

6.0

4.9

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

5.9

5.3

XTO Energy, Inc.

5.0

0.0

Petrohawk Energy Corp.

3.7

3.4

BJ Services Co.

3.5

2.3

Massey Energy Co.

3.5

2.2

BP PLC sponsored ADR

3.5

0.0

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

3.3

1.8

Transocean Ltd.

3.3

3.8

 

44.4

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

59.1%

 

fid215

Energy Equipment & Services

36.0%

 

fid217

Electrical Equipment

2.9%

 

fid219

Construction & Engineering

0.7%

 

fid221

Gas Utilities

0.6%

 

fid223

All Others*

0.7%

 

fid344

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

58.8%

 

fid215

Energy Equipment & Services

35.3%

 

fid217

Electrical Equipment

3.3%

 

fid219

Gas Utilities

1.1%

 

fid221

Construction & Engineering

0.5%

 

fid223

All Others*

1.0%

 

cjc505

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.8%

Shares

Value

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING - 0.7%

Construction & Engineering - 0.7%

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (a)

68,400

$ 2,572,524

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 2.8%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 2.7%

centrotherm photovoltaics AG (a)

14,099

851,800

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (a)(c)

57,327

605,946

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (a)(c)

141,706

213,976

First Solar, Inc. (a)(c)

26,857

3,636,438

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

504,307

2,874,550

SunPower Corp.:

Class A (a)

12,500

296,000

Class B (a)

63,500

1,330,325

 

9,809,035

Heavy Electrical Equipment - 0.1%

Vestas Wind Systems AS (a)

7,383

450,248

TOTAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

10,259,283

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 0.3%

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.3%

Itron, Inc. (a)

14,278

964,764

ENERGY EQUIPMENT & SERVICES - 36.0%

Oil & Gas Drilling - 12.2%

Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (a)

37,270

1,336,130

Ensco International Ltd. ADR

48,300

1,929,102

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

127,451

5,082,746

Hercules Offshore, Inc. (a)

91,780

438,708

Nabors Industries Ltd. (a)

372,994

8,164,839

Noble Corp.

285,720

11,628,804

Northern Offshore Ltd. (a)

587,000

962,137

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.

64,014

982,615

Pride International, Inc. (a)

69,313

2,211,778

Transocean Ltd. (a)

147,047

12,175,492

 

44,912,351

Oil & Gas Equipment & Services - 23.8%

Baker Hughes, Inc.

20,900

846,032

Basic Energy Services, Inc. (a)

22,860

203,454

BJ Services Co.

690,860

12,849,996

Cameron International Corp. (a)

11,600

484,880

Complete Production Services, Inc. (a)

24,100

313,300

Core Laboratories NV

12,500

1,476,500

Dresser-Rand Group, Inc. (a)

20,400

644,844

Exterran Holdings, Inc. (a)

46,243

991,912

Global Industries Ltd. (a)

172,034

1,226,602

Halliburton Co.

210,774

6,342,190

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (a)

38,900

457,075

Key Energy Services, Inc. (a)

31,200

274,248

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

266,478

11,749,015

Newpark Resources, Inc. (a)

10,993

46,500

Oceaneering International, Inc. (a)

46,234

2,705,614

 

Shares

Value

Oil States International, Inc. (a)

14,100

$ 553,989

Schlumberger Ltd.

379,142

24,678,353

Smith International, Inc.

185,857

5,049,735

Superior Energy Services, Inc. (a)

102,154

2,481,321

Superior Well Services, Inc. (a)

4,800

68,448

TSC Offshore Group Ltd. (a)

746,000

267,382

Weatherford International Ltd. (a)

673,366

12,059,985

Willbros Group, Inc. (a)

108,033

1,822,517

 

87,593,892

TOTAL ENERGY EQUIPMENT & SERVICES

132,506,243

GAS UTILITIES - 0.6%

Gas Utilities - 0.6%

Questar Corp.

43,800

1,820,766

Zhongyu Gas Holdings Ltd. (a)

3,884,000

384,291

 

2,205,057

METALS & MINING - 0.3%

Diversified Metals & Mining - 0.3%

Teck Resources Ltd. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a)

35,700

1,251,106

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - 59.1%

Coal & Consumable Fuels - 10.9%

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (a)

284,383

12,336,535

Arch Coal, Inc.

357,250

7,948,813

Centennial Coal Co. Ltd.

125,698

451,633

Cloud Peak Energy, Inc.

40,000

582,400

CONSOL Energy, Inc.

112,821

5,618,486

Massey Energy Co.

304,352

12,785,828

PT Bumi Resources Tbk

1,598,000

411,157

 

40,134,852

Integrated Oil & Gas - 13.6%

BG Group PLC

58,861

1,067,338

BP PLC sponsored ADR

219,600

12,730,212

Chevron Corp.

9,876

760,353

ConocoPhillips

1,036

52,909

Hess Corp.

700

42,350

Marathon Oil Corp.

369,821

11,545,812

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

267,683

21,776,012

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class A sponsored ADR

30,800

1,851,388

 

49,826,374

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - 33.1%

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

192,051

11,987,823

Apache Corp.

62,100

6,406,857

Arena Resources, Inc. (a)

51,700

2,229,304

Brigham Exploration Co. (a)

64,900

879,395

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

239,218

10,427,513

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

48,500

3,508,304

Comstock Resources, Inc. (a)

94,920

3,850,904

Denbury Resources, Inc. (a)

71,700

1,061,160

EOG Resources, Inc.

36,200

3,522,260

EXCO Resources, Inc.

369,423

7,842,850

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - CONTINUED

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - continued

Newfield Exploration Co. (a)

78,224

$ 3,772,744

Niko Resources Ltd.

9,100

852,272

OPTI Canada, Inc. (a)

80,500

155,537

Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. Class A (a)

67,000

369,866

Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. (a)

14,200

692,126

Petrohawk Energy Corp. (a)

561,869

13,479,237

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

8,000

385,360

Range Resources Corp.

43,263

2,156,661

Southwestern Energy Co. (a)

457,412

22,047,258

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (a)

57,700

2,876,922

Whiting Petroleum Corp. (a)

67,483

4,821,660

XTO Energy, Inc.

392,346

18,255,859

 

121,581,872

Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing - 1.5%

Frontier Oil Corp.

220,081

2,649,775

Tesoro Corp. (c)

23,800

322,490

Valero Energy Corp.

92,857

1,555,355

World Fuel Services Corp. (c)

35,600

953,724

 

5,481,344

Oil & Gas Storage & Transport - 0.0%

Williams Companies, Inc.

1,950

41,106

TOTAL OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS

217,065,548

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $341,858,716)

366,824,525

Convertible Bonds - 0.1%

 

Principal Amount

Value

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 0.1%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 0.1%

SunPower Corp. 4.75% 4/15/14
(Cost $180,000)

$ 180,000

$ 204,084

Money Market Funds - 2.3%

Shares

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

1,249,124

1,249,124

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

7,275,800

7,275,800

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $8,524,924)

8,524,924

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 102.2%

(Cost $350,563,640)

375,553,533

NET OTHER ASSETS - (2.2)%

(7,935,676)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 367,617,857

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 11,089

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

91,251

Total

$ 102,340

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 366,824,525

$ 366,172,852

$ 651,673

$ -

Convertible Bonds

204,084

-

204,084

-

Money Market Funds

8,524,924

8,524,924

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 375,553,533

$ 374,697,776

$ 855,757

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

74.0%

Switzerland

9.8%

Netherlands Antilles

6.7%

United Kingdom

4.8%

Canada

2.6%

Cayman Islands

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

1.1%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $53,390,490 all of which will expire on December 31, 2017.

The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending December 31, 2010 approximately $6,746,004 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $6,976,900) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $342,038,716)

$ 367,028,609

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $8,524,924)

8,524,924

 

Total Investments (cost $350,563,640)

 

$ 375,553,533

Foreign currency held at value (cost $264)

264

Receivable for investments sold

 

18,613

Receivable for fund shares sold

74,538

Dividends receivable

297,167

Interest receivable

1,809

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

12,040

Prepaid expenses

1,535

Other receivables

5,021

Total assets

375,964,520

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 3,002

Payable for fund shares redeemed

789,791

Accrued management fee

168,164

Distribution fees payable

25,635

Other affiliated payables

37,693

Other payables and accrued expenses

46,580

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

7,275,800

Total liabilities

8,346,665

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 367,617,855

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 409,767,096

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(67,138,007)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

24,988,766

Net Assets

$ 367,617,855

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($152,028,085 ÷ 9,007,753 shares)

$ 16.88

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($125,668,857 ÷ 7,483,624 shares)

$ 16.79

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($89,920,913 ÷ 5,337,748 shares)

$ 16.85

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 3,600,772

Interest

 

5,664

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

102,340

Total income

 

3,708,776

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 1,774,478

Transfer agent fees

320,243

Distribution fees

266,327

Accounting and security lending fees

124,927

Custodian fees and expenses

14,812

Independent trustees' compensation

2,184

Registration fees

123

Audit

41,945

Legal

1,863

Miscellaneous

29,151

Total expenses before reductions

2,576,053

Expense reductions

(15,112)

2,560,941

Net investment income (loss)

1,147,835

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(28,865,515)

Foreign currency transactions

(79,207)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(28,944,722)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

147,681,525

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(468)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

147,681,057

Net gain (loss)

118,736,335

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 119,884,170

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 1,147,835

$ 197,135

Net realized gain (loss)

(28,944,722)

(26,219,761)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

147,681,057

(343,580,729)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

119,884,170

(369,603,355)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(1,156,325)

(275,275)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(18,707,189)

Total distributions

(1,156,325)

(18,982,464)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(14,569,173)

(29,506,360)

Redemption fees

154,874

458,118

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

104,313,546

(417,634,061)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

263,304,309

680,938,370

End of period

$ 367,617,855

$ 263,304,309

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.46

$ 26.55

$ 19.04

$ 18.92

$ 13.62

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.03

.07

.09

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.41

(14.31)

8.62

3.09

6.20

Total from investment operations

  5.48

(14.28)

8.69

3.18

6.30

Distributions from net investment income

  (.07)

(.03)

(.06)

(.16)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.94)

Total distributions

  (.07)

(.83)

(1.19)

(3.07)

(1.02)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.88

$ 11.46

$ 26.55

$ 19.04

$ 18.92

Total Return A, B

  47.90%

(54.26)%

45.97%

16.91%

46.31%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .71%

.70%

.70%

.71%

.72%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .71%

.70%

.70%

.71%

.72%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .70%

.69%

.70%

.70%

.66%

Net investment income (loss)

  .47%

.13%

.31%

.43%

.56%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 152,028

$ 117,940

$ 355,854

$ 280,537

$ 334,368

Portfolio turnover rate E

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.40

$ 26.44

$ 18.98

$ 18.90

$ 15.80

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .03

(.03)

.02

.04

.04

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.38

(14.23)

8.58

3.07

4.04

Total from investment operations

  5.41

(14.26)

8.60

3.11

4.08

Distributions from net investment income

  (.03)

-

(.02)

(.13)

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.92)

Total distributions

  (.03)

(.80)

(1.15)

(3.04)

(.99)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.79

$ 11.40

$ 26.44

$ 18.98

$ 18.90

Total Return B, C, D

  47.57%

(54.40)%

45.64%

16.55%

25.80%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .96%

.95%

.95%

.96%

.97% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .96%

.95%

.95%

.96%

.97% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .95%

.94%

.94%

.95%

.91% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .22%

(.12)%

.07%

.18%

.31% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 125,669

$ 90,109

$ 193,887

$ 70,305

$ 20,211

Portfolio turnover rate G

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period April 6, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.44

$ 26.49

$ 19.00

$ 18.91

$ 16.76

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .05

.01

.05

.06

.03

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.41

(14.28)

8.61

3.08

3.11

Total from investment operations

  5.46

(14.27)

8.66

3.14

3.14

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

- J

(.05)

(.15)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.92)

Total distributions

  (.06)

(.80)

(1.18)

(3.06)

(1.00)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.85

$ 11.44

$ 26.49

$ 19.00

$ 18.91

Total Return B, C, D

  47.79%

(54.32)%

45.88%

16.69%

18.73%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .81%

.79%

.81%

.84%

.91% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .81%

.79%

.81%

.84%

.91% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .80%

.78%

.81%

.82%

.85% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .37%

.04%

.20%

.31%

.37% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 89,921

$ 55,256

$ 131,198

$ 51,436

$ 16,402

Portfolio turnover rate G

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Energy Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated quotations received from independent pricing services or from dealers who make markets in such securities. For corporate bonds, pricing services utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type as well as dealer supplied prices and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing matrices which consider similar factors that would be used by independent pricing services. These are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 70,597,312

Gross unrealized depreciation

(52,608,932)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 17,988,380

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 357,565,153

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (53,390,490)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 17,987,253

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 1,156,325

$ 2,562,622

Long-term Capital Gains

-

16,419,842

Total

$ 1,156,325

$ 18,982,464

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $347,708,014 and $356,645,998, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted a separate 12b-1 Plan for Service Class 2 shares. Service Class 2 pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.

For the period, Service Class 2 paid FDC $266,327, all of which was re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 109,902

Service Class 2

82,533

Investor Class

127,808

 

$ 320,243

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $2,329 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $1,529 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $91,251.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $15,112 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 612,974

$ 256,873

Service Class 2

245,394

-

Investor Class

297,957

18,402

Total

$ 1,156,325

$ 275,275

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 8,939,423

Service Class 2

-

6,049,173

Investor Class

-

3,718,593

Total

$ -

$ 18,707,189

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,204,844

1,984,359

$ 16,607,740

$ 49,227,554

Reinvestment of distributions

36,815

627,226

612,974

9,196,296

Shares redeemed

(2,529,302)

(5,719,043)

(35,099,465)

(116,160,558)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,287,643)

(3,107,458)

$ (17,878,751)

$ (57,736,708)

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,896,791

3,461,499

$ 25,683,905

$ 81,684,684

Reinvestment of distributions

14,810

428,438

245,394

6,049,173

Shares redeemed

(2,330,582)

(3,320,478)

(30,821,580)

(66,620,993)

Net increase (decrease)

(418,981)

569,459

$ (4,892,281)

$ 21,112,864

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,690,015

2,051,429

$ 23,990,831

$ 52,822,887

Reinvestment of distributions

17,928

264,475

297,957

3,736,995

Shares redeemed

(1,201,221)

(2,438,344)

(16,086,929)

(49,442,398)

Net increase (decrease)

506,722

(122,440)

$ 8,201,859

$ 7,117,484

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 66% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund and one otherwise unaffiliated shareholder was the owner of record of 34% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Energy Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Energy Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Energy Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Energy Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark"). The returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest performing class (based on five-year performance) and the lowest performing class (based on three-year performance), respectively.

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's below-benchmark performance. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Energy Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

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The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Custodian

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
Quincy, MA

VNRIC-ANN-0210
1.817379.104

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Energy Portfolio: Service Class 2

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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To view a fund's proxy voting guidelines and proxy voting record for the 12-month period ended June 30, visit http://www.fidelity.com/proxyvotingresults or visit the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.

Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of
fund
A

VIP Energy Portfolio - Service Class 2 B, C

47.57%

10.78%

10.43%

A From July 19, 2001.

B The initial offering of Service Class 2 shares took place on April 6, 2005. Performance for Service Class 2 shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee). Returns prior to April 6, 2005 are those of Initial Class and do not include the effects of Service Class 2's 12b-1 fee. Had Service Class 2's 12b-1 fee been reflected, returns prior to April 6, 2005 would have been lower.

C Prior to October 1, 2006, VIP Energy Portfolio operated under certain different investment policies. The historical performance for the fund may not represent its current investment policies.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Energy Portfolio - Service Class 2 on July 19, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period. The initial offering of Service Class 2 took place on April 6, 2005. See above for additional information regarding the performance of Service Class 2.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from John Dowd, Portfolio Manager of VIP Energy Portfolio: The fund solidly outperformed the 19.44% gain of the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Energy Index, as well as the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio performance results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Despite an overweighting in oil and gas refining/marketing stocks, which underperformed other energy segments, and a couple of individual stock miscalculations, superior security selection and beneficial industry positioning propelled the fund's return past that of the MSCI benchmark. Our underweighting in weak-performing integrated oil companies, notably Exxon Mobil and Chevron, provided the biggest boost, as did overweighting more-volatile energy services stocks. In particular, large positions in low-cost natural gas exploration and production firms Southwestern Energy and Cabot Oil & Gas both generated strong returns. Additionally, surging coal prices led our overweighted stakes in coal producers Massey Energy and Foundation Coal to become key contributors. Foundation Coal was acquired by Alpha Natural Resources during the period. Disappointments included oil refiners Sunoco and Valero Energy, natural gas exploration and production firm Comstock Resources and an underweighting in strong-performing oil-services giant Schlumberger.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.70%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,275.30

$ 4.01

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.68

$ 3.57

Service Class 2

.95%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,272.60

$ 5.44

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.42

$ 4.84

Investor Class

.79%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,274.10

$ 4.53

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.22

$ 4.02

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Schlumberger Ltd.

6.7

3.7

Southwestern Energy Co.

6.0

4.9

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

5.9

5.3

XTO Energy, Inc.

5.0

0.0

Petrohawk Energy Corp.

3.7

3.4

BJ Services Co.

3.5

2.3

Massey Energy Co.

3.5

2.2

BP PLC sponsored ADR

3.5

0.0

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

3.3

1.8

Transocean Ltd.

3.3

3.8

 

44.4

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

59.1%

 

fid215

Energy Equipment & Services

36.0%

 

fid217

Electrical Equipment

2.9%

 

fid219

Construction & Engineering

0.7%

 

fid221

Gas Utilities

0.6%

 

fid223

All Others*

0.7%

 

fid376

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

58.8%

 

fid215

Energy Equipment & Services

35.3%

 

fid217

Electrical Equipment

3.3%

 

fid219

Gas Utilities

1.1%

 

fid221

Construction & Engineering

0.5%

 

fid223

All Others*

1.0%

 

cjc505

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.8%

Shares

Value

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING - 0.7%

Construction & Engineering - 0.7%

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (a)

68,400

$ 2,572,524

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 2.8%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 2.7%

centrotherm photovoltaics AG (a)

14,099

851,800

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (a)(c)

57,327

605,946

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (a)(c)

141,706

213,976

First Solar, Inc. (a)(c)

26,857

3,636,438

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

504,307

2,874,550

SunPower Corp.:

Class A (a)

12,500

296,000

Class B (a)

63,500

1,330,325

 

9,809,035

Heavy Electrical Equipment - 0.1%

Vestas Wind Systems AS (a)

7,383

450,248

TOTAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

10,259,283

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 0.3%

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.3%

Itron, Inc. (a)

14,278

964,764

ENERGY EQUIPMENT & SERVICES - 36.0%

Oil & Gas Drilling - 12.2%

Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (a)

37,270

1,336,130

Ensco International Ltd. ADR

48,300

1,929,102

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

127,451

5,082,746

Hercules Offshore, Inc. (a)

91,780

438,708

Nabors Industries Ltd. (a)

372,994

8,164,839

Noble Corp.

285,720

11,628,804

Northern Offshore Ltd. (a)

587,000

962,137

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.

64,014

982,615

Pride International, Inc. (a)

69,313

2,211,778

Transocean Ltd. (a)

147,047

12,175,492

 

44,912,351

Oil & Gas Equipment & Services - 23.8%

Baker Hughes, Inc.

20,900

846,032

Basic Energy Services, Inc. (a)

22,860

203,454

BJ Services Co.

690,860

12,849,996

Cameron International Corp. (a)

11,600

484,880

Complete Production Services, Inc. (a)

24,100

313,300

Core Laboratories NV

12,500

1,476,500

Dresser-Rand Group, Inc. (a)

20,400

644,844

Exterran Holdings, Inc. (a)

46,243

991,912

Global Industries Ltd. (a)

172,034

1,226,602

Halliburton Co.

210,774

6,342,190

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (a)

38,900

457,075

Key Energy Services, Inc. (a)

31,200

274,248

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

266,478

11,749,015

Newpark Resources, Inc. (a)

10,993

46,500

Oceaneering International, Inc. (a)

46,234

2,705,614

 

Shares

Value

Oil States International, Inc. (a)

14,100

$ 553,989

Schlumberger Ltd.

379,142

24,678,353

Smith International, Inc.

185,857

5,049,735

Superior Energy Services, Inc. (a)

102,154

2,481,321

Superior Well Services, Inc. (a)

4,800

68,448

TSC Offshore Group Ltd. (a)

746,000

267,382

Weatherford International Ltd. (a)

673,366

12,059,985

Willbros Group, Inc. (a)

108,033

1,822,517

 

87,593,892

TOTAL ENERGY EQUIPMENT & SERVICES

132,506,243

GAS UTILITIES - 0.6%

Gas Utilities - 0.6%

Questar Corp.

43,800

1,820,766

Zhongyu Gas Holdings Ltd. (a)

3,884,000

384,291

 

2,205,057

METALS & MINING - 0.3%

Diversified Metals & Mining - 0.3%

Teck Resources Ltd. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a)

35,700

1,251,106

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - 59.1%

Coal & Consumable Fuels - 10.9%

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (a)

284,383

12,336,535

Arch Coal, Inc.

357,250

7,948,813

Centennial Coal Co. Ltd.

125,698

451,633

Cloud Peak Energy, Inc.

40,000

582,400

CONSOL Energy, Inc.

112,821

5,618,486

Massey Energy Co.

304,352

12,785,828

PT Bumi Resources Tbk

1,598,000

411,157

 

40,134,852

Integrated Oil & Gas - 13.6%

BG Group PLC

58,861

1,067,338

BP PLC sponsored ADR

219,600

12,730,212

Chevron Corp.

9,876

760,353

ConocoPhillips

1,036

52,909

Hess Corp.

700

42,350

Marathon Oil Corp.

369,821

11,545,812

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

267,683

21,776,012

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class A sponsored ADR

30,800

1,851,388

 

49,826,374

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - 33.1%

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

192,051

11,987,823

Apache Corp.

62,100

6,406,857

Arena Resources, Inc. (a)

51,700

2,229,304

Brigham Exploration Co. (a)

64,900

879,395

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

239,218

10,427,513

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

48,500

3,508,304

Comstock Resources, Inc. (a)

94,920

3,850,904

Denbury Resources, Inc. (a)

71,700

1,061,160

EOG Resources, Inc.

36,200

3,522,260

EXCO Resources, Inc.

369,423

7,842,850

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - CONTINUED

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - continued

Newfield Exploration Co. (a)

78,224

$ 3,772,744

Niko Resources Ltd.

9,100

852,272

OPTI Canada, Inc. (a)

80,500

155,537

Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. Class A (a)

67,000

369,866

Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. (a)

14,200

692,126

Petrohawk Energy Corp. (a)

561,869

13,479,237

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

8,000

385,360

Range Resources Corp.

43,263

2,156,661

Southwestern Energy Co. (a)

457,412

22,047,258

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (a)

57,700

2,876,922

Whiting Petroleum Corp. (a)

67,483

4,821,660

XTO Energy, Inc.

392,346

18,255,859

 

121,581,872

Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing - 1.5%

Frontier Oil Corp.

220,081

2,649,775

Tesoro Corp. (c)

23,800

322,490

Valero Energy Corp.

92,857

1,555,355

World Fuel Services Corp. (c)

35,600

953,724

 

5,481,344

Oil & Gas Storage & Transport - 0.0%

Williams Companies, Inc.

1,950

41,106

TOTAL OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS

217,065,548

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $341,858,716)

366,824,525

Convertible Bonds - 0.1%

 

Principal Amount

Value

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 0.1%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 0.1%

SunPower Corp. 4.75% 4/15/14
(Cost $180,000)

$ 180,000

$ 204,084

Money Market Funds - 2.3%

Shares

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

1,249,124

1,249,124

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

7,275,800

7,275,800

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $8,524,924)

8,524,924

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 102.2%

(Cost $350,563,640)

375,553,533

NET OTHER ASSETS - (2.2)%

(7,935,676)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 367,617,857

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 11,089

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

91,251

Total

$ 102,340

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 366,824,525

$ 366,172,852

$ 651,673

$ -

Convertible Bonds

204,084

-

204,084

-

Money Market Funds

8,524,924

8,524,924

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 375,553,533

$ 374,697,776

$ 855,757

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

74.0%

Switzerland

9.8%

Netherlands Antilles

6.7%

United Kingdom

4.8%

Canada

2.6%

Cayman Islands

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

1.1%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $53,390,490 all of which will expire on December 31, 2017.

The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending December 31, 2010 approximately $6,746,004 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $6,976,900) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $342,038,716)

$ 367,028,609

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $8,524,924)

8,524,924

 

Total Investments (cost $350,563,640)

 

$ 375,553,533

Foreign currency held at value (cost $264)

264

Receivable for investments sold

 

18,613

Receivable for fund shares sold

74,538

Dividends receivable

297,167

Interest receivable

1,809

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

12,040

Prepaid expenses

1,535

Other receivables

5,021

Total assets

375,964,520

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 3,002

Payable for fund shares redeemed

789,791

Accrued management fee

168,164

Distribution fees payable

25,635

Other affiliated payables

37,693

Other payables and accrued expenses

46,580

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

7,275,800

Total liabilities

8,346,665

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 367,617,855

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 409,767,096

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(67,138,007)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

24,988,766

Net Assets

$ 367,617,855

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($152,028,085 ÷ 9,007,753 shares)

$ 16.88

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($125,668,857 ÷ 7,483,624 shares)

$ 16.79

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($89,920,913 ÷ 5,337,748 shares)

$ 16.85

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 3,600,772

Interest

 

5,664

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

102,340

Total income

 

3,708,776

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 1,774,478

Transfer agent fees

320,243

Distribution fees

266,327

Accounting and security lending fees

124,927

Custodian fees and expenses

14,812

Independent trustees' compensation

2,184

Registration fees

123

Audit

41,945

Legal

1,863

Miscellaneous

29,151

Total expenses before reductions

2,576,053

Expense reductions

(15,112)

2,560,941

Net investment income (loss)

1,147,835

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(28,865,515)

Foreign currency transactions

(79,207)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(28,944,722)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

147,681,525

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(468)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

147,681,057

Net gain (loss)

118,736,335

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 119,884,170

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 1,147,835

$ 197,135

Net realized gain (loss)

(28,944,722)

(26,219,761)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

147,681,057

(343,580,729)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

119,884,170

(369,603,355)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(1,156,325)

(275,275)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(18,707,189)

Total distributions

(1,156,325)

(18,982,464)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(14,569,173)

(29,506,360)

Redemption fees

154,874

458,118

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

104,313,546

(417,634,061)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

263,304,309

680,938,370

End of period

$ 367,617,855

$ 263,304,309

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.46

$ 26.55

$ 19.04

$ 18.92

$ 13.62

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.03

.07

.09

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.41

(14.31)

8.62

3.09

6.20

Total from investment operations

  5.48

(14.28)

8.69

3.18

6.30

Distributions from net investment income

  (.07)

(.03)

(.06)

(.16)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.94)

Total distributions

  (.07)

(.83)

(1.19)

(3.07)

(1.02)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.02

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.88

$ 11.46

$ 26.55

$ 19.04

$ 18.92

Total Return A, B

  47.90%

(54.26)%

45.97%

16.91%

46.31%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .71%

.70%

.70%

.71%

.72%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .71%

.70%

.70%

.71%

.72%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .70%

.69%

.70%

.70%

.66%

Net investment income (loss)

  .47%

.13%

.31%

.43%

.56%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 152,028

$ 117,940

$ 355,854

$ 280,537

$ 334,368

Portfolio turnover rate E

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.40

$ 26.44

$ 18.98

$ 18.90

$ 15.80

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .03

(.03)

.02

.04

.04

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.38

(14.23)

8.58

3.07

4.04

Total from investment operations

  5.41

(14.26)

8.60

3.11

4.08

Distributions from net investment income

  (.03)

-

(.02)

(.13)

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.92)

Total distributions

  (.03)

(.80)

(1.15)

(3.04)

(.99)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.79

$ 11.40

$ 26.44

$ 18.98

$ 18.90

Total Return B, C, D

  47.57%

(54.40)%

45.64%

16.55%

25.80%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .96%

.95%

.95%

.96%

.97% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .96%

.95%

.95%

.96%

.97% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .95%

.94%

.94%

.95%

.91% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .22%

(.12)%

.07%

.18%

.31% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 125,669

$ 90,109

$ 193,887

$ 70,305

$ 20,211

Portfolio turnover rate G

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period April 6, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 11.44

$ 26.49

$ 19.00

$ 18.91

$ 16.76

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .05

.01

.05

.06

.03

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  5.41

(14.28)

8.61

3.08

3.11

Total from investment operations

  5.46

(14.27)

8.66

3.14

3.14

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

- J

(.05)

(.15)

(.08)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.80)

(1.13)

(2.91)

(.92)

Total distributions

  (.06)

(.80)

(1.18)

(3.06)

(1.00)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.02

.01

.01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 16.85

$ 11.44

$ 26.49

$ 19.00

$ 18.91

Total Return B, C, D

  47.79%

(54.32)%

45.88%

16.69%

18.73%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .81%

.79%

.81%

.84%

.91% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .81%

.79%

.81%

.84%

.91% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .80%

.78%

.81%

.82%

.85% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .37%

.04%

.20%

.31%

.37% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 89,921

$ 55,256

$ 131,198

$ 51,436

$ 16,402

Portfolio turnover rate G

  113%

130%

61%

151%

107%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Energy Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated quotations received from independent pricing services or from dealers who make markets in such securities. For corporate bonds, pricing services utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type as well as dealer supplied prices and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing matrices which consider similar factors that would be used by independent pricing services. These are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 70,597,312

Gross unrealized depreciation

(52,608,932)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 17,988,380

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 357,565,153

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (53,390,490)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 17,987,253

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 1,156,325

$ 2,562,622

Long-term Capital Gains

-

16,419,842

Total

$ 1,156,325

$ 18,982,464

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $347,708,014 and $356,645,998, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted a separate 12b-1 Plan for Service Class 2 shares. Service Class 2 pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.

For the period, Service Class 2 paid FDC $266,327, all of which was re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 109,902

Service Class 2

82,533

Investor Class

127,808

 

$ 320,243

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $2,329 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $1,529 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $91,251.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $15,112 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 612,974

$ 256,873

Service Class 2

245,394

-

Investor Class

297,957

18,402

Total

$ 1,156,325

$ 275,275

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 8,939,423

Service Class 2

-

6,049,173

Investor Class

-

3,718,593

Total

$ -

$ 18,707,189

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,204,844

1,984,359

$ 16,607,740

$ 49,227,554

Reinvestment of distributions

36,815

627,226

612,974

9,196,296

Shares redeemed

(2,529,302)

(5,719,043)

(35,099,465)

(116,160,558)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,287,643)

(3,107,458)

$ (17,878,751)

$ (57,736,708)

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,896,791

3,461,499

$ 25,683,905

$ 81,684,684

Reinvestment of distributions

14,810

428,438

245,394

6,049,173

Shares redeemed

(2,330,582)

(3,320,478)

(30,821,580)

(66,620,993)

Net increase (decrease)

(418,981)

569,459

$ (4,892,281)

$ 21,112,864

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,690,015

2,051,429

$ 23,990,831

$ 52,822,887

Reinvestment of distributions

17,928

264,475

297,957

3,736,995

Shares redeemed

(1,201,221)

(2,438,344)

(16,086,929)

(49,442,398)

Net increase (decrease)

506,722

(122,440)

$ 8,201,859

$ 7,117,484

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 66% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund and one otherwise unaffiliated shareholder was the owner of record of 34% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Energy Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Energy Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Energy Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Service Class 2 designates 100% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Energy Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark"). The returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest performing class (based on five-year performance) and the lowest performing class (based on three-year performance), respectively.

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's below-benchmark performance. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Energy Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

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The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Custodian

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
Quincy, MA

VNR2-ANN-0210
1.826359.105

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Financial Services Portfolio

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy andoutlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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To view a fund's proxy voting guidelines and proxy voting record for the 12-month period ended June 30, visit http://www.fidelity.com/proxyvotingresults or visit the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.

Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

Standard & Poor's, S&P and S&P 500 are registered service marks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Fidelity Distributors Corporation.

Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Financial Services - Initial Class

27.30%

-7.18%

-1.76%

VIP Financial Services - Investor Class B

27.30%

-7.28%

-1.82%

A From July 18, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Financial Services Portfolio - Initial Class on July 18, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Benjamin Hesse, Portfolio Manager of VIP Financial Services Portfolio: For the 12 months ending December 31, 2009, the fund significantly outperformed the 14.38% return of its sector benchmark, the MSCI® U.S. Investable Market Financials Index, and came out slightly ahead of the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Stock selection was the strongest contributor to results, although industry weightings were also helpful, particularly in investment banking/brokerage, life/health insurance, regional banks and property/casualty insurance. Conversely, the fund lost ground in other diversified financial services and real estate development. Stock selection was weak among investment banking/brokerage and regional banks, but largely offset by favorable industry weightings. My focus remained on stocks with attractive valuations and shifts in earnings that could predict a turnaround. Top performers included Genworth Financial, a multi-line insurer that benefited from not having to raise capital, as well as BM&F BOVESPA, a Brazilian stock and futures exchange that is not in the MSCI index, and CME Group, which runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Both exchanges did well as trading volumes picked up, leading me to take profits and sell CME. In addition, Principal Financial, a life insurer, gained as the rising stock market boosted the value of its investment portfolio. The fund was hurt by an underweighting in Bank of America - within other diversified financial services - as the stock rallied. In addition, KeyCorp, a Midwest regional bank, fell sharply following a poorly executed capital raise. Cash holdings also hindered results in a strong up market.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the fund and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.88%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,180.40

$ 4.84

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.77

$ 4.48

Investor Class

.98%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,180.10

$ 5.39

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.27

$ 4.99

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Citigroup, Inc.

5.2

0.4

Morgan Stanley

5.1

5.0

Charles Schwab Corp.

5.0

0.0

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

4.3

2.1

Bank of America Corp.

4.3

3.8

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.1

3.8

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

3.8

0.0

State Street Corp.

3.7

0.0

Moody's Corp.

3.4

0.0

Wells Fargo & Co.

3.2

1.6

 

42.1

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Capital Markets

34.7%

 

fid215

Commercial Banks

20.9%

 

fid217

Diversified Financial Services

17.9%

 

fid219

Insurance

8.2%

 

fid221

IT Services

6.4%

 

fid223

All Others*

11.9%

 

fid406

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Capital Markets

27.6%

 

fid215

Insurance

18.6%

 

fid217

Diversified Financial Services

15.7%

 

fid219

Commercial Banks

15.2%

 

fid221

IT Services

6.3%

 

fid223

All Others*

16.6%

 

fid284

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 98.9%

Shares

Value

CAPITAL MARKETS - 34.7%

Asset Management & Custody Banks - 15.5%

AllianceBernstein Holding LP

17,400

$ 488,940

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

49,745

1,391,368

Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd. Series B (Reg.)

11,070

418,018

EFG International

45,068

622,408

Franklin Resources, Inc.

4,174

439,731

GLG Partners, Inc. (a)

4,700

15,134

Janus Capital Group, Inc.

9,800

131,810

Legg Mason, Inc.

13,962

421,094

State Street Corp.

31,200

1,358,448

The Blackstone Group LP

26,000

341,120

U.S. Global Investments, Inc. Class A

7,800

96,018

 

5,724,089

Investment Banking & Brokerage - 19.2%

Broadpoint Gleacher Securities Group, Inc. (a)

164,201

732,336

Charles Schwab Corp.

97,442

1,833,858

Evercore Partners, Inc. Class A

12,426

377,750

GFI Group, Inc.

103,839

474,544

Jefferies Group, Inc. (a)

20,550

487,652

Lazard Ltd. Class A

7,400

280,978

MF Global Ltd. (a)

129,647

901,047

Morgan Stanley

63,750

1,887,000

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (a)

5,300

102,714

 

7,077,879

TOTAL CAPITAL MARKETS

12,801,968

COMMERCIAL BANKS - 20.9%

Diversified Banks - 13.4%

Banco Macro SA sponsored ADR (c)

25,100

746,976

Barclays PLC Sponsored ADR (c)

65,400

1,151,040

BBVA Banco Frances SA sponsored ADR

19,068

119,938

China Citic Bank Corp. Ltd. Class H

1,173,000

992,865

China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

30,500

79,355

Comerica, Inc.

7,900

233,603

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

75,400

135,658

U.S. Bancorp, Delaware

15,300

344,403

Wells Fargo & Co.

43,012

1,160,894

 

4,964,732

Regional Banks - 7.5%

Fifth Third Bancorp

12,000

117,000

Glacier Bancorp, Inc. (c)

21,060

288,943

Huntington Bancshares, Inc.

22,400

81,760

KeyCorp

131,700

730,935

Nara Bancorp, Inc.

8,916

101,107

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

497

26,237

Regions Financial Corp.

17,500

92,575

SVB Financial Group (a)

10,488

437,245

 

Shares

Value

Umpqua Holdings Corp.

25,467

$ 341,512

Wintrust Financial Corp.

17,504

538,948

 

2,756,262

TOTAL COMMERCIAL BANKS

7,720,994

CONSUMER FINANCE - 0.1%

Consumer Finance - 0.1%

Promise Co. Ltd. (c)

5,850

44,922

DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES - 1.3%

Specialized Consumer Services - 1.3%

Sotheby's Class A (ltd. vtg.) (c)

20,796

467,494

DIVERSIFIED FINANCIAL SERVICES - 17.2%

Other Diversified Financial Services - 13.6%

Bank of America Corp. (c)

104,700

1,576,782

Citigroup, Inc.

575,600

1,905,239

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

36,538

1,522,538

 

5,004,559

Specialized Finance - 3.6%

BM&F BOVESPA SA

3,000

21,222

JSE Ltd.

5,300

43,115

Moody's Corp. (c)

47,247

1,266,220

 

1,330,557

TOTAL DIVERSIFIED FINANCIAL SERVICES

6,335,116

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE - 0.2%

Casinos & Gaming - 0.2%

Wynn Macau Ltd.

63,200

76,985

INSURANCE - 8.2%

Insurance Brokers - 0.3%

Aon Corp.

2,700

103,518

Life & Health Insurance - 0.2%

Principal Financial Group, Inc.

3,642

87,554

Multi-Line Insurance - 3.7%

Assurant, Inc.

6,700

197,516

Genworth Financial, Inc. Class A (a)

78,995

896,593

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

12,360

287,494

 

1,381,603

Property & Casualty Insurance - 2.4%

CNA Financial Corp. (a)

18,904

453,696

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

22,500

412,425

 

866,121

Reinsurance - 1.6%

Everest Re Group Ltd.

4,918

421,374

Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.

500

26,055

Validus Holdings Ltd.

4,682

126,133

 

573,562

TOTAL INSURANCE

3,012,358

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

INTERNET SOFTWARE & SERVICES - 0.9%

Internet Software & Services - 0.9%

China Finance Online Co. Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

45,847

$ 334,683

IT SERVICES - 6.4%

Data Processing & Outsourced Services - 5.9%

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (a)

45,591

1,000,722

MasterCard, Inc. Class A

2,600

665,548

MoneyGram International, Inc. (a)

116,068

334,276

Visa, Inc. Class A

1,957

171,159

 

2,171,705

IT Consulting & Other Services - 0.5%

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A (a)

3,200

144,960

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. sponsored ADR (a)

10,700

49,327

 

194,287

TOTAL IT SERVICES

2,365,992

MEDIA - 4.7%

Advertising - 0.4%

SearchMedia Holdings Ltd. (a)

21,200

154,972

Publishing - 4.3%

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

47,204

1,581,806

TOTAL MEDIA

1,736,778

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS - 0.4%

Residential REITs - 0.4%

UDR, Inc.

9,075

149,193

REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT - 2.9%

Diversified Real Estate Activities - 0.4%

Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd.

9,000

143,762

Real Estate Development - 2.5%

Central China Real Estate Ltd.

491,000

139,947

Xinyuan Real Estate Co. Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

173,786

776,823

 

916,770

TOTAL REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

1,060,532

ROAD & RAIL - 0.6%

Trucking - 0.6%

Arkansas Best Corp.

5,967

175,609

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (a)(c)

2,207

56,521

 

232,130

 

Shares

Value

SPECIALTY RETAIL - 0.1%

Home Improvement Retail - 0.1%

Home Depot, Inc.

1,360

$ 39,345

THRIFTS & MORTGAGE FINANCE - 0.3%

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.3%

Washington Federal, Inc.

6,214

120,179

Washington Mutual, Inc. (a)

16,757

2,337

 

122,516

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $33,872,806)

36,501,006

Convertible Preferred Stocks - 0.7%

 

 

 

 

DIVERSIFIED FINANCIAL SERVICES - 0.7%

Other Diversified Financial Services - 0.7%

Bank of America Corp.
(Cost $262,500)

17,500

261,100

Money Market Funds - 13.4%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

124,592

124,592

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

4,832,200

4,832,200

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $4,956,792)

4,956,792

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 113.0%

(Cost $39,092,098)

41,718,898

NET OTHER ASSETS - (13.0)%

(4,809,689)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 36,909,209

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 5,150

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

185,726

Total

$ 190,876

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 36,501,006

$ 34,887,512

$ 1,613,494

$ -

Convertible Preferred Stocks

261,100

261,100

-

-

Money Market Funds

4,956,792

4,956,792

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 41,718,898

$ 40,105,404

$ 1,613,494

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

79.0%

Bermuda

4.7%

China

3.8%

United Kingdom

3.1%

Cayman Islands

3.1%

Switzerland

2.8%

Argentina

2.3%

Others (individually less than 1%)

1.2%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $13,962,996 of which $5,800,488 and $8,162,508 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $4,695,488) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $34,135,306)

$ 36,762,106

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,956,792)

4,956,792

 

Total Investments (cost $39,092,098)

 

$ 41,718,898

Receivable for investments sold

1,466,814

Receivable for fund shares sold

8,805

Dividends receivable

10,712

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

2,093

Prepaid expenses

201

Other receivables

3,866

Total assets

43,211,389

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable to custodian bank

$ 710,550

Payable for investments purchased

611,289

Payable for fund shares redeemed

88,402

Accrued management fee

17,769

Other affiliated payables

4,539

Other payables and accrued expenses

37,431

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

4,832,200

Total liabilities

6,302,180

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 36,909,209

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 49,541,104

Undistributed net investment income

11,496

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(15,270,191)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments

2,626,800

Net Assets

$ 36,909,209

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($20,155,382 ÷ 3,075,354 shares)

$ 6.55

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($16,753,827 ÷ 2,563,778 shares)

$ 6.53

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 537,376

Interest

 

65

Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $185,726 from security lending)

 

190,876

Total income

 

728,317

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 207,813

Transfer agent fees

51,114

Accounting and security lending fees

15,123

Custodian fees and expenses

38,372

Independent trustees' compensation

251

Audit

37,566

Legal

215

Interest

127

Miscellaneous

3,253

Total expenses before reductions

353,834

Expense reductions

(14,500)

339,334

Net investment income (loss)

388,983

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(1,579,372)

Foreign currency transactions

511

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(1,578,861)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

12,561,571

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

83

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

12,561,654

Net gain (loss)

10,982,793

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 11,371,776

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 388,983

$ 898,088

Net realized gain (loss)

(1,578,861)

(13,298,599)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

12,561,654

(12,685,138)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

11,371,776

(25,085,649)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(480,612)

(802,048)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(2,471,464)

Total distributions

(480,612)

(3,273,512)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(3,476,603)

23,585,553

Redemption fees

47,529

59,484

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

7,462,090

(4,714,124)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

29,447,119

34,161,243

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $11,496 and undistributed net investment income of $78,528, respectively)

$ 36,909,209

$ 29,447,119

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.22

$ 11.57

$ 14.60

$ 12.98

$ 12.19

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .06

.21

.20

.18

.16

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.35

(5.68)

(2.02)

1.86

.77

Total from investment operations

  1.41

(5.47)

(1.82)

2.04

.93

Distributions from net investment income

  (.09)

(.15)

(.36)

(.16)

(.14)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.74)

(.86)

(.27)

-

Total distributions

  (.09)

(.89)

(1.22)

(.43)

(.14)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  .01

.01

.01

.01

- G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 6.55

$ 5.22

$ 11.57

$ 14.60

$ 12.98

Total Return A, B

  27.30%

(50.08)%

(13.43)%

16.29%

7.71%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .91%

.84%

.87%

.86%

.86%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .91%

.84%

.87%

.86%

.86%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .87%

.84%

.87%

.85%

.85%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.09%

2.64%

1.48%

1.36%

1.31%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 20,155

$ 17,436

$ 23,631

$ 44,781

$ 32,776

Portfolio turnover rate E

  336%

100%

48%

68%

59%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.20

$ 11.54

$ 14.57

$ 12.98

$ 12.07

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .06

.20

.18

.16

.05

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.34

(5.67)

(2.02)

1.86

.86

Total from investment operations

  1.40

(5.47)

(1.84)

2.02

.91

Distributions from net investment income

  (.08)

(.14)

(.34)

(.17)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.74)

(.86)

(.27)

-

Total distributions

  (.08)

(.88)

(1.20)

(.44)

-

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.01

.01

.01

- J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 6.53

$ 5.20

$ 11.54

$ 14.57

$ 12.98

Total Return B, C, D

  27.30%

(50.18)%

(13.60)%

16.12%

7.54%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.01%

.94%

.99%

1.00%

1.18% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.01%

.94%

.99%

1.00%

1.18% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .97%

.94%

.99%

.99%

1.16% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .99%

2.54%

1.36%

1.22%

.95% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 16,754

$ 12,012

$ 10,530

$ 13,030

$ 2,133

Portfolio turnover rate G

  336%

100%

48%

68%

59%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Financial Services Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), partnerships, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 5,080,298

Gross unrealized depreciation

(3,760,693)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,319,605

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 40,399,293

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 11,496

Capital loss carryforward

$ (13,962,996)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,319,605

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 480,612

$ 1,436,613

Long-term Capital Gains

-

1,836,899

Total

$ 480,612

$ 3,273,512

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $119,911,075 and $120,948,911, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 19,981

Investor Class

31,133

 

$ 51,114

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $13,228 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $173 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds.

8. Bank Borrowings.

The Fund is permitted to have bank borrowings for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions. The Fund has established borrowing arrangements with certain banks. The interest rate on the borrowings is the bank's base rate, as revised from time to time. The average daily loan balance during the period for which loans were outstanding amounted to $6,102,000. The weighted average interest rate was .75%. The interest expense amounted to $127 under the bank borrowing program. At period end, there were no bank borrowings outstanding.

9. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $14,500 for the period.

10. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 274,450

$ 479,656

Investor Class

206,162

322,392

Total

$ 480,612

$ 802,048

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 1,682,600

Investor Class

-

788,864

Total

$ -

$ 2,471,464

11. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

2,435,099

2,382,491

$ 12,296,639

$ 19,887,411

Reinvestment of distributions

46,301

265,220

274,450

2,162,256

Shares redeemed

(2,748,859)

(1,347,360)

(15,895,754)

(10,403,989)

Net increase (decrease)

(267,459)

1,300,351

$ (3,324,665)

$ 11,645,678

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

2,429,823

1,944,613

$ 12,249,127

$ 15,854,880

Reinvestment of distributions

34,612

143,835

206,162

1,111,256

Shares redeemed

(2,209,743)

(691,630)

(12,607,227)

(5,026,261)

Net increase (decrease)

254,692

1,396,818

$ (151,938)

$ 11,939,875

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

12. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Financial Services Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Financial Services Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Financial Services Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class designates 75% and Investor Class designates 81% of the dividends distributed in December 2009 as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Financial Services Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

VIP Financial Services Portfolio

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the one- and five-year periods, although the three-year cumulative total return of Initial Class compared favorably to its benchmark. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Financial Services Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

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Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management and Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management and Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

VFSIC-ANN-0210
1.817367.105

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Growth Stock Portfolio

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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To view a fund's proxy voting guidelines and proxy voting record for the 12-month period ended June 30, visit http://www.fidelity.com/proxyvotingresults or visit the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.

Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of
fund
A

VIP Growth Stock - Initial Class

44.86%

1.35%

4.53%

VIP Growth Stock - Service Class B

44.61%

1.24%

4.42%

VIP Growth Stock - Service Class 2 C

44.42%

1.10%

4.27%

VIP Growth Stock - Investor Class D

44.64%

1.25%

4.45%

A From December 11, 2002

B Performance for Service Class shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

C Performance for Service Class 2 shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

D The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Growth Stock Portfolio - Initial Class on December 11, 2002, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Russell 1000® Growth Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Jeffrey Feingold, Portfolio Manager of VIP Growth Stock Portfolio: For the 12 months ending December 31, 2009, the fund handily beat the 37.21% return of its benchmark, the Russell 1000® Growth Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Stock selection drove performance, with especially strong results in the consumer discretionary, information technology (IT), financials and health care sectors. My focus remained on companies with the potential to grow earnings faster than the market over the long term. Top performers included non-index holding Tempur-Pedic International, a premium bedding company that benefited from aggressive cost cutting, and Inverness Medical Innovations, a medical diagnostics company with steady revenue growth and good expense discipline. Other standouts were Apple, which saw strong sales of its iPhone, iPod and iTouch products, and Cognizant Technology Solutions, an offshore IT services provider that gained as more corporations turned to outsourcing. The fund lost ground versus the index from an overweighting in financials and modestly disappointing performance from our stock picks in consumer staples. Detractors included Delta Air, which was pressured by reduced travel budgets. We cut our losses and sold the position. An underweighting in technology leader International Business Machines (IBM) further hindered results, as the company's cost cutting, diversified product line and stock buybacks drove the share price higher. I later sold IBM.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.85%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,266.00

$ 4.85

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.92

$ 4.33

Service Class

.95%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,266.20

$ 5.43

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.42

$ 4.84

Service Class 2

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,265.40

$ 6.28

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Investor Class

.93%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,266.40

$ 5.31

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.52

$ 4.74

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Apple, Inc.

4.7

3.2

Google, Inc. Class A

4.4

3.5

Microsoft Corp.

4.2

4.3

Cisco Systems, Inc.

2.1

2.4

Procter & Gamble Co.

2.1

2.7

Amazon.com, Inc.

2.1

1.1

Tempur-Pedic International, Inc.

1.9

0.9

QUALCOMM, Inc.

1.8

1.8

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

1.8

2.3

United Technologies Corp.

1.6

1.1

 

26.7

Top Five Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Information Technology

34.7

31.6

Health Care

14.0

16.6

Consumer Staples

13.1

13.9

Consumer Discretionary

10.7

11.4

Industrials

9.6

9.4

Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009*

As of June 30, 2009**

fid432

Stocks 96.3%

 

fid432

Stocks 99.2%

 

fid435

Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 3.7%

 

fid435

Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 0.8%

 

* Foreign investments

10.1%

 

** Foreign investments

8.6%

 


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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 96.3%

Shares

Value

CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 10.7%

Auto Components - 0.6%

Johnson Controls, Inc.

3,200

$ 87,168

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.6%

Strayer Education, Inc.

400

84,996

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.9%

McDonald's Corp.

2,000

124,880

Starbucks Corp. (a)

4,800

110,688

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

2,400

48,408

 

283,976

Household Durables - 2.1%

iRobot Corp. (a)

1,600

28,160

Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. (a)

12,500

295,375

 

323,535

Internet & Catalog Retail - 2.1%

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

2,310

310,741

Specialty Retail - 0.9%

Best Buy Co., Inc.

900

35,514

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (a)

5,800

44,370

Staples, Inc.

2,100

51,639

 

131,523

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.5%

Deckers Outdoor Corp. (a)

1,800

183,096

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.

1,700

69,156

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. Class A

1,600

129,568

 

381,820

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

1,603,759

CONSUMER STAPLES - 13.1%

Beverages - 2.7%

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV

1,616

84,202

PepsiCo, Inc.

1,500

91,200

The Coca-Cola Co.

3,950

225,150

 

400,552

Food & Staples Retailing - 4.3%

Costco Wholesale Corp.

2,200

130,174

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

5,000

267,250

Walgreen Co.

4,600

168,912

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (a)(c)

2,800

76,860

 

643,196

Food Products - 3.2%

Bunge Ltd.

1,600

102,128

Danone

1,510

92,590

Nestle SA sponsored ADR

2,000

96,700

The J.M. Smucker Co.

2,700

166,725

Tingyi (Cayman Island) Holding Corp.

8,000

19,795

 

477,938

Household Products - 2.1%

Procter & Gamble Co.

5,200

315,276

 

Shares

Value

Personal Products - 0.8%

Avon Products, Inc.

2,600

$ 81,900

BaWang International (Group) Holding Ltd.

11,000

7,617

Hengan International Group Co. Ltd.

3,000

22,212

 

111,729

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

1,948,691

ENERGY - 4.1%

Energy Equipment & Services - 1.0%

Schlumberger Ltd.

2,190

142,547

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.1%

Arch Coal, Inc.

1,300

28,925

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

1,900

49,172

Exxon Mobil Corp.

1,990

135,698

Massey Energy Co.

1,200

50,412

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

1,900

154,565

Range Resources Corp.

1,000

49,850

 

468,622

TOTAL ENERGY

611,169

FINANCIALS - 5.4%

Capital Markets - 1.2%

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

600

16,782

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

200

33,768

Morgan Stanley

3,100

91,760

Northern Trust Corp.

800

41,920

 

184,230

Commercial Banks - 0.9%

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

700

36,953

Wells Fargo & Co.

3,400

91,766

 

128,719

Consumer Finance - 0.5%

American Express Co.

2,000

81,040

Diversified Financial Services - 1.8%

Bank of America Corp.

4,500

67,770

CME Group, Inc.

400

134,380

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

1,600

66,672

 

268,822

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.0%

Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.

2,000

14,945

Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.

2,000

120,800

Yanlord Land Group Ltd.

8,000

12,355

 

148,100

TOTAL FINANCIALS

810,911

HEALTH CARE - 14.0%

Biotechnology - 2.6%

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

1,300

63,466

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

HEALTH CARE - continued

Biotechnology - continued

Amgen, Inc. (a)

2,300

$ 130,111

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

2,100

112,350

Dendreon Corp. (a)

1,100

28,908

United Therapeutics Corp. (a)

1,100

57,915

 

392,750

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.8%

Covidien PLC

4,800

229,872

ev3, Inc. (a)

1,100

14,674

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (a)

3,525

146,323

Mako Surgical Corp. (a)

800

8,880

NuVasive, Inc. (a)

500

15,990

 

415,739

Health Care Providers & Services - 2.8%

CIGNA Corp.

2,000

70,540

Express Scripts, Inc. (a)

1,200

103,740

Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (a)

3,300

210,903

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

1,100

33,528

 

418,711

Health Care Technology - 1.5%

Cerner Corp. (a)

2,800

230,832

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.5%

QIAGEN NV (a)

3,100

69,192

Pharmaceuticals - 3.8%

Allergan, Inc.

3,000

189,030

Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

2,200

21,274

Johnson & Johnson

1,900

122,379

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

3,200

39,264

Merck & Co., Inc.

800

29,232

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

2,500

140,450

ViroPharma, Inc. (a)

2,200

18,458

 

560,087

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

2,087,311

INDUSTRIALS - 9.6%

Aerospace & Defense - 4.1%

Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (a)

900

79,443

Honeywell International, Inc.

2,200

86,240

Precision Castparts Corp.

1,300

143,455

Raytheon Co.

1,300

66,976

United Technologies Corp.

3,500

242,935

 

619,049

Airlines - 0.5%

Southwest Airlines Co.

6,800

77,724

Building Products - 0.3%

Masco Corp.

2,900

40,049

Electrical Equipment - 0.7%

American Superconductor Corp. (a)

900

36,810

 

Shares

Value

First Solar, Inc. (a)

400

$ 54,160

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

400

18,792

 

109,762

Machinery - 1.9%

Caterpillar, Inc.

1,300

74,087

Cummins, Inc.

1,200

55,032

Danaher Corp.

1,000

75,200

Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.

2,000

71,480

 

275,799

Professional Services - 0.6%

Robert Half International, Inc.

3,100

82,863

Road & Rail - 1.5%

CSX Corp.

1,900

92,131

Union Pacific Corp.

2,000

127,800

 

219,931

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

1,425,177

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 34.7%

Communications Equipment - 5.3%

Cisco Systems, Inc. (a)

13,300

318,402

Juniper Networks, Inc. (a)

6,800

181,356

Palm, Inc. (a)

2,400

24,096

QUALCOMM, Inc.

5,800

268,308

 

792,162

Computers & Peripherals - 6.8%

Apple, Inc. (a)

3,340

704,271

Hewlett-Packard Co.

4,300

221,493

Seagate Technology

2,400

43,656

Western Digital Corp. (a)

1,100

48,565

 

1,017,985

Electronic Equipment & Components - 0.9%

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (a)

2,100

65,247

Ingram Micro, Inc. Class A (a)

4,000

69,800

 

135,047

Internet Software & Services - 6.0%

Baidu.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

100

41,123

eBay, Inc. (a)

5,000

117,700

Google, Inc. Class A (a)

1,050

650,979

NetEase.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

900

33,849

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

2,000

43,254

 

886,905

IT Services - 2.6%

Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a)

2,400

155,016

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A (a)

4,060

183,918

MasterCard, Inc. Class A

200

51,196

 

390,130

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.8%

ASML Holding NV (NY Shares)

1,100

37,499

Intel Corp.

9,500

193,800

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - continued

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - continued

KLA-Tencor Corp.

1,100

$ 39,776

Lam Research Corp. (a)

1,200

47,052

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (a)

3,100

64,325

NVIDIA Corp. (a)

5,700

106,476

Omnivision Technologies, Inc. (a)

1,700

24,701

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR

4,418

50,542

 

564,171

Software - 9.3%

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (a)

600

6,666

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

2,400

88,272

BMC Software, Inc. (a)

2,400

96,240

Citrix Systems, Inc. (a)

2,200

91,542

Informatica Corp. (a)

1,200

31,032

MICROS Systems, Inc. (a)

2,500

77,575

Microsoft Corp.

20,300

618,947

Nuance Communications, Inc. (a)

5,100

79,254

Red Hat, Inc. (a)

2,000

61,800

Sourcefire, Inc. (a)

2,300

61,525

Sybase, Inc. (a)

4,100

177,940

 

1,390,793

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

5,177,193

MATERIALS - 3.8%

Chemicals - 2.4%

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

900

72,954

Albemarle Corp.

1,500

54,555

Dow Chemical Co.

4,000

110,520

The Mosaic Co.

2,100

125,433

 

363,462

Metals & Mining - 1.4%

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. sponsored ADR

1,300

52,234

 

Shares

Value

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

600

$ 48,174

Newmont Mining Corp.

2,100

99,351

 

199,759

TOTAL MATERIALS

563,221

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 0.8%

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

American Tower Corp. Class A (a)

2,900

125,309

UTILITIES - 0.1%

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.1%

AES Corp.

1,500

19,965

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $12,623,348)

14,372,706

Money Market Funds - 6.0%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

835,963

835,963

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

57,000

57,000

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $892,963)

892,963

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 102.3%

(Cost $13,516,311)

15,265,669

NET OTHER ASSETS - (2.3)%

(340,854)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 14,924,815

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 956

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

1,220

Total

$ 2,176

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the tables below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Consumer Discretionary

$ 1,603,759

$ 1,603,759

$ -

$ -

Consumer Staples

1,948,691

1,899,067

49,624

-

Energy

611,169

611,169

-

-

Financials

810,911

795,966

14,945

-

Health Care

2,087,311

2,087,311

-

-

Industrials

1,425,177

1,425,177

-

-

Information Technology

5,177,193

5,133,939

43,254

-

Materials

563,221

563,221

-

-

Telecommunication Services

125,309

125,309

-

-

Utilities

19,965

19,965

-

-

Money Market Funds

892,963

892,963

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 15,265,669

$ 15,157,846

$ 107,823

$ -

The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:

Investments in Securities:

Beginning Balance

$ 15,525

Total Realized Gain (Loss)

(2,552)

Total Unrealized Gain (Loss)

(525)

Cost of Purchases

-

Proceeds of Sales

(12,448)

Amortization/Accretion

-

Transfers in/out of Level 3

-

Ending Balance

$ -

The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at December 31, 2009

$ -

The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represents either the beginning value (for transfers in), or the ending value (for transfers out) of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations.

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

89.9%

Ireland

2.0%

Bermuda

1.1%

Netherlands Antilles

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

6.0%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $4,641,736 of which $2,310,685 and $2,331,051 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $54,900) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $12,623,348)

$ 14,372,706

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $892,963)

892,963

 

Total Investments (cost $13,516,311)

 

$ 15,265,669

Cash

3,215

Receivable for investments sold

37,362

Receivable for fund shares sold

145,052

Dividends receivable

6,736

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

140

Prepaid expenses

62

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

3,822

Other receivables

378

Total assets

15,462,436

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 429,727

Payable for fund shares redeemed

107

Accrued management fee

6,393

Distribution fees payable

426

Other affiliated payables

1,644

Other payables and accrued expenses

42,324

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

57,000

Total liabilities

537,621

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 14,924,815

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 18,021,219

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(4,845,701)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

1,749,297

Net Assets

$ 14,924,815

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($5,373,857 ÷ 476,824 shares)

$ 11.27

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($822,636 ÷ 73,323 shares)

$ 11.22

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($1,684,312 ÷ 151,378 shares)

$ 11.13

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($7,044,010 ÷ 628,362 shares)

$ 11.21

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 146,776

Interest

 

12

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

2,176

Total income

 

148,964

Expenses

Management fee

$ 67,492

Transfer agent fees

22,220

Distribution fees

5,523

Accounting and security lending fees

4,680

Custodian fees and expenses

24,872

Independent trustees' compensation

83

Audit

47,164

Legal

72

Miscellaneous

1,022

Total expenses before reductions

173,128

Expense reductions

(61,724)

111,404

Net investment income (loss)

37,560

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(948,330)

Foreign currency transactions

(678)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(949,008)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

5,507,187

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(49)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

5,507,138

Net gain (loss)

4,558,130

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 4,595,690

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

Year ended
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 37,560

$ 23,446

Net realized gain (loss)

(949,008)

(3,782,197)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

5,507,138

(7,520,377)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

4,595,690

(11,279,128)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(44,030)

(17,221)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

385,195

(9,270,016)

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

4,936,855

(20,566,365)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

9,987,960

30,554,325

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and $3,524, respectively)

$ 14,924,815

$ 9,987,960

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.81

$ 14.15

$ 12.07

$ 11.94

$ 11.14

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .04

.02

- H

- H

.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.46

(6.34)

2.74

.13

.83

Total from investment operations

  3.50

(6.32)

2.74

.13

.84

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

(.02)

-

- H

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.66)

-

(.04)

Total distributions

  (.04)

(.02)

(.66)

- H

(.04) I

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.27

$ 7.81

$ 14.15

$ 12.07

$ 11.94

Total Return A,B

  44.86%

(44.67)%

22.67%

1.12%

7.57%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.35%

1.16%

1.10%

.98%

1.01%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .85%

.85%

.85%

.86%

.85%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .84%

.85%

.84%

.86%

.81%

Net investment income (loss)

  .39%

.19%

-% F

.03%

.12%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 5,374

$ 3,368

$ 13,752

$ 7,414

$ 22,750

Portfolio turnover rate E

  173%

137%

167%

93%

91%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Amount represents less than .01%.

G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

H Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

I Total distributions of $.040 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.005 and distributions from net realized gain of $.035 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.78

$ 14.08

$ 12.02

$ 11.90

$ 11.12

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .03

.01

(.01)

(.01)

- H

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.44

(6.30)

2.73

.13

.82

Total from investment operations

  3.47

(6.29)

2.72

.12

.82

Distributions from net investment income

  (.03)

(.01)

-

-

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.66)

-

(.04)

Total distributions

  (.03)

(.01)

(.66)

-

(.04) I

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.22

$ 7.78

$ 14.08

$ 12.02

$ 11.90

Total Return A,B

  44.61%

(44.71)%

22.60%

1.01%

7.41%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.42%

1.22%

1.17%

1.16%

1.36%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .95%

.95%

.95%

.96%

.97%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .94%

.95%

.95%

.95%

.92%

Net investment income (loss)

  .30%

.09%

(.10)%

(.07)%

-% F

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 823

$ 1,021

$ 2,545

$ 2,077

$ 2,056

Portfolio turnover rate E

  173%

137%

167%

93%

91%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Amount represents less than .01%.

G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

H Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

I Total distributions of $.040 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.005 and distributions from net realized gain of $.035 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.71

$ 13.96

$ 11.95

$ 11.84

$ 11.08

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .01

(.01)

(.03)

(.03)

(.02)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.42

(6.24)

2.70

.14

.82

Total from investment operations

  3.43

(6.25)

2.67

.11

.80

Distributions from net investment income

  (.01)

-

-

-

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.66)

-

(.04)

Total distributions

  (.01)

-

(.66)

-

(.04) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.13

$ 7.71

$ 13.96

$ 11.95

$ 11.84

Total Return A,B

  44.42%

(44.77)%

22.31%

.93%

7.25%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.67%

1.42%

1.38%

1.35%

1.51%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.11%

1.12%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.09%

1.10%

1.09%

1.10%

1.07%

Net investment income (loss)

  .15%

(.06)%

(.25)%

(.22)%

(.15)%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 1,684

$ 2,183

$ 5,116

$ 3,220

$ 2,729

Portfolio turnover rate E

  173%

137%

167%

93%

91%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Total distributions of $.040 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.005 and distributions from net realized gain of $.035 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.78

$ 14.10

$ 12.05

$ 11.94

$ 11.64

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .03

.01

(.02)

(.01)

- J

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.44

(6.31)

2.73

.12

.30

Total from investment operations

  3.47

(6.30)

2.71

.11

.30

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

(.02)

-

- J

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.66)

-

-

Total distributions

  (.04)

(.02)

(.66)

- J

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.21

$ 7.78

$ 14.10

$ 12.05

$ 11.94

Total Return B,C,D

  44.64%

(44.69)%

22.45%

.95%

2.58%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.43%

1.25%

1.22%

1.21%

1.16% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .93%

.93%

1.00%

1.01%

1.00% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.93%

.99%

1.01%

.96% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .31%

.11%

(.15)%

(.12)%

(.03)% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 7,044

$ 3,416

$ 9,142

$ 3,849

$ 2,209

Portfolio turnover rate G

  173%

137%

167%

93%

91%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Growth Stock Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 securities, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, certain foreign taxes, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 2,056,138

Gross unrealized depreciation

(479,199)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,576,939

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 13,688,730

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (4,641,736)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,576,878

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 44,030

$ 17,221

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $20,344,345 and $20,527,884, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 891

Service Class 2

4,632

 

$ 5,523

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 6,012

Service Class

808

Service Class 2

3,498

Investor Class

11,902

 

$ 22,220

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $992 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $60 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $1,220.

8. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

 

 

 

Initial Class

.85%

$ 20,636

Service Class

.95%

4,182

Service Class 2

1.10%

10,560

Investor Class

.93%

25,747

 

 

$ 61,125

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $599 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 17,544

$ 8,154

Service Class

2,306

656

Service Class 2

753

-

Investor Class

23,427

8,411

Total

$ 44,030

$ 17,221

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10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

340,858

180,482

$ 3,163,323

$ 2,074,455

Reinvestment of distributions

1,690

1,060

17,544

8,154

Shares redeemed

(296,785)

(722,244)

(2,715,001)

(8,341,769)

Net increase (decrease)

45,763

(540,702)

$ 465,866

$ (6,259,160)

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

-

$ -

$ -

Reinvestment of distributions

236

86

2,306

656

Shares redeemed

(58,153)

(49,669)

(518,410)

(519,049)

Net increase (decrease)

(57,917)

(49,583)

$ (516,104)

$ (518,393)

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

33,227

79,695

$ 276,521

$ 920,792

Reinvestment of distributions

69

-

753

-

Shares redeemed

(165,102)

(162,963)

(1,439,354)

(1,660,933)

Net increase (decrease)

(131,806)

(83,268)

$ (1,162,080)

$ (740,141)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

557,764

281,169

$ 5,149,675

$ 3,422,986

Reinvestment of distributions

2,257

1,099

23,427

8,411

Shares redeemed

(370,786)

(491,415)

(3,575,589)

(5,183,719)

Net increase (decrease)

189,235

(209,147)

$ 1,597,513

$ (1,752,322)

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 88% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund and one otherwise unaffiliated shareholder was the owner of record of 11% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Growth Stock Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Growth Stock Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Growth Stock Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Bruce T. Herring (44)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of certain Equity Funds. Mr. Herring also serves as Group Chief Investments Officer of FMR. Previously, Mr. Herring served as a portfolio manager for Fidelity U.S. Equity Funds.

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class, Service Class, Service Class 2, and Investor Class designates 100% of the dividends distributed in February and December 2009, respectively during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds deemed appropriate by the Board over multiple periods. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 of the fund, the cumulative total returns of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and a range of cumulative total returns of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Morningstar, Inc. as having an investment style similar to that of the fund based on underlying portfolio holdings. The returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest and lowest performing classes, respectively (based on five-year performance). The box within each chart shows the 25th percentile return (bottom of box) and the 75th percentile return (top of box) of the peer group. Returns shown above the box are in the first quartile and returns shown below the box are in the fourth quartile. The percentage beaten numbers noted below each chart correspond to the percentile box and represent the percentage of funds in the peer group whose performance was equal to or lower than that of the class indicated.

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The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and stated that the performance of Initial Class of the fund was in the fourth quartile for the one- and five-year periods and the third quartile for the three-year period. The Board also stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's disappointing performance relative to its peer group and benchmark. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

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The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 9% means that 91% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of Initial Class ranked below its competitive median for 2008, the total expenses of Investor Class ranked equal to its competitive median for 2008, and the total expenses of each of Service Class and Service Class 2 ranked above its competitive median for 2008. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in some cases above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

Mellon Bank, N.A.
Pittsburgh, PA

VIPGR-ANN-0210
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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Health Care Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

The fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. The fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Health Care - Initial Class

32.80%

4.28%

3.35%

VIP Health Care - Investor Class B

32.53%

4.16%

3.28%

A From July 18, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Health Care Portfolio - Initial Class on July 18, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Edward Yoon, Portfolio Manager of VIP Health Care Portfolio: For the 12 months ending December 31, 2009, the fund decisively outperformed the 22.24% return of the MSCI® U.S. Investable Market Health Care Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) A sizable boost came from strong stock picking in pharmaceuticals, health care supplies, managed health care, biotechnology and health care services, while favorable industry positioning contributed as well. On the other hand, our bias in favor of quality growth-oriented companies meant we did not own certain health care equipment stocks that rallied during the year. In terms of individual contributors, Inverness Medical Innovations, which produces diagnostic tests, helped the most. Among large drug stocks, we underweighted Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly, where growth was slow, and early in the period overweighted Wyeth and Schering-Plough, which agreed to be acquired at attractive prices. Pharmacy benefits managers Medco Health Solutions and Express Scripts and Botox maker Allergan also helped. On the other hand, overweightings in Illumina, which develops gene-sequencing technology, and C. R. Bard, a medical technology company, detracted from relative performance. Myriad Genetics, which makes a genetic test for breast cancer, also hurt. Due to our underweighting in Medtronic, the fund did not benefit when this medical equipment stock rallied. Some of the above stocks were no longer held at period end.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.80%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,202.60

$ 4.44

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.17

$ 4.08

Investor Class

.90%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,201.20

$ 4.99

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.67

$ 4.58

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Pfizer, Inc.

8.7

5.7

Covidien PLC

5.9

5.9

Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

4.7

5.2

Allergan, Inc.

4.6

4.7

Express Scripts, Inc.

4.4

4.0

Merck & Co., Inc.

4.1

4.6

Biogen Idec, Inc.

3.5

2.1

Illumina, Inc.

3.0

3.2

C. R. Bard, Inc.

2.9

2.8

CIGNA Corp.

2.3

2.6

 

44.1

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Pharmaceuticals

26.5%

 

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Health Care Providers & Services

22.0%

 

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Health Care Equipment & Supplies

20.3%

 

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Biotechnology

14.2%

 

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Life Sciences Tools & Services

8.6%

 

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All Others*

8.4%

 

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As of June 30, 2009

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Health Care Equipment & Supplies

25.4%

 

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Pharmaceuticals

24.5%

 

fid217

Health Care Providers & Services

20.6%

 

fid219

Biotechnology

13.3%

 

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Life Sciences Tools & Services

11.7%

 

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All Others*

4.5%

 

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* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 98.7%

Shares

Value

BIOTECHNOLOGY - 14.2%

Biotechnology - 14.2%

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

10,400

$ 262,288

Affymax, Inc. (a)

6,300

155,862

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

11,405

556,792

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)(c)

8,200

144,484

Amgen, Inc. (a)

17,340

980,924

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

40,700

2,177,450

BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a)

34,277

644,750

Dendreon Corp. (a)(c)

5,800

152,424

Genzyme Corp. (a)

4,863

238,336

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

9,769

422,802

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (a)

7,200

220,320

Incyte Corp. (a)

45,200

411,772

Micromet, Inc. (a)

7,900

52,614

Myriad Genetics, Inc. (a)

11,910

310,851

OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

10,800

335,124

PDL BioPharma, Inc.

45,548

312,459

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (a)(c)

23,800

157,556

Targacept, Inc. (a)

11,133

232,902

Theravance, Inc. (a)

8,512

111,252

United Therapeutics Corp. (a)

18,600

979,290

 

8,860,252

CHEMICALS - 0.8%

Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals - 0.8%

Monsanto Co.

6,050

494,588

DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES - 0.4%

Specialized Consumer Services - 0.4%

Carriage Services, Inc. (a)

37,339

146,742

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Class A

25,532

131,490

 

278,232

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 1.9%

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 1.9%

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (a)

38,100

1,183,767

FOOD & STAPLES RETAILING - 1.6%

Drug Retail - 1.6%

Walgreen Co.

26,900

987,768

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES - 20.3%

Health Care Equipment - 17.6%

Abiomed, Inc. (a)

19,037

166,383

ArthroCare Corp. (a)

10,716

253,969

Baxter International, Inc.

11,610

681,275

C. R. Bard, Inc.

22,987

1,790,687

CareFusion Corp. (a)

15,200

380,152

Conceptus, Inc. (a)

14,900

279,524

Covidien PLC

76,688

3,672,588

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

11,805

1,025,264

ev3, Inc. (a)

25,083

334,607

HeartWare International, Inc. (a)

4,227

149,932

HeartWare International, Inc. CDI (a)

95,695

96,703

 

Shares

Value

Micrus Endovascular Corp. (a)

23,595

$ 354,161

Nobel Biocare Holding AG (Switzerland)

13,432

451,171

NuVasive, Inc. (a)(c)

10,300

329,394

Orthofix International NV (a)

7,110

220,197

Orthovita, Inc. (a)

45,300

159,003

Osmetech PLC (a)

1,638,024

49,769

William Demant Holding AS (a)

2,299

173,595

Wright Medical Group, Inc. (a)

20,933

396,680

 

10,965,054

Health Care Supplies - 2.7%

AGA Medical Holdings, Inc.

6,800

100,436

Cooper Companies, Inc.

14,470

551,596

InfuSystems Holdings, Inc. (a)

52,900

116,380

InfuSystems Holdings, Inc. warrants 4/11/11 (a)

4,900

294

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (a)(c)

17,685

734,104

RTI Biologics, Inc. (a)

35,400

135,936

 

1,638,746

TOTAL HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES

12,603,800

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES - 22.0%

Health Care Distributors & Services - 2.1%

Henry Schein, Inc. (a)

18,126

953,428

Profarma Distribuidora de Produtos Farmaceuticos SA

23,200

226,143

Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd. Class H

34,400

120,884

 

1,300,455

Health Care Facilities - 2.5%

Emeritus Corp. (a)(c)

13,261

248,644

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (a)

26,090

360,825

Health Management Associates, Inc. Class A (a)

52,600

382,402

Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (a)

37,195

119,768

Universal Health Services, Inc. Class B

15,182

463,051

 

1,574,690

Health Care Services - 10.6%

Clarient, Inc. (a)

36,400

96,460

Emergency Medical Services Corp.
Class A (a)

3,800

205,770

Express Scripts, Inc. (a)

31,484

2,721,792

Genoptix, Inc. (a)

3,300

117,249

Health Grades, Inc. (a)

37,266

159,871

LHC Group, Inc. (a)

6,300

211,743

Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (a)

46,070

2,944,334

RehabCare Group, Inc. (a)

3,800

115,634

 

6,572,853

Managed Health Care - 6.8%

Aetna, Inc.

28,800

912,960

CIGNA Corp.

40,332

1,422,510

Health Net, Inc. (a)

16,920

394,067

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES - CONTINUED

Managed Health Care - continued

Humana, Inc. (a)

3,707

$ 162,700

WellPoint, Inc. (a)

23,608

1,376,110

 

4,268,347

TOTAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES

13,716,345

HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY - 1.9%

Health Care Technology - 1.9%

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (a)

16,889

341,664

Cerner Corp. (a)

8,300

684,252

Computer Programs & Systems, Inc.

3,599

165,734

 

1,191,650

INTERNET SOFTWARE & SERVICES - 0.5%

Internet Software & Services - 0.5%

WebMD Health Corp. (a)

7,600

292,524

LIFE SCIENCES TOOLS & SERVICES - 8.6%

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 8.6%

Bruker BioSciences Corp. (a)

18,097

218,250

Covance, Inc. (a)

9,000

491,130

ICON PLC sponsored ADR (a)

12,310

267,496

Illumina, Inc. (a)(c)

61,403

1,882,002

Life Technologies Corp. (a)

22,858

1,193,873

PerkinElmer, Inc.

16,800

345,912

QIAGEN NV (a)(c)

41,824

933,512

 

5,332,175

PHARMACEUTICALS - 26.5%

Pharmaceuticals - 26.5%

Abbott Laboratories

19,202

1,036,716

Allergan, Inc.

45,882

2,891,025

Ardea Biosciences, Inc. (a)

14,771

206,794

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)(c)

3,500

104,930

Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)(c)

22,845

220,911

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (a)

14,300

293,293

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

15,823

130,419

 

Shares

Value

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

64,800

$ 795,096

Merck & Co., Inc.

69,100

2,524,914

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.

1,000

12,484

Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)(c)

11,867

133,860

Pfizer, Inc.

299,250

5,443,357

Piramal Healthcare Ltd.

11,607

93,286

Pronova BioPharma ASA (a)

51,900

157,600

Shire PLC sponsored ADR

17,100

1,003,770

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

14,021

787,700

ViroPharma, Inc. (a)

40,727

341,700

Warner Chilcott PLC (a)

10,500

298,935

 

16,476,790

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $53,288,038)

61,417,891

Money Market Funds - 9.0%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

1,692,543

1,692,543

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

3,924,525

3,924,525

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $5,617,068)

5,617,068

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 107.7%

(Cost $58,905,106)

67,034,959

NET OTHER ASSETS - (7.7)%

(4,799,184)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 62,235,775

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 4,515

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

15,166

Total

$ 19,681

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 61,417,891

$ 61,284,523

$ 133,368

$ -

Money Market Funds

5,617,068

5,617,068

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 67,034,959

$ 66,901,591

$ 133,368

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

86.5%

Ireland

6.8%

Bailiwick of Jersey

1.6%

Netherlands

1.5%

Israel

1.3%

Others (individually less than 1%)

2.3%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the Fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $8,943,455, of which $3,482,538 and $5,460,917 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $3,805,968) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $53,288,038)

$ 61,417,891

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $5,617,068)

5,617,068

 

Total Investments (cost $58,905,106)

 

$ 67,034,959

Cash

3,975

Receivable for investments sold

35,148

Receivable for fund shares sold

33,328

Dividends receivable

34,328

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

679

Prepaid expenses

275

Other receivables

6,263

Total assets

67,148,955

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 914,281

Payable for fund shares redeemed

20

Accrued management fee

28,333

Other affiliated payables

6,978

Other payables and accrued expenses

39,043

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

3,924,525

Total liabilities

4,913,180

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 62,235,775

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 63,978,460

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(9,872,194)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

8,129,509

Net Assets

$ 62,235,775

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($37,787,346 ÷ 3,502,684 shares)

$ 10.79

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($24,448,429 ÷ 2,274,423 shares)

$ 10.75

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Investment Income

 

 

Dividends

 

$ 619,254

Interest

 

19,531

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

19,681

Total income

 

658,466

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 329,014

Transfer agent fees

74,479

Accounting and security lending fees

23,162

Custodian fees and expenses

31,986

Independent trustees' compensation

415

Audit

44,489

Legal

374

Miscellaneous

5,277

Total expenses before reductions

509,196

Expense reductions

(4,275)

504,921

Net investment income (loss)

153,545

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(1,213,854)

Foreign currency transactions

3,378

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(1,210,476)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $796)

16,940,196

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

357

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

16,940,553

Net gain (loss)

15,730,077

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 15,883,622

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 153,545

$ 231,435

Net realized gain (loss)

(1,210,476)

(8,428,451)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

16,940,553

(21,596,246)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

15,883,622

(29,793,262)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(167,209)

(250,509)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(9,280,105)

Total distributions

(167,209)

(9,530,614)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(13,364,216)

16,530,814

Redemption fees

22,083

31,180

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

2,374,280

(22,761,882)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

59,861,495

82,623,377

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and distributions in excess of net investment income of $1,064, respectively)

$ 62,235,775

$ 59,861,495

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.15

$ 13.57

$ 13.17

$ 12.39

$ 10.61

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .03

.04

.03

.04

.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.64

(4.05)

1.25

.75

1.80

Total from investment operations

  2.67

(4.01)

1.28

.79

1.81

Distributions from net investment income

  (.03)

(.04)

(.07)

(.01)

(.03)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(1.37)

(.81)

-

-

Total distributions

  (.03)

(1.41)

(.88)

(.01)

(.03)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C,G

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.79

$ 8.15

$ 13.57

$ 13.17

$ 12.39

Total Return A,B

  32.80%

(32.31)%

10.21%

6.34%

17.05%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .83%

.84%

.81%

.77%

.75%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .83%

.84%

.81%

.77%

.75%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .82%

.84%

.80%

.76%

.70%

Net investment income (loss)

  .30%

.36%

.23%

.33%

.06%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 37,787

$ 37,961

$ 55,676

$ 69,418

$ 118,928

Portfolio turnover rate E

  132%

189%

128%

106%

122%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.13

$ 13.53

$ 13.14

$ 12.37

$ 11.64

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .02

.03

.01

.03

(.01)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.62

(4.03)

1.24

.75

.74

Total from investment operations

  2.64

(4.00)

1.25

.78

.73

Distributions from net investment income

  (.02)

(.03)

(.05)

(.01)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(1.37)

(.81)

-

-

Total distributions

  (.02)

(1.40)

(.86)

(.01)

-

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E,J

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.75

$ 8.13

$ 13.53

$ 13.14

$ 12.37

Total Return B,C,D

  32.53%

(32.31)%

10.01%

6.30%

6.27%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .94%

.94%

.93%

.90%

.93% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .94%

.94%

.93%

.90%

.93% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.93%

.92%

.89%

.89% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .20%

.26%

.11%

.20%

(.25)% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 24,448

$ 21,901

$ 26,948

$ 16,229

$ 7,360

Portfolio turnover rate G

  132%

189%

128%

106%

122%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Health Care Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, market discount, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 10,227,518

Gross unrealized depreciation

(2,872,898)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 7,354,620

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 59,680,339

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (8,943,455)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 7,354,276

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 167,209

$ 2,756,815

Long-term Capital Gains

-

6,773,799

Total

$ 167,209

$ 9,530,614

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $76,219,268 and $88,361,238, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 31,986

Investor Class

42,493

 

$ 74,479

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,710 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $309 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on

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7. Security Lending - continued

the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $15,166.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $4,275 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 113,510

$ 172,478

Investor Class

53,699

78,031

Total

$ 167,209

$ 250,509

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 5,962,891

Investor Class

-

3,317,214

Total

$ -

$ 9,280,105

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

415,891

1,463,398

$ 3,763,009

$ 16,106,016

Reinvestment of distributions

10,708

552,267

113,510

6,135,369

Shares redeemed

(1,578,813)

(1,462,500)

(13,902,294)

(14,698,975)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,152,214)

553,165

$ (10,025,775)

$ 7,542,410

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

787,867

1,451,367

$ 7,051,378

$ 16,188,341

Reinvestment of distributions

5,085

306,096

53,699

3,395,245

Shares redeemed

(1,213,276)

(1,053,962)

(10,443,518)

(10,595,182)

Net increase (decrease)

(420,324)

703,501

$ (3,338,441)

$ 8,988,404

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Health Care Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Health Care Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Health Care Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed in December 2009, as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Health Care Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

VIP Health Care Portfolio

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's below-benchmark performance. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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VIP Health Care Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

VHCIC-ANN-0210
1.817373.104

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Industrials Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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To view a fund's proxy voting guidelines and proxy voting record for the 12-month period ended June 30, visit http://www.fidelity.com/proxyvotingresults or visit the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may also call 1-877-208-0098 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.

Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

Standard & Poor's, S&P and S&P 500 are registered service marks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Fidelity Distributors Corporation.

Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Industrials - Initial Class C

40.22%

5.43%

7.26%

VIP Industrials - Investor Class B,C

39.97%

5.32%

7.19%

A From July 18, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005, are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

C Prior to October 1, 2006, VIP Industrials Portfolio operated under certain different investment policies. The historical performance for the fund may not represent its current investment policies.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Industrials Portfolio - Initial Class on July 18, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Tobias Welo, Portfolio Manager of VIP Industrials Portfolio: During the past year, the fund soundly beat the S&P 500® and almost doubled the 22.54% return of the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Industrials Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Versus our sector benchmark, a significant underweighting and favorable stock picking in industrial conglomerates added the most to our relative performance. Stock selection in tires and rubber, specialty chemicals, aerospace and defense, and industrial machinery also bolstered our results, as did underweighting construction/engineering and overweighting construction and farm machinery/heavy trucks. The top contributor was industrial conglomerate General Electric, which helped fund performance on a relative basis because the stock was a laggard and we carried a significant underweighting in it. Also boosting performance were Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Cummins and Navistar International, which are involved in the production of heavy trucks or truck engines, and specialty chemicals maker W.R. Grace & Co. Goodyear and W.R. Grace were out-of-index positions. Negative factors, which had a very limited impact on performance, included weak stock selection in heavy electrical equipment and in security and alarm services. At the stock level, not owning industrial conglomerate and major index component 3M worked against us when the market was falling. Another detractor, Manitowoc, builds cranes and provides refrigeration equipment. My growing concern over potential further deterioration in the company's earnings if it was forced to do a secondary equity offering led me to sell the stock at a loss. I also missed most of the substantial gains in mining equipment makers and index components Joy Global and Bucyrus International.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.80%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,327.70

$ 4.69

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.17

$ 4.08

Investor Class

.89%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,326.60

$ 5.22

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.72

$ 4.53

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

Annual Report

Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

United Technologies Corp.

6.8

5.8

3M Co.

4.6

3.4

Union Pacific Corp.

4.3

5.3

Honeywell International, Inc.

3.5

4.6

Danaher Corp.

3.3

3.6

Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.

3.3

1.7

Cummins, Inc.

3.3

4.0

General Electric Co.

2.8

4.3

Deere & Co.

2.5

2.1

Raytheon Co.

2.4

2.0

 

36.8

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Machinery

21.6%

 

fid215

Aerospace & Defense

19.8%

 

fid217

Road & Rail

13.2%

 

fid219

Industrial Conglomerates

10.4%

 

fid221

Electrical Equipment

5.3%

 

fid223

All Others*

29.7%

 

fid492

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Machinery

19.4%

 

fid215

Aerospace & Defense

18.6%

 

fid217

Road & Rail

13.8%

 

fid219

Industrial Conglomerates

10.6%

 

fid221

Electrical Equipment

10.5%

 

fid223

All Others*

27.1%

 

fid500

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

Annual Report

Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.2%

Shares

Value

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE - 19.8%

Aerospace & Defense - 19.8%

BE Aerospace, Inc. (a)

20,781

$ 488,354

Honeywell International, Inc.

52,000

2,038,400

Lockheed Martin Corp.

18,200

1,371,370

Precision Castparts Corp.

11,700

1,291,095

Raytheon Co.

27,025

1,392,328

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. Class A (a)

20,900

415,074

The Boeing Co.

10,600

573,778

United Technologies Corp.

56,499

3,921,593

 

11,491,992

AIR FREIGHT & LOGISTICS - 2.2%

Air Freight & Logistics - 2.2%

United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B

21,700

1,244,929

AUTO COMPONENTS - 3.6%

Auto Parts & Equipment - 2.6%

BorgWarner, Inc.

13,600

451,792

Exide Technologies (a)

13,405

95,310

Johnson Controls, Inc.

31,800

866,232

Stoneridge, Inc. (a)

13,340

120,193

 

1,533,527

Tires & Rubber - 1.0%

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (a)

39,880

562,308

TOTAL AUTO COMPONENTS

2,095,835

BEVERAGES - 0.3%

Soft Drinks - 0.3%

Heckmann Corp. (a)

36,700

183,133

BUILDING PRODUCTS - 4.3%

Building Products - 4.3%

AAON, Inc.

10,400

202,696

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (a)

7,300

284,189

Lennox International, Inc.

5,000

195,200

Masco Corp.

90,820

1,254,224

Owens Corning (a)

22,000

564,080

 

2,500,389

CHEMICALS - 0.5%

Specialty Chemicals - 0.5%

W.R. Grace & Co. (a)

11,879

301,133

COMMERCIAL SERVICES & SUPPLIES - 4.9%

Commercial Printing - 0.8%

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

22,500

501,075

Diversified Support Services - 0.7%

Cintas Corp.

15,100

393,355

Environmental & Facility Services - 2.2%

Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Class A (a)

59,411

238,832

Clean Harbors, Inc. (a)

5,800

345,738

 

Shares

Value

Republic Services, Inc.

18,644

$ 527,812

RINO International Corp. (a)(c)

5,300

146,545

 

1,258,927

Office Services & Supplies - 0.6%

United Stationers, Inc. (a)

6,268

356,336

Security & Alarm Services - 0.6%

The Brink's Co.

13,700

333,458

TOTAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES & SUPPLIES

2,843,151

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING - 3.1%

Construction & Engineering - 3.1%

AECOM Technology Corp. (a)

6,300

173,250

Fluor Corp.

17,257

777,255

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (a)

17,200

646,892

MasTec, Inc. (a)

17,400

217,500

 

1,814,897

DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES - 0.4%

Specialized Consumer Services - 0.4%

Brinks Home Security Holdings, Inc. (a)

7,625

248,880

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 5.3%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 5.3%

Acuity Brands, Inc. (c)

15,458

550,923

AMETEK, Inc.

19,050

728,472

Cooper Industries PLC Class A

19,300

822,952

General Cable Corp. (a)

11,600

341,272

Regal-Beloit Corp.

11,966

621,514

 

3,065,133

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 1.3%

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.8%

FLIR Systems, Inc. (a)

14,598

477,647

Technology Distributors - 0.5%

Anixter International, Inc. (a)

6,400

301,440

TOTAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS

779,087

HOUSEHOLD DURABLES - 2.2%

Homebuilding - 0.7%

PDG Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participacoes

26,800

266,924

Pulte Homes, Inc.

12,090

120,900

 

387,824

Household Appliances - 1.5%

Black & Decker Corp.

13,700

888,171

TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DURABLES

1,275,995

INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES - 10.4%

Industrial Conglomerates - 10.4%

3M Co.

32,600

2,695,042

Carlisle Companies, Inc.

10,900

373,434

General Electric Co.

106,034

1,604,294

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES - CONTINUED

Industrial Conglomerates - continued

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

10,800

$ 318,818

Textron, Inc.

40,000

752,400

Tyco International Ltd.

7,481

266,922

 

6,010,910

MACHINERY - 21.6%

Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks - 10.5%

Bucyrus International, Inc. Class A

3,500

197,295

Cummins, Inc.

41,080

1,883,929

Deere & Co.

27,000

1,460,430

Joy Global, Inc.

5,000

257,950

Navistar International Corp. (a)

23,886

923,194

Oshkosh Co.

6,700

248,101

PACCAR, Inc.

28,800

1,044,576

Sany Heavy Equipment International Holdings Co. Ltd.

48,000

60,062

 

6,075,537

Industrial Machinery - 11.1%

Actuant Corp. Class A

12,000

222,360

Altra Holdings, Inc. (a)

20,989

259,214

Barnes Group, Inc.

8,075

136,468

Blount International, Inc. (a)

14,499

146,440

Danaher Corp.

25,600

1,925,120

Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.

53,300

1,904,942

Kennametal, Inc.

17,100

443,232

Parker Hannifin Corp.

9,800

528,024

Timken Co.

15,600

369,876

TriMas Corp. (a)

37,829

256,102

Weg SA

26,500

278,987

 

6,470,765

TOTAL MACHINERY

12,546,302

MARINE - 0.3%

Marine - 0.3%

Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Ltd. (a)

29,902

142,334

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - 0.5%

Coal & Consumable Fuels - 0.5%

Peabody Energy Corp.

6,800

307,428

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - 2.0%

Human Resource & Employment Services - 0.8%

Manpower, Inc.

8,620

470,480

Research & Consulting Services - 1.2%

Equifax, Inc.

15,900

491,151

ICF International, Inc. (a)

7,500

201,000

 

692,151

TOTAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

1,162,631

 

Shares

Value

ROAD & RAIL - 13.2%

Railroads - 9.7%

America Latina Logistica SA unit

29,500

$ 272,490

CSX Corp.

23,061

1,118,228

Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. Class A (a)

8,000

261,120

Kansas City Southern (a)

10,700

356,203

Norfolk Southern Corp.

21,490

1,126,506

Union Pacific Corp.

39,300

2,511,270

 

5,645,817

Trucking - 3.5%

Arkansas Best Corp.

10,000

294,300

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (a)

68,184

894,574

Con-way, Inc.

5,200

181,532

Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (a)(c)

36,800

438,656

Saia, Inc. (a)

15,600

231,192

 

2,040,254

TOTAL ROAD & RAIL

7,686,071

SOFTWARE - 0.2%

Application Software - 0.2%

Solera Holdings, Inc.

3,901

140,475

TRADING COMPANIES & DISTRIBUTORS - 3.1%

Trading Companies & Distributors - 3.1%

Interline Brands, Inc. (a)

33,100

571,637

Rush Enterprises, Inc. Class A (a)

84,149

1,000,532

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

20,200

198,162

 

1,770,331

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $51,297,391)

57,611,036

Money Market Funds - 3.2%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

654,203

654,203

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

1,163,600

1,163,600

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $1,817,803)

1,817,803

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 102.4%

(Cost $53,115,194)

59,428,839

NET OTHER ASSETS - (2.4)%

(1,366,025)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 58,062,814

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 4,913

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

21,392

Total

$ 26,305

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 57,611,036

$ 57,232,156

$ 378,880

$ -

Money Market Funds

1,817,803

1,817,803

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 59,428,839

$ 59,049,959

$ 378,880

$ -

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $14,293,917 of which $5,257,797 and $9,036,120 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

The fund intends to elect to defer to its fiscal year ending December 31, 2010 approximately $5,984 of currency losses recognized during the period November 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $1,115,083) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $51,297,391)

$ 57,611,036

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $1,817,803)

1,817,803

 

Total Investments (cost $53,115,194)

 

$ 59,428,839

Receivable for investments sold

197,120

Receivable for fund shares sold

17,275

Dividends receivable

57,945

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

1,275

Prepaid expenses

252

Other receivables

1,263

Total assets

59,703,969

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 406,383

Payable for fund shares redeemed

1,243

Accrued management fee

26,957

Other affiliated payables

6,861

Other payables and accrued expenses

36,111

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

1,163,600

Total liabilities

1,641,155

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 58,062,814

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 66,780,876

Distributions in excess of net investment income

(5,985)

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(15,025,655)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

6,313,578

Net Assets

$ 58,062,814

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($32,183,376 ÷ 2,767,817 shares)

$ 11.63

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($25,879,438 ÷ 2,233,810 shares)

$ 11.59

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 864,735

Interest

 

4

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

26,305

Total income

 

891,044

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 262,965

Transfer agent fees

62,668

Accounting and security lending fees

18,430

Custodian fees and expenses

11,226

Independent trustees' compensation

316

Audit

38,867

Legal

252

Miscellaneous

4,160

Total expenses before reductions

398,884

Expense reductions

(2,017)

396,867

Net investment income (loss)

494,177

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(3,156,400)

Foreign currency transactions

(13,637)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(3,170,037)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

18,874,662

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

319

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

18,874,981

Net gain (loss)

15,704,944

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 16,199,121

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 494,177

$ 628,154

Net realized gain (loss)

(3,170,037)

(11,758,944)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

18,874,981

(20,071,036)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

16,199,121

(31,201,826)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(506,005)

(647,391)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(1,349,574)

Total distributions

(506,005)

(1,996,965)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

1,252,954

(2,375,514)

Redemption fees

11,631

30,102

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

16,957,701

(35,544,203)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

41,105,113

76,649,316

End of period (including distributions in excess of net investment income of $5,985 and undistributed net investment income of $0, respectively)

$ 58,062,814

$ 41,105,113

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.37

$ 14.43

$ 13.90

$ 14.20

$ 13.81

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .10

.12

.10

.14

.08

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.27

(5.79)

2.43

2.02

1.70

Total from investment operations

  3.37

(5.67)

2.53

2.16

1.78

Distributions from net investment income

  (.11)

(.14)

(.09)

(.15)

(.10)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.26)

(1.91)

(2.33)

(1.30)

Total distributions

  (.11)

(.40)

(2.00)

(2.47) H

(1.40)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  - G

.01

- G

.01

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.63

$ 8.37

$ 14.43

$ 13.90

$ 14.20

Total Return A,B

  40.22%

(39.84)%

18.21%

15.71%

12.88%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .81%

.78%

.78%

.79%

.81%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .81%

.78%

.78%

.79%

.81%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .80%

.78%

.78%

.78%

.76%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.10%

1.02%

.64%

.95%

.53%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 32,183

$ 23,747

$ 50,586

$ 51,332

$ 50,332

Portfolio turnover rate E

  117%

138%

122%

137%

160%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. G Amount represents less than $.01 per share. H Total distributions of $2.47 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.147 and distributions from net realized gain of $2.325 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.35

$ 14.38

$ 13.86

$ 14.19

$ 14.55

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .09

.11

.08

.12

.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.25

(5.76)

2.43

2.00

.96

Total from investment operations

  3.34

(5.65)

2.51

2.12

.98

Distributions from net investment income

  (.10)

(.13)

(.08)

(.14)

(.09)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.26)

(1.91)

(2.33)

(1.25)

Total distributions

  (.10)

(.39)

(1.99)

(2.46) K

(1.34)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

.01

- J

.01

- J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 11.59

$ 8.35

$ 14.38

$ 13.86

$ 14.19

Total Return B,C,D

  39.97%

(39.84)%

18.12%

15.43%

6.65%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .91%

.88%

.90%

.92%

1.08% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .91%

.88%

.90%

.92%

1.08% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .90%

.87%

.90%

.92%

1.03% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.00%

.92%

.52%

.81%

.31% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 25,879

$ 17,359

$ 26,063

$ 12,758

$ 1,936

Portfolio turnover rate G

  117%

138%

122%

137%

160%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share. K Total distributions of $2.46 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.138 and distributions from net realized gain of $2.325 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Industrials Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 9,548,518

Gross unrealized depreciation

(3,983,191)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 5,565,327

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 53,863,512

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (14,293,917)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 5,565,260

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 506,005

$ 1,374,085

Long-term Capital Gains

-

622,880

Total

$ 506,005

$ 1,996,965

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $55,019,140 and $52,979,446, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 23,564

Investor Class

39,104

 

$ 62,668

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $2,069 the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $224 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the

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7. Security Lending - continued

close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $21,392.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $2,017 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 290,831

$ 385,462

Investor Class

215,174

261,929

Total

$ 506,005

$ 647,391

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 885,620

Investor Class

-

463,954

Total

$ -

$ 1,349,574

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

744,452

842,161

$ 6,739,371

$ 10,739,604

Reinvestment of distributions

25,158

115,154

290,831

1,271,082

Shares redeemed

(837,301)

(1,628,549)

(7,230,622)

(19,451,472)

Net increase (decrease)

(67,691)

(671,234)

$ (200,420)

$ (7,440,786)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

812,669

1,277,670

$ 7,438,900

$ 16,291,692

Reinvestment of distributions

18,678

67,934

215,174

725,883

Shares redeemed

(677,276)

(1,078,868)

(6,200,700)

(11,952,303)

Net increase (decrease)

154,071

266,736

$ 1,453,374

$ 5,065,272

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Industrials Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Industrials Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Industrials Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Industrials Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

VIP Industrials Portfolio


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The Board stated that the investment performance of Initial Class of the fund compared favorably to its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Industrials Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

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Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

VCYLIC-ANN-0210
1.817361.104

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
International Capital Appreciation Portfolio

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
Year

Past 5
Years

Life of
fund
A

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Initial Class

56.04%

0.81%

1.28%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class

55.52%

0.69%

1.16%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class 2

55.44%

0.55%

1.03%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Initial Class R

55.76%

0.81%

1.28%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class R

55.52%

0.69%

1.16%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class 2R

55.36%

0.55%

1.02%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Investor Class R B

55.61%

0.70%

1.18%

A From December 22, 2004.

B The initial offering of Investor Class R shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class R. Had Investor Class R's transfer agent fee had been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio - Initial Class on December 22, 2004, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the MSCI® ACWI (All Country World Index) ex USA Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Sammy Simnegar, Portfolio Manager of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio: During the past year, the fund handily beat the 41.60% return of its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) ex USA Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Stock selection in materials - where I focused on producers of industrial and precious metals such as copper, steel and platinum - accounted for more than a third of the fund's edge over its benchmark. The fund also benefited from favorable stock picks in energy, information technology, consumer discretionary and financials, among other sectors. In fact, nine out of 10 market sectors contributed to performance. Our top relative contributor was Germany-based Aixtron, a manufacturer of machines that make LED (light-emitting diode) lights, a rapidly growing market. Three notable contributors from the diversified financials segment of the financials sector were American firms Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. To varying degrees, all three were pressured by balance sheet concerns until assistance from the federal government calmed investors nerves and triggered a rebound in the financial markets that lasted from March through the end of the year. Three other contributors were from the metals and mining industry: Canada's Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines, Russian steel producer Evraz Group and Swiss copper and coal miner Xstrata, all of which benefited from rising prices for their respective commodities. All the contributors I mentioned, except for Xstrata, were out-of-index positions. The fund did not hold Goldman Sachs or Evraz Group at period end. Conversely, the industrials sector detracted modestly because of lackluster stock picking. Additionally, within financials, which had a positive overall impact on our relative results, stock selection in the insurance group dampened the fund's gains. A small cash position also was counterproductive in a strongly rising market. Among individual holdings, French insurer AXA, Swiss diversified financial services provider UBS and U.S. commercial bank Citigroup detracted - mostly due to poor timing. First Uranium, a Canadian developer of uranium- and gold-mining projects in South Africa, was hurt by an inability to secure funding and other operational problems. Neither First Uranium nor Citigroup was a component of the index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,254.10

$ 6.25

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 6.81

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,252.40

$ 7.66

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Initial Class R

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,254.10

$ 6.25

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class R

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 6.81

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2R

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 7.66

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Investor Class R

1.18%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,253.80

$ 6.70

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.26

$ 6.01

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Geographic Diversification (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Japan

14.9%

 

fid254

United Kingdom

11.8%

 

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United States of America

8.0%

 

fid258

France

7.9%

 

fid260

Canada

7.0%

 

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Australia

4.9%

 

fid264

Russia

4.2%

 

fid266

India

3.6%

 

fid268

Korea (South)

3.5%

 

fid270

Other

34.2%

 

cjc492

Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

As of June 30, 2009

fid252

Japan

17.1%

 

fid254

United Kingdom

13.2%

 

fid256

United States of America

11.9%

 

fid258

France

8.7%

 

fid260

Canada

7.6%

 

fid262

Germany

3.1%

 

fid264

Spain

3.0%

 

fid266

India

3.0%

 

fid268

Russia

2.9%

 

fid270

Other

29.5%

 

cjc500

Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

Asset Allocation

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Stocks

99.5

98.1

Bonds

0.5

0.0

Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets

0.0

1.9

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

HSBC Holdings PLC sponsored ADR (United Kingdom, Commercial Banks)

1.8

0.0

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B (United Kingdom, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

1.7

1.8

Barclays PLC Sponsored ADR (United Kingdom, Commercial Banks)

1.3

1.2

ING Groep NV sponsored ADR (Netherlands, Diversified Financial Services)

1.2

0.0

Rio Tinto PLC (Reg.) (United Kingdom, Metals & Mining)

1.1

0.8

UBS AG (NY Shares) (Switzerland, Capital Markets)

1.1

0.0

Sanofi-Aventis sponsored ADR (France, Pharmaceuticals)

1.1

0.0

Centrais Electricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras) ADR (Brazil, Electric Utilities)

1.1

0.0

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea (South), Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment)

1.0

1.0

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sponsored ADR (Japan, Commercial Banks)

1.0

1.1

 

12.4

Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Financials

27.0

24.4

Materials

14.2

10.2

Consumer Discretionary

10.4

12.2

Energy

10.4

10.0

Information Technology

9.8

8.8

Industrials

8.3

10.0

Consumer Staples

6.5

5.3

Utilities

4.8

4.1

Health Care

4.7

5.3

Telecommunication Services

3.9

7.8

Annual Report

Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 98.9%

Shares

Value

Australia - 4.9%

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (a)

62,588

$ 249,615

JB Hi-Fi Ltd.

11,156

226,472

MacArthur Coal Ltd.

26,983

272,672

Macquarie Group Ltd.

6,688

290,763

Origin Energy Ltd.

18,185

274,749

Wesfarmers Ltd.

11,786

331,048

Westfield Group unit

27,118

305,459

Woolworths Ltd.

12,463

313,457

TOTAL AUSTRALIA

2,264,235

Bailiwick of Guernsey - 0.6%

Raven Russia Ltd.

305,500

222,180

Tetragon Financial Group Ltd.

12,200

47,702

TOTAL BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY

269,882

Belgium - 1.6%

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV

6,956

362,442

Fortis (a)

100,775

378,432

TOTAL BELGIUM

740,874

Bermuda - 2.0%

Aquarius Platinum Ltd. (United Kingdom) (a)

37,700

247,980

Dufry South America Ltd. unit

10,003

204,881

Huabao International Holdings Ltd.

223,000

239,785

Northern Offshore Ltd. (a)(c)

136,000

222,914

TOTAL BERMUDA

915,560

Brazil - 3.3%

Banco Santander (Brasil) SA ADR

19,500

271,830

Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras) sponsored ADR

23,000

485,070

MRV Engenharia e Participacoes SA

31,800

252,685

OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA

26,200

254,785

PDG Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participacoes

25,100

249,992

TOTAL BRAZIL

1,514,362

Canada - 7.0%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

4,700

304,864

Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd. (a)

40,700

261,868

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

3,700

282,646

First Uranium Corp. (a)

112,000

245,182

Grande Cache Coal Corp. (a)

43,700

222,940

InterOil Corp. (a)

3,100

238,111

Niko Resources Ltd.

2,600

243,506

OPTI Canada, Inc. (a)(c)

143,400

277,068

Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. (a)

5,200

253,455

Quadra Mining Ltd. (a)

17,100

236,160

Suncor Energy, Inc.

11,000

389,578

Teck Resources Ltd. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a)

8,200

287,369

TOTAL CANADA

3,242,747

 

Shares

Value

Cayman Islands - 1.9%

Hengdeli Holdings Ltd.

612,000

$ 231,076

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR (a)

36,300

206,910

Peak Sport Products Co. Ltd.

442,000

242,425

Trina Solar Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

4,000

215,880

TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS

896,291

China - 1.6%

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares)

423,000

361,290

China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. ADR (c)

4,700

344,745

Digital China Holdings Ltd. (H Shares)

44,000

58,574

TOTAL CHINA

764,609

Cyprus - 0.5%

Mirland Development Corp. PLC (a)

81,800

211,522

Denmark - 0.5%

Carlsberg AS Series B

3,200

236,396

Finland - 0.6%

Fortum Corp.

9,700

263,436

France - 7.9%

Accor SA

4,652

254,746

Atos Origin SA (a)

5,160

237,022

AXA SA sponsored ADR

15,100

357,568

BNP Paribas SA

5,881

470,652

Carrefour SA

6,637

318,882

Credit Agricole SA

19,300

341,517

Iliad Group SA

1,833

219,174

Saft Groupe SA

4,716

227,936

Sanofi-Aventis sponsored ADR

12,500

490,875

Schneider Electric SA

2,708

317,054

Societe Generale Series A

5,824

408,142

TOTAL FRANCE

3,643,568

Germany - 3.2%

Aixtron AG

7,706

259,259

Daimler AG (Reg.)

7,148

380,988

Deutsche Bank AG (NY Shares)

5,100

361,641

HeidelbergCement AG

3,619

249,886

Metro AG

3,700

225,498

TOTAL GERMANY

1,477,272

Greece - 1.2%

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA

17,523

258,143

National Bank of Greece SA sponsored ADR

53,900

280,819

TOTAL GREECE

538,962

Hong Kong - 0.5%

China Resources Power Holdings Co. Ltd.

124,000

245,638

India - 3.6%

Bank of Baroda

20,020

221,704

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

India - continued

BGR Energy Systems Ltd.

22,052

$ 233,278

Financial Technologies India Ltd.

8,292

240,211

ICSA (India) Ltd.

63,316

245,297

Jaiprakash Associates Ltd.

75,192

237,922

MIC Electronics Ltd.

253,509

247,173

Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd. (a)

3,032

15,862

Sintex Industries Ltd.

36,134

213,721

TOTAL INDIA

1,655,168

Indonesia - 0.5%

PT Semen Gresik Tbk

297,500

238,316

Ireland - 0.5%

Covidien PLC

4,700

225,083

Israel - 0.9%

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

7,100

398,878

Italy - 1.3%

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

74,354

335,314

Mediaset SpA

31,700

260,273

TOTAL ITALY

595,587

Japan - 14.9%

eAccess Ltd. (c)

444

261,090

Elpida Memory, Inc. (a)

15,000

244,588

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.

9,600

290,067

Gulliver International Co. Ltd.

3,310

231,688

Itochu Corp.

36,000

266,052

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

76

256,738

JTEKT Corp.

18,100

232,910

Kenedix, Inc. (a)

671

217,227

Kimoto Co. Ltd.

23,700

280,028

Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.

17,000

272,761

Kyocera Corp.

3,200

281,962

Mazda Motor Corp. (a)

105,000

241,557

Mitsubishi Corp.

13,100

326,460

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sponsored ADR

96,300

473,796

Mitsui & Co. Ltd.

21,700

307,987

Nitori Co. Ltd.

3,150

234,575

ORIX Corp.

5,590

380,775

Sapporo Breweries Ltd.

41,000

226,029

SOFTBANK CORP.

11,300

265,031

Sony Corp. sponsored ADR

11,100

321,900

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.

97,000

260,866

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. Ltd.

13,000

245,526

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. Ltd.

12,500

232,616

Toshiba Corp.

56,000

310,889

Uni-Charm Corp.

2,600

243,858

TOTAL JAPAN

6,906,976

Korea (South) - 3.5%

Duksan Hi-Metal Co. Ltd. (a)

19,414

217,270

 

Shares

Value

Hanjin Heavy Industries & Consolidated Co. Ltd.

11,955

$ 232,216

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd.

2,643

233,458

Kia Motors Corp. (a)

14,530

249,835

Lumens Co. Ltd. (a)

28,872

221,107

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

704

482,384

TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH)

1,636,270

Luxembourg - 0.5%

Millicom International Cellular SA

3,300

243,441

Mexico - 0.6%

Cemex SA de CV sponsored ADR

22,200

262,404

Netherlands - 2.4%

ASM International NV (Netherlands) (a)(c)

9,400

238,938

ING Groep NV sponsored ADR (a)(c)

55,184

541,355

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

10,663

314,774

TOTAL NETHERLANDS

1,095,067

Norway - 1.6%

Pronova BioPharma ASA (a)

154,000

467,637

Sevan Marine ASA (a)(c)

145,000

254,177

TOTAL NORWAY

721,814

Qatar - 0.7%

Commercial Bank of Qatar GDR (Reg. S)

97,450

330,779

Russia - 4.2%

LSR Group OJSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

31,900

290,290

Mechel Steel Group OAO sponsored ADR

12,100

227,722

Mosenergo AO sponsored ADR (a)

23,800

249,900

OAO Gazprom sponsored ADR

17,700

443,385

RusHydro JSC sponsored ADR (a)

61,300

234,779

Uralkali JSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

12,300

258,300

VTB Bank JSC unit

52,700

248,744

TOTAL RUSSIA

1,953,120

South Africa - 1.9%

MTN Group Ltd.

19,900

316,628

Naspers Ltd. Class N

6,800

275,304

Raubex Group Ltd.

82,900

268,390

TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA

860,322

Spain - 0.5%

NH Hoteles SA (a)

41,737

222,280

Sweden - 0.9%

EnergyO Solutions AB (a)

80,410

440,313

Switzerland - 2.3%

Actelion Ltd. (Reg.) (a)

5,965

317,995

Clariant AG (Reg.) (a)

20,534

242,335

UBS AG (NY Shares) (a)

33,600

521,136

TOTAL SWITZERLAND

1,081,466

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Taiwan - 0.5%

Prime View International Co. Ltd. (a)

93,000

$ 244,783

Turkey - 0.5%

Sinpas Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS

155,000

239,306

United Kingdom - 11.8%

Anglo American PLC (United Kingdom) (a)

9,500

416,231

Barclays PLC Sponsored ADR (c)

33,700

593,120

BG Group PLC

23,059

418,134

BT Group PLC

119,500

260,404

Cairn Energy PLC (a)

46,540

250,167

Carphone Warehouse Group PLC

78,997

239,766

Centrica PLC

68,711

312,154

Ferrexpo PLC

68,570

219,977

HSBC Holdings PLC sponsored ADR

14,800

844,927

Rio Tinto PLC (Reg.)

9,800

529,480

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B

26,687

777,669

Vedanta Resources PLC

6,200

261,626

Xstrata PLC (a)

19,900

360,529

TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM

5,484,184

United States of America - 8.0%

Bank of America Corp.

29,900

450,294

Citigroup, Inc.

70,000

231,700

CVS Caremark Corp.

7,100

228,691

Ener1, Inc. (a)(c)

31,620

200,471

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

10,890

453,786

Morgan Stanley

15,516

459,274

Pfizer, Inc.

13,100

238,289

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

4,700

248,113

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (a)(c)

13,331

270,753

Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)

62,802

229,855

Veeco Instruments, Inc. (a)

7,726

255,267

Wells Fargo & Co.

17,014

459,208

TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3,725,701

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $41,520,688)

45,786,612

Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.6%

Shares

Value

Italy - 0.6%

Fiat SpA (Risparmio Shares)
(Cost $161,564)

28,300

$ 255,046

Nonconvertible Bonds - 0.5%

 

Principal Amount

 

Venezuela - 0.5%

Petroleos de Venezuela SA 5.375% 4/12/27
(Cost $244,363)

$ 540,000

238,950

Money Market Funds - 5.5%

Shares

 

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)
(Cost $2,568,752)

2,568,752

2,568,752

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 105.5%

(Cost $44,495,367)

48,849,360

NET OTHER ASSETS - (5.5)%

(2,547,162)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 46,302,198

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 2,820

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

48,608

Total

$ 51,428

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the tables below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Japan

$ 6,906,976

$ 795,696

$ 6,111,280

$ -

United Kingdom

5,484,184

3,916,631

1,567,553

-

United States of America

3,725,701

3,725,701

-

-

France

3,643,568

3,643,568

-

-

Canada

3,242,747

3,242,747

-

-

Australia

2,264,235

2,264,235

-

-

Russia

1,953,120

1,703,220

-

249,900

India

1,655,168

1,655,168

-

-

Korea (South)

1,636,270

1,636,270

-

-

Other

15,529,689

13,455,139

2,074,550

-

Corporate Bonds

238,950

-

238,950

-

Money Market Funds

2,568,752

2,568,752

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 48,849,360

$ 38,607,127

$ 9,992,333

$ 249,900

The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:

Investments in Securities:

Beginning Balance

$ 561,490

Total Realized Gain (Loss)

(334,263)

Total Unrealized Gain (Loss)

197,849

Cost of Purchases

1,261,798

Proceeds of Sales

(1,436,974)

Amortization/Accretion

-

Transfers in/out of Level 3

-

Ending Balance

$ 249,900

The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at December 31, 2009

$ 3,668

The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represents either the beginning value (for transfers in), or the ending value (for transfers out) of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations.

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $24,891,544 of which $20,462,362 and $4,429,182 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $2,458,778) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $41,926,615)

$ 46,280,608

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $2,568,752)

2,568,752

 

Total Investments (cost $44,495,367)

 

$ 48,849,360

Foreign currency held at value (cost $199,573)

199,573

Receivable for investments sold

1,295,846

Receivable for fund shares sold

33,791

Dividends receivable

61,270

Interest receivable

6,369

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

5,198

Prepaid expenses

174

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

26,218

Other receivables

77,913

Total assets

50,555,712

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable to custodian bank

$ 482,477

Payable for investments purchased

966,468

Payable for fund shares redeemed

99,825

Accrued management fee

27,194

Distribution fees payable

140

Other affiliated payables

6,438

Other payables and accrued expenses

102,220

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

2,568,752

Total liabilities

4,253,514

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 46,302,198

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 67,952,331

Undistributed net investment income

277

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(25,989,565)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

4,339,155

Net Assets

$ 46,302,198

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($644,549 ÷ 74,965 shares)

$ 8.60

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,060 ÷ 13,637 shares)

$ 8.58

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($423,680 ÷ 49,456 shares)

$ 8.57

 

 

 

Initial Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($17,150,356 ÷ 1,994,433 shares)

$ 8.60

 

 

 

Service Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,060 ÷ 13,637 shares)

$ 8.58

 

 

 

Service Class 2R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($154,866 ÷ 18,071 shares)

$ 8.57

 

 

 

Investor Class R:
Net Asset Value,
offering price and redemption price per share ($27,694,627 ÷ 3,234,722 shares)

$ 8.56

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 607,663

Interest

 

14,760

Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $48,608 from security lending)

 

51,428

 

 

673,851

Less foreign taxes withheld

 

(46,252)

Total income

 

627,599

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 227,680

Transfer agent fees

50,577

Distribution fees

1,557

Accounting and security lending fees

16,901

Custodian fees and expenses

173,315

Independent trustees' compensation

206

Audit

60,404

Legal

174

Miscellaneous

2,758

Total expenses before reductions

533,572

Expense reductions

(217,955)

315,617

Net investment income (loss)

311,982

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers (net of foreign taxes of $47,039)

3,341,158

Foreign currency transactions

(39,859)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

3,301,299

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $29,237)

9,544,911

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

5,608

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

9,550,519

Net gain (loss)

12,851,818

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 13,163,800

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 311,982

$ 754,623

Net realized gain (loss)

3,301,299

(24,913,119)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

9,550,519

(5,460,953)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

13,163,800

(29,619,449)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(317,347)

-

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

(478,375)

(328,342)

Total distributions

(795,722)

(328,342)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

10,098,658

(20,630,488)

Redemption fees

6,920

5,532

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

22,473,656

(50,572,747)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

23,828,542

74,401,289

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $277 and undistributed net investment income of $5,642, respectively)

$ 46,302,198

$ 23,828,542

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.15

.11 F

.11

.06

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.07

(5.92)

.53

1.54

1.21

Total from investment operations

  3.14

(5.77)

.64

1.65

1.27

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.09)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.88)

(.43) J

(.05) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.60

$ 5.61

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  56.04%

(50.69)%

5.17%

14.49%

12.37%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.81%

1.54%

1.20%

1.80%

3.55%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.91%

1.07%

1.00%

.91%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.03%

1.65%

.82% F

.95%

.53%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 645

$ 388

$ 1,409

$ 1,357

$ 9,367

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .68%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.05 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.095 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .06

.14

.10 F

.10

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.76)

.63

1.63

1.26

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

-

(.08)

(.08)

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.14)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.42) J

(.04) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.58

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.52%

(50.64)%

5.06%

14.30%

12.27%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.73%

1.51%

1.20%

1.62%

4.35%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.04%

1.01%

1.16%

1.10%

1.01%

Net investment income (loss)

  .92%

1.55%

.72% F

.85%

.98%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 135

$ 414

$ 394

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .58%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.04 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.012 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.42 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.084 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .05

.12

.08 F

.08

.09

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.89)

.53

1.53

1.15

Total from investment operations

  3.10

(5.77)

.61

1.61

1.24

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

-

(.06)

(.07)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.13)

(.06)

(1.85)

(.40) J

(.02) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.57

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.44%

(50.73)%

4.89%

14.14%

12.12%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.02%

1.79%

1.41%

1.77%

4.50%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.19%

1.16%

1.32%

1.25%

1.16%

Net investment income (loss)

  .77%

1.40%

.57% F

.70%

.83%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 424

$ 302

$ 550

$ 524

$ 459

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .43%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.02 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.000 and distributions from net realized gain of $.020 per share. J Total distributions of $.40 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.066 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Initial Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.62

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.15

.11 F

.11

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.06

(5.91)

.53

1.54

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.13

(5.76)

.64

1.65

1.27

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.09)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.88)

(.43) J

(.05) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.60

$ 5.62

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.76%

(50.60)%

5.17%

14.50%

12.37%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.60%

1.44%

1.11%

1.46%

4.25%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.91%

1.06%

1.00%

.91%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.02%

1.65%

.82% F

.95%

1.08%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 17,150

$ 8,483

$ 32,345

$ 17,219

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .68%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.05 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.096 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .06

.14

.10 F

.10

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.76)

.63

1.63

1.26

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

-

(.08)

(.08)

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.14)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.42) J

(.04) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.58

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.52%

(50.64)%

5.06%

14.30%

12.27%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.73%

1.51%

1.20%

1.62%

4.35%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.04%

1.01%

1.16%

1.10%

1.01%

Net investment income (loss)

  .92%

1.55%

.72% F

.85%

.98%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 135

$ 414

$ 394

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .58%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.04 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.012 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.42 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.084 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .05

.13

.08 F

.08

.09

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.15

Total from investment operations

  3.10

(5.77)

.61

1.61

1.24

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

-

(.06)

(.07)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.13)

(.06)

(1.85)

(.40) J

(.02) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.57

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.36%

(50.73)%

4.90%

14.14%

12.12%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.87%

1.66%

1.35%

1.77%

4.50%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.19%

1.16%

1.31%

1.25%

1.16%

Net investment income (loss)

  .77%

1.40%

.57% F

.70%

.83%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 155

$ 179

$ 550

$ 524

$ 459

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .43%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.02 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.000 and distributions from net realized gain of $.020 per share. J Total distributions of $.40 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.066 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Investor Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 I

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.41

$ 12.65

$ 11.46

$ 10.32

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .07

.14

.09 H

.09

.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.04

(5.89)

.54

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.75)

.63

1.62

1.17

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.08)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.01)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.43) M

(.03) L

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E, K

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 5.60

$ 11.41

$ 12.65

$ 11.46

Total Return B, C, D

  55.61%

(50.65)%

5.07%

14.23%

11.39%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, J

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.68%

1.51%

1.22%

1.61%

2.19% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.18%

1.17%

1.22%

1.25%

1.25% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.01%

.97%

1.18%

1.15%

1.06% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .94%

1.59%

.71% H

.80%

.31% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 27,695

$ 14,208

$ 38,719

$ 24,505

$ 9,810

Portfolio turnover rate G

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .57%. I For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. K Amount represents less than $.01 per share. L Total distributions of $.03 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.013 per share. M Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.095 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares, Initial Class R shares, Service Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares, and Investor Class R shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 securities, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated quotations received from independent pricing services or from dealers who make markets in such securities. For corporate bonds and preferred securities, pricing services utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type as well as dealer supplied prices and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing matrices which consider similar factors that would be used by independent pricing services. These are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on short term capital gains on securities of certain issuers domiciled in India. The Fund records an estimated deferred tax liability included in Other payables and accrued expenses in the accompanying Statement of Assets & Liabilities for net unrealized gains on these securities in an amount that would be payable if the securities were disposed of at period end.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, certain foreign taxes, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), market discount, capital loss carryforwards, losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 4,712,993

Gross unrealized depreciation

(1,558,899)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 3,154,094

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 45,695,266

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 156,557

Capital loss carryforward

$ (24,891,544)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 3,151,694

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 795,722

$ 298,493

Long-term Capital Gains

-

29,849

Total

$ 795,722

$ 328,342

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Initial Class R shares, Service Class R shares, Service Class 2 R shares and Investor Class R shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $140,336,573 and $130,418,389, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .45% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .71% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' and Service Class R's average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's and Service Class 2R's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 122

Service Class 2

903

Service Class R

122

Service Class 2 R

410

 

$ 1,557

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5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates - continued

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class R) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class R pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 1,453

Service Class

173

Service Class 2

990

Initial Class R

12,248

Service Class R

173

Service Class 2R

202

Investor Class R

35,338

 

$ 50,577

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,746 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $136 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds.

8. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

8. Expense Reductions - continued

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

Initial Class

1.10%

$ 3,335

Service Class

1.20%

653

Service Class 2

1.35%

2,404

Initial Class R

1.10%

60,024

Service Class R

1.20%

653

Service Class 2R

1.35%

840

Investor Class R

1.18%

95,877

 

 

$ 163,786

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $54,039 for the period. In addition, through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $130.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 4,242

$ -

Service Class

684

-

Service Class 2

1,982

-

Initial Class R

119,072

-

Service Class R

684

-

Service Class 2R

659

-

Investor Class R

190,024

-

Total

$ 317,347

$ -

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ 6,363

$ 6,626

Service Class

1,207

1,993

Service Class 2

4,350

2,646

Initial Class R

178,610

134,858

Service Class R

1,207

1,993

Service Class 2R

1,602

2,646

Investor Class R

285,036

177,580

Total

$ 478,375

$ 328,342

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

23,291

30,908

$ 165,986

$ 260,134

Reinvestment of distributions

1,265

672

10,605

6,626

Shares redeemed

(18,636)

(85,732)

(107,450)

(731,294)

Net increase (decrease)

5,920

(54,152)

$ 69,141

$ (464,534)

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

226

202

1,891

1,993

Shares redeemed

(10,639)

(12,389)

(71,691)

(90,726)

Net increase (decrease)

(10,413)

(12,187)

$ (69,800)

$ (88,733)

10. Share Transactions - continued

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Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

19,605

29,552

$ 124,280

$ 262,678

Reinvestment of distributions

758

269

6,332

2,646

Shares redeemed

(24,845)

(23,991)

(158,018)

(171,548)

Net increase (decrease)

(4,482)

5,830

$ (27,406)

$ 93,776

Initial Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

897,081

148,524

$ 6,785,884

$ 1,413,988

Reinvestment of distributions

35,523

13,677

297,682

134,858

Shares redeemed

(448,753)

(1,478,974)

(2,964,977)

(13,970,732)

Net increase (decrease)

483,851

(1,316,773)

$ 4,118,589

$ (12,421,886)

Service Class R

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

226

202

1,891

1,993

Shares redeemed

(10,639)

(12,389)

(71,691)

(90,726)

Net increase (decrease)

(10,413)

(12,187)

$ (69,800)

$ (88,733)

Service Class 2R

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

271

269

2,261

2,646

Shares redeemed

(14,127)

(16,453)

(94,930)

(120,308)

Net increase (decrease)

(13,856)

(16,184)

$ (92,669)

$ (117,662)

Investor Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,164,413

176,104

$ 9,035,456

$ 1,598,648

Reinvestment of distributions

56,962

18,065

475,060

177,580

Shares redeemed

(525,663)

(1,048,997)

(3,339,913)

(9,318,944)

Net increase (decrease)

695,712

(854,828)

$ 6,170,603

$ (7,542,716)

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 98% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Eric M. Wetlaufer (47)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of Fidelity's International Equity Funds. Mr. Wetlaufer also serves as Group Chief Investment Officer of FMR. Mr. Wetlaufer is a Director (2007-present), Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2007-present) and President and a Director (2006-present) of Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. and President and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2006-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments in 2005, Mr. Wetlaufer was a partner in Oxhead Capital Management (2004-2005).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions

The Board of Trustees of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio voted to pay to shareholders of record at the opening of business on record date, the following distributions per share derived from capital gains realized from sales of portfolio securities and dividends derived from net investment income:

 

Pay Date

Record Date

Dividends

Capital Gains

Initial Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

Service Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

Service Class 2

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

The amounts per share which represent income derived from sources within, and taxes paid to, foreign countries or possessions of the United States are as follows:

 

Pay Date

Income

Taxes

Initial Class

12/18/09

$0.124

$0.015

Service Class

12/18/09

$0.117

$0.015

Service Class 2

12/18/09

$0.110

$0.015

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a custom peer group of mutual funds deemed appropriate by the Board over multiple periods. Because the fund had been in existence less than five calendar years, the following charts considered by the Board show, over the one- and three-year periods ended December 31, 2008, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class R and Service Class 2 of the fund, the cumulative total returns of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and a range of cumulative total returns of a custom peer group of mutual funds defined by FMR based on categories assigned by Morningstar, Inc. The returns of Initial Class R and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest and lowest performing classes, respectively (based on three-year performance). The box within each chart shows the 25th percentile return (bottom of box) and the 75th percentile return (top of box) of the peer group. Returns shown above the box are in the first quartile and returns shown below the box are in the fourth quartile. The percentage beaten numbers noted below each chart correspond to the percentile box and represent the percentage of funds in the peer group whose performance was equal to or lower than that of the class indicated. The fund's custom peer group, defined by FMR, is a peer group that FMR believes provides a more meaningful performance comparison than the peer group assigned by Morningstar, Inc., which assigns mutual funds to categories based on their investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio


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The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and stated that the performance of Initial Class R of the fund was in the fourth quartile for all the periods shown. The Board also stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's disappointing performance relative to its peer group and benchmark. The Board noted that this fund had underperformed in the previous year and discussed with FMR its disappointment with the continued underperformance of the fund. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

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The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month (or shorter) periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 18% means that 82% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each of Initial Class and Initial Class R ranked equal to its competitive median for 2008 and the total expenses of each of Investor Class R, Service Class, Service Class 2, Service Class R, and Service Class 2 R ranked above its competitive median for 2008. The Board considered that the total expenses of Investor Class R were above the median primarily due to its higher transfer agent fee. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in some cases above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Boston, MA

VIPCAP-ANN-0210
1.811843.105

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
International Capital Appreciation Portfolio - Class R

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their
market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and
changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

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Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of a class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would be lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of
fund
A

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Initial Class

56.04%

0.81%

1.28%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class

55.52%

0.69%

1.16%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class 2

55.44%

0.55%

1.03%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Initial Class R

55.76%

0.81%

1.28%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class R

55.52%

0.69%

1.16%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Service Class 2R

55.36%

0.55%

1.02%

VIP International Capital Appreciation - Investor Class R B

55.61%

0.70%

1.18%

A From December 22, 2004.

B The initial offering of Investor Class R shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class R. Had Investor Class R's transfer agent fee had been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio - Initial Class R on December 22, 2004, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows the MSCI® ACWI (All Country World Index) ex USA Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Sammy Simnegar, Portfolio Manager of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio: During the past year, the fund handily beat the 41.60% return of its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) ex USA Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Stock selection in materials - where I focused on producers of industrial and precious metals such as copper, steel and platinum - accounted for more than a third of the fund's edge over its benchmark. The fund also benefited from favorable stock picks in energy, information technology, consumer discretionary and financials, among other sectors. In fact, nine out of 10 market sectors contributed to performance. Our top relative contributor was Germany-based Aixtron, a manufacturer of machines that make LED (light-emitting diode) lights, a rapidly growing market. Three notable contributors from the diversified financials segment of the financials sector were American firms Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. To varying degrees, all three were pressured by balance sheet concerns until assistance from the federal government calmed investors nerves and triggered a rebound in the financial markets that lasted from March through the end of the year. Three other contributors were from the metals and mining industry: Canada's Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines, Russian steel producer Evraz Group and Swiss copper and coal miner Xstrata, all of which benefited from rising prices for their respective commodities. All the contributors I mentioned, except for Xstrata, were out-of-index positions. The fund did not hold Goldman Sachs or Evraz Group at period end. Conversely, the industrials sector detracted modestly because of lackluster stock picking. Additionally, within financials, which had a positive overall impact on our relative results, stock selection in the insurance group dampened the fund's gains. A small cash position also was counterproductive in a strongly rising market. Among individual holdings, French insurer AXA, Swiss diversified financial services provider UBS and U.S. commercial bank Citigroup detracted - mostly due to poor timing. First Uranium, a Canadian developer of uranium- and gold-mining projects in South Africa, was hurt by an inability to secure funding and other operational problems. Neither First Uranium nor Citigroup was a component of the index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,254.10

$ 6.25

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 6.81

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,252.40

$ 7.66

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Initial Class R

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,254.10

$ 6.25

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Service Class R

1.20%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 6.81

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.16

$ 6.11

Service Class 2R

1.35%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,251.80

$ 7.66

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,018.40

$ 6.87

Investor Class R

1.18%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,253.80

$ 6.70

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.26

$ 6.01

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

Annual Report

Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Geographic Diversification (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid252

Japan

14.9%

 

fid254

United Kingdom

11.8%

 

fid256

United States of America

8.0%

 

fid258

France

7.9%

 

fid260

Canada

7.0%

 

fid262

Australia

4.9%

 

fid264

Russia

4.2%

 

fid266

India

3.6%

 

fid268

Korea (South)

3.5%

 

fid270

Other

34.2%

 

cjc493

Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

As of June 30, 2009

fid252

Japan

17.1%

 

fid254

United Kingdom

13.2%

 

fid256

United States of America

11.9%

 

fid258

France

8.7%

 

fid260

Canada

7.6%

 

fid262

Germany

3.1%

 

fid264

Spain

3.0%

 

fid266

India

3.0%

 

fid268

Russia

2.9%

 

fid270

Other

29.5%

 

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Percentages are adjusted for the effect of futures contracts, if applicable.

Asset Allocation

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Stocks

99.5

98.1

Bonds

0.5

0.0

Short-Term Investments and Net Other Assets

0.0

1.9

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

HSBC Holdings PLC sponsored ADR (United Kingdom, Commercial Banks)

1.8

0.0

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B (United Kingdom, Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels)

1.7

1.8

Barclays PLC Sponsored ADR (United Kingdom, Commercial Banks)

1.3

1.2

ING Groep NV sponsored ADR (Netherlands, Diversified Financial Services)

1.2

0.0

Rio Tinto PLC (Reg.) (United Kingdom, Metals & Mining)

1.1

0.8

UBS AG (NY Shares) (Switzerland, Capital Markets)

1.1

0.0

Sanofi-Aventis sponsored ADR (France, Pharmaceuticals)

1.1

0.0

Centrais Electricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras) ADR (Brazil, Electric Utilities)

1.1

0.0

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea (South), Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment)

1.0

1.0

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sponsored ADR (Japan, Commercial Banks)

1.0

1.1

 

12.4

Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Financials

27.0

24.4

Materials

14.2

10.2

Consumer Discretionary

10.4

12.2

Energy

10.4

10.0

Information Technology

9.8

8.8

Industrials

8.3

10.0

Consumer Staples

6.5

5.3

Utilities

4.8

4.1

Health Care

4.7

5.3

Telecommunication Services

3.9

7.8

Annual Report

Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 98.9%

Shares

Value

Australia - 4.9%

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (a)

62,588

$ 249,615

JB Hi-Fi Ltd.

11,156

226,472

MacArthur Coal Ltd.

26,983

272,672

Macquarie Group Ltd.

6,688

290,763

Origin Energy Ltd.

18,185

274,749

Wesfarmers Ltd.

11,786

331,048

Westfield Group unit

27,118

305,459

Woolworths Ltd.

12,463

313,457

TOTAL AUSTRALIA

2,264,235

Bailiwick of Guernsey - 0.6%

Raven Russia Ltd.

305,500

222,180

Tetragon Financial Group Ltd.

12,200

47,702

TOTAL BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY

269,882

Belgium - 1.6%

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV

6,956

362,442

Fortis (a)

100,775

378,432

TOTAL BELGIUM

740,874

Bermuda - 2.0%

Aquarius Platinum Ltd. (United Kingdom) (a)

37,700

247,980

Dufry South America Ltd. unit

10,003

204,881

Huabao International Holdings Ltd.

223,000

239,785

Northern Offshore Ltd. (a)(c)

136,000

222,914

TOTAL BERMUDA

915,560

Brazil - 3.3%

Banco Santander (Brasil) SA ADR

19,500

271,830

Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras) sponsored ADR

23,000

485,070

MRV Engenharia e Participacoes SA

31,800

252,685

OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA

26,200

254,785

PDG Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participacoes

25,100

249,992

TOTAL BRAZIL

1,514,362

Canada - 7.0%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

4,700

304,864

Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd. (a)

40,700

261,868

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

3,700

282,646

First Uranium Corp. (a)

112,000

245,182

Grande Cache Coal Corp. (a)

43,700

222,940

InterOil Corp. (a)

3,100

238,111

Niko Resources Ltd.

2,600

243,506

OPTI Canada, Inc. (a)(c)

143,400

277,068

Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. (a)

5,200

253,455

Quadra Mining Ltd. (a)

17,100

236,160

Suncor Energy, Inc.

11,000

389,578

Teck Resources Ltd. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a)

8,200

287,369

TOTAL CANADA

3,242,747

 

Shares

Value

Cayman Islands - 1.9%

Hengdeli Holdings Ltd.

612,000

$ 231,076

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR (a)

36,300

206,910

Peak Sport Products Co. Ltd.

442,000

242,425

Trina Solar Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

4,000

215,880

TOTAL CAYMAN ISLANDS

896,291

China - 1.6%

China Construction Bank Corp. (H Shares)

423,000

361,290

China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. ADR (c)

4,700

344,745

Digital China Holdings Ltd. (H Shares)

44,000

58,574

TOTAL CHINA

764,609

Cyprus - 0.5%

Mirland Development Corp. PLC (a)

81,800

211,522

Denmark - 0.5%

Carlsberg AS Series B

3,200

236,396

Finland - 0.6%

Fortum Corp.

9,700

263,436

France - 7.9%

Accor SA

4,652

254,746

Atos Origin SA (a)

5,160

237,022

AXA SA sponsored ADR

15,100

357,568

BNP Paribas SA

5,881

470,652

Carrefour SA

6,637

318,882

Credit Agricole SA

19,300

341,517

Iliad Group SA

1,833

219,174

Saft Groupe SA

4,716

227,936

Sanofi-Aventis sponsored ADR

12,500

490,875

Schneider Electric SA

2,708

317,054

Societe Generale Series A

5,824

408,142

TOTAL FRANCE

3,643,568

Germany - 3.2%

Aixtron AG

7,706

259,259

Daimler AG (Reg.)

7,148

380,988

Deutsche Bank AG (NY Shares)

5,100

361,641

HeidelbergCement AG

3,619

249,886

Metro AG

3,700

225,498

TOTAL GERMANY

1,477,272

Greece - 1.2%

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA

17,523

258,143

National Bank of Greece SA sponsored ADR

53,900

280,819

TOTAL GREECE

538,962

Hong Kong - 0.5%

China Resources Power Holdings Co. Ltd.

124,000

245,638

India - 3.6%

Bank of Baroda

20,020

221,704

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

India - continued

BGR Energy Systems Ltd.

22,052

$ 233,278

Financial Technologies India Ltd.

8,292

240,211

ICSA (India) Ltd.

63,316

245,297

Jaiprakash Associates Ltd.

75,192

237,922

MIC Electronics Ltd.

253,509

247,173

Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd. (a)

3,032

15,862

Sintex Industries Ltd.

36,134

213,721

TOTAL INDIA

1,655,168

Indonesia - 0.5%

PT Semen Gresik Tbk

297,500

238,316

Ireland - 0.5%

Covidien PLC

4,700

225,083

Israel - 0.9%

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

7,100

398,878

Italy - 1.3%

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

74,354

335,314

Mediaset SpA

31,700

260,273

TOTAL ITALY

595,587

Japan - 14.9%

eAccess Ltd. (c)

444

261,090

Elpida Memory, Inc. (a)

15,000

244,588

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.

9,600

290,067

Gulliver International Co. Ltd.

3,310

231,688

Itochu Corp.

36,000

266,052

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

76

256,738

JTEKT Corp.

18,100

232,910

Kenedix, Inc. (a)

671

217,227

Kimoto Co. Ltd.

23,700

280,028

Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.

17,000

272,761

Kyocera Corp.

3,200

281,962

Mazda Motor Corp. (a)

105,000

241,557

Mitsubishi Corp.

13,100

326,460

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sponsored ADR

96,300

473,796

Mitsui & Co. Ltd.

21,700

307,987

Nitori Co. Ltd.

3,150

234,575

ORIX Corp.

5,590

380,775

Sapporo Breweries Ltd.

41,000

226,029

SOFTBANK CORP.

11,300

265,031

Sony Corp. sponsored ADR

11,100

321,900

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.

97,000

260,866

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. Ltd.

13,000

245,526

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. Ltd.

12,500

232,616

Toshiba Corp.

56,000

310,889

Uni-Charm Corp.

2,600

243,858

TOTAL JAPAN

6,906,976

Korea (South) - 3.5%

Duksan Hi-Metal Co. Ltd. (a)

19,414

217,270

 

Shares

Value

Hanjin Heavy Industries & Consolidated Co. Ltd.

11,955

$ 232,216

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd.

2,643

233,458

Kia Motors Corp. (a)

14,530

249,835

Lumens Co. Ltd. (a)

28,872

221,107

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

704

482,384

TOTAL KOREA (SOUTH)

1,636,270

Luxembourg - 0.5%

Millicom International Cellular SA

3,300

243,441

Mexico - 0.6%

Cemex SA de CV sponsored ADR

22,200

262,404

Netherlands - 2.4%

ASM International NV (Netherlands) (a)(c)

9,400

238,938

ING Groep NV sponsored ADR (a)(c)

55,184

541,355

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

10,663

314,774

TOTAL NETHERLANDS

1,095,067

Norway - 1.6%

Pronova BioPharma ASA (a)

154,000

467,637

Sevan Marine ASA (a)(c)

145,000

254,177

TOTAL NORWAY

721,814

Qatar - 0.7%

Commercial Bank of Qatar GDR (Reg. S)

97,450

330,779

Russia - 4.2%

LSR Group OJSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

31,900

290,290

Mechel Steel Group OAO sponsored ADR

12,100

227,722

Mosenergo AO sponsored ADR (a)

23,800

249,900

OAO Gazprom sponsored ADR

17,700

443,385

RusHydro JSC sponsored ADR (a)

61,300

234,779

Uralkali JSC GDR (Reg. S) (a)

12,300

258,300

VTB Bank JSC unit

52,700

248,744

TOTAL RUSSIA

1,953,120

South Africa - 1.9%

MTN Group Ltd.

19,900

316,628

Naspers Ltd. Class N

6,800

275,304

Raubex Group Ltd.

82,900

268,390

TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA

860,322

Spain - 0.5%

NH Hoteles SA (a)

41,737

222,280

Sweden - 0.9%

EnergyO Solutions AB (a)

80,410

440,313

Switzerland - 2.3%

Actelion Ltd. (Reg.) (a)

5,965

317,995

Clariant AG (Reg.) (a)

20,534

242,335

UBS AG (NY Shares) (a)

33,600

521,136

TOTAL SWITZERLAND

1,081,466

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

Taiwan - 0.5%

Prime View International Co. Ltd. (a)

93,000

$ 244,783

Turkey - 0.5%

Sinpas Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS

155,000

239,306

United Kingdom - 11.8%

Anglo American PLC (United Kingdom) (a)

9,500

416,231

Barclays PLC Sponsored ADR (c)

33,700

593,120

BG Group PLC

23,059

418,134

BT Group PLC

119,500

260,404

Cairn Energy PLC (a)

46,540

250,167

Carphone Warehouse Group PLC

78,997

239,766

Centrica PLC

68,711

312,154

Ferrexpo PLC

68,570

219,977

HSBC Holdings PLC sponsored ADR

14,800

844,927

Rio Tinto PLC (Reg.)

9,800

529,480

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B

26,687

777,669

Vedanta Resources PLC

6,200

261,626

Xstrata PLC (a)

19,900

360,529

TOTAL UNITED KINGDOM

5,484,184

United States of America - 8.0%

Bank of America Corp.

29,900

450,294

Citigroup, Inc.

70,000

231,700

CVS Caremark Corp.

7,100

228,691

Ener1, Inc. (a)(c)

31,620

200,471

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

10,890

453,786

Morgan Stanley

15,516

459,274

Pfizer, Inc.

13,100

238,289

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

4,700

248,113

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (a)(c)

13,331

270,753

Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)

62,802

229,855

Veeco Instruments, Inc. (a)

7,726

255,267

Wells Fargo & Co.

17,014

459,208

TOTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3,725,701

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $41,520,688)

45,786,612

Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks - 0.6%

Shares

Value

Italy - 0.6%

Fiat SpA (Risparmio Shares)
(Cost $161,564)

28,300

$ 255,046

Nonconvertible Bonds - 0.5%

 

Principal Amount

 

Venezuela - 0.5%

Petroleos de Venezuela SA 5.375% 4/12/27
(Cost $244,363)

$ 540,000

238,950

Money Market Funds - 5.5%

Shares

 

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)
(Cost $2,568,752)

2,568,752

2,568,752

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 105.5%

(Cost $44,495,367)

48,849,360

NET OTHER ASSETS - (5.5)%

(2,547,162)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 46,302,198

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 2,820

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

48,608

Total

$ 51,428

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the tables below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Japan

$ 6,906,976

$ 795,696

$ 6,111,280

$ -

United Kingdom

5,484,184

3,916,631

1,567,553

-

United States of America

3,725,701

3,725,701

-

-

France

3,643,568

3,643,568

-

-

Canada

3,242,747

3,242,747

-

-

Australia

2,264,235

2,264,235

-

-

Russia

1,953,120

1,703,220

-

249,900

India

1,655,168

1,655,168

-

-

Korea (South)

1,636,270

1,636,270

-

-

Other

15,529,689

13,455,139

2,074,550

-

Corporate Bonds

238,950

-

238,950

-

Money Market Funds

2,568,752

2,568,752

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 48,849,360

$ 38,607,127

$ 9,992,333

$ 249,900

The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:

Investments in Securities:

Beginning Balance

$ 561,490

Total Realized Gain (Loss)

(334,263)

Total Unrealized Gain (Loss)

197,849

Cost of Purchases

1,261,798

Proceeds of Sales

(1,436,974)

Amortization/Accretion

-

Transfers in/out of Level 3

-

Ending Balance

$ 249,900

The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at December 31, 2009

$ 3,668

The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represents either the beginning value (for transfers in), or the ending value (for transfers out) of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations.

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $24,891,544 of which $20,462,362 and $4,429,182 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $2,458,778) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $41,926,615)

$ 46,280,608

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $2,568,752)

2,568,752

 

Total Investments (cost $44,495,367)

 

$ 48,849,360

Foreign currency held at value (cost $199,573)

199,573

Receivable for investments sold

1,295,846

Receivable for fund shares sold

33,791

Dividends receivable

61,270

Interest receivable

6,369

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

5,198

Prepaid expenses

174

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

26,218

Other receivables

77,913

Total assets

50,555,712

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable to custodian bank

$ 482,477

Payable for investments purchased

966,468

Payable for fund shares redeemed

99,825

Accrued management fee

27,194

Distribution fees payable

140

Other affiliated payables

6,438

Other payables and accrued expenses

102,220

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

2,568,752

Total liabilities

4,253,514

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 46,302,198

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 67,952,331

Undistributed net investment income

277

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(25,989,565)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

4,339,155

Net Assets

$ 46,302,198

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($644,549 ÷ 74,965 shares)

$ 8.60

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,060 ÷ 13,637 shares)

$ 8.58

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($423,680 ÷ 49,456 shares)

$ 8.57

 

 

 

Initial Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($17,150,356 ÷ 1,994,433 shares)

$ 8.60

 

 

 

Service Class R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($117,060 ÷ 13,637 shares)

$ 8.58

 

 

 

Service Class 2R:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($154,866 ÷ 18,071 shares)

$ 8.57

 

 

 

Investor Class R:
Net Asset Value,
offering price and redemption price per share ($27,694,627 ÷ 3,234,722 shares)

$ 8.56

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 607,663

Interest

 

14,760

Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $48,608 from security lending)

 

51,428

 

 

673,851

Less foreign taxes withheld

 

(46,252)

Total income

 

627,599

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 227,680

Transfer agent fees

50,577

Distribution fees

1,557

Accounting and security lending fees

16,901

Custodian fees and expenses

173,315

Independent trustees' compensation

206

Audit

60,404

Legal

174

Miscellaneous

2,758

Total expenses before reductions

533,572

Expense reductions

(217,955)

315,617

Net investment income (loss)

311,982

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers (net of foreign taxes of $47,039)

3,341,158

Foreign currency transactions

(39,859)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

3,301,299

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities (net of increase in deferred foreign taxes of $29,237)

9,544,911

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

5,608

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

9,550,519

Net gain (loss)

12,851,818

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 13,163,800

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 311,982

$ 754,623

Net realized gain (loss)

3,301,299

(24,913,119)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

9,550,519

(5,460,953)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

13,163,800

(29,619,449)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(317,347)

-

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

(478,375)

(328,342)

Total distributions

(795,722)

(328,342)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

10,098,658

(20,630,488)

Redemption fees

6,920

5,532

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

22,473,656

(50,572,747)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

23,828,542

74,401,289

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $277 and undistributed net investment income of $5,642, respectively)

$ 46,302,198

$ 23,828,542

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.15

.11 F

.11

.06

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.07

(5.92)

.53

1.54

1.21

Total from investment operations

  3.14

(5.77)

.64

1.65

1.27

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.09)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.88)

(.43) J

(.05) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.60

$ 5.61

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  56.04%

(50.69)%

5.17%

14.49%

12.37%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.81%

1.54%

1.20%

1.80%

3.55%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.91%

1.07%

1.00%

.91%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.03%

1.65%

.82% F

.95%

.53%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 645

$ 388

$ 1,409

$ 1,357

$ 9,367

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .68%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.05 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.095 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .06

.14

.10 F

.10

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.76)

.63

1.63

1.26

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

-

(.08)

(.08)

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.14)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.42) J

(.04) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.58

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.52%

(50.64)%

5.06%

14.30%

12.27%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.73%

1.51%

1.20%

1.62%

4.35%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.04%

1.01%

1.16%

1.10%

1.01%

Net investment income (loss)

  .92%

1.55%

.72% F

.85%

.98%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 135

$ 414

$ 394

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .58%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.04 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.012 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.42 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.084 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .05

.12

.08 F

.08

.09

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.89)

.53

1.53

1.15

Total from investment operations

  3.10

(5.77)

.61

1.61

1.24

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

-

(.06)

(.07)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.13)

(.06)

(1.85)

(.40) J

(.02) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.57

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.44%

(50.73)%

4.89%

14.14%

12.12%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  2.02%

1.79%

1.41%

1.77%

4.50%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.19%

1.16%

1.32%

1.25%

1.16%

Net investment income (loss)

  .77%

1.40%

.57% F

.70%

.83%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 424

$ 302

$ 550

$ 524

$ 459

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .43%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.02 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.000 and distributions from net realized gain of $.020 per share. J Total distributions of $.40 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.066 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Initial Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.62

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .07

.15

.11 F

.11

.11

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.06

(5.91)

.53

1.54

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.13

(5.76)

.64

1.65

1.27

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.09)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.88)

(.43) J

(.05) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.60

$ 5.62

$ 11.44

$ 12.68

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.76%

(50.60)%

5.17%

14.50%

12.37%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.60%

1.44%

1.11%

1.46%

4.25%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

1.10%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.91%

1.06%

1.00%

.91%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.02%

1.65%

.82% F

.95%

1.08%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 17,150

$ 8,483

$ 32,345

$ 17,219

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .68%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.05 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.096 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Service Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .06

.14

.10 F

.10

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.76)

.63

1.63

1.26

Distributions from net investment income

  (.05)

-

(.08)

(.08)

(.01)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.14)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.42) J

(.04) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.58

$ 5.61

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.52%

(50.64)%

5.06%

14.30%

12.27%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.73%

1.51%

1.20%

1.62%

4.35%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

1.20%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.04%

1.01%

1.16%

1.10%

1.01%

Net investment income (loss)

  .92%

1.55%

.72% F

.85%

.98%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 117

$ 135

$ 414

$ 394

$ 345

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .58%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.04 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.012 and distributions from net realized gain of $.023 per share. J Total distributions of $.42 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.084 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class 2R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

$ 10.24

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .05

.13

.08 F

.08

.09

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.05

(5.90)

.53

1.53

1.15

Total from investment operations

  3.10

(5.77)

.61

1.61

1.24

Distributions from net investment income

  (.04)

-

(.06)

(.07)

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.02)

Total distributions

  (.13)

(.06)

(1.85)

(.40) J

(.02) I

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C, H

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.57

$ 5.60

$ 11.43

$ 12.67

$ 11.46

Total Return A, B

  55.36%

(50.73)%

4.90%

14.14%

12.12%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.87%

1.66%

1.35%

1.77%

4.50%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

1.35%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.19%

1.16%

1.31%

1.25%

1.16%

Net investment income (loss)

  .77%

1.40%

.57% F

.70%

.83%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 155

$ 179

$ 550

$ 524

$ 459

Portfolio turnover rate E

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .43%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $.02 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.000 and distributions from net realized gain of $.020 per share. J Total distributions of $.40 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.066 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Highlights - Investor Class R

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 I

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.60

$ 11.41

$ 12.65

$ 11.46

$ 10.32

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .07

.14

.09 H

.09

.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  3.04

(5.89)

.54

1.53

1.16

Total from investment operations

  3.11

(5.75)

.63

1.62

1.17

Distributions from net investment income

  (.06)

-

(.08)

(.10)

(.02)

Distributions from net realized gain

  (.09)

(.06)

(1.79)

(.34)

(.01)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.06)

(1.87)

(.43) M

(.03) L

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E, K

  -

-

-

-

-

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.56

$ 5.60

$ 11.41

$ 12.65

$ 11.46

Total Return B, C, D

  55.61%

(50.65)%

5.07%

14.23%

11.39%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, J

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.68%

1.51%

1.22%

1.61%

2.19% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.18%

1.17%

1.22%

1.25%

1.25% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.01%

.97%

1.18%

1.15%

1.06% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .94%

1.59%

.71% H

.80%

.31% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 27,695

$ 14,208

$ 38,719

$ 24,505

$ 9,810

Portfolio turnover rate G

  416%

350%

224%

185%

176%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .57%. I For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. K Amount represents less than $.01 per share. L Total distributions of $.03 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.022 and distributions from net realized gain of $.013 per share. M Total distributions of $.43 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.095 and distributions from net realized gain of $.335 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares, Initial Class R shares, Service Class R shares, Service Class 2R shares, and Investor Class R shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, as well as a roll forward of Level 3 securities, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated quotations received from independent pricing services or from dealers who make markets in such securities. For corporate bonds and preferred securities, pricing services utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type as well as dealer supplied prices and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing matrices which consider similar factors that would be used by independent pricing services. These are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests. The Fund is subject to a tax imposed on short term capital gains on securities of certain issuers domiciled in India. The Fund records an estimated deferred tax liability included in Other payables and accrued expenses in the accompanying Statement of Assets & Liabilities for net unrealized gains on these securities in an amount that would be payable if the securities were disposed of at period end.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, certain foreign taxes, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), market discount, capital loss carryforwards, losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 4,712,993

Gross unrealized depreciation

(1,558,899)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 3,154,094

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 45,695,266

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 156,557

Capital loss carryforward

$ (24,891,544)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 3,151,694

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 795,722

$ 298,493

Long-term Capital Gains

-

29,849

Total

$ 795,722

$ 328,342

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Initial Class R shares, Service Class R shares, Service Class 2 R shares and Investor Class R shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $140,336,573 and $130,418,389, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .45% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .71% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' and Service Class R's average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's and Service Class 2R's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 122

Service Class 2

903

Service Class R

122

Service Class 2 R

410

 

$ 1,557

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5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates - continued

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class R) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class R pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 1,453

Service Class

173

Service Class 2

990

Initial Class R

12,248

Service Class R

173

Service Class 2R

202

Investor Class R

35,338

 

$ 50,577

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,746 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $136 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds.

8. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

8. Expense Reductions - continued

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

Initial Class

1.10%

$ 3,335

Service Class

1.20%

653

Service Class 2

1.35%

2,404

Initial Class R

1.10%

60,024

Service Class R

1.20%

653

Service Class 2R

1.35%

840

Investor Class R

1.18%

95,877

 

 

$ 163,786

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $54,039 for the period. In addition, through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $130.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 4,242

$ -

Service Class

684

-

Service Class 2

1,982

-

Initial Class R

119,072

-

Service Class R

684

-

Service Class 2R

659

-

Investor Class R

190,024

-

Total

$ 317,347

$ -

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ 6,363

$ 6,626

Service Class

1,207

1,993

Service Class 2

4,350

2,646

Initial Class R

178,610

134,858

Service Class R

1,207

1,993

Service Class 2R

1,602

2,646

Investor Class R

285,036

177,580

Total

$ 478,375

$ 328,342

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

23,291

30,908

$ 165,986

$ 260,134

Reinvestment of distributions

1,265

672

10,605

6,626

Shares redeemed

(18,636)

(85,732)

(107,450)

(731,294)

Net increase (decrease)

5,920

(54,152)

$ 69,141

$ (464,534)

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

226

202

1,891

1,993

Shares redeemed

(10,639)

(12,389)

(71,691)

(90,726)

Net increase (decrease)

(10,413)

(12,187)

$ (69,800)

$ (88,733)

10. Share Transactions - continued

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Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

19,605

29,552

$ 124,280

$ 262,678

Reinvestment of distributions

758

269

6,332

2,646

Shares redeemed

(24,845)

(23,991)

(158,018)

(171,548)

Net increase (decrease)

(4,482)

5,830

$ (27,406)

$ 93,776

Initial Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

897,081

148,524

$ 6,785,884

$ 1,413,988

Reinvestment of distributions

35,523

13,677

297,682

134,858

Shares redeemed

(448,753)

(1,478,974)

(2,964,977)

(13,970,732)

Net increase (decrease)

483,851

(1,316,773)

$ 4,118,589

$ (12,421,886)

Service Class R

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

226

202

1,891

1,993

Shares redeemed

(10,639)

(12,389)

(71,691)

(90,726)

Net increase (decrease)

(10,413)

(12,187)

$ (69,800)

$ (88,733)

Service Class 2R

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

271

269

2,261

2,646

Shares redeemed

(14,127)

(16,453)

(94,930)

(120,308)

Net increase (decrease)

(13,856)

(16,184)

$ (92,669)

$ (117,662)

Investor Class R

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,164,413

176,104

$ 9,035,456

$ 1,598,648

Reinvestment of distributions

56,962

18,065

475,060

177,580

Shares redeemed

(525,663)

(1,048,997)

(3,339,913)

(9,318,944)

Net increase (decrease)

695,712

(854,828)

$ 6,170,603

$ (7,542,716)

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 98% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Trustees and Officers - continued

Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Eric M. Wetlaufer (47)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of Fidelity's International Equity Funds. Mr. Wetlaufer also serves as Group Chief Investment Officer of FMR. Mr. Wetlaufer is a Director (2007-present), Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2007-present) and President and a Director (2006-present) of Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. and President and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2006-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments in 2005, Mr. Wetlaufer was a partner in Oxhead Capital Management (2004-2005).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions

The Board of Trustees of VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio voted to pay to shareholders of record at the opening of business on record date, the following distributions per share derived from capital gains realized from sales of portfolio securities and dividends derived from net investment income:

 

Pay Date

Record Date

Dividends

Capital Gains

Initial Class R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

Service Class R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

Service Class 2 R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

Investor Class R

02/05/10

02/05/10

$-

$0.03

The amounts per share which represent income derived from sources within, and taxes paid to, foreign countries or possessions of the United States are as follows:

 

Pay Date

Income

Taxes

Initial Class R

12/18/09

$0.124

$0.015

Service Class R

12/18/09

$0.117

$0.015

Service Class 2 R

12/18/09

$0.107

$0.015

Investor Class R

12/18/09

$0.124

$0.015

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a custom peer group of mutual funds deemed appropriate by the Board over multiple periods. Because the fund had been in existence less than five calendar years, the following charts considered by the Board show, over the one- and three-year periods ended December 31, 2008, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class R and Service Class 2 of the fund, the cumulative total returns of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and a range of cumulative total returns of a custom peer group of mutual funds defined by FMR based on categories assigned by Morningstar, Inc. The returns of Initial Class R and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest and lowest performing classes, respectively (based on three-year performance). The box within each chart shows the 25th percentile return (bottom of box) and the 75th percentile return (top of box) of the peer group. Returns shown above the box are in the first quartile and returns shown below the box are in the fourth quartile. The percentage beaten numbers noted below each chart correspond to the percentile box and represent the percentage of funds in the peer group whose performance was equal to or lower than that of the class indicated. The fund's custom peer group, defined by FMR, is a peer group that FMR believes provides a more meaningful performance comparison than the peer group assigned by Morningstar, Inc., which assigns mutual funds to categories based on their investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio


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The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and stated that the performance of Initial Class R of the fund was in the fourth quartile for all the periods shown. The Board also stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's disappointing performance relative to its peer group and benchmark. The Board noted that this fund had underperformed in the previous year and discussed with FMR its disappointment with the continued underperformance of the fund. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

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The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month (or shorter) periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 18% means that 82% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

VIP International Capital Appreciation Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each of Initial Class and Initial Class R ranked equal to its competitive median for 2008 and the total expenses of each of Investor Class R, Service Class, Service Class 2, Service Class R, and Service Class 2 R ranked above its competitive median for 2008. The Board considered that the total expenses of Investor Class R were above the median primarily due to its higher transfer agent fee. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in some cases above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Boston, MA

VIPCAR-ANN-0210
1.805787.105

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Materials Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

 

Past 1
year

Life of fund A

VIP Materials - Initial Class

 

78.09%

2.55%

VIP Materials - Investor Class

 

78.02%

2.44%

A From April 24, 2007.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Materials Portfolio - Initial Class on April 24, 2007, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Tobias Welo, Portfolio Manager of VIP Materials Portfolio: For the one-year period ending December 31, 2009, the fund significantly outperformed the 51.80% return for the MSCI® U.S. Investable Market Materials Index as well as the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Strong security selection played the key role in the fund's performance versus the MSCI index. Specifically, stock picks within the specialty, diversified and commodities chemicals groups, as well as the paper packaging and fertilizers/agricultural chemicals areas, aided results. Performance also was helped by an underweighting in construction materials in the first half of the period, along with underweightings in fertilizers/agricultural chemicals and steel, and overweightings in the commodity chemicals and diversified metals/mining areas. Conversely, an underweighting in the solidly performing paper products group detracted, as did a modest cash allocation, which hurt amid the run-up in stock prices. Among individual holdings, specialty chemicals company W.R. Grace & Co. rose sharply on better-than-expected earnings and the firm's win of a key environmental lawsuit. Commodity chemicals firm Celanese advanced on improved earnings and an uptick in demand. The fund's position in diversified chemicals giant Dow Chemical and an underweighting in agrochemicals company Monsanto also helped. Notable detractors included underweightings in fertilizer/agricultural chemicals firms Mosaic and CF Industries, which rallied ahead of a hoped-for global economic recovery through much of the year. Some holdings mentioned in this update were sold by period end.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.80%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,379.00

$ 4.80

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.17

$ 4.08

Investor Class

.90%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,378.50

$ 5.40

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.67

$ 4.58

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Dow Chemical Co.

9.3

6.7

Monsanto Co.

8.5

6.3

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

6.8

7.1

Praxair, Inc.

5.8

3.5

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

5.7

7.3

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

4.1

5.0

Celanese Corp. Class A

4.0

5.0

Weyerhaeuser Co.

3.7

2.6

Nucor Corp.

3.5

4.0

Newmont Mining Corp.

2.8

2.0

 

54.2

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Chemicals

54.6%

 

fid215

Metals & Mining

24.6%

 

fid217

Paper & Forest Products

7.7%

 

fid219

Containers & Packaging

4.1%

 

fid221

Construction Materials

3.7%

 

fid223

All Others*

5.3%

 

fid599

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Chemicals

51.6%

 

fid215

Metals & Mining

25.0%

 

fid217

Containers & Packaging

10.5%

 

fid219

Construction Materials

4.4%

 

fid221

Paper & Forest Products

2.6%

 

fid223

All Others*

5.9%

 

fid607

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.2%

Shares

Value

BUILDING PRODUCTS - 2.1%

Building Products - 2.1%

Masco Corp.

94,410

$ 1,303,802

USG Corp. (a)(c)

13,700

192,485

 

1,496,287

CHEMICALS - 54.6%

Commodity Chemicals - 4.0%

Celanese Corp. Class A

89,700

2,879,370

Diversified Chemicals - 20.2%

Ashland, Inc.

38,200

1,513,484

Cabot Corp.

23,000

603,290

Dow Chemical Co.

245,200

6,774,875

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

145,751

4,907,436

Huntsman Corp.

52,000

587,080

Solutia, Inc. (a)

23,300

295,910

 

14,682,075

Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals - 12.6%

Fertilizantes Fosfatados SA (PN) (a)

32,500

305,235

Monsanto Co.

75,924

6,206,787

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.

1,800

195,976

Terra Industries, Inc.

16,300

524,697

The Mosaic Co.

33,100

1,977,063

 

9,209,758

Industrial Gases - 11.1%

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

36,600

2,966,796

Airgas, Inc.

19,300

918,680

Praxair, Inc.

52,500

4,216,275

 

8,101,751

Specialty Chemicals - 6.7%

Albemarle Corp.

39,235

1,426,977

Ferro Corp.

91,866

756,976

Innophos Holdings, Inc.

17,300

397,727

Johnson Matthey PLC

14,909

368,897

Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc.

12,300

166,788

W.R. Grace & Co. (a)

68,800

1,744,080

 

4,861,445

TOTAL CHEMICALS

39,734,399

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS - 3.7%

Construction Materials - 3.7%

Cemex SA de CV sponsored ADR

49,600

586,272

HeidelbergCement AG

9,120

629,722

Vulcan Materials Co. (c)

27,900

1,469,493

 

2,685,487

CONTAINERS & PACKAGING - 4.1%

Metal & Glass Containers - 2.7%

Owens-Illinois, Inc. (a)

58,900

1,936,043

 

Shares

Value

Paper Packaging - 1.4%

Packaging Corp. of America

44,900

$ 1,033,149

TOTAL CONTAINERS & PACKAGING

2,969,192

FOOD PRODUCTS - 1.4%

Agricultural Products - 1.4%

Bunge Ltd.

10,100

644,683

Corn Products International, Inc.

14,000

409,220

 

1,053,903

HOUSEHOLD DURABLES - 0.1%

Homebuilding - 0.1%

Pulte Homes, Inc.

9,750

97,500

MARINE - 0.2%

Marine - 0.2%

Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Ltd. (a)

35,000

166,600

METALS & MINING - 24.6%

Diversified Metals & Mining - 9.0%

Anglo American PLC (United Kingdom) (a)

9,069

397,348

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

51,330

4,121,286

RTI International Metals, Inc. (a)

26,400

664,488

Teck Resources Ltd. Class B (sub. vtg.) (a)

18,600

651,836

Vale SA sponsored ADR

24,700

717,041

 

6,551,999

Gold - 6.1%

Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (Canada)

11,800

639,277

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. sponsored ADR

15,353

616,884

Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd.

36,700

371,047

Newcrest Mining Ltd.

10,411

330,395

Newmont Mining Corp.

43,300

2,048,523

Randgold Resources Ltd. sponsored ADR

5,585

441,885

 

4,448,011

Precious Metals & Minerals - 0.8%

Aquarius Platinum Ltd. (United Kingdom) (a)

36,153

237,805

Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd.

12,713

348,261

 

586,066

Steel - 8.7%

Allegheny Technologies, Inc.

22,700

1,016,279

Commercial Metals Co.

18,900

295,785

Nucor Corp.

54,700

2,551,755

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.

27,900

1,205,838

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

70,000

1,240,400

 

6,310,057

TOTAL METALS & MINING

17,896,133

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLE FUELS - 0.7%

Coal & Consumable Fuels - 0.7%

Massey Energy Co.

8,500

$ 357,085

SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. (a)

7,300

118,812

 

475,897

PAPER & FOREST PRODUCTS - 7.7%

Forest Products - 4.2%

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (a)

53,800

375,524

Weyerhaeuser Co.

62,600

2,700,564

 

3,076,088

Paper Products - 3.5%

International Paper Co.

69,500

1,861,210

Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc.

9,700

682,395

 

2,543,605

TOTAL PAPER & FOREST PRODUCTS

5,619,693

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $64,282,939)

72,195,091

Money Market Funds - 6.4%

Shares

Value

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

3,178,487

$ 3,178,487

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

1,468,650

1,468,650

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $4,647,137)

4,647,137

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 105.6%

(Cost $68,930,076)

76,842,228

NET OTHER ASSETS - (5.6)%

(4,051,762)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 72,790,466

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 5,766

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

871

Total

$ 6,637

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 72,195,091

$ 71,824,044

$ 371,047

$ -

Money Market Funds

4,647,137

4,647,137

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 76,842,228

$ 76,471,181

$ 371,047

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

89.3%

Canada

2.3%

South Africa

1.8%

Brazil

1.4%

Bermuda

1.2%

United Kingdom

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

3.0%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $8,047,800 all of which will expire on December 31, 2016.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $1,411,598) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $64,282,939)

$ 72,195,091

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $4,647,137)

4,647,137

 

Total Investments (cost $68,930,076)

 

$ 76,842,228

Receivable for fund shares sold

73,333

Dividends receivable

93,844

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

619

Prepaid expenses

231

Other receivables

1,422

Total assets

77,011,677

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 2,594,418

Payable for fund shares redeemed

81,869

Accrued management fee

32,354

Other affiliated payables

8,645

Other payables and accrued expenses

35,275

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

1,468,650

Total liabilities

4,221,211

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 72,790,466

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 74,018,175

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(9,139,847)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

7,912,138

Net Assets

$ 72,790,466

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($34,217,995 ÷ 3,337,556 shares)

$ 10.25

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($38,572,471 ÷ 3,762,755 shares)

$ 10.25

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 731,932

Special dividends

 

96,900

Interest

 

3,493

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

6,637

Total income

 

838,962

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 224,614

Transfer agent fees

54,748

Accounting and security lending fees

15,653

Custodian fees and expenses

17,310

Independent trustees' compensation

238

Audit

32,041

Legal

176

Miscellaneous

4,293

Total expenses before reductions

349,073

Expense reductions

(3,911)

345,162

Net investment income (loss)

493,800

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

1,858,540

Foreign currency transactions

692

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

1,859,232

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

18,289,731

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(6)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

18,289,725

Net gain (loss)

20,148,957

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 20,642,757

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

Year ended
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 493,800

$ 222,041

Net realized gain (loss)

1,859,232

(10,931,824)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

18,289,725

(11,526,116)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

20,642,757

(22,235,899)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(512,074)

(219,419)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(132,142)

Total distributions

(512,074)

(351,561)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

34,825,755

15,709,835

Redemption fees

26,955

161,568

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

54,983,393

(6,716,057)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

17,807,073

24,523,130

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and undistributed net investment income of $280, respectively)

$ 72,790,466

$ 17,807,073

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007J

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.80

$ 11.13

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .10H

.07

.10I

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  4.42

(5.31)

1.20

Total from investment operations

  4.52

(5.24)

1.30

Distributions from net investment income

  (.08)

(.08)

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.06)

(.11)

Total distributions

  (.08)

(.14)

(.18)

Redemption fees added to paid in capitalE

  .01

.05

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.25

$ 5.80

$ 11.13

Total ReturnB,C,D

  78.09%

(46.88)%

13.12%

Ratios to Average Net AssetsF,K

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .82%

.88%

1.08%A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .82%

.88%

1.00%A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .81%

.88%

1.00%A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.27%H

.74%

1.31%A,I

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 34,218

$ 9,963

$ 13,730

Portfolio turnover rate G

  105%

171%

35%A

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.03%.

I Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been 1.03%.

J For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2007.

K Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007 J

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 5.80

$ 11.13

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .10 H

.06

.09 I

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  4.41

(5.31)

1.21

Total from investment operations

  4.51

(5.25)

1.30

Distributions from net investment income

  (.07)

(.07)

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.06)

(.11)

Total distributions

  (.07)

(.13)

(.18)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

.05

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.25

$ 5.80

$ 11.13

Total Return B,C,D

  78.02%

(46.98)%

13.05%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,K

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .91%

.97%

1.20% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .91%

.97%

1.15% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .90%

.96%

1.15% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.18% H

.65%

1.16% A,I

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 38,572

$ 7,844

$ 10,793

Portfolio turnover rate G

  105%

171%

35% A

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .94%.

I Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.02 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been .88%.

J For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December31, 2007.

K Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Materials Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Large, non-recurring dividends recognized by the Fund are presented separately on the Statement of Operations as "Special Dividends" and the impact of these dividends is presented in the Financial Highlights. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), market discount capital loss carryforwards, and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 11,319,288

Gross unrealized depreciation

(4,513,518)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 6,805,770

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 70,036,458

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 14,335

Capital loss carryforward

$ (8,047,800)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 6,805,756

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 512,074

$ 351,561

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $75,764,703 and $40,952,205, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 18,560

Investor Class

36,188

 

$ 54,748

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,205 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $140 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $871.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $3,911 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 246,700

$ 130,583

Investor Class

265,374

88,836

Total

$ 512,074

$ 219,419

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

-

69,513

Investor Class

-

62,629

Total

$ -

$ 132,142

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

2,411,066

2,413,136

$ 19,464,964

$ 26,368,625

Reinvestment of distributions

24,695

29,762

246,700

200,096

Shares redeemed

(816,551)

(1,958,182)

(5,916,524)

(18,118,552)

Net increase (decrease)

1,619,210

484,716

$ 13,795,140

$ 8,450,169

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

2,970,858

2,230,231

$ 25,184,648

$ 25,342,249

Reinvestment of distributions

26,564

21,729

265,374

151,465

Shares redeemed

(586,859)

(1,869,798)

(4,419,407)

(18,234,048)

Net increase (decrease)

2,410,563

382,162

$ 21,030,615

$ 7,259,666

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Materials Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Materials Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Materials Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-8544.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Bruce T. Herring (44)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of certain Equity Funds. Mr. Herring also serves as Group Chief Investments Officer of FMR. Previously, Mr. Herring served as a portfolio manager for Fidelity U.S. Equity Funds.

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

The Board of Trustees of VIP Materials Portfolio voted to pay to shareholders of record at the opening of business on record date, the following distributions per share derived from capital gains realized from sales of portfolio securities:

 

Pay Date

Record Date

Capital Gains

Initial Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$0.003

Investors Class

02/05/10

02/05/10

$0.003

Initial Class, Investors Class each designates 100% of the dividend distributed in December 2009 during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Materials Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following chart considered by the Board shows, for the one-year period ended December 31, 2008, the total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the total return of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the period shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class. The Board stated that it is difficult to evaluate in any comprehensive fashion the performance of the fund, in light of its relatively recent commencement of operations.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month (or shorter) periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Materials Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company
Quincy, MA

VMATP-ANN-0210
1.850999.102

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Real Estate Portfolio

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Real Estate - Initial Class

37.69%

1.40%

9.91%

VIP Real Estate - Service Class B

37.62%

1.31%

9.80%

VIP Real Estate - Service Class 2 C

37.40%

1.15%

9.63%

VIP Real Estate - Investor Class D

37.57%

1.31%

9.83%

A From November 6, 2002.

B Performance for Service Class shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

C Performance for Service Class 2 shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

D The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Real Estate Portfolio - Initial Class on November 6, 2002, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Samuel Wald, Portfolio Manager of VIP Real Estate Portfolio: For the year ending December 31, 2009, the fund significantly outperformed its benchmark, the Dow Jones U.S. Select Real Estate Securities IndexSM, which rose 29.01%. The fund also beat the broad equity market, as measured by the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) The fund benefited from being more aggressively positioned as the market bounced back. Early in the year, my Fidelity colleagues and I felt that the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board were prepared to do everything necessary to keep the economy and the financial markets afloat. This made me increasingly comfortable owning certain riskier assets that I believed had fallen much too far, given their underlying business fundamentals. Many of the stocks displaying such traits ended up doing very well in the rebound. The fund's top individual performer during the past year was Macerich, a mall operator whose shares rose more than sixfold off their March low once it became clear the company would have access to the financing it needed. Real estate services company CB Richard Ellis Group, an out-of-benchmark holding; office REIT SL Green Realty; and hotel REIT Sunstone Hotel all benefited similarly. In all three cases, I felt the stocks were priced far too low, and my willingness to invest based on this conviction worked out very well. Also contributing was an underweighting in Kimco Realty, a shopping center REIT and benchmark component. Kimco was one of the relatively few property companies to lose value last year. Another shopping center REIT, Inland Real Estate, underperformed as well, and being overweighted in this position hampered the fund's results. In addition to being somewhat overleveraged, investors had ongoing concerns about the sluggish economy, which hurt Inland and other shopping center operators needing to fill retail space. Also detracting were LaSalle Hotel Properties and Host Hotels & Resorts. Both were strong performers that I underweighted in favor of Sunstone and other hotel REITs offering what I felt were better opportunities. Neither Inland or LaSalle were owned at period end. Of final note, a modest cash position in a rising market also hurt.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.79%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,515.30

$ 5.01

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.22

$ 4.02

Service Class

.87%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,514.90

$ 5.51

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.82

$ 4.43

Service Class 2

1.06%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,513.20

$ 6.71

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.86

$ 5.40

Investor Class

.89%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,514.40

$ 5.64

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.72

$ 4.53

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Simon Property Group, Inc.

11.2

9.0

Ventas, Inc.

6.2

5.9

ProLogis Trust

5.5

4.8

SL Green Realty Corp.

4.4

3.5

Vornado Realty Trust

4.3

3.4

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

3.9

3.8

Public Storage

3.7

4.9

Equity Residential (SBI)

3.6

2.5

HCP, Inc.

3.1

2.9

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.

3.0

2.6

 

48.9

Top Five REIT Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

REITs - Office Buildings

15.8

16.7

REITs - Malls

15.3

13.2

REITs - Industrial Buildings

13.9

13.1

REITs - Apartments

13.4

14.5

REITs - Health Care Facilities

10.7

11.5

Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009*

As of June 30, 2009**

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Stocks 97.1%

 

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Stocks 97.1%

 

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Convertible
Securities 0.3%

 

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Convertible
Securities 0.0%

 

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Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 2.6%

 

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Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 2.9%

 

* Foreign investments

1.0%

 

** Foreign investments

1.5%

 


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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 97.1%

Shares

Value

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES - 1.7%

Health Care Facilities - 1.7%

Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. (a)

6,800

$ 123,692

Emeritus Corp. (a)(c)

66,736

1,251,300

Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (a)

25,400

81,788

TOTAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

1,456,780

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE - 0.2%

Casinos & Gaming - 0.2%

MGM Mirage, Inc. (a)(c)

19,900

181,488

HOUSEHOLD DURABLES - 0.6%

Homebuilding - 0.6%

D.R. Horton, Inc.

5,000

54,350

Lennar Corp. Class A

7,700

98,329

M/I Homes, Inc. (a)

4,400

45,716

Pulte Homes, Inc.

24,480

244,800

Toll Brothers, Inc. (a)

5,600

105,336

TOTAL HOMEBUILDING

548,531

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS - 90.2%

REITs - Apartments - 13.4%

Apartment Investment & Management Co. Class A

132,934

2,116,309

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

14,524

1,192,566

Camden Property Trust (SBI)

30,200

1,279,574

Equity Residential (SBI)

93,372

3,154,106

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

31,229

2,612,306

Home Properties, Inc.

20,500

978,055

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

4,900

236,572

TOTAL REITS - APARTMENTS

11,569,488

REITs - Factory Outlets - 0.6%

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc.

13,039

508,391

REITs - Health Care Facilities - 10.7%

HCP, Inc.

88,536

2,703,889

Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.

45,800

982,868

National Health Investors, Inc.

7,200

266,328

Ventas, Inc.

121,800

5,327,532

TOTAL REITS - HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

9,280,617

REITs - Hotels - 6.5%

DiamondRock Hospitality Co.

221,617

1,877,096

 

Shares

Value

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

98,005

$ 1,143,718

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.

294,581

2,615,879

TOTAL REITS - HOTELS

5,636,693

REITs - Industrial Buildings - 13.9%

Duke Realty LP

170,000

2,068,900

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (c)

68,200

356,686

ProLogis Trust

349,716

4,787,612

Public Storage

39,540

3,220,533

U-Store-It Trust

217,983

1,595,636

TOTAL REITS - INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS

12,029,367

REITs - Malls - 15.3%

CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (c)

142,788

1,380,760

Simon Property Group, Inc.

121,662

9,708,627

The Macerich Co. (c)

59,984

2,156,425

TOTAL REITS - MALLS

13,245,812

REITs - Management/Investment - 3.9%

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (c)

67,200

3,378,816

REITs - Office Buildings - 15.8%

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (c)

30,933

1,988,683

Boston Properties, Inc.

36,000

2,414,520

Brandywine Realty Trust (SBI)

128,600

1,466,040

Corporate Office Properties Trust (SBI)

54,100

1,981,683

Highwoods Properties, Inc. (SBI)

60,100

2,004,335

SL Green Realty Corp.

76,400

3,838,336

TOTAL REITS - OFFICE BUILDINGS

13,693,597

REITs - Shopping Centers - 10.1%

Acadia Realty Trust (SBI)

89,800

1,514,926

Developers Diversified Realty Corp.

141,675

1,311,911

Kimco Realty Corp.

121,025

1,637,468

Kite Realty Group Trust

125,900

512,413

Vornado Realty Trust

53,051

3,710,387

TOTAL REITS - SHOPPING CENTERS

8,687,105

TOTAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS

78,029,886

REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT - 4.4%

Real Estate Operating Companies - 2.1%

Brookfield Properties Corp.

68,350

832,704

Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Class A

83,400

982,452

TOTAL REAL ESTATE OPERATING COMPANIES

1,815,156

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT - CONTINUED

Real Estate Services - 2.3%

CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. Class A (a)

147,567

$ 2,002,484

TOTAL REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

3,817,640

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $77,356,472)

84,034,325

Convertible Preferred Stocks - 0.3%

 

 

 

 

REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT - 0.3%

Real Estate Services - 0.3%

Grubb & Ellis Co.:

12.00% (d)

2,000

195,000

12.00% (a)(d)

700

68,250

TOTAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES

(Cost $270,000)

263,250

Money Market Funds - 12.1%

Shares

Value

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (e)

2,275,798

$ 2,275,798

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(e)

8,185,106

8,185,106

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $10,460,904)

10,460,904

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 109.5%

(Cost $88,087,376)

94,758,479

NET OTHER ASSETS - (9.5)%

(8,189,243)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 86,569,236

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At the end of the period, the value of these securities amounted to $263,250 or 0.3% of net assets.

(e) Affiliated Fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the Fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the Fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 7,446

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

7,529

Total

$ 14,975

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 84,034,325

$ 84,034,325

$ -

$ -

Convertible Preferred Stocks

263,250

-

263,250

-

Money Market Funds

10,460,904

10,460,904

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 94,758,479

$ 94,495,229

$ 263,250

$ -

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $16,458,534 all of which will expire on December 31, 2017.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $7,963,384) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $77,626,472)

$ 84,297,575

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $10,460,904)

10,460,904

 

Total Investments (cost $88,087,376)

 

$ 94,758,479

Cash

6,408

Foreign currency held at value (cost $249)

249

Receivable for investments sold

385,787

Receivable for fund shares sold

92,207

Dividends receivable

320,173

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

2,128

Prepaid expenses

326

Other receivables

1,318

Total assets

95,567,075

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 627,865

Payable for fund shares redeemed

90,448

Accrued management fee

39,110

Distribution fees payable

2,045

Other affiliated payables

9,625

Other payables and accrued expenses

43,640

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

8,185,106

Total liabilities

8,997,839

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 86,569,236

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 103,511,091

Undistributed net investment income

154,144

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(23,767,087)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

6,671,088

Net Assets

$ 86,569,236

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($41,714,138 ÷ 3,814,764 shares)

$ 10.93

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($1,051,424 ÷ 96,344 shares)

$ 10.91

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($9,877,883 ÷ 911,056 shares)

$ 10.84

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($33,925,791 ÷ 3,112,258 shares)

$ 10.90

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 2,324,027

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

14,975

Total income

 

2,339,002

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 344,758

Transfer agent fees

78,490

Distribution fees

15,720

Accounting and security lending fees

24,347

Custodian fees and expenses

25,285

Independent trustees' compensation

409

Audit

38,286

Legal

331

Miscellaneous

5,634

Total expenses before reductions

533,260

Expense reductions

(4,565)

528,695

Net investment income (loss)

1,810,307

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(12,994,710)

Foreign currency transactions

(6,302)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(13,001,012)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

34,416,361

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(34)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

34,416,327

Net gain (loss)

21,415,315

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 23,225,622

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 1,810,307

$ 2,354,248

Net realized gain (loss)

(13,001,012)

(9,263,145)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

34,416,327

(36,927,350)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

23,225,622

(43,836,247)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(1,808,445)

(2,499,867)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(1,117,046)

Total distributions

(1,808,445)

(3,616,913)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

5,274,720

196,182

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

26,691,897

(47,256,978)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

59,877,339

107,134,317

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $154,144 and undistributed net investment income of $151,507, respectively)

$ 86,569,236

$ 59,877,339

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.13

$ 14.38

$ 22.74

$ 18.48

$ 17.46

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .24

.33

.27

.38

.38

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.80

(6.06)

(4.15)

6.23

2.25

Total from investment operations

  3.04

(5.73)

(3.88)

6.61

2.63

Distributions from net investment income

  (.24)

(.36)

(.36)

(.33)

(.41)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.16)

(4.12)

(2.02)

(1.20)

Total distributions

  (.24)

(.52)

(4.48)

(2.35)

(1.61) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.93

$ 8.13

$ 14.38

$ 22.74

$ 18.48

Total Return A, B

  37.69%

(39.87)%

(17.72)%

36.71%

15.12%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .80%

.76%

.74%

.72%

.74%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .80%

.76%

.74%

.72%

.74%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .80%

.76%

.74%

.71%

.71%

Net investment income (loss)

  3.01%

2.51%

1.21%

1.76%

2.13%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 41,714

$ 32,918

$ 68,401

$ 205,802

$ 145,065

Portfolio turnover rate E

  94%

87%

102%

70%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. G Total distributions of $1.61 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.413 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.195 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.11

$ 14.33

$ 22.69

$ 18.44

$ 17.43

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .23

.32

.24

.35

.37

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.80

(6.04)

(4.13)

6.22

2.23

Total from investment operations

  3.03

(5.72)

(3.89)

6.57

2.60

Distributions from net investment income

  (.23)

(.34)

(.35)

(.30)

(.40)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.16)

(4.12)

(2.02)

(1.20)

Total distributions

  (.23)

(.50)

(4.47)

(2.32)

(1.59) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.91

$ 8.11

$ 14.33

$ 22.69

$ 18.44

Total Return A, B

  37.62%

(39.95)%

(17.80)%

36.61%

15.00%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .90%

.86%

.83%

.82%

.84%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .90%

.86%

.83%

.82%

.84%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .89%

.85%

.83%

.81%

.81%

Net investment income (loss)

  2.91%

2.41%

1.12%

1.66%

2.03%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 1,051

$ 1,385

$ 3,543

$ 4,311

$ 3,156

Portfolio turnover rate E

  94%

87%

102%

70%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. G Total distributions of $1.59 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.397 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.195 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.07

$ 14.28

$ 22.62

$ 18.40

$ 17.39

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .23

.28

.21

.32

.34

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.76

(5.99)

(4.11)

6.19

2.24

Total from investment operations

  2.99

(5.71)

(3.90)

6.51

2.58

Distributions from net investment income

  (.22)

(.34)

(.32)

(.27)

(.37)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.16)

(4.12)

(2.02)

(1.20)

Total distributions

  (.22)

(.50)

(4.44)

(2.29)

(1.57) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.84

$ 8.07

$ 14.28

$ 22.62

$ 18.40

Total Return A, B

  37.40%

(40.06)%

(17.91)%

36.35%

14.88%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.07%

1.03%

.98%

.97%

.99%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.07%

1.03%

.98%

.97%

.99%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.06%

1.03%

.98%

.96%

.96%

Net investment income (loss)

  2.74%

2.24%

.97%

1.51%

1.88%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 9,878

$ 2,864

$ 3,558

$ 4,284

$ 3,141

Portfolio turnover rate E

  94%

87%

102%

70%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. G Total distributions of $1.57 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.37 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.195 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.11

$ 14.34

$ 22.69

$ 18.46

$ 19.25

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .24

.31

.24

.35

.17

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.78

(6.03)

(4.13)

6.22

.52

Total from investment operations

  3.02

(5.72)

(3.89)

6.57

.69

Distributions from net investment income

  (.23)

(.35)

(.34)

(.32)

(.42)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.16)

(4.12)

(2.02)

(1.06)

Total distributions

  (.23)

(.51)

(4.46)

(2.34)

(1.48) J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 10.90

$ 8.11

$ 14.34

$ 22.69

$ 18.46

Total Return B, C, D

  37.57%

(39.91)%

(17.83)%

36.53%

3.52%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .90%

.85%

.85%

.85%

.99% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .90%

.85%

.85%

.85%

.99% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .89%

.85%

.85%

.85%

.96% A

Net investment income (loss)

  2.91%

2.42%

1.10%

1.62%

1.98% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 33,926

$ 22,711

$ 31,632

$ 50,198

$ 7,134

Portfolio turnover rate G

  94%

87%

102%

70%

75%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Total distributions of $1.48 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.419 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.06 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Real Estate Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, passive foreign investment companies (PFIC), capital loss carryforwards and losses due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 16,926,398

Gross unrealized depreciation

(16,845,365)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 81,033

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 94,677,446

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

 Undistributed ordinary income

$ 154,144

Capital loss carryforward

$ (16,458,534)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 81,018

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 1,808,445

$ 2,499,867

Long-term Capital Gains

-

1,117,046

Total

$ 1,808,445

$ 3,616,913

4. Operating Policies.

Restricted Securities. The Fund may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.

5. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $62,355,057 and $56,542,730, respectively.

6. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 1,011

Service Class 2

14,709

 

$ 15,720

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 28,406

Service Class

880

Service Class 2

6,314

Investor Class

42,890

 

$ 78,490

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6. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates - continued

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $992 for the period.

7. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $294 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

8. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $7,529.

9. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $4,556 for the period. In addition, through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses. During the period, these credits reduced the Fund's custody expenses by $9.

10. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 903,193

$ 1,416,267

Service Class

22,932

58,561

Service Class 2

186,016

104,945

Investor Class

696,304

920,094

Total

$ 1,808,445

$ 2,499,867

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 631,633

Service Class

-

28,427

Service Class 2

-

48,687

Investor Class

-

408,299

Total

$ -

$ 1,117,046

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

11. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

949,053

1,072,807

$ 7,760,404

$ 15,243,890

Reinvestment of distributions

91,070

245,583

903,194

2,047,900

Shares redeemed

(1,274,438)

(2,026,672)

(10,025,868)

(26,391,337)

Net increase (decrease)

(234,315)

(708,282)

$ (1,362,270)

$ (9,099,547)

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

-

-

$ -

$ -

Reinvestment of distributions

2,420

10,234

22,932

86,988

Shares redeemed

(76,755)

(86,835)

(593,994)

(942,259)

Net increase (decrease)

(74,335)

(76,601)

$ (571,062)

$ (855,271)

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,276,261

230,882

$ 9,920,540

$ 2,490,148

Reinvestment of distributions

18,182

18,848

186,016

153,632

Shares redeemed

(738,205)

(144,174)

(6,212,786)

(1,475,124)

Net increase (decrease)

556,238

105,556

$ 3,893,770

$ 1,168,656

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

1,144,876

1,443,530

$ 9,684,422

$ 20,545,410

Reinvestment of distributions

69,851

162,246

696,304

1,328,392

Shares redeemed

(903,755)

(1,010,483)

(7,066,444)

(12,891,458)

Net increase (decrease)

310,972

595,293

$ 3,314,282

$ 8,982,344

12. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 87% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Real Estate Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Real Estate Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Real Estate Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Real Estate Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a broad-based securities market index over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"). The returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest and lowest performing classes, respectively (based on five-year performance).

VIP Real Estate Portfolio


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The Board stated that the investment performance of Initial Class of the fund compared favorably to its benchmark for the three- and five-year periods, although the fund's one-year cumulative total return was lower than its benchmark. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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VIP Real Estate Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

The Bank of New York Mellon
New York, NY

VIPRE-ANN-0210
1.781992.107

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Technology Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Fidelity Variable Insurance Products are separate account options which are purchased through a variable insurance contract.

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Other third party marks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

All other marks appearing herein are registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of FMR LLC or an affiliated company.

This report and the financial statements contained herein are submitted for the general information of the shareholders of the fund. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors in the fund unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus.

The fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. The fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Technology - Initial Class

96.02%

5.96%

2.69%

VIP Technology - Investor Class B

95.49%

5.82%

2.61%

A From July 19, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005 would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Technology Portfolio - Initial Class on July 19, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Charlie Chai, Portfolio Manager of VIP Technology Portfolio: During the past year, the fund far outdistanced the S&P 500® and the robust 62.18% return of the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Information Technology Index. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Versus our sector benchmark, semiconductors provided by far the largest performance boost, almost entirely due to favorable stock selection. Stock picking also was rewarding in communications equipment, semiconductor equipment, application software, computer storage and peripherals, Internet software and services, and systems software. Our top contributor, German chip maker Infineon Technologies, was a company that investors feared might declare bankruptcy back in March. However, Fidelity's research indicated that bankruptcy was an unlikely outcome for the company, and that view was subsequently proven correct. Also bolstering our results was Starent Networks, which provides mobile data infrastructure products. Starent was acquired by Cisco Systems in mid-December. Underweighting major index component Intel, the worldwide leader in personal computer chips, further aided our results, as did chip equipment maker Aixtron. Infineon Technologies and Aixtron were out-of-index positions. Conversely, my stock picks in home entertainment software detracted, as did a large underweighting in computer hardware. At the stock level, modest underweightings in personal computer and consumer electronics maker Apple and paid-search provider Google held back our gains, as both stocks more than doubled during the period. Additionally, our out-of-index position in Japanese video-game maker Nintendo fared poorly, and I liquidated the position.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized
Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.76%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,353.80

$ 4.51

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.37

$ 3.87

Investor Class

.85%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,353.40

$ 5.04

Hypothetical A

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.92

$ 4.33

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds in which the Fund invests are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio.

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Microsoft Corp.

9.0

9.6

Apple, Inc.

8.2

7.1

Google, Inc. Class A

6.4

4.0

Oracle Corp.

3.7

3.3

Hewlett-Packard Co.

3.7

2.9

Cisco Systems, Inc.

3.5

0.2

QUALCOMM, Inc.

2.5

2.6

BMC Software, Inc.

1.9

2.1

Salesforce.com, Inc.

1.7

1.3

SanDisk Corp.

1.5

0.8

 

42.1

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Software

26.6%

 

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Computers & Peripherals

16.3%

 

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Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

15.1%

 

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Internet Software & Services

14.1%

 

fid221

Communications Equipment

9.8%

 

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All Others*

18.1%

 

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As of June 30, 2009

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Software

31.2%

 

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Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

24.3%

 

fid217

Computers & Peripherals

13.0%

 

fid219

Communications Equipment

9.8%

 

fid221

Internet Software & Services

9.5%

 

fid223

All Others*

12.2%

 

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* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 95.1%

Shares

Value

COMMERCIAL SERVICES & SUPPLIES - 0.1%

Commercial Printing - 0.1%

Nissha Printing Co. Ltd. (c)

3,600

$ 177,434

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - 9.7%

Communications Equipment - 9.7%

Adtran, Inc.

12,700

286,385

Aruba Networks, Inc. (a)

900

9,594

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (a)

50,200

383,026

BYD Electronic International Co. Ltd. (a)

130,500

106,287

Ciena Corp. (a)

5,200

56,368

Cisco Systems, Inc. (a)

221,537

5,303,596

Comverse Technology, Inc. (a)

12,970

122,567

EMCORE Corp. (a)

20,000

21,400

Emulex Corp. (a)

12,800

139,520

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

15,018

795,654

Infinera Corp. (a)

13,800

122,406

Juniper Networks, Inc. (a)

43,800

1,168,146

Motorola, Inc.

13,500

104,760

Netronix, Inc. (a)

24,000

98,281

Palm, Inc. (a)

15,300

153,612

Polycom, Inc. (a)

28,900

721,633

QUALCOMM, Inc.

82,334

3,808,771

Research In Motion Ltd. (a)

3,100

209,374

Riverbed Technology, Inc. (a)

18,900

434,133

Sandvine Corp. (a)

185,700

228,005

Sandvine Corp. (U.K.) (a)

100,288

126,423

Sonus Networks, Inc. (a)

5,300

11,183

Tekelec (a)

22,400

342,272

 

14,753,396

COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS - 16.3%

Computer Hardware - 12.4%

3PAR, Inc. (a)

18,000

213,300

Apple, Inc. (a)

59,545

12,555,659

Hewlett-Packard Co.

108,517

5,589,711

Stratasys, Inc. (a)

13,110

226,541

Toshiba Corp.

53,000

294,234

 

18,879,445

Computer Storage & Peripherals - 3.9%

Chicony Electronics Co. Ltd.

35,267

85,549

Compellent Technologies, Inc. (a)

7,300

165,564

EMC Corp. (a)

20,000

349,400

NetApp, Inc. (a)

11,200

385,168

Netezza Corp. (a)

11,500

111,550

Qisda Corp. (a)

172,000

107,802

QLogic Corp. (a)

11,000

207,570

SanDisk Corp. (a)

80,287

2,327,520

Seagate Technology

58,900

1,071,391

SIMPLO Technology Co. Ltd.

12,100

71,866

 

Shares

Value

Synaptics, Inc. (a)

17,900

$ 548,635

Western Digital Corp. (a)

12,000

529,800

 

5,961,815

TOTAL COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS

24,841,260

DIVERSIFIED CONSUMER SERVICES - 0.1%

Education Services - 0.1%

New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

2,700

204,147

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - 1.7%

Electrical Components & Equipment - 1.7%

A123 Systems, Inc.

500

11,220

Canadian Solar, Inc. (a)

3,200

92,224

centrotherm photovoltaics AG (a)

4,300

259,787

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (a)

8,300

87,731

First Solar, Inc. (a)

86

11,644

GT Solar International, Inc. (a)(c)

101,400

563,784

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR (a)

3,100

17,670

Q-Cells SE (a)

200

3,264

Roth & Rau AG (a)(c)

3,600

155,752

SunPower Corp.:

Class A (a)(c)

8,900

210,752

Class B (a)

15,242

319,320

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. sponsored ADR (a)(c)

600

9,978

Trina Solar Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

8,500

458,745

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. ADR (a)(c)

22,200

350,982

 

2,552,853

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 5.4%

Electronic Components - 2.1%

Amphenol Corp. Class A

300

13,854

BYD Co. Ltd. (H Shares) (a)

35,500

311,173

Corning, Inc.

16,400

316,684

DTS, Inc. (a)

4,400

150,524

Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd.

42,957

161,139

Prime View International Co. Ltd. (a)

568,000

1,495,017

Prime View International Co. Ltd. sponsored GDR (a)(d)

1,000

26,325

Universal Display Corp. (a)(c)

30,000

370,800

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (a)

9,200

76,820

Wintek Corp. (a)

252,000

224,508

 

3,146,844

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.6%

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (a)

500

15,535

China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. warrants 8/25/10 (a)(f)

8,400

9,384

Chroma ATE, Inc.

218,132

495,724

Comverge, Inc. (a)

1,211

13,612

Coretronic Corp.

23,000

33,360

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - CONTINUED

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - continued

Itron, Inc. (a)

200

$ 13,514

National Instruments Corp.

11,537

339,765

 

920,894

Electronic Manufacturing Services - 1.6%

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (a)

6,500

122,915

Flextronics International Ltd. (a)

40,500

296,055

Ju Teng International Holdings Ltd.

104,000

103,040

Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. (a)

411

11,660

Trimble Navigation Ltd. (a)

72,985

1,839,222

 

2,372,892

Technology Distributors - 1.1%

Digital China Holdings Ltd. (H Shares)

711,000

946,496

Inspur International Ltd.

411,000

58,427

Supreme Electronics Co. Ltd. (a)

177,000

168,756

Synnex Technology International Corp.

59,800

129,919

WPG Holding Co. Ltd.

252,000

438,775

 

1,742,373

TOTAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS

8,183,003

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES - 0.4%

Health Care Equipment - 0.2%

China Medical Technologies, Inc. sponsored ADR

300

4,215

Golden Meditech Co. Ltd. (a)

262,000

63,236

Mingyuan Medicare Development Co. Ltd. (a)

1,080,000

184,266

 

251,717

Health Care Supplies - 0.2%

Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer Co. Ltd. (H Shares)

92,000

306,598

TOTAL HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES

558,315

HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY - 0.0%

Health Care Technology - 0.0%

athenahealth, Inc. (a)

100

4,524

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE - 0.5%

Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines - 0.5%

Ctrip.com International Ltd. sponsored ADR (a)

10,400

747,344

INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS & ENERGY TRADERS - 0.0%

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.0%

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd.

129,000

38,262

 

Shares

Value

INTERNET & CATALOG RETAIL - 1.3%

Internet Retail - 1.3%

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

8,700

$ 1,170,324

Priceline.com, Inc. (a)

3,288

718,428

 

1,888,752

INTERNET SOFTWARE & SERVICES - 14.1%

Internet Software & Services - 14.1%

Alibaba.com Ltd.

21,500

49,564

AOL, Inc. (a)

11,200

260,736

Art Technology Group, Inc. (a)

31,503

142,079

Baidu.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

5,530

2,274,102

Daum Communications Corp. (a)

3,914

235,966

DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. (a)

1,500

28,185

eBay, Inc. (a)

62,400

1,468,896

Google, Inc. Class A (a)

15,600

9,671,688

GREE, Inc.

6,100

377,343

Internap Network Services Corp. (a)

16,500

77,550

LogMeIn, Inc.

800

15,960

Mercadolibre, Inc. (a)

7,000

363,090

ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc. (a)

30,000

282,300

NetEase.com, Inc. sponsored ADR (a)

11,000

413,710

NHN Corp. (a)

5,197

855,712

Open Text Corp. (a)

27,600

1,121,968

OpenTable, Inc.

100

2,546

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

103,300

2,234,057

VeriSign, Inc. (a)

33,800

819,312

VistaPrint Ltd. (a)

14,100

798,906

Vocus, Inc. (a)

1,300

23,400

 

21,517,070

IT SERVICES - 1.8%

Data Processing & Outsourced Services - 0.7%

Visa, Inc. Class A

12,600

1,101,996

IT Consulting & Other Services - 1.1%

Atos Origin SA (a)

4,634

212,860

China Information Security Technology, Inc. (a)

83

511

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A (a)

13,200

597,960

RightNow Technologies, Inc. (a)

35,700

620,109

Yucheng Technologies Ltd. (a)

29,800

254,194

 

1,685,634

TOTAL IT SERVICES

2,787,630

LIFE SCIENCES TOOLS & SERVICES - 0.1%

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.1%

Life Technologies Corp. (a)

4,000

208,920

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

MACHINERY - 0.2%

Industrial Machinery - 0.2%

Meyer Burger Technology AG (a)

550

$ 140,229

Shin Zu Shing Co. Ltd.

44,302

220,887

 

361,116

MEDIA - 1.0%

Advertising - 0.9%

AirMedia Group, Inc. ADR (a)(c)

66,700

500,917

Focus Media Holding Ltd. ADR (a)

16,800

266,280

VisionChina Media, Inc. ADR (a)

48,200

526,344

 

1,293,541

Cable & Satellite - 0.1%

Virgin Media, Inc.

12,700

213,741

TOTAL MEDIA

1,507,282

METALS & MINING - 0.0%

Diversified Metals & Mining - 0.0%

Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.

4,300

40,420

Timminco Ltd. (a)

700

866

 

41,286

SEMICONDUCTORS & SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT - 15.1%

Semiconductor Equipment - 3.9%

Aixtron AG

18,200

612,317

Amkor Technology, Inc. (a)

73,495

526,224

ASM International NV (NASDAQ) (a)

2,800

72,044

ASML Holding NV (NY Shares)

51,700

1,762,453

ATMI, Inc. (a)

15,000

279,300

Cymer, Inc. (a)

3,600

138,168

FormFactor, Inc. (a)

6,700

145,792

Lam Research Corp. (a)

15,400

603,834

LTX-Credence Corp. (a)

55,615

98,995

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (a)

10,000

136,200

Photronics, Inc. (a)

9,700

43,165

Tessera Technologies, Inc. (a)

28,500

663,195

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (a)

20,100

721,188

Veeco Instruments, Inc. (a)

2,700

89,208

 

5,892,083

Semiconductors - 11.2%

Atmel Corp. (a)

48,500

223,585

Avago Technologies Ltd.

109,300

1,999,097

Broadcom Corp. Class A (a)

23,400

735,930

Cavium Networks, Inc. (a)

63,991

1,524,906

Cree, Inc. (a)

19,760

1,113,871

CSR PLC (a)

52,144

344,759

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (a)

33,100

349,536

Epistar Corp.

79,000

296,343

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. (a)

16,200

161,838

Global Unichip Corp.

36,994

196,014

 

Shares

Value

Hittite Microwave Corp. (a)

4,921

$ 200,531

Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. (a)

12,580

249,750

Infineon Technologies AG (a)

55,364

304,502

Inotera Memories, Inc. (a)

221,000

186,182

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (a)

69,400

449,018

Intel Corp.

100,500

2,050,200

International Rectifier Corp. (a)

24,600

544,152

Intersil Corp. Class A

26,100

400,374

LSI Corp. (a)

1,800

10,818

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (a)

77,995

1,618,396

MediaTek, Inc.

3,006

52,434

Microchip Technology, Inc.

4,400

127,864

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

86,700

915,552

Microsemi Corp. (a)

900

15,975

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (a)

9,900

237,303

National Semiconductor Corp.

9,600

147,456

Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. (a)

4,500

208,170

NVIDIA Corp. (a)

61,800

1,154,424

Omnivision Technologies, Inc. (a)

12,801

185,999

PixArt Imaging, Inc.

23,800

200,875

Power Integrations, Inc.

2,714

98,681

Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp.

50,470

73,441

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)

4,500

217,530

Standard Microsystems Corp. (a)

16,500

342,870

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. (a)

2,000

38,240

YoungTek Electronics Corp.

17,000

43,045

 

17,019,661

TOTAL SEMICONDUCTORS & SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT

22,911,744

SOFTWARE - 26.6%

Application Software - 8.7%

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

1,900

69,882

ANSYS, Inc. (a)

700

30,422

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (a)

6,300

191,961

Blackboard, Inc. (a)

2,500

113,475

Citrix Systems, Inc. (a)

33,200

1,381,452

Concur Technologies, Inc. (a)

15,300

654,075

Epicor Software Corp. (a)

44,195

336,766

Gameloft (a)

32,800

165,762

i2 Technologies, Inc. (a)

1,300

24,856

Informatica Corp. (a)

43,400

1,122,324

JDA Software Group, Inc. (a)

12,000

305,640

Kingdee International Software Group Co. Ltd.

2,824,000

628,849

Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. ADR (a)

10,200

377,604

Magma Design Automation, Inc. (a)(c)

54,000

124,740

Manhattan Associates, Inc. (a)

2,888

69,399

Mentor Graphics Corp. (a)

24,700

218,101

MicroStrategy, Inc. Class A (a)

2,401

225,742

Nuance Communications, Inc. (a)

44,000

683,760

Parametric Technology Corp. (a)

55,200

901,968

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

SOFTWARE - CONTINUED

Application Software - continued

Pegasystems, Inc.

8,800

$ 299,200

Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

35,700

2,633,589

Smith Micro Software, Inc. (a)

42,700

390,278

SolarWinds, Inc.

500

11,505

SuccessFactors, Inc. (a)

28,100

465,898

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (a)

15,352

242,715

Taleo Corp. Class A (a)

20,900

491,568

TIBCO Software, Inc. (a)

64,500

621,135

Ulticom, Inc.

9,673

91,507

Verint Systems, Inc. (a)

21,400

411,950

 

13,286,123

Home Entertainment Software - 0.3%

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (a)

23,700

263,307

Changyou.com Ltd. (A Shares) ADR

100

3,321

Giant Interactive Group, Inc. ADR (c)

17,189

120,667

NCsoft Corp.

610

78,207

Neowiz Games Corp.

717

24,934

Rosetta Stone, Inc.

1,100

19,745

 

510,181

Systems Software - 17.6%

Ariba, Inc. (a)

54,192

678,484

BMC Software, Inc. (a)

69,900

2,802,990

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a)

10,600

359,128

CommVault Systems, Inc. (a)

7,900

187,151

Fortinet, Inc.

2,400

42,168

Insyde Software Corp.

35,206

165,630

Microsoft Corp.

448,125

13,663,323

Oracle Corp.

231,400

5,678,556

Red Hat, Inc. (a)

67,000

2,070,300

Rovi Corp. (a)

6,819

217,322

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Class A (a)

20,600

199,408

VMware, Inc. Class A (a)

15,100

639,938

 

26,704,398

TOTAL SOFTWARE

40,500,702

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 0.7%

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.7%

SOFTBANK CORP.

17,800

417,482

Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)

88,200

322,812

Syniverse Holdings, Inc. (a)

17,743

310,148

 

1,050,442

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $113,001,172)

144,835,482

Convertible Bonds - 0.1%

 

Principal Amount

Value

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - 0.1%

Communications Equipment - 0.1%

Ciena Corp. 0.25% 5/1/13
(Cost $157,875)

$ 150,000

$ 113,400

Money Market Funds - 5.8%

Shares

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (e)

6,772,471

6,772,471

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(e)

2,006,365

2,006,365

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $8,778,836)

8,778,836

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 101.0%

(Cost $121,937,883)

153,727,718

NET OTHER ASSETS - (1.0)%

(1,516,215)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 152,211,503

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At the end of the period, the value of these securities amounted to $26,325 or 0.0% of net assets.

(e) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

(f) Restricted securities - Investment in securities not registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (excluding 144A issues). At the end of the period, the value of restricted securities (excluding 144A issues) amounted to $9,384 or 0.0% of net assets.

Additional information on each holding is as follows:

Security

Acquisition Date

Acquisition Cost

China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. warrants 8/25/10

8/25/09

$ 1

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 7,457

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

49,326

Total

$ 56,783

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 144,835,482

$ 138,224,848

$ 6,610,634

$ -

Convertible Bonds

113,400

-

113,400

-

Money Market Funds

8,778,836

8,778,836

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 153,727,718

$ 147,003,684

$ 6,724,034

$ -

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

79.5%

China

4.5%

Cayman Islands

3.4%

Taiwan

3.3%

Bermuda

1.7%

Singapore

1.5%

Netherlands

1.2%

Canada

1.1%

Korea (South)

1.0%

Others (individually less than 1%)

2.8%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the Fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $17,998,325, of which $15,064,221 and $2,934,104 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $1,946,544) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $113,159,047)

$ 144,948,882

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $8,778,836)

8,778,836

 

Total Investments (cost $121,937,883)

 

$ 153,727,718

Foreign currency held at value (cost $5)

5

Receivable for investments sold

130,779

Receivable for fund shares sold

747,501

Dividends receivable

9,924

Interest receivable

62

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

2,829

Prepaid expenses

488

Other receivables

7,093

Total assets

154,626,399

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 280,238

Payable for fund shares redeemed

2,824

Accrued management fee

65,132

Other affiliated payables

16,246

Other payables and accrued expenses

44,091

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

2,006,365

Total liabilities

2,414,896

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 152,211,503

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 139,051,134

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(18,629,467)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

31,789,836

Net Assets

$ 152,211,503

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

 

 

 

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($88,231,369 ÷ 9,990,168 shares)

$ 8.83

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value,
offering price and redemption price per share ($63,980,134 ÷ 7,276,473 shares)

$ 8.79

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Annual Report

Financial Statements - continued

Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 448,942

Special dividends

 

177,214

Interest

 

90,654

Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $49,326 from security lending)

 

56,783

Total income

 

773,593

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 486,098

Transfer agent fees

102,332

Accounting and security lending fees

34,177

Custodian fees and expenses

42,530

Independent trustees' compensation

524

Audit

40,606

Legal

450

Miscellaneous

7,261

Total expenses before reductions

713,978

Expense reductions

(19,261)

694,717

Net investment income (loss)

78,876

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

6,523,576

Foreign currency transactions

(4,108)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

6,519,468

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

49,267,472

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(312)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

49,267,160

Net gain (loss)

55,786,628

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 55,865,504

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

Year ended
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 78,876

$ 111,168

Net realized gain (loss)

6,519,468

(24,802,819)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

49,267,160

(23,720,929)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

55,865,504

(48,412,580)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(143,352)

(77,871)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(12,421,709)

Total distributions

(143,352)

(12,499,580)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

58,132,204

(5,986,585)

Redemption fees

54,256

47,060

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

113,908,612

(66,851,685)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

38,302,891

105,154,576

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and $26,283, respectively)

$ 152,211,503

$ 38,302,891

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.51

$ 11.02

$ 10.37

$ 10.35

$ 9.37

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .01 F

.01

(.05)

(.04)

(.02)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  4.32

(5.01)

1.52

.88

1.04

Total from investment operations

  4.33

(5.00)

1.47

.84

1.02

Distributions from net investment income

  (.01)

(.01)

-

-

(.04)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(1.49)

(.83)

(.83)

-

Total distributions

  (.01)

(1.51) I

(.83)

(.83)

(.04)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  - H

- H

.01

.01

- H

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.83

$ 4.51

$ 11.02

$ 10.37

$ 10.35

Total Return A,B

  96.02%

(50.77)%

15.36%

8.19%

10.88%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,G

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .78%

.81%

.81%

.80%

.79%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .78%

.81%

.81%

.80%

.79%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .76%

.79%

.79%

.77%

.62%

Net investment income (loss)

  .13% F

.19%

(.44)%

(.43)%

(.24)%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 88,231

$ 25,400

$ 70,788

$ 64,689

$ 78,892

Portfolio turnover rate E

  130%

237%

213%

269%

249%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been (.08)%. G Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. H Amount represents less than $.01 per share. I Total distributions of $1.51 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $0.011 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.494 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 I

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.50

$ 10.97

$ 10.34

$ 10.33

$ 9.71

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  - H,K

.01

(.06)

(.06)

(.02)

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  4.30

(4.99)

1.50

.89

.64

Total from investment operations

  4.30

(4.98)

1.44

.83

.62

Distributions from net investment income

  (.01)

(.01)

-

-

-

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(1.49)

(.82)

(.83)

-

Total distributions

  (.01)

(1.49) L

(.82)

(.83)

-

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - K

- K

.01

.01

- K

Net asset value, end of period

$ 8.79

$ 4.50

$ 10.97

$ 10.34

$ 10.33

Total Return B,C,D

  95.49%

(50.74)%

15.15%

8.10%

6.39%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,J

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .88%

.90%

.93%

.93%

.97% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .88%

.90%

.93%

.93%

.97% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .85%

.89%

.91%

.90%

.80% A

Net investment income (loss)

  .03% H

.10%

(.56)%

(.56)%

(.45)% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 63,980

$ 12,903

$ 34,367

$ 15,939

$ 5,809

Portfolio turnover rate G

  130%

237%

213%

269%

249%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H Investment income per share reflects a special dividend which amounted to $.01 per share. Excluding the special dividend, the ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets would have been (.17)%. I For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. J Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. K Amount represents less than $.01 per share. L Total distributions of $1.49 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $0.005 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.485 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Technology Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class. The Fund's investments in emerging markets can be subject to social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events, changes in interest rates and credit quality. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated quotations received from independent pricing services or from dealers who make markets in such securities. For corporate bonds, pricing services utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type as well as dealer supplied prices and are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing matrices which consider similar factors that would be used by independent pricing services. These are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Large, non-recurring dividends recognized by the Fund are presented separately on the Statement of Operations as "Special Dividends" and the impact of these dividends is presented in the Financial Highlights. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, market discount, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 34,723,236

Gross unrealized depreciation

(3,261,271)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 31,461,965

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 122,265,753

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (17,998,325)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 31,461,966

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 143,352

$ 6,751,533

Long-term Capital Gains

-

5,748,047

Total

$ 143,352

$ 12,499,580

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Operating Policies.

Restricted Securities. The Fund may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.

5. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $161,533,546 and $109,959,619, respectively.

6. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 44,277

Investor Class

58,055

 

$ 102,332

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

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6. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates - continued

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $3,423 for the period.

7. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $316 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

8. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds.

9. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $19,261 for the period.

10. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 95,944

$ 62,217

Investor Class

47,408

15,654

Total

$ 143,352

$ 77,871

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 8,440,333

Investor Class

-

3,981,376

Total

$ -

$ 12,421,709

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

11. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

5,685,392

1,178,491

$ 36,339,585

$ 8,240,629

Reinvestment of distributions

11,274

1,143,754

95,944

8,502,550

Shares redeemed

(1,334,192)

(3,119,510)

(8,872,724)

(22,814,157)

Net increase (decrease)

4,362,474

(797,265)

$ 27,562,805

$ (6,070,978)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

5,536,402

1,576,768

$ 38,178,193

$ 12,608,557

Reinvestment of distributions

5,591

538,625

47,408

3,997,030

Shares redeemed

(1,135,168)

(2,379,042)

(7,656,202)

(16,521,194)

Net increase (decrease)

4,406,825

(263,649)

$ 30,569,399

$ 84,393

12. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Technology Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Technology Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Technology Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-8544.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Bruce T. Herring (44)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of certain Equity Funds. Mr. Herring also serves as Group Chief Investments Officer of FMR. Previously, Mr. Herring served as a portfolio manager for Fidelity U.S. Equity Funds.

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed in December 2009 as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's below-benchmark performance. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

VTECIC-ANN-0210
1.817385.104

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Telecommunications Portfolio

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December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of a fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Life of
fund
A

VIP Telecommunications - Initial Class

48.00%

-9.30%

VIP Telecommunications - Investor Class

47.90%

-9.39%

A From April 24, 2007.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Telecommunications Portfolio - Initial Class on April 24, 2007, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Kristina Salen, who became Portfolio Manager of VIP Telecommunications Portfolio on July 1, 2009: The fund performed very well for the year, beating the S&P 500® and the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Telecommunications Services Index, which returned 12.56%. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) The fund benefited from being well-positioned in highly leveraged, smaller-cap telecommunication companies that performed strongly when the market rallied between March and June of 2009. Most notably, the fund was helped by overweighting telecom services company Sprint Nextel, by far the fund's top performer relative to the MSCI index. In addition, the fund got a boost from being significantly underweighted in the integrated telecom services group, specifically in AT&T and Verizon, which grew at a much lower rate than other telecom sub-sectors. AT&T and Verizon comprise roughly 75% of the MSCI index. An out-of-benchmark stake and strong stock selection in the cable and satellite group, notably U.K.-based Virgin Media, also helped. In addition, the fund benefited from holding another out-of-index position in communications equipment company Starent Networks. The fund sold this stock during the period. Conversely, the fund's performance was hampered by some weak stock picks. Specifically, it was hurt by holding underweighted positions in Embarq and CenturyTel, two rural, integrated telecom services providers that did well when CenturyTel acquired Embarq. British wireless telecom giant Vodafone, in which the fund held an out-of-network position, also disappointed during the rally when large, liquid stocks fell out of favor as people invested in smaller, more growth-oriented names.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 



Annualized
Expense Ratio


Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009


Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

1.00%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,169.00

$ 5.47

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.16

$ 5.09

Investor Class

1.08%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,167.60

$ 5.90

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.76

$ 5.50

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

AT&T, Inc.

20.7

22.3

Verizon Communications, Inc.

15.0

16.8

American Tower Corp. Class A

5.7

4.7

Sprint Nextel Corp.

4.5

9.7

Virgin Media, Inc.

3.3

2.2

Crown Castle International Corp.

3.2

1.2

Qwest Communications International, Inc.

3.1

3.7

MTN Group Ltd.

2.6

3.8

tw telecom, inc.

2.5

1.3

DIRECTV

2.5

1.8

 

63.1

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

fid213

Diversified Telecommunication Services

56.1%

 

fid215

Wireless Telecommunication Services

25.5%

 

fid217

Media

11.1%

 

fid219

Software

1.6%

 

fid221

Communications Equipment

0.4%

 

fid223

All Others*

5.3%

 

fid688

As of June 30, 2009

fid213

Diversified Telecommunication Services

55.2%

 

fid215

Wireless Telecommunication Services

26.0%

 

fid217

Media

7.4%

 

fid219

Communications Equipment

2.5%

 

fid221

Software

1.5%

 

fid223

All Others*

7.4%

 

cjc503

* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 94.9%

Shares

Value

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - 0.4%

Communications Equipment - 0.4%

Aruba Networks, Inc. (a)

5

$ 53

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

40

2,119

Infinera Corp. (a)

2,300

20,401

Nortel Networks Corp. (a)

100

0

Polycom, Inc. (a)

40

999

Sandvine Corp. (a)

100

123

Sonus Networks, Inc. (a)

1,800

3,798

 

27,493

COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS - 0.1%

Computer Hardware - 0.1%

Apple, Inc. (a)

40

8,434

DIVERSIFIED TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 56.1%

Alternative Carriers - 7.8%

Cable & Wireless PLC

309

706

Clearwire Corp.:

rights 6/21/10 (a)

23,529

9,412

Class A (a)

23,529

159,056

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (a)

1,406

13,863

Global Crossing Ltd. (a)

8,919

127,096

Iliad Group SA

189

22,599

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (a)

27,192

41,604

PAETEC Holding Corp. (a)

1,700

7,055

tw telecom, inc. (a)

10,633

182,250

 

563,641

Integrated Telecommunication Services - 48.3%

AT&T, Inc.

53,483

1,499,127

BT Group PLC

109

238

Cbeyond, Inc. (a)

5,350

84,263

CenturyTel, Inc.

585

21,183

China Telecom Corp. Ltd. sponsored ADR

2,500

103,550

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. sponsored ADR

10,800

141,588

Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (a)

4,900

16,905

Deutsche Telekom AG (Reg.)

4,206

61,828

FairPoint Communications, Inc.

522

17

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA

37

545

PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia Tbk Series B

7,500

7,520

Qwest Communications International, Inc.

54,155

227,993

Telecom Italia SpA sponsored ADR

2,700

41,661

Telefonica SA sponsored ADR

1,700

141,984

Telenor ASA (a)

100

1,398

Telenor ASA sponsored ADR (a)

830

34,694

Telkom SA Ltd.

100

505

Verizon Communications, Inc.

32,900

1,089,977

 

Shares

Value

Vimpel Communications sponsored ADR

800

$ 14,872

Windstream Corp.

1,593

17,507

 

3,507,355

TOTAL DIVERSIFIED TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

4,070,996

INTERNET SOFTWARE & SERVICES - 0.1%

Internet Software & Services - 0.1%

SAVVIS, Inc.

601

8,444

MEDIA - 11.1%

Broadcasting - 0.6%

Ten Network Holdings Ltd.

27,660

40,498

Cable & Satellite - 10.5%

Cablevision Systems Corp. - NY Group Class A

4,000

103,280

Comcast Corp. Class A

8,800

148,368

DIRECTV (a)

5,371

179,123

Dish TV India Ltd. (a)

112

103

Liberty Global, Inc. Class A (a)

2,166

47,457

Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA sponsored ADR

3,100

41,943

Virgin Media, Inc.

14,400

242,352

 

762,626

TOTAL MEDIA

803,124

SOFTWARE - 1.6%

Application Software - 1.5%

Gameloft (a)

21,214

107,210

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (a)

137

2,166

 

109,376

Home Entertainment Software - 0.1%

Glu Mobile, Inc. (a)

2,589

2,951

TOTAL SOFTWARE

112,327

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 25.5%

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 25.5%

America Movil SAB de CV Series L sponsored ADR

300

14,094

American Tower Corp. Class A (a)

9,600

414,816

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. sponsored ADR

1,300

60,359

Crown Castle International Corp. (a)

5,917

231,000

Idea Cellular Ltd. (a)

63

79

Leap Wireless International, Inc. (a)

1,992

34,960

MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (a)

5,084

38,791

MTN Group Ltd.

11,875

188,942

NII Holdings, Inc. (a)

4,300

144,394

NTELOS Holdings Corp.

36

642

NTT DoCoMo, Inc.

21

29,319

Rogers Communications, Inc. Class B (non-vtg.)

60

1,867

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - CONTINUED

Wireless Telecommunication Services - continued

SBA Communications Corp. Class A (a)

3,818

$ 130,423

Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)

88,568

324,159

Syniverse Holdings, Inc. (a)

732

12,795

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

330

11,194

Vivo Participacoes SA sponsored ADR

1,800

55,800

Vodafone Group PLC sponsored ADR

6,900

159,321

 

1,852,955

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $6,523,406)

6,883,773

Money Market Funds - 4.8%

Shares

Value

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (b)
(Cost $351,739)

351,739

$ 351,739

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 99.7%

(Cost $6,875,145)

7,235,512

NET OTHER ASSETS - 0.3%

19,252

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 7,254,764

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 1,051

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the tables below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Common Stocks

$ 6,883,773

$ 6,792,388

$ 91,385

$ -

Money Market Funds

351,739

351,739

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 7,235,512

$ 7,144,127

$ 91,385

$ -

The following is a reconciliation of Investments in Securities for which Level 3 inputs were used in determining value:

Investments in Securities:

Beginning Balance

$ -

Total Realized Gain (Loss)

-

Total Unrealized Gain (Loss)

(26)

Cost of Purchases

-

Proceeds of Sales

-

Amortization/Accretion

-

Transfers in/out of Level 3

26

Ending Balance

$ -

The change in unrealized gain (loss) for the period attributable to Level 3 securities held at December 31, 2009

$ (26)

The information used in the above reconciliation represents fiscal year to date activity for any Investments in Securities identified as using Level 3 inputs at either the beginning or the end of the current fiscal period. Transfers in or out of Level 3 represents either the beginning value (for transfers in), or the ending value (for transfers out) of any Security or Instrument where a change in the pricing level occurred from the beginning to the end of the period. Realized and unrealized gains (losses) disclosed in the reconciliation are included in Net Gain (Loss) on the Fund's Statement of Operations.

Distribution of investments by country of issue, as a percentage of total net assets, is as follows: (Unaudited)

United States of America

80.6%

Hong Kong

2.7%

South Africa

2.6%

United Kingdom

2.2%

Spain

2.0%

France

1.8%

Bermuda

1.8%

China

1.4%

Brazil

1.4%

Others (individually less than 1%)

3.5%

 

100.0%

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $2,357,837 of which $1,999,657 and $358,180 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $6,523,406)

$ 6,883,773

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $351,739)

351,739

 

Total Investments (cost $6,875,145)

 

$ 7,235,512

Cash

6,718

Foreign currency held at value (cost $18)

18

Receivable for fund shares sold

42,465

Dividends receivable

3,653

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

35

Prepaid expenses

38

Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions

2,858

Other receivables

975

Total assets

7,292,272

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for fund shares redeemed

$ 6

Accrued management fee

3,197

Other affiliated payables

839

Other payables and accrued expenses

33,466

Total liabilities

37,508

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 7,254,764

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 9,458,513

Undistributed net investment income

16,827

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(2,580,782)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

360,206

Net Assets

$ 7,254,764

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($3,625,893 ÷ 517,523 shares)

$ 7.01

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($3,628,871 ÷ 519,409 shares)

$ 6.99

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 162,803

Interest

 

12

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

1,051

Total income

 

163,866

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 36,129

Transfer agent fees

13,937

Accounting fees and expenses

2,500

Custodian fees and expenses

15,062

Independent trustees' compensation

43

Audit

43,774

Legal

34

Miscellaneous

856

Total expenses before reductions

112,335

Expense reductions

(46,118)

66,217

Net investment income (loss)

97,649

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(125,275)

Foreign currency transactions

(908)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(126,183)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

2,373,703

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

44

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

2,373,747

Net gain (loss)

2,247,564

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 2,345,213

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 97,649

$ 66,311

Net realized gain (loss)

(126,183)

(2,213,104)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

2,373,747

(1,315,009)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

2,345,213

(3,461,802)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(105,936)

(68,515)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

1,824,836

(1,545,159)

Redemption fees

9,387

2,509

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

4,073,500

(5,072,967)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

3,181,264

8,254,231

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $16,827 and $0, respectively)

$ 7,254,764

$ 3,181,264

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.81

$ 9.36

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .09

.09

.05

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.21

(4.53)

(.17)

Total from investment operations

  2.30

(4.44)

(.12)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.11)

(.11)

(.05)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.48)

Total distributions

  (.11)

(.11)

(.53)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

- J

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 7.01

$ 4.81

$ 9.36

Total Return B, C, D

  48.00%

(47.41)%

(1.18)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.70%

2.07%

1.37% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.00%

1.00%

1.00% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .98%

.99%

1.00% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.55%

1.32%

.63% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 3,626

$ 1,549

$ 3,956

Portfolio turnover rate G

  167%

203%

160% A

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2007. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 4.80

$ 9.35

$ 10.00

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .09

.09

.04

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  2.20

(4.53)

(.17)

Total from investment operations

  2.29

(4.44)

(.13)

Distributions from net investment income

  (.11)

(.11)

(.05)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

-

(.48)

Total distributions

  (.11)

(.11)

(.53)

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  .01

- J

.01

Net asset value, end of period

$ 6.99

$ 4.80

$ 9.35

Total Return B, C, D

  47.90%

(47.46)%

(1.28)%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.78%

2.15%

1.50% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.08%

1.09%

1.15% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.07%

1.08%

1.15% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.47%

1.23%

.48% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 3,629

$ 1,632

$ 4,298

Portfolio turnover rate G

  167%

203%

160% A

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period April 24, 2007 (commencement of operations) to December 31, 2007. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Telecommunications Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, as well as a roll forward of level 3 securities is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. As a result of a change in the estimate of the return of capital component of dividend income realized in the year ended December 31, 2008, dividend income has been reduced $26,022 with a corresponding increase to net unrealized appreciation (depreciation). The change in estimate has no impact on total net assets or total return of the Fund. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to foreign currency transactions, capital loss carryforwards, and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 1,094,414

Gross unrealized depreciation

(956,992)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 137,422

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 7,098,090

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 16,827

Capital loss carryforward

$ (2,357,837)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 137,262

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

 

 

 

Ordinary Income

$ 105,936

$ 68,515

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $11,960,821 and $10,242,263, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 5,841

Investor Class

8,096

 

$ 13,937

Accounting Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $3,118 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $27 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

7. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

 

 

 

Initial Class

1.00%

$ 23,362

Investor Class

1.08%

21,788

 

 

$ 45,150

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $968 for the period.

8. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 52,826

$ 34,167

Investor Class

53,110

34,348

Total

$ 105,936

$ 68,515

9. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

793,797

166,405

$ 4,532,094

$ 1,029,476

Reinvestment of distributions

7,678

7,239

52,826

34,167

Shares redeemed

(605,766)

(274,366)

(3,645,605)

(1,833,477)

Net increase (decrease)

195,709

(100,722)

$ 939,315

$ (769,834)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

754,251

149,553

$ 4,408,596

$ 986,673

Reinvestment of distributions

7,742

7,293

53,110

34,348

Shares redeemed

(582,365)

(276,604)

(3,576,185)

(1,796,346)

Net increase (decrease)

179,628

(119,758)

$ 885,521

$ (775,325)

10. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Telecommunications Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Telecommunications Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Telecommunications Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-8544.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Bruce T. Herring (44)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of certain Equity Funds. Mr. Herring also serves as Group Chief Investments Officer of FMR. Previously, Mr. Herring served as a portfolio manager for Fidelity U.S. Equity Funds.

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investors Class each designate 100% of each dividend distributed in December 2009, during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Telecommunications Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. Because the fund had been in existence less than three calendar years, the following chart considered by the Board shows, for the one-year period ended December 31, 2008, the total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the total return of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the period shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class. The Board stated that it is difficult to evaluate in any comprehensive fashion the performance of the fund, in light of its relatively recent commencement of operations.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month (or shorter) periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

VIP Telecommunications Portfolio

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong)
Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company
Quincy, MA

VTELP-ANN-0210
1.851004.102

Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Utilities Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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A fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Forms N-Q are available on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. A fund's Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC's Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. For a complete list of the fund's portfolio holdings, view the most recent holdings listing, semiannual report, or annual report on Fidelity's web site at http://www.fidelity.com or http://www.advisor.fidelity.com, as applicable.

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Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP Utilities - Initial Class C

15.42%

5.30%

2.46%

VIP Utilities - Investor ClassB,C

15.24%

5.18%

2.39%

A From July 19, 2001.

B The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005, would have been lower.

C Prior to October 1, 2006, VIP Utilities Portfolio operated under certain different investment policies. The historical performance for the fund may not represent its current investment policies.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Utilities Portfolio - Initial Class on July 19, 2001, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Standard & Poor's 500SM Index (S&P 500®) performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Douglas Simmons, Portfolio Manager of VIP Utilities Portfolio: For the year ending December 31, 2009, the fund solidly outperformed the 11.70% return of the MSCI® U.S. Investable Market Utilities Index but underperformed the S&P 500®. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Strong stock selection within multi-utilities and independent power/energy trade were the two main factors that helped the portfolio outperform the MSCI index. The fund also benefited from overweighting the latter group. On the downside, the fund was hurt by less-favorable security selection and an underweighting in the outperforming gas utilities industry. Contributions to relative performance came from investments in Maryland-based independent power producer Constellation Energy Group; TECO Energy, a multi-utility located in Florida; and CMS Energy and CenterPoint Energy, multi-utilities that operate in Mississippi and Houston, respectively. The fund also benefited from underweighting two electric utilities and index components that underperformed, Exelon in Chicago and Southern Company in Atlanta. Detractors included Allegheny Energy, an electric utility in Pennsylvania, Florida-based electric utility FPL Group and untimely ownership of three stocks: Virginia-headquartered multi-utility Dominion Resources; Duke Energy, an electric utility in North Carolina; and RRI Energy, an independent power producer located in Houston. Some stocks mentioned here were not held at period end.

Note to shareholders: In January 2010, Fidelity adopted capped benchmarks for most of its sector and industry funds, including the VIP sector portfolios. The capped benchmarks, which limit the weightings of individual issuers, better represent the investment opportunities available to the funds and will provide shareholders with more-meaningful performance comparisons. These changes do not affect the investment policies of any of the funds, and the primary benchmark for all of the funds remains the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

Annualized Expense Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.80%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,161.30

$ 4.36

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,021.17

$ 4.08

Investor Class

.90%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,160.90

$ 4.90

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.67

$ 4.58

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

FPL Group, Inc.

9.3

4.8

FirstEnergy Corp.

8.7

9.7

PG&E Corp.

8.5

4.5

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

8.5

13.4

Entergy Corp.

5.8

6.0

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

5.0

5.3

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

5.0

1.1

CMS Energy Corp.

4.9

2.3

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

4.9

7.5

TECO Energy, Inc.

4.9

4.7

 

65.5

Top Industries (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009

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Electric Utilities

41.7%

 

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Multi-Utilities

40.0%

 

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Independent
Power Producers
& Energy Traders

14.0%

 

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Water Utilities

1.8%

 

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Electronic
Equipment & Components

1.5%

 

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All Others*

1.0%

 

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As of June 30, 2009

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Electric Utilities

49.2%

 

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Multi-Utilities

25.2%

 

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Independent
Power Producers
& Energy Traders

18.6%

 

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Gas Utilities

2.1%

 

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All Others*

4.9%

 

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* Includes short-term investments and net other assets.

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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 100.0%

Shares

Value

CHEMICALS - 0.5%

Commodity Chemicals - 0.5%

Calgon Carbon Corp. (a)

14,200

$ 197,380

COMMERCIAL SERVICES & SUPPLIES - 0.5%

Diversified Support Services - 0.5%

EnerNOC, Inc. (a)

7,400

224,886

ELECTRIC UTILITIES - 41.7%

Electric Utilities - 41.7%

Allegheny Energy, Inc.

17,700

415,596

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

99,021

3,444,941

Entergy Corp.

28,849

2,361,002

FirstEnergy Corp.

76,445

3,550,870

FPL Group, Inc.

71,400

3,771,348

Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (c)

26,976

563,798

ITC Holdings Corp.

26,621

1,386,688

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

22,800

384,180

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

26,565

971,748

PNM Resources, Inc.

6,300

79,695

 

16,929,866

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT & COMPONENTS - 1.5%

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 1.5%

Itron, Inc. (a)

9,141

617,657

INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS & ENERGY TRADERS - 14.0%

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 14.0%

Adani Power Ltd.

33,065

70,533

AES Corp.

87,045

1,158,569

Calpine Corp. (a)

118,700

1,305,700

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

56,700

1,994,139

Dynegy, Inc. Class A (a)

116,300

210,503

NRG Energy, Inc. (a)

39,600

934,956

 

5,674,400

MULTI-UTILITIES - 40.0%

Multi-Utilities - 40.0%

Alliant Energy Corp.

30,000

907,800

 

Shares

Value

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

138,400

$ 2,008,184

Centrica PLC

188,600

856,809

CMS Energy Corp. (c)

127,400

1,995,084

DTE Energy Co.

33,800

1,473,342

PG&E Corp.

77,245

3,448,989

Sempra Energy

27,700

1,550,646

TECO Energy, Inc.

122,800

1,991,816

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

40,300

2,008,149

 

16,240,819

WATER UTILITIES - 1.8%

Water Utilities - 1.8%

American Water Works Co., Inc.

32,800

735,048

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $37,170,984)

40,620,056

Money Market Funds - 7.2%

 

 

 

 

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

398,386

398,386

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

2,515,275

2,515,275

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $2,913,661)

2,913,661

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 107.2%

(Cost $40,084,645)

43,533,717

NET OTHER ASSETS - (7.2)%

(2,923,400)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 40,610,317

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 2,320

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

1,871

Total

$ 4,191

Other Information

All investments are categorized as Level 1 under the Fair Value Hierarchy. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the Fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $13,093,363 of which $3,279,978 and $9,813,385 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $2,392,190) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $37,170,984)

$ 40,620,056

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $2,913,661)

2,913,661

 

Total Investments (cost $40,084,645)

 

$ 43,533,717

Receivable for investments sold

95,735

Receivable for fund shares sold

556

Dividends receivable

79,272

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

415

Prepaid expenses

191

Other receivables

2,063

Total assets

43,711,949

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 483,116

Payable for fund shares redeemed

47,402

Accrued management fee

18,596

Other affiliated payables

4,606

Other payables and accrued expenses

32,637

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

2,515,275

Total liabilities

3,101,632

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 40,610,317

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 52,136,568

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(14,975,323)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments

3,449,072

Net Assets

$ 40,610,317

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($24,158,797 ÷ 2,655,101 shares)

$ 9.10

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value,
offering price and redemption price per share ($16,451,520 ÷ 1,814,180 shares)

$ 9.07

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

  

Year ended December 31, 2009

 

  

  

Investment Income

  

  

Dividends

 

$ 1,584,248

Interest

 

1,694

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

4,191

Total income

 

1,590,133

Expenses

Management fee

$ 228,695

Transfer agent fees

54,509

Accounting and security lending fees

15,936

Custodian fees and expenses

5,906

Independent trustees' compensation

301

Audit

35,371

Legal

258

Miscellaneous

3,754

Total expenses before reductions

344,730

Expense reductions

(6,846)

337,884

Net investment income (loss)

1,252,249

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(6,870,222)

Foreign currency transactions

300

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(6,869,922)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities

10,129,353

Net gain (loss)

3,259,431

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 4,511,680

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31, 2009

Year ended
December 31, 2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 1,252,249

$ 1,515,249

Net realized gain (loss)

(6,869,922)

(7,922,274)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

10,129,353

(28,563,857)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

4,511,680

(34,970,882)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(1,275,840)

(1,542,657)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(278,438)

Total distributions

(1,275,840)

(1,821,095)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(12,914,534)

(39,256,959)

Redemption fees

10,970

25,756

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

(9,667,724)

(76,023,180)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

50,278,041

126,301,221

End of period

$ 40,610,317

$ 50,278,041

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.14

$ 13.09

$ 11.29

$ 9.53

$ 9.14

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .25

.20

.21

.24

.17

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.01

(4.86)

2.12

2.76

.71

Total from investment operations

  1.26

(4.66)

2.33

3.00

.88

Distributions from net investment income

  (.30)

(.26)

(.25)

(.14)

(.19)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.03)

(.29)

(1.10)

(.30)

Total distributions

  (.30)

(.29)

(.54)

(1.24) I

(.49) H

Redemption fees added to paid in capital C

  - G

- G

.01

- G

- G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.10

$ 8.14

$ 13.09

$ 11.29

$ 9.53

Total Return A, B

  15.42%

(35.61)%

20.67%

31.79%

9.54%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D, F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .81%

.75%

.73%

.81%

.83%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .81%

.75%

.73%

.81%

.83%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .79%

.74%

.73%

.80%

.80%

Net investment income (loss)

  3.13%

1.81%

1.65%

2.20%

1.81%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 24,159

$ 31,760

$ 84,105

$ 77,153

$ 36,444

Portfolio turnover rate E

  219%

112%

90%

139%

100%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. G Amount represents less than $.01 per share. H Total distributions of $.49 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.193 and distributions from net realized gain of $.295 per share. I Total distributions of $1.24 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.139 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.105 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 8.12

$ 13.05

$ 11.26

$ 9.52

$ 9.72

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .25

.19

.19

.23

.05

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  .99

(4.84)

2.12

2.75

.24

Total from investment operations

  1.24

(4.65)

2.31

2.98

.29

Distributions from net investment income

  (.29)

(.25)

(.24)

(.13)

(.20)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.03)

(.29)

(1.10)

(.30)

Total distributions

  (.29)

(.28)

(.53)

(1.24) L

(.49) K

Redemption fees added to paid in capital E

  - J

- J

.01

- J

- J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.07

$ 8.12

$ 13.05

$ 11.26

$ 9.52

Total Return B, C, D

  15.24%

(35.65)%

20.53%

31.56%

2.94%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F, I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .92%

.84%

.84%

.96%

1.16% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .92%

.84%

.84%

.96%

1.16% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .90%

.84%

.84%

.96%

1.12% A

Net investment income (loss)

  3.02%

1.72%

1.53%

2.04%

1.09% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 16,452

$ 18,518

$ 42,196

$ 18,889

$ 1,150

Portfolio turnover rate G

  219%

112%

90%

139%

100%

A Annualized B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown. D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown. E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period. F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds. H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005. I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class. J Amount represents less than $.01 per share. K Total distributions of $.49 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.196 and distributions from net realized gain of $.295 per share. L Total distributions of $1.24 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.134 and distributions from net realized gain of $1.105 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

Fund Name/Sector

Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Utilities Portfolio (the Fund) is a non-diversified fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 12, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, market discount, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 4,414,655

Gross unrealized depreciation

(2,847,543)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,567,112

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 41,966,605

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Capital loss carryforward

$ (13,093,363)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ 1,567,112

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 1,275,840

$ 1,635,469

Long-term Capital Gains

-

185,626

Total

$ 1,275,840

$ 1,821,095

Trading (Redemption) Fees. Shares held less than 60 days are subject to a redemption fee equal to 1% of the proceeds of the redeemed shares. All redemption fees, including any estimated redemption fees paid by FMR, are retained by the Fund and accounted for as an addition to paid in capital.

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $87,870,161 and $98,406,948, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 23,784

Investor Class

30,725

 

$ 54,509

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $1,970 for the period.

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $234 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

7. Security Lending - continued

the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $1,871.

8. Expense Reductions.

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $6,846 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 770,027

$ 992,400

Investor Class

505,813

550,257

Total

$ 1,275,840

$ 1,542,657

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 185,094

Investor Class

-

93,344

Total

$ -

$ 278,438

10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

189,678

534,178

$ 1,639,700

$ 5,586,449

Reinvestment of distributions

84,064

140,658

770,027

1,177,495

Shares redeemed

(1,518,047)

(3,198,980)

(12,048,930)

(35,570,008)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,244,305)

(2,524,144)

$ (9,639,203)

$ (28,806,064)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

430,537

603,317

$ 3,722,045

$ 6,888,002

Reinvestment of distributions

55,401

77,430

505,813

643,601

Shares redeemed

(952,381)

(1,633,572)

(7,503,189)

(17,982,498)

Net increase (decrease)

(466,443)

(952,825)

$ (3,275,331)

$ (10,450,895)

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were owners of record of 100% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Utilities Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Utilities Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Utilities Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Christopher S. Bartel (38)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of Fidelity's Sector and Real Estate Equity Funds. Mr. Bartel also serves as Senior Vice President of Equity Research (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Bartel served as Managing Director of Research (2006-2009) and an analyst and portfolio manager (2000-2006).

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class and Investor Class designate 100% of the dividends distributed in December 2009 as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

The fund will notify shareholders in January 2010 of amounts for use in preparing 2009 income tax returns.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against a third-party-sponsored index that reflects the market sector in which the fund invests over multiple periods. The Board noted that FMR does not believe that a meaningful peer group exists against which to compare the fund's performance. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, as available, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Investor Class of the fund and the cumulative total returns of a third-party-sponsored index ("benchmark").

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The Board stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for the one- and three-year periods, although the five-year cumulative total return of Initial Class compared favorably to its benchmark. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's below-benchmark performance. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund. The Board considered that the variations in performance between the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for the higher expense class.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 4% means that 96% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each class ranked below its competitive median for 2008.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

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The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

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FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

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Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

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Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

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Boston, MA 

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Boston, MA 

Custodian

JPMorgan Chase Bank
New York, NY

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Fidelity® Variable Insurance Products:
Value Leaders Portfolio

Annual Report

December 31, 2009

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Contents

Performance

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How the fund has done over time.

Management's Discussion

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The manager's review of fund performance, strategy and outlook.

Shareholder Expense Example

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An example of shareholder expenses.

Investment Changes

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A summary of major shifts in the fund's investments over the past six months.

Investments

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A complete list of the fund's investments with their market values.

Financial Statements

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Statements of assets and liabilities, operations, and changes in net assets, as well as financial highlights.

Notes

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Notes to the financial statements.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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Trustees and Officers

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Distributions

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

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NOT FDIC INSURED · MAY LOSE VALUE · NO BANK GUARANTEE

Neither the fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.

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Performance: The Bottom Line

Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of the class' dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. Performance numbers are net of all underlying fund operating expenses, but do not include any insurance charges imposed by your insurance company's separate account. If performance information included the effect of these additional charges, the total returns would have been lower. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.

Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended December 31, 2009

Past 1
year

Past 5
years

Life of fund A

VIP® Value Leaders - Initial Class

27.91%

-1.22%

3.06%

VIP Value Leaders - Service Class B

27.80%

-1.33%

2.96%

VIP Value Leaders - Service Class 2 C

27.70%

-1.47%

2.80%

VIP Value Leaders - Investor Class D

27.72%

-1.33%

2.98%

A From June 17, 2003.

B Performance of Service Class shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

C Performance of Service Class 2 shares reflects an asset-based service fee (12b-1 fee).

D The initial offering of Investor Class shares took place on July 21, 2005. Returns prior to July 21, 2005 are those of Initial Class. Had Investor Class's transfer agent fee been reflected, returns prior to July 21, 2005, would have been lower.

$10,000 Over Life of Fund

Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in VIP Value Leaders Portfolio - Initial Class on June 17, 2003, when the fund started. The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Russell 1000® Value Index performed over the same period.


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Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Market Recap: In 2009, most global markets saw both crippling lows and considerable highs. After a dismal start, the economy began to show signs of improvement, suggesting that a recovery was on the horizon. Credit markets began to heal as fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts around the world started to take effect, and corporate earnings staged an impressive rebound, fueled in large part by massive cost cutting. As a result, the flight to quality that marked most of 2008 and early 2009 shifted in March as investors flocked to riskier asset categories. The U.S. equity market, as measured by the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500SM Index and the blue-chip proxy Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM, reflected this changing environment, gaining 26.46% and 22.68%, respectively. Meanwhile, the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite® Index rose 45.32%. Foreign stocks also produced strong gains, as illustrated by the 31.93% jump of the MSCI® EAFE® Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East), a gauge of developed stock markets outside the U.S. and Canada. Emerging-markets stocks, which suffered their worst calendar-year performance ever in 2008, posted record returns this past year, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soaring 79.02%. A depreciating U.S. dollar helped bolster returns for U.S. investors in foreign equities.

Comments from Charles Hebard, Portfolio Manager of VIP Value Leaders Portfolio: For the year ending December 31, 2009, the fund's shares solidly outperformed the Russell 1000® Value Index, which returned 19.69%. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the performance section of this report.) Stock picking in the energy sector was a key to performance, including underweighting integrated oil giant Exxon Mobil, which lagged when the markets rebounded, and good returns from land-driller Nabors Industries and exploration and production company Occidental Petroleum. In the financials sector, underweighting Citigroup in diversified financials paid off when the stock was pummeled by significant credit losses, while a stake in commercial real estate broker CB Richard Ellis Group rallied strongly on investors' expectations of a more favorable commercial real estate environment. Overweighting in investment banks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs further contributed. Underweighting major index component General Electric, which was battered by slowdowns in its industrial businesses and its financing arm, aided results in the industrials space. Elsewhere, an out-of-index position in Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev boosted returns. On the negative side, several diversified financials stocks detracted, including Bank of America and State Street, which performed poorly early in the period. Not owning automaker and index component Ford was a mistake, as the company was better capitalized than its Detroit brethren and was the only one of the "Big Three" domestic automakers to forgo government assistance, increasing the likelihood of its survival. Within telecommunication services, our holdings in wireless provider Sprint Nextel were pressured by concerns about a potential price war in the industry, while homebuilders KB Home and Pulte Homes failed to participate in the market rally. Citigroup and GE were no longer held at period end.

The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.

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Shareholder Expense Example

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009).

Actual Expenses

The first line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class of the Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line of the accompanying table for each class of the Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on a Class' actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Class' actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product. If they were, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher, and your ending account value would be lower. In addition, the Fund, as a shareholder in the underlying Fidelity Central Funds, will indirectly bear its pro-rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by the underlying Fidelity Central Funds. These fees and expenses are not included in the Fund's annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.

 

Annualized
Expense
Ratio

Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2009

Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2009

Expenses Paid
During Period
*
July 1, 2009 to
December 31, 2009

Initial Class

.85%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,240.80

$ 4.80

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.92

$ 4.33

Service Class

.95%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,239.60

$ 5.36

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.42

$ 4.84

Service Class 2

1.10%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,238.60

$ 6.21

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,019.66

$ 5.60

Investor Class

.93%

 

 

 

Actual

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,238.90

$ 5.25

HypotheticalA

 

$ 1,000.00

$ 1,020.52

$ 4.74

A 5% return per year before expenses

* Expenses are equal to each Class' annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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Investment Changes (Unaudited)

Top Ten Stocks as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4.8

4.8

Wells Fargo & Co.

4.4

3.5

Pfizer, Inc.

3.9

2.9

Chevron Corp.

3.7

3.6

Bank of America Corp.

3.6

3.6

Verizon Communications, Inc.

3.3

2.3

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

3.2

3.2

Merck & Co., Inc.

1.8

1.7

Hewlett-Packard Co.

1.8

1.7

Morgan Stanley

1.6

1.7

 

32.1

Top Five Market Sectors as of December 31, 2009

 

% of fund's
net assets

% of fund's net assets
6 months ago

Financials

27.3

24.6

Energy

18.5

18.7

Health Care

10.8

9.9

Industrials

9.8

10.0

Consumer Discretionary

8.8

9.2

Asset Allocation (% of fund's net assets)

As of December 31, 2009*

As of June 30, 2009**

fid432

Stocks 99.7%

 

fid432

Stocks 99.6%

 

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Bonds 0.0%

 

fid627

Bonds 0.1%

 

fid435

Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 0.3%

 

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Short-Term
Investments and
Net Other Assets 0.3%

 

* Foreign investments

9.7%

 

** Foreign investments

10.5%

 


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Investments December 31, 2009

Showing Percentage of Net Assets

Common Stocks - 99.2%

Shares

Value

CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 8.8%

Auto Components - 0.8%

Johnson Controls, Inc.

7,300

$ 198,852

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (a)

5,500

77,550

 

276,402

Automobiles - 0.2%

Renault SA (a)

1,400

72,556

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.2%

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

3,700

74,629

Household Durables - 2.4%

Black & Decker Corp.

2,300

149,109

KB Home (c)

31,900

436,392

Pulte Homes, Inc.

18,330

183,300

Whirlpool Corp.

866

69,852

 

838,653

Media - 2.7%

Cablevision Systems Corp. - NY Group Class A

5,100

131,682

DIRECTV (a)

3,100

103,385

DISH Network Corp. Class A

5,600

116,312

Time Warner Cable, Inc.

7,062

292,296

Time Warner, Inc.

9,400

273,916

 

917,591

Specialty Retail - 2.5%

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

2,000

80,960

Home Depot, Inc.

4,250

122,953

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

11,400

266,646

Ross Stores, Inc.

1,500

64,065

Staples, Inc.

13,000

319,670

 

854,294

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

3,034,125

CONSUMER STAPLES - 4.8%

Beverages - 0.9%

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA NV

2,383

124,166

Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A (sub. vtg.) (a)

3,400

54,162

The Coca-Cola Co.

2,400

136,800

 

315,128

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.4%

CVS Caremark Corp.

9,400

302,774

Kroger Co.

4,600

94,438

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (a)

7,500

75,300

 

472,512

Food Products - 1.2%

Bunge Ltd.

1,300

82,979

Nestle SA (Reg.)

4,949

239,934

Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. (a)

1,900

113,449

 

436,362

 

Shares

Value

Household Products - 1.0%

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (a)

1,400

$ 85,792

Procter & Gamble Co.

4,100

248,583

 

334,375

Tobacco - 0.3%

British American Tobacco PLC sponsored ADR

1,800

116,388

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

1,674,765

ENERGY - 18.5%

Energy Equipment & Services - 5.2%

Baker Hughes, Inc.

3,800

153,824

Ensco International Ltd. ADR

2,250

89,865

Halliburton Co.

9,500

285,855

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

1,200

47,856

Nabors Industries Ltd. (a)

15,600

341,484

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

4,726

208,369

Noble Corp.

1,900

77,330

Pride International, Inc. (a)

3,200

102,112

Transocean Ltd. (a)

2,500

207,000

Weatherford International Ltd. (a)

15,200

272,232

 

1,785,927

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 13.3%

Arch Coal, Inc.

4,600

102,350

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

7,100

183,748

Chevron Corp.

16,400

1,262,636

EOG Resources, Inc.

1,200

116,760

EXCO Resources, Inc.

2,800

59,444

Exxon Mobil Corp.

5,700

388,683

Marathon Oil Corp.

12,800

399,616

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

13,700

1,114,495

Petrohawk Energy Corp. (a)

7,300

175,127

Plains Exploration & Production Co. (a)

5,200

143,832

Range Resources Corp.

3,700

184,445

Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B ADR

4,000

232,520

Southwestern Energy Co. (a)

3,300

159,060

Suncor Energy, Inc.

1,720

60,916

 

4,583,632

TOTAL ENERGY

6,369,559

FINANCIALS - 26.8%

Capital Markets - 4.9%

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

3,200

89,504

Charles Schwab Corp.

3,968

74,678

Franklin Resources, Inc.

1,500

158,025

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

3,100

523,404

Morgan Stanley

18,600

550,560

Northern Trust Corp.

1,800

94,320

State Street Corp.

4,300

187,222

 

1,677,713

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

FINANCIALS - continued

Commercial Banks - 6.3%

Huntington Bancshares, Inc.

5,800

$ 21,170

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

10,600

52,239

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

7,600

401,204

SVB Financial Group (a)

1,800

75,042

U.S. Bancorp, Delaware

5,100

114,801

Wells Fargo & Co.

55,776

1,505,394

 

2,169,850

Consumer Finance - 0.9%

Capital One Financial Corp.

4,500

172,530

Discover Financial Services

8,400

123,564

 

296,094

Diversified Financial Services - 9.5%

Bank of America Corp.

82,832

1,247,450

CME Group, Inc.

600

201,570

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

39,996

1,666,630

KKR Financial Holdings LLC

14,100

81,780

Moody's Corp.

3,100

83,080

 

3,280,510

Insurance - 3.5%

ACE Ltd.

6,320

318,528

Allstate Corp.

3,500

105,140

Genworth Financial, Inc. Class A (a)

18,173

206,264

Lincoln National Corp.

6,100

151,768

Loews Corp.

1,600

58,160

MetLife, Inc.

4,600

162,610

Unum Group

5,400

105,408

XL Capital Ltd. Class A

5,900

108,147

 

1,216,025

Real Estate Investment Trusts - 0.9%

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

1,600

102,864

Duke Realty LP

3,000

36,510

ProLogis Trust

4,300

58,867

SL Green Realty Corp.

2,100

105,504

 

303,745

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.8%

CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. Class A (a)

21,600

293,112

TOTAL FINANCIALS

9,237,049

HEALTH CARE - 10.8%

Biotechnology - 0.6%

Amgen, Inc. (a)

1,400

79,198

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

2,500

133,750

 

212,948

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.9%

Boston Scientific Corp. (a)

7,100

63,900

C. R. Bard, Inc.

600

46,740

 

Shares

Value

Covidien PLC

9,582

$ 458,882

Stryker Corp.

1,500

75,555

 

645,077

Health Care Providers & Services - 2.0%

Aetna, Inc.

5,800

183,860

Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. (a)

6,700

121,873

CIGNA Corp.

6,600

232,782

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

4,700

143,256

 

681,771

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.2%

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (a)

1,200

57,228

Pharmaceuticals - 6.1%

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

4,300

52,761

Merck & Co., Inc.

17,300

632,142

Pfizer, Inc.

73,920

1,344,605

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. sponsored ADR

1,700

95,506

 

2,125,014

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

3,722,038

INDUSTRIALS - 9.8%

Aerospace & Defense - 2.0%

Honeywell International, Inc.

7,500

294,000

Precision Castparts Corp.

800

88,280

United Technologies Corp.

4,400

305,404

 

687,684

Building Products - 1.1%

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (a)

500

19,465

Masco Corp.

19,800

273,438

Owens Corning (a)

3,500

89,740

 

382,643

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.4%

Republic Services, Inc.

4,245

120,176

Construction & Engineering - 0.3%

Fluor Corp.

2,500

112,600

Electrical Equipment - 0.4%

Acuity Brands, Inc.

1,500

53,460

Regal-Beloit Corp.

1,800

93,492

 

146,952

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.5%

Textron, Inc.

8,600

161,766

Machinery - 2.6%

Caterpillar, Inc.

2,100

119,679

Cummins, Inc.

6,000

275,160

Deere & Co.

2,400

129,816

Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.

8,800

314,512

Navistar International Corp. (a)

1,420

54,883

 

894,050

Road & Rail - 2.5%

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (a)

5,700

74,784

Common Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

INDUSTRIALS - continued

Road & Rail - continued

CSX Corp.

7,800

$ 378,222

Union Pacific Corp.

6,600

421,740

 

874,746

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

3,380,617

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 7.8%

Communications Equipment - 1.0%

Cisco Systems, Inc. (a)

10,900

260,946

Juniper Networks, Inc. (a)

3,200

85,344

 

346,290

Computers & Peripherals - 2.0%

Hewlett-Packard Co.

12,200

628,422

NCR Corp. (a)

6,900

76,797

 

705,219

Electronic Equipment & Components - 2.2%

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (a)

3,350

104,085

Amphenol Corp. Class A

900

41,562

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (a)

4,500

133,245

Avnet, Inc. (a)

7,654

230,845

Flextronics International Ltd. (a)

14,300

104,533

Tyco Electronics Ltd.

5,782

141,948

 

756,218

Internet Software & Services - 0.5%

eBay, Inc. (a)

7,000

164,780

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.8%

Applied Materials, Inc.

18,400

256,496

Atmel Corp. (a)

13,900

64,079

KLA-Tencor Corp.

2,100

75,936

Lam Research Corp. (a)

4,600

180,366

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (a)

2,400

32,688

 

609,565

Software - 0.3%

Microsoft Corp.

4,100

125,009

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2,707,081

MATERIALS - 3.4%

Chemicals - 1.5%

Albemarle Corp.

3,610

131,296

Celanese Corp. Class A

3,300

105,930

Dow Chemical Co.

10,100

279,063

 

516,289

Construction Materials - 0.5%

HeidelbergCement AG

1,725

119,109

Vulcan Materials Co.

900

47,403

 

166,512

 

Shares

Value

Containers & Packaging - 0.3%

Owens-Illinois, Inc. (a)

3,300

$ 108,471

Metals & Mining - 0.8%

ArcelorMittal SA (NY Shares) Class A

2,800

128,100

Newcrest Mining Ltd.

2,003

63,566

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

5,400

95,688

 

287,354

Paper & Forest Products - 0.3%

Weyerhaeuser Co.

2,395

103,320

TOTAL MATERIALS

1,181,946

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 4.2%

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 3.6%

Qwest Communications International, Inc. 

25,200

106,092

Verizon Communications, Inc.

33,900

1,123,107

 

1,229,199

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.6%

Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)

61,200

223,992

TOTAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

1,453,191

UTILITIES - 4.3%

Electric Utilities - 2.2%

Allegheny Energy, Inc.

2,300

54,004

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

6,600

229,614

Entergy Corp.

2,500

204,600

FirstEnergy Corp.

5,700

264,765

 

752,983

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.8%

AES Corp.

3,700

49,247

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

3,300

116,061

NRG Energy, Inc. (a)

5,000

118,050

 

283,358

Multi-Utilities - 1.3%

CMS Energy Corp.

9,100

142,506

PG&E Corp.

3,900

174,135

Sempra Energy

2,200

123,156

 

439,797

TOTAL UTILITIES

1,476,138

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

(Cost $36,443,561)

34,236,509

Convertible Preferred Stocks - 0.5%

 

 

 

 

FINANCIALS - 0.5%

Commercial Banks - 0.2%

Huntington Bancshares, Inc. 8.50%

100

84,000

Convertible Preferred Stocks - continued

Shares

Value

FINANCIALS - continued

Diversified Financial Services - 0.3%

Bank of America Corp.

5,900

$ 88,028

TOTAL CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS

(Cost $157,800)

172,028

Money Market Funds - 1.9%

Fidelity Cash Central Fund, 0.16% (d)

197,635

197,635

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund, 0.15% (b)(d)

440,325

440,325

TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS

(Cost $637,960)

637,960

TOTAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - 101.6%

(Cost $37,239,321)

35,046,497

NET OTHER ASSETS - (1.6)%

(538,134)

NET ASSETS - 100%

$ 34,508,363

Legend

(a) Non-income producing

(b) Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.

(c) Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.

(d) Affiliated fund that is available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request.

Affiliated Central Funds

Information regarding fiscal year to date income earned by the Fund from investments in Fidelity Central Funds is as follows:

Fund

Income earned

Fidelity Cash Central Fund

$ 757

Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund

1,255

Total

$ 2,012

Other Information

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of December 31, 2009, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used in the table below, please refer to the Security Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:

Description

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Investments in Securities:

Equities:

Consumer Discretionary

$ 3,034,125

$ 3,034,125

$ -

$ -

Consumer Staples

1,674,765

1,674,765

-

-

Energy

6,369,559

6,369,559

-

-

Financials

9,409,077

9,272,838

136,239

-

Health Care

3,722,038

3,722,038

-

-

Industrials

3,380,617

3,380,617

-

-

Information Technology

2,707,081

2,707,081

-

-

Materials

1,181,946

1,181,946

-

-

Telecommunication Services

1,453,191

1,453,191

-

-

Utilities

1,476,138

1,476,138

-

-

Money Market Funds

637,960

637,960

-

-

Total Investments in Securities:

$ 35,046,497

$ 34,910,258

$ 136,239

$ -

Income Tax Information

At December 31, 2009, the fund had a capital loss carryforward of approximately $23,281,217 of which $11,835,995 and $11,445,222 will expire on December 31, 2016 and 2017, respectively.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Statements

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

  

December 31, 2009

Assets

Investment in securities, at value (including securities loaned of $422,712) - See accompanying schedule:

Unaffiliated issuers (cost $36,601,361)

$ 34,408,537

 

Fidelity Central Funds (cost $637,960)

637,960

 

Total Investments (cost $37,239,321)

 

$ 35,046,497

Receivable for investments sold

59,759

Receivable for fund shares sold

9,587

Dividends receivable

32,575

Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds

59

Prepaid expenses

174

Other receivables

321

Total assets

35,148,972

 

 

 

Liabilities

Payable for investments purchased

$ 36,291

Payable for fund shares redeemed

81,695

Accrued management fee

16,570

Distribution fees payable

420

Other affiliated payables

4,387

Other payables and accrued expenses

60,921

Collateral on securities loaned, at value

440,325

Total liabilities

640,609

 

 

 

Net Assets

$ 34,508,363

Net Assets consist of:

 

Paid in capital

$ 61,478,019

Undistributed net investment income

8,181

Accumulated undistributed net realized gain (loss) on investments and foreign currency transactions

(24,764,957)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(2,212,880)

Net Assets

$ 34,508,363

Statement of Assets and Liabilities - continued

  

December 31, 2009

Initial Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($12,825,654 ÷ 1,362,080 shares)

$ 9.42

 

 

 

Service Class:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($677,131 ÷ 71,946 shares)

$ 9.41

 

 

 

Service Class 2:
Net Asset Value
, offering price and redemption price per share ($1,756,358 ÷ 187,099 shares)

$ 9.39

 

 

 

Investor Class:
Net Asset Value,
offering price and redemption price per share ($19,249,220 ÷ 2,046,731 shares)

$ 9.40

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Statement of Operations

 

Year ended December 31, 2009

Investment Income

 

 

Dividends

 

$ 856,026

Interest

 

350

Income from Fidelity Central Funds

 

2,012

Total income

 

858,388

 

 

 

Expenses

Management fee

$ 208,164

Transfer agent fees

55,223

Distribution fees

5,219

Accounting and security lending fees

14,483

Custodian fees and expenses

21,642

Independent trustees' compensation

274

Audit

40,663

Legal

237

Miscellaneous

3,458

Total expenses before reductions

349,363

Expense reductions

(15,334)

334,029

Net investment income (loss)

524,359

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:

Investment securities:

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

(8,605,676)

Foreign currency transactions

(773)

Total net realized gain (loss)

 

(8,606,449)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:

Investment securities

16,401,566

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

(61)

Total change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

 

16,401,505

Net gain (loss)

7,795,056

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

$ 8,319,415

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

  

Year ended
December 31,
2009

Year ended
December 31,
2008

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

 

 

Operations

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

$ 524,359

$ 1,146,095

Net realized gain (loss)

(8,606,449)

(15,570,917)

Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

16,401,505

(23,671,296)

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

8,319,415

(38,096,118)

Distributions to shareholders from net investment income

(567,198)

(1,069,463)

Distributions to shareholders from net realized gain

-

(105,299)

Total distributions

(567,198)

(1,174,762)

Share transactions - net increase (decrease)

(18,654,274)

6,466,333

Total increase (decrease) in net assets

(10,902,057)

(32,804,547)

 

 

 

Net Assets

Beginning of period

45,410,420

78,214,967

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $8,181 and undistributed net investment income of $43,927, respectively)

$ 34,508,363

$ 45,410,420

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Initial Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.49

$ 13.89

$ 14.82

$ 13.30

$ 12.28

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .12

.20

.20

.15

.13

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.97

(6.39)

.48

1.86

1.11

Total from investment operations

  2.09

(6.19)

.68

2.01

1.24

Distributions from net investment income

  (.16)

(.19)

(.21)

(.13)

(.07)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.02)

(1.40)

(.37)

(.16)

Total distributions

  (.16)

(.21)

(1.61)

(.49) H

(.22) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.42

$ 7.49

$ 13.89

$ 14.82

$ 13.30

Total Return A,B

  27.91%

(44.61)%

4.56%

15.18%

10.18%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .89%

.81%

.80%

.84%

.98%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .85%

.81%

.80%

.84%

.85%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .85%

.81%

.80%

.83%

.81%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.48%

1.79%

1.27%

1.09%

1.00%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 12,826

$ 18,847

$ 30,300

$ 42,725

$ 37,465

Portfolio turnover rate E

  58%

95%

98%

94%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Total distributions of $.22 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.066 and distributions from net realized gain of $.155 per share.

H Total distributions of $.49 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.129 and distributions from net realized gain of $.365 per share.

Financial Highlights - Service Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.48

$ 13.86

$ 14.80

$ 13.28

$ 12.26

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .11

.19

.18

.14

.10

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.96

(6.38)

.48

1.86

1.13

Total from investment operations

  2.07

(6.19)

.66

2.00

1.23

Distributions from net investment income

  (.14)

(.17)

(.20)

(.12)

(.05)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.02)

(1.40)

(.37)

(.16)

Total distributions

  (.14)

(.19)

(1.60)

(.48) H

(.21) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.41

$ 7.48

$ 13.86

$ 14.80

$ 13.28

Total Return A,B

  27.80%

(44.69)%

4.43%

15.11%

10.10%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .97%

.90%

.89%

.93%

1.42%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .95%

.90%

.89%

.93%

.97%

Expenses net of all reductions

  .95%

.90%

.89%

.93%

.93%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.38%

1.70%

1.18%

1.00%

.78%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 677

$ 956

$ 2,577

$ 2,458

$ 2,137

Portfolio turnover rate E

  58%

95%

98%

94%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Total distributions of $.21 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.054 and distributions from net realized gain of $.155 per share.

H Total distributions of $.48 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.116 and distributions from net realized gain of $.365 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Financial Highlights - Service Class 2

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.46

$ 13.80

$ 14.75

$ 13.25

$ 12.23

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) C

  .10

.18

.15

.12

.08

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.96

(6.35)

.48

1.84

1.13

Total from investment operations

  2.06

(6.17)

.63

1.96

1.21

Distributions from net investment income

  (.13)

(.15)

(.18)

(.10)

(.04)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.02)

(1.40)

(.37)

(.16)

Total distributions

  (.13)

(.17)

(1.58)

(.46) H

(.19) G

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.39

$ 7.46

$ 13.80

$ 14.75

$ 13.25

Total Return A,B

  27.70%

(44.77)%

4.22%

14.86%

9.98%

Ratios to Average Net Assets D,F

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  1.12%

1.05%

1.07%

1.14%

1.60%

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  1.10%

1.05%

1.07%

1.10%

1.12%

Expenses net of all reductions

  1.10%

1.05%

1.06%

1.09%

1.08%

Net investment income (loss)

  1.23%

1.55%

1.01%

.83%

.63%

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 1,756

$ 2,001

$ 5,724

$ 4,467

$ 2,957

Portfolio turnover rate E

  58%

95%

98%

94%

75%

A Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

B Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

C Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

D Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

E Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

G Total distributions of $.19 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.036 and distributions from net realized gain of $.155 per share.

H Total distributions of $.46 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.099 and distributions from net realized gain of $.365 per share.

Financial Highlights - Investor Class

Years ended December 31,
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 H

Selected Per-Share Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net asset value, beginning of period

$ 7.48

$ 13.87

$ 14.81

$ 13.30

$ 12.72

Income from Investment Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss) E

  .11

.19

.18

.14

.05

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

  1.96

(6.38)

.48

1.86

.61

Total from investment operations

  2.07

(6.19)

.66

2.00

.66

Distributions from net investment income

  (.15)

(.18)

(.20)

(.12)

(.05)

Distributions from net realized gain

  -

(.02)

(1.40)

(.37)

(.03)

Total distributions

  (.15)

(.20)

(1.60)

(.49) K

(.08) J

Net asset value, end of period

$ 9.40

$ 7.48

$ 13.87

$ 14.81

$ 13.30

Total Return B,C,D

  27.72%

(44.67)%

4.41%

15.06%

5.20%

Ratios to Average Net Assets F,I

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses before reductions

  .97%

.90%

.91%

.97%

1.15% A

Expenses net of fee waivers, if any

  .93%

.90%

.91%

.97%

1.00% A

Expenses net of all reductions

  .93%

.90%

.91%

.96%

.96% A

Net investment income (loss)

  1.40%

1.71%

1.16%

.96%

.87% A

Supplemental Data

 

 

 

 

 

Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)

$ 19,249

$ 23,606

$ 39,614

$ 28,274

$ 4,279

Portfolio turnover rate G

  58%

95%

98%

94%

75%

A Annualized

B Total returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

C Total returns do not reflect charges attributable to your insurance company's separate account. Inclusion of these charges would reduce the total returns shown.

D Total returns would have been lower had certain expenses not been reduced during the periods shown.

E Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.

F Fees and expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

H For the period July 21, 2005 (commencement of sale of shares) to December 31, 2005.

I Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed by the investment adviser or reductions from brokerage service arrangements or reductions from other expense offset arrangements and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements or reductions occur. Expense ratios before reductions for start-up periods may not be representative of longer-term operating periods. Expenses net of fee waivers reflect expenses after reimbursement by the investment adviser but prior to reductions from brokerage service arrangements or other expense offset arrangements. Expenses net of all reductions represent the net expenses paid by the class.

J Total distributions of $.08 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.053 and distributions from net realized gain of $.030 per share.

K Total distributions of $.49 per share is comprised of distributions from net investment income of $.123 and distributions from net realized gain of $.365 per share.

See accompanying notes which are an integral part of the financial statements.

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Notes to Financial Statements

For the period ended December 31, 2009

1. Organization.

VIP Value Leaders Portfolio (the Fund) is a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. The trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust. Shares of the Fund may only be purchased by insurance companies for the purpose of funding variable annuity or variable life insurance contracts. The Fund offers the following classes of shares: Initial Class shares, Service Class shares, Service Class 2 shares and Investor Class shares. All classes have equal rights and voting privileges, except for matters affecting a single class. Investment income, realized and unrealized capital gains and losses, the common expenses of the Fund, and certain fund-level expense reductions, if any, are allocated on a pro-rata basis to each class based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the Fund. Each class differs with respect to transfer agent and distribution and service plan fees incurred. Certain expense reductions also differ by class.

2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.

The Fund may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) and its affiliates. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists each of the Fidelity Central Funds held as of period end, if any, as an investment of the Fund, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. As an Investing Fund, the Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.

The Money Market Central Funds seek preservation of capital and current income and are managed by Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (FIMM), an affiliate of FMR.

A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC web site or upon request.

3. Significant Accounting Policies.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Events or transactions occurring after period end through the date that the financial statements were issued, February 16, 2010, have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:

Security Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Fund uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees to value its investments. When current market prices or quotations are not readily available or reliable, valuations may be determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Factors used in determining value may include significant market or security specific events. The frequency with which these procedures are used cannot be predicted and may be utilized to a significant extent. The value used for net asset value (NAV) calculation under these procedures may differ from published prices for the same securities.

The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below.

Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)

Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level, as of December 31, 2009, is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments. Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows.

Equity securities, including restricted securities, for which market quotations are readily available, are valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service on the primary market or exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as level 1 in the hierarchy. In the event there were no sales during the day or closing prices are not available, securities are valued at the last quoted bid price or may be valued using the last available price and categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. For foreign equity securities, when significant market or security events arise, comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), futures contracts, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and certain indexes as well as quoted prices for similar securities are used and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy in these circumstances. For restricted securities and private placements where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are categorized as level 3 in the hierarchy.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Security Valuation - continued

Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Money Market Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of sixty days or less for which quotations are not readily available are valued at amortized cost, which approximates value and are categorized as level 2 in the hierarchy.

Foreign Currency. The Fund uses foreign currency contracts to facilitate transactions in foreign-denominated securities. Losses from these transactions may arise from changes in the value of the foreign currency or if the counterparties do not perform under the contracts' terms.

Foreign-denominated assets, including investment securities, and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at period end. Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and dividends received and expenses denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the transaction date.

The effects of exchange rate fluctuations on investments are included with the net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment securities. Other foreign currency transactions resulting in realized and unrealized gain (loss) are disclosed separately.

Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost and may include proceeds received from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, which are recorded as soon as the Fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Fund estimates the components of distributions received that may be considered return of capital distributions or capital gain distributions. Interest income and distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds are accrued as earned. Interest income includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities. Investment income is recorded net of foreign taxes withheld where recovery of such taxes is uncertain.

Expenses. Most expenses of the trust can be directly attributed to a fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed are apportioned among each Fund in the trust. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company by distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and filing its U.S. federal tax return. As a result, no provision for income taxes is required. As of December 31, 2009, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. A Fund's federal tax return is subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three years. Foreign taxes are provided for based on the Fund's understanding of the tax rules and rates that exist in the foreign markets in which it invests.

Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gain distributions are declared separately for each class. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles.

Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Temporary book-tax differences will reverse in a subsequent period.

Book-tax differences are primarily due to the short-term gain distributions from the Fidelity Central Funds, foreign currency transactions, partnerships, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.

The federal tax cost of investment securities and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of period end were as follows:

Gross unrealized appreciation

$ 4,389,385

Gross unrealized depreciation

(7,940,159)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ (3,550,774)

 

 

Tax Cost

$ 38,597,271

The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income

$ 8,181

Capital loss carryforward

$ (23,281,217)

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)

$ (3,570,830)

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3. Significant Accounting Policies - continued

Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders - continued

The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:

 

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Ordinary Income

$ 567,198

$ 1,174,762

4. Purchases and Sales of Investments.

Purchases and sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $21,314,310 and $39,897,914, respectively.

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.

Management Fee. FMR and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee. The management fee is the sum of an individual fund fee rate that is based on an annual rate of .30% of the Fund's average net assets and a group fee rate that averaged .26% during the period. The group fee rate is based upon the average net assets of all the mutual funds advised by FMR. The group fee rate decreases as assets under management increase and increases as assets under management decrease. For the period, the total annual management fee rate was .56% of the Fund's average net assets.

Distribution and Service Plan. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, the Fund has adopted separate 12b-1 Plans for each Service Class of shares. Each Service Class pays Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC), an affiliate of FMR, a service fee. For the period, the service fee is based on an annual rate of .10% of Service Class' average net assets and .25% of Service Class 2's average net assets.

For the period, each class paid FDC the following amounts, all of which were re-allowed to insurance companies for the distribution of shares and providing shareholder support services:

Service Class

$ 761

Service Class 2

4,458

 

$ 5,219

Transfer Agent Fees. Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC), an affiliate of FMR, is the Fund's transfer, dividend disbursing, and shareholder servicing agent. FIIOC receives an asset-based fee with respect to each class. Each class (with the exception of Investor Class) pays a transfer agent fee, excluding out of pocket expenses, equal to an annual rate of .07% of average net assets. Investor Class pays a monthly asset-based transfer agent fee of .15% of average net assets. The total transfer agent fees paid by each class to FIIOC, including out of pocket expenses, were as follows:

Initial Class

$ 14,903

Service Class

682

Service Class 2

1,489

Investor Class

38,149

 

$ 55,223

Accounting and Security Lending Fees. Fidelity Service Company, Inc. (FSC), an affiliate of FMR, maintains the Fund's accounting records. The accounting fee is based on the level of average net assets for the month. Under a separate contract, FSC administers the security lending program. The security lending fee is based on the number and duration of lending transactions.

Brokerage Commissions. The Fund placed a portion of its portfolio transactions with brokerage firms which are affiliates of the investment adviser. The commissions paid to these affiliated firms were $3,712 for the period.

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Notes to Financial Statements - continued

6. Committed Line of Credit.

The Fund participates with other funds managed by FMR in a $3.5 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The Fund has agreed to pay commitment fees on its pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which amounted to $215 and is reflected in Miscellaneous Expense on the Statement of Operations. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.

7. Security Lending.

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. On the settlement date of the loan, the Fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the Fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund could experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. The value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end are disclosed on the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less fees and expenses associated with the loan, plus any premium payments that may be received on the loan of certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Net income from lending portfolio securities during the period amounted to $1,255.

8. Expense Reductions.

FMR voluntarily agreed to reimburse each class to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded certain levels of average net assets as noted in the table below. Some expenses, for example interest expense, including commitment fees, are excluded from this reimbursement.

The following classes were in reimbursement during the period:

 

Expense
Limitations

Reimbursement
from adviser

Initial Class

.85%

$ 5,036

Service Class

.95%

167

Service Class 2

1.10%

292

Investor Class

.93%

8,476

 

 

$ 13,971

Many of the brokers with whom FMR places trades on behalf of the Fund provided services to the Fund in addition to trade execution. These services included payments of certain expenses on behalf of the Fund totaling $1,363 for the period.

9. Distributions to Shareholders.

Distributions to shareholders of each class were as follows:

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

From net investment income

 

 

Initial Class

$ 219,670

$ 460,521

Service Class

10,712

21,104

Service Class 2

24,668

38,328

Investor Class

312,148

549,510

Total

$ 567,198

$ 1,069,463

From net realized gain

 

 

Initial Class

$ -

$ 38,367

Service Class

-

3,720

Service Class 2

-

8,161

Investor Class

-

55,051

Total

$ -

$ 105,299

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10. Share Transactions.

Transactions for each class of shares were as follows:

 

Shares

Dollars

Years ended December 31,

2009

2008

2009

2008

Initial Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

239,960

1,249,574

$ 1,819,515

$ 15,002,246

Reinvestment of distributions

24,543

66,157

219,670

498,888

Shares redeemed

(1,420,346)

(979,932)

(10,917,966)

(10,972,093)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,155,843)

335,799

$ (8,878,781)

$ 4,529,041

Service Class

 

 

 

 

Reinvestment of distributions

1,203

3,185

10,712

24,823

Shares redeemed

(57,024)

(61,406)

(445,124)

(584,123)

Net increase (decrease)

(55,821)

(58,221)

$ (434,412)

$ (559,300)

Service Class 2

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

85,657

45,542

$ 640,879

$ 514,841

Reinvestment of distributions

2,768

5,912

24,668

46,489

Shares redeemed

(169,508)

(198,033)

(1,319,098)

(2,015,823)

Net increase (decrease)

(81,083)

(146,579)

$ (653,551)

$ (1,454,493)

Investor Class

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

494,371

1,143,976

$ 3,783,197

$ 13,354,389

Reinvestment of distributions

34,870

79,773

312,148

604,561

Shares redeemed

(1,639,748)

(923,568)

(12,782,875)

(10,007,865)

Net increase (decrease)

(1,110,507)

300,181

$ (8,687,530)

$ 3,951,085

11. Other.

The Fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

At the end of the period, FMR or its affiliates were the owners of record of 95% of the total outstanding shares of the Fund.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Trustees of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and the Shareholders of VIP Value Leaders Portfolio:

In our opinion, the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of VIP Value Leaders Portfolio (a fund of Variable Insurance Products Fund IV) at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as "financial statements") are the responsibility of the VIP Value Leaders Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 16, 2010

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Trustees and Officers

The Trustees, Member of the Advisory Board, and executive officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, and review the fund's performance. Except for James C. Curvey, each of the Trustees oversees 222 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate. Mr. Curvey oversees 410 funds advised by FMR or an affiliate.

The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) (Independent Trustee), shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 72nd birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. The executive officers and Advisory Board Member hold office without limit in time, except that any officer and Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.

The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-877-208-0098.

Interested Trustees*:

Correspondence intended for each Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Edward C. Johnson 3d (79)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 1983

Mr. Johnson is Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of certain Trusts. Mr. Johnson serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and a Director of FMR LLC; Chairman and a Director of FMR; Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (FRAC); Chairman and a Director of Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc.; and Chairman and a Director of FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Johnson serves as Chairman and Director of FIL Limited. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as President of FMR LLC (2006-2007).

James C. Curvey (74)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Mr. Curvey also serves as Trustee (2007-present) of other investment companies advised by FMR. Mr. Curvey is a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. (2007-present). Mr. Curvey is also Vice Chairman (2006-present) and Director of FMR LLC. In addition, Mr. Curvey serves as an Overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Trustees of Villanova University.

* Trustees have been determined to be "Interested Trustees" by virtue of, among other things, their affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.

Independent Trustees:

Correspondence intended for each Independent Trustee (that is, the Trustees other than the Interested Trustees) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Dennis J. Dirks (61)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Prior to his retirement in May 2003, Mr. Dirks was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Board member of The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and President and Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). In addition, Mr. Dirks served as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation, as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of Manhattan College (2005-2008), and as a Trustee and a member of the Finance Committee of AHRC of Nassau County (2006-2008). Currently, Mr. Dirks serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Brookville Center for Children's Services, Inc. (2009-present).

Alan J. Lacy (56)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Lacy serves as Senior Adviser (2007-present) of Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P. (private equity). Mr. Lacy also served as Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) and Vice Chairman (2005-2006) of Sears Holdings Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (retail). In addition, Mr. Lacy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (global money transfer, 2006-present) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (global pharmaceuticals, 2007-present). Mr. Lacy is Chairman (2008-present) and a member (2006-present) of the Board of Trustees of The National Parks Conservation Association.

Ned C. Lautenbach (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2000

Mr. Lautenbach is Chairman of the Independent Trustees of the Equity and High Income Funds (2006-present). Mr. Lautenbach is an Advisory Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). Previously, Mr. Lautenbach was with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. Lautenbach serves as a Director of Eaton Corporation (diversified industrial) as well as the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. Mr. Lautenbach is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University (2005-present), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Mr. Lautenbach served as a Director of Sony Corporation (2006-2007).

Joseph Mauriello (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Prior to his retirement in January 2006, Mr. Mauriello served in numerous senior management positions including Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer (2004-2005), and Vice Chairman of Financial Services (2002-2004) of KPMG LLP US (professional services, 1965-2005). Mr. Mauriello currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of XL Capital Ltd. (global insurance and re-insurance, 2006-present) and of Arcadia Resources Inc. (health care services and products, 2007-present). Previously, Mr. Mauriello served as a Director of the Hamilton Funds of the Bank of New York (2006-2007).

Cornelia M. Small (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Ms. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation (2009-present). Ms. Small is also a member of the Investment Committee, and Chair (2008-present) and a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small serves on the Investment Committee of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (2008-present). Previously, Ms. Small served as Chairperson of the Investment Committee (2002-2008) of Smith College. In addition, Ms. Small served as Chief Investment Officer, Director of Global Equity Investments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Scudder Kemper Investments.

William S. Stavropoulos (70)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2001

Mr. Stavropoulos serves as President and Founder of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, the Great Lakes Loons (2007-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Dow Chemical Company, where he previously served in numerous senior management positions, including President, CEO (1995-2000; 2002-2004), Chairman of the Executive Committee (2000-2006), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1990-2006). Currently, Mr. Stavropoulos is a Director of Teradata Corporation (data warehousing and technology solutions, 2008-present), Chemical Financial Corporation, Maersk Inc. (industrial conglomerate), Tyco International, Inc. (multinational manufacturing and services, 2007-present), and a member of the Advisory Board for Metalmark Capital (private equity investment, 2005-present). Mr. Stavropoulos is a special advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (private equity investment). In addition, Mr. Stavropoulos is a member of the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Science.

David M. Thomas (60)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Executive Chairman (2005-2006) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005) of IMS Health, Inc. (pharmaceutical and healthcare information solutions). In addition, Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands, Inc. (consumer products), and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (marketing communication, 2004-present).

Michael E. Wiley (59)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (international oil and gas exploration and production, 2008-present), and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa (2000-2006; 2007-present). Mr. Wiley serves as a Director of Tesoro Corporation (independent oil refiner and marketer, 2005-present), and a Director of Bill Barrett Corporation (exploration and production, 2005-present). In addition, Mr. Wiley also serves as a Director of Post Oak Bank (privately-held bank, 2004-present). Previously, Mr. Wiley served as a Sr. Energy Advisor of Katzenbach Partners, LLC (consulting, 2006-2007), as an Advisory Director of Riverstone Holdings (private investment), Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, Inc. (oilfield services, 2000-2004), and as Director of Spinnaker Exploration Company (exploration and production, 2001-2005).

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Advisory Board Member and Executive Officers:

Correspondence intended for each executive officer and Peter S. Lynch may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.

Name, Age; Principal Occupation

Peter S. Lynch (65)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Lynch is Vice Chairman and a Director of FMR and FMR Co., Inc. In addition, Mr. Lynch serves as a Trustee of Boston College and as the Chairman of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Previously, Mr. Lynch served on the Special Olympics International Board of Directors (1997-2006).

Kenneth B. Robins (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

President and Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Robins also serves as Assistant Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2009-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2004-present). Before joining Fidelity Investments, Mr. Robins worked at KPMG LLP, where he was a partner in KPMG's department of professional practice (2002-2004).

Bruce T. Herring (44)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2006

Vice President of certain Equity Funds. Mr. Herring also serves as Group Chief Investments Officer of FMR. Previously, Mr. Herring served as a portfolio manager for Fidelity U.S. Equity Funds.

Brian B. Hogan (45)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Vice President of certain Equity Funds and Vice President of Sector Funds. Mr. Hogan also serves as Senior Vice President, Equity Research of FMR (2006-present) and President of FMR's Equity Division (2009-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as a portfolio manager.

Scott C. Goebel (41)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Goebel also serves as General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of FMR (2008-present) and FMR Co., Inc. (2008-present); Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present) and Assistant Secretary of Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2008-present), and Fidelity Research and Analysis Company (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Goebel served as Assistant Secretary of the Funds (2007-2008) and as Vice President and Secretary of Fidelity Distributors Corporation (FDC) (2005-2007).

William C. Coffey (40)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Secretary of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Coffey also serves as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (2005-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Holly C. Laurent (55)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Laurent is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Ms. Laurent was Senior Vice President and Head of Legal for Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008), and Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Group Head for FMR LLC (2005-2006).

Christine Reynolds (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds. Ms. Reynolds became President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) in August 2008. Ms. Reynolds served as Chief Operating Officer of FPCMS (2007-2008). Previously, Ms. Reynolds served as President, Treasurer, and Anti-Money Laundering officer of the Fidelity funds (2004-2007).

Kenneth A. Rathgeber (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2004

Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Rathgeber is Chief Compliance Officer of Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (2008-present), Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc. (2008-present), FMR (2005-present), FMR Co., Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc. (2005-present), Fidelity Research & Analysis Company (2005-present), Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (2005-present), Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (2005-present), and Strategic Advisers, Inc. (2005-present).

Jeffrey S. Christian (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Christian is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Christian served as Chief Financial Officer (2008-2009) of certain Fidelity funds, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (2004-2009), and as Vice President of Business Analysis (2003-2004).

Bryan A. Mehrmann (48)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Deputy Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Mehrmann is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Mehrmann served as Vice President of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Group (FIIS)/Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC) Client Services (1998-2004).

Adrien E. Deberghes (42)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2008

Deputy Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Deberghes is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Deberghes served as Senior Vice President of Mutual Fund Administration at State Street Corporation (2007-2008), Senior Director of Mutual Fund Administration at Investors Bank & Trust (2005-2007), and Director of Finance for Dunkin' Brands (2000-2005).

John R. Hebble (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2009

Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity's Equity and High Income Funds. Mr. Hebble also serves as President and Treasurer of other Fidelity funds (2008-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.

Paul M. Murphy (62)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2007

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Murphy is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Murphy served as Chief Financial Officer of the Fidelity funds (2005-2006), Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR (2007), and Senior Vice President of Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1994-2007).

Gary W. Ryan (51)

 

Year of Election or Appointment: 2005

Assistant Treasurer of the Fidelity funds. Mr. Ryan is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Vice President of Fund Reporting in Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services (FPCMS) (1999-2005).

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Distributions (Unaudited)

Initial Class, Service Class, Service Class 2, and Investor Class designates 100% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year as qualifying for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees

VIP Value Leaders Portfolio

Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract and sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information throughout the year.

The Board meets regularly and, acting directly and through its separate committees, requests and receives information concerning, and considers at each of its meetings factors that are relevant to, its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established various standing committees, each composed of Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. Each committee has a written charter outlining the structure and purposes of the committee. The Board also meets as needed to consider matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of Advisory Contracts.

At its July 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services to be provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness of the fund's management fee and total expenses; (iii) the total costs of the services to be provided by and the profits to be realized by Fidelity from its relationship with the fund; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale would be realized as the fund grows; and (v) whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale, if any, for the benefit of fund shareholders.

In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board ultimately reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts and the compensation to be received by Fidelity under the management contract is consistent with Fidelity's fiduciary duty under applicable law. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor noted above, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, is aware that shareholders in the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among mutual funds offered by competitors to Fidelity, and that the fund's shareholders, with the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, managed by Fidelity.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered staffing within the investment adviser, FMR, and the sub-advisers (together, the Investment Advisers), including the backgrounds of the fund's investment personnel and the fund's investment objective and discipline. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the portfolio manager compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives.

Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the size, education, and experience of the Investment Advisers' investment staff, their use of technology, and the Investment Advisers' approach to recruiting, training, and retaining portfolio managers and other research, advisory, and management personnel. In response to last year's financial crisis, FMR took a number of actions intended to cut costs and improve efficiency without weakening the investment teams or resources. The Board noted that Fidelity's analysts have access to a variety of technological tools and market and securities data that enable them to perform both fundamental and quantitative analysis and to specialize in various disciplines. The Board considered Fidelity's extensive global research capabilities that enable the Investment Advisers to aggregate data from various sources in an effort to produce positive investment results. The Board also considered that Fidelity's portfolio managers and analysts have access to daily portfolio attribution that allows for monitoring of a fund's portfolio, as well as an electronic communication system that provides immediate real-time access to research concerning issuers and credit enhancers.

Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, distribution, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the Investment Advisers' supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians and subcustodians; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures. The Board also reviewed the allocation of fund brokerage, including allocations to brokers affiliated with the Investment Advisers, the use of brokerage commissions to pay fund expenses, and the use of "soft" commission dollars to pay for research services.

The Board noted that the growth of fund assets across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value or convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information through phone representatives and over the Internet, and investor education materials and asset allocation tools.

Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing for a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity has taken a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including (i) dedicating additional resources to investment research and to restructure and broaden the focus of the investment research teams; (ii) bolstering the senior management team that oversees asset management; (iii) contractually agreeing to reduce the management fee on Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund; and (iv) expanding Class A and Class T load waiver categories to increase rollover retention opportunities and create consistent policies across the classes.

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Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated within its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. It also reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance for each class, as well as the fund's relative investment performance for each class measured against (i) a broad-based securities market index, and (ii) a peer group of mutual funds deemed appropriate by the Board over multiple periods. The following charts considered by the Board show, over the one-, three-, and five-year periods ended December 31, 2008, the cumulative total returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 of the fund, the cumulative total returns of a broad-based securities market index ("benchmark"), and a range of cumulative total returns of a peer group of mutual funds identified by Morningstar, Inc. as having an investment style similar to that of the fund based on underlying portfolio holdings. The returns of Initial Class and Service Class 2 show the performance of the highest and lowest performing classes, respectively (based on five-year performance). The box within each chart shows the 25th percentile return (bottom of box) and the 75th percentile return (top of box) of the peer group. Returns shown above the box are in the first quartile and returns shown below the box are in the fourth quartile. The percentage beaten numbers noted below each chart correspond to the percentile box and represent the percentage of funds in the peer group whose performance was equal to or lower than that of the class indicated.

VIP Value Leaders Portfolio


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The Board reviewed the fund's relative investment performance against its peer group and stated that the performance of Initial Class of the fund was in the fourth quartile for all the periods shown. The Board also stated that the investment performance of the fund was lower than its benchmark for all the periods shown. The Board considered that the variations in performance among the fund's classes reflect the variations in class expenses, which result in lower performance for higher expense classes. The Board discussed with FMR actions that have been taken by FMR to improve the fund's disappointing performance relative to its peer group and benchmark. The Board will continue to closely monitor the performance of the fund in the coming year and discuss with FMR other appropriate actions to address the performance of the fund.

The Board considered that FMR has taken steps to refocus and strengthen equity research, equity portfolio management, and compliance. The Board reviewed the year-to-date performance of Initial Class through May 31, 2009 and stated that it exceeded the fund's benchmark.

Based on its review, and giving particular weight to the nature and quality of the resources dedicated by the Investment Advisers to maintain and improve relative performance and factoring in the unprecedented market events in 2008, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund will benefit the fund's shareholders, particularly in light of the Board's view that the fund's shareholders benefit from investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and services.

Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Fund Expenses. The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expenses compared to "mapped groups" of competitive funds and classes. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar Lipper investment objective categories that have comparable management fee characteristics. Combining Lipper investment objective categories aids the Board's management fee and total expense comparisons by broadening the competitive group used for comparison and by reducing the number of universes to which various Fidelity funds are compared.

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Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees - continued

The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group." The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to the total universe of comparable funds available to investors, in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps. "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a TMG % of 9% means that 91% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher management fees than the fund. The "Asset-Size Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to non-Fidelity funds similar in size to the fund within the Total Mapped Group. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee characteristics, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee ranked, is also included in the chart and considered by the Board.

VIP Value Leaders Portfolio


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The Board noted that the fund's management fee ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2008.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee was fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.

In its review of each class's total expenses, the Board considered the fund's management fee as well as other fund or class expenses, as applicable, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, fund-paid 12b-1 fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted the effects of any waivers and reimbursements on fees and expenses. As part of its review, the Board also considered current and historical total expenses of each class of the fund compared to competitive fund median expenses. Each class of the fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure.

The Board noted that the total expenses of each of Initial Class, Investor Class, and Service Class ranked below its competitive median for 2008 and the total expenses of Service Class 2 ranked above its competitive median for 2008. The Board noted that the fund offers multiple classes, each of which has a different 12b-1 fee structure, and that the multiple structures are intended to offer a range of pricing options for the intermediary market. The Board also noted that the total expenses of the classes vary primarily by the level of their 12b-1 fees, although differences in transfer agent fees may also cause expenses to vary from class to class.

In its review of total expenses, the Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information on clients that FMR and its affiliates service in other competitive markets, such as other mutual funds advised or subadvised by FMR or its affiliates, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients.

Based on its review, the Board concluded that the total expenses of each class of the fund were reasonable, although in one case above the median of the universe presented for comparison, in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.

Costs of the Services and Profitability. The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and its shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.

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On an annual basis, FMR presents to the Board Fidelity's profitability for the fund. Fidelity calculates the profitability for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the audited books and records of Fidelity. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), independent registered public accounting firm and auditor to Fidelity and certain Fidelity funds, has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. PwC's engagement includes the review and assessment of Fidelity's methodologies used in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures surrounding the mathematical accuracy of fund profitability and its conformity to allocation methodologies. After considering PwC's reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board believes that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.

The Board has also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and any fall-out benefits related to the mutual fund business as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from or be related to the fund's business.

The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and determined that the amount of profit is a fair entrepreneurial profit for the management of the fund.

Economies of Scale. The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense reductions.

In February 2009, the Board created an Ad Hoc Committee (the "Committee") to analyze economies of scale. The Committee was formed to consider whether FMR attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.

The Board recognized that the fund's management contract incorporates a "group fee" structure, which provides for lower group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management increase, and for higher group fee rates as total fund assets under FMR's management decrease. FMR determines the group fee rates based on a tiered asset "breakpoint" schedule. The Board considered that the group fee is designed to deliver the benefits of economies of scale to fund shareholders when total fund assets increase, even if assets of any particular fund are unchanged or have declined, because some portion of Fidelity's costs are attributable to services provided to all Fidelity funds, and all funds benefit if those costs can be allocated among more assets. The Board concluded that, given the group fee structure, fund shareholders will achieve a certain level of economies of scale as assets under FMR's management increase at the fund complex level, regardless of whether Fidelity achieves any such economies of scale.

The Board concluded, considering the findings of the Committee, that any potential economies of scale are being shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity in an appropriate manner.

Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' Advisory Contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including (i) fund performance trends, actions to be taken by FMR to improve certain funds' overall performance and Fidelity's long-term strategies for certain funds; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year; (iii) Fidelity's compensation structure for portfolio managers and key personnel, including performance benchmarks used by Fidelity in evaluating incentive compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts; (iv) the structure and process of equity research and actions taken by FMR to improve the quality of research; (v) the selection of and compensation paid by FMR to fund sub-advisers; (vi) Fidelity's fee structures and rationale for recommending different fees among categories of funds; (vii) the rationale for any differences between fund fee structures and fee structures in place for other Fidelity clients; (viii) Fidelity's rationale for recommending which funds should have a performance adjustment component as part of their management fees; and (ix) explanations for the relative total expenses borne by certain funds and classes, total expense competitive trends, and actions that might be taken by FMR to reduce total expenses for certain funds and classes.

Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all material factors, the Board ultimately concluded that the advisory fee structures are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.

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Investment Adviser

Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA

Investment Sub-Advisers

FMR Co., Inc.

Fidelity Management & Research (U.K.) Inc.

Fidelity Research & Analysis Company

FIL Investments (Japan) Limited

FIL Investment Advisors

FIL Investment Advisors (U.K.) Ltd.

Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited

Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Inc.

General Distributor

Fidelity Distributors Corporation
Boston, MA

Transfer and Service Agents

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Fidelity Service Company, Inc.
Boston, MA 

Custodian

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Boston, MA

VVL-ANN-0210
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Item 2. Code of Ethics

As of the end of the period, December 31, 2009, Variable Insurance Products Fund IV (the trust) has adopted a code of ethics, as defined in Item 2 of Form N-CSR, that applies to its President and Treasurer and its Chief Financial Officer. A copy of the code of ethics is filed as an exhibit to this Form N-CSR.

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert

The Board of Trustees of the trust has determined that Joseph Mauriello is an audit committee financial expert, as defined in Item 3 of Form N-CSR.   Mr. Mauriello is independent for purposes of Item 3 of Form N-CSR.  

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Fees and Services

The following table presents fees billed by Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates (collectively, "Deloitte Entities") in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to Emerging Markets Portfolio (the "Fund"):

Services Billed by Deloitte Entities

December 31, 2009 FeesA

 

Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Emerging Markets Portfolio

$47,000

$-

$5,600

$-

December 31, 2008 FeesA,B

 

Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Emerging Markets Portfolio

$40,000

$-

$5,700

$-

A Amounts may reflect rounding.

B Emerging Markets Portfolio commenced operations on January 23, 2008.

The following table presents fees billed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PwC") in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to Consumer Discretionary Portfolio, Consumer Staples Portfolio, Energy Portfolio, Financial Services Portfolio, Growth Stock Portfolio, Health Care Portfolio, Industrials Portfolio, International Capital Appreciation Portfolio, Materials Portfolio, Real Estate Portfolio, Technology Portfolio, Telecommunications Portfolio, Utilities Portfolio, and Value Leaders Portfolio (the "Funds"):

Services Billed by PwC

December 31, 2009 FeesA

 

Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Consumer Discretionary Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,400

Consumer Staples Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

Energy Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,700

Financial Services Portfolio

$37,000

$-

$3,400

$1,500

Growth Stock Portfolio

$43,000

$-

$3,000

$1,500

Health Care Portfolio

$38,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

Industrials Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

International Capital Appreciation Portfolio

$45,000

$-

$4,900

$1,500

Materials Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

Real Estate Portfolio

$43,000

$-

$3,400

$1,500

Technology Portfolio

$35,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

Telecommunications Portfolio

$36,000

$-

$2,400

$1,400

Utilities Portfolio

$35,000

$-

$2,400

$1,500

Value Leaders Portfolio

$42,000

$-

$4,000

$1,500

December 31, 2008 FeesA

 

Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Consumer Discretionary Portfolio

$35,000

$-

$4,500

$1,500

Consumer Staples Portfolio

$29,000

$-

$3,100

$1,500

Energy Portfolio

$35,000

$-

$4,500

$2,000

Financial Services Portfolio

$35,000

$-

$5,900

$1,500

Growth Stock Portfolio

$41,000

$-

$4,700

$1,500

Health Care Portfolio

$37,000

$-

$4,500

$1,500

Industrials Portfolio

$33,000

$-

$4,500

$1,500

International Capital Appreciation Portfolio

$43,000

$-

$5,100

$1,500

Materials Portfolio

$29,000

$-

$3,100

$1,500

Real Estate Portfolio

$42,000

$-

$5,500

$1,500

Technology Portfolio

$34,000

$-

$4,500

$1,500

Telecommunications Portfolio

$29,000

$-

$3,100

$1,500

Utilities Portfolio

$34,000

$-

$4,500

$1,500

Value Leaders Portfolio

$39,000

$-

$6,100

$1,500

A Amounts may reflect rounding.

The following table presents fees billed by PwC and Deloitte Entities that were required to be approved by the Audit Committee for services that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Funds and that are rendered on behalf of Fidelity Management & Research Company ("FMR") and entities controlling, controlled by, or under common control with FMR (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser) that provide ongoing services to the Funds ("Fund Service Providers"):

Services Billed by Deloitte Entities

 

December 31, 2009A

December 31, 2008A,C

Audit-Related Fees

$725,000

$815,000

Tax Fees

$-

$2,000

All Other Fees

$515,000

$225,000B

A Amounts may reflect rounding.

B Reflects current period presentation.

C May include amounts billed prior to Emerging Market Portfolio's commencement of operations.

Services Billed by PwC

 

December 31, 2009A

December 31, 2008A

Audit-Related Fees

$2,655,000

$2,530,000B

Tax Fees

$-

$2,000

All Other Fees

$-

$- B

A Amounts may reflect rounding.

B Reflects current period presentation.

"Audit-Related Fees" represent fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the fund audit or the review of the fund's financial statements and that are not reported under Audit Fees.

"Tax Fees" represent fees billed for tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the fund.

"All Other Fees" represent fees billed for assurance services provided to the fund or Fund Service Provider that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the fund, excluding those services that are reported under Audit Fees, Audit-Related Fees or Tax Fees.

Assurance services must be performed by an independent public accountant.

* * *

The aggregate non-audit fees billed by PwC and Deloitte Entities for services rendered to the Funds, FMR (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any Fund Service Provider for each of the last two fiscal years of the Funds are as follows:

Billed By

December 31, 2009 A

December 31, 2008 A,B

PwC

$4,600,000

$3,170,000

Deloitte Entities

$1,245,000

$1,260,000C

A Amounts may reflect rounding.

B Reflects current period presentation.

C May include amounts billed prior to Emerging Market Portfolio's commencement of operations.

The trust's Audit Committee has considered non-audit services that were not pre-approved that were provided by PwC and Deloitte Entities to Fund Service Providers to be compatible with maintaining the independence of PwC and Deloitte Entities in their audits of the Funds, taking into account representations from PwC and Deloitte Entities, in accordance with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board rules, regarding their independence from the Funds and their related entities and FMR's review of the appropriateness and permissibility under applicable law of such non-audit services prior to their provision to the Fund Service Providers.

Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

The trust's Audit Committee must pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided by a fund's independent registered public accounting firm relating to the operations or financial reporting of the fund. Prior to the commencement of any audit or non-audit services to a fund, the Audit Committee reviews the services to determine whether they are appropriate and permissible under applicable law.

The Audit Committee has adopted policies and procedures to, among other purposes, provide a framework for the Committee's consideration of non-audit services by the audit firms that audit the Fidelity funds. The policies and procedures require that any non-audit service provided by a fund audit firm to a Fidelity fund and any non-audit service provided by a fund auditor to a Fund Service Provider that relates directly to the operations and financial reporting of a Fidelity fund ("Covered Service") are subject to approval by the Audit Committee before such service is provided.

All Covered Services must be approved in advance of provision of the service either: (i) by formal resolution of the Audit Committee, or (ii) by oral or written approval of the service by the Chair of the Audit Committee (or if the Chair is unavailable, such other member of the Audit Committee as may be designated by the Chair to act in the Chair's absence). The approval contemplated by (ii) above is permitted where the Treasurer determines that action on such an engagement is necessary before the next meeting of the Audit Committee.

Non-audit services provided by a fund audit firm to a Fund Service Provider that do not relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of a Fidelity fund are reported to the Audit Committee on a periodic basis.

Non-Audit Services Approved Pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) and (ii) of Regulation S-X ("De Minimis Exception")

There were no non-audit services approved or required to be approved by the Audit Committee pursuant to the De Minimis Exception during the Funds' last two fiscal years relating to services provided to (i) the Funds or (ii) any Fund Service Provider that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Funds.

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants

Not applicable.

Item 6. Investments

(a) Not applicable.

(b) Not applicable

Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies

Not applicable.

Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies

Not applicable.

Item 9. Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers

Not applicable.

Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

There were no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the trust's Board of Trustees.

Item 11. Controls and Procedures

(a)(i) The President and Treasurer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the trust's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act) provide reasonable assurances that material information relating to the trust is made known to them by the appropriate persons, based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.

(a)(ii) There was no change in the trust's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the trust's internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12. Exhibits

(a)

(1)

Code of Ethics pursuant to Item 2 of Form N-CSR is filed and attached hereto as EX-99.CODE ETH.

(a)

(2)

Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) is filed and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.CERT.

(a)

(3)

Not applicable.

(b)

 

Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)) is furnished and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.906CERT.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Variable Insurance Products Fund IV

By:

/s/Kenneth B. Robins

 

Kenneth B. Robins

 

President and Treasurer

 

 

Date:

February 26, 2010

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By:

/s/Kenneth B. Robins

 

Kenneth B. Robins

 

President and Treasurer

 

 

Date:

February 26, 2010

By:

/s/Christine Reynolds

 

Christine Reynolds

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Date:

February 26, 2010