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Target Volatility Portfolio
Fund Summary

Fund/Class:
VIP Target Volatility Portfolio
/Service Class, Service Class 2
Investment Objective
The fund seeks total return.
Fee Table
The following table describes the fees and expenses that may be incurred, directly or indirectly, when you, as a variable product owner, buy and hold interests in a separate account that invests in shares of the fund. The table does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product; if it did, overall fees and expenses would be higher.
Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees Target Volatility Portfolio (USD $)
Service Class
Service Class 2
Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)      
Annual class operating expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Annual Class Operating Expenses Target Volatility Portfolio
Service Class
Service Class 2
Management fee 0.30% 0.30%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) fees 0.10% 0.25%
Other expenses [1] 0.06% 0.06%
Acquired fund fees and expenses [1] 0.44% 0.44%
Total annual operating expenses 0.90% 1.05%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement [2] 0.15% 0.15%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement 0.75% 0.90%
[1] Based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] Strategic Advisers, Inc. (Strategic Advisers) has contractually agreed to waive 0.05% of the fund's management fee. This arrangement will remain in effect through April 30, 2014. In addition, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) has contractually agreed to reimburse 0.10% of class-level expenses for Service Class and Service Class 2. This arrangement will remain in effect for at least one year from the effective date of the prospectus, and will remain in effect thereafter as long as Service Class and Service Class 2 continue to be sold to unaffiliated insurance companies. If Service Class and Service Class 2 are no longer sold to unaffiliated insurance companies, FMR, in its sole discretion, may discontinue the arrangement.
This example helps compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

Let's say, hypothetically, that the annual return for shares of the fund is 5% and that the fees and the annual operating expenses for shares of the fund are exactly as described in the fee table. This example illustrates the effect of fees and expenses, but is not meant to suggest actual or expected fees and expenses or returns, all of which may vary. This example does not include any fees or other expenses of any variable annuity or variable life insurance product; if it did, overall expenses would be higher. For every $10,000 invested, here's how much you, as a variable product owner, would pay in total expenses if all interests in a separate account that invests in shares of the fund were redeemed at the end of each time period indicated:
Expense Example Target Volatility Portfolio (USD $)
Service Class
Service Class 2
1 year 77 92
3 years 269 316
Portfolio Turnover
The fund will not incur transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying Fidelity funds, but it may incur transaction costs when it buys and sells other types of securities (including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and futures) directly (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund's performance.
Principal Investment Strategies
  • Seeking to maintain a target portfolio volatility of 10% over a one-year period. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down fluctuations in the value of a financial instrument or index over time. While attempts are made to manage the fund's volatility, there can be no guarantee that the fund will maintain its target volatility.
  • Normally investing in a combination of underlying Fidelity funds, ETFs, and futures.
  • Potentially investing up to 30% of total assets in index futures.
  • Managing underlying holdings to achieve portfolio characteristics similar to the VIP Target Volatility Composite Index over the long-term, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the asset classes in which the fund intends to invest, based on combinations of the following unmanaged indexes: Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market IndexSM (equities); MSCI® EAFE® Index (international equities); Barclays® U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (bonds); and Barclays® U.S. 3 Month Treasury Bellwether Index (short-term investments).
  • Using proprietary fundamental and quantitative fund research, considering factors including fund performance, a fund manager's experience and investment style, and fund characteristics such as expense ratio, asset size, and portfolio turnover to select underlying funds.
Principal Investment Risks
  • Investing in Other Funds. The fund bears all risks of investment strategies employed by the underlying funds, including the risk that the underlying funds will not meet their investment objectives.
  • Investing for Volatility Management. There can be no guarantee that the fund will maintain its target volatility level. Furthermore, while the fund's volatility forecasting model seeks competitive returns with more consistent volatility of returns, the attainment and maintenance of the target volatility level does not ensure that the fund will deliver competitive returns. Volatility may result in rapid and dramatic price swings.
  • Using Derivatives to Manage Volatility. The fund's use of derivatives may reduce its returns and/or increase volatility. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down fluctuations in the value of a financial instrument or index over time. A risk of the fund's use of derivatives is that the fluctuations in their values may not correlate perfectly with the overall securities markets. The possible lack of a liquid secondary market for derivatives and the resulting inability of the fund to sell or otherwise close a derivatives position could expose the fund to losses and could make derivatives more difficult for the fund to value accurately. Derivatives may give rise to a form of leverage and may expose the fund to greater risk and increase its costs. Recent legislation calls for new regulation of the derivatives markets. The extent and impact of the regulation is not yet known and may not be known for some time. New regulation may make derivatives more costly, may limit the availability of derivatives, or may otherwise adversely affect the value or performance of derivatives.
  • Stock Market Volatility. Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments. Different parts of the market and different types of securities can react differently to these developments.
  • Interest Rate Changes. Interest rate increases can cause the price of a debt or money market security to decrease.
  • Foreign Exposure. Foreign markets, particularly emerging markets, can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and can perform differently from the U.S. market. Emerging markets can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile. Foreign exchange rates also can be extremely volatile.
  • Geographic Exposure. Social, political, and economic conditions and changes in regulatory, tax, or economic policy in a country or region could significantly affect the market in that country or region.
  • Industry Exposure. Market conditions, interest rates, and economic, regulatory, or financial developments could significantly affect a single industry or group of related industries.
  • Prepayment. The ability of an issuer of a debt security to repay principal prior to a security's maturity can cause greater price volatility if interest rates change.
  • Issuer-Specific Changes. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than, and can perform differently from, the market as a whole. A decline in the credit quality of an issuer or a provider of credit support or a maturity-shortening structure for a security can cause the price of a security to decrease. Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities) and certain types of other securities involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the credit quality of the issuer. The value of lower-quality debt securities and certain types of other securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.
  • Counterparty Risk. The counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations.
  • Leverage Risk. Leverage can increase market exposure, magnify investment risks, and cause losses to be realized more quickly.
  • Investing in ETFs. ETFs may trade in the secondary market at prices below the value of their underlying portfolios and may not be liquid. ETFs that track an index are subject to tracking error and may be unable to sell poorly performing assets that are included in their index or other benchmark.
  • Commodity-Linked Investing. Commodity-linked investments may be more volatile and less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures and their value may be affected by the performance of the overall commodities markets as well as weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market developments.
  • High Portfolio Turnover. High portfolio turnover (more than 100%) may result in increased transaction costs and potentially higher capital gains or losses. The effects of higher than normal portfolio turnover may adversely affect the fund's performance.
You could lose money by investing in the fund.
Performance
Performance history will be available for the fund after the fund has been in operation for one calendar year.