Archive for November, 2008

2008 November

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Fixed  Income Large
Cap Value
Large
Cap Growth
Foreign Small
Company
Portfolio
             
Morningstar
Averages for the Universe
n/a -37.69% -42.34% -46.69% -38.21% n/a
             
Stable
Value Option
4.18%          
Wellington
Core
-5.53%          
PRIMCO
GIC
4.23%          
CDs 3.20%          
Dreyfus Government Money Market Index 2.79%          
             
Benchmark            
LB
1-3 yr. Govt./Treas.
5.55%          
             
Equity
Index Option (BGI – US Equity Index)
    -38.50%      
             
Benchmark            
Russell
3000
    -38.48%      
             
Value
Stock Option
  -43.95%        
Morgan
Value (separately managed)
  -41.14%        
CGM Focus   -49.32%        
Goldman Sachs Mid Value Instl.   -38.22%        
Neuberger
Berman Partners
  -53.91%        
T.
Rowe Price Value
  -40.68%        
BGI
– Value Index
  -37.74%        
             
Benchmark            
Russell
Price Driven (1000 Value)
  -37.71%        
             
Growth
Stock Option
    -41.24%      
Turner
Mid Cap Growth
    -49.19%      
Marsico
Focus
    -41.47%      
Wellington
Mid Cap Opportunities
    -38.29%      
Primecap Odyssey Growth     -37.66%      
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock     -43.95%      
BGI
– Growth Index
    -39.64%      
             
Benchmark            
Russell
Earnings Growth (1000 Growth)
    -39.53%      
             
International
Stock Option
      -52.10%    
Amer
Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Discovery
      -55.25%    
Amer
Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Growth
      -48.01%    
Templeton
Instl. Foreign
      -46.00%    
Oppenheimer Intl Sm Co A       -68.24%    
Thornburg Intl Value R5       -43.29%    
Marsico Intl Opp       -54.47%    
Dimensional Emerging Markets Value       -58.95%    
Royce International Value       -44.91%    
BGI
Eafe Index
      -46.53%    
             
Benchmark            
MSCI
EAFE Net Divs
      -46.59%    
             
Diversified
Small Company Stock Option
        -40.29%  
Royce
Opportunity
        -48.28%  
Dimensional
U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio
        -40.11%  
Third Avenue Sm Cap Instl.         -38.47%  
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index         -43.19%  
Brown Capital Mgmt. Small. Co. Instl.         -34.57%  
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl         -32.28%  
BGI
– Small Company Index
        -37.44%  
             
Benchmark            
Russell
2000 Total
        -37.42%  
             
Conservative
Model Portfolio
          -16.01%
             
Benchmark            
Conservative
Composite Index
          -11.91%
             
Moderate
Model Portfolio
          -28.46%
             
Benchmark            
Moderate
Composite Index
          -23.82%
             
Aggressive
Model Portfolio
          -34.71%
             
Benchmark            
Aggressive
Composite Index
          -30.72%

November 2008

Friday, November 21st, 2008
Day Stable Value Value Stock Equity Index Growth Stock Intl. Stock Div. Small Co. Stock Conserv. Portfolio Moderate Portfolio Aggressive Portfolio Retirement Portfolio
03 238.83 323.98 279.92 238.98 249.31 328.17 266.37 288.35 285.92
04 238.85 338.23 290.41 247.27 264.99 333.67 270.89 295.85 294.62
05 238.88 319.74 275.15 235.24 252.90 318.41 264.74 285.95 282.85
06 238.91 301.89 261.79 224.10 238.35 304.71 259.08 276.42 271.46
07 238.98 310.85 269.03 229.32 246.83 308.42 262.09 281.12 276.85
10 239.01 304.96 265.03 226.59 245.37 302.41 260.31 278.50 273.65
11 239.03 295.15 259.11 221.57 236.28 295.52 257.49 273.61 267.73
12 239.06 278.24 245.37 210.59 224.25 278.64 251.92 264.21 256.30
13 239.08 298.58 262.92 223.69 238.52 298.14 258.86 275.58 270.02
14 239.16 285.71 251.09 214.31 227.94 280.58 254.38 267.46 259.84
17 239.19 277.43 245.17 209.82 224.36 277.02 251.83 263.85 255.79
18 239.21 277.97 247.08 210.32 222.77 273.48 252.31 263.81 255.33
19 239.24 258.31 231.43 197.63 210.16 254.59 245.66 252.95 242.49
20 239.26 237.62 215.59 185.65 200.16 238.06 238.77 242.62 230.54
21 239.34 253.13 228.94 194.29 210.77 248.18 244.32 250.75 239.83
24 239.36 272.74 244.21 205.71 221.78 265.11 251.42 261.36 252.37
25 239.39 276.61 246.11 207.41 225.01 268.57 252.59 263.32 254.77
26 Market Closed – Holiday
27 239.44 288.95 255.84 215.56 227.81 284.44 256.92 270.19 263.12
28 239.52 293.03 258.32 216.80 230.77 286.54 258.24 272.04 265.27
November Fund Performance (in percentages)
0.32% -9.60% -7.90% -9.81% -6.59% -12.15% -3.09% -5.62% -7.09%

Fidelity Window Fund News – Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Portfolio Manager Appointment

Fidelity is announcing the appointment of Nicholas Price as co-manager of Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund with existing manager Kenichi Mizushita, effective October 21, 2008. He will become sole manager on or about December 30, 2008. Price joined Fidelity in 1993, and since 1999, he has been managing funds investing in Japanese equities available exclusively to non-US investors.

Performance Benchmark Change

Effective on or about December 30, 2008, Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund will change its benchmark from the Russell/Nomura Small Cap IndexTM to the Russell/Nomura Mid-Small Cap IndexTM. The new benchmark includes a broader universe of securities, representing approximately the bottom 50% of investable Japanese securities by market capitalization.  It is also one of the two indexes used to define the fund’s investment universe.

Fund Reopening

Also effective on or about December 30, 2008, the fund will reopen to new plans. It has been closed to new plans since February 2006.

Please click here for a fact sheet on this fund.