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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 Index^TM to the Russell/Nomura Mid-Small Cap Index^TM. 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.

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2008 October

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

	Fixed Income	Large Cap Value	Large Cap Growth	Foreign	Small Company	Portfolio

Morningstar Averages for the Universe	n/a	-32.76%	-36.73%	-43.70%	-31.03%	n/a

Stable Value Option	3.85%
Wellington Core	-6.65%
PRIMCO GIC	3.87%
CDs	2.92%
Dreyfus Government Money Market Index	2.60%

Benchmark
LB 1-3 yr. Govt./Treas.	4.30%

Equity Index Option (BGI – US Equity Index)			-33.22%

Benchmark
Russell 3000			-33.21%

Value Stock Option		-37.99%
Morgan Value (separately managed)		-35.96%
CGM Focus		-42.03%
Goldman Sachs Mid Value Instl.		-33.67%
Neuberger Berman Partners		-47.12%
T. Rowe Price Value		-34.33%
BGI – Value Index		-32.96%

Benchmark
Russell Price Driven (1000 Value)		-32.90%

Growth Stock Option			-34.85%
Turner Mid Cap Growth			-42.86%
Marsico Focus			-34.02%
Wellington Mid Cap Opportunities			-31.93%
Primecap Odyssey Growth			-30.55%
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock			-38.56%
BGI – Growth Index			-34.36%

Benchmark
Russell Earnings Growth (1000 Growth)			-34.31%

International Stock Option				-48.72%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Discovery				-52.25%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Growth				-44.74%
Templeton Instl. Foreign				-42.75%
Oppenheimer Intl Sm Co A				-65.38%
Thornburg Intl Value R5				-41.20%
Marsico Intl Opp				-50.42%
Dimensional Emerging Markets Value				-55.65%
Royce International Value				-39.91%
BGI Eafe Index				-42.76%

Benchmark
MSCI EAFE Net Divs				-43.54%

Diversified Small Company Stock Option					-32.04%
Royce Opportunity					-36.48%
Dimensional U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio					-31.29%
Third Avenue Sm Cap Instl.					-29.76%
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index					-37.40%
Brown Capital Mgmt. Small. Co. Instl.					-29.14%
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl					-26.37%
BGI – Small Company Index					-29.06%

Benchmark
Russell 2000 Total					-29.02%

Conservative Model Portfolio						-13.33%

Benchmark
Conservative Composite Index						-10.64%

Moderate Model Portfolio						-24.20%

Benchmark
Moderate Composite Index						-20.81%

Aggressive Model Portfolio						-29.73%

Benchmark
Aggressive Composite Index						-26.54%

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October 2008

Tuesday, October 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
01	237.95	410.82	338.94	287.20	322.82	411.96	287.26	329.17	337.80	–
02	237.97	390.81	324.24	273.17	307.63	392.31	282.12	319.23	325.17	–
03	238.05	383.30	319.08	269.15	306.05	383.65	280.30	316.11	321.15	–
06	238.08	366.23	306.30	258.22	286.31	366.15	275.88	307.02	309.35	–
07	238.10	342.09	288.74	244.99	277.10	346.88	269.49	296.88	296.95	–
08	238.13	337.18	285.49	244.48	267.68	340.45	268.27	294.21	293.28	–
09	238.15	310.05	263.73	231.14	256.63	315.55	259.99	281.75	277.99	–
10	238.23	304.11	261.63	228.66	249.89	320.98	258.72	280.01	276.30	–
13	238.26	341.32	291.78	253.38	279.01	350.13	270.20	299.46	299.85	–
14	238.28	346.11	289.11	249.03	276.80	342.41	270.48	297.93	297.61	–
15	238.31	319.64	262.77	226.85	250.18	312.61	261.43	280.90	276.78	–
16	238.34	321.04	274.22	235.54	258.57	328.46	263.80	286.77	284.35	–
17	238.42	320.22	272.69	235.22	253.54	324.04	263.44	285.46	282.41	–
20	238.44	336.67	285.47	245.16	264.84	336.16	268.42	293.66	292.17	–
21	238.47	326.64	276.69	236.74	253.34	327.56	265.23	287.48	284.71	–
22	238.50	303.80	260.09	224.52	235.65	309.92	258.57	276.30	271.16	–
23	238.53	303.98	261.42	222.30	234.57	302.45	258.86	275.34	269.56	–
24	238.61	292.69	252.45	215.33	220.52	291.36	255.47	268.76	261.34	–
27	238.64	281.89	243.86	207.91	209.13	279.18	251.96	262.26	253.39	–
28	238.67	310.07	268.86	225.90	228.96	294.94	261.72	276.82	270.46	–
29	238.70	309.90	267.71	227.73	234.36	302.43	261.48	278.30	272.89	–
30	238.72	318.27	275.53	235.32	245.84	314.26	264.47	284.52	280.71	–
31	238.75	324.15	280.49	240.38	247.05	326.16	266.47	288.23	285.50	–

October Fund Performance (in percentages)
	0.35%	-21.43%	-17.75%	-17.13%	-24.15%	-21.62%	-7.42%	-12.86%	-16.01%	–

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Manager Changes in September

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The following manager changes took place in September 2008. In the Stable Value Option, the Dreyfus Govt. Money Market Fund was replaced with the Dreyfus Cash Management Fund. The Value Stock Option was rebalanced to decrease the target allocation of JP Morgan Large Cap Value from 20 percent to 15 percent. As a result, T. Rowe Price Value was increased from a 15 percent to 20 percent allocation. A new fund, Brown Capital Mgmt. Small Co. Instl. was added to the Diversified Small Co. Stock Option. This new fund was given a 10 percent allocation in the option while iShares Morningstar Small Cap Growth Index was reduced from a 15 percent to 5 percent allocation. These recent manager changes are shown in the tables below:

	Allocation
Stable Value Option Managers	Before	Current
CD’s	5%	5%
Dreyfus Cash Management Fund	0%	10%
Dreyfus Govt. Money Market	10%	0%
Invesco Interest Income	45%	45%
Wellington Core Bonds – separately managed	40%	40%

	Allocation
Value Stock Option Managers	Before	Current
JP Morgan Large cap Value – Commingled Fund	20%	15%
Neuberger Berman Partenres (nbptx)	20%	20%
CGM Focus (cgmfx)	10%	10%
Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value Instl. (gsmcx)	15%	15%
T. Rowe Price Value (pavlx)	15%	20%
BGI Value Index – separately managed	20%	20%

	Allocation
Diversified Small Co. Stock Option Managers	Before	Current
Royce Opportunity (rypnx)	15%	15%
Dimensional US Micro Cap Portfolio (dfscx)	15%	15%
Third Avenue Small Cap Value (tascx)	15%	15%
Brown Capital Mgmt. Small Co. Instl.	0%	10%
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl. (mpscx)	10%	10%
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index (jkk)	15%	5%
BGI Small Company Index – separately managed	30%	30%

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2008 September

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

	Fixed Income	Large Cap Value	Large Cap Growth	Foreign	Small Company	Portfolio

Morningstar Averages for the Universe	n/a	-19.25%	-23.13%	-28.55%	-13.42%	n/a

Stable Value Option	3.49%
Wellington Core	-2.94%
PRIMCO GIC	3.51%
CDs	2.62%
Dreyfus Government Money Market Index	2.36%

Benchmark
LB 1-3 yr. Govt./Treas.	3.52%

Equity Index Option (BGI – US Equity Index)			-18.80%

Benchmark
Russell 3000			-18.81%

Value Stock Option		-21.08%
Morgan Value (separately managed)		-23.29%
CGM Focus		-17.34%
Goldman Sachs Mid Value Instl.		-16.72%
Neuberger Berman Partners		-28.62%
T. Rowe Price Value		-17.75%
BGI – Value Index		-18.93%

Benchmark
Russell Price Driven (1000 Value)		-18.85%

Growth Stock Option			-21.39%
Turner Mid Cap Growth			-27.98%
Marsico Focus			-22.76%
Wellington Mid Cap Opportunities			-16.06%
Primecap Odyssey Growth			-17.03%
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock			-24.55%
BGI – Growth Index			-20.32%

Benchmark
Russell Earnings Growth (1000 Growth)			-20.27%

International Stock Option				-32.40%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Discovery				-35.52%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Growth				-29.54%
Templeton Instl. Foreign				-27.54%
Oppenheimer Intl Sm Co A				-50.28%
Thornburg Intl Value R5				-27.64%
Marsico Intl Opp				-31.76%
Dimensional Emerging Markets Value				-35.57%
Royce International Value				-17.68%
BGI Eafe Index				-27.93%

Benchmark
MSCI EAFE Net Divs				-29.26%

Diversified Small Company Stock Option					-13.29%
Royce Opportunity					-14.79%
Dimensional U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio					-13.34%
Third Avenue Sm Cap Instl.					-8.24%
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index					-18.53%
Brown Capital Mgmt. Small. Co. Instl.					-9.12%
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl					-8.55%
BGI – Small Company Index					-10.43%

Benchmark
Russell 2000 Total					-10.38%

Conservative Model Portfolio						-6.38%

Benchmark
Conservative Composite Index						-5.42%

Moderate Model Portfolio						-13.01%

Benchmark
Moderate Composite Index						-11.42%

Aggressive Model Portfolio						-16.33%

Benchmark
Aggressive Composite Index						-14.45%

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September 2008

Sunday, September 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
01	Market Closed – Holiday
02	237.14	463.47	374.49	326.56	378.57	454.88	299.42	355.17	371.17	–
03	237.17	461.93	373.53	323.41	372.78	455.73	299.09	353.92	369.63	–
04	237.19	447.18	362.65	313.89	359.89	442.40	295.43	346.90	360.66	–
05	237.27	450.13	364.17	314.84	355.33	442.24	296.12	347.22	360.74	–
08	237.30	458.38	370.85	317.54	360.97	449.38	298.29	350.69	365.20	–
09	237.33	438.70	357.87	307.30	347.91	434.94	293.66	342.53	354.86	–
10	237.35	442.67	360.73	310.04	349.39	441.02	294.66	344.50	357.46	–
11	237.38	446.40	365.12	314.69	347.38	441.99	295.88	346.20	359.21	–
12	237.46	449.56	366.45	316.32	354.04	442.74	296.57	347.74	361.21	–
15	237.49	425.16	349.27	304.31	340.59	425.64	290.64	337.90	348.88	–
16	237.51	430.85	355.76	308.41	337.58	435.56	292.46	340.70	352.41	–
17	237.54	410.15	339.15	295.02	327.24	416.94	286.91	331.15	340.60	–
18	237.58	428.06	354.55	305.49	335.76	440.21	291.93	339.97	351.91	–
19	237.66	449.70	369.30	316.21	356.81	457.92	297.38	350.03	364.80	–
22	237.69	432.29	354.60	304.80	353.83	441.80	292.59	342.36	355.42	–
23	237.72	425.13	349.26	300.09	346.96	434.69	290.75	338.71	350.71	–
24	237.75	423.22	347.92	299.85	346.52	428.62	290.29	337.71	349.18	–
25	237.78	430.64	354.03	303.09	350.58	432.21	292.33	340.71	352.78	–
26	237.86	430.00	354.59	302.50	343.88	430.43	292.40	339.83	351.38	–
29	237.88	391.56	324.44	279.14	315.91	406.77	282.19	322.37	329.95	–
30	237.92	412.58	341.04	290.06	325.70	416.14	287.83	330.78	339.94	–

September Fund Performance (in percentages)
	0.35%	-11.80%	-9.39%	-11.91%	-15.25%	-8.61%	-4.14%	-7.32%	-8.93%	–

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2008 August

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

	Fixed Income	Large Cap Value	Large Cap Growth	Foreign	Small Company	Portfolio

Morningstar Averages for the Universe	n/a	-12.32%	-11.81%	-17.54%	-4.93%	n/a

Stable Value Option	3.13%
Wellington Core	-0.74%
PRIMCO GIC	3.16%
CDs	2.33%
Dreyfus Government Money Market Index	1.84%

Benchmark
LB 1-3 yr. Govt./Treas.	2.92%

Equity Index Option (BGI – US Equity Index)			-10.39%

Benchmark
Russell 3000			-10.39%

Value Stock Option		-10.52%
Morgan Value (separately managed)		-15.05%
CGM Focus		-11.43%
Goldman Sachs Mid Value Instl.		-6.09%
Neuberger Berman Partners		-12.02%
T. Rowe Price Value		-7.98%
BGI – Value Index		-12.47%

Benchmark
Russell Price Driven (1000 Value)		-12.42%

Growth Stock Option			-10.76%
Turner Mid Cap Growth			-15.43%
Marsico Focus			-12.86%
Wellington Mid Cap Opportunities			-5.30%
Primecap Odyssey Growth			-8.07%
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock			-12.49%
BGI – Growth Index			-9.87%

Benchmark
Russell Earnings Growth (1000 Growth)			-9.83%

International Stock Option				-20.24%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Discovery				-20.80%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Growth				-17.11%
Templeton Instl. Foreign				-18.71%
Oppenheimer Intl Sm Co A				-33.58%
Thornburg Intl Value R5				-19.08%
Marsico Intl Opp				-20.10%
Dimensional Emerging Markets Value				-22.14%
Royce International Value				-0.63%
BGI Eafe Index				-17.87%

Benchmark
MSCI EAFE Net Divs				-17.31%

Diversified Small Company Stock Option					-5.12%
Royce Opportunity					-5.35%
Dimensional U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio					-6.45%
Third Avenue Sm Cap Instl.					0.56%
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index					-7.37%
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl					-1.08%
BGI – Small Company Index					-2.70%

Benchmark
Russell 2000 Total					-2.62%

Conservative Model Portfolio						-2.35%

Benchmark
Conservative Composite Index						-2.81%

Moderate Model Portfolio						-6.15%

Benchmark
Moderate Composite Index						-5.86%

Aggressive Model Portfolio						-8.12%

Benchmark
Aggressive Composite Index						-7.43%

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August 2008

Thursday, August 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
01	236.28	463.03	368.81	325.71	399.98	440.55	297.78	354.35	370.24	–
04	236.30	454.81	364.61	321.04	393.93	433.49	296.06	350.95	365.86	–
05	236.34	466.28	374.54	328.14	396.56	443.24	299.19	355.91	371.91	–
06	236.37	468.56	376.25	330.60	397.49	445.73	299.78	357.12	373.41	–
07	236.40	459.77	369.76	326.01	392.84	439.45	297.61	353.52	368.96	–
08	236.48	468.97	378.35	332.19	391.42	451.10	300.27	357.72	374.19	–
11	236.51	471.85	381.59	334.56	389.56	459.94	301.19	359.50	376.69	–
12	236.54	463.81	377.39	331.52	386.63	457.80	299.49	357.07	373.88	–
13	236.56	464.01	377.01	331.90	383.59	459.86	299.48	357.02	373.85	–
14	236.59	467.32	379.30	334.37	383.79	463.51	300.30	358.46	375.63	–
15	236.68	468.92	380.44	334.34	380.94	462.55	300.76	358.51	375.45	–
18	236.71	461.26	374.90	329.90	378.60	456.36	298.89	355.42	371.64	–
19	236.74	456.94	371.27	326.89	374.63	449.82	297.76	353.04	368.45	–
20	236.77	460.99	373.37	328.63	377.96	450.79	298.64	354.47	370.18	–
21	236.80	462.89	373.94	329.07	379.92	447.91	299.00	354.79	370.38	–
22	236.88	467.05	378.32	332.21	381.68	453.52	300.32	357.06	373.25	–
25	236.91	458.03	370.88	326.11	378.05	444.30	297.96	352.91	368.03	–
26	236.94	460.48	372.21	326.81	377.79	446.42	298.52	353.66	368.96	–
27	236.97	465.84	375.65	329.38	381.05	451.64	299.79	355.92	371.86	–
28	237.00	473.01	381.18	333.21	384.13	459.75	301.64	359.12	375.94	–
29	237.09	467.76	376.40	329.29	384.29	455.34	300.25	356.90	373.29	–

August Fund Performance (in percentages)
	0.38%	0.59%	1.58%	0.35%	-4.88%	3.49%	0.67%	0.40%	0.47%	–

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Manager Name Change

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The Primco GIC fund, in the Stable Value Option, has changed its name to Invesco Interest Income Fund. There was also a name change in the Value Stock Option. The Morgan Value Strategy Fund’s name was changed to JP Morgan Large Cap Value Fund.

This is only a name change and the underlying management and investments remain the same with these two funds.

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2008 July

Monday, July 28th, 2008

	Fixed Income	Large Cap Value	Large Cap Growth	Foreign	Small Company	Portfolio

Morningstar Averages for the Universe	n/a	-13.61%	-11.86%	-13.76%	-7.60%	n/a

Stable Value Option	2.74%
Wellington Core	-1.05%
PRIMCO GIC	2.76%
CDs	2.03%
Dreyfus Government Money Market Index	1.65%

Benchmark
LB 1-3 yr. Govt./Treas.	2.49%

Equity Index Option (BGI – US Equity Index)			-11.78%

Benchmark
Russell 3000			-11.76%

Value Stock Option		-11.05%
Morgan Value (separately managed)		-16.66%
CGM Focus		-5.13%
Goldman Sachs Mid Value Instl.		-7.83%
Neuberger Berman Partners		-12.21%
T. Rowe Price Value		-9.77%
BGI – Value Index		-13.95%

Benchmark
Russell Price Driven (1000 Value)		-13.88%

Growth Stock Option			-11.07%
Turner Mid Cap Growth			-14.69%
Marsico Focus			-12.66%
Wellington Mid Cap Opportunities			-5.84%
Primecap Odyssey Growth			-9.45%
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock			-12.37%
BGI – Growth Index			-10.81%

Benchmark
Russell Earnings Growth (1000 Growth)			-10.79%

International Stock Option				-16.15%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Discovery				-16.72%
Amer Cent-20th Cent. Int’l Growth				-12.67%
Templeton Instl. Foreign				-16.68%
Oppenheimer Intl Sm Co A				-27.46%
Thornburg Intl Value R5				-15.01%
Marsico Intl Opp				-17.10%
Dimensional Emerging Markets Value				-14.84%
Royce International Value				1.52%
BGI Eafe Index				-14.27%

Benchmark
MSCI EAFE Net Divs				-13.82%

Diversified Small Company Stock Option					-8.32%
Royce Opportunity					-10.07%
Dimensional U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio					-9.51%
Third Avenue Sm Cap Instl.					-1.41%
iShares Morningstar Small Growth Index					-10.65%
Morgan Stanley US Small Cap Value Instl					-4.27%
BGI – Small Company Index					-6.14%

Benchmark
Russell 2000 Total					-6.02%

Conservative Model Portfolio						-3.00%

Benchmark
Conservative Composite Index						-3.64%

Moderate Model Portfolio						-6.52%

Benchmark
Moderate Composite Index						-6.58%

Aggressive Model Portfolio						-8.55%

Benchmark
Aggressive Composite Index						-8.24%

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