Fidelity Rutland Square Trust II

07/29/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/29/2024 08:42

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company - Form 497K

Fund/Ticker
Strategic Advisers® Alternatives Fund/FSLTX
Offered exclusively to certain managed account clients of Strategic Advisers LLC or its affiliates - not available for sale to the general public
Summary Prospectus
July 30, 2024
Before you invest, you may want to review the fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund's prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the fund (including the fund's SAI) online at fundresearch.fidelity.com/prospectus/sec. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-FIDELITY or by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]. The fund's prospectus and SAI dated July 30, 2024 are incorporated herein by reference.
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Fund Summary
Fund:
Strategic Advisers® Alternatives Fund
Investment Objective
Strategic Advisers® Alternatives Fund seeks total return.
Fee Table
The following table describes the fees and expenses that may be incurred when you buy, hold, and sell shares of the fund.
Shareholder fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
None
Annual Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fee (fluctuates based on the fund's allocation among underlying funds and sub-advisers)
0.34%A
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) fees
None
Other expenses
0.02%
Acquired fund fees and expenses
1.36%
Total annual operating expenses
1.72%B
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement
0.25%A
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement
1.47%B
AStrategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) has contractually agreed that the fund's maximum aggregate annual management fee will not exceed 2.00% of the fund's average daily net assets. In addition, Strategic Advisers has contractually agreed to waive a portion of the fund's management fee in an amount equal to 0.25% of the fund's average daily net assets. This arrangement will remain in effect through September 30, 2026, and neither Strategic Advisers nor any of its affiliates retain the ability to be repaid with respect to this arrangement. Strategic Advisers may not terminate this arrangement without the approval of the Board of Trustees.
BDiffers from the ratios of expenses to average net assets in the Financial Highlights section of the prospectus because of acquired fund fees and expenses.
This example helps compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other 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. For every $10,000 you invested, here's how much you would pay in total expenses if you sell all of your shares at the end of each time period indicated:
1 year
$
150
3 years
$
483
5 years
$
877
10 years
$
1,980
Portfolio Turnover
The fund will not incur transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of affiliated mutual funds but may incur transaction costs when buying or selling non-affiliated funds and other types of securities (including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)) directly (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 106% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
  • Seeking to provide shareholders with positive total returns over a complete market cycle (generally five to eight years) through multiple "alternative" or non-traditional strategies, including return seeking (positive correlation with equity markets), diversifying (low correlation with equity markets) and defensive strategies (hedging strategies that are expected to perform well when equity markets decline).
  • Normally allocating the fund's assets among affiliated and unaffiliated mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (collectively, underlying funds), derivatives, and sub-advisers that provide exposure to equity, debt (including debt securities of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds), derivatives, currency, and commodities markets, across different market sectors, countries and regions, including the United States and emerging markets, and cash and cash equivalents.
  • Engaging in transactions that have a leveraging effect on the fund, including long and short investments in derivatives - such as forward contracts, futures, options, swaps, and various volatility related instruments - and forward-settling securities, to: create and adjust the fund's investment exposure; enhance total return; hedge against fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates, or currency exchange rates; change the effective duration of the fund's portfolio; manage certain investment risks; manage volatility; and/or substitute for the purchase or sale of securities, currencies, or commodities.
  • Allocating assets among affiliated funds (i.e., Fidelity® funds, including mutual funds and ETFs), non-affiliated funds that participate in Fidelity's FundsNetwork®, non-affiliated ETFs and sub-advisers.
  • Allocating assets among sub-advisers and underlying funds using proprietary fundamental and quantitative research, considering factors including, but not limited to, performance in different market environments, manager experience and investment style, management company infrastructure, costs, asset size, and portfolio turnover.
  • Investing up to 25% of assets in one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands with a May 31 fiscal year end that invest in commodity-linked derivative instruments.
Pursuant to an exemptive order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) is permitted, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, to enter into new or amended sub-advisory agreements with one or more unaffiliated sub-advisers without obtaining shareholder approval of such agreements. Subject to oversight by the Board of Trustees, Strategic Advisers has the ultimate responsibility to oversee the fund's sub-advisers and recommend their hiring, termination, and replacement. In the event the Board of Trustees approves a sub-advisory agreement with a new unaffiliated sub-adviser, shareholders will be provided with information about the new sub-adviser and sub-advisory agreement.
Principal Investment Risks
  • Multiple Sub-Adviser Risk.
Separate investment decisions and the resulting purchase and sale activities of the fund's sub-advisers might adversely affect the fund's performance or lead to disadvantageous tax consequences.
  • Investing in Other Funds.
Regulatory restrictions may limit the amount that one fund can invest in another, which means that the fund's manager may not be able to invest as much as it wants to in some 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. Underlying funds may invest in special purpose acquisition companies or other similar special purpose entities (collectively, SPACs), which do not have an operating history or ongoing business other than seeking acquisitions. As such, the value of a SPAC's securities is particularly dependent on the ability of its management to identify and complete a profitable acquisition and may be highly volatile with little or no liquidity. Underlying funds that are passively managed attempt to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities and as such their performance could be lower than actively managed funds, which may shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or lessen the impact of a market decline. In addition, errors in the construction of the index tracked by an underlying passively managed fund may have an adverse impact on the performance of such underlying fund.
  • 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, including different market sectors, and different types of securities can react differently to these developments.
  • Interest Rate Changes.
Interest rate increases can cause the price of a debt security to decrease.
  • Correlation Risk.
The correlation of asset classes or selected countries and investments become correlated in a way not anticipated by the Adviser could result in magnified risks and loss instead of reducing the risk of loss.
  • Foreign and Emerging Markets Risk.
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.
The extent of economic development; political stability; market depth, infrastructure, and capitalization; and regulatory oversight can be less than in more developed markets. Emerging markets typically have less established legal, accounting and financial reporting systems than those in more developed markets, which may reduce the scope or quality of financial information available to investors.
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.
  • Currency Exposure.
Because the fund is normally exposed to foreign currencies, it could experience losses based solely on the weakness of foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar and changes in the exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. Currency risk may be particularly high to the extent that a fund invests in foreign currencies or engages in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to emerging markets countries. These emerging markets currency transactions may present market, credit, currency, liquidity, legal, political and other risks different from, or greater than, the risks of investing in developed foreign currencies or engaging in foreign currency transactions that are economically tied to developed foreign countries.
  • Industry Exposure.
Market conditions, interest rates, and economic, regulatory, or financial developments could significantly affect a single industry or group of related industries.
  • Subsidiary Risk.
Investment in Strategic Advisers Alternatives Fund Cayman Ltd. 1 and/or Strategic Advisers Alternatives Fund Cayman Ltd. 2, each an unregistered subsidiary, is not subject to the investor protections of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act) and is subject to the risks associated with investing in derivatives and commodity-linked investing in general. Changes in tax and other laws could negatively affect investments in the subsidiaries.
  • 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.
Lower-quality debt securities (those of less than investment-grade quality, also referred to as high yield debt securities or junk bonds) 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.
Changes in the financial condition of an issuer or counterparty (e.g., broker-dealer or other borrower in a securities lending transaction) can increase the risk of default by an issuer or counterparty, which can affect a security's or instrument's value or result in delays in recovering securities and/or capital from a counterparty.
  • Small- and Mid-Cap Investing.
The value of securities of small to medium size, less well-known issuers can perform differently from the market as a whole and other types of stocks and can be more volatile than that of larger issuers.
  • Leverage Risk.
Leverage can increase market exposure, magnify investment risks, and cause losses to be realized more quickly. The fund's use of futures, forwards, options, swaps, and other derivative instruments may result in losses. The value of these derivative instruments may pose risks in addition to and greater than those associated with investing directly in securities, currencies or other instruments and may be illiquid or less liquid, volatile, difficult to price and leveraged so that small changes in the value of underlying instruments may produce disproportionate losses to the fund. The use of derivatives is a highly specialized activity that involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with investments in more traditional securities and instruments. Moreover, a relatively small price movement in a derivative contract may result in substantial losses to the fund, exceeding the amount of the margin paid. The use of derivatives can increase the fund's risk exposure to underlying assets and their attendant risks, while also exposing the fund to the risk of mispricing or other improper valuation and the risk that changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate as anticipated with the underlying asset, rate, index or overall securities markets, thereby reducing their effectiveness.
  • 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.
  • Quantitative Investing.
Securities selected using quantitative analysis can perform differently from the market as a whole as a result of the factors used in the analysis, the weight placed on each factor, and changes in the factors' historical trends.
  • Commodity-Linked Investing.
The value of commodities and commodity-linked investments may be affected by the performance of the overall commodities markets as well as weather, political, tax, and other regulatory and market developments. Commodity-linked investments may be more volatile and less liquid than the underlying commodity, instruments, or measures.
  • Commodity Futures.
Investments in commodity futures contracts are also subject to the risk of the failure of any of the exchanges on which the fund's positions trade or of its clearinghouses or counterparties. In addition, certain commodity exchanges limit fluctuations in certain futures contract prices during a single day by regulations referred to as "daily price fluctuation limits" or "daily limits." Under such daily limits, during a single trading day no trades may be executed at prices beyond the daily limit. If triggered, these limits could prevent the fund from liquidating unfavorable positions and subject the fund to losses or prevent it from entering into desired trades during the particular trading day.
  • 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.
In addition, the fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act, which means that it has the ability to invest a greater portion of assets in securities of a smaller number of individual issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in share price than would occur in a more diversified fund.
An investment in the fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.You could lose money by investing in the fund.
Performance
The following information is intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the fund.
The information illustrates the performance of the fund's shares over the past year and compares the performance of the fund's shares to the performance of a securities market index and an additional index over various periods of time. The additional index has characteristics relevant to the fund's investment strategies. Index descriptions appear in the "Additional Index Information" section of the prospectus. Past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future performance.
Visit www.fidelity.com for more recent performance information.
Year-by-Year Returns
2023
2.22%
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter Return
1.77%
September 30, 2023
Lowest Quarter Return
-0.73%
March 31, 2023
Year-to-Date Return
3.17%
June 30, 2024
Average Annual Returns
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates, but do not reflect the impact of state or local taxes. Actual after-tax returns may differ depending on your individual circumstances. The after-tax returns shown are not relevant if you hold your shares in a retirement account or in another tax-deferred arrangement, such as an employee benefit plan (profit sharing, 401(k), or 403(b) plan). Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of fund shares.
For the periods ended December 31, 2023
Past 1
year
Life of
fund
Strategic Advisers® Alternatives Fund
Return Before Taxes
2.22%
1.71% A
Return After Taxes on Distributions
0.69%
-0.47% A
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
1.37%
0.43% A
ICE® BofA® US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
5.01%
4.30%
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
5.53%
1.37%
AFrom July 12, 2022.
The fund has begun comparing its performance to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index to satisfy a new SEC disclosure requirement.
Investment Adviser
Strategic Advisers (the Adviser) is the fund's manager. Capital Fund Management S.A., FIL Investment Advisors, Fidelity Diversifying Solutions LLC, and Pacific Investment Management Company LLC have been retained to serve as sub-advisers for the fund.
FIL Investment Advisors (UK) Limited (FIA(UK)), FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited (FMR UK), Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited (FMR H.K.), and Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited (FMR Japan) have been retained to serve as sub-subadvisers for the fund.
The Adviser may change a sub-adviser's asset allocation at any time, including allocating no assets to, or terminating the sub-advisory contract with, a sub-adviser.
Portfolio Manager(s)
Maciej Sawicki (Lead Portfolio Manager) has managed the fund since 2022.
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The fund is not available for sale to the general public.
The price to buy one share is its net asset value per share (NAV). Shares will be bought at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
The price to sell one share is its NAV. Shares will be sold at the NAV next calculated after an order is received in proper form.
The fund is open for business each day the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is open.
There is no purchase minimum for fund shares.
Tax Information
Distributions you receive from the fund are subject to federal income tax and generally will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, and may also be subject to state or local taxes, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged retirement account (in which case you may be taxed later, upon withdrawal of your investment from such account).
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
The fund, the Adviser, Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC), and/or their affiliates may pay intermediaries, which may include banks, broker-dealers, retirement plan sponsors, administrators, or service-providers (who may be affiliated with the Adviser or FDC), for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing your intermediary and your investment professional to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your investment professional or visit your intermediary's web site for more information.
Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (FDC) is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). You may obtain information about SIPC, including the SIPC brochure, by visiting www.sipc.org or calling SIPC at 202-371-8300.
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