Supplement to the
Fidelity® Blue Chip Growth ETF, Fidelity® Blue Chip Value ETF, Fidelity® Growth Opportunities ETF, Fidelity® MagellanSM ETF, Fidelity® New Millennium ETF, Fidelity® Real Estate Investment ETF, Fidelity® Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF, Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF, and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF
November 29, 2023
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The following information replaces similar information found in the "Investment Policies and Limitations" section.
Diversification
For Fidelity® Blue Chip Value ETF, Fidelity® New Millennium ETF, Fidelity® Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF, Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF, and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF:
The fund may not with respect to 75% of the fund's total assets, purchase the securities of any issuer (other than securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities, or securities of other investment companies) if, as a result, (a) more than 5% of the fund's total assets would be invested in the securities of that issuer, or (b) the fund would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of that issuer.
The following information replaces similar information found in the "Investment Policies and Limitations" section.
Diversification
For each fund (other than Fidelity® Blue Chip Value ETF, Fidelity® New Millennium ETF, Fidelity® Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF, Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF, and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF):
In order to qualify as a "regulated investment company" under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the fund currently intends to comply with certain diversification limits imposed by Subchapter M.
Subchapter M generally requires a fund to invest no more than 25% of its total assets in securities of any one issuer or in the securities of certain publicly-traded partnerships and to invest at least 50% of its total assets so that (a) no more than 5% of the fund's total assets are invested in securities of any one issuer, and (b) the fund does not hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of that issuer. However, Subchapter M allows unlimited investments in cash, cash items, government securities (as defined in Subchapter M) and securities of other regulated investment companies. These tax requirements are generally applied at the end of each quarter of the fund's taxable year.
Fidelity® Blue Chip Value ETF, Fidelity® New Millennium ETF, Fidelity® Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF, Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF, and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF intend to comply both with the Subchapter M diversification requirements and with the diversification requirements described in the fundamental investment limitations disclosure above.
Effective March 1, 2024, each fund's sub-advisory agreements with FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited, Fidelity Management & Research (Hong Kong) Limited, and Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited were amended. The following information supplements similar information found in the "Management Contracts" section.
Under the terms of the sub-advisory agreements, FMR pays each sub-adviser monthly fees equal to 110% of the sub-adviser's costs for providing sub-advisory services.
The following information supplements information found in the "Proxy Voting Guidelines" section.
Fidelity votes proxies on behalf of thefunds in accordance with the Fidelity Proxy Voting Guidelines below. In addition, with respect to Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF, Fidelity applies the Fidelity Sustainable Proxy Voting Guidelines below to shareholder proposals related to natural and human capital topics in lieu of Section V of the Fidelity Proxy Voting Guidelines. All other proposals for companies held by Fidelity® Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF and Fidelity® Women's Leadership ETF will be voted in accordance with the Fidelity Proxy Voting Guidelines.
Sustainable Proxy Voting Guidelines - Shareholder Proposals on Natural and Human Capital Issues
January 2024
I. INTRODUCTION
These guidelines are intended to help Fidelity's customers and the companies in which Fidelity invests understand how the team of investment professionals supporting Fidelity's sustainable investing strategies (the "sustainable investing team" or "we") consider, evaluate, and generally vote, on natural and human capital issues that our research has determined are financially material.
For companies held by Fidelity's sustainable investing strategies, including Fidelity funds listed on Exhibit 1, as amended from time to time ("Sustainable Funds"), shareholder proposals related to natural and human capital topics that generally would be voted