BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fidelity Investments®, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms with $6.7 trillion in client assets1, today launched the Fidelity® Bond Income Model Portfolio and Fidelity Multi-Asset Income Model Portfolio, the first models offered by Fidelity to include ETFs, along with active and passive mutual funds.
The new models aim to generate a high level of income while focusing on managing risk through fixed income and multi-asset class investing. They expand upon Fidelity’s existing model portfolios launched in 2018, which offer total return solutions within specific levels of risk.
According to the Social Security Administration, individuals will be responsible for the majority of their income in retirement, with 62 percent of income expected to come from their own sources versus 38 percent coming from outside sources, such as social security or pensions.2 With these new models, Fidelity provides financial advisors with the ability to help their clients who are approaching retirement or already retired to address the challenge of planning for income before and during retirement.
“We’re always looking for new ways to help advisors serve their clients. These income models are designed to address an even broader range of clients’ investment needs,” said Matt Goulet, senior vice president, Fidelity Institutional Asset Management®. “It’s a natural extension of Fidelity’s expertise as a retirement leader, serving more than 30 million retirement accounts.”
The Fidelity Bond Income Model Portfolio uses fixed income, investing primarily in debt securities, allocating across four general investment categories: high yield securities, preferred stock, U.S. Government, and emerging market securities. The Fidelity Multi-Asset Income Model Portfolio uses different asset classes for additional diversification and total return benefits. It invests primarily in income-producing securities, allocating among equity and debt securities, including common and preferred stock, U.S. Government debt, high yield debt securities, emerging market debt, and floating rate securities.
These new income model portfolios build on Fidelity’s heritage of fixed income and multi-asset class investing, in addition to Fidelity’s 70 years of investing and portfolio management experience and 30 years of experience managing models. Fidelity’s other model portfolios include the Fidelity Target Allocation Model Portfolios, which seek to combine Fidelity active and passive mutual funds to enhance potential for excess return, and the Fidelity Target Allocation Index-Focused Model Portfolios, primarily invested in Fidelity index mutual funds, making them some of the lowest cost models available.
The models enhance Fidelity’s current line-up of portfolio capabilities, which include insights from the Capital Markets Strategy team, a robust thought leadership program on portfolio construction, portfolio evaluations with the Portfolio Quick Check diagnostic tool and consultation from the Portfolio Construction Guidance team.
Fidelity Model Portfolios are available to advisors at broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, and insurance companies. Nearly 100 advisory firms have access to Fidelity Model Portfolios through turnkey platforms. Advisors can also receive model updates directly from Fidelity. For more information, please visit go.fidelity.com/models.
About Fidelity Investments
Fidelity’s mission is to inspire
better futures and deliver better outcomes for the customers and
businesses we serve. With assets under administration of $6.7 trillion,
including managed assets of $2.4 trillion as of December 31, 2018, we
focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping
more than 28 million people invest their own life savings, 23,000
businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more
than 13,000 financial advisory firms with investment and technology
solutions to invest their own clients’ money. Privately held for more
than 70 years, Fidelity employs more than 40,000 associates who are
focused on the long-term success of our customers. For more information
about Fidelity Investments, visit https://www.fidelity.com/about.
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The Fidelity Target Allocation Models consist solely of Fidelity mutual funds and are available only in the share class designated by FIAM when made available through the Models. The Fidelity Income Models consist of Fidelity mutual funds and third-party ETFs. FIAM does not seek to offer mutual funds or share classes through the Models that are necessarily the least expensive. In some cases, the Fidelity funds in the Models may have a lower cost share class available on a stand-alone basis for purchase outside of the Models, or that may be available to other types of investors. Use of the Models will result in the payment of fees to the Fidelity funds in the Models as provided for in the prospectus to each such fund. The fees received from investment in the funds will be shared by various affiliates, including FIAM LLC, involved in distributing and advising both the Models and the Fidelity mutual funds in the Models. For certain accounts custodied on Fidelity's brokerage platform that elect to invest in Fidelity Models that include third-party ETFs, Fidelity may receive compensation from the third-party and/or its affiliates. Additional information about the sources, amounts, and terms of compensation is described in the ETF's prospectus and related documents. Fidelity may add or waive commissions on ETFs without prior notice.
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1 As of December 31, 2018.
2 Social Security
Administration, Income of the Aged Chartbook, 2014 (released April
2016), based on highest quintile of $72,129.
“30 million retirement
accounts”: Analysis based on 22,600 corporate defined contribution plans
and 16.2 million participants as of December 31, 2018. These figures
include the advisor-sold market, but exclude the tax-exempt market.
Excluded from the behavioral statistics are non-qualified defined
contribution plans and plans for Fidelity’s own employees.
