A strong management team and sound investment process underpin Fidelity Low Duration Bond ETF's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the least expensive fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy’s management team earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's investment approach stands out and earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

Analyst Rating

Morningstar's style-agnostic investment process evaluation looks for strategies that should be able to outperform their Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over time. Fidelity Low Duration Bond ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.    The predominant contributor to the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 65%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. The parent firm's superior risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars, also contributes to the process. Lastly, the process is limited by the parent firm's five-year retention rate of 72%, which suggests it could do more to retain its portfolio managers.

 The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is as follows: 


The investment seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital.  The fund will normally invest at least 80% of assets in investment-grade debt securities (those of medium and high quality) of all types and repurchase agreements for those securities. Normally maintaining a duration of 1 year or less.

Above Average

Process

Fidelity Low Duration Bond ETF earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. Robert Galusza’s veteran status, with 24 years of listed portfolio management experience, brings a wealth of experience to the table. The average Morningstar Rating of the strategies they currently manage is 3.0 stars, demonstrating average risk-adjusted performance. Robert Galusza has an experienced backdrop of support. The three listed managers boast 12 years of average listed portfolio management experience. As a team, they manage 13 investment vehicles together, with a Silver asset-weighted average Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating the potential to deliver positive alpha in aggregate. None of the portfolio managers here invest in this fund. This hurts the rating because manager investment would align their interests with the strategy's investors.

 Note: The People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. The longest-tenured manager of the fund also manages a different product rated by an analyst. Their analyst-assigned People Pillar rating is combined here with the People scores (algorithmic or analyst-assigned) for the fund’s other managers on a tenure-weighted basis.

People

Fidelity earns an Above Average Parent rating because of its ability to stay ahead of its competition.

The firm's successful stock-picking mutual funds fueled its rise to prominence, and it has adapted well to investor preferences that have shifted markedly over the past two decades. Index funds and exchange-traded funds have garnered most of the industry's flows as money has gushed from actively managed products—Fidelity's included. Yet overall, the asset-management division has continued to achieve positive organic growth by introducing or maintaining aggressive pricing on its own suite of passively managed funds and expanding its menu of client-demanded investment structures, such as managed accounts and collective investment trusts. These moves are made possible by the firm's strong distribution network, scale, established brand, and willingness to tolerate losses on some products in pursuit of broader strategic objectives.

The firm is not without blemishes. It could stand to rationalize its lineup of active equity funds and do better to maintain continuity in an equity fund's portfolio construction as the fund's leadership inevitably changes.

Overall, the firm has served its funds' investors well. It boasts a topnotch fixed-income division and remains home to some of the industry's most talented equity managers and a strong team supporting its well-run target-date series.

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