Fidelity's globally integrated research team enables them to seize opportunities in world financial markets the moment they arise.

They believe that this considerable advantage can translate to strength in every asset class, giving financial advisors more ways to help diversify their clients' portfolios than nearly anyone else.  Fidelity's dedication to advisors and their clients has helped them become one of the largest, most respected investment firms in business today.

Fidelity follows a bottom-up, company-by-company approach to investing. Each portfolio is built one investment at a time based on extensive fundamental analysis, a rigorous process of security selection, and disciplined, active portfolio management. Fidelity analysts and managers pursue only what they believe to be the most solid securities for a Fidelity portfolio. These experienced investment professionals are backed by a worldwide network of research resources providing constant market and company information:

• Extensive online, computer-based research tools. This includes a proprietary, personal computer-based operating system that gives Fidelity portfolio managers instant access from anywhere in the world to Wall Street brokerage research and earnings models, SEC filings, trading information and research notes on thousands of companies worldwide.
• A common system linking Fidelity trading desks in Boston, Hong Kong, London and Tokyo that tracks all orders and trades, helping Fidelity’s international traders match buyers and sellers of securities more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
• A state-of-the-art trading desk, which provides access to more than 200 brokerage houses and real-time information to achieve the best executions and optimize the value of each transaction.