FIAM Global Core

FIAM Global Core

The Global Core portfolio seeks to provide excess return relative to the MSCI All Country World Index® over a full market cycle. The portfolio seeks to ensure that active return is generated through stock selection.

Investment Approach

The Global Core portfolio is a bottom-up, fundamental strategy designed to deliver the best ideas of the FIAM global sector leaders. Each global sector leader researches and recommends candidates for the portfolio based on a sector-specific philosophy that has been developed and practiced over time. The team leader constructs the portfolio to ensure asset selection drives risk and returns while exhibiting characteristics similar to the benchmark.

Consistent exposure

Consistent exposure to global equities

Minimize surprises

Structured to minimize surprises from unintended benchmark exposures

Global research

Seeks returns driven by Fidelity's global research capabilities

Investment Process

Global Sector Leaders

  • Creating a unique philosophy of seeking alpha generation specific to their sectors
  • Primarily responsible for idea generation
  • Identifying high-conviction ideas in their sector and capturing dispersion
  • Initial trading recommendation and position sizing at the sector level
  • Sector neutral, industry active; organized by 11 GICS sectors

Team Leader

  • Final trading authority and position-sizing
  • Ensuring that stocks matter at the portfolio level—not just the sector sleeve level
  • Quantitative Risk Control: Being in line with our mandates and sharing risk appropriately across sectors
  • Qualitative Risk Control: Avoiding unintended bets across sectors: housing, oil, China etc.

Global Core Portfolio

  • Cohesive portfolio capturing best thinking of global sector team
  • Betting on our highest conviction ideas
  • Asset selection driving risk and returns
  • High conviction portfolio characterized by high active share

Key Facts

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