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Interim Report and Condensed Unaudited Financial Statements For the six month period ended 31 July 2020 Fidelity UCITS ICAV (An Irish collective asset-management vehicle constituted as an umbrella fund with segregated liability between sub-funds) Fidelity UCITS ICAV TABLE OF CONTENTS Page GENERAL INFORMATION 2 INVESTMENT MANAGERS’ REPORT 6 SCHEDULES OF INVESTMENTS: Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF 9 Fidelity US Quality Income UCITS ETF 21 Fidelity Emerging Markets Quality Income UCITS ETF 25 Fidelity Europe Quality Income UCITS ETF 30 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Europe Equity UCITS ETF 34 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced US Equity UCITS ETF 40 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Global Equity UCITS ETF 48 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 58 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 62 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTABLE TO HOLDERS OF REDEEMABLE PARTICIPATING SHARES 65 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 66 NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 69 DIRECTORY 91 APPENDIX 1 - STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF PORTFOLIO 92 APPENDIX 2 – TRACKING ERROR 102 APPENDIX 3 – SECURITIES FINANCING TRANSACTIONS 103 Fidelity UCITS ICAV GENERAL INFORMATION Fidelity UCITS ICAV (the “Fund”) was registered in Ireland pursuant to the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 (as amended) on 19 August 2016 under registration number C158668 and is authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) under the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations 2011 (as amended) (the “UCITS Regulations”). Except where the context otherwise requires, defined terms shall bear the meaning given to them in the Prospectus of the Fund. The Fund is organised in the form of an umbrella fund with segregated liability between sub-funds. The Prospectus provides that the Fund may offer separate sub-funds. Each sub-fund will have a distinct schedule of investments. Currently, there are seven Sub-Funds (each, a “Sub-Fund” and, collectively, the “Sub-Funds”) under the umbrella: Sub-Fund Launch Date Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF 27 March 2017 Fidelity US Quality Income UCITS ETF 27 March 2017 Fidelity Emerging Markets Quality Income UCITS ETF 30 October 2017 Fidelity Europe Quality Income UCITS ETF 30 October 2017 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Europe Equity UCITS ETF 18 May 2020 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced US Equity UCITS ETF 21 May 2020 Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Global Equity UCITS ETF 27 May 2020 With the prior approval of the Central Bank, the Fund from time to time may create an additional Sub-Fund or Sub-Funds. The investment policies and objectives for which will be outlined in a Relevant Supplement, together with details of the initial offer period, the initial subscription price for each Share and such other relevant information in relation to the additional Sub-Fund or Sub-Funds as the Directors may deem appropriate, or the Central Bank requires, to be included. Each Relevant Supplement will form part of, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus. In addition, the Fund may create additional Classes of Shares within a Sub-Fund to accommodate different terms, including different charges and/or fees and/or brokerage arrangements provided that the Central Bank is notified in advance, and gives prior clearance, of the creation of any such additional Class of Shares. The most recent Prospectus of the Fund is dated 18 October 2019. The most recent Supplements for Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Europe Equity UCITS ETF, Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced US Equity UCITS ETF and Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Global Equity UCITS ETF are dated 5 March 2020. The most recent Supplement of Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF is dated 14 August 2020. The most recent Supplements for all other Sub-Funds are dated 18 October 2019. The Sub-Funds are exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) and all Shares in the Sub-Funds are designated as “ETF Shares” (being Shares that are intended to be actively traded on a secondary market). The following Sub-Funds are the Index Tracking Sub-Funds: Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF, Fidelity US Quality Income UCITS ETF, Fidelity Emerging Markets Quality Income UCITS ETF and the Fidelity Europe Quality Income UCITS ETF. The following Sub-Funds are the Actively Managed Sub-Funds: Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Europe Equity UCITS ETF, Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced US Equity UCITS ETF and the Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Global Equity UCITS ETF. The benchmark indices for the Index Tracking Sub-Funds are listed below: Sub-Fund Index Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF Fidelity Global Quality Income Index Fidelity US Quality Income UCITS ETF Fidelity US Quality Income Index Fidelity Emerging Markets Quality Income UCITS ETF Fidelity Emerging Markets Quality Income Index Fidelity Europe Quality Income UCITS ETF Fidelity Europe Quality Income Index The Manager has appointed Geode Capital Management, LLC to act as Investment Manager of the Index Tracking Sub-Funds and FIL Investments International to act as Investment Manager of the Actively Managed Sub-Funds (each, an “Investment Manager” and, collectively, the “Investment Managers”). The investment objective of the Index Tracking Sub-Funds is to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects, before fees and expenses, the return of the relevant benchmark index (each, an “Index”). For more information on the Index please refer to the available index methodology which can be downloaded from the Fidelity ETFs website, www.fidelity-etfs.com/documents. 2 Fidelity UCITS ICAV GENERAL INFORMATION (CONTINUED) The investment objective of the Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Europe Equity UCITS ETF is to achieve long-term capital growth from a portfolio primarily made up of equity securities of companies in Europe. The investment objective of the Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced US Equity UCITS is to achieve long-term capital growth from a portfolio primarily made up of equity securities of companies in the United States. The investment objective of the Fidelity Sustainable Research Enhanced Global Equity UCITS ETF is to achieve long-term capital growth from a portfolio primarily made up of equity securities of companies domiciled globally. Fidelity Global Quality Income UCITS ETF The Fidelity Global Quality Income Index is designed to reflect the performance of stocks of large and mid-capitalisation dividend paying companies from developed countries that exhibit quality fundamental characteristics. The Index comprises the equity securities of the relevant companies. The Index constituents are screened according to fundamental measures such as free cash flow margin, return on invested capital and free cash flow stability with the objective of identifying financially robust companies. The companies with highest dividend yield are then selected for inclusion within the Index. The Index is rebalanced annually. The investment objective of the Sub-Fund is to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible, regardless of whether the Index level rises or falls, while seeking to minimise as far as possible the tracking error between the Sub-Fund’s performance and that of the Index. In order to seek to achieve this investment objective, Geode Capital Management LLC will aim to replicate the Index by holding all of the Index securities in a similar proportion to their weighting in the Index. However, where full replication of the Index is not reasonably practical (for example as a result of the number of securities or the illiquidity of certain securities within the Index), the Sub-Fund will use optimisation to select Index securities in order to build a representative portfolio that provides a return that is comparable to that of the Index. The following are the active Share Classes in the Sub-Fund as at 31 July 2020: Share Class Share Class Launch Date Currency Inc 27 March 2017 USD EUR Hedged (Acc) 29 November 2017 EUR GBP Hedged (Acc) 29 November 2017 GBP CHF Hedged Inc 22 June 2020 CHF Fidelity US Quality Income UCITS ETF The Fidelity US Quality Income Index is designed to reflect the performance of stocks of large and mid-capitalisation dividend paying US companies that exhibit quality fundamental characteristics. The Index comprises the equity securities of the relevant companies. The Index constituents are screened according to fundamental measures such as free cash flow margin, return on invested capital and free cash flow stability with the objective of identifying financially robust companies. The companies with highest dividend yield are then selected for inclusion within the Index. The Index is rebalanced annually. The investment objective of the Sub-Fund is to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible, regardless of whether the Index level rises or falls, while seeking to minimise as far as possible the tracking error between the Sub-Fund’s performance and that of the Index. In order to seek to achieve this investment objective, Geode Capital Management LLC will aim to replicate the Index by holding all of the Index securities in a similar proportion to their weighting in the Index. However, where full replication of the Index is not reasonably practical (for example as a result of the number of securities or the illiquidity of certain