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In your February Issue, we explore where to typically go for long-term stability when the economy begins to show cracks in its growth wall. I say typically here because this recent recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic was anything but typical. But more on that as you read along inside FSI Sector Focus.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 0.3% | 15.3% |
| Global Quant Income | -0.4% | N/A |
| Growth | -0.3% | 12.8% |
| Factor+ | 0.2% | N/A |
| Growth & Income | -1.0% | 8.9% |
| Income | -1.4% | 5.1% |
| Annuity Growth | 0.0% | 12.6% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | -0.1% | 10.6% |
| S&P 500 | -1.0% | 16.2% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | -0.2% | 10.1% |
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Jim Lowell is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning independent newsletters Fidelity Investor and Fidelity Sector Investor. Through his newsletters, Jim advises individual investors seeking superior performance from their Fidelity investments. He has also written several books on investing, Investing from Scratch (revised edition, Penguin, 2006) and What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know (Wiley, 2007) among them. Read more
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