EX-99.16 PWR OF ATTY 5 ex16b.htm

Exhibit 16(b)

POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned Directors or Trustees, as the case may be, of the following investment companies:

Fidelity Advisor Series I

Fidelity Advisor Series VII

Fidelity Advisor Series VIII

Fidelity Beacon Street Trust

Fidelity Capital Trust

Fidelity Central Investment Portfolios LLC

Fidelity Commonwealth Trust

Fidelity Concord Street Trust

Fidelity Congress Street Fund

Fidelity Contrafund

Fidelity Covington Trust

Fidelity Destiny Portfolios

Fidelity Devonshire Trust

Fidelity Exchange Fund

Fidelity Financial Trust

Fidelity Hanover Street Trust

Fidelity Hastings Street Trust

Fidelity Investment Trust

Fidelity Magellan Fund

Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust

Fidelity Puritan Trust

Fidelity Securities Fund

Fidelity Select Portfolios

Fidelity Summer Street Trust

Fidelity Trend Fund

Variable Insurance Products Fund

Variable Insurance Products Fund II

Variable Insurance Products Fund III

Variable Insurance Products Fund IV

in addition to any other investment company for which Fidelity Management & Research Company ("FMR") or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and for which the undersigned individuals serve as Directors or Trustees (collectively, the "Funds"), hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney we have given to sign and otherwise act in our names and behalf in matters involving any investment company for which FMR or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and hereby constitute and appoint Joseph R. Fleming, John V. O'Hanlon, Robert W. Helm and Anthony H. Zacharski each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for us and in our names in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, Form N-8A, Form N-14, or any successors thereto, any and all subsequent Amendments, Pre-Effective Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statements or any successors thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and all related requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission. We hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is effective for all documents filed on or after August 1, 2008.


WITNESS our hands on this first day of August 2008.

/s/James C. Curvey

/s/Cornelia M. Small

James C. Curvey

Cornelia M. Small

/s/Dennis J. Dirks

/s/William S. Stavropoulos

Dennis J. Dirks

William S. Stavropoulos

/s/Alan J. Lacy

/s/David M. Thomas

Alan J. Lacy

David M. Thomas

/s/Ned C. Lautenbach

/s/Michael E. Wiley

Ned C. Lautenbach

Michael E. Wiley

/s/Joseph Mauriello

 

Joseph Mauriello