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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549



FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES



Investment Company Act file number    811-02105



Fidelity Salem Street Trust

 (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)



245 Summer St., Boston, Massachusetts 02210

 (Address of principal executive offices)       (Zip code)



Margaret Carey, Secretary

245 Summer St.

Boston, Massachusetts  02210

(Name and address of agent for service)





Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

617-563-7000





Date of fiscal year end:

February 28





Date of reporting period:

February 28, 2023







Item 1.

Reports to Stockholders







Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
Annual Report
February 28, 2023

Contents

Performance

Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Notes to Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Trustees and Officers

Shareholder Expense Example

Distributions

Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts

Liquidity Risk Management Program

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Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Past 10
years
Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
-4.26%
0.70%
0.58%
 
 
 
The initial offering of Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (formerly named Institutional Premium Class) took place on October 4, 2017. Returns prior to October 4, 2017, are those of the former Premium Class and have not been restated to reflect current expenses.
 $10,000 Over 10 Years
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund on February 28, 2013.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Treasury Bond Index performed over the same period.
 
 
 
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Past 10
years
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
-10.67%
0.56%
0.66%
 
 
 
The initial offering of Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund (formerly named Institutional Premium Class) took place on October 4, 2017. Returns prior to October 4, 2017, are those of the former Premium Class and have not been restated to reflect current expenses.
 $10,000 Over 10 Years
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund on February 28, 2013.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. 5-10 Year Treasury Bond Index performed over the same period.
 
 
 
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Past 10
years
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
-24.10%
-0.72%
0.89%
 
 
 
The initial offering of Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (formerly named Institutional Premium Class) took place on October 4, 2017. Returns prior to October 4, 2017, are those of the former Premium Class and have not been restated to reflect current expenses.
 $10,000 Over 10 Years
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund on February 28, 2013.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. Long Treasury Bond Index performed over the same period.
 
 
Market Recap: U.S. taxable investment-grade bonds returned -9.72% for the 12 months ending February 28, 2023, according to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The new year began with an upturn in January (+3.08%) but in February bonds fell back (-2.59%), as the backdrop remained clouded by the multitude of risk factors that challenged the global economy in 2022, when the index logged its worst annual return on record. In March 2022, the Federal Reserve, faced with persistent inflationary pressure, began an aggressive series of rate hikes, eventually raising its benchmark interest rate eight times, by a total of 4.5 percentage points, through early February. At the same time, the Fed tapered the stimulative, large-scale asset purchases it had dramatically expanded in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions helped push nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) U.S. bond yields to their highest level in more than a decade. Bond prices, which move inversely to yields, fell sharply, and credit spreads significantly widened, as investors demanded more yield for buying corporate debt and other credit-sensitive assets. In November, the bond market staged a broad rally (+3.68%) when comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed to a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes, and in December the Fed stepped down to a 0.50% rise after a series of 0.75% hikes, followed by a 0.25% rise on February 2. All major market segments lost ground for the full 12 months, with high-quality, shorter-term bonds holding up best.
 
Comments from Co-Portfolio Managers Brandon Bettencourt and Richard Munclinger: For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the Fidelity Treasury Bond Index Short-Term Fund, Intermediate Fund and Long-Term Fund posted negative returns that were nearly in line, net of fees, with the returns of their respective benchmarks. (For specific portfolio results, please refer to the Performance sections of this report.) These results met our goal of producing monthly returns, before expenses, that closely matched the benchmarks' returns. We used a method known as "stratified sampling," which matches the indexes' risk factors, but does not always hold all bonds in the exact proportions of the indexes. During the 12-month period, U.S. Treasuries, like most investment-grade bonds, posted negative results as the U.S. Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to fight inflation, which peaked in June and remained stubbornly high throughout the period. Treasuries with longer durations - that is, with the most sensitivity to interest rates - suffered the biggest declines, while shorter-duration securities posted more modest declines.
 
 
 
The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
0.01 - 0.99%
47.0
 
1 - 1.99%
13.2
 
2 - 2.99%
19.1
 
3 - 3.99%
5.4
 
4 - 4.99%
0.7
 
6 - 6.99%
8.8
 
7 - 7.99%
1.1
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Showing Percentage of Net Assets     
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 6% 2/15/26
 
69,750,000
72,624,463
 6.375% 8/15/27
 
36,850,000
39,941,945
 6.5% 11/15/26
 
15,700,000
16,834,570
 6.625% 2/15/27
 
59,800,000
64,759,195
 6.75% 8/15/26
 
54,250,000
58,274,248
 6.875% 8/15/25 (b)
 
131,500,000
138,290,742
 7.5% 11/15/24
 
48,300,000
50,379,164
U.S. Treasury Notes:
 
 
 
 0.125% 10/15/23
 
34,000
32,977
 0.125% 1/15/24 (b)
 
685,000
655,914
 0.125% 2/15/24
 
34,067,000
32,467,448
 0.25% 11/15/23
 
49,000
47,354
 0.25% 3/15/24
 
94,584,000
89,928,694
 0.25% 5/15/24
 
28,554,000
26,932,222
 0.25% 6/15/24
 
83,552,000
78,519,297
 0.25% 5/31/25
 
70,999,000
64,309,563
 0.25% 6/30/25
 
186,797,000
168,861,572
 0.25% 7/31/25
 
73,459,000
66,181,968
 0.25% 8/31/25
 
1,777,000
1,595,968
 0.25% 9/30/25
 
135,948,000
121,875,258
 0.25% 10/31/25
 
63,258,000
56,492,360
 0.375% 4/15/24
 
35,174,000
33,358,967
 0.375% 7/15/24
 
53,839,000
50,497,197
 0.375% 8/15/24
 
101,964,000
95,304,476
 0.375% 9/15/24
 
28,200,000
26,281,078
 0.375% 4/30/25
 
48,530,000
44,211,588
 0.375% 11/30/25
 
107,122,000
95,690,074
 0.375% 12/31/25
 
72,806,000
64,953,759
 0.375% 1/31/26
 
40,841,000
36,279,890
 0.375% 7/31/27
 
69,145,000
58,465,339
 0.375% 9/30/27
 
61,700,000
51,893,074
 0.5% 3/31/25
 
30,156,000
27,635,147
 0.5% 2/28/26
 
90,301,000
80,279,706
 0.5% 5/31/27
 
40,000,000
34,176,562
 0.5% 6/30/27
 
40,100,000
34,183,684
 0.5% 8/31/27
 
45,488,000
38,583,064
 0.5% 10/31/27
 
45,750,000
38,605,136
 0.625% 10/15/24
 
44,350,000
41,368,502
 0.625% 7/31/26
 
59,512,000
52,428,677
 0.625% 3/31/27
 
48,900,000
42,260,297
 0.625% 11/30/27
 
30,850,000
26,139,350
 0.625% 12/31/27
 
72,900,000
61,623,281
 0.75% 11/15/24
 
31,100,000
28,977,668
 0.75% 3/31/26
 
37,599,000
33,643,762
 0.75% 4/30/26
 
91,032,000
81,150,049
 0.75% 5/31/26
 
49,484,000
43,996,302
 0.75% 8/31/26
 
55,905,000
49,340,530
 0.75% 1/31/28
 
70,000,000
59,401,563
 0.875% 6/30/26
 
57,168,000
50,950,980
 0.875% 9/30/26
 
5,700,000
5,042,273
 1% 12/15/24
 
73,345,000
68,460,109
 1.125% 1/15/25
 
49,688,000
46,394,229
 1.125% 2/28/25
 
33,469,000
31,141,859
 1.125% 10/31/26
 
52,000,000
46,320,625
 1.125% 2/29/28
 
32,450,000
28,010,941
 1.25% 8/31/24
 
18,918,000
17,882,683
 1.25% 11/30/26
 
33,550,000
29,968,275
 1.25% 12/31/26
 
54,250,000
48,373,623
 1.375% 1/31/25
 
19,747,000
18,510,498
 1.5% 2/29/24
 
8,450,000
8,152,600
 1.5% 9/30/24
 
11,902,000
11,274,355
 1.5% 10/31/24
 
24,948,000
23,579,758
 1.5% 11/30/24
 
20,762,000
19,581,972
 1.5% 2/15/25
 
650,000
609,883
 1.5% 1/31/27
 
43,913,000
39,463,378
 1.625% 10/31/23
 
1,735,000
1,695,420
 1.625% 2/15/26
 
18,261,000
16,821,520
 1.625% 5/15/26
 
1,845,000
1,690,553
 1.625% 10/31/26
 
30,150,000
27,379,969
 1.75% 6/30/24
 
14,133,000
13,529,587
 1.75% 7/31/24
 
24,888,000
23,757,346
 1.75% 12/31/24 (b)
 
38,806,000
36,695,924
 1.875% 8/31/24
 
3,571,000
3,407,376
 1.875% 7/31/26
 
2,850,000
2,624,338
 1.875% 2/28/27
 
23,400,000
21,310,453
 2% 4/30/24
 
1,027,000
990,654
 2% 5/31/24
 
55,178,000
53,100,203
 2% 6/30/24
 
32,927,000
31,606,061
 2% 2/15/25
 
7,900,000
7,487,719
 2% 8/15/25
 
22,242,000
20,900,529
 2.125% 11/30/23
 
45,000
44,021
 2.125% 3/31/24
 
66,469,000
64,352,897
 2.125% 7/31/24
 
7,076,000
6,791,854
 2.125% 9/30/24
 
17,000
16,267
 2.125% 11/30/24
 
37,262,000
35,529,899
 2.125% 5/15/25
 
95,659,000
90,487,435
 2.25% 12/31/23
 
1,861,000
1,817,237
 2.25% 1/31/24
 
11,921,000
11,614,127
 2.25% 4/30/24
 
17,179,000
16,621,354
 2.25% 10/31/24
 
2,533,000
2,423,270
 2.25% 11/15/24
 
31,103,000
29,747,104
 2.25% 12/31/24
 
2,818,000
2,688,768
 2.25% 11/15/25
 
9,088,000
8,556,920
 2.25% 8/15/27
 
26,750,000
24,591,192
 2.25% 11/15/27
 
20,900,000
19,149,625
 2.375% 2/29/24
 
21,918,000
21,329,810
 2.375% 8/15/24
 
17,074,000
16,430,390
 2.5% 4/30/24
 
4,100,000
3,977,480
 2.5% 5/15/24
 
33,474,000
32,444,936
 2.5% 1/31/25
 
2,729,000
2,613,444
 2.5% 3/31/27
 
35,100,000
32,736,234
 2.625% 12/31/23
 
14,000
13,716
 2.625% 4/15/25
 
49,000,000
46,890,703
 2.625% 5/31/27
 
58,650,000
54,885,861
 2.75% 11/15/23
 
33,000
32,460
 2.75% 2/15/24 (b)
 
19,764,000
19,320,854
 2.75% 2/28/25
 
36,148,000
34,751,501
 2.75% 6/30/25
 
34,100,000
32,660,074
 2.75% 4/30/27
 
82,350,000
77,508,721
 2.75% 7/31/27
 
14,000,000
13,152,344
 2.75% 2/15/28
 
29,900,000
27,975,188
 2.875% 10/31/23
 
30,000
29,566
 2.875% 11/30/23
 
675,000
663,926
 2.875% 11/30/25
 
3,600,000
3,446,719
 3% 6/30/24
 
28,300,000
27,535,016
 3% 7/15/25
 
38,600,000
37,166,070
 3.125% 8/15/25
 
30,400,000
29,347,875
 3.125% 8/31/27
 
12,794,000
12,209,774
 3.25% 6/30/27
 
47,600,000
45,671,828
 3.5% 1/31/28 (b)
 
59,500,000
57,691,758
 3.875% 11/30/27
 
32,050,000
31,593,037
 4.125% 9/30/27
 
19,228,000
19,127,353
 4.125% 10/31/27
 
11,950,000
11,890,250
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $4,457,474,796)
 
 
 
4,243,978,195
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 5.0%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)
 
10,144,900
10,146,929
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)(d)
 
201,114,605
201,134,716
 
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS
  (Cost $211,281,645)
 
 
211,281,645
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 104.6%
  (Cost $4,668,756,441)
 
 
 
4,455,259,840
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (4.6)%  
(194,012,063)
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
4,261,247,777
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
 
(c)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
(d)
Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
9,351,397
694,243,747
693,448,215
210,864
-
-
10,146,929
0.0%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
119,243,354
727,212,777
645,321,415
67,185
-
-
201,134,716
0.6%
Total
128,594,751
1,421,456,524
1,338,769,630
278,049
-
-
211,281,645
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
4,243,978,195
-
4,243,978,195
-
  Money Market Funds
211,281,645
211,281,645
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
4,455,259,840
211,281,645
4,243,978,195
-
 
Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  (including  securities loaned of $196,604,394) - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $4,457,474,796)
$
4,243,978,195
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $211,281,645)
211,281,645
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $4,668,756,441)
 
 
$
4,455,259,840
Receivable for investments sold
 
 
134,491,632
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
5,097,172
Interest receivable
 
 
12,350,276
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
49,162
  Total assets
 
 
4,607,248,082
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
139,815,400
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
4,232,658
 
 
Distributions payable
711,118
 
 
Accrued management fee
106,413
 
 
Collateral on securities loaned
201,134,716
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
346,000,305
Net Assets  
 
 
$
4,261,247,777
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
4,545,774,629
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(284,526,852)
Net Assets
 
 
$
4,261,247,777
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($4,261,247,777 ÷ 433,845,213 shares)
 
 
$
9.82
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
62,398,252
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $67,185 from security lending)
 
 
278,049
 Total Income
 
 
 
62,676,301
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Management fee
$
1,122,595
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
12,962
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
1,135,557
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(355)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
1,135,202
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
61,541,099
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(89,024,350)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(89,024,350)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(132,404,510)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(221,428,860)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(159,887,761)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
61,541,099
$
31,714,610
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(89,024,350)
 
 
5,267,370
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(132,404,510)
 
(129,483,880)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(159,887,761)
 
 
(92,501,900)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(45,142,094)
 
 
(48,800,799)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
3,110,410,601
 
1,885,488,331
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
35,908,118
 
 
39,601,993
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(2,591,370,911)
 
(1,743,414,750)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
554,947,808
 
 
181,675,574
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
349,917,953
 
 
40,372,875
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
3,911,329,824
 
3,870,956,949
 
End of period
$
4,261,247,777
$
3,911,329,824
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
313,032,641
 
177,138,775
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
3,615,322
 
 
3,723,908
 
Redeemed
 
(259,451,335)
 
(163,962,558)
Net increase (decrease)
 
57,196,628
 
16,900,125
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
10.38
$
10.76
$
10.72
$
10.30
$
10.22
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.164
 
.087
 
.127
 
.217
 
.191
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(.606)
 
(.333)
 
.068
 
.402
 
.065
  Total from investment operations
 
(.442)  
 
(.246)  
 
.195  
 
.619  
 
.256
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.118)
 
(.086)
 
(.125)
 
(.199)
 
(.176)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.048)
 
(.030)
 
-
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.118)
 
(.134)
 
(.155)
 
(.199)
 
(.176)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
9.82
$
10.38
$
10.76
$
10.72
$
10.30
 Total Return   D
 
(4.26)%
 
(2.31)%
 
1.82%
 
6.06%
 
2.53%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of all reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
1.65%
 
.82%
 
1.17%
 
2.07%
 
1.85%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
4,261,248
$
3,911,330
$
3,870,957
$
2,570,535
$
1,886,881
    Portfolio turnover rate G
 
60%
 
48%
 
54%
 
46%
 
46%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
0.01 - 0.99%
10.9
 
1 - 1.99%
51.8
 
2 - 2.99%
19.8
 
3 - 3.99%
8.1
 
4 - 4.99%
4.0
 
5 - 5.99%
2.6
 
6 - 6.99%
2.4
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
Showing Percentage of Net Assets     
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.5%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.5%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 5.25% 11/15/28
 
92,671,000
97,847,545
 5.25% 2/15/29
 
1,844,000
1,948,229
 5.375% 2/15/31
 
1,650,000
1,804,172
 5.5% 8/15/28
 
41,641,000
44,250,069
 6.125% 8/15/29
 
96,050,000
106,938,168
 6.25% 5/15/30
 
22,254,000
25,293,931
 6.375% 8/15/27
 
3,000
3,252
 6.625% 2/15/27
 
315,000
341,123
U.S. Treasury Notes:
 
 
 
 0.375% 7/31/27
 
17,000
14,374
 0.375% 9/30/27
 
28,000
23,550
 0.5% 4/30/27
 
48,000
41,154
 0.5% 5/31/27
 
4,496,000
3,841,446
 0.5% 6/30/27
 
26,000
22,164
 0.5% 10/31/27
 
38,000
32,065
 0.625% 11/30/27
 
115,000
97,440
 0.625% 12/31/27
 
8,952,000
7,567,238
 0.625% 5/15/30
 
144,155,000
114,017,595
 0.625% 8/15/30
 
384,722,000
302,577,842
 0.75% 1/31/28
 
4,943,000
4,194,599
 0.875% 11/15/30
 
225,991,000
180,580,933
 1% 7/31/28
 
177,643,000
150,663,469
 1.125% 8/31/28
 
153,911,000
131,203,116
 1.125% 2/15/31
 
226,238,000
184,101,173
 1.25% 3/31/28
 
133,527,000
115,777,297
 1.25% 4/30/28
 
138,195,000
119,576,463
 1.25% 5/31/28
 
56,884,000
49,124,667
 1.25% 6/30/28
 
143,773,000
123,925,586
 1.25% 9/30/28
 
122,400,000
104,848,031
 1.25% 8/15/31
 
356,658,000
289,129,822
 1.375% 10/31/28
 
97,000,000
83,533,672
 1.375% 12/31/28
 
186,650,000
160,358,597
 1.375% 11/15/31
 
277,935,000
226,245,605
 1.5% 11/30/28
 
89,100,000
77,165,473
 1.5% 2/15/30
 
301,437,000
255,962,401
 1.625% 8/15/29
 
215,626,000
186,381,724
 1.625% 5/15/31
 
146,566,000
123,218,493
 1.75% 1/31/29
 
124,070,000
108,663,026
 1.75% 11/15/29
 
216,086,000
188,011,701
 1.875% 2/28/29
 
72,232,000
63,708,060
 1.875% 2/15/32
 
211,072,000
178,789,783
 2.25% 8/15/27
 
3,419,000
3,143,076
 2.375% 5/15/27
 
6,019,000
5,577,450
 2.375% 3/31/29
 
96,325,000
87,298,294
 2.375% 5/15/29
 
241,348,000
218,401,086
 2.625% 2/15/29
 
18,803,000
17,309,043
 2.625% 7/31/29
 
105,950,000
97,151,183
 2.75% 5/31/29
 
18,200,000
16,834,289
 2.75% 8/15/32
 
155,550,000
141,356,063
 2.875% 5/15/28
 
133,920,000
125,748,788
 2.875% 8/15/28
 
162,829,000
152,594,943
 2.875% 4/30/29
 
23,436,000
21,848,577
 2.875% 5/15/32
 
251,150,000
230,979,516
 3.125% 11/15/28
 
201,240,000
190,761,371
 3.125% 8/31/29
 
6,700,000
6,327,051
 3.25% 6/30/29
 
134,750,000
128,233,574
 3.5% 2/15/33
 
116,150,000
112,320,680
 3.875% 9/30/29
 
14,550,000
14,354,484
 3.875% 12/31/29
 
6,600,000
6,519,563
 4% 10/31/29
 
14,700,000
14,613,293
 4.125% 11/15/32
 
205,900,000
209,181,531
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $6,120,484,776)
 
 
 
5,612,378,903
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 0.4%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (b)
 
  (Cost $24,956,860)
 
 
24,951,870
24,956,860
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 99.9%
  (Cost $6,145,441,636)
 
 
 
5,637,335,763
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - 0.1%  
5,162,294
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
5,642,498,057
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
15,440,149
606,617,477
597,100,766
425,220
-
-
24,956,860
0.1%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
65,865,998
1,274,118,186
1,339,984,184
69,807
-
-
-
0.0%
Total
81,306,147
1,880,735,663
1,937,084,950
495,027
-
-
24,956,860
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
5,612,378,903
-
5,612,378,903
-
  Money Market Funds
24,956,860
24,956,860
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
5,637,335,763
24,956,860
5,612,378,903
-
 
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $6,120,484,776)
$
5,612,378,903
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $24,956,860)
24,956,860
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $6,145,441,636)
 
 
$
5,637,335,763
Receivable for investments sold
 
 
333,171,172
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
10,153,759
Interest receivable
 
 
22,429,073
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
83,756
  Total assets
 
 
6,003,173,523
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
354,620,072
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
4,646,582
 
 
Distributions payable
1,276,486
 
 
Accrued management fee
132,326
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
360,675,466
Net Assets  
 
 
$
5,642,498,057
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
6,345,955,460
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(703,457,403)
Net Assets
 
 
$
5,642,498,057
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($5,642,498,057 ÷ 590,751,094 shares)
 
 
$
9.55
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
88,571,581
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $69,807 from security lending)
 
 
495,027
 Total Income
 
 
 
89,066,608
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Management fee
$
1,334,783
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
15,286
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
1,350,069
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(9)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
1,350,060
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
87,716,548
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(204,344,494)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(204,344,494)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(394,241,058)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(598,585,552)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(510,869,004)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
87,716,548
$
58,338,354
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(204,344,494)
 
 
(9,363,340)
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(394,241,058)
 
(169,085,176)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(510,869,004)
 
 
(120,110,162)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(74,113,793)
 
 
(84,287,703)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
4,023,207,126
 
2,051,062,106
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
62,294,822
 
 
73,718,068
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(2,254,532,105)
 
(2,095,638,739)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
1,830,969,843
 
 
29,141,435
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
1,245,987,046
 
 
(175,256,430)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
4,396,511,011
 
4,571,767,441
 
End of period
$
5,642,498,057
$
4,396,511,011
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
407,895,188
 
184,052,227
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
6,332,883
 
 
6,598,166
 
Redeemed
 
(228,090,762)
 
(187,788,298)
Net increase (decrease)
 
186,137,309
 
2,862,095
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
10.87
$
11.38
$
11.65
$
10.54
$
10.37
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.196
 
.151
 
.174
 
.255
 
.258
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(1.352)
 
(.443)
 
(.092)
 
1.092
 
.153
  Total from investment operations
 
(1.156)  
 
(.292)  
 
.082  
 
1.347  
 
.411
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.164)
 
(.148)
 
(.171)
 
(.237)
 
(.241)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.070)
 
(.181)
 
-
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.164)
 
(.218)
 
(.352)
 
(.237)
 
(.241)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
9.55
$
10.87
$
11.38
$
11.65
$
10.54
 Total Return   D
 
(10.67)%
 
(2.60)%
 
.63%
 
12.91%
 
4.02%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of all reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
1.97%
 
1.35%
 
1.46%
 
2.30%
 
2.47%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
5,642,498
$
4,396,511
$
4,571,767
$
3,508,883
$
2,292,750
    Portfolio turnover rate G
 
41%
 
54%
 
56%
 
58%
 
65%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
1 - 1.99%
22.1
 
2 - 2.99%
32.9
 
3 - 3.99%
35.8
 
4 - 4.99%
8.0
 
5 - 5.99%
0.4
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Showing Percentage of Net Assets     
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 1.125% 5/15/40
 
56,209,000
35,576,345
 1.125% 8/15/40
 
89,854,000
56,590,471
 1.25% 5/15/50
 
95,653,000
53,061,260
 1.375% 11/15/40
 
120,088,000
78,906,259
 1.375% 8/15/50
 
97,345,000
55,798,458
 1.625% 11/15/50
 
67,481,000
41,345,292
 1.75% 8/15/41
 
84,305,000
58,420,730
 1.875% 2/15/41
 
142,248,000
101,668,424
 1.875% 2/15/51
 
154,010,000
100,551,684
 1.875% 11/15/51
 
198,350,000
129,004,977
 2% 11/15/41
 
160,500,000
116,005,137
 2% 2/15/50
 
83,116,900
56,220,791
 2% 8/15/51
 
94,254,000
63,352,679
 2.25% 5/15/41
 
93,127,000
70,758,331
 2.25% 8/15/46
 
7,513,000
5,420,806
 2.25% 8/15/49
 
70,459,000
50,535,066
 2.25% 2/15/52
 
109,800,000
78,288,258
 2.375% 2/15/42
 
73,200,000
56,304,305
 2.375% 11/15/49
 
81,745,000
60,280,552
 2.375% 5/15/51
 
152,797,000
112,168,516
 2.5% 2/15/45
 
7,714,000
5,893,074
 2.5% 2/15/46
 
23,223,000
17,648,573
 2.5% 5/15/46
 
5,162,000
3,922,515
 2.75% 8/15/42
 
20,787,000
16,938,969
 2.75% 11/15/42
 
30,225,000
24,563,716
 2.75% 8/15/47
 
21,492,000
17,085,301
 2.75% 11/15/47
 
25,125,000
19,977,319
 2.875% 5/15/43
 
36,418,000
30,127,359
 2.875% 8/15/45
 
83,287,500
67,924,861
 2.875% 11/15/46
 
27,129,000
22,104,836
 2.875% 5/15/49
 
103,640,000
84,758,088
 2.875% 5/15/52
 
96,900,000
79,348,231
 3% 5/15/42
 
33,801,000
28,766,500
 3% 11/15/44
 
39,287,000
32,861,427
 3% 5/15/45
 
57,614,000
48,089,686
 3% 11/15/45
 
57,132,000
47,627,110
 3% 2/15/47
 
37,190,000
30,954,864
 3% 5/15/47
 
11,507,000
9,582,275
 3% 2/15/48
 
80,497,000
67,095,507
 3% 8/15/48
 
107,791,000
89,963,380
 3% 2/15/49
 
111,284,000
93,113,409
 3% 8/15/52
 
74,600,000
62,710,625
 3.125% 11/15/41
 
42,970,000
37,558,466
 3.125% 2/15/42
 
55,906,000
48,653,507
 3.125% 2/15/43
 
47,347,000
40,797,948
 3.125% 8/15/44
 
3,984,300
3,407,043
 3.125% 5/15/48
 
96,353,000
82,250,082
 3.25% 5/15/42
 
58,850,000
52,015,584
 3.375% 8/15/42
 
38,600,000
34,752,063
 3.375% 5/15/44
 
5,779,300
5,154,413
 3.375% 11/15/48
 
49,444,000
44,238,860
 3.5% 2/15/39
 
1,381,000
1,300,460
 3.625% 8/15/43
 
93,153,000
86,730,538
 3.625% 2/15/44
 
64,575,000
59,921,060
 3.625% 2/15/53
 
27,200,000
25,895,250
 3.75% 8/15/41
 
41,531,000
39,858,404
 3.75% 11/15/43
 
59,618,000
56,497,370
 3.875% 8/15/40
 
22,572,000
22,144,366
 4% 11/15/42
 
4,600,000
4,534,594
 4% 11/15/52
 
47,700,000
48,549,656
 4.25% 5/15/39
 
10,481,000
10,796,658
 4.25% 11/15/40
 
20,999,000
21,595,339
 4.375% 11/15/39
 
22,043,000
23,057,322
 4.375% 5/15/40
 
23,064,000
24,057,734
 4.375% 5/15/41
 
14,303,000
14,938,254
 4.5% 2/15/36
 
16,265,000
17,363,523
 4.5% 5/15/38
 
4,910,000
5,208,820
 4.5% 8/15/39
 
3,983,000
4,224,625
 4.625% 2/15/40
 
26,022,000
28,026,507
 4.75% 2/15/37
 
6,128,000
6,700,585
 4.75% 2/15/41
 
43,771,000
47,848,884
 5% 5/15/37
 
10,219,000
11,424,523
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $4,003,670,468)
 
 
 
3,190,818,404
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 1.0%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (b)
 
  (Cost $30,440,344)
 
 
30,434,257
30,440,344
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.6%
  (Cost $4,034,110,812)
 
 
 
3,221,258,748
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.6)%  
(17,971,283)
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
3,203,287,465
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
21,154,053
436,258,137
426,971,846
228,935
-
-
30,440,344
0.1%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
-
493,731,212
493,731,212
71,885
-
-
-
0.0%
Total
21,154,053
929,989,349
920,703,058
300,820
-
-
30,440,344
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
3,190,818,404
-
3,190,818,404
-
  Money Market Funds
30,440,344
30,440,344
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
3,221,258,748
30,440,344
3,190,818,404
-
 
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $4,003,670,468)
$
3,190,818,404
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $30,440,344)
30,440,344
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $4,034,110,812)
 
 
$
3,221,258,748
Receivable for investments sold
 
 
17,128,031
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
20,134,208
Interest receivable
 
 
17,047,052
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
66,032
  Total assets
 
 
3,275,634,071
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
70,038,246
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
1,890,819
 
 
Distributions payable
336,948
 
 
Accrued management fee
80,593
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
72,346,606
Net Assets  
 
 
$
3,203,287,465
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
4,240,632,827
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(1,037,345,362)
Net Assets
 
 
$
3,203,287,465
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($3,203,287,465 ÷ 311,361,900 shares)
 
 
$
10.29
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
92,825,172
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $71,885 from security lending)
 
 
300,820
 Total Income
 
 
 
93,125,992
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Management fee
$
969,359
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
11,566
 
 
Interest
1,025
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
981,950
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(38)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
981,912
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
92,144,080
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(214,222,439)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(214,222,439)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(820,112,215)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(1,034,334,654)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(942,190,574)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
92,144,080
$
74,334,449
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(214,222,439)
 
 
1,805,659
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(820,112,215)
 
(139,208,919)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(942,190,574)
 
 
(63,068,811)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(88,406,732)
 
 
(98,737,664)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
1,586,555,265
 
2,110,562,315
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
83,448,932
 
 
92,767,395
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(1,294,379,641)
 
(1,195,118,970)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
375,624,556
 
 
1,008,210,740
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
(654,972,750)
 
 
846,404,265
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
3,858,260,215
 
3,011,855,950
 
End of period
$
3,203,287,465
$
3,858,260,215
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
142,018,890
 
145,754,682
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
7,594,098
 
 
6,392,889
 
Redeemed
 
(114,947,506)
 
(83,311,906)
Net increase (decrease)
 
34,665,482
 
68,835,665
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
13.94
$
14.49
$
16.10
$
12.53
$
12.42
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.320
 
.310
 
.336
 
.378
 
.381
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(3.663)
 
(.448)
 
(1.296)
 
3.562
 
.101
  Total from investment operations
 
(3.343)  
 
(.138)  
 
(.960)  
 
3.940  
 
.482
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.307)
 
(.301)
 
(.330)
 
(.370)
 
(.372)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.111)
 
(.320)
 
-
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.307)
 
(.412)
 
(.650)
 
(.370)
 
(.372)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
10.29
$
13.94
$
14.49
$
16.10
$
12.53
 Total Return   D
 
(24.10)%
 
(1.02)%
 
(6.32)%
 
31.86%
 
3.94%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of all reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
2.85%
 
2.15%
 
2.04%
 
2.69%
 
3.04%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
3,203,287
$
3,858,260
$
3,011,856
$
2,691,210
$
2,366,042
    Portfolio turnover rate G
 
26%
 
22%
 
41%
 
54%
 
34%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
For the period ended February 28, 2023
 
1. Organization.
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund,   Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund and Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Funds) are funds of Fidelity Salem Street Trust (the Trust). Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. Share transactions on the Statement of Changes in Net Assets may contain exchanges between affiliated funds. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
 
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
 
 
 
Fidelity Central Fund+
Investment Manager
Investment Objective
Investment Practices
Expense Ratio A
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR)
Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity.
Short-term Investments
Less than .005%
 
A   Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
 
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
Each Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. Each Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of each Fund:
 
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated each Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, each Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages each Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. Each Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
 
Each Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
 
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
 
Valuation techniques used to value each Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
 
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing vendors or from brokers who make markets in such securities. U.S. government and government agency obligations are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing vendors. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
 
 
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
 
 
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of February 28, 2023, is included at the end of each Fund's Schedule of Investments.
 
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Funds' investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.   Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned and includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities as applicable.
 
 
Expenses. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
 
 
 
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, each Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. As of February 28, 2023, each Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the financial statements; nor is each Fund aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change in the next twelve months. Each Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. Each Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction.
 
Distributions are declared and recorded daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
 
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
 
Book-tax differences are primarily due to   market discount, capital loss carryforwards, and losses deferred due to wash sales and excise tax regulations.
 
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows for each Fund:
 
 
Tax cost
Gross unrealized appreciation
Gross unrealized depreciation
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$4,653,153,700
$3,996,499
$ (201,890,359)
$ (197,893,860)
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
6,148,784,085
2,315,393
  (513,763,715)
  (511,448,322)
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
4,060,009,165
9,180,121
  (847,930,538)
  (838,750,417)
 
The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows for each Fund:
 
 
Capital loss carryforward
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on securities and other investments
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$   (85,925,583)
$   (197,893,860)
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  (191,178,558)
  (511,448,322)
 
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  
  (198,267,332)
  
  (838,750,417)
 
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Funds to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
 
 
 
Short-term
Long-term
Total capital loss carryforward
 
 
 
 
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$   (34,962,145)
$   (50,963,438)
$   (85,925,583)
 
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
 
(46,165,634)
 
(145,012,924)
 
(191,178,558)
 
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
 
(35,021,005)
 
(163,246,327)
 
(198,267,332)
 
 
The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
Ordinary Income
Long-term Capital Gains
Total
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$45,142,094
$   -
$45,142,094
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  74,113,793
  -
  74,113,793
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  88,406,732
  -
  88,406,732
 
February 28, 2022
 
 
 
 
Ordinary Income
Long-term Capital Gains
Total
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$31,221,216
$17,579,583
$48,800,799
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  57,410,995
  26,876,708
  84,287,703
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
  72,076,071
  26,661,593
  98,737,664
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Funds with investment management related services for which the Funds pay a monthly management fee. The management fee is based on an annual rate of .03% of each Fund's average net assets. Under the management contract, the investment adviser pays all other operating expenses, except the compensation of the independent Trustees and certain other expenses such as interest expense.
 
Interfund Lending Program. Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), each Fund, along with other registered investment companies having management contracts with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR), or other affiliated entities of FMR, may participate in an interfund lending program. This program provides an alternative credit facility allowing each Fund to borrow from, or lend money to, other participating affiliated funds. At period end, there were no interfund loans outstanding. Activity in this program during the period for which loans were outstanding was as follows:
 
 
 
Borrower or Lender
Average Loan Balance
Weighted Average Interest Rate
Interest Expense
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
Borrower
$8,552,000
4.32%
$1,025
 
 
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. During the period, there were no interfund trades.  
5. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The commitment fees on the pro-rata portion of the line of credit are borne by the investment adviser. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
6. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
 
 
Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS
Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS
Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$   7,221
$   -
$   -
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
$   7,520
$   -
$   -
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$   7,545
$   -
$   -
7. Expense Reductions.
Through arrangements with each applicable Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of certain uninvested cash balances were used to reduce each applicable Fund's expenses. All of the applicable expense reductions are noted in the table below.
 
 
Custodian credits
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$   355
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
9
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
38
8. Other.
A fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the fund. In the normal course of business, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
 
At the end of the period, the following mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates were the owners of record of 10% or more of the total outstanding shares.
 
 
Strategic Advisers Fidelity Core Income Fund
Fidelity Multi-Asset Index Fund
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
13%
-
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
-
11%
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
33%
-
 
Mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates, in aggregate, were the owners of record of more than 20% of the total outstanding shares.
 
Fund
% of shares held
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
22%
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
33%
9. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
 
 
To the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Salem Street Trust and Shareholders of Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund, Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund, and Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund:
Opinions on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, of Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund, Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund, and Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (three of the funds constituting Fidelity Salem Street Trust, hereafter collectively referred to as the "Funds") as of February 28, 2023, the related statements of operations for the year ended February 28, 2023, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended February 28, 2023, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended February 28, 2023 (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds as of February 28, 2023, the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period ended February 28, 2023 and each of the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended February 28, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinions
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds' management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds' financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.   Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of February 28, 2023 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
April 13, 2023
We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds since 1932.
TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS
The Trustees, Members of the Advisory Board (if any), and officers of the trust and funds, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs each fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee each fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to each fund, oversee management of the risks associated with such activities and contractual arrangements, and review each fund's performance. Except for Jonathan Chiel, each of the Trustees oversees 292 funds. Mr. Chiel oversees 187 funds.
The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the trust and the funds is referred to herein as an Independent Trustee. Each Independent Trustee shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 75th birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. Officers and Advisory Board Members hold office without limit in time, except that any officer or Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.
The funds' Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-8544.
Experience, Skills, Attributes, and Qualifications of the Trustees.   The Governance and Nominating Committee has adopted a statement of policy that describes the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that are necessary and desirable for potential Independent Trustee candidates (Statement of Policy). The Board believes that each Trustee satisfied at the time he or she was initially elected or appointed a Trustee, and continues to satisfy, the standards contemplated by the Statement of Policy. The Governance and Nominating Committee also engages professional search firms to help identify potential Independent Trustee candidates who have the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills consistent with the Statement of Policy. From time to time, additional criteria based on the composition and skills of the current Independent Trustees, as well as experience or skills that may be appropriate in light of future changes to board composition, business conditions, and regulatory or other developments, have also been considered by the professional search firms and the Governance and Nominating Committee. In addition, the Board takes into account the Trustees' commitment and participation in Board and committee meetings, as well as their leadership of standing and ad hoc committees throughout their tenure.
In determining that a particular Trustee was and continues to be qualified to serve as a Trustee, the Board has considered a variety of criteria, none of which, in isolation, was controlling. The Board believes that, collectively, the Trustees have balanced and diverse experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills, which allow the Board to operate effectively in governing each fund and protecting the interests of shareholders. Information about the specific experience, skills, attributes, and qualifications of each Trustee, which in each case led to the Board's conclusion that the Trustee should serve (or continue to serve) as a trustee of the funds, is provided below.
Board Structure and Oversight Function.   Abigail P. Johnson is an interested person and currently serves as Chairman. The Trustees have determined that an interested Chairman is appropriate and benefits shareholders because an interested Chairman has a personal and professional stake in the quality and continuity of services provided to the funds. Independent Trustees exercise their informed business judgment to appoint an individual of their choosing to serve as Chairman, regardless of whether the Trustee happens to be independent or a member of management. The Independent Trustees have determined that they can act independently and effectively without having an Independent Trustee serve as Chairman and that a key structural component for assuring that they are in a position to do so is for the Independent Trustees to constitute a substantial majority for the Board. The Independent Trustees also regularly meet in executive session. Michael E. Kenneally serves as Chairman of the Independent Trustees and as such (i) acts as a liaison between the Independent Trustees and management with respect to matters important to the Independent Trustees and (ii) with management prepares agendas for Board meetings.
Fidelity ® funds are overseen by different Boards of Trustees. The funds' Board oversees Fidelity's investment-grade bond, money market, asset allocation and certain equity funds, and other Boards oversee Fidelity's alternative investment, high income and other equity funds. The asset allocation funds may invest in Fidelity ® funds that are overseen by such other Boards. The use of separate Boards, each with its own committee structure, allows the Trustees of each group of Fidelity ® funds to focus on the unique issues of the funds they oversee, including common research, investment, and operational issues. On occasion, the separate Boards establish joint committees to address issues of overlapping consequences for the Fidelity ® funds overseen by each Board.
The Trustees operate using a system of committees to facilitate the timely and efficient consideration of all matters of importance to the Trustees, each fund, and fund shareholders and to facilitate compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and oversight of the funds' activities and associated risks. The Board, acting through its committees, has charged FMR and its affiliates with (i) identifying events or circumstances the occurrence of which could have demonstrably adverse effects on the funds' business and/or reputation; (ii) implementing processes and controls to lessen the possibility that such events or circumstances occur or to mitigate the effects of such events or circumstances if they do occur; and (iii) creating and maintaining a system designed to evaluate continuously business and market conditions in order to facilitate the identification and implementation processes described in (i) and (ii) above. Because the day-to-day operations and activities of the funds are carried out by or through FMR, its affiliates, and other service providers, the funds' exposure to risks is mitigated but not eliminated by the processes overseen by the Trustees. While each of the Board's committees has responsibility for overseeing different aspects of the funds' activities, oversight is exercised primarily through the Operations and Audit Committees. In addition, an ad hoc Board committee of Independent Trustees has worked with FMR to enhance the Board's oversight of investment and financial risks, legal and regulatory risks, technology risks, and operational risks, including the development of additional risk reporting to the Board. Appropriate personnel, including but not limited to the funds' Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), FMR's internal auditor, the independent accountants, the funds' Treasurer and portfolio management personnel, make periodic reports to the Board's committees, as appropriate, including an annual review of Fidelity's risk management program for the Fidelity ® funds. The responsibilities of each standing committee, including their oversight responsibilities, are described further under "Standing Committees of the Trustees."
Interested Trustees*:
Correspondence intended for a Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Jonathan Chiel (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Chiel also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Chiel is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2012-present). Previously, Mr. Chiel served as general counsel (2004-2012) and senior vice president and deputy general counsel (2000-2004) for John Hancock Financial Services; a partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart (1996-2000) (law firm); and an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office of the District of Massachusetts (1986-95), including Chief of the Criminal Division (1993-1995). Mr. Chiel is a director on the boards of the Boston Bar Foundation and the Maimonides School.
Abigail P. Johnson (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Ms. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Johnson serves as Chairman (2016-present), Chief Executive Officer (2014-present), and Director (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company), President of Fidelity Financial Services (2012-present) and President of Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services (2005-present). Ms. Johnson is Chairman and Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (investment adviser firm, 2011-present). Previously, Ms. Johnson served as Chairman and Director of FMR Co., Inc. (investment adviser firm, 2011-2019), Vice Chairman (2007-2016) and President (2013-2016) of FMR LLC, President and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company (2001-2005), a Trustee of other investment companies advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (investment adviser firm), and FMR Co., Inc. (2001-2005), Senior Vice President of the Fidelity ® funds (2001-2005), and managed a number of Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Abigail P. Johnson and Mr. Arthur E. Johnson are not related.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe (1959)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Ms. McAuliffe also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and as Trustee of Fidelity Charitable (2020-present). Previously, Ms. McAuliffe served as Co-Head of Fixed Income of Fidelity Investments Limited (now known as FIL Limited (FIL)) (diversified financial services company), Director of Research for FIL's credit and quantitative teams in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and Director of Research for taxable and municipal bonds at Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. Ms. McAuliffe previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016). Ms. McAuliffe was previously a lawyer at Ropes & Gray LLP and an international banker at Chemical Bank NA (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Ms. McAuliffe also currently serves as director or trustee of several not-for-profit entities.
* Determined to be an "Interested Trustee" by virtue of, among other things, his or her affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for each fund.
Independent Trustees:
Correspondence intended for an Independent Trustee may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Elizabeth S. Acton (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Trustee
Ms. Acton also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Acton served as Executive Vice President, Finance (2011-2012), Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (2002-2011) and Treasurer (2004-2005) of Comerica Incorporated (financial services). Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Acton held a variety of positions at Ford Motor Company (1983-2002), including Vice President and Treasurer (2000-2002) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Credit Company (1998-2000). Ms. Acton currently serves as a member of the Board and Audit and Finance Committees of Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (homebuilding, 2012-present). Ms. Acton previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2013-2016).
Ann E. Dunwoody (1953)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Trustee
General Dunwoody also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. General Dunwoody (United States Army, Retired) was the first woman in U.S. military history to achieve the rank of four-star general and prior to her retirement in 2012 held a variety of positions within the U.S. Army, including Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Command (2008-2012). General Dunwoody currently serves as a member of the Board, Chair of Nomination Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Kforce Inc. (professional staffing services, 2016-present) and a member of the Board of Automattic Inc. (software engineering, 2018-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as President of First to Four LLC (leadership and mentoring services, 2012-2022), a member of the Advisory Board and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of L3 Technologies, Inc. (communication, electronic, sensor and aerospace systems, 2013-2019) and a member of the Board and Audit and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees of Republic Services, Inc. (waste collection, disposal and recycling, 2013-2016). General Dunwoody also serves on several boards for non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Board, Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Noble Reach Foundation (formerly Logistics Management Institute) (consulting non-profit, 2012-present) and a member of the Board of ThanksUSA (military family education non-profit, 2014-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as a member of the Board of Florida Institute of Technology (2015-2022) and a member of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United States Army (advocacy non-profit, 2013-2021). General Dunwoody previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2018).
John Engler (1948)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2014
Trustee
Mr. Engler also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Engler served as Governor of Michigan (1991-2003), President of the Business Roundtable (2011-2017) and interim President of Michigan State University (2018-2019). Previously, Mr. Engler served as a member of the Board of Stride, Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.) (technology-based education company, 2012-2022), a member of the Board of Universal Forest Products (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2003-2019) and Trustee of The Munder Funds (2003-2014). Mr. Engler previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2014-2016).
Robert F. Gartland (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Trustee
Mr. Gartland also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gartland held a variety of positions at Morgan Stanley (financial services, 1979-2007), including Managing Director (1987-2007) and Chase Manhattan Bank (1975-1978). Mr. Gartland previously served as Chairman and an investor in Gartland & Mellina Group Corp. (consulting, 2009-2019), as a member of the Board of National Securities Clearing Corporation (1993-1996) and as Chairman of TradeWeb (2003-2004).
Arthur E. Johnson (1947)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2008
Trustee
Mr. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development of Lockheed Martin Corporation (defense contractor, 1999-2009). Mr. Johnson currently serves as a member of the Board of Booz Allen Hamilton (management consulting, 2011-present). Mr. Johnson previously served as a member of the Board of Eaton Corporation plc (diversified power management, 2009-2019) and a member of the Board of AGL Resources, Inc. (holding company, 2002-2016). Mr. Johnson previously served as Chairman (2018-2021) and Vice Chairman (2015-2018) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity® funds. Mr. Arthur E. Johnson is not related to Ms. Abigail P. Johnson.     
Michael E. Kenneally (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Independent Trustees
Mr. Kenneally also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and was Vice Chairman (2018-2021) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity ® funds. Prior to retirement in 2005, he was Chairman and Global Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management, the worldwide fund management and institutional investment business of Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Mr. Kenneally was an Executive Vice President and the Chief Investment Officer for Bank of America. In this role, he was responsible for the investment management, strategy and products delivered to the bank's institutional, high-net-worth and retail clients. Earlier, Mr. Kenneally directed the organization's equity and quantitative research groups. He began his career as a research analyst and then spent more than a dozen years as a portfolio manager for endowments, pension plans and mutual funds. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1991.     
Mark A. Murray (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Murray also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Murray served as Co-Chief Executive Officer (2013-2016), President (2006-2013) and Vice Chairman (2013-2020) of Meijer, Inc. Mr. Murray serves as a member of the Board (2009-present) and Public Policy and Responsibility Committee (2009-present) and Chair of the Nuclear Review Committee (2019-present) of DTE Energy Company (diversified energy company). Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Board of Spectrum Health (not-for-profit health system, 2015-2019) and as a member of the Board and Audit Committee and Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2004-2016). Mr. Murray also serves as a member of the Board of many community and professional organizations. Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016).
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for each fund.
Advisory Board Members and Officers:
Correspondence intended for a Member of the Advisory Board (if any) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235. Correspondence intended for an officer may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Officers appear below in alphabetical order.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupation
Laura M. Bishop (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2022
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Bishop also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Bishop held a variety of positions at United Services Automobile Association (2001-2020), including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2014-2020) and Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (2012-2014). Ms. Bishop currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation and Personnel Committee (2021-present) of the Board of Directors of Korn Ferry (global organizational consulting).    
Robert W. Helm (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Member of the Advisory Board
Mr. Helm also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Helm was formerly Deputy Chairman (2003-2020), partner (1991-2020) and an associate (1984-1991) of Dechert LLP (formerly Dechert Price & Rhoads). Mr. Helm currently serves on boards and committees of several not-for-profit organizations, including as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Baltimore and a member of the Life Guard Society of Mt. Vernon.     
Carol J. Zierhoffer (1960)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Zierhoffer also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Zierhoffer held a variety of positions at Bechtel Corporation (engineering company, 2013-2019), including Principal Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2013-2016) and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2016-2019). Ms. Zierhoffer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2020-present) and as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (aviation operating services, 2021-present). Previously, Ms. Zierhoffer served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee and as the founding Chair of the Information Technology Committee of MedAssets, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2013-2016).    
Heather Bonner (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Bonner also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Bonner serves as Senior Vice President (2022-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Ms. Bonner serves as Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity CRET Trustee LLC (2022-present). Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Bonner served as Managing Director at AQR Capital Management (2013-2022) and was the Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer of the AQR Funds (2013-2022).     
Craig S. Brown (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2019
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Brown also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Brown serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2013-present). Previously, Mr. Brown served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2022).     
John J. Burke III (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Burke also serves as Chief Financial Officer of other funds. Mr. Burke serves as Head of Investment Operations for Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (2018-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1998-present). Previously Mr. Burke served as head of Asset Management Investment Operations (2012-2018).     
Margaret Carey (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Ms. Carey also serves as an officer of other funds and as CLO of certain other Fidelity entities. She is a Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2019-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.     
David J. Carter (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Carter also serves as Assistant Secretary of other funds. Mr. Carter serves as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel (2022-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present).     
Jonathan Davis (1968)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Davis also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Davis serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present), FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), FD Funds GP LLC (2021-present), FD Funds Holding LLC (2021-present), and FD Funds Management LLC (2021-present); and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Davis served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2003-2010).     
Laura M. Del Prato (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
President and Treasurer
Ms. Del Prato also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Del Prato serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2017-present). Previously, Ms. Del Prato served as President and Treasurer of The North Carolina Capital Management Trust: Cash Portfolio and Term Portfolio (2018-2020). Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Del Prato served as a Managing Director and Treasurer of the JPMorgan Mutual Funds (2014-2017). Prior to JPMorgan, Ms. Del Prato served as a partner at Cohen Fund Audit Services (accounting firm, 2012-2013) and KPMG LLP (accounting firm, 2004-2012).     
Christopher M. Gouveia (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Gouveia also serves as Chief Compliance Officer of other funds. Mr. Gouveia serves as Senior Vice President of Asset Management Compliance for Fidelity Investments and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Gouveia served as Chief Compliance Officer of the North Carolina Capital Management Trust (2016-2019).     
Colm A. Hogan (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Hogan also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Hogan serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as Deputy Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2020) and Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2018).     
Chris Maher (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Maher also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Maher serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Maher served as Assistant Treasurer of certain funds (2013-2020); Vice President of Asset Management Compliance (2013), Vice President of the Program Management Group of FMR (investment adviser firm, 2010-2013), and Vice President of Valuation Oversight (2008-2010).     
Jamie Pagliocco (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Vice President
Mr. Pagliocco also serves as Vice President of other funds. Mr. Pagliocco serves as President of Fixed Income (2020-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2001-present). Previously, Mr. Pagliocco served as Co-Chief Investment Officer - Bond (2017-2020), Global Head of Bond Trading (2016-2019), and as a portfolio manager.     
Brett Segaloff (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer
Mr. Segaloff also serves as an AML Officer of other funds and other related entities. He is Director, Anti-Money Laundering (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1996-present).     
Stacie M. Smith (1974)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Smith also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Smith serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2009-present), and has served in other fund officer roles. Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Smith served as Senior Audit Manager of Ernst & Young LLP (accounting firm, 1996-2009). Previously, Ms. Smith served as Assistant Treasurer (2013-2019) and Deputy Treasurer (2013-2016) of certain Fidelity ® funds.     
Jim Wegmann (1979)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Deputy Treasurer
Mr. Wegmann also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Wegmann serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2011-present). Previously, Mr. Wegmann served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2021).     
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
 
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023).
 
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
 
 
 
 
 
Annualized Expense Ratio- A
 
Beginning Account Value September 1, 2022
 
Ending Account Value February 28, 2023
 
Expenses Paid During Period- C September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
.03%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 990.20
 
$ .15
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.65
 
$ .15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
.03%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 969.70
 
$ .15
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.65
 
$ .15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
.03%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 928.50
 
$ .14
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.65
 
$ .15
 
A   Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
 
B   5% return per year before expenses
 
C   Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
 
 
 
Distributions   (Unaudited)
The dividend and capital gains distributions for the fund(s) are available on Fidelity.com or Institutional.Fidelity.com.
 
A percentage of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year for the following funds were derived from interest on U.S. Government securities which is generally exempt from state income tax:
 
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
99.55%
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
99.45%
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
99.68%
 
 
The funds hereby designate the amounts noted below as distributions paid in the calendar year 2022, as qualifying to be taxed as interest-related dividends for nonresident alien shareholders:
 
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$40,074,493
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$66,047,725
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$85,598,814
 
The funds hereby designate the amounts noted below as distributions paid during the fiscal year ended 2023 as qualifying to be taxed as section 163(j) interest dividends:
 
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$45,142,094
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$74,113,793
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
$87,004,276
 
The funds will notify shareholders in January 2024 of amounts for use in preparing 2023 income tax returns.
 
 
 
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
 
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) and the sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for each fund. FMR and the sub-advisers are referred to herein as the Investment Advisers. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information relevant to the renewal of the Advisory Contracts throughout the year.
 
The Board meets regularly and, at each of its meetings, covers an extensive agenda of topics and materials and considers factors that are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of each fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to each fund and its shareholders. The Board has established four standing committees (Committees) - Operations, Audit, Fair Valuation, and Governance and Nominating - each composed of and chaired by Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. The Operations Committee, of which all the Independent Trustees are members, meets regularly throughout the year and requests, receives and considers, among other matters, information related to the annual consideration of the renewal of each fund's Advisory Contracts before making its recommendation to the Board. The Board also meets as needed to review matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of the Advisory Contracts. Members of the Board may also meet from time to time with trustees of other Fidelity funds through joint ad hoc committees to discuss certain matters relevant to all of the Fidelity funds.
 
At its September 2022 meeting, the Board unanimously determined to renew each fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to each fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of each fund); (ii) the competitiveness relative to peer funds of each fund's management fee and total expense ratio; (iii) the total costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity from its relationships with each fund; and (iv) the extent to which, if any, economies of scale exist and are realized as each fund grows, and whether any economies of scale are appropriately shared with fund shareholders.
 
In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for each fund, the Board reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts was in the best interests of each fund and its shareholders and that the compensation payable under the Advisory Contracts was fair and reasonable. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, was aware that shareholders of each fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among funds offered by Fidelity's competitors, and that each fund's shareholders, who have the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in that fund, which is part of the Fidelity family of funds.   
 
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered Fidelity's staffing as it relates to the funds, including the backgrounds of investment personnel of Fidelity, and also considered the funds' investment objectives, strategies, and related investment philosophies. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the investment personnel compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives to act in the best interests of each fund. Additionally, the Board considered the portfolio managers' investments, if any, in the funds that they manage. The Board also considered the steps Fidelity had taken to ensure the continued provision of high-quality services to the Fidelity funds throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the expansion of staff in client facing positions to maintain service levels in periods of high volumes and volatility.  
 
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the general qualifications and capabilities of Fidelity's investment staff, including its size, education, experience, and resources, as well as Fidelity's approach to recruiting, managing, training, and compensating investment personnel. The Board noted the resources devoted to Fidelity's global investment organization, and that Fidelity's analysts have extensive resources, tools and capabilities that allow them to conduct quantitative and fundamental analysis, as well as credit analysis of issuers, counterparties and guarantors. Further, the Board considered that Fidelity's investment professionals have sufficient access to global information and data so as to provide competitive investment results over time, and that those professionals also have access to sophisticated tools that permit them to assess portfolio construction and risk and performance attribution characteristics continuously, as well as to transmit new information and research conclusions rapidly around the world. Additionally, in its deliberations, the Board considered Fidelity's trading, risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, and technology and operations capabilities and resources, which are integral parts of the investment management process.  
 
Shareholder and Administrative Services . The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for each fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians, subcustodians, and pricing vendors; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, each fund's compliance policies and procedures.  
 
The Board noted that the growth of fund assets over time across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value and convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information over the Internet and through telephone representatives, investor education materials and asset allocation tools. The Board also considered that it reviews customer service metrics such as telephone response times, continuity of services on the website and metrics addressing services at Fidelity Investor Centers.  
 
Investment in a Large Fund Family . The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity had taken, or had made recommendations to the Board that resulted in the Fidelity funds taking, a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including: (i) continuing to dedicate additional resources to Fidelity's investment research process, which includes meetings with management of issuers of securities in which the funds invest; (ii) continuing efforts to enhance Fidelity's global research capabilities; (iii) launching new funds, ETFs, and share classes with innovative structures, strategies and pricing and making other enhancements to meet investor needs; (iv) broadening eligibility requirements for certain funds and share classes; (v) reducing management fees and total expenses for certain funds and classes; (vi) lowering expenses for certain existing funds and classes by implementing or lowering expense caps; (vii) rationalizing product lines and gaining increased efficiencies from fund mergers and liquidations; (viii) continuing to develop, acquire and implement systems and technology to improve services to the funds and shareholders, strengthen information security, and increase efficiency; and (ix) continuing to implement enhancements to further strengthen Fidelity's product line to increase investors' probability of success in achieving their investment goals, including their retirement income goals.  
 
Investment Performance . The Board considered whether each fund has operated in accordance with its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions and its performance history.
 
The Board took into account discussions that occur at Board meetings throughout the year with representatives of the Investment Advisers about fund investment performance. In this regard the Board noted that as part of regularly scheduled fund reviews and other reports to the Board on fund performance, the Board considers annualized return information for each fund for different time periods, measured against the securities market index the fund seeks to track and an appropriate peer group of funds with similar objectives (peer group). The Board also periodically considers each fund's tracking error versus its benchmark index.   
 
In addition to reviewing absolute and relative fund performance, the Independent Trustees periodically consider the appropriateness of fund performance metrics in evaluating the results achieved. In general, the Independent Trustees believe that an index fund's performance should be evaluated based on gross performance (before fees and expenses but after transaction costs) compared to a fund's benchmark index, over appropriate time periods, taking into account relevant factors including the following: general market conditions; the characteristics of the fund's benchmark index; the extent to which statistical sampling is employed; and fund cash flows and other factors. The Independent Trustees generally give greater weight to fund performance over longer time periods than over shorter time periods. Depending on the circumstances, the Independent Trustees may be satisfied with a fund's performance notwithstanding that it lags its benchmark index for certain periods.
 
The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders evaluate performance on a net basis (after fees and expenses) over their own holding periods, for which one-, three-, and five-year periods are often used as a proxy. For this reason, the performance information reviewed by the Board also included net cumulative calendar year total return information for each fund and its appropriate benchmark index and peer group for the most recent one-, three-, and five-year periods. The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders who are not investing through a tax-advantaged retirement account also consider tax consequences in evaluating performance.
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of services provided to each fund under the Advisory Contracts should continue to benefit the shareholders of each fund.  
 
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Expense Ratio . The Board considered each fund's management fee and total expense ratio compared to selected groups of competitive funds and classes (referred to as "mapped groups" below) for the purpose of facilitating the Trustees' competitive analysis of management fees and total expenses. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar investment objective categories (as classified by Lipper) that have comparable investment mandates. Combining funds with similar investment objective categories aids the Board's comparisons of management fees and total expense ratios by broadening the competitive group used for such comparisons.
 
Management Fee . The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in basis points (BP) in the charts below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group" and is broader than the Lipper peer group used by the Board for performance comparisons. The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps relative to the total universe of funds with comparable investment mandates, regardless of whether their management fee structures also are comparable. Funds with comparable investment mandates offer exposure to similar types of securities. Funds with comparable management fee structures have similar management fee contractual arrangements (e.g., flat rate charged for advisory services, all-inclusive fee rate, etc.). "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than a fund's. For example, a hypothetical TMG % of 20% would mean that 80% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher, and 20% had lower, management fees than a fund. The funds' actual TMG %s and the number of funds in the Total Mapped Group are in the charts below. The "Asset-Sized Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the Total Mapped Group that are similar in size and management fee structure. For example, if a fund is in the first quartile of the ASPG, the fund's management fee ranks in the least expensive or lowest 25% of funds in the ASPG. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee structures, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which a fund's management fee rate ranked, is also included in the charts and was considered by the Board.
 
Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund  
 
The Board considered that effective August 1, 2017, the fund's management fee rate was reduced from 0.05% to 0.03%. The Board considered that the chart below reflects the fund's lower management fee rate for 2017, as if the lower fee rate were in effect for the entire year.
 
 
 
The Board noted that the fund's management fee rate ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2021.  
 
Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
 
The Board considered that effective August 1, 2017, the fund's management fee rate was reduced from 0.05% to 0.03%. The Board considered that the chart below reflects the fund's lower management fee rate for 2017, as if the lower fee rate were in effect for the entire year.
 
 
 
The Board noted that the fund's management fee rate ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2021.  
 
Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund  
 
The Board considered that effective August 1, 2017, the fund's management fee rate was reduced from 0.05% to 0.03%. The Board considered that the chart below reflects the fund's lower management fee rate for 2017, as if the lower fee rate were in effect for the entire year.
 
 
 
The Board noted that the fund's management fee rate ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2021.  
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that each fund's management fee is fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.
 
Total Expense Ratio . In its review of each fund's total expense ratio, the Board considered the fund's unitary (subject to certain limited exceptions) fee rate. The Board also considered other expenses, such as transfer agent fees, pricing and bookkeeping fees, and custodial, legal, and audit fees, paid by FMR under the unitary fee arrangement. The Board also noted that Fidelity may agree to waive fees or reimburse expenses from time to time, and the extent to which, if any, it has done so for each fund.  Each fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure. The Board also considered a total expense ASPG comparison, which focuses on the total expenses of each fund relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the similar sales load structure group that are similar in size and management fee structure. The total expense ASPG is limited to 15 larger and 15 smaller classes of different funds, where possible. The total expense ASPG comparison excludes performance adjustments and fund-paid 12b-1 fees to eliminate variability in expenses relating to these items.
 
The Board noted that each fund's total net expense ratio ranked below the similar sales load structure group competitive median for 2021 and below the ASPG competitive median for 2021.
 
Fees Charged to Other Fidelity Clients . The Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information with respect to clients of Fidelity, such as other funds advised or subadvised by Fidelity, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients with similar mandates. The Board noted that a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically reviews and compares Fidelity's institutional investment advisory business with its business of providing services to the Fidelity funds and also noted the most recent findings of the committee. The Board noted that the committee's review included a consideration of the differences in services provided, fees charged, and costs incurred, as well as competition in the markets serving the different categories of clients.
 
Based on its review of total expense ratios and fees charged to other Fidelity clients, the Board concluded that each fund's total expense ratio was reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
 
Costs of the Services and Profitability . The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing each fund and servicing each fund's shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.
 
On an annual basis, Fidelity presents to the Board information about the profitability of its relationships with each fund. Fidelity calculates profitability information for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability information for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the books and records of Fidelity on which Fidelity's audited financial statements are based. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies and the full Board approves such changes.
 
A public accounting firm has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. The engagement includes the review and assessment of the methodologies used by Fidelity in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures in respect of the mathematical accuracy of certain fund profitability information and its conformity to established allocation methodologies. After considering the reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board concluded that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.
 
The Board also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and potential indirect benefits such businesses may have received as a result of their association with Fidelity's mutual fund business (i.e., fall-out benefits) as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from the funds' business. The Board considered areas where potential indirect benefits to the Fidelity funds from their relationships with Fidelity may exist. The Board's consideration of these matters was informed by the findings of a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds to evaluate potential fall-out benefits.
 
The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of each fund and was satisfied that the profitability was not excessive.
 
Economies of Scale . The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including each fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which each fund will benefit from economies of scale as assets grow through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense ratio reductions. The Board recognized that, due to each fund's current contractual arrangements, its expense ratio will not decline if the fund's operating costs decrease as assets grow, or rise as assets decrease. The Board also noted that a committee (the Economies of Scale Committee) created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically analyzes whether Fidelity attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.  
 
The Board concluded, taking into account the analysis of the Economies of Scale Committee, that economies of scale, if any, are being appropriately shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity.
 
Additional Information Requested by the Board. In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' advisory contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including: (i) Fidelity's fund profitability methodology, profitability trends for certain funds, the allocation of various costs to different funds, and the impact of certain factors on fund profitability results; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year and the amount of the investment that each portfolio manager has made in the Fidelity fund(s) that he or she manages; (iii) the extent to which current market conditions have affected retention and recruitment of personnel; (iv) the arrangements with and compensation paid to certain fund sub-advisers on behalf of the Fidelity funds and the treatment of such compensation within Fidelity's fund profitability methodology; (v) the terms of the funds' various management fee structures, including the basic group fee and the terms of Fidelity's voluntary expense limitation arrangements; (vi) Fidelity's transfer agent, pricing and bookkeeping fees, expense and service structures for different funds and classes relative to competitive trends; (vii) the impact on fund profitability of recent industry trends, such as the growth in passively managed funds and the changes in flows for different types of funds; (viii) the types of management fee and total expense comparisons provided, and the challenges and limitations associated with such information; and (ix) explanations regarding the relative total expense ratios and management fees of certain funds and classes, total expense and management fee competitive trends, and methodologies for total expense and management fee competitive comparisons. In addition, the Board considered its discussions with Fidelity regarding Fidelity's efforts to maintain the continuous investment and shareholder services necessary for the funds during the current pandemic and economic circumstances.
 
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board concluded that the advisory fee arrangements are fair and reasonable and that each fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Funds have adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage each Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. Each Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated each Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factor specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable. 
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
  • Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
  • Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
  • Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
  • Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM).  The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022.  The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.  
 
1.9885078.105
LBX-I-ANN-0423
Fidelity® Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
Annual Report
February 28, 2023

Contents

Performance

Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Notes to Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Trustees and Officers

Shareholder Expense Example

Distributions

Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts

Liquidity Risk Management Program

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Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
 
 
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Life of
Fund A
Fidelity® Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
-24.16%
-0.78%
-2.66%
 
A     From July 7, 2016
 
 $10,000 Over Life of Fund
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund, on July 7, 2016, when the fund started.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. Long Treasury Bond Index performed over the same period.
 
 
Market Recap:  
U.S. taxable investment-grade bonds returned -9.72% for the 12 months ending February 28, 2023, according to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The new year began with an upturn in January (+3.08%) but in February bonds fell back (-2.59%), as the backdrop remained clouded by the multitude of risk factors that challenged the global economy in 2022, when the index logged its worst annual return on record. In March 2022, the Federal Reserve, faced with persistent inflationary pressure, began an aggressive series of rate hikes, eventually raising its benchmark interest rate eight times, by a total of 4.5 percentage points, through early February. At the same time, the Fed tapered the stimulative, large-scale asset purchases it had dramatically expanded in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions helped push nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) U.S. bond yields to their highest level in more than a decade. Bond prices, which move inversely to yields, fell sharply, and credit spreads significantly widened, as investors demanded more yield for buying corporate debt and other credit-sensitive assets. In November, the bond market staged a broad rally (+3.68%) when comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed to a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes, and in December the Fed stepped down to a 0.50% rise after a series of 0.75% hikes, followed by a 0.25% rise on February 2. All major market segments lost ground for the full 12 months, with high-quality, shorter-term bonds holding up best.
Comments from Co-Portfolio Managers Brandon Bettencourt and Richard Munclinger:
For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the fund returned -24.16%, roughly in line, net of fees, with the -24.09% result of the benchmark, the Bloomberg US Long Treasury Bond Index. This result met our goal of producing monthly returns, before expenses, that closely matched the benchmark's returns. We used a method known as "stratified sampling," which matches the index's risk factors, but does not always hold all bonds in the exact proportions of the index. During the 12-month period, U.S. Treasuries, like most investment-grade bonds, posted negative results as the U.S. Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to fight inflation, which peaked in June and remained stubbornly high throughout the period. Treasuries with longer durations - that is, with the most sensitivity to interest rates - suffered the biggest declines, while shorter-duration securities posted more modest declines.
 
 
 
The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
1 - 1.99%
16.7
 
2 - 2.99%
45.2
 
3 - 3.99%
30.3
 
4 - 4.99%
5.1
 
5 - 5.99%
0.9
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Showing Percentage of Net Assets  
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.6%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 1.125% 5/15/40
 
325,117,000
205,776,202
 1.125% 8/15/40
 
117,470,000
73,983,157
 1.25% 5/15/50
 
45,028,000
24,978,228
 1.375% 11/15/40
 
1,033,963,000
679,386,389
 1.375% 8/15/50
 
317,848,000
182,191,465
 1.625% 11/15/50
 
213,733,000
130,953,207
 1.75% 8/15/41
 
455,540,000
315,674,984
 1.875% 2/15/41
 
632,606,000
452,140,310
 1.875% 2/15/51
 
656,425,000
428,573,725
 1.875% 11/15/51
 
728,460,000
473,783,551
 2% 11/15/41
 
808,880,000
584,636,980
 2% 2/15/50
 
404,349,000
273,504,191
 2% 8/15/51
 
856,320,000
575,574,152
 2.25% 5/15/41
 
880,582,000
669,070,334
 2.25% 8/15/46
 
47,141,000
34,013,336
 2.25% 8/15/49
 
429,147,000
307,795,627
 2.25% 2/15/52
 
1,376,240,000
981,269,868
 2.375% 2/15/42
 
1,538,360,000
1,183,282,666
 2.375% 11/15/49
 
865,272,000
638,070,505
 2.375% 5/15/51
 
634,874,000
466,061,994
 2.5% 2/15/45
 
390,549,000
298,358,077
 2.5% 2/15/46
 
117,718,000
89,461,082
 2.5% 5/15/46
 
136,970,000
104,081,148
 2.75% 8/15/42
 
252,260,000
205,562,338
 2.75% 11/15/42
 
192,274,000
156,260,178
 2.75% 8/15/47
 
647,464,000
514,708,590
 2.75% 11/15/47
 
137,257,000
109,135,400
 2.875% 5/15/43
 
118,182,000
97,767,906
 2.875% 8/15/45
 
36,332,000
29,630,449
 2.875% 11/15/46
 
25,000
20,370
 2.875% 5/15/49
 
638,599,000
522,254,245
 2.875% 5/15/52
 
236,480,000
193,645,713
 3% 5/15/42
 
119,579,000
101,768,269
 3% 11/15/44
 
172,537,000
144,317,764
 3% 5/15/45
 
150,244,000
125,406,789
 3% 11/15/45
 
69,262,000
57,739,076
 3% 2/15/47
 
499,794,000
416,000,412
 3% 5/15/47
 
210,762,000
175,508,763
 3% 2/15/48
 
661,669,000
551,511,447
 3% 8/15/48
 
89,082,000
74,348,673
 3% 2/15/49
 
978,787,000
818,969,435
 3% 8/15/52
 
657,180,000
552,441,938
 3.125% 11/15/41
 
59,163,000
51,712,160
 3.125% 2/15/42
 
14,640,000
12,740,803
 3.125% 2/15/43
 
139,421,000
120,136,244
 3.125% 8/15/44
 
77,966,000
66,670,067
 3.125% 5/15/48
 
319,442,000
272,686,172
 3.25% 5/15/42
 
241,680,000
213,613,022
 3.375% 8/15/42
 
488,060,000
439,406,519
 3.375% 5/15/44
 
122,930,000
109,638,194
 3.375% 11/15/48
 
50,291,000
44,996,693
 3.5% 2/15/39
 
106,134,000
99,944,232
 3.625% 8/15/43
 
352,032,000
327,761,045
 3.625% 2/15/44
 
134,657,000
124,952,228
 3.625% 2/15/53
 
253,580,000
241,416,084
 3.75% 8/15/41
 
102,358,000
98,235,691
 3.75% 11/15/43
 
85,269,000
80,805,701
 3.875% 8/15/40
 
46,505,000
45,623,948
 4% 11/15/42
 
142,320,000
140,296,388
 4% 11/15/52
 
94,340,000
96,020,431
 4.25% 5/15/39
 
7,357,000
7,578,572
 4.25% 11/15/40
 
61,567,000
63,315,407
 4.375% 2/15/38
 
81,124,000
84,971,053
 4.375% 11/15/39
 
17,280,000
18,075,150
 4.375% 5/15/40
 
79,923,000
83,366,558
 4.375% 5/15/41
 
140,668,000
146,915,637
 4.5% 2/15/36 (b)
 
104,918,000
112,004,063
 4.5% 8/15/39
 
1,044,000
1,107,333
 4.625% 2/15/40
 
35,743,000
38,496,328
 4.75% 2/15/37
 
35,563,000
38,885,918
 4.75% 2/15/41
 
74,733,000
81,695,430
 5% 5/15/37
 
146,827,000
164,147,998
U.S. Treasury Notes:
 
 
 
 2.75% 8/15/32
 
19,400,000
17,629,750
 3.5% 2/15/33
 
21,640,000
20,926,556
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $22,170,361,105)
 
 
 
17,485,390,308
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 1.8%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)
 
219,961,284
220,005,277
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)(d)
 
91,374,005
91,383,143
 
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS
  (Cost $311,388,420)
 
 
311,388,420
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 101.4%
  (Cost $22,481,749,525)
 
 
 
17,796,778,728
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (1.4)%  
(251,040,907)
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
17,545,737,821
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
 
(c)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
(d)
Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
125,270,842
1,162,913,284
1,068,178,849
1,979,269
-
-
220,005,277
0.5%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
133,000,000
8,005,898,381
8,047,515,238
858,298
-
-
91,383,143
0.3%
Total
258,270,842
9,168,811,665
9,115,694,087
2,837,567
-
-
311,388,420
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
17,485,390,308
-
17,485,390,308
-
  Money Market Funds
311,388,420
311,388,420
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
17,796,778,728
311,388,420
17,485,390,308
-
 
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  (including  securities loaned of $89,602,902) - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $22,170,361,105)
$
17,485,390,308
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $311,388,420)
311,388,420
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $22,481,749,525)
 
 
$
17,796,778,728
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
308,831,180
Interest receivable
 
 
78,723,110
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
546,168
  Total assets
 
 
18,184,879,186
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
547,331,761
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
366,779
 
 
Distributions payable
289
 
 
Other payables and accrued expenses
59,393
 
 
Collateral on securities loaned
91,383,143
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
639,141,365
Net Assets  
 
 
$
17,545,737,821
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
22,690,166,539
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(5,144,428,718)
Net Assets
 
 
$
17,545,737,821
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($17,545,737,821 ÷ 2,953,458,812 shares)
 
 
$
5.94
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
473,054,475
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $858,298 from security lending)
 
 
2,837,567
 Total Income
 
 
 
475,892,042
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Custodian fees and expenses
$
142,648
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
56,626
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
199,274
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(1,068)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
198,206
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
475,693,836
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(466,967,551)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(466,967,551)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(4,409,523,731)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(4,876,491,282)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(4,400,797,446)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
475,693,836
$
245,724,588
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(466,967,551)
 
 
12,567,404
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(4,409,523,731)
 
(430,136,750)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(4,400,797,446)
 
 
(171,844,758)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(449,770,175)
 
 
(285,111,393)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
9,182,425,036
 
8,332,557,368
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
449,255,711
 
 
285,074,438
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(2,364,393,486)
 
(2,388,088,438)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
7,267,287,261
 
 
6,229,543,368
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
2,416,719,640
 
 
5,772,587,217
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
15,129,018,181
 
9,356,430,964
 
End of period
$
17,545,737,821
$
15,129,018,181
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
1,373,818,678
 
1,004,893,922
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
71,082,578
 
 
33,982,195
 
Redeemed
 
(369,851,700)
 
(283,430,527)
Net increase (decrease)
 
1,075,049,556
 
755,445,590
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
8.05
$
8.33
$
10.06
$
8.43
$
8.36
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.185
 
.175
 
.201
 
.249
 
.248
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(2.121)
 
(.253)
 
(.752)
 
2.319
 
.069
  Total from investment operations
 
(1.936)  
 
(.078)  
 
(.551)  
 
2.568  
 
.317
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.174)
 
(.169)
 
(.199)
 
(.243)
 
(.247)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.033)
 
(.980)
 
(.695)
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.174)
 
(.202)
 
(1.179)
 
(.938)
 
(.247)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
5.94
$
8.05
$
8.33
$
10.06
$
8.43
 Total Return   D
 
(24.16)%
 
(1.01)%
 
(6.47)%
 
31.91%
 
3.84%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions G
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any G
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
    Expenses net of all reductions G
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
 
-%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
2.87%
 
2.10%
 
2.03%
 
2.68%
 
2.98%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
17,545,738
$
15,129,018
$
9,356,431
$
7,414,223
$
10,466,444
    Portfolio turnover rate H
 
10%
 
18%
 
56%
 
33% I
 
23%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount represents less than .005%.
 
H Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
I Portfolio turnover rate excludes securities received or delivered in-kind.
 
For the period ended February 28, 2023
 
1. Organization.
Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Salem Street Trust (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. Shares are offered only to certain other Fidelity funds, Fidelity managed 529 plans, and Fidelity managed collective investment trusts. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
 
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
 
Fidelity Central Fund
Investment Manager
Investment Objective
Investment Practices
Expense Ratio A
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR)
Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity.
Short-term Investments
Less than .005%
 
A   Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
 
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
 
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
 
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
 
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
 
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
 
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing services or from brokers who make markets in such securities. U.S. government and government agency obligations are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing services. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
 
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.  
 
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of February 28, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
 
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.   Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned and includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities as applicable.
 
Expenses. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
 
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. As of February 28, 2023, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the financial statements; nor is the Fund aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change in the next twelve months. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction.
 
Distributions are declared and recorded daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
 
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
 
Book-tax differences are primarily due to   market discount, capital loss carryforwards and   losses deferred due to wash sales, and excise tax regulations.
 
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
 
Gross unrealized appreciation
$70,086,740
Gross unrealized depreciation
(4,751,008,902)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
$(4,680,922,162)
Tax Cost
$22,477,700,890
 
The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:
 
Capital loss carryforward
$(460,089,420)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on securities and other investments
$(4,680,922,162)
 
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
 
  Short-term
$(130,110,565)
  Long-term
(329,978,855)
Total capital loss carryforward
$(460,089,420)
 
 
The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:
 
 
February 28, 2023
February 28, 2022
Ordinary Income
$449,770,175
$ 236,897,589
Long-term Capital Gains
-
48,213,804
Total
$449,770,175
$ 285,111,393
 
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund does not pay a management fee. Under the management contract, the investment adviser or an affiliate pays all ordinary operating expenses of the Fund, except custody fees, fees and expenses of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses.
 
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. During the period, there were no interfund trades.
5. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The commitment fees on the pro-rata portion of the line of credit are borne by the investment adviser. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
6. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
 
 
Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS
Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS
Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End
Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$   92,301
$   -
$-
7. Expense Reductions.
Through arrangements with the Fund's custodian, credits realized as a result of certain uninvested cash balances were used to reduce the Fund's expenses by $1,068.
8. Other.
A fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the fund. In the normal course of business, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
 
At the end of the period, mutual funds and accounts managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates were the owners of record of all of the outstanding shares of the Fund.
9. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
To the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Salem Street Trust and Shareholders of Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, of Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (one of the funds constituting Fidelity Salem Street Trust, referred to hereafter as the "Fund") as of February 28, 2023, the related statement of operations for the year ended February 28, 2023, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended February 28, 2023, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended February 28, 2023 (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of February 28, 2023, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended February 28, 2023 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended February 28, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of February 28, 2023 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
April 13, 2023
We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in the Fidelity group of funds since 1932.
TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS
The Trustees, Members of the Advisory Board (if any), and officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, oversee management of the risks associated with such activities and contractual arrangements, and review the fund's performance. Except for Jonathan Chiel, each of the Trustees oversees 292 funds. Mr. Chiel oversees 187 funds.
The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the trust and the fund is referred to herein as an Independent Trustee. Each Independent Trustee shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 75th birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. Officers and Advisory Board Members hold office without limit in time, except that any officer or Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.
The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-8544.
Experience, Skills, Attributes, and Qualifications of the Trustees.   The Governance and Nominating Committee has adopted a statement of policy that describes the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that are necessary and desirable for potential Independent Trustee candidates (Statement of Policy). The Board believes that each Trustee satisfied at the time he or she was initially elected or appointed a Trustee, and continues to satisfy, the standards contemplated by the Statement of Policy. The Governance and Nominating Committee also engages professional search firms to help identify potential Independent Trustee candidates who have the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills consistent with the Statement of Policy. From time to time, additional criteria based on the composition and skills of the current Independent Trustees, as well as experience or skills that may be appropriate in light of future changes to board composition, business conditions, and regulatory or other developments, have also been considered by the professional search firms and the Governance and Nominating Committee. In addition, the Board takes into account the Trustees' commitment and participation in Board and committee meetings, as well as their leadership of standing and ad hoc committees throughout their tenure.
In determining that a particular Trustee was and continues to be qualified to serve as a Trustee, the Board has considered a variety of criteria, none of which, in isolation, was controlling. The Board believes that, collectively, the Trustees have balanced and diverse experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills, which allow the Board to operate effectively in governing the fund and protecting the interests of shareholders. Information about the specific experience, skills, attributes, and qualifications of each Trustee, which in each case led to the Board's conclusion that the Trustee should serve (or continue to serve) as a trustee of the fund, is provided below.
Board Structure and Oversight Function.   Abigail P. Johnson is an interested person and currently serves as Chairman. The Trustees have determined that an interested Chairman is appropriate and benefits shareholders because an interested Chairman has a personal and professional stake in the quality and continuity of services provided to the fund. Independent Trustees exercise their informed business judgment to appoint an individual of their choosing to serve as Chairman, regardless of whether the Trustee happens to be independent or a member of management. The Independent Trustees have determined that they can act independently and effectively without having an Independent Trustee serve as Chairman and that a key structural component for assuring that they are in a position to do so is for the Independent Trustees to constitute a substantial majority for the Board. The Independent Trustees also regularly meet in executive session. Michael E. Kenneally serves as Chairman of the Independent Trustees and as such (i) acts as a liaison between the Independent Trustees and management with respect to matters important to the Independent Trustees and (ii) with management prepares agendas for Board meetings.
Fidelity ® funds are overseen by different Boards of Trustees. The fund's Board oversees Fidelity's investment-grade bond, money market, asset allocation and certain equity funds, and other Boards oversee Fidelity's alternative investment, high income and other equity funds. The asset allocation funds may invest in Fidelity ® funds that are overseen by such other Boards. The use of separate Boards, each with its own committee structure, allows the Trustees of each group of Fidelity ® funds to focus on the unique issues of the funds they oversee, including common research, investment, and operational issues. On occasion, the separate Boards establish joint committees to address issues of overlapping consequences for the Fidelity ® funds overseen by each Board.
The Trustees operate using a system of committees to facilitate the timely and efficient consideration of all matters of importance to the Trustees, the fund, and fund shareholders and to facilitate compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and oversight of the fund's activities and associated risks. The Board, acting through its committees, has charged FMR and its affiliates with (i) identifying events or circumstances the occurrence of which could have demonstrably adverse effects on the fund's business and/or reputation; (ii) implementing processes and controls to lessen the possibility that such events or circumstances occur or to mitigate the effects of such events or circumstances if they do occur; and (iii) creating and maintaining a system designed to evaluate continuously business and market conditions in order to facilitate the identification and implementation processes described in (i) and (ii) above. Because the day-to-day operations and activities of the fund are carried out by or through FMR, its affiliates, and other service providers, the fund's exposure to risks is mitigated but not eliminated by the processes overseen by the Trustees. While each of the Board's committees has responsibility for overseeing different aspects of the fund's activities, oversight is exercised primarily through the Operations and Audit Committees. In addition, an ad hoc Board committee of Independent Trustees has worked with FMR to enhance the Board's oversight of investment and financial risks, legal and regulatory risks, technology risks, and operational risks, including the development of additional risk reporting to the Board. Appropriate personnel, including but not limited to the fund's Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), FMR's internal auditor, the independent accountants, the fund's Treasurer and portfolio management personnel, make periodic reports to the Board's committees, as appropriate, including an annual review of Fidelity's risk management program for the Fidelity ® funds. The responsibilities of each standing committee, including their oversight responsibilities, are described further under "Standing Committees of the Trustees."
Interested Trustees*:
Correspondence intended for a Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Jonathan Chiel (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Chiel also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Chiel is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2012-present). Previously, Mr. Chiel served as general counsel (2004-2012) and senior vice president and deputy general counsel (2000-2004) for John Hancock Financial Services; a partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart (1996-2000) (law firm); and an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office of the District of Massachusetts (1986-95), including Chief of the Criminal Division (1993-1995). Mr. Chiel is a director on the boards of the Boston Bar Foundation and the Maimonides School.
Abigail P. Johnson (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Ms. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Johnson serves as Chairman (2016-present), Chief Executive Officer (2014-present), and Director (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company), President of Fidelity Financial Services (2012-present) and President of Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services (2005-present). Ms. Johnson is Chairman and Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (investment adviser firm, 2011-present). Previously, Ms. Johnson served as Chairman and Director of FMR Co., Inc. (investment adviser firm, 2011-2019), Vice Chairman (2007-2016) and President (2013-2016) of FMR LLC, President and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company (2001-2005), a Trustee of other investment companies advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (investment adviser firm), and FMR Co., Inc. (2001-2005), Senior Vice President of the Fidelity ® funds (2001-2005), and managed a number of Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Abigail P. Johnson and Mr. Arthur E. Johnson are not related.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe (1959)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Ms. McAuliffe also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and as Trustee of Fidelity Charitable (2020-present). Previously, Ms. McAuliffe served as Co-Head of Fixed Income of Fidelity Investments Limited (now known as FIL Limited (FIL)) (diversified financial services company), Director of Research for FIL's credit and quantitative teams in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and Director of Research for taxable and municipal bonds at Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. Ms. McAuliffe previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016). Ms. McAuliffe was previously a lawyer at Ropes & Gray LLP and an international banker at Chemical Bank NA (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Ms. McAuliffe also currently serves as director or trustee of several not-for-profit entities.
* Determined to be an "Interested Trustee" by virtue of, among other things, his or her affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Independent Trustees:
Correspondence intended for an Independent Trustee may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Elizabeth S. Acton (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Trustee
Ms. Acton also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Acton served as Executive Vice President, Finance (2011-2012), Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (2002-2011) and Treasurer (2004-2005) of Comerica Incorporated (financial services). Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Acton held a variety of positions at Ford Motor Company (1983-2002), including Vice President and Treasurer (2000-2002) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Credit Company (1998-2000). Ms. Acton currently serves as a member of the Board and Audit and Finance Committees of Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (homebuilding, 2012-present). Ms. Acton previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2013-2016).
Ann E. Dunwoody (1953)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Trustee
General Dunwoody also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. General Dunwoody (United States Army, Retired) was the first woman in U.S. military history to achieve the rank of four-star general and prior to her retirement in 2012 held a variety of positions within the U.S. Army, including Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Command (2008-2012). General Dunwoody currently serves as a member of the Board, Chair of Nomination Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Kforce Inc. (professional staffing services, 2016-present) and a member of the Board of Automattic Inc. (software engineering, 2018-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as President of First to Four LLC (leadership and mentoring services, 2012-2022), a member of the Advisory Board and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of L3 Technologies, Inc. (communication, electronic, sensor and aerospace systems, 2013-2019) and a member of the Board and Audit and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees of Republic Services, Inc. (waste collection, disposal and recycling, 2013-2016). General Dunwoody also serves on several boards for non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Board, Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Noble Reach Foundation (formerly Logistics Management Institute) (consulting non-profit, 2012-present) and a member of the Board of ThanksUSA (military family education non-profit, 2014-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as a member of the Board of Florida Institute of Technology (2015-2022) and a member of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United States Army (advocacy non-profit, 2013-2021). General Dunwoody previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2018).
John Engler (1948)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2014
Trustee
Mr. Engler also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Engler served as Governor of Michigan (1991-2003), President of the Business Roundtable (2011-2017) and interim President of Michigan State University (2018-2019). Previously, Mr. Engler served as a member of the Board of Stride, Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.) (technology-based education company, 2012-2022), a member of the Board of Universal Forest Products (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2003-2019) and Trustee of The Munder Funds (2003-2014). Mr. Engler previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2014-2016).
Robert F. Gartland (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Trustee
Mr. Gartland also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gartland held a variety of positions at Morgan Stanley (financial services, 1979-2007), including Managing Director (1987-2007) and Chase Manhattan Bank (1975-1978). Mr. Gartland previously served as Chairman and an investor in Gartland & Mellina Group Corp. (consulting, 2009-2019), as a member of the Board of National Securities Clearing Corporation (1993-1996) and as Chairman of TradeWeb (2003-2004).
Arthur E. Johnson (1947)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2008
Trustee
Mr. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development of Lockheed Martin Corporation (defense contractor, 1999-2009). Mr. Johnson currently serves as a member of the Board of Booz Allen Hamilton (management consulting, 2011-present). Mr. Johnson previously served as a member of the Board of Eaton Corporation plc (diversified power management, 2009-2019) and a member of the Board of AGL Resources, Inc. (holding company, 2002-2016). Mr. Johnson previously served as Chairman (2018-2021) and Vice Chairman (2015-2018) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity® funds. Mr. Arthur E. Johnson is not related to Ms. Abigail P. Johnson.     
Michael E. Kenneally (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Independent Trustees
Mr. Kenneally also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and was Vice Chairman (2018-2021) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity ® funds. Prior to retirement in 2005, he was Chairman and Global Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management, the worldwide fund management and institutional investment business of Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Mr. Kenneally was an Executive Vice President and the Chief Investment Officer for Bank of America. In this role, he was responsible for the investment management, strategy and products delivered to the bank's institutional, high-net-worth and retail clients. Earlier, Mr. Kenneally directed the organization's equity and quantitative research groups. He began his career as a research analyst and then spent more than a dozen years as a portfolio manager for endowments, pension plans and mutual funds. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1991.     
Mark A. Murray (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Murray also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Murray served as Co-Chief Executive Officer (2013-2016), President (2006-2013) and Vice Chairman (2013-2020) of Meijer, Inc. Mr. Murray serves as a member of the Board (2009-present) and Public Policy and Responsibility Committee (2009-present) and Chair of the Nuclear Review Committee (2019-present) of DTE Energy Company (diversified energy company). Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Board of Spectrum Health (not-for-profit health system, 2015-2019) and as a member of the Board and Audit Committee and Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2004-2016). Mr. Murray also serves as a member of the Board of many community and professional organizations. Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016).
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Advisory Board Members and Officers:
Correspondence intended for a Member of the Advisory Board (if any) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235. Correspondence intended for an officer may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Officers appear below in alphabetical order.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupation
Laura M. Bishop (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2022
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Bishop also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Bishop held a variety of positions at United Services Automobile Association (2001-2020), including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2014-2020) and Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (2012-2014). Ms. Bishop currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation and Personnel Committee (2021-present) of the Board of Directors of Korn Ferry (global organizational consulting).    
Robert W. Helm (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Member of the Advisory Board
Mr. Helm also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Helm was formerly Deputy Chairman (2003-2020), partner (1991-2020) and an associate (1984-1991) of Dechert LLP (formerly Dechert Price & Rhoads). Mr. Helm currently serves on boards and committees of several not-for-profit organizations, including as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Baltimore and a member of the Life Guard Society of Mt. Vernon.     
Carol J. Zierhoffer (1960)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Zierhoffer also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Zierhoffer held a variety of positions at Bechtel Corporation (engineering company, 2013-2019), including Principal Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2013-2016) and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2016-2019). Ms. Zierhoffer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2020-present) and as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (aviation operating services, 2021-present). Previously, Ms. Zierhoffer served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee and as the founding Chair of the Information Technology Committee of MedAssets, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2013-2016).    
Heather Bonner (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Bonner also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Bonner serves as Senior Vice President (2022-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Ms. Bonner serves as Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity CRET Trustee LLC (2022-present). Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Bonner served as Managing Director at AQR Capital Management (2013-2022) and was the Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer of the AQR Funds (2013-2022).     
Craig S. Brown (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2019
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Brown also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Brown serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2013-present). Previously, Mr. Brown served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2022).     
John J. Burke III (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Burke also serves as Chief Financial Officer of other funds. Mr. Burke serves as Head of Investment Operations for Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (2018-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1998-present). Previously Mr. Burke served as head of Asset Management Investment Operations (2012-2018).     
Margaret Carey (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Ms. Carey also serves as an officer of other funds and as CLO of certain other Fidelity entities. She is a Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2019-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.     
David J. Carter (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Carter also serves as Assistant Secretary of other funds. Mr. Carter serves as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel (2022-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present).     
Jonathan Davis (1968)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Davis also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Davis serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present), FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), FD Funds GP LLC (2021-present), FD Funds Holding LLC (2021-present), and FD Funds Management LLC (2021-present); and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Davis served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2003-2010).     
Laura M. Del Prato (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
President and Treasurer
Ms. Del Prato also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Del Prato serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2017-present). Previously, Ms. Del Prato served as President and Treasurer of The North Carolina Capital Management Trust: Cash Portfolio and Term Portfolio (2018-2020). Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Del Prato served as a Managing Director and Treasurer of the JPMorgan Mutual Funds (2014-2017). Prior to JPMorgan, Ms. Del Prato served as a partner at Cohen Fund Audit Services (accounting firm, 2012-2013) and KPMG LLP (accounting firm, 2004-2012).     
Christopher M. Gouveia (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Gouveia also serves as Chief Compliance Officer of other funds. Mr. Gouveia serves as Senior Vice President of Asset Management Compliance for Fidelity Investments and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Gouveia served as Chief Compliance Officer of the North Carolina Capital Management Trust (2016-2019).     
Colm A. Hogan (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Hogan also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Hogan serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as Deputy Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2020) and Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2018).     
Chris Maher (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Maher also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Maher serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Maher served as Assistant Treasurer of certain funds (2013-2020); Vice President of Asset Management Compliance (2013), Vice President of the Program Management Group of FMR (investment adviser firm, 2010-2013), and Vice President of Valuation Oversight (2008-2010).     
Jamie Pagliocco (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Vice President
Mr. Pagliocco also serves as Vice President of other funds. Mr. Pagliocco serves as President of Fixed Income (2020-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2001-present). Previously, Mr. Pagliocco served as Co-Chief Investment Officer - Bond (2017-2020), Global Head of Bond Trading (2016-2019), and as a portfolio manager.     
Brett Segaloff (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer
Mr. Segaloff also serves as an AML Officer of other funds and other related entities. He is Director, Anti-Money Laundering (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1996-present).     
Stacie M. Smith (1974)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Smith also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Smith serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2009-present), and has served in other fund officer roles. Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Smith served as Senior Audit Manager of Ernst & Young LLP (accounting firm, 1996-2009). Previously, Ms. Smith served as Assistant Treasurer (2013-2019) and Deputy Treasurer (2013-2016) of certain Fidelity ® funds.     
Jim Wegmann (1979)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Deputy Treasurer
Mr. Wegmann also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Wegmann serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2011-present). Previously, Mr. Wegmann served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2021).     
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
 
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023).
 
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
 
 
 
 
 
Annualized Expense Ratio- A
 
Beginning Account Value September 1, 2022
 
Ending Account Value February 28, 2023
 
Expenses Paid During Period- C September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
-%- D
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 927.40
 
$- E
 
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.79
 
$- E
 
 
A   Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
 
B   5% return per year before expenses
 
C   Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
D   Amount represents less than .005%.
 
E   Amount represents less than $.005.
 
 
 
 
Distributions   (Unaudited)
 
The dividend and capital gains distributions for the fund(s) are available on Fidelity.com or Institutional.Fidelity.com .
 
A total of 99.41% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year was derived from interest on U.S. Government securities which is generally exempt from state income tax.
 
The fund designates $442,274,374 of distributions paid during the fiscal year ended 2023 as qualifying to be taxed as section 163(j) interest dividends.
 
The fund will notify shareholders in January 2024 of amounts for use in preparing 2023 income tax returns.
 
 
 
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
 
Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) and the sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. FMR and the sub-advisers are referred to herein as the Investment Advisers. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information relevant to the renewal of the Advisory Contracts throughout the year.
 
The Board meets regularly and, at each of its meetings, covers an extensive agenda of topics and materials and considers factors that are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established four standing committees (Committees) - Operations, Audit, Fair Valuation, and Governance and Nominating - each composed of and chaired by Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. The Operations Committee, of which all the Independent Trustees are members, meets regularly throughout the year and requests, receives and considers, among other matters, information related to the annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts before making its recommendation to the Board. The Board also meets as needed to review matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of the Advisory Contracts. Members of the Board may also meet from time to time with trustees of other Fidelity funds through joint ad hoc committees to discuss certain matters relevant to all of the Fidelity funds.
 
At its September 2022 meeting, the Board unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant and reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders and the fact that no fee is payable under the management contract was fair and reasonable.  
 
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided . The Board considered Fidelity's staffing as it relates to the fund, including the backgrounds of investment personnel of Fidelity, and also considered the fund's investment objective, strategies, and related investment philosophy. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the investment personnel compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives to act in the best interests of the fund. The Board also considered the steps Fidelity had taken to ensure the continued provision of high quality services to the Fidelity funds throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the expansion of staff in client facing positions to maintain service levels in periods of high volumes and volatility.
 
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the general qualifications and capabilities of Fidelity's investment staff, including its size, education, experience, and resources, as well as Fidelity's approach to recruiting, training, managing, and compensating investment personnel. The Board noted the resources devoted to Fidelity's global investment organization, and that Fidelity's analysts have extensive resources, tools and capabilities that allow them to conduct quantitative and fundamental analysis, as well as credit analysis of issuers, counterparties and guarantors. Further, the Board considered that Fidelity's investment professionals have sufficient access to global information and data so as to provide competitive investment results over time, and that those professionals also have access to sophisticated tools that permit them to assess portfolio construction and risk and performance attribution characteristics continuously, as well as to transmit new information and research conclusions rapidly around the world. Additionally, in its deliberations, the Board considered Fidelity's trading, risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, and technology and operations capabilities and resources, which are integral parts of the investment management process.  
 
Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory and administrative services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians, subcustodians, and pricing vendors; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
 
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated in accordance with its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions. The Board reviewed the fund's absolute investment performance, as well as the fund's relative investment performance. In this regard, the Board noted that the fund is designed to offer an investment option for other investment companies, collective investment trusts, and 529 plans managed by Fidelity and ultimately to enhance the performance of those investment companies, collective investment trusts, and 529 plans.
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of services provided to the fund under the Advisory Contracts should continue to benefit the shareholders of the fund.
 
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Expense Ratio .   The Board considered that the fund does not pay FMR a management fee for investment advisory services, but that FMR receives fees for providing services to funds, collective investment trusts, and 529 plans that invest in the fund. The Board also noted that FMR or an affiliate undertakes to pay all operating expenses of the fund, except transfer agent fees, 12b-1 fees, Independent Trustee fees and expenses, custodian fees and expenses, proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, interest, taxes, and extraordinary expenses (such as litigation expenses). The Board further noted that the fund pays its non-operating expenses, including brokerage commissions and fees and expenses associated with the fund's securities lending program, if applicable.
 
The Board further considered that FMR has contractually agreed to reimburse the fund to the extent that total operating expenses, with certain exceptions, as a percentage of its average net assets, exceed 0.003% through June 30, 2025.  
 
Based on its review, the Board considered that the fund does not pay a management fee and concluded that the fund's total expense ratio was reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
 
Costs of the Services and Profitability .   The Board considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.
 
A public accounting firm has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. The engagement includes the review and assessment of the methodologies used by Fidelity in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures in respect of the mathematical accuracy of certain fund profitability information and its conformity to established allocation methodologies. After considering the reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board concluded that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.
 
The Board also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and potential indirect benefits such businesses may have received as a result of their association with Fidelity's mutual fund business (i.e., fall-out benefits) as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from the funds' business. The Board considered areas where potential indirect benefits to the Fidelity funds from their relationships with Fidelity may exist. The Board's consideration of these matters was informed by the findings of a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds to evaluate potential fall-out benefits.  
 
The Board concluded that the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund were not relevant to the renewal of the Advisory Contracts because the fund pays no advisory fees and FMR or an affiliate bears all expenses of the fund, with limited exceptions.
 
Economies of Scale.   The Board concluded that because the fund pays no advisory fees and FMR or an affiliate bears all expenses of the fund with certain limited exceptions, the realization of economies of scale was not a material factor in the Board's decision to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts.  
 
Additional Information Requested by the Board.   In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' advisory contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including: (i) Fidelity's fund profitability methodology, profitability trends for certain funds, the allocation of various costs to different funds, and the impact of certain factors on fund profitability results; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year and the amount of the investment that each portfolio manager has made in the Fidelity fund(s) that he or she manages; (iii) the extent to which current market conditions have affected retention and recruitment of personnel; (iv) the arrangements with and compensation paid to certain fund sub-advisers on behalf of the Fidelity funds and the treatment of such compensation within Fidelity's fund profitability methodology; (v) the terms of the funds' various management fee structures, including the basic group fee and the terms of Fidelity's voluntary expense limitation arrangements; (vi) Fidelity's transfer agent, pricing and bookkeeping fees, expense and service structures for different funds and classes relative to competitive trends; (vii) the impact on fund profitability of recent industry trends, such as the growth in passively managed funds and the changes in flows for different types of funds; (viii) the types of management fee and total expense comparisons provided, and the challenges and limitations associated with such information; and (ix) explanations regarding the relative total expense ratios and management fees of certain funds and classes, total expense and management fee competitive trends, and methodologies for total expense and management fee competitive comparisons. In addition, the Board considered its discussions with Fidelity regarding Fidelity's efforts to maintain the continuous investment and shareholder services necessary for the funds during the current pandemic and economic circumstances.
 
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board concluded that the advisory fee arrangements are fair and reasonable and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
  • Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
  • Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
  • Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
  • Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM).  The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022.  The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.  
 
1.9872674.106
XS8-ANN-0423
Fidelity® SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
Annual Report
February 28, 2023
 
Offered exclusively to certain clients of the Adviser, or its affiliates, including Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) - not available for sale to the general public. Fidelity ®   SAI is a product name of Fidelity ® funds dedicated to certain programs affiliated with Strategic Advisers.

Contents

Performance

Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Notes to Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Trustees and Officers

Shareholder Expense Example

Distributions

Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts

Liquidity Risk Management Program

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You may also call 1-800-544-3455 to request a free copy of the proxy voting guidelines.
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Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
 
 
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Life of
Fund A
Fidelity® SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
-25.78%
-0.96%
-0.27%
 
A     From October 8, 2015
 
 $10,000 Over Life of Fund
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund, on October 8, 2015, when the fund started.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index performed over the same period.
 
 
Market Recap:  
U.S. taxable investment-grade bonds returned -9.72% for the 12 months ending February 28, 2023, according to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The new year began with an upturn in January (+3.08%) but in February bonds fell back (-2.59%), as the backdrop remained clouded by the multitude of risk factors that challenged the global economy in 2022, when the index logged its worst annual return on record. In March 2022, the Federal Reserve, faced with persistent inflationary pressure, began an aggressive series of rate hikes, eventually raising its benchmark interest rate eight times, by a total of 4.5 percentage points, through early February. At the same time, the Fed tapered the stimulative, large-scale asset purchases it had dramatically expanded in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions helped push nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) U.S. bond yields to their highest level in more than a decade. Bond prices, which move inversely to yields, fell sharply, and credit spreads significantly widened, as investors demanded more yield for buying corporate debt and other credit-sensitive assets. In November, the bond market staged a broad rally (+3.68%) when comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed to a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes, and in December the Fed stepped down to a 0.50% rise after a series of 0.75% hikes, followed by a 0.25% rise on February 2. All major market segments lost ground for the full 12 months, with high-quality, shorter-term bonds holding up best.
Comments from Co-Portfolio Managers Brandon Bettencourt and Richard Munclinger:
For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the fund returned -25.78%, roughly in line, net of fees, with the -25.54% result of the benchmark, the Bloomberg US 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index. This result met our goal of producing monthly returns, before expenses, that closely matched the benchmark's returns. We used a method known as "stratified sampling," which matches the index's risk factors, but does not always hold all bonds in the exact proportions of the index. During the 12-month period, U.S. Treasuries, like most investment-grade bonds, posted negative results as the U.S. Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to fight inflation, which peaked in June and remained stubbornly high throughout the period. Treasuries with longer durations - that is, with the most sensitivity to interest rates - suffered the biggest declines, while shorter-duration securities posted more modest declines.
 
 
 
The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
1 - 1.99%
17.5
 
2 - 2.99%
41.7
 
3 - 3.99%
35.8
 
4 - 4.99%
3.8
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Showing Percentage of Net Assets  
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.2%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.2%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 1.25% 5/15/50
 
212,653,000
117,964,267
 1.375% 8/15/50
 
152,148,000
87,211,708
 1.625% 11/15/50
 
151,142,000
92,603,995
 1.875% 2/15/51
 
204,313,000
133,394,041
 1.875% 11/15/51
 
211,300,000
137,427,538
 2% 2/15/50
 
169,443,800
114,612,845
 2% 8/15/51
 
184,688,000
124,137,751
 2.25% 8/15/46
 
92,654,000
66,852,033
 2.25% 8/15/49
 
128,313,000
92,029,492
 2.25% 2/15/52
 
151,800,000
108,234,586
 2.375% 11/15/49
 
58,325,000
43,010,131
 2.375% 5/15/51
 
177,870,000
130,574,644
 2.5% 2/15/45
 
87,079,700
66,524,128
 2.5% 2/15/46
 
108,485,000
82,444,363
 2.5% 5/15/46
 
55,200,000
41,945,531
 2.75% 8/15/42
 
3,500
2,852
 2.75% 11/15/42
 
29,319,100
23,827,495
 2.75% 8/15/47
 
73,257,000
58,236,454
 2.75% 11/15/47
 
48,754,000
38,765,143
 2.875% 5/15/43
 
74,620,200
61,730,726
 2.875% 8/15/45
 
88,859,100
72,468,762
 2.875% 11/15/46
 
9,396,000
7,655,905
 2.875% 5/15/49
 
121,018,000
98,970,033
 2.875% 5/15/52
 
152,300,000
124,713,473
 3% 5/15/42
 
13,470,700
11,464,302
 3% 11/15/44
 
800
669
 3% 5/15/45
 
36,846,800
30,755,563
 3% 11/15/45
 
31,706,000
26,431,162
 3% 2/15/47
 
67,246,000
55,971,788
 3% 5/15/47
 
61,648,000
51,336,409
 3% 2/15/48
 
144,387,000
120,348,820
 3% 8/15/48
 
128,255,000
107,042,826
 3% 2/15/49
 
107,459,000
89,912,960
 3% 8/15/52
 
174,900,000
147,025,312
 3.125% 2/15/42
 
68,100
59,266
 3.125% 2/15/43
 
41,654,600
35,892,923
 3.125% 8/15/44
 
63,564,300
54,354,926
 3.125% 5/15/48
 
154,314,000
131,727,493
 3.375% 5/15/44
 
17,923,800
15,985,789
 3.375% 11/15/48
 
77,547,000
69,383,361
 3.625% 8/15/43
 
24,297,600
22,622,394
 3.625% 2/15/44
 
80,388,500
74,594,876
 3.625% 2/15/53
 
60,600,000
57,693,094
 3.75% 11/15/43
 
65,182,100
61,770,224
 4% 11/15/52
 
121,400,000
123,562,438
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $3,824,260,333)
 
 
 
3,213,274,491
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 1.1%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (b)
 
  (Cost $36,864,367)
 
 
36,856,995
36,864,367
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.3%
  (Cost $3,861,124,700)
 
 
 
3,250,138,858
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.3)%  
(11,288,424)
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
3,238,850,434
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
43,056,139
368,443,431
374,635,203
270,655
-
-
36,864,367
0.1%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
-
1,290,463,359
1,290,463,359
115,787
-
-
-
0.0%
Total
43,056,139
1,658,906,790
1,665,098,562
386,442
-
-
36,864,367
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
3,213,274,491
-
3,213,274,491
-
  Money Market Funds
36,864,367
36,864,367
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
3,250,138,858
36,864,367
3,213,274,491
-
 
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $3,824,260,333)
$
3,213,274,491
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $36,864,367)
36,864,367
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $3,861,124,700)
 
 
$
3,250,138,858
Receivable for investments sold
 
 
83,747,121
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
137,304
Interest receivable
 
 
16,339,163
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
62,597
Prepaid expenses
 
 
3,185
Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions
 
 
39,131
  Total assets
 
 
3,350,467,359
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
111,382,629
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
73,503
 
 
Distributions payable
5,652
 
 
Accrued management fee
106,687
 
 
Other payables and accrued expenses
48,454
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
111,616,925
Net Assets  
 
 
$
3,238,850,434
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
5,874,218,477
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(2,635,368,043)
Net Assets
 
 
$
3,238,850,434
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($3,238,850,434 ÷ 418,904,532 shares)
 
 
$
7.73
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
142,537,615
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $115,787 from security lending)
 
 
386,442
 Total Income
 
 
 
142,924,057
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Management fee
$
1,981,512
 
 
Custodian fees and expenses
1,151
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
19,062
 
 
Registration fees
41,460
 
 
Audit
58,520
 
 
Legal
3,748
 
 
Miscellaneous
18,949
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
2,124,402
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(618,954)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
1,505,448
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
141,418,609
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(1,997,160,741)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(1,997,160,741)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(377,370,992)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(2,374,531,733)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(2,233,113,124)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
141,418,609
$
74,369,825
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(1,997,160,741)
 
 
(13,042,389)
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(377,370,992)
 
(192,798,690)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(2,233,113,124)
 
 
(131,471,254)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(133,766,281)
 
 
(75,688,216)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
4,729,413,945
 
9,113,616,478
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
133,514,177
 
 
75,547,230
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(6,343,836,524)
 
(3,070,001,136)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
(1,480,908,402)
 
 
6,119,162,572
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
(3,847,787,807)
 
 
5,912,003,102
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
7,086,638,241
 
1,174,635,139
 
End of period
$
3,238,850,434
$
7,086,638,241
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
534,586,650
 
826,731,045
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
16,005,056
 
 
6,792,550
 
Redeemed
 
(793,669,358)
 
(277,961,421)
Net increase (decrease)
 
(243,077,652)
 
555,562,174
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
10.71
$
11.04
$
12.59
$
9.72
$
9.59
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.243
 
.219
 
.227
 
.251
 
.292
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(2.991)
 
(.309)
 
(.965)
 
2.876
 
.123
  Total from investment operations
 
(2.748)  
 
(.090)  
 
(.738)  
 
3.127  
 
.415
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.232)
 
(.213)
 
(.226)
 
(.257)
 
(.285)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.027)
 
(.586)
 
-
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.232)
 
(.240)
 
(.812)
 
(.257)
 
(.285)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
7.73
$
10.71
$
11.04
$
12.59
$
9.72
 Total Return   D
 
(25.78)%
 
(.85)%
 
(6.39)%
 
32.55%
 
4.38%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions
 
.04%
 
.08%
 
.05%
 
.08%
 
.20%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of all reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
2.85%
 
1.97%
 
1.77%
 
2.21%
 
2.99%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
3,238,850
$
7,086,638
$
1,174,635
$
1,055,440
$
60,238
    Portfolio turnover rate G
 
107%
 
62%
 
47%
 
18%
 
57%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
For the period ended February 28, 2023
 
1. Organization.
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Salem Street Trust (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. Shares are offered exclusively to certain clients of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) or its affiliates. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
 
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
 
Fidelity Central Fund
Investment Manager
Investment Objective
Investment Practices
Expense Ratio A
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR)
Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity.
Short-term Investments
Less than .005%
 
A   Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
 
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
 
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
 
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
 
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
 
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
 
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing services or from brokers who make markets in such securities. U.S. government and government agency obligations are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing services. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
 
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
 
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of February 28, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
 
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.   Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned and includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities as applicable.
 
Expenses. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
 
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. As of February 28, 2023, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the financial statements; nor is the Fund aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change in the next twelve months. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction.
 
Distributions are declared and recorded daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
 
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
 
Book-tax differences are primarily due to market discount, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
 
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
 
Gross unrealized appreciation
$ 1,959,574
Gross unrealized depreciation
(630,597,458)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
$(628,637,884)
Tax Cost
$3,878,776,742
 
The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:
 
Capital loss carryforward
$(2,005,632,570)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on securities and other investments
$(628,637,884)
 
 
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
 
  Short-term
$(820,146,040)
  Long-term
(1,185,486,530)
Total capital loss carryforward
$(2,005,632,570)
 
Due to large redemptions in the period, approximately $1,384,557,433 of the Fund's realized capital losses are subject to limitation. Due to this limitation, the Fund will only be permitted to use approximately $75,457,734 of those capital losses per year to offset capital gains.   Additionally, the Fund is subject to an annual limit on its use of some of its unrealized capital losses to offset capital gains in future periods. If those losses are realized and the limitation prevents the Fund from using any of those losses in a future period, those capital losses will be available to offset capital gains in subsequent periods.
 
The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:
 
February 28, 2023
February 28, 2022
Ordinary Income
$133,766,281
$73,289,884
Long-term Capital Gains
-
2,398,332
Total
$133,766,281
$75,688,216
 
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee that is based on an annual rate of .04% of the Fund's average net assets.
 
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. During the period, there were no interfund trades.
5. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
 
 
 
Amount
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$9,899
 
6. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
 
 
Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS
Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS
Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
$   12,247
$   -
$-
 
7. Expense Reductions.
The investment adviser contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded .03% of average net assets. This reimbursement will remain in place through June 30, 2024. Some expenses, for example the compensation of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period this reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $618,954.
8. Other.
A fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the fund. In the normal course of business, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
 
At the end of the period, the following mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates were the owners of record of 10% or more of the total outstanding shares.
 
Strategic Advisers Core Income Fund
Strategic Advisers Fidelity Core Income Fund
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
14%
80%
 
Mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates, in aggregate, were the owners of record of more than 20% of the total outstanding shares.
 
Fund
% of shares held
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
94%
 
9. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
 
To the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Salem Street Trust and the Shareholders of Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (the "Fund"), a fund of Fidelity Salem Street Trust, including the schedule of investments, as of February 28, 2023, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of February 28, 2023, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund's financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of February 28, 2023, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers; we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
April 11, 2023
We have served as the auditor of one or more of the Fidelity investment companies since 1999.
TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS
The Trustees, Members of the Advisory Board (if any), and officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, oversee management of the risks associated with such activities and contractual arrangements, and review the fund's performance. Except for Jonathan Chiel, each of the Trustees oversees 292 funds. Mr. Chiel oversees 187 funds.
The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the trust and the fund is referred to herein as an Independent Trustee. Each Independent Trustee shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 75th birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. Officers and Advisory Board Members hold office without limit in time, except that any officer or Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.
The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-3455.
Experience, Skills, Attributes, and Qualifications of the Trustees.   The Governance and Nominating Committee has adopted a statement of policy that describes the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that are necessary and desirable for potential Independent Trustee candidates (Statement of Policy). The Board believes that each Trustee satisfied at the time he or she was initially elected or appointed a Trustee, and continues to satisfy, the standards contemplated by the Statement of Policy. The Governance and Nominating Committee also engages professional search firms to help identify potential Independent Trustee candidates who have the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills consistent with the Statement of Policy. From time to time, additional criteria based on the composition and skills of the current Independent Trustees, as well as experience or skills that may be appropriate in light of future changes to board composition, business conditions, and regulatory or other developments, have also been considered by the professional search firms and the Governance and Nominating Committee. In addition, the Board takes into account the Trustees' commitment and participation in Board and committee meetings, as well as their leadership of standing and ad hoc committees throughout their tenure.
In determining that a particular Trustee was and continues to be qualified to serve as a Trustee, the Board has considered a variety of criteria, none of which, in isolation, was controlling. The Board believes that, collectively, the Trustees have balanced and diverse experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills, which allow the Board to operate effectively in governing the fund and protecting the interests of shareholders. Information about the specific experience, skills, attributes, and qualifications of each Trustee, which in each case led to the Board's conclusion that the Trustee should serve (or continue to serve) as a trustee of the fund, is provided below.
Board Structure and Oversight Function.   Abigail P. Johnson is an interested person and currently serves as Chairman. The Trustees have determined that an interested Chairman is appropriate and benefits shareholders because an interested Chairman has a personal and professional stake in the quality and continuity of services provided to the fund. Independent Trustees exercise their informed business judgment to appoint an individual of their choosing to serve as Chairman, regardless of whether the Trustee happens to be independent or a member of management. The Independent Trustees have determined that they can act independently and effectively without having an Independent Trustee serve as Chairman and that a key structural component for assuring that they are in a position to do so is for the Independent Trustees to constitute a substantial majority for the Board. The Independent Trustees also regularly meet in executive session. Michael E. Kenneally serves as Chairman of the Independent Trustees and as such (i) acts as a liaison between the Independent Trustees and management with respect to matters important to the Independent Trustees and (ii) with management prepares agendas for Board meetings.
Fidelity ® funds are overseen by different Boards of Trustees. The fund's Board oversees Fidelity's investment-grade bond, money market, asset allocation and certain equity funds, and other Boards oversee Fidelity's alternative investment, high income and other equity funds. The asset allocation funds may invest in Fidelity ® funds that are overseen by such other Boards. The use of separate Boards, each with its own committee structure, allows the Trustees of each group of Fidelity ® funds to focus on the unique issues of the funds they oversee, including common research, investment, and operational issues. On occasion, the separate Boards establish joint committees to address issues of overlapping consequences for the Fidelity ® funds overseen by each Board.
The Trustees operate using a system of committees to facilitate the timely and efficient consideration of all matters of importance to the Trustees, the fund, and fund shareholders and to facilitate compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and oversight of the fund's activities and associated risks. The Board, acting through its committees, has charged FMR and its affiliates with (i) identifying events or circumstances the occurrence of which could have demonstrably adverse effects on the fund's business and/or reputation; (ii) implementing processes and controls to lessen the possibility that such events or circumstances occur or to mitigate the effects of such events or circumstances if they do occur; and (iii) creating and maintaining a system designed to evaluate continuously business and market conditions in order to facilitate the identification and implementation processes described in (i) and (ii) above. Because the day-to-day operations and activities of the fund are carried out by or through FMR, its affiliates, and other service providers, the fund's exposure to risks is mitigated but not eliminated by the processes overseen by the Trustees. While each of the Board's committees has responsibility for overseeing different aspects of the fund's activities, oversight is exercised primarily through the Operations and Audit Committees. In addition, an ad hoc Board committee of Independent Trustees has worked with FMR to enhance the Board's oversight of investment and financial risks, legal and regulatory risks, technology risks, and operational risks, including the development of additional risk reporting to the Board. Appropriate personnel, including but not limited to the fund's Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), FMR's internal auditor, the independent accountants, the fund's Treasurer and portfolio management personnel, make periodic reports to the Board's committees, as appropriate, including an annual review of Fidelity's risk management program for the Fidelity ® funds. The responsibilities of each standing committee, including their oversight responsibilities, are described further under "Standing Committees of the Trustees."
Interested Trustees*:
Correspondence intended for a Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Jonathan Chiel (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Chiel also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Chiel is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2012-present). Previously, Mr. Chiel served as general counsel (2004-2012) and senior vice president and deputy general counsel (2000-2004) for John Hancock Financial Services; a partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart (1996-2000) (law firm); and an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office of the District of Massachusetts (1986-95), including Chief of the Criminal Division (1993-1995). Mr. Chiel is a director on the boards of the Boston Bar Foundation and the Maimonides School.
Abigail P. Johnson (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Ms. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Johnson serves as Chairman (2016-present), Chief Executive Officer (2014-present), and Director (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company), President of Fidelity Financial Services (2012-present) and President of Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services (2005-present). Ms. Johnson is Chairman and Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (investment adviser firm, 2011-present). Previously, Ms. Johnson served as Chairman and Director of FMR Co., Inc. (investment adviser firm, 2011-2019), Vice Chairman (2007-2016) and President (2013-2016) of FMR LLC, President and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company (2001-2005), a Trustee of other investment companies advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (investment adviser firm), and FMR Co., Inc. (2001-2005), Senior Vice President of the Fidelity ® funds (2001-2005), and managed a number of Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Abigail P. Johnson and Mr. Arthur E. Johnson are not related.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe (1959)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Ms. McAuliffe also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and as Trustee of Fidelity Charitable (2020-present). Previously, Ms. McAuliffe served as Co-Head of Fixed Income of Fidelity Investments Limited (now known as FIL Limited (FIL)) (diversified financial services company), Director of Research for FIL's credit and quantitative teams in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and Director of Research for taxable and municipal bonds at Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. Ms. McAuliffe previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016). Ms. McAuliffe was previously a lawyer at Ropes & Gray LLP and an international banker at Chemical Bank NA (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Ms. McAuliffe also currently serves as director or trustee of several not-for-profit entities.
* Determined to be an "Interested Trustee" by virtue of, among other things, his or her affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Independent Trustees:
Correspondence intended for an Independent Trustee may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Elizabeth S. Acton (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Trustee
Ms. Acton also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Acton served as Executive Vice President, Finance (2011-2012), Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (2002-2011) and Treasurer (2004-2005) of Comerica Incorporated (financial services). Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Acton held a variety of positions at Ford Motor Company (1983-2002), including Vice President and Treasurer (2000-2002) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Credit Company (1998-2000). Ms. Acton currently serves as a member of the Board and Audit and Finance Committees of Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (homebuilding, 2012-present). Ms. Acton previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2013-2016).
Ann E. Dunwoody (1953)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Trustee
General Dunwoody also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. General Dunwoody (United States Army, Retired) was the first woman in U.S. military history to achieve the rank of four-star general and prior to her retirement in 2012 held a variety of positions within the U.S. Army, including Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Command (2008-2012). General Dunwoody currently serves as a member of the Board, Chair of Nomination Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Kforce Inc. (professional staffing services, 2016-present) and a member of the Board of Automattic Inc. (software engineering, 2018-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as President of First to Four LLC (leadership and mentoring services, 2012-2022), a member of the Advisory Board and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of L3 Technologies, Inc. (communication, electronic, sensor and aerospace systems, 2013-2019) and a member of the Board and Audit and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees of Republic Services, Inc. (waste collection, disposal and recycling, 2013-2016). General Dunwoody also serves on several boards for non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Board, Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Noble Reach Foundation (formerly Logistics Management Institute) (consulting non-profit, 2012-present) and a member of the Board of ThanksUSA (military family education non-profit, 2014-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as a member of the Board of Florida Institute of Technology (2015-2022) and a member of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United States Army (advocacy non-profit, 2013-2021). General Dunwoody previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2018).
John Engler (1948)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2014
Trustee
Mr. Engler also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Engler served as Governor of Michigan (1991-2003), President of the Business Roundtable (2011-2017) and interim President of Michigan State University (2018-2019). Previously, Mr. Engler served as a member of the Board of Stride, Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.) (technology-based education company, 2012-2022), a member of the Board of Universal Forest Products (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2003-2019) and Trustee of The Munder Funds (2003-2014). Mr. Engler previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2014-2016).
Robert F. Gartland (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Trustee
Mr. Gartland also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gartland held a variety of positions at Morgan Stanley (financial services, 1979-2007), including Managing Director (1987-2007) and Chase Manhattan Bank (1975-1978). Mr. Gartland previously served as Chairman and an investor in Gartland & Mellina Group Corp. (consulting, 2009-2019), as a member of the Board of National Securities Clearing Corporation (1993-1996) and as Chairman of TradeWeb (2003-2004).
Arthur E. Johnson (1947)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2008
Trustee
Mr. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development of Lockheed Martin Corporation (defense contractor, 1999-2009). Mr. Johnson currently serves as a member of the Board of Booz Allen Hamilton (management consulting, 2011-present). Mr. Johnson previously served as a member of the Board of Eaton Corporation plc (diversified power management, 2009-2019) and a member of the Board of AGL Resources, Inc. (holding company, 2002-2016). Mr. Johnson previously served as Chairman (2018-2021) and Vice Chairman (2015-2018) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity® funds. Mr. Arthur E. Johnson is not related to Ms. Abigail P. Johnson.     
Michael E. Kenneally (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Independent Trustees
Mr. Kenneally also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and was Vice Chairman (2018-2021) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity ® funds. Prior to retirement in 2005, he was Chairman and Global Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management, the worldwide fund management and institutional investment business of Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Mr. Kenneally was an Executive Vice President and the Chief Investment Officer for Bank of America. In this role, he was responsible for the investment management, strategy and products delivered to the bank's institutional, high-net-worth and retail clients. Earlier, Mr. Kenneally directed the organization's equity and quantitative research groups. He began his career as a research analyst and then spent more than a dozen years as a portfolio manager for endowments, pension plans and mutual funds. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1991.     
Mark A. Murray (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Murray also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Murray served as Co-Chief Executive Officer (2013-2016), President (2006-2013) and Vice Chairman (2013-2020) of Meijer, Inc. Mr. Murray serves as a member of the Board (2009-present) and Public Policy and Responsibility Committee (2009-present) and Chair of the Nuclear Review Committee (2019-present) of DTE Energy Company (diversified energy company). Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Board of Spectrum Health (not-for-profit health system, 2015-2019) and as a member of the Board and Audit Committee and Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2004-2016). Mr. Murray also serves as a member of the Board of many community and professional organizations. Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016).
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Advisory Board Members and Officers:
Correspondence intended for a Member of the Advisory Board (if any) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235. Correspondence intended for an officer may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Officers appear below in alphabetical order.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupation
Laura M. Bishop (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2022
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Bishop also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Bishop held a variety of positions at United Services Automobile Association (2001-2020), including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2014-2020) and Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (2012-2014). Ms. Bishop currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation and Personnel Committee (2021-present) of the Board of Directors of Korn Ferry (global organizational consulting).    
Robert W. Helm (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Member of the Advisory Board
Mr. Helm also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Helm was formerly Deputy Chairman (2003-2020), partner (1991-2020) and an associate (1984-1991) of Dechert LLP (formerly Dechert Price & Rhoads). Mr. Helm currently serves on boards and committees of several not-for-profit organizations, including as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Baltimore and a member of the Life Guard Society of Mt. Vernon.     
Carol J. Zierhoffer (1960)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Zierhoffer also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Zierhoffer held a variety of positions at Bechtel Corporation (engineering company, 2013-2019), including Principal Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2013-2016) and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2016-2019). Ms. Zierhoffer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2020-present) and as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (aviation operating services, 2021-present). Previously, Ms. Zierhoffer served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee and as the founding Chair of the Information Technology Committee of MedAssets, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2013-2016).    
Heather Bonner (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Bonner also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Bonner serves as Senior Vice President (2022-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Ms. Bonner serves as Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity CRET Trustee LLC (2022-present). Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Bonner served as Managing Director at AQR Capital Management (2013-2022) and was the Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer of the AQR Funds (2013-2022).     
Craig S. Brown (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2019
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Brown also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Brown serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2013-present). Previously, Mr. Brown served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2022).     
John J. Burke III (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Burke also serves as Chief Financial Officer of other funds. Mr. Burke serves as Head of Investment Operations for Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (2018-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1998-present). Previously Mr. Burke served as head of Asset Management Investment Operations (2012-2018).     
Margaret Carey (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Ms. Carey also serves as an officer of other funds and as CLO of certain other Fidelity entities. She is a Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2019-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.     
David J. Carter (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Carter also serves as Assistant Secretary of other funds. Mr. Carter serves as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel (2022-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present).     
Jonathan Davis (1968)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Davis also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Davis serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present), FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), FD Funds GP LLC (2021-present), FD Funds Holding LLC (2021-present), and FD Funds Management LLC (2021-present); and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Davis served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2003-2010).     
Laura M. Del Prato (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
President and Treasurer
Ms. Del Prato also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Del Prato serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2017-present). Previously, Ms. Del Prato served as President and Treasurer of The North Carolina Capital Management Trust: Cash Portfolio and Term Portfolio (2018-2020). Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Del Prato served as a Managing Director and Treasurer of the JPMorgan Mutual Funds (2014-2017). Prior to JPMorgan, Ms. Del Prato served as a partner at Cohen Fund Audit Services (accounting firm, 2012-2013) and KPMG LLP (accounting firm, 2004-2012).     
Christopher M. Gouveia (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Gouveia also serves as Chief Compliance Officer of other funds. Mr. Gouveia serves as Senior Vice President of Asset Management Compliance for Fidelity Investments and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Gouveia served as Chief Compliance Officer of the North Carolina Capital Management Trust (2016-2019).     
Colm A. Hogan (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Hogan also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Hogan serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as Deputy Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2020) and Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2018).     
Chris Maher (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Maher also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Maher serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Maher served as Assistant Treasurer of certain funds (2013-2020); Vice President of Asset Management Compliance (2013), Vice President of the Program Management Group of FMR (investment adviser firm, 2010-2013), and Vice President of Valuation Oversight (2008-2010).     
Jamie Pagliocco (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Vice President
Mr. Pagliocco also serves as Vice President of other funds. Mr. Pagliocco serves as President of Fixed Income (2020-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2001-present). Previously, Mr. Pagliocco served as Co-Chief Investment Officer - Bond (2017-2020), Global Head of Bond Trading (2016-2019), and as a portfolio manager.     
Brett Segaloff (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer
Mr. Segaloff also serves as an AML Officer of other funds and other related entities. He is Director, Anti-Money Laundering (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1996-present).     
Stacie M. Smith (1974)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Smith also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Smith serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2009-present), and has served in other fund officer roles. Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Smith served as Senior Audit Manager of Ernst & Young LLP (accounting firm, 1996-2009). Previously, Ms. Smith served as Assistant Treasurer (2013-2019) and Deputy Treasurer (2013-2016) of certain Fidelity ® funds.     
Jim Wegmann (1979)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Deputy Treasurer
Mr. Wegmann also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Wegmann serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2011-present). Previously, Mr. Wegmann served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2021).     
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
 
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023).
 
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
 
 
 
 
 
Annualized Expense Ratio- A
 
Beginning Account Value September 1, 2022
 
Ending Account Value February 28, 2023
 
Expenses Paid During Period- C September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
.03%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 920.20
 
$ .14
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.65
 
$ .15
 
A   Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
 
B   5% return per year before expenses
 
C   Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
 
 
 
Distributions   (Unaudited)
 
The dividend and capital gains distributions for the fund(s) are available on Fidelity.com or Institutional.Fidelity.com .
 
A total of 99.73% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year were derived from interest on U.S. Government securities which is generally exempt from state income tax.
 
The fund designates $133,766,281 of distributions paid during the fiscal year ended 2023 as qualifying to be taxed as section 163(j) interest dividends.
 
The fund will notify shareholders in January 2024 of amounts for use in preparing 2023 income tax returns.
 
 
 
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
 
Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) and the sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. FMR and the sub-advisers are referred to herein as the Investment Advisers. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information relevant to the renewal of the Advisory Contracts throughout the year.
 
The Board meets regularly and, at each of its meetings, covers an extensive agenda of topics and materials and considers factors that are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established four standing committees (Committees) - Operations, Audit, Fair Valuation, and Governance and Nominating - each composed of and chaired by Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. The Operations Committee, of which all the Independent Trustees are members, meets regularly throughout the year and requests, receives and considers, among other matters, information related to the annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts before making its recommendation to the Board. The Board also meets as needed to review matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of the Advisory Contracts. Members of the Board may also meet from time to time with trustees of other Fidelity funds through joint ad hoc committees to discuss certain matters relevant to all of the Fidelity funds.
 
At its September 2022 meeting, the Board unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness relative to peer funds of the fund's management fee and total expense ratio; (iii) the total costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity from its relationships with the fund; and (iv) the extent to which, if any, economies of scale exist and are realized as the fund grows, and whether any economies of scale are appropriately shared with fund shareholders.
 
In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders and that the compensation payable under the Advisory Contracts was fair and reasonable. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, was aware that shareholders of the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among funds offered by Fidelity's competitors, and that the fund's shareholders, who have the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, which is part of the Fidelity family of funds.  
 
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided .   The Board considered Fidelity's staffing as it relates to the fund, including the backgrounds of investment personnel of Fidelity, and also considered the fund's investment objective, strategies, and related investment philosophy. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the investment personnel compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives to act in the best interests of the fund. Additionally, the Board considered the portfolio managers' investments, if any, in the funds that they manage. The Board also considered the steps Fidelity had taken to ensure the continued provision of high-quality services to the Fidelity funds throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the expansion of staff in client facing positions to maintain service levels in periods of high volumes and volatility.
 
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the general qualifications and capabilities of Fidelity's investment staff, including its size, education, experience, and resources, as well as Fidelity's approach to recruiting, managing, training, and compensating investment personnel. The Board noted the resources devoted to Fidelity's global investment organization, and that Fidelity's analysts have extensive resources, tools and capabilities that allow them to conduct quantitative and fundamental analysis, as well as credit analysis of issuers, counterparties and guarantors. Further, the Board considered that Fidelity's investment professionals have sufficient access to global information and data so as to provide competitive investment results over time, and that those professionals also have access to sophisticated tools that permit them to assess portfolio construction and risk and performance attribution characteristics continuously, as well as to transmit new information and research conclusions rapidly around the world. Additionally, in its deliberations, the Board considered Fidelity's trading, risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, and technology and operations capabilities and resources, which are integral parts of the investment management process.
 
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians, subcustodians, and pricing vendors; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
 
The Board noted that the growth of fund assets over time across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value and convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information over the Internet and through telephone representatives, investor education materials and asset allocation tools. The Board also considered that it reviews customer service metrics such as telephone response times, continuity of services on the website and metrics addressing services at Fidelity Investor Centers.
 
Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity had taken, or had made recommendations to the Board that resulted in the Fidelity funds taking, a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including: (i) continuing to dedicate additional resources to Fidelity's investment research process, which includes meetings with management of issuers of securities in which the funds invest; (ii) continuing efforts to enhance Fidelity's global research capabilities; (iii) launching new funds, ETFs, and share classes with innovative structures, strategies and pricing and making other enhancements to meet investor needs; (iv) broadening eligibility requirements for certain funds and share classes; (v) reducing management fees and total expenses for certain funds and classes; (vi) lowering expenses for certain existing funds and classes by implementing or lowering expense caps; (vii) rationalizing product lines and gaining increased efficiencies from fund mergers and liquidations; (viii) continuing to develop, acquire and implement systems and technology to improve services to the funds and shareholders, strengthen information security, and increase efficiency; and (ix) continuing to implement enhancements to further strengthen Fidelity's product line to increase investors' probability of success in achieving their investment goals, including their retirement income goals.
 
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated in accordance with its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions and its performance history.
 
The Board took into account discussions that occur at Board meetings throughout the year with representatives of the Investment Advisers about fund investment performance. In this regard the Board noted that as part of regularly scheduled fund reviews and other reports to the Board on fund performance, the Board considers annualized return information for the fund for different time periods, measured against the securities market index the fund seeks to track and an appropriate peer group of funds with similar objectives (peer group). The Board also periodically considers the fund's tracking error versus its benchmark index.  
 
In addition to reviewing absolute and relative fund performance, the Independent Trustees periodically consider the appropriateness of fund performance metrics in evaluating the results achieved. In general, the Independent Trustees believe that an index fund's performance should be evaluated based on gross performance (before fees and expenses but after transaction costs) compared to the fund's benchmark index, over appropriate time periods, taking into account relevant factors including the following: general market conditions; the characteristics of the fund's benchmark index; the extent to which statistical sampling is employed; and fund cash flows and other factors. The Independent Trustees generally give greater weight to fund performance over longer time periods than over shorter time periods. Depending on the circumstances, the Independent Trustees may be satisfied with a fund's performance notwithstanding that it lags its benchmark index for certain periods.
 
The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders evaluate performance on a net basis (after fees and expenses) over their own holding periods, for which one-, three-, and five-year periods are often used as a proxy. For this reason, the performance information reviewed by the Board also included net cumulative calendar year total return information for the fund and its benchmark index and peer group for the most recent one- and three-year periods. The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders who are not investing through a tax-advantaged retirement account also consider tax consequences in evaluating performance.  
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of services provided to the fund under the Advisory Contracts should continue to benefit the shareholders of the fund.
 
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Expense Ratio .   The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expense ratio compared to selected groups of competitive funds and classes (referred to as "mapped groups" below) for the purpose of facilitating the Trustees' competitive analysis of management fees and total expenses. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar investment objective categories (as classified by Lipper) that have comparable investment mandates. Combining funds with similar investment objective categories aids the Board's comparison of management fees and total expense ratios by broadening the competitive group used for such comparison.
 
Management Fee. The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in basis points (BP) in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group" and is broader than the Lipper peer group used by the Board for performance comparisons. The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps relative to the total universe of funds with comparable investment mandates, regardless of whether their management fee structures also are comparable. Funds with comparable investment mandates offer exposure to similar types of securities. Funds with comparable management fee structures have similar management fee contractual arrangements (e.g., flat rate charged for advisory services, all-inclusive fee rate, etc.). "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a hypothetical TMG % of 20% would mean that 80% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher, and 20% had lower, management fees than the fund. The fund's actual TMG %s and the number of funds in the Total Mapped Group are in the chart below. The "Asset-Sized Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the Total Mapped Group that are similar in size and management fee structure. For example, if a fund is in the first quartile of the ASPG, the fund's management fee ranks in the least expensive or lowest 25% of funds in the ASPG. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee structures, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee rate ranked, is also included in the chart and was considered by the Board.  
 
 
The Board noted that the fund's management fee rate ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2021.
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee is fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.  
 
Total Expense Ratio. In its review of the fund's total expense ratio, the Board considered the fund's management fee rate as well as other fund expenses, such as custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted that Fidelity may agree to waive fees or reimburse expenses from time to time, and the extent to which, if any, it has done so for the fund. The fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure. The Board also considered a total expense ASPG comparison, which focuses on the total expenses of the fund relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the similar sales load structure group that are similar in size and management fee structure. The total expense ASPG is limited to 15 larger and 15 smaller classes of different funds, where possible. The total expense ASPG comparison excludes performance adjustments and fund-paid 12b-1 fees to eliminate variability in expenses relating to these items.
 
The Board noted that the fund's total net expense ratio ranked below the similar sales load structure group competitive median and below the ASPG competitive median for 2021.  
 
The Board further considered that FMR has contractually agreed to reimburse the fund to the extent that total operating expenses, with certain exceptions, as a percentage of its average net assets, exceed 0.03% through June 30, 2023.
 
Fees Charged to Other Fidelity Clients. The Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information with respect to clients of Fidelity, such as other funds advised or subadvised by Fidelity, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients with similar mandates. The Board noted that a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically reviews and compares Fidelity's institutional investment advisory business with its business of providing services to the Fidelity funds and also noted the most recent findings of the committee. The Board noted that the committee's review included a consideration of the differences in services provided, fees charged, and costs incurred, as well as competition in the markets serving the different categories of clients.
 
Based on its review of total expense ratios and fees charged to other Fidelity clients, the Board concluded that the fund's total expense ratio was reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
 
Costs of the Services and Profitability .   The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and servicing the fund's shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.
 
On an annual basis, Fidelity presents to the Board information about the profitability of its relationships with the fund. Fidelity calculates profitability information for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability information for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the books and records of Fidelity on which Fidelity's audited financial statements are based. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies and the full Board approves such changes.
 
A public accounting firm has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. The engagement includes the review and assessment of the methodologies used by Fidelity in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures in respect of the mathematical accuracy of certain fund profitability information and its conformity to established allocation methodologies. After considering the reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board concluded that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.  
 
The Board also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and potential indirect benefits such businesses may have received as a result of their association with Fidelity's mutual fund business (i.e., fall-out benefits) as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from the funds' business. The Board considered areas where potential indirect benefits to the Fidelity funds from their relationships with Fidelity may exist. The Board's consideration of these matters was informed by the findings of a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds to evaluate potential fall-out benefits.
 
The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and was satisfied that the profitability was not excessive.
 
Economies of Scale.   The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale as assets grow through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense ratio reductions. The Board also noted that a committee (the Economies of Scale Committee) created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically analyzes whether Fidelity attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.
 
The Board concluded, taking into account the analysis of the Economies of Scale Committee, that economies of scale, if any, are being appropriately shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity.
 
Additional Information Requested by the Board.   In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' advisory contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including: (i) Fidelity's fund profitability methodology, profitability trends for certain funds, the allocation of various costs to different funds, and the impact of certain factors on fund profitability results; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year and the amount of the investment that each portfolio manager has made in the Fidelity fund(s) that he or she manages; (iii) the extent to which current market conditions have affected retention and recruitment of personnel; (iv) the arrangements with and compensation paid to certain fund sub-advisers on behalf of the Fidelity funds and the treatment of such compensation within Fidelity's fund profitability methodology; (v) the terms of the funds' various management fee structures, including the basic group fee and the terms of Fidelity's voluntary expense limitation arrangements; (vi) Fidelity's transfer agent, pricing and bookkeeping fees, expense and service structures for different funds and classes relative to competitive trends; (vii) the impact on fund profitability of recent industry trends, such as the growth in passively managed funds and the changes in flows for different types of funds; (viii) the types of management fee and total expense comparisons provided, and the challenges and limitations associated with such information; and (ix) explanations regarding the relative total expense ratios and management fees of certain funds and classes, total expense and management fee competitive trends, and methodologies for total expense and management fee competitive comparisons. In addition, the Board considered its discussions with Fidelity regarding Fidelity's efforts to maintain the continuous investment and shareholder services necessary for the funds during the current pandemic and economic circumstances.
 
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board concluded that the advisory fee arrangements are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
  • Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
  • Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
  • Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
  • Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM).  The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022.  The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.  
 
1.9869414.107
SV5-ANN-0423
Fidelity® SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
Annual Report
February 28, 2023
 
Offered exclusively to certain clients of the Adviser, or its affiliates, including Strategic Advisers LLC (Strategic Advisers) - not available for sale to the general public. Fidelity ®   SAI is a product name of Fidelity ® funds dedicated to certain programs affiliated with Strategic Advisers.

Contents

Performance

Management's Discussion of Fund Performance

Investment Summary

Schedule of Investments

Financial Statements

Notes to Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Trustees and Officers

Shareholder Expense Example

Distributions

Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts

Liquidity Risk Management Program

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Neither the Fund nor Fidelity Distributors Corporation is a bank.
 
 
Average annual total return reflects the change in the value of an investment, assuming reinvestment of distributions from dividend income and capital gains (the profits earned upon the sale of securities that have grown in value, if any) and assuming a constant rate of performance each year. The hypothetical investment and the average annual total returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. During periods of reimbursement by Fidelity, a fund's total return will be greater than it would be had the reimbursement not occurred. How a fund did yesterday is no guarantee of how it will do tomorrow.
Average Annual Total Returns
 
 
 
 
Periods ended February 28, 2023
 
Past 1
year
Past 5
years
Life of
Fund A
Fidelity® SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
-10.10%
0.32%
0.02%
 
A     From March 1, 2016
 
 $10,000 Over Life of Fund
 
Let's say hypothetically that $10,000 was invested in Fidelity® SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund, on March 1, 2016, when the fund started.
 
The chart shows how the value of your investment would have changed, and also shows how the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Index performed over the same period.
 
 
Market Recap:  
U.S. taxable investment-grade bonds returned -9.72% for the 12 months ending February 28, 2023, according to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The new year began with an upturn in January (+3.08%) but in February bonds fell back (-2.59%), as the backdrop remained clouded by the multitude of risk factors that challenged the global economy in 2022, when the index logged its worst annual return on record. In March 2022, the Federal Reserve, faced with persistent inflationary pressure, began an aggressive series of rate hikes, eventually raising its benchmark interest rate eight times, by a total of 4.5 percentage points, through early February. At the same time, the Fed tapered the stimulative, large-scale asset purchases it had dramatically expanded in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions helped push nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) U.S. bond yields to their highest level in more than a decade. Bond prices, which move inversely to yields, fell sharply, and credit spreads significantly widened, as investors demanded more yield for buying corporate debt and other credit-sensitive assets. In November, the bond market staged a broad rally (+3.68%) when comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed to a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes, and in December the Fed stepped down to a 0.50% rise after a series of 0.75% hikes, followed by a 0.25% rise on February 2. All major market segments lost ground for the full 12 months, with high-quality, shorter-term bonds holding up best.
Comments from Co-Portfolio Managers Brandon Bettencourt and Richard Munclinger:
For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the fund returned -10.10%, roughly in line, net of fees, with the -10.08% result of the benchmark, the Bloomberg US 1-30 Year Treasury Bond Index. This result met our goal of producing monthly returns, before expenses, that closely matched the benchmark's returns. We used a method known as "stratified sampling," which matches the index's risk factors, but does not always hold all bonds in the exact proportions of the index. During the 12-month period, U.S. Treasuries, like most investment-grade bonds, posted negative results as the U.S. Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to fight inflation, which peaked in June and remained stubbornly high throughout the period. Treasuries with longer durations - that is, with the most sensitivity to interest rates - suffered the biggest declines, while shorter-duration securities posted more modest declines.
 
The views expressed above reflect those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period as stated on the cover of this report and do not necessarily represent the views of Fidelity or any other person in the Fidelity organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Fidelity disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Fidelity fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Fidelity fund.
 
Coupon Distribution (% of Fund's Investments)
 
0.01 - 0.99%
19.4
 
1 - 1.99%
30.1
 
2 - 2.99%
28.0
 
3 - 3.99%
12.0
 
4 - 4.99%
5.4
 
5 - 5.99%
1.2
 
6 - 6.99%
2.5
 
7 - 7.99%
0.2
 
 
Coupon distribution shows the range of stated interest rates on the fund's investments, excluding short-term investments.
 
 
Asset Allocation (% of Fund's net assets)
 
Showing Percentage of Net Assets  
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations - 99.5%
 
 
Principal
Amount (a)
 
Value ($)
 
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 99.5%
 
 
 
U.S. Treasury Bonds:
 
 
 
 1.125% 5/15/40
 
29,284,000
18,534,713
 1.125% 8/15/40
 
140,737,000
88,636,823
 1.25% 5/15/50
 
20,372,000
11,300,889
 1.375% 11/15/40
 
98,334,300
64,612,549
 1.375% 8/15/50
 
49,870,000
28,585,640
 1.625% 11/15/50
 
21,637,500
13,257,195
 1.75% 8/15/41
 
195,327,000
135,355,507
 1.875% 2/15/41
 
14,329,000
10,241,317
 1.875% 2/15/51
 
108,131,000
70,597,716
 1.875% 11/15/51
 
84,163,000
54,738,826
 2% 11/15/41
 
95,700,000
69,169,418
 2% 2/15/50
 
109,278,000
73,916,322
 2% 8/15/51
 
108,945,000
73,227,212
 2.25% 5/15/41
 
75,633,000
57,466,308
 2.25% 8/15/46
 
1,800,000
1,298,742
 2.25% 8/15/49
 
71,080,000
50,980,464
 2.25% 2/15/52
 
138,800,000
98,965,484
 2.375% 2/15/42
 
115,000,000
88,456,218
 2.375% 11/15/49
 
41,460,000
30,573,511
 2.375% 5/15/51
 
144,737,000
106,251,657
 2.5% 2/15/45
 
4,601,000
3,514,912
 2.5% 2/15/46
 
26,923,000
20,460,428
 2.5% 5/15/46
 
21,383,000
16,248,574
 2.75% 8/15/42
 
31,738,000
25,862,751
 2.75% 11/15/42
 
32,626,000
26,514,997
 2.75% 8/15/47
 
12,031,000
9,564,175
 2.75% 11/15/47
 
318,000
252,847
 2.875% 5/15/43
 
21,584,000
17,855,701
 2.875% 8/15/45
 
64,254,000
52,402,149
 2.875% 11/15/46
 
12,089,000
9,850,174
 2.875% 5/15/49
 
11,811,000
9,659,183
 2.875% 5/15/52
 
60,400,000
49,459,578
 3% 5/15/42
 
31,038,000
26,415,035
 3% 11/15/44
 
10,400,000
8,699,031
 3% 5/15/45
 
3,900,000
3,255,281
 3% 11/15/45
 
79,600,000
66,357,172
 3% 2/15/47
 
77,389,000
64,414,250
 3% 5/15/47
 
82,292,000
68,527,378
 3% 2/15/48
 
43,859,000
36,557,162
 3% 8/15/48
 
104,508,000
87,223,357
 3% 2/15/49
 
120,511,000
100,833,813
 3% 8/15/52
 
93,700,000
78,766,563
 3.125% 11/15/41
 
58,864,000
51,450,815
 3.125% 2/15/43
 
2,801,000
2,413,565
 3.125% 5/15/48
 
104,904,500
89,549,923
 3.25% 5/15/42
 
64,100,000
56,655,887
 3.375% 8/15/42
 
24,200,000
21,787,563
 3.375% 5/15/44
 
16,600,000
14,805,125
 3.375% 11/15/48
 
32,191,300
28,802,411
 3.5% 2/15/39
 
315,000
296,629
 3.625% 8/15/43
 
25,801,000
24,022,142
 3.625% 2/15/44
 
26,356,000
24,456,515
 3.75% 8/15/41
 
45,000
43,188
 3.75% 11/15/43
 
12,484,000
11,830,541
 3.875% 8/15/40
 
2,574,000
2,525,235
 4% 11/15/42
 
64,400,000
63,484,313
 4% 11/15/52
 
98,800,000
100,559,875
 4.25% 5/15/39
 
28,898,000
29,768,327
 4.25% 11/15/40
 
19,380,000
19,930,362
 4.375% 2/15/38
 
6,284,000
6,581,999
 4.375% 11/15/39
 
4,140,000
4,330,505
 4.375% 5/15/41
 
35,617,000
37,198,896
 4.5% 2/15/36 (b)
 
19,332,200
20,637,879
 4.5% 8/15/39
 
3,831,000
4,063,404
 4.625% 2/15/40
 
4,405,000
4,744,323
 4.75% 2/15/37
 
13,000
14,215
 4.75% 2/15/41
 
47,100,000
51,488,027
 5% 5/15/37
 
1,967,000
2,199,045
 5.25% 11/15/28
 
31,601,000
33,366,212
 5.25% 2/15/29
 
10,374,000
10,960,374
 5.375% 2/15/31
 
42,262,000
46,210,856
 5.5% 8/15/28
 
66,565,000
70,735,713
 6% 2/15/26
 
3,771,000
3,926,406
 6.125% 11/15/27
 
139,604,000
150,821,399
 6.125% 8/15/29
 
44,544,000
49,593,480
 6.25% 8/15/23
 
75,000
75,422
 6.25% 5/15/30
 
12,678,000
14,409,835
 6.375% 8/15/27
 
33,400,000
36,202,469
 6.5% 11/15/26
 
39,000
41,818
 6.625% 2/15/27
 
24,450,000
26,477,631
 6.75% 8/15/26
 
56,623,000
60,823,277
 6.875% 8/15/25 (b)
 
91,000
95,699
 7.5% 11/15/24
 
67,000
69,884
 7.625% 2/15/25
 
20,938,000
22,011,073
U.S. Treasury Notes:
 
 
 
 0.125% 8/15/23
 
1,745,000
1,706,078
 0.125% 9/15/23
 
56,000
54,550
 0.125% 10/15/23
 
6,857,000
6,650,754
 0.125% 1/15/24 (b)
 
39,563,000
37,883,118
 0.125% 2/15/24
 
14,041,000
13,381,731
 0.25% 11/15/23
 
72,000
69,581
 0.25% 3/15/24
 
61,537,000
58,508,226
 0.25% 5/15/24
 
115,780,000
109,204,057
 0.25% 5/31/25
 
68,744,000
62,267,026
 0.25% 6/30/25
 
90,476,400
81,789,252
 0.25% 7/31/25
 
76,826,000
69,215,424
 0.25% 8/31/25
 
47,244,000
42,431,018
 0.25% 9/30/25
 
81,580,000
73,135,196
 0.25% 10/31/25
 
64,321,300
57,441,936
 0.375% 4/15/24
 
75,049,000
71,176,355
 0.375% 7/15/24
 
103,738,000
97,298,950
 0.375% 8/15/24
 
98,032,000
91,629,285
 0.375% 9/15/24
 
94,577,000
88,141,330
 0.375% 4/30/25
 
11,267,000
10,264,413
 0.375% 11/30/25
 
32,600,000
29,120,969
 0.375% 12/31/25
 
58,183,100
51,907,962
 0.375% 1/31/26
 
13,705,000
12,174,430
 0.375% 7/31/27
 
106,214,000
89,808,916
 0.375% 9/30/27
 
124,126,000
104,396,754
 0.5% 3/31/25
 
62,681,000
57,441,260
 0.5% 2/28/26
 
58,511,000
52,017,651
 0.5% 4/30/27
 
30,144,000
25,844,947
 0.5% 5/31/27
 
6,320,000
5,399,897
 0.5% 6/30/27
 
23,781,000
20,272,374
 0.5% 8/31/27
 
76,109,000
64,555,891
 0.625% 10/15/24
 
114,674,000
106,964,861
 0.625% 7/31/26
 
129,205,000
113,826,576
 0.625% 3/31/27
 
17,704,000
15,300,129
 0.625% 11/30/27
 
30,400,700
25,758,656
 0.625% 12/31/27
 
23,939,900
20,236,697
 0.625% 5/15/30
 
166,327,000
131,554,262
 0.625% 8/15/30
 
91,694,900
72,116,607
 0.75% 3/31/26
 
157,216,000
140,677,614
 0.75% 4/30/26
 
54,688,000
48,751,361
 0.75% 5/31/26
 
144,299,000
128,296,466
 0.75% 8/31/26
 
75,299,000
66,457,250
 0.75% 1/31/28
 
154,028,000
130,707,198
 0.875% 6/30/26
 
55,301,000
49,287,016
 0.875% 9/30/26
 
3,677,000
3,252,709
 0.875% 11/15/30
 
118,780,900
94,913,363
 1% 12/15/24
 
168,400,000
157,184,297
 1% 7/31/28
 
112,509,000
95,421,696
 1.125% 1/15/25
 
38,000,000
35,481,016
 1.125% 2/28/25
 
143,825,900
133,825,505
 1.125% 10/31/26
 
114,815,000
102,275,049
 1.125% 2/28/27
 
44,938,000
39,782,418
 1.125% 2/29/28
 
50,970,000
43,997,463
 1.125% 8/31/28
 
79,707,000
67,947,104
 1.125% 2/15/31
 
90,098,000
73,317,248
 1.25% 7/31/23
 
5,561,000
5,475,195
 1.25% 8/31/24
 
46,824,000
44,261,484
 1.25% 11/30/26
 
76,047,000
67,928,389
 1.25% 12/31/26
 
85,700,000
76,416,949
 1.25% 3/31/28
 
102,808,000
89,141,764
 1.25% 4/30/28
 
91,099,000
78,825,545
 1.25% 5/31/28
 
196,074,000
169,328,281
 1.25% 6/30/28
 
114,335,000
98,551,410
 1.25% 9/30/28
 
131,538,000
112,675,656
 1.25% 8/15/31
 
195,166,000
158,214,062
 1.375% 8/31/23
 
1,103,000
1,083,094
 1.375% 9/30/23
 
6,179,000
6,047,214
 1.375% 8/31/26
 
76,600,000
69,179,375
 1.375% 10/31/28
 
9,200,000
7,922,781
 1.375% 12/31/28
 
26,100,000
22,423,570
 1.375% 11/15/31
 
71,246,000
57,995,914
 1.5% 2/29/24
 
82,300,000
79,403,426
 1.5% 9/30/24
 
106,723,000
101,095,029
 1.5% 10/31/24
 
80,915,000
76,477,318
 1.5% 8/15/26
 
102,770,000
93,271,803
 1.5% 1/31/27
 
69,100,000
62,098,227
 1.5% 11/30/28
 
78,300,000
67,812,082
 1.5% 2/15/30
 
53,393,000
45,338,165
 1.625% 10/31/23
 
5,035,000
4,920,139
 1.625% 2/15/26
 
29,244,000
26,938,750
 1.625% 5/15/26
 
35,738,000
32,746,338
 1.625% 9/30/26
 
55,500,000
50,496,328
 1.625% 10/31/26
 
87,777,000
79,712,488
 1.625% 11/30/26
 
9,625,000
8,731,680
 1.625% 8/15/29
 
142,062,000
122,794,841
 1.625% 5/15/31
 
183,093,000
153,926,856
 1.75% 6/30/24
 
75,665,800
72,435,225
 1.75% 7/31/24
 
84,636,000
80,791,013
 1.75% 12/31/24 (b)
 
33,483,000
31,662,362
 1.75% 3/15/25
 
127,700,000
120,137,325
 1.75% 1/31/29
 
99,200,000
86,881,375
 1.75% 11/15/29
 
55,407,000
48,208,418
 1.875% 8/31/24
 
1,000
954
 1.875% 6/30/26
 
46,405,000
42,819,489
 1.875% 7/31/26
 
63,142,000
58,142,436
 1.875% 2/28/27
 
99,400,000
90,523,890
 1.875% 2/28/29
 
11,800,000
10,407,508
 1.875% 2/15/32
 
141,000,000
119,434,882
 2% 4/30/24
 
2,462,000
2,374,868
 2% 5/31/24
 
43,408,000
41,773,418
 2% 6/30/24
 
97,375,000
93,468,589
 2% 2/15/25
 
6,597,000
6,252,719
 2% 8/15/25
 
54,627,000
51,332,309
 2% 11/15/26
 
54,650,000
50,265,191
 2.125% 11/30/23
 
2,629,000
2,571,799
 2.125% 2/29/24
 
3,213,000
3,119,246
 2.125% 7/31/24
 
12,095,000
11,609,310
 2.125% 9/30/24
 
30,004,000
28,710,078
 2.125% 11/30/24
 
124,946,000
119,137,963
 2.125% 5/31/26
 
37,900,000
35,273,648
 2.25% 12/31/23
 
29,000
28,318
 2.25% 1/31/24
 
7,160,000
6,975,686
 2.25% 4/30/24
 
1,000
968
 2.25% 10/31/24
 
27,138,000
25,962,373
 2.25% 11/15/24
 
10,322,000
9,872,025
 2.25% 12/31/24
 
6,055,000
5,777,321
 2.25% 11/15/25
 
54,523,000
51,336,812
 2.25% 3/31/26
 
13,873,000
13,002,144
 2.25% 2/15/27
 
44,880,000
41,533,284
 2.25% 8/15/27
 
28,284,000
26,001,393
 2.25% 11/15/27
 
6,200,000
5,680,750
 2.375% 8/15/24
 
11,698,000
11,257,040
 2.375% 4/30/26
 
44,609,000
41,916,777
 2.375% 5/15/27
 
7,901,000
7,321,388
 2.375% 3/31/29
 
10,000,000
9,062,891
 2.375% 5/15/29
 
124,499,000
112,661,869
 2.5% 8/15/23
 
17,536,000
17,334,610
 2.5% 4/30/24
 
222,300,000
215,657,053
 2.5% 5/15/24
 
68,026,000
65,934,732
 2.5% 5/31/24
 
25,000,000
24,208,985
 2.5% 1/31/25
 
5,697,000
5,455,768
 2.5% 2/28/26
 
2,000
1,890
 2.625% 3/31/25
 
16,295,000
15,612,647
 2.625% 4/15/25
 
118,500,000
113,398,945
 2.625% 1/31/26
 
28,504,000
27,066,552
 2.625% 5/31/27
 
123,900,000
115,948,136
 2.625% 2/15/29
 
76,744,000
70,646,450
 2.625% 7/31/29
 
28,900,000
26,499,945
 2.75% 11/15/23
 
59,000
58,034
 2.75% 2/28/25
 
46,680,000
44,876,620
 2.75% 5/15/25
 
11,800,000
11,310,945
 2.75% 6/30/25
 
182,760,000
175,042,674
 2.75% 8/31/25
 
28,037,000
26,807,096
 2.75% 4/30/27
 
152,400,000
143,440,547
 2.75% 2/15/28
 
86,418,200
80,855,028
 2.75% 5/31/29
 
53,900,000
49,855,395
 2.75% 8/15/32
 
120,900,000
109,867,875
 2.875% 4/30/25
 
80,986,000
77,882,591
 2.875% 5/31/25
 
5,889,000
5,659,421
 2.875% 6/15/25
 
84,100,000
80,827,984
 2.875% 7/31/25
 
105,997,000
101,790,244
 2.875% 11/30/25
 
93,000,000
89,040,235
 2.875% 5/15/28
 
73,985,000
69,470,759
 2.875% 8/15/28
 
92,876,000
87,038,599
 2.875% 4/30/29
 
74,400,000
69,360,562
 2.875% 5/15/32
 
180,800,000
166,279,500
 3% 6/30/24
 
76,400,000
74,334,813
 3% 7/15/25
 
28,400,000
27,344,984
 3% 9/30/25
 
82,060,000
78,880,175
 3% 10/31/25
 
11,284,000
10,838,811
 3.125% 8/15/25
 
31,000,000
29,927,109
 3.125% 8/31/27
 
9,600,000
9,161,625
 3.125% 11/15/28
 
26,503,000
25,122,981
 3.125% 8/31/29
 
24,300,000
22,947,363
 3.25% 8/31/24
 
116,500,000
113,501,035
 3.25% 6/30/27
 
46,500,000
44,616,387
 3.25% 6/30/29
 
61,300,000
58,335,570
 3.5% 2/15/33
 
35,200,000
34,039,500
 3.875% 1/15/26
 
34,100,000
33,513,906
 3.875% 11/30/27
 
6,500,000
6,407,324
 3.875% 12/31/27
 
35,600,000
35,066,516
 3.875% 9/30/29
 
4,900,000
4,834,156
 3.875% 11/30/29
 
32,200,000
31,787,438
 3.875% 12/31/29
 
91,300,000
90,187,281
 3.875% 2/28/30
 
28,500,000
28,393,125
 4% 12/15/25
 
53,800,000
53,081,265
 4% 10/31/29
 
33,100,000
32,904,762
 4.125% 9/30/27
 
38,600,000
38,397,953
 4.125% 11/15/32
 
155,600,000
158,079,875
 4.25% 12/31/24
 
56,200,000
55,569,945
 4.25% 10/15/25
 
38,500,000
38,176,660
 4.5% 11/15/25
 
13,300,000
13,277,660
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS
  (Cost $14,745,093,332)
 
 
 
13,393,762,419
 
 
 
 
Money Market Funds - 1.2%
 
 
Shares
Value ($)
 
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)
 
58,446,335
58,458,024
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63% (c)(d)
 
104,023,483
104,033,885
 
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS
  (Cost $162,491,909)
 
 
162,491,909
 
 
 
 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN SECURITIES - 100.7%
  (Cost $14,907,585,241)
 
 
 
13,556,254,328
NET OTHER ASSETS (LIABILITIES) - (0.7)%  
(99,073,583)
NET ASSETS - 100.0%
13,457,180,745
 
 
 
 
Legend
 
(a)
Amount is stated in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
 
(b)
Security or a portion of the security is on loan at period end.
 
(c)
Affiliated fund that is generally available only to investment companies and other accounts managed by Fidelity Investments. The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end. A complete unaudited listing of the fund's holdings as of its most recent quarter end is available upon request. In addition, each Fidelity Central Fund's financial statements, which are not covered by the Fund's Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the SEC's website or upon request.
 
(d)
Investment made with cash collateral received from securities on loan.
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Central Funds
 
Fiscal year to date information regarding the Fund's investments in Fidelity Central Funds, including the ownership percentage, is presented below.
 
 
Affiliate
Value,
beginning
of period ($)
Purchases ($)
Sales
Proceeds ($)
Dividend
Income ($)
Realized
Gain (loss) ($)
Change in
Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation) ($)
Value,
end
of period ($)
% ownership,
end
of period
Fidelity Cash Central Fund 4.63%
35,697,335
2,026,943,474
2,004,182,785
868,638
-
-
58,458,024
0.1%
Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund 4.63%
665,434,093
3,018,271,413
3,579,671,621
270,976
-
-
104,033,885
0.3%
Total
701,131,428
5,045,214,887
5,583,854,406
1,139,614
-
-
162,491,909
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amounts in the dividend income column in the above table include any capital gain distributions from underlying funds, which are presented in the corresponding line item in the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
Amount for Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities.
 
Amounts included in the purchases and sales proceeds columns may include in-kind transactions, if applicable.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of February 28, 2023, involving the Fund's assets and liabilities carried at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities may not be an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For more information on valuation inputs, and their aggregation into the levels used below, please refer to the Investment Valuation section in the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.
 
Valuation Inputs at Reporting Date:
Description
Total ($)
Level 1 ($)
Level 2 ($)
Level 3 ($)
  Investments in Securities:
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations
13,393,762,419
-
13,393,762,419
-
  Money Market Funds
162,491,909
162,491,909
-
-
 Total Investments in Securities:
13,556,254,328
162,491,909
13,393,762,419
-
 
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
 
 
 
February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
 
 
 
 
Investment in securities, at value  (including  securities loaned of $101,862,868) - See accompanying schedule:
 
 
 
 
Unaffiliated issuers (cost $14,745,093,332)
$
13,393,762,419
 
 
Fidelity Central Funds (cost $162,491,909)
162,491,909
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Investment in Securities (cost $14,907,585,241)
 
 
$
13,556,254,328
Receivable for investments sold
 
 
130,441,860
Receivable for fund shares sold
 
 
42,418,421
Interest receivable
 
 
57,477,895
Distributions receivable from Fidelity Central Funds
 
 
108,651
Prepaid expenses
 
 
10,273
Receivable from investment adviser for expense reductions
 
 
263,866
  Total assets
 
 
13,786,975,294
Liabilities
 
 
 
 
Payable for investments purchased
$
194,236,809
 
 
Payable for fund shares redeemed
27,987,596
 
 
Distributions payable
2,633,958
 
 
Accrued management fee
438,679
 
 
Other payables and accrued expenses
463,622
 
 
Collateral on securities loaned
104,033,885
 
 
  Total Liabilities
 
 
 
329,794,549
Net Assets  
 
 
$
13,457,180,745
Net Assets consist of:
 
 
 
 
Paid in capital
 
 
$
15,410,076,545
Total accumulated earnings (loss)
 
 
 
(1,952,895,800)
Net Assets
 
 
$
13,457,180,745
Net Asset Value , offering price and redemption price per share ($13,457,180,745 ÷ 1,554,669,172 shares)
 
 
$
8.66
 
Statement of Operations
 
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Interest  
 
 
$
266,677,212
Income from Fidelity Central Funds (including $270,976 from security lending)
 
 
1,139,614
 Total Income
 
 
 
267,816,826
Expenses
 
 
 
 
Management fee
$
5,137,502
 
 
Custodian fees and expenses
117,765
 
 
Independent trustees' fees and expenses
45,128
 
 
Registration fees
994,463
 
 
Audit
59,623
 
 
Legal
8,176
 
 
Miscellaneous
56,858
 
 
 Total expenses before reductions
 
6,419,515
 
 
 Expense reductions
 
(2,518,310)
 
 
 Total expenses after reductions
 
 
 
3,901,205
Net Investment income (loss)
 
 
 
263,915,621
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
 
 
 
 
Net realized gain (loss) on:
 
 
 
 
 Investment Securities:
 
 
 
 
   Unaffiliated issuers  
 
(563,513,094)
 
 
Total net realized gain (loss)
 
 
 
(563,513,094)
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities
 
 
 
(1,059,635,332)
Net gain (loss)
 
 
 
(1,623,148,426)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
 
$
(1,359,232,805)
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
 
 
Year ended
February 28, 2023
 
Year ended
February 28, 2022
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Operations
 
 
 
Net investment income (loss)
$
263,915,621
$
122,231,822
Net realized gain (loss)
 
(563,513,094)
 
 
(108,943,126)
 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
 
(1,059,635,332)
 
(275,137,045)
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
 
(1,359,232,805)
 
 
(261,848,349)
 
Distributions to shareholders
 
(209,327,205)
 
 
(115,889,986)
 
Share transactions
 
 
 
 
Proceeds from sales of shares
 
13,241,194,566
 
7,463,193,121
  Reinvestment of distributions
 
182,738,336
 
 
115,399,217
 
Cost of shares redeemed
 
(9,625,546,014)
 
(5,548,868,507)
  Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from share transactions
 
3,798,386,888
 
 
2,029,723,831
 
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
 
2,229,826,878
 
 
1,651,985,496
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net Assets
 
 
 
 
Beginning of period
 
11,227,353,867
 
9,575,368,371
 
End of period
$
13,457,180,745
$
11,227,353,867
 
 
 
 
 
Other Information
 
 
 
 
Shares
 
 
 
 
Sold
 
1,470,547,195
 
743,958,224
  Issued in reinvestment of distributions
 
20,547,113
 
 
11,501,245
 
Redeemed
 
(1,083,249,754)
 
(556,662,183)
Net increase (decrease)
 
407,844,554
 
198,797,286
 
 
 
 
 
 
Financial Highlights
Fidelity® SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Years ended February 28,
 
2023  
 
2022  
 
2021    
 
2020   A
 
2019  
  Selected Per-Share Data  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net asset value, beginning of period
$
9.79
$
10.10
$
10.60
$
9.65
$
9.55
  Income from Investment Operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Net investment income (loss) B,C
 
.184
 
.106
 
.168
 
.229
 
.233
     Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
 
(1.170)
 
(.316)
 
(.191)
 
.937
 
.072
  Total from investment operations
 
(.986)  
 
(.210)  
 
(.023)  
 
1.166  
 
.305
  Distributions from net investment income
 
(.144)
 
(.098)
 
(.175)
 
(.216)
 
(.205)
  Distributions from net realized gain
 
-
 
(.002)
 
(.302)
 
-
 
-
     Total distributions
 
(.144)
 
(.100)
 
(.477)
 
(.216)
 
(.205)
  Net asset value, end of period
$
8.66
$
9.79
$
10.10
$
10.60
$
9.65
 Total Return   D
 
(10.10)%
 
(2.09)%
 
(.33)%
 
12.21%
 
3.23%
 Ratios to Average Net Assets C,E,F
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Expenses before reductions
 
.05%
 
.05%
 
.05%
 
.08%
 
.15%
    Expenses net of fee waivers, if any
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Expenses net of all reductions
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
 
.03%
    Net investment income (loss)
 
2.05%
 
1.06%
 
1.56%
 
2.27%
 
2.45%
 Supplemental Data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Net assets, end of period (000 omitted)
$
13,457,181
$
11,227,354
$
9,575,368
$
9,284,624
$
2,897,538
    Portfolio turnover rate G
 
60%
 
45%
 
167%
 
23%
 
73%
 
A For the year ended February 29.
 
B Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the period.
 
C Net investment income (loss) is affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Net investment income (loss) of any mutual funds or ETFs is not included in the Fund's net investment income (loss) ratio.
 
D Total returns would have been lower if certain expenses had not been reduced during the applicable periods shown.
 
E Fees and expenses of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not included in the Fund's expense ratio. The Fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses. For additional expense information related to investments in Fidelity Central Funds, please refer to the "Investments in Fidelity Central Funds" note found in the Notes to Financial Statements section of the most recent Annual or Semi-Annual report.
 
F Expense ratios reflect operating expenses of the class. Expenses before reductions do not reflect amounts reimbursed, waived, or reduced through arrangements with the investment adviser, brokerage services, or other offset arrangements, if applicable, and do not represent the amount paid by the class during periods when reimbursements, waivers or reductions occur.
 
G Amount does not include the portfolio activity of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
 
For the period ended February 28, 2023
 
1. Organization.
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Fund) is a fund of Fidelity Salem Street Trust (the Trust) and is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares. Shares are offered exclusively to certain clients of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) or its affiliates. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust.
2. Investments in Fidelity Central Funds.
Funds may invest in Fidelity Central Funds, which are open-end investment companies generally available only to other investment companies and accounts managed by the investment adviser and its affiliates. The Schedule of Investments lists any Fidelity Central Funds held as an investment as of period end, but does not include the underlying holdings of each Fidelity Central Fund. An investing fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying Fidelity Central Funds.
 
Based on its investment objective, each Fidelity Central Fund may invest or participate in various investment vehicles or strategies that are similar to those of the investing fund. These strategies are consistent with the investment objectives of the investing fund and may involve certain economic risks which may cause a decline in value of each of the Fidelity Central Funds and thus a decline in the value of the investing fund.
 
Fidelity Central Fund
Investment Manager
Investment Objective
Investment Practices
Expense Ratio A
Fidelity Money Market Central Funds
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR)
Each fund seeks to obtain a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity.
Short-term Investments
Less than .005%
 
A   Expenses expressed as a percentage of average net assets and are as of each underlying Central Fund's most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
 
A complete unaudited list of holdings for each Fidelity Central Fund is available upon request or at the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the financial statements of the Fidelity Central Funds which contain the significant accounting policies (including investment valuation policies) of those funds, and are not covered by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website or upon request.
3. Significant Accounting Policies.
The Fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services - Investment Companies . The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements. The Fund's Schedule of Investments lists any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but does not include the underlying holdings of these funds. The following summarizes the significant accounting policies of the Fund:
 
Investment Valuation. Investments are valued as of 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on the last calendar day of the period. The Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as the valuation designee responsible for the fair valuation function and performing fair value determinations as needed. The investment adviser has established a Fair Value Committee (the Committee) to carry out the day-to-day fair valuation responsibilities and has adopted policies and procedures to govern the fair valuation process and the activities of the Committee. In accordance with these fair valuation policies and procedures, which have been approved by the Board, the Fund attempts to obtain prices from one or more third party pricing services or brokers to value its investments. When current market prices, quotations or currency exchange rates are not readily available or reliable, investments will be fair valued in good faith by the Committee, in accordance with the policies and procedures. Factors used in determining fair value vary by investment type and may include market or investment specific events, transaction data, estimated cash flows, and market observations of comparable investments. The frequency that the fair valuation procedures are used cannot be predicted and they may be utilized to a significant extent. The Committee manages the Fund's fair valuation practices and maintains the fair valuation policies and procedures. The Fund's investment adviser reports to the Board information regarding the fair valuation process and related material matters.
 
The Fund categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value its investments into a disclosure hierarchy consisting of three levels as shown below:
 
Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments
Level 2 - other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, etc.)
Level 3 - unobservable inputs (including the Fund's own assumptions based on the best information available)
 
Valuation techniques used to value the Fund's investments by major category are as follows:
 
Debt securities, including restricted securities, are valued based on evaluated prices received from third party pricing services or from brokers who make markets in such securities. U.S. government and government agency obligations are valued by pricing services who utilize matrix pricing which considers yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity and type or by broker-supplied prices. When independent prices are unavailable or unreliable, debt securities may be valued utilizing pricing methodologies which consider similar factors that would be used by third party pricing services. Debt securities are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy but may be Level 3 depending on the circumstances.
 
Investments in open-end mutual funds, including the Fidelity Central Funds, are valued at their closing net asset value (NAV) each business day and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
 
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The aggregate value of investments by input level as of February 28, 2023 is included at the end of the Fund's Schedule of Investments.
 
Investment Transactions and Income. For financial reporting purposes, the Fund's investment holdings and NAV include trades executed through the end of the last business day of the period. The NAV per share for processing shareholder transactions is calculated as of the close of business of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time and includes trades executed through the end of the prior business day. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost. Income and capital gain distributions from Fidelity Central Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is accrued as earned and includes coupon interest and amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities as applicable.
 
Expenses. Expenses directly attributable to a fund are charged to that fund. Expenses attributable to more than one fund are allocated among the respective funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of that fund and do not include any expenses associated with any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Although not included in a fund's expenses, a fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of these expenses through the net asset value of each underlying mutual fund or exchange-traded fund. Expense estimates are accrued in the period to which they relate and adjustments are made when actual amounts are known.
 
Income Tax Information and Distributions to Shareholders. Each year, the Fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, including distributing substantially all of its taxable income and realized gains. As a result, no provision for U.S. Federal income taxes is required. As of February 28, 2023, the Fund did not have any unrecognized tax benefits in the financial statements; nor is the Fund aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change in the next twelve months. The Fund files a U.S. federal tax return, in addition to state and local tax returns as required. The Fund's federal income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed. State and local tax returns may be subject to examination for an additional fiscal year depending on the jurisdiction.
 
Distributions are declared and recorded daily and paid monthly from net investment income. Distributions from realized gains, if any, are declared and recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
 
Capital accounts within the financial statements are adjusted for permanent book-tax differences. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or the results of operations. Capital accounts are not adjusted for temporary book-tax differences which will reverse in a subsequent period.
 
Book-tax differences are primarily due to market discount, capital loss carryforwards and losses deferred due to wash sales.
 
As of period end, the cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in securities, and derivatives if applicable, for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
 
Gross unrealized appreciation
$2,004,537
Gross unrealized depreciation
(1,314,203,937)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
$(1,312,199,400)
Tax Cost
$14,868,453,728
 
The tax-based components of distributable earnings as of period end were as follows:
 
Capital loss carryforward
$(639,983,617)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on securities and other investments
$(1,312,199,400)
 
Capital loss carryforwards are only available to offset future capital gains of the Fund to the extent provided by regulations and may be limited. The capital loss carryforward information presented below, including any applicable limitation, is estimated as of fiscal period end and is subject to adjustment.
 
Short-term
$(323,894,925)
Long-term
(316,088,692)
Total capital loss carryforward
$(639,983,617)
 
The tax character of distributions paid was as follows:
 
 
February 28, 2023
February 28, 2022
Ordinary Income
$209,327,205
$113,936,094
Long-term Capital Gains
-
1,953,892
Total
$209,327,205
$115,889,986
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates.
Management Fee. Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (the investment adviser) and its affiliates provide the Fund with investment management related services for which the Fund pays a monthly management fee that is based on an annual rate of .04% of the Fund's average net assets.
 
Interfund Trades. Funds may purchase from or sell securities to other Fidelity Funds under procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure these interfund trades are executed in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Any interfund trades are included within the respective purchases and sales amounts shown in the Purchases and Sales of Investments note. During the period, there were no interfund trades.
 
Other. During the period, the investment adviser reimbursed the Fund for certain losses as follows:
 
 
Amount ($)
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
97,320
5. Committed Line of Credit.
Certain Funds participate with other funds managed by the investment adviser or an affiliate in a $4.25 billion credit facility (the "line of credit") to be utilized for temporary or emergency purposes to fund shareholder redemptions or for other short-term liquidity purposes. The participating funds have agreed to pay commitment fees on their pro-rata portion of the line of credit, which are reflected in Miscellaneous expenses on the Statement of Operations, and are listed below. During the period, there were no borrowings on this line of credit.
 
 
Amount
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
$22,592
6. Security Lending.
Funds lend portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income. Lending agents are used, including National Financial Services (NFS), an affiliate of the investment adviser. Pursuant to a securities lending agreement, NFS will receive a fee, which is capped at 9.9% of a fund's daily lending revenue, for its services as lending agent. A fund may lend securities to certain qualified borrowers, including NFS. On the settlement date of the loan, a fund receives collateral (in the form of U.S. Treasury obligations, letters of credit and/or cash) against the loaned securities and maintains collateral in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of a fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to a fund on the next business day. A fund or borrower may terminate the loan at any time, and if the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a fund may apply collateral received from the borrower against the obligation. A fund may experience delays and costs in recovering the securities loaned. Any cash collateral received is invested in the Fidelity Securities Lending Cash Central Fund. Any loaned securities are identified as such in the Schedule of Investments, and the value of loaned securities and cash collateral at period end, as applicable, are presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less rebates paid to borrowers and any lending agent fees associated with the loan, plus any premium payments received for lending certain types of securities. Security lending income is presented in the Statement of Operations as a component of income from Fidelity Central Funds. Affiliated security lending activity, if any, was as follows:
 
Total Security Lending Fees Paid to NFS
Security Lending Income From Securities Loaned to NFS
Value of Securities Loaned to NFS at Period End
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
$28,624
$-
$-
 
7. Expense Reductions.
The investment adviser contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund to the extent annual operating expenses exceeded .03% of average net assets. This reimbursement will remain in place through June 30, 2024. Some expenses, for example the compensation of the independent Trustees, and certain miscellaneous expenses such as proxy and shareholder meeting expenses, are excluded from this reimbursement. During the period this reimbursement reduced the Fund's expenses by $2,518,310.
8. Other.
A fund's organizational documents provide former and current trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the fund. In the normal course of business, a fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. A fund's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against a fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
 
At the end of the period, the following mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates were the owners of record of 10% or more of the total outstanding shares.
 
 
Strategic Advisers Core Income Fund
Strategic Advisers Fidelity Core Income Fund
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
13%
35%
 
Mutual funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates, in aggregate, were the owners of record of more than 20% of the total outstanding shares.
 
Fund
% of shares held
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
49%
9. Risk and Uncertainties.
Many factors affect a fund's performance. Developments that disrupt global economies and financial markets, such as pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, war, terrorism, and environmental disasters, may significantly affect a fund's investment performance. The effects of these developments to a fund will be impacted by the types of securities in which a fund invests, the financial condition, industry, economic sector, and geographic location of an issuer, and a fund's level of investment in the securities of that issuer. Significant concentrations in security types, issuers, industries, sectors, and geographic locations may magnify the factors that affect a fund's performance.
To the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Salem Street Trust and the Shareholders of Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund (the "Fund"), a fund of Fidelity Salem Street Trust, including the schedule of investments, as of February 28, 2023, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of February 28, 2023, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund's financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of February 28, 2023, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers; we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
April 11, 2023
We have served as the auditor of one or more of the Fidelity investment companies since 1999.
TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS
The Trustees, Members of the Advisory Board (if any), and officers of the trust and fund, as applicable, are listed below. The Board of Trustees governs the fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders. The Trustees are experienced executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the fund's activities, review contractual arrangements with companies that provide services to the fund, oversee management of the risks associated with such activities and contractual arrangements, and review the fund's performance. Except for Jonathan Chiel, each of the Trustees oversees 292 funds. Mr. Chiel oversees 187 funds.
The Trustees hold office without limit in time except that (a) any Trustee may resign; (b) any Trustee may be removed by written instrument, signed by at least two-thirds of the number of Trustees prior to such removal; (c) any Trustee who requests to be retired or who has become incapacitated by illness or injury may be retired by written instrument signed by a majority of the other Trustees; and (d) any Trustee may be removed at any special meeting of shareholders by a two-thirds vote of the outstanding voting securities of the trust. Each Trustee who is not an interested person (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the trust and the fund is referred to herein as an Independent Trustee. Each Independent Trustee shall retire not later than the last day of the calendar year in which his or her 75th birthday occurs. The Independent Trustees may waive this mandatory retirement age policy with respect to individual Trustees. Officers and Advisory Board Members hold office without limit in time, except that any officer or Advisory Board Member may resign or may be removed by a vote of a majority of the Trustees at any regular meeting or any special meeting of the Trustees. Except as indicated, each individual has held the office shown or other offices in the same company for the past five years.
The fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes more information about the Trustees. To request a free copy, call Fidelity at 1-800-544-3455.
Experience, Skills, Attributes, and Qualifications of the Trustees.   The Governance and Nominating Committee has adopted a statement of policy that describes the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that are necessary and desirable for potential Independent Trustee candidates (Statement of Policy). The Board believes that each Trustee satisfied at the time he or she was initially elected or appointed a Trustee, and continues to satisfy, the standards contemplated by the Statement of Policy. The Governance and Nominating Committee also engages professional search firms to help identify potential Independent Trustee candidates who have the experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills consistent with the Statement of Policy. From time to time, additional criteria based on the composition and skills of the current Independent Trustees, as well as experience or skills that may be appropriate in light of future changes to board composition, business conditions, and regulatory or other developments, have also been considered by the professional search firms and the Governance and Nominating Committee. In addition, the Board takes into account the Trustees' commitment and participation in Board and committee meetings, as well as their leadership of standing and ad hoc committees throughout their tenure.
In determining that a particular Trustee was and continues to be qualified to serve as a Trustee, the Board has considered a variety of criteria, none of which, in isolation, was controlling. The Board believes that, collectively, the Trustees have balanced and diverse experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills, which allow the Board to operate effectively in governing the fund and protecting the interests of shareholders. Information about the specific experience, skills, attributes, and qualifications of each Trustee, which in each case led to the Board's conclusion that the Trustee should serve (or continue to serve) as a trustee of the fund, is provided below.
Board Structure and Oversight Function.   Abigail P. Johnson is an interested person and currently serves as Chairman. The Trustees have determined that an interested Chairman is appropriate and benefits shareholders because an interested Chairman has a personal and professional stake in the quality and continuity of services provided to the fund. Independent Trustees exercise their informed business judgment to appoint an individual of their choosing to serve as Chairman, regardless of whether the Trustee happens to be independent or a member of management. The Independent Trustees have determined that they can act independently and effectively without having an Independent Trustee serve as Chairman and that a key structural component for assuring that they are in a position to do so is for the Independent Trustees to constitute a substantial majority for the Board. The Independent Trustees also regularly meet in executive session. Michael E. Kenneally serves as Chairman of the Independent Trustees and as such (i) acts as a liaison between the Independent Trustees and management with respect to matters important to the Independent Trustees and (ii) with management prepares agendas for Board meetings.
Fidelity ® funds are overseen by different Boards of Trustees. The fund's Board oversees Fidelity's investment-grade bond, money market, asset allocation and certain equity funds, and other Boards oversee Fidelity's alternative investment, high income and other equity funds. The asset allocation funds may invest in Fidelity ® funds that are overseen by such other Boards. The use of separate Boards, each with its own committee structure, allows the Trustees of each group of Fidelity ® funds to focus on the unique issues of the funds they oversee, including common research, investment, and operational issues. On occasion, the separate Boards establish joint committees to address issues of overlapping consequences for the Fidelity ® funds overseen by each Board.
The Trustees operate using a system of committees to facilitate the timely and efficient consideration of all matters of importance to the Trustees, the fund, and fund shareholders and to facilitate compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and oversight of the fund's activities and associated risks. The Board, acting through its committees, has charged FMR and its affiliates with (i) identifying events or circumstances the occurrence of which could have demonstrably adverse effects on the fund's business and/or reputation; (ii) implementing processes and controls to lessen the possibility that such events or circumstances occur or to mitigate the effects of such events or circumstances if they do occur; and (iii) creating and maintaining a system designed to evaluate continuously business and market conditions in order to facilitate the identification and implementation processes described in (i) and (ii) above. Because the day-to-day operations and activities of the fund are carried out by or through FMR, its affiliates, and other service providers, the fund's exposure to risks is mitigated but not eliminated by the processes overseen by the Trustees. While each of the Board's committees has responsibility for overseeing different aspects of the fund's activities, oversight is exercised primarily through the Operations and Audit Committees. In addition, an ad hoc Board committee of Independent Trustees has worked with FMR to enhance the Board's oversight of investment and financial risks, legal and regulatory risks, technology risks, and operational risks, including the development of additional risk reporting to the Board. Appropriate personnel, including but not limited to the fund's Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), FMR's internal auditor, the independent accountants, the fund's Treasurer and portfolio management personnel, make periodic reports to the Board's committees, as appropriate, including an annual review of Fidelity's risk management program for the Fidelity ® funds. The responsibilities of each standing committee, including their oversight responsibilities, are described further under "Standing Committees of the Trustees."
Interested Trustees*:
Correspondence intended for a Trustee who is an interested person may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Jonathan Chiel (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Chiel also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Chiel is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2012-present). Previously, Mr. Chiel served as general counsel (2004-2012) and senior vice president and deputy general counsel (2000-2004) for John Hancock Financial Services; a partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart (1996-2000) (law firm); and an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office of the District of Massachusetts (1986-95), including Chief of the Criminal Division (1993-1995). Mr. Chiel is a director on the boards of the Boston Bar Foundation and the Maimonides School.
Abigail P. Johnson (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Ms. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Johnson serves as Chairman (2016-present), Chief Executive Officer (2014-present), and Director (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company), President of Fidelity Financial Services (2012-present) and President of Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services (2005-present). Ms. Johnson is Chairman and Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (investment adviser firm, 2011-present). Previously, Ms. Johnson served as Chairman and Director of FMR Co., Inc. (investment adviser firm, 2011-2019), Vice Chairman (2007-2016) and President (2013-2016) of FMR LLC, President and a Director of Fidelity Management & Research Company (2001-2005), a Trustee of other investment companies advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. (investment adviser firm), and FMR Co., Inc. (2001-2005), Senior Vice President of the Fidelity ® funds (2001-2005), and managed a number of Fidelity ® funds. Ms. Abigail P. Johnson and Mr. Arthur E. Johnson are not related.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe (1959)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Ms. McAuliffe also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and as Trustee of Fidelity Charitable (2020-present). Previously, Ms. McAuliffe served as Co-Head of Fixed Income of Fidelity Investments Limited (now known as FIL Limited (FIL)) (diversified financial services company), Director of Research for FIL's credit and quantitative teams in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and Director of Research for taxable and municipal bonds at Fidelity Investments Money Management, Inc. Ms. McAuliffe previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016). Ms. McAuliffe was previously a lawyer at Ropes & Gray LLP and an international banker at Chemical Bank NA (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Ms. McAuliffe also currently serves as director or trustee of several not-for-profit entities.
* Determined to be an "Interested Trustee" by virtue of, among other things, his or her affiliation with the trust or various entities under common control with FMR.
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Independent Trustees:
Correspondence intended for an Independent Trustee may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupations and Other Relevant Experience+
Elizabeth S. Acton (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Trustee
Ms. Acton also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Acton served as Executive Vice President, Finance (2011-2012), Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (2002-2011) and Treasurer (2004-2005) of Comerica Incorporated (financial services). Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Acton held a variety of positions at Ford Motor Company (1983-2002), including Vice President and Treasurer (2000-2002) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Credit Company (1998-2000). Ms. Acton currently serves as a member of the Board and Audit and Finance Committees of Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (homebuilding, 2012-present). Ms. Acton previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2013-2016).
Ann E. Dunwoody (1953)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Trustee
General Dunwoody also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. General Dunwoody (United States Army, Retired) was the first woman in U.S. military history to achieve the rank of four-star general and prior to her retirement in 2012 held a variety of positions within the U.S. Army, including Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Command (2008-2012). General Dunwoody currently serves as a member of the Board, Chair of Nomination Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Kforce Inc. (professional staffing services, 2016-present) and a member of the Board of Automattic Inc. (software engineering, 2018-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as President of First to Four LLC (leadership and mentoring services, 2012-2022), a member of the Advisory Board and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of L3 Technologies, Inc. (communication, electronic, sensor and aerospace systems, 2013-2019) and a member of the Board and Audit and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees of Republic Services, Inc. (waste collection, disposal and recycling, 2013-2016). General Dunwoody also serves on several boards for non-profit organizations, including as a member of the Board, Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Noble Reach Foundation (formerly Logistics Management Institute) (consulting non-profit, 2012-present) and a member of the Board of ThanksUSA (military family education non-profit, 2014-present). Previously, General Dunwoody served as a member of the Board of Florida Institute of Technology (2015-2022) and a member of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United States Army (advocacy non-profit, 2013-2021). General Dunwoody previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2018).
John Engler (1948)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2014
Trustee
Mr. Engler also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Engler served as Governor of Michigan (1991-2003), President of the Business Roundtable (2011-2017) and interim President of Michigan State University (2018-2019). Previously, Mr. Engler served as a member of the Board of Stride, Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.) (technology-based education company, 2012-2022), a member of the Board of Universal Forest Products (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2003-2019) and Trustee of The Munder Funds (2003-2014). Mr. Engler previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2014-2016).
Robert F. Gartland (1951)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Trustee
Mr. Gartland also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gartland held a variety of positions at Morgan Stanley (financial services, 1979-2007), including Managing Director (1987-2007) and Chase Manhattan Bank (1975-1978). Mr. Gartland previously served as Chairman and an investor in Gartland & Mellina Group Corp. (consulting, 2009-2019), as a member of the Board of National Securities Clearing Corporation (1993-1996) and as Chairman of TradeWeb (2003-2004).
Arthur E. Johnson (1947)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2008
Trustee
Mr. Johnson also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development of Lockheed Martin Corporation (defense contractor, 1999-2009). Mr. Johnson currently serves as a member of the Board of Booz Allen Hamilton (management consulting, 2011-present). Mr. Johnson previously served as a member of the Board of Eaton Corporation plc (diversified power management, 2009-2019) and a member of the Board of AGL Resources, Inc. (holding company, 2002-2016). Mr. Johnson previously served as Chairman (2018-2021) and Vice Chairman (2015-2018) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity® funds. Mr. Arthur E. Johnson is not related to Ms. Abigail P. Johnson.     
Michael E. Kenneally (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2009
Trustee
Chairman of the Independent Trustees
Mr. Kenneally also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds and was Vice Chairman (2018-2021) of the Independent Trustees of certain Fidelity ® funds. Prior to retirement in 2005, he was Chairman and Global Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management, the worldwide fund management and institutional investment business of Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Mr. Kenneally was an Executive Vice President and the Chief Investment Officer for Bank of America. In this role, he was responsible for the investment management, strategy and products delivered to the bank's institutional, high-net-worth and retail clients. Earlier, Mr. Kenneally directed the organization's equity and quantitative research groups. He began his career as a research analyst and then spent more than a dozen years as a portfolio manager for endowments, pension plans and mutual funds. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1991.     
Mark A. Murray (1954)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Trustee
Mr. Murray also serves as Trustee of other Fidelity ® funds. Previously, Mr. Murray served as Co-Chief Executive Officer (2013-2016), President (2006-2013) and Vice Chairman (2013-2020) of Meijer, Inc. Mr. Murray serves as a member of the Board (2009-present) and Public Policy and Responsibility Committee (2009-present) and Chair of the Nuclear Review Committee (2019-present) of DTE Energy Company (diversified energy company). Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Board of Spectrum Health (not-for-profit health system, 2015-2019) and as a member of the Board and Audit Committee and Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (manufacturer and distributor of wood and wood-alternative products, 2004-2016). Mr. Murray also serves as a member of the Board of many community and professional organizations. Mr. Murray previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016).
+ The information includes the Trustee's principal occupation during the last five years and other information relating to the experience, attributes, and skills relevant to the Trustee's qualifications to serve as a Trustee, which led to the conclusion that the Trustee should serve as a Trustee for the fund.
Advisory Board Members and Officers:
Correspondence intended for a Member of the Advisory Board (if any) may be sent to Fidelity Investments, P.O. Box 55235, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-5235. Correspondence intended for an officer may be sent to Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Officers appear below in alphabetical order.
Name, Year of Birth; Principal Occupation
Laura M. Bishop (1961)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2022
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Bishop also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Bishop held a variety of positions at United Services Automobile Association (2001-2020), including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2014-2020) and Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (2012-2014). Ms. Bishop currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation and Personnel Committee (2021-present) of the Board of Directors of Korn Ferry (global organizational consulting).    
Robert W. Helm (1957)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Member of the Advisory Board
Mr. Helm also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other Fidelity ® funds. Mr. Helm was formerly Deputy Chairman (2003-2020), partner (1991-2020) and an associate (1984-1991) of Dechert LLP (formerly Dechert Price & Rhoads). Mr. Helm currently serves on boards and committees of several not-for-profit organizations, including as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Baltimore and a member of the Life Guard Society of Mt. Vernon.     
Carol J. Zierhoffer (1960)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Member of the Advisory Board
Ms. Zierhoffer also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of other funds. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Zierhoffer held a variety of positions at Bechtel Corporation (engineering company, 2013-2019), including Principal Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2013-2016) and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (2016-2019). Ms. Zierhoffer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2020-present) and as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (aviation operating services, 2021-present). Previously, Ms. Zierhoffer served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee and as the founding Chair of the Information Technology Committee of MedAssets, Inc. (healthcare technology, 2013-2016).    
Heather Bonner (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Bonner also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Bonner serves as Senior Vice President (2022-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Ms. Bonner serves as Assistant Treasurer of Fidelity CRET Trustee LLC (2022-present). Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Bonner served as Managing Director at AQR Capital Management (2013-2022) and was the Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer of the AQR Funds (2013-2022).     
Craig S. Brown (1977)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2019
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Brown also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Brown serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2013-present). Previously, Mr. Brown served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2022).     
John J. Burke III (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Burke also serves as Chief Financial Officer of other funds. Mr. Burke serves as Head of Investment Operations for Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (2018-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1998-present). Previously Mr. Burke served as head of Asset Management Investment Operations (2012-2018).     
Margaret Carey (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Ms. Carey also serves as an officer of other funds and as CLO of certain other Fidelity entities. She is a Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2019-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments.     
David J. Carter (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Carter also serves as Assistant Secretary of other funds. Mr. Carter serves as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel (2022-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present).     
Jonathan Davis (1968)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2010
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Davis also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Davis serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present), FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), FD Funds GP LLC (2021-present), FD Funds Holding LLC (2021-present), and FD Funds Management LLC (2021-present); and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Davis served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company, 2003-2010).     
Laura M. Del Prato (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2018
President and Treasurer
Ms. Del Prato also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Del Prato serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2017-present). Previously, Ms. Del Prato served as President and Treasurer of The North Carolina Capital Management Trust: Cash Portfolio and Term Portfolio (2018-2020). Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Del Prato served as a Managing Director and Treasurer of the JPMorgan Mutual Funds (2014-2017). Prior to JPMorgan, Ms. Del Prato served as a partner at Cohen Fund Audit Services (accounting firm, 2012-2013) and KPMG LLP (accounting firm, 2004-2012).     
Christopher M. Gouveia (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2023
Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Gouveia also serves as Chief Compliance Officer of other funds. Mr. Gouveia serves as Senior Vice President of Asset Management Compliance for Fidelity Investments and is an employee of Fidelity Investments. Previously, Mr. Gouveia served as Chief Compliance Officer of the North Carolina Capital Management Trust (2016-2019).     
Colm A. Hogan (1973)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2016
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Hogan also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Hogan serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2005-present). Previously, Mr. Hogan served as Deputy Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2020) and Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2016-2018).     
Chris Maher (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Maher also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Maher serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2008-present). Previously, Mr. Maher served as Assistant Treasurer of certain funds (2013-2020); Vice President of Asset Management Compliance (2013), Vice President of the Program Management Group of FMR (investment adviser firm, 2010-2013), and Vice President of Valuation Oversight (2008-2010).     
Jamie Pagliocco (1964)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2020
Vice President
Mr. Pagliocco also serves as Vice President of other funds. Mr. Pagliocco serves as President of Fixed Income (2020-present), and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2001-present). Previously, Mr. Pagliocco served as Co-Chief Investment Officer - Bond (2017-2020), Global Head of Bond Trading (2016-2019), and as a portfolio manager.     
Brett Segaloff (1972)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer
Mr. Segaloff also serves as an AML Officer of other funds and other related entities. He is Director, Anti-Money Laundering (2007-present) of FMR LLC (diversified financial services company) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (1996-present).     
Stacie M. Smith (1974)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2013
Assistant Treasurer
Ms. Smith also serves as an officer of other funds. Ms. Smith serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and FMR Capital, Inc. (2017-present), is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2009-present), and has served in other fund officer roles. Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Smith served as Senior Audit Manager of Ernst & Young LLP (accounting firm, 1996-2009). Previously, Ms. Smith served as Assistant Treasurer (2013-2019) and Deputy Treasurer (2013-2016) of certain Fidelity ® funds.     
Jim Wegmann (1979)
Year of Election or Appointment: 2021
Deputy Treasurer
Mr. Wegmann also serves as an officer of other funds. Mr. Wegmann serves as Assistant Treasurer of FIMM, LLC (2021-present) and is an employee of Fidelity Investments (2011-present). Previously, Mr. Wegmann served as Assistant Treasurer of certain Fidelity ® funds (2019-2021).     
As a shareholder, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or redemption proceeds, as applicable and (2) ongoing costs, which generally include management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
 
The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023).
 
Actual Expenses
The first line of the accompanying table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for a class/Fund under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period. If any fund is a shareholder of any underlying mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (the Underlying Funds), such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses incurred presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the accompanying table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. If any fund is a shareholder of any Underlying Funds, such fund indirectly bears its proportional share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in addition to the direct expenses as presented in the table. These fees and expenses are not included in the annualized expense ratio used to calculate the expense estimate in the table below.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
 
 
 
 
 
Annualized Expense Ratio- A
 
Beginning Account Value September 1, 2022
 
Ending Account Value February 28, 2023
 
Expenses Paid During Period- C September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fidelity® SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
 
 
.03%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 974.30
 
$ .15
Hypothetical- B
 
 
 
 
 
$ 1,000
 
$ 1,024.65
 
$ .15
 
A   Annualized expense ratio reflects expenses net of applicable fee waivers.
 
B   5% return per year before expenses
 
C   Expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/ 365 (to reflect the one-half year period). The fees and expenses of any Underlying Funds are not included in each annualized expense ratio.
 
 
 
Distributions   (Unaudited)
The dividend and capital gains distributions for the fund(s) are available on Fidelity.com or Institutional.Fidelity.com .
 
A total of 99.57% of the dividends distributed during the fiscal year was derived from interest on U.S. Government securities which is generally exempt from state income tax.
 
The fund designates $209,327,205 of distributions paid during the fiscal year ending 2023 as qualifying to be taxed as section 163(j) interest dividends.
 
The fund will notify shareholders in January 2024 of amounts for use in preparing 2023 income tax returns.
 
 
 
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Contracts and Management Fees
 
Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund
 
Each year, the Board of Trustees, including the Independent Trustees (together, the Board), votes on the renewal of the management contract with Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC (FMR) and the sub-advisory agreements (together, the Advisory Contracts) for the fund. FMR and the sub-advisers are referred to herein as the Investment Advisers. The Board, assisted by the advice of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel, requests and considers a broad range of information relevant to the renewal of the Advisory Contracts throughout the year.
 
The Board meets regularly and, at each of its meetings, covers an extensive agenda of topics and materials and considers factors that are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts, including the services and support provided to the fund and its shareholders. The Board has established four standing committees (Committees) - Operations, Audit, Fair Valuation, and Governance and Nominating - each composed of and chaired by Independent Trustees with varying backgrounds, to which the Board has assigned specific subject matter responsibilities in order to enhance effective decision-making by the Board. The Operations Committee, of which all the Independent Trustees are members, meets regularly throughout the year and requests, receives and considers, among other matters, information related to the annual consideration of the renewal of the fund's Advisory Contracts before making its recommendation to the Board. The Board also meets as needed to review matters specifically related to the Board's annual consideration of the renewal of the Advisory Contracts. Members of the Board may also meet from time to time with trustees of other Fidelity funds through joint ad hoc committees to discuss certain matters relevant to all of the Fidelity funds.
 
At its September 2022 meeting, the Board unanimously determined to renew the fund's Advisory Contracts. In reaching its determination, the Board considered all factors it believed relevant, including (i) the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to the fund and its shareholders (including the investment performance of the fund); (ii) the competitiveness relative to peer funds of the fund's management fee and total expense ratio; (iii) the total costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity from its relationships with the fund; and (iv) the extent to which, if any, economies of scale exist and are realized as the fund grows, and whether any economies of scale are appropriately shared with fund shareholders.
 
In considering whether to renew the Advisory Contracts for the fund, the Board reached a determination, with the assistance of fund counsel and Independent Trustees' counsel and through the exercise of its business judgment, that the renewal of the Advisory Contracts was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders and that the compensation payable under the Advisory Contracts was fair and reasonable. The Board's decision to renew the Advisory Contracts was not based on any single factor, but rather was based on a comprehensive consideration of all the information provided to the Board at its meetings throughout the year. The Board, in reaching its determination to renew the Advisory Contracts, was aware that shareholders of the fund have a broad range of investment choices available to them, including a wide choice among funds offered by Fidelity's competitors, and that the fund's shareholders, who have the opportunity to review and weigh the disclosure provided by the fund in its prospectus and other public disclosures, have chosen to invest in this fund, which is part of the Fidelity family of funds.  
 
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided. The Board considered Fidelity's staffing as it relates to the fund, including the backgrounds of investment personnel of Fidelity, and also considered the fund's investment objective, strategies, and related investment philosophy. The Independent Trustees also had discussions with senior management of Fidelity's investment operations and investment groups. The Board considered the structure of the investment personnel compensation program and whether this structure provides appropriate incentives to act in the best interests of the fund. Additionally, the Board considered the portfolio managers' investments, if any, in the funds that they manage. The Board also considered the steps Fidelity had taken to ensure the continued provision of high quality services to the Fidelity funds throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including the expansion of staff in client facing positions to maintain service levels in periods of high volumes and volatility.
 
Resources Dedicated to Investment Management and Support Services. The Board reviewed the general qualifications and capabilities of Fidelity's investment staff, including its size, education, experience, and resources, as well as Fidelity's approach to recruiting, training, managing, and compensating investment personnel. The Board noted the resources devoted to Fidelity's global investment organization, and that Fidelity's analysts have extensive resources, tools and capabilities that allow them to conduct quantitative and fundamental analysis, as well as credit analysis of issuers, counterparties and guarantors. Further, the Board considered that Fidelity's investment professionals have sufficient access to global information and data so as to provide competitive investment results over time, and that those professionals also have access to sophisticated tools that permit them to assess portfolio construction and risk and performance attribution characteristics continuously, as well as to transmit new information and research conclusions rapidly around the world. Additionally, in its deliberations, the Board considered Fidelity's trading, risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, and technology and operations capabilities and resources, which are integral parts of the investment management process.
 
Shareholder and Administrative Services. The Board considered (i) the nature, extent, quality, and cost of advisory, administrative, and shareholder services performed by the Investment Advisers and their affiliates under the Advisory Contracts and under separate agreements covering transfer agency, pricing and bookkeeping, and securities lending services for the fund; (ii) the nature and extent of the supervision of third party service providers, principally custodians, subcustodians, and pricing vendors; and (iii) the resources devoted to, and the record of compliance with, the fund's compliance policies and procedures.
 
The Board noted that the growth of fund assets over time across the complex allows Fidelity to reinvest in the development of services designed to enhance the value and convenience of the Fidelity funds as investment vehicles. These services include 24-hour access to account information and market information over the Internet and through telephone representatives, investor education materials and asset allocation tools. The Board also considered that it reviews customer service metrics such as telephone response times, continuity of services on the website and metrics addressing services at Fidelity Investor Centers.
 
Investment in a Large Fund Family. The Board considered the benefits to shareholders of investing in a Fidelity fund, including the benefits of investing in a fund that is part of a large family of funds offering a variety of investment disciplines and providing a large variety of mutual fund investor services. The Board noted that Fidelity had taken, or had made recommendations to the Board that resulted in the Fidelity funds taking, a number of actions over the previous year that benefited particular funds, including: (i) continuing to dedicate additional resources to Fidelity's investment research process, which includes meetings with management of issuers of securities in which the funds invest; (ii) continuing efforts to enhance Fidelity's global research capabilities; (iii) launching new funds, ETFs, and share classes with innovative structures, strategies and pricing and making other enhancements to meet investor needs; (iv) broadening eligibility requirements for certain funds and share classes; (v) reducing management fees and total expenses for certain funds and classes; (vi) lowering expenses for certain existing funds and classes by implementing or lowering expense caps; (vii) rationalizing product lines and gaining increased efficiencies from fund mergers and liquidations; (viii) continuing to develop, acquire and implement systems and technology to improve services to the funds and shareholders, strengthen information security, and increase efficiency; and (ix) continuing to implement enhancements to further strengthen Fidelity's product line to increase investors' probability of success in achieving their investment goals, including their retirement income goals.  
 
Investment Performance. The Board considered whether the fund has operated in accordance with its investment objective, as well as its record of compliance with its investment restrictions and its performance history.  
 
The Board took into account discussions that occur at Board meetings throughout the year with representatives of the Investment Advisers about fund investment performance. In this regard the Board noted that as part of regularly scheduled fund reviews and other reports to the Board on fund performance, the Board considers annualized return information for the fund for different time periods, measured against the securities market index the fund seeks to track and an appropriate peer group of funds with similar objectives (peer group). The Board also periodically considers the fund's tracking error versus its benchmark index.  
 
In addition to reviewing absolute and relative fund performance, the Independent Trustees periodically consider the appropriateness of fund performance metrics in evaluating the results achieved. In general, the Independent Trustees believe that an index fund's performance should be evaluated based on gross performance (before fees and expenses but after transaction costs) compared to the fund's benchmark index, over appropriate time periods, taking into account relevant factors including the following: general market conditions; the characteristics of the fund's benchmark index; the extent to which statistical sampling is employed; and fund cash flows and other factors. The Independent Trustees generally give greater weight to fund performance over longer time periods than over shorter time periods. Depending on the circumstances, the Independent Trustees may be satisfied with a fund's performance notwithstanding that it lags its benchmark index for certain periods.
 
The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders evaluate performance on a net basis (after fees and expenses) over their own holding periods, for which one-, three-, and five-year periods are often used as a proxy. For this reason, the performance information reviewed by the Board also included net cumulative calendar year total return information for the fund and its benchmark index and peer group for the most recent one- and three- and five-year periods. The Independent Trustees recognize that shareholders who are not investing through a tax-advantaged retirement account also consider tax consequences in evaluating performance.  
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the nature, extent, and quality of services provided to the fund under the Advisory Contracts should continue to benefit the shareholders of the fund.
 
Competitiveness of Management Fee and Total Expense Ratio .   The Board considered the fund's management fee and total expense ratio compared to selected groups of competitive funds and classes (referred to as "mapped groups" below) for the purpose of facilitating the Trustees' competitive analysis of management fees and total expenses. Fidelity creates "mapped groups" by combining similar investment objective categories (as classified by Lipper) that have comparable investment mandates. Combining funds with similar investment objective categories aids the Board's comparison of management fees and total expense ratios by broadening the competitive group used for such comparison.  
 
Management Fee. The Board considered two proprietary management fee comparisons for the 12-month periods shown in basis points (BP) in the chart below. The group of Lipper funds used by the Board for management fee comparisons is referred to below as the "Total Mapped Group" and is broader than the Lipper peer group used by the Board for performance comparisons. The Total Mapped Group comparison focuses on a fund's standing in terms of gross management fees before expense reimbursements or caps relative to the total universe of funds with comparable investment mandates, regardless of whether their management fee structures also are comparable. Funds with comparable investment mandates offer exposure to similar types of securities. Funds with comparable management fee structures have similar management fee contractual arrangements (e.g., flat rate charged for advisory services, all-inclusive fee rate, etc.). "TMG %" represents the percentage of funds in the Total Mapped Group that had management fees that were lower than the fund's. For example, a hypothetical TMG % of 20% would mean that 80% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group had higher, and 20% had lower, management fees than the fund. The fund's actual TMG %s and the number of funds in the Total Mapped Group are in the chart below. The "Asset-Sized Peer Group" (ASPG) comparison focuses on a fund's standing relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the Total Mapped Group that are similar in size and management fee structure. For example, if a fund is in the first quartile of the ASPG, the fund's management fee ranks in the least expensive or lowest 25% of funds in the ASPG. The ASPG represents at least 15% of the funds in the Total Mapped Group with comparable asset size and management fee structures, subject to a minimum of 50 funds (or all funds in the Total Mapped Group if fewer than 50). Additional information, such as the ASPG quartile in which the fund's management fee rate ranked, is also included in the chart and was considered by the Board.  
 
 
The Board noted that the fund's management fee rate ranked below the median of its Total Mapped Group and below the median of its ASPG for 2021.
 
Based on its review, the Board concluded that the fund's management fee is fair and reasonable in light of the services that the fund receives and the other factors considered.  
 
Total Expense Ratio. In its review of the fund's total expense ratio, the Board considered the fund's management fee rate as well as other fund expenses, such as custodial, legal, and audit fees. The Board also noted that Fidelity may agree to waive fees or reimburse expenses from time to time, and the extent to which, if any, it has done so for the fund. The fund is compared to those funds and classes in the Total Mapped Group (used by the Board for management fee comparisons) that have a similar sales load structure. The Board also considered a total expense ASPG comparison, which focuses on the total expenses of the fund relative to a subset of non-Fidelity funds within the similar sales load structure group that are similar in size and management fee structure. The total expense ASPG is limited to 15 larger and 15 smaller classes of different funds, where possible. The total expense ASPG comparison excludes performance adjustments and fund-paid 12b-1 fees to eliminate variability in expenses relating to these items.
 
The Board noted that the fund's total net expense ratio ranked below the similar sales load structure group competitive median and below the ASPG competitive median for 2021.
 
The Board further considered that FMR has contractually agreed to reimburse the fund to the extent that total operating expenses, with certain exceptions, as a percentage of its average net assets, exceed 0.03% through June 30, 2023.  
 
Fees Charged to Other Fidelity Clients. The Board also considered Fidelity fee structures and other information with respect to clients of Fidelity, such as other funds advised or subadvised by Fidelity, pension plan clients, and other institutional clients with similar mandates. The Board noted that a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically reviews and compares Fidelity's institutional investment advisory business with its business of providing services to the Fidelity funds and also noted the most recent findings of the committee. The Board noted that the committee's review included a consideration of the differences in services provided, fees charged, and costs incurred, as well as competition in the markets serving the different categories of clients.
 
Based on its review of total expense ratios and fees charged to other Fidelity clients, the Board concluded that the fund's total expense ratio was reasonable in light of the services that the fund and its shareholders receive and the other factors considered.
 
Costs of the Services and Profitability.   The Board considered the revenues earned and the expenses incurred by Fidelity in conducting the business of developing, marketing, distributing, managing, administering and servicing the fund and servicing the fund's shareholders. The Board also considered the level of Fidelity's profits in respect of all the Fidelity funds.
 
On an annual basis, Fidelity presents to the Board information about the profitability of its relationships with the fund. Fidelity calculates profitability information for each fund, as well as aggregate profitability information for groups of Fidelity funds and all Fidelity funds, using a series of detailed revenue and cost allocation methodologies which originate with the books and records of Fidelity on which Fidelity's audited financial statements are based. The Audit Committee of the Board reviews any significant changes from the prior year's methodologies and the full Board approves such changes.
 
A public accounting firm has been engaged annually by the Board as part of the Board's assessment of Fidelity's profitability analysis. The engagement includes the review and assessment of the methodologies used by Fidelity in determining the revenues and expenses attributable to Fidelity's mutual fund business, and completion of agreed-upon procedures in respect of the mathematical accuracy of certain fund profitability information and its conformity to established allocation methodologies. After considering the reports issued under the engagement and information provided by Fidelity, the Board concluded that while other allocation methods may also be reasonable, Fidelity's profitability methodologies are reasonable in all material respects.  
 
The Board also reviewed Fidelity's non-fund businesses and potential indirect benefits such businesses may have received as a result of their association with Fidelity's mutual fund business (i.e., fall-out benefits) as well as cases where Fidelity's affiliates may benefit from the funds' business. The Board considered areas where potential indirect benefits to the Fidelity funds from their relationships with Fidelity may exist. The Board's consideration of these matters was informed by the findings of a joint ad hoc committee created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds to evaluate potential fall-out benefits.
 
The Board considered the costs of the services provided by and the profits realized by Fidelity in connection with the operation of the fund and was satisfied that the profitability was not excessive.
 
Economies of Scale.   The Board considered whether there have been economies of scale in respect of the management of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds (including the fund) have appropriately benefited from any such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale. The Board considered the extent to which the fund will benefit from economies of scale as assets grow through increased services to the fund, through waivers or reimbursements, or through fee or expense ratio reductions. The Board also noted that a committee (the Economies of Scale Committee) created by it and the boards of other Fidelity funds periodically analyzes whether Fidelity attains economies of scale in respect of the management and servicing of the Fidelity funds, whether the Fidelity funds have appropriately benefited from such economies of scale, and whether there is potential for realization of any further economies of scale.
 
The Board concluded, taking into account the analysis of the Economies of Scale Committee, that economies of scale, if any, are being appropriately shared between fund shareholders and Fidelity.
 
Additional Information Requested by the Board . In order to develop fully the factual basis for consideration of the Fidelity funds' advisory contracts, the Board requested and received additional information on certain topics, including: (i) Fidelity's fund profitability methodology, profitability trends for certain funds, the allocation of various costs to different funds, and the impact of certain factors on fund profitability results; (ii) portfolio manager changes that have occurred during the past year and the amount of the investment that each portfolio manager has made in the Fidelity fund(s) that he or she manages; (iii) the extent to which current market conditions have affected retention and recruitment of personnel; (iv) the arrangements with and compensation paid to certain fund sub-advisers on behalf of the Fidelity funds and the treatment of such compensation within Fidelity's fund profitability methodology; (v) the terms of the funds' various management fee structures, including the basic group fee and the terms of Fidelity's voluntary expense limitation arrangements; (vi) Fidelity's transfer agent, pricing and bookkeeping fees, expense and service structures for different funds and classes relative to competitive trends; (vii) the impact on fund profitability of recent industry trends, such as the growth in passively managed funds and the changes in flows for different types of funds; (viii) the types of management fee and total expense comparisons provided, and the challenges and limitations associated with such information; and (ix) explanations regarding the relative total expense ratios and management fees of certain funds and classes, total expense and management fee competitive trends, and methodologies for total expense and management fee competitive comparisons. In addition, the Board considered its discussions with Fidelity regarding Fidelity's efforts to maintain the continuous investment and shareholder services necessary for the funds during the current pandemic and economic circumstances.
 
Based on its evaluation of all of the conclusions noted above, and after considering all factors it believed relevant, the Board concluded that the advisory fee arrangements are fair and reasonable, and that the fund's Advisory Contracts should be renewed.
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Liquidity Rule) to promote effective liquidity risk management throughout the open-end investment company industry, thereby reducing the risk that funds will be unable to meet their redemption obligations and mitigating dilution of the interests of fund shareholders.
The Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the Program) reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk and to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule. The Fund's Board of Trustees (the Board) has designated the Fund's investment adviser as administrator of the Program. The Fidelity advisers have established a Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the LRM Committee) to manage the Program for each of the Fidelity Funds. The LRM Committee monitors the adequacy and effectiveness of implementation of the Program and on a periodic basis assesses each Fund's liquidity risk based on a variety of factors including (1) the Fund's investment strategy, (2) portfolio liquidity and cash flow projections during normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions, (3) shareholder redemptions, (4) borrowings and other funding sources and (5) certain factors specific to ETFs including the effect of the Fund's prices and spreads, market participants, and basket compositions on the overall liquidity of the Fund's portfolio, as applicable.
In accordance with the Program, each of the Fund's portfolio investments is classified into one of four defined liquidity categories based on a determination of a reasonable expectation for how long it would take to convert the investment to cash (or sell or dispose of the investment) without significantly changing its market value.
  • Highly liquid investments - cash or convertible to cash within three business days or less
  • Moderately liquid investments - convertible to cash in three to seven calendar days
  • Less liquid investments - can be sold or disposed of, but not settled, within seven calendar days
  • Illiquid investments - cannot be sold or disposed of within seven calendar days
Liquidity classification determinations take into account a variety of factors including various market, trading and investment-specific considerations, as well as market depth, and generally utilize analysis from a third-party liquidity metrics service.
The Liquidity Rule places a 15% limit on a fund's illiquid investments and requires funds that do not primarily hold assets that are highly liquid investments to determine and maintain a minimum percentage of the fund's net assets to be invested in highly liquid investments (highly liquid investment minimum or HLIM).  The Program includes provisions reasonably designed to comply with the 15% limit on illiquid investments and for determining, periodically reviewing and complying with the HLIM requirement as applicable.
At a recent meeting of the Fund's Board of Trustees, the LRM Committee provided a written report to the Board pertaining to the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Program for the period December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022.  The report concluded that the Program is operating effectively and is reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund's liquidity risk.  
 
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Item 2.

Code of Ethics


As of the end of the period, February 28, 2023, Fidelity Salem Street Trust (the trust) has adopted a code of ethics, as defined in Item 2 of Form N-CSR, that applies to its President and Treasurer and its Chief Financial Officer.  A copy of the code of ethics is filed as an exhibit to this Form N-CSR.


Item 3.

Audit Committee Financial Expert


The Board of Trustees of the trust has determined that Elizabeth S. Acton is an audit committee financial expert, as defined in Item 3 of Form N-CSR.  Ms. Acton is independent for purposes of Item 3 of Form N-CSR.  



Item 4.  

Principal Accountant Fees and Services


Fees and Services


The following table presents fees billed by Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates (collectively, Deloitte Entities) in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund and Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Funds):



Services Billed by Deloitte Entities


February 28, 2023 FeesA


Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

 $42,000  

$-

$10,500

$1,000

Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund

 $45,300  

$-

$7,900

$1,100



February 28, 2022 FeesA


Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Fidelity SAI Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$40,000

$-

$9,400

$1,000

Fidelity SAI U.S. Treasury Bond Index Fund

$47,100

$-

$7,600

$1,000



A Amounts may reflect rounding.


The following table presents fees billed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund, Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund, Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund and Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund (the Funds):





Services Billed by PwC


February 28, 2023 FeesA


Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund

$36,900

$3,200

$9,500

$1,400

Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$36,900

$3,200

$9,500

$1,400

Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$42,600

$3,500

$8,800

$1,500

Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$36,900

$3,200

$9,500

$1,400



February 28, 2022 FeesA


Audit Fees

Audit-Related Fees

Tax Fees

All Other Fees

Fidelity Intermediate Treasury Bond Index Fund

$35,200

$3,700

$9,000

$1,600

Fidelity Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$35,200

$3,700

$9,000

$1,600

Fidelity Series Long-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$40,100

$3,900

$7,900

$1,700

Fidelity Short-Term Treasury Bond Index Fund

$35,200

$3,700

$9,000

$1,600



A Amounts may reflect rounding





The following table(s) present(s) fees billed by Deloitte Entities and PwC that were required to be approved by the Audit Committee for services that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Fund(s) and that are rendered on behalf of Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC ("FMR") and entities controlling, controlled by, or under common control with FMR (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser) that provide ongoing services to the Fund(s) (Fund Service Providers):


Services Billed by Deloitte Entities




February 28, 2023A

February 28, 2022A

Audit-Related Fees

 $-

 $-

Tax Fees

$-

$-

All Other Fees

$-

$-


A Amounts may reflect rounding.



Services Billed by PwC




February 28, 2023A

February 28, 2022A

Audit-Related Fees

$7,914,600

$8,239,800

Tax Fees

$1,000

$354,200

All Other Fees

 $-

 $-


A Amounts may reflect rounding.






Audit-Related Fees represent fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the fund audit or the review of the fund's financial statements and that are not reported under Audit Fees.


Tax Fees represent fees billed for tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the fund.


All Other Fees represent fees billed for services provided to the fund or Fund Service Provider, a significant portion of which are assurance related, that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the fund, excluding those services that are reported under Audit Fees, Audit-Related Fees or Tax Fees.  


Assurance services must be performed by an independent public accountant.


* * *


The aggregate non-audit fees billed by Deloitte Entities and PwC for services rendered to the Fund(s), FMR (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any Fund Service Provider for each of the last two fiscal years of the Fund(s) are as follows:


Billed By

February 28, 2023A

February 28, 2022A

Deloitte Entities

$478,100

$483,600

PwC

$12,939,100

$13,893,100


A Amounts may reflect rounding.



The trust's Audit Committee has considered non-audit services that were not pre-approved that were provided by Deloitte Entities and PwC to Fund Service Providers to be compatible with maintaining the independence of Deloitte Entities and PwC in its(their) audit of the Fund(s), taking into account representations from Deloitte Entities and PwC, in accordance with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board rules, regarding its independence from the Fund(s) and its(their) related entities and FMRs review of the appropriateness and permissibility under applicable law of such non-audit services prior to their provision to the Fund(s) Service Providers.


Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

 

The trusts Audit Committee must pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided by a funds independent registered public accounting firm relating to the operations or financial reporting of the fund. Prior to the commencement of any audit or non-audit services to a fund, the Audit Committee reviews the services to determine whether they are appropriate and permissible under applicable law.




The Audit Committee has adopted policies and procedures to, among other purposes, provide a framework for the Committees consideration of non-audit services by the audit firms that audit the Fidelity funds. The policies and procedures require that any non-audit service provided by a fund audit firm to a Fidelity fund and any non-audit service provided by a fund auditor to a Fund Service Provider that relates directly to the operations and financial reporting of a Fidelity fund (Covered Service) are subject to approval by the Audit Committee before such service is provided.


All Covered Services must be approved in advance of provision of the service either: (i) by formal resolution of the Audit Committee, or (ii) by oral or written approval of the service by the Chair of the Audit Committee (or if the Chair is unavailable, such other member of the Audit Committee as may be designated by the Chair to act in the Chairs absence). The approval contemplated by (ii) above is permitted where the Treasurer determines that action on such an engagement is necessary before the next meeting of the Audit Committee.


Non-audit services provided by a fund audit firm to a Fund Service Provider that do not relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of a Fidelity fund are reported to the Audit Committee periodically.


Non-Audit Services Approved Pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) and (ii) of Regulation S-X (De Minimis Exception)


There were no non-audit services approved or required to be approved by the Audit Committee pursuant to the De Minimis Exception during the Funds(s) last two fiscal years relating to services provided to (i) the Fund(s) or (ii) any Fund Service Provider that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Fund(s).



Item 5.

Audit Committee of Listed Registrants


Not applicable.


Item 6.  

Investments


(a)

Not applicable.


(b)

Not applicable.


Item 7.

Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies


Not applicable.


Item 8.

Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies


Not applicable.


Item 9.  

Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers


Not applicable.


Item 10.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders


There were no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the trusts Board of Trustees.


Item 11.

Controls and Procedures


(a)(i)  The President and Treasurer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the trusts disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act) provide reasonable assurances that material information relating to the trust is made known to them by the appropriate persons, based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.


(a)(ii)  There was no change in the trusts internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act) that occurred during the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the trusts internal control over financial reporting.


Item 12.

Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management

Investment Companies


Not applicable.


Item 13.

Exhibits


(a)

(1)

Code of Ethics pursuant to Item 2 of Form N-CSR is filed and attached hereto as EX-99.CODE ETH.

(a)

(2)

Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) is filed and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.CERT.

(a)

(3)

Not applicable.

(b)


Certification pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)) is furnished and attached hereto as Exhibit 99.906CERT.




SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


Fidelity Salem Street Trust



By:

/s/Laura M. Del Prato


Laura M. Del Prato


President and Treasurer



Date:

April 20, 2023


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.



By:

/s/Laura M. Del Prato


Laura M. Del Prato


President and Treasurer



Date:

April 20, 2023



By:

/s/John J. Burke III


John J. Burke III


Chief Financial Officer



Date:

April 20, 2023