Fidelity Investment Funds IX - Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund A-ACC

Lead fund manager biography

Nick Price is Fidelity’s primary Global Emerging Market (GEM) and Emerging EMEA equity portfolio manager. He joined Fidelity in January 1998 as a research analyst before being selected as the assistant portfolio manager for Fidelity’s flagship European Growth Fund in 2004. He launched the team’s first EMEA portfolio in late 2005 and was later appointed to manage Fidelity’s GEM strategies in mid 2009. Before joining Fidelity, Nick worked for a variety of investment banks in London and prior to that, worked as a Senior Auditor for PriceWaterhouse in Johannesburg. Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma in Accounting from the University of Natal, is a Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a CFA Charterholder.

Fund manager biography

Chris Tennant, Co-Portfolio Manager for the FAST-Emerging Markets strategy, joined Fidelity in January 2011 as an Equity Analyst, covering European Transportation. In October 2012, he rotated onto the London based EM team to cover EMEA and Latin America Metals & Mining stocks. In January 2015, Chris was chosen by Nick to undertake a newly created EM shorting analyst role. Since then, they have worked in close partnership to identify opportunities for the short book, initially focused EMEA and Latin America. In July 2019, Chris was appointed to an as Assistant Portfolio Manager on the FAST-Emerging Markets strategy, before his subsequent promotion to Co-Portfolio Manager in 2021. In this role, Chris’ primarily focus remains on the short book. He continues to work in conjunction with the wider team of short analysts contributing to the strategy. In parallel with these responsibilities Chris is a member of the Emerging EMEA and Latin America Equities portfolio management teams. Chris has spent his entire career at Fidelity. He holds a master’s degree in Engineering from Imperial College London.