Fidelity Strategic Bond Fund Fund W Accumulation

Lead fund manager biography

Mike Riddell joined Fidelity in July 2024 and is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Fidelity’s Strategic and Total Return Fixed Income range. He works closely with Co-PMs Tim Foster and Ravin Seeneevassen, supported further by the wider Fidelity Fixed Income team using a team-based investment approach. Prior to Fidelity, Mike was a senior portfolio manager at AllianzGI, after joining in 2015. At AllianzGI, Mike was the head of the Macro Unconstrained Fixed Income Team and was the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Strategic Bond Funds. In addition, Mike was the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Allianz Index-Linked Gilt and Allianz Gilt Yield funds. Prior to AllianzGI, Mike worked at M&G in London for 12 years, during which the latter half was as a fixed income portfolio manager. There, he was the lead manager of the M&G Index Linked Bond Fund, Global Government Bond Fund and Gilt and Fixed Interest Income Fund. Mike was also the deputy fund manager for M&G’s Global Macro Bond Fund. Before M&G, Mike worked at Premier Asset Management. Mike graduated from Birmingham University in 2001 with a BSc (Hons) in Money, Banking and Finance.

Fund manager biography

Tim Foster is a Portfolio Manager of Fidelity’s money market, inflation-linked and total return bond disciplines. Tim joined Fidelity in 2003 as a Quantitative Analyst and became a Portfolio Manager in 2007. Tim is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Fidelity’s money market funds and Co Portfolio Manager on Fidelity’s inflation-linked and strategic bond funds. Tim is therefore a key member of both Fidelity’s Money Market & Short Dated and Total Return & Unconstrained strategy teams. Tim has a BA, MSci in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and is a CFA charter holder. He also has a Certificate in Quantitative Finance.