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Fidelity launches two investment grade corporate bond ETFs

Fidelity International expands its fixed income ETF offering with two Article 8 investment grade corporate bond ETFs using a research-enhanced active approach.

28 JAN, 2026

By Joanna Piwko from RankiaPro Europe

Fidelity International has launched two new investment grade corporate bond ETFs: Fidelity USD Corporate Bond Research Enhanced UCITS ETF (FBIU) and Fidelity EUR Corporate Bond Research Enhanced UCITS ETF (FBIE). Both are admitted to trading today, January 28, on Xetra and Borsa Italiana, and tomorrow, January 29, on the London Stock Exchange, with upcoming additions to more European markets.

The ongoing charges figure (OCF) will be reduced to 0.03% for the first six months from launch and, subsequently, will be 0.19% in the uncovered classes and 0.24% in the classes with EUR hedging. Classified as Article 8 under the European SFDR Regulation, these products strengthen Fidelity's fixed income offering, which totals $4 billion in assets under management, and expand the basic exposure options for investors.

Strategy, exposure and ESG criteria

FBIU and FBIE are integrated into the Core Research Enhanced range of Fidelity, which combines active management referenced to indices with the manager's own analysis platform. The strategies seek to generate income and capital appreciation through a rigorous selection of securities, without relying on macroeconomic views or duration positions.

They offer diversified exposure to the investment grade credit markets of the United States and Europe, preserving the characteristics of the Bloomberg benchmark indices (Bloomberg US Corporate Investment Grade Index and Bloomberg Euro Aggregate Corporate Index) in terms of regions, sectors, ratings and currencies. In addition, they promote environmental and social characteristics, with the aim of achieving an ESG score higher than their respective indices, and are classified as article 8 of the SFDR.

Existing geopolitical risks, uneven global growth and an end-of-cycle juncture are stimulating demand for active, resilient and benchmarked solutions that can deal with uncertainty without assuming disproportionate risk. Our new ETFs are a reflection of the way investors increasingly access fixed income today: using actively managed ETFs to achieve flexibility, transparency and low-cost implementation, while at the same time increasing allocations to fixed income in search of income, diversification and stability for portfolios.