The fund aims to achieve long-term capital growth, principally through investment in an actively managed portfolio of companies that have their head office or exercise a predominant part of their activity in Europe. The fund will typically have a bias towards medium sized companies with a market capitalisation of between 1 and 10 billion Euro. The fund will consider a wide range of environmental and social characteristics on an ongoing basis. Environmental characteristics include but are not limited to climate change mitigation and adaptation, water and waste management, biodiversity, while social characteristics include but are not limited to product safety, supply chain, health and safety and human rights. Environmental and social characteristics are analysed by Fidelity’s fundamental analysts and rated through Fidelity Sustainability Ratings.