ACVWX Fees and Costs — AC Alternatives Market Neutral Value Fund, R Class

Data updated: 2022-02-22

The net expense ratio is 4.28%: a 1.65% management fee, a 0.50% 12b-1 fee plus 2.12% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2021 the fund paid $34K in broker commissions, 0.0582% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 299%.

ACVWX Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of ACVWX. Prospectus, as of July 31, 2021.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee1.65%
12b-1 fee0.50%
Other expenses2.12%
Gross expense ratio4.28%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio4.28%
Sales charges
Max front load0.00%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)No
Fees waived or reduced during the yearNo
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

ACVWX Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in ACVWX, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $2,538 over 5 years, cutting the return by 4.56% a year. Illustration, not a forecast: it assumes today's net expense ratio throughout (a fee waiver may end).

$10,000 investedSell after 1 yearSell after 3 yearsSell after 5 years
Value before costs$10,500$11,576$12,763
Fund expenses (net expense ratio 4.28%)$449$1,354$2,267
Trading costs (broker commissions)$6$18$31
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$70$240
Total costs$456$1,442$2,538
Value after costs$10,044$10,134$10,224
Impact on return, per year4.56%4.56%4.56%

ACVWX Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0582%
  • Total broker commissions: $34K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $2.0B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 299%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

ACVWX Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Morgan Stanley$6K18.13%
J.P. Morgan Securities$4K14.16%
Sanford C. Bernstein$4K13.68%
Bank of America Merrill Lynch$4K13.13%
Evercore ISI Investment Group$2K7.89%
Barclays Capital$2K7.39%
UBS Warburg$2K6.79%
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp$2K6.66%
Citigroup Capital Markets Inc$2K6.32%
Jefferies LLC$2K5.85%

ACVWX Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
State Street Global Markets$1.2B57.99%
BMO Capital Markets$781.7M38.34%
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp$18.6M0.91%
Goldman Sachs$11.8M0.58%
J.P. Morgan Securities$11.0M0.54%
Citigroup Capital Markets Inc$10.9M0.54%
Bank of America Merrill Lynch$6.3M0.31%
Morgan Stanley$6.1M0.30%
UBS Warburg$5.4M0.26%
Johnson Controls International$4.6M0.23%

For information only. Not investment advice: figures are as reported in SEC filings and may contain errors or be out of date. Past performance does not guarantee future results.