C000030552 Fees and Costs — Loomis Sayles Growth Portfolio, Class B

Data updated: 2026-08-27

The net expense ratio is 0.80%: a 0.56% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.02% other expenses, less a 0.03% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2025 the fund paid $138K in broker commissions, 0.0044% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 2%.

C000030552 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000030552. Prospectus, as of December 31, 2025.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.56%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.02%
Gross expense ratio0.83%
Fee waiver−0.03%
Net expense ratio0.80%
Sales charges
Max front load—
Max deferred load—
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearYes
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000030552 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000030552, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $505 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.84% 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 0.80%)$84$263$456
Trading costs (broker commissions)$0$1$3
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$13$46
Total costs$84$277$505
Value after costs$10,416$11,299$12,258
Impact on return, per year0.84%0.84%0.84%

C000030552 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0044%
  • Total broker commissions: $138K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): —
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 2%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $194.2M
  • Net income from securities lending: $412K (0.013% of average net assets)

C000030552 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Capital Institutional Services, Inc.$34K24.29%
Virtu Americas LLC$21K15.34%
Liquidnet, Inc.$20K14.62%
Barclays Capital Inc.$20K14.23%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$15K11.00%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$9K6.26%
Piper Sandler & Co.$8K6.07%
Nomura Securities International, Inc.$8K5.74%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$3K2.43%

Loomis Sayles Growth Portfolio Share Classes

Net expense ratio and maximum front-end load of each share class, cheapest first.

TickerClassNet expense ratioFront load
C000030551Class A0.55%—
C000030554Class E0.70%—
C000030552Class B0.80%—

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.