C000055681 Fees and Costs — Columbia Variable Portfolio - Disciplined Core Fund, Class 3

Data updated: 2026-08-28

The net expense ratio is 0.81%: a 0.65% management fee, a 0.13% 12b-1 fee plus 0.03% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2025 the fund paid $641K in broker commissions, 0.0171% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 51%.

C000055681 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000055681. Prospectus, as of December 31, 2025.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.65%
12b-1 fee0.13%
Other expenses0.03%
Gross expense ratio0.81%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio0.81%
Sales charges
Max front load—
Max deferred load—
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearNo
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000055681 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000055681, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $519 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.87% 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 0.81%)$85$266$462
Trading costs (broker commissions)$2$6$10
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$13$48
Total costs$87$285$519
Value after costs$10,413$11,291$12,244
Impact on return, per year0.87%0.87%0.87%

C000055681 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): 0.0171%
  • Total broker commissions: $641K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): —
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 51%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000055681 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$100K18.23%
Barclays Capital Inc.$89K16.21%
Jefferies LLC$77K14.00%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$73K13.34%
Virtu Americas LLC$69K12.62%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$44K8.02%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$42K7.59%
TD Securities (USA) LLC$19K3.49%
UBS Securities LLC$18K3.36%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$17K3.13%

Columbia Variable Portfolio - Disciplined Core Fund Share Classes

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

TickerClassNet expense ratioFront load
C000088765Class 10.68%—
C000055681Class 30.81%—
C000088766Class 20.93%—

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.