C000070810 Fees and Costs — Nuveen International Growth Fund, Class A

Data updated: 2022-10-14

The net expense ratio is 1.05%: a 0.67% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.13% other expenses. This share class carries a maximum front-end sales load of 5.75%. In fiscal 2022 the fund paid $2.8M in broker commissions, 0.1212% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 70%.

C000070810 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000070810. Prospectus, as of November 30, 2021.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.67%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.13%
Gross expense ratio1.05%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio1.05%
Sales charges
Max front load5.75%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearNo
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000070810 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000070810, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $1,422 over 5 years, cutting the return by 2.45% 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
Sales charges$575$575$575
Fund expenses (net expense ratio 1.05%)$104$324$560
Trading costs (broker commissions)$12$37$65
Lost growth on money paid in costs$29$109$222
Total costs$720$1,045$1,422
Value after costs$9,780$10,532$11,341
Impact on return, per year7.20%3.26%2.45%

C000070810 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2022.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.1212%
  • Total broker commissions: $2.8M
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $4.9B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 70%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $1.6M
  • Net income from securities lending: $75K (0.003% of average net assets)

C000070810 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC$463K22.87%
JPMorgan Securities LLC$281K13.87%
Jefferies LLC$233K11.52%
Morgan Stanley$213K10.54%
UBS Financial Services Inc.$167K8.27%
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.$163K8.04%
Barclays Capital Inc.$143K7.08%
Citigroup$136K6.74%
Instinet LLC$116K5.71%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$109K5.36%

C000070810 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC$1.1B29.30%
Jefferies LLC$395.7M10.75%
UBS Financial Services Inc.$363.4M9.87%
Instinet LLC$361.7M9.82%
JPMorgan Securities LLC$356.1M9.67%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$342.5M9.30%
Morgan Stanley$282.6M7.67%
Citigroup$184.0M4.99%
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.$163.9M4.45%
Barclays Capital Inc.$154.0M4.18%

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.