C000071038 Fees and Costs — BMO Core Plus Bond Fund, Class I

Data updated: 2022-01-19

The net expense ratio is 0.31%: a 0.13% management fee plus 0.18% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2021 the fund paid $116 in broker commissions, and portfolio turnover was 28%.

C000071038 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000071038. Prospectus, as of December 31, 2020.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.13%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.18%
Gross expense ratio0.31%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio0.31%
Sales charges
Max front load0.00%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee0.00%
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearNo
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000071038 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000071038, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $197 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.33% 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 0.31%)$33$102$179
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$5$18
Total costs$33$107$197
Value after costs$10,467$11,469$12,566
Impact on return, per year0.33%0.33%0.33%

C000071038 Trading Costs

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

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): —
  • Total broker commissions: $116
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $1.6B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 28%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $56.6M
  • Net income from securities lending: $180K (0.015% of average net assets)

C000071038 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Piper Sandler & Co.$116100.00%

C000071038 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
State Street Bank and Trust Company$902.2M59.59%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$193.2M12.76%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$89.8M5.93%
BofA Securities, Inc.$86.0M5.68%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$84.9M5.60%
Barclays Capital Inc.$66.1M4.37%
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.$37.2M2.46%
Mizuho Securities USA LLC$20.5M1.36%
Nomura Securities International, Inc.$18.5M1.22%
Stonex Financial Inc.$15.7M1.04%

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.