C000087816 Fees and Costs — Columbia Variable Portfolio - U.S. Equities Fund, Class 1

Data updated: 2020-05-28

The net expense ratio is 0.86%: a 0.84% management fee plus 0.02% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $1.6M in broker commissions, 0.2372% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 80%.

C000087816 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000087816. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2019.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.84%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.02%
Gross expense ratio0.86%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio0.86%
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

C000087816 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000087816, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $685 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.15% 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 0.86%)$90$281$488
Trading costs (broker commissions)$25$78$134
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$18$63
Total costs$115$377$685
Value after costs$10,385$11,199$12,078
Impact on return, per year1.15%1.15%1.15%

C000087816 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.2372%
  • Total broker commissions: $1.6M
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $11.8M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 80%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000087816 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
RBC Capital Markets$418K32.67%
Goldman Sachs$180K14.09%
JPMorgan$144K11.23%
Liquidnet Inc$133K10.39%
Credit Suisse$130K10.12%
Jeffries$87K6.82%
Wells Fargo Securities LLC$64K4.99%
Virtu Financial Capital Markets LLC$44K3.46%
Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc$42K3.29%
Citi$38K2.94%

C000087816 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs$4.9M41.72%
JPMorgan$3.2M27.23%
Jeffries$1.6M13.67%
Barclays$795K6.76%
BMO Capital Markets Corp.$488K4.15%
Citi$306K2.60%
Leerink Partners LLC$295K2.51%
Morgan Stanley$160K1.36%

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.