C000090725 Fees and Costs — AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund, Class A

Data updated: 2023-05-30

The net expense ratio is 1.70%: a 1.24% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.21% other expenses. This share class carries a maximum front-end sales load of 5.75%. In fiscal 2022 the fund paid $2.2M in broker commissions, 0.0875% of average net assets.

C000090725 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000090725. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2023.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee1.24%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.21%
Gross expense ratio1.70%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio1.70%
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

C000090725 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000090725, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $1,771 over 5 years, cutting the return by 3.09% 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 1.70%)$168$521$895
Trading costs (broker commissions)$9$27$46
Lost growth on money paid in costs$29$118$255
Total costs$781$1,240$1,771
Value after costs$9,719$10,336$10,992
Impact on return, per year7.81%3.89%3.09%

C000090725 Trading Costs

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

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0875%
  • Total broker commissions: $2.2M
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $48.7B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): —
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000090725 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$1.3M58.98%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$680K30.59%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$232K10.43%

C000090725 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
BofA Securities, Inc.$27.1B55.72%
State Street Bank and Trust Company$15.2B31.23%
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.$2.8B5.77%
TP ICAP Markets Limited$2.3B4.65%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$488.1M1.00%
Mizuho Securities USA LLC$287.0M0.59%
U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.$281.0M0.58%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$227.5M0.47%

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.