C000123967 Fees and Costs — First Investors Growth & Income Fund, Advisor Class

Data updated: 2019-12-13

The net expense ratio is 0.80%: a 0.68% management fee plus 0.12% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $1.1M in broker commissions, 0.0668% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 34%.

C000123967 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000123967. Prospectus, as of September 30, 2018.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.68%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.12%
Gross expense ratio0.80%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio0.80%
Sales charges
Max front load0.00%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)No
Fees waived or reduced during the yearNo
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000123967 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000123967, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $544 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.91% 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 0.80%)$84$262$456
Trading costs (broker commissions)$7$22$38
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$14$50
Total costs$91$298$544
Value after costs$10,409$11,278$12,219
Impact on return, per year0.91%0.91%0.91%

C000123967 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0668%
  • Total broker commissions: $1.1M
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $1.7B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 34%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000123967 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Cowen and Company LLC$310K37.33%
Barclays Capital Inc$124K14.90%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$74K8.86%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$72K8.69%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$66K8.00%
JP Morgan Securities LLC$64K7.70%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$37K4.44%
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated$33K4.02%
Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.$31K3.68%
Jefferies LLC$20K2.39%

C000123967 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
The Williams Capital Group, L.P.$507.7M29.85%
D.A. Davidson & Co.$346.1M20.35%
INTL FCStone Financial Inc.$299.7M17.62%
Barclays Capital Inc$174.8M10.28%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$109.9M6.46%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$70.9M4.17%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$66.9M3.93%
Loop Capital Markets LLC$49.9M2.93%
TD Securities (USA) LLC$45.0M2.64%
Jefferies Group LLC$30.0M1.76%

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.