C000123974 Fees and Costs — First Investors Special Situations Fund, Institutional Class

Data updated: 2019-12-13

The net expense ratio is 0.86%: a 0.78% management fee plus 0.08% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $647K in broker commissions, 0.1059% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 48%.

C000123974 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000123974. Prospectus, as of September 30, 2018.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.78%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.08%
Gross expense ratio0.86%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio0.86%
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

C000123974 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000123974, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $605 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.01% 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$282$489
Trading costs (broker commissions)$11$35$60
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$16$55
Total costs$101$332$605
Value after costs$10,399$11,244$12,158
Impact on return, per year1.01%1.01%1.01%

C000123974 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): 0.1059%
  • Total broker commissions: $647K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $351.9M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 48%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000123974 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Cowen and Company LLC$130K29.79%
Barclays Capital Inc$51K11.71%
WEEDEN & CO. L.P.$43K9.94%
UBS Securities LLC$38K8.72%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$34K7.79%
ITG, Inc.$33K7.59%
JP Morgan Securities LLC$30K6.82%
BTIG LLC$29K6.64%
Jefferies LLC$26K5.88%
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated$22K5.13%

C000123974 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
D.A. Davidson & Co.$126.9M36.07%
INTL FCStone Financial Inc.$78.9M22.43%
The Williams Capital Group, L.P.$51.0M14.49%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$28.0M7.95%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$21.0M5.96%
Barclays Capital Inc$17.4M4.95%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$12.0M3.41%
Jefferies LLC$10.0M2.84%
TD Securities (USA) LLC$6.0M1.70%
JP Morgan Securities LLC$712K0.20%

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.