C000123975 Fees and Costs — First Investors International Fund, Advisor Class

Data updated: 2019-12-13

The net expense ratio is 1.18%: a 0.97% management fee plus 0.21% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $570K in broker commissions, 0.1395% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 36%.

C000123975 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000123975. Prospectus, as of September 30, 2018.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.97%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.21%
Gross expense ratio1.18%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio1.18%
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

C000123975 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000123975, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $820 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.39% 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 1.18%)$124$385$666
Trading costs (broker commissions)$15$46$79
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$21$75
Total costs$139$452$820
Value after costs$10,361$11,124$11,943
Impact on return, per year1.39%1.39%1.39%

C000123975 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): 0.1395%
  • Total broker commissions: $570K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $238.7M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 36%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000123975 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Jefferies Group LLC$70K18.99%
Liquidnet, Inc.$46K12.40%
Barclays Capital Inc$45K12.21%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$42K11.27%
Macquarie Group Limited$34K9.34%
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.$31K8.42%
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC$30K8.26%
UBS Securities LLC$27K7.23%
Kepler Capital Markets, Inc.$24K6.62%
JP Morgan Securities LLC$19K5.26%

C000123975 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
INTL FCStone Financial Inc.$80.4M33.68%
D.A. Davidson & Co.$59.9M25.10%
The Williams Capital Group, L.P.$42.5M17.79%
Barclays Capital Inc$18.5M7.74%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$12.0M5.02%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$8.0M3.35%
Jefferies Group LLC$7.0M2.93%
Wells Fargo Securities. LLC$5.5M2.30%
Loop Capital Markets LLC$5.0M2.09%

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.