C000127908 Fees and Costs — Lazard Explorer Total Return Portfolio, Institutional Shares

Data updated: 2019-11-19

The net expense ratio is 1.10%: a 0.90% management fee plus 0.19% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2018 the fund paid $238 in broker commissions, 0.0002% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 151%.

C000127908 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000127908. Prospectus, as of December 31, 2018.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.90%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.19%
Gross expense ratio1.10%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio1.10%
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

C000127908 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000127908, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $687 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.16% 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 1.10%)$116$360$624
Trading costs (broker commissions)$0$0$0
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$18$63
Total costs$116$378$687
Value after costs$10,384$11,198$12,076
Impact on return, per year1.16%1.16%1.16%

C000127908 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0002%
  • Total broker commissions: $238
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $1.1B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 151%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000127908 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Standard Chartered Securities (North America) LLC$8234.43%
Societe Generale$7230.14%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.$4418.30%
ICBC Standard Securities Inc.$4117.13%

C000127908 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
State Street Global Markets, LLC$511.6M50.88%
Barclays Bank PLC$91.8M9.13%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$81.6M8.11%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.$74.5M7.41%
Jefferies LLC$56.9M5.66%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$55.6M5.53%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$40.0M3.98%
HSBC Holdings PLC$39.9M3.97%
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.$33.2M3.31%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$20.3M2.02%

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.