Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio

C000138917 Fund Overview

Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Eq Advisors Trust, categorised as Long Total / Aggregate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Eq Advisors Trust
• Category: Long Total / Aggregate Bond
• Assets under management: $787.43M
• 1-year return: 4.0%
• SEC CIK: 0001027263
• SEC series ID: S000044692
• Share class ID: C000138917

C000138917 Investment Objective and Strategy

Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eq Advisors Trust.

Investment objective

Seeks to achieve a balance of high current income and capital appreciation, consistent with a prudent level of risk.

Principal investment strategy

Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio intends to invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in investment grade bonds. For purposes of this investment policy, a debt security is considered a bond. Debt securities represent an issuers obligation to repay a loan of money that generally pays interest to the holder. Bonds, notes and debentures are examples of debt securities. The Portfolio invests primarily in U.S. government and corporate debt securities. The Portfolio may invest up to 20% of its net assets in non-investment grade securities (commonly known as junk bonds). AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC (FMG LLC or Adviser) will generally allocate the Portfolios assets among four or more Sub-Advisers, each of which will manage its portion of the Portfolio using different yet complementary investment strategies.

Under normal circumstances, one portion of the Portfolio will track the performance of a particular index (Index Allocated Portion) and the other portions of the Portfolio will be actively managed (Active Allocated Portions). Under normal circumstances, the Adviser anticipates allocating approximately 25% of the Portfolios net assets to the Index Allocated Portion and the remaining 75% of net assets among the Active Allocated Portions. These percentages are targets established by the Adviser and actual allocations between the portions may deviate from these targets by up to 20% of the Portfolios net assets. The Index Allocated Portion of the Portfolio seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses and including reinvestment of coupon payments) of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Intermediate Government/Credit Bond Index (Government/Credit Index) with minimal tracking error.

This strategy is commonly referred to as an indexing strategy. The Government/Credit Index covers U.S. dollar denominated, investment grade, fixed-rate securities, which include U.S. Treasury and government-related, corporate, credit and agency fixed-rate debt securities. Generally, the Index Allocated Portion uses a sampling technique. The Active Allocated Portions may invest in debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, including issuers located in emerging markets. The Active Allocated Portions investments may include government securities, corporate bonds, bonds of foreign issuers (including those denominated in foreign currencies or U.S. dollars), commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, floating or variable rate obligations, and asset-backed securities. Foreign currency exposure (from non-U.S.

dollar-denominated securities or currencies) normally will be limited to 10% of the Portfolios total assets. The Active Allocated Portions may engage in active and frequent trading to achieve the Portfolios investment objective. Securities are purchased for the Active Allocated Portions when a Sub-Adviser determines that they have the potential for above-average total return. A Sub-Adviser may sell a security for a variety of reasons, such as to make other investments believed by the Sub-Adviser to offer superior investment opportunities. The Portfolio may purchase bonds of any maturity, but generally the Portfolios overall effective duration will be of an intermediate-term nature (similar to that of three- to seven-year U.S. Treasury notes) and will generally have a comparable duration in the range of the Government/Credit Index (approximately 4.01 years as of December 31, 2017) and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S.

Aggregate Bond Index (approximately 5.98 years as of December 31, 2017) as calculated by the Sub-Advisers. The Portfolio also may use financial instruments such as futures and options to manage duration. Duration measures the sensitivity of the value of a bond or bond portfolio to changes in interest rates. Typically, a bond portfolio with a low (short) duration means that its value is less sensitive to interest rate changes, while a bond portfolio with a high (long) duration is more sensitive. The Portfolio may invest in derivatives. It is anticipated that the Portfolios derivative instruments will consist primarily of forward contracts, exchange-traded futures and options contracts on individual securities or securities indices, but the Portfolio also may utilize other types of derivatives.

The Portfolios investments in derivatives may be deemed to involve the use of leverage because the Portfolio is not required to invest the full market value of the contract upon entering into the contract but participates in gains and losses on the full contract price. The use of derivatives also may be deemed to involve the use of leverage because the heightened price sensitivity of some derivatives to market changes may magnify the Portfolios gain or loss. The Portfolio also may lend its portfolio securities to earn additional income.

C000138917 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000138917 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000138917 Performance

Total returns for C000138917 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000138917 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000138917, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.0%

C000138917 Costs and Fees

C000138917 costs about $68 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.68%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.84%
• Portfolio turnover: 281%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.43 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000138917 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio had net outflows of $6.54M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000138917 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000138917 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Multimanager Core Bond Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-11
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-10

Related Funds

Other Long Total / Aggregate Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Dodge & Cox Income Fund (DODIX)
• Bond Fund Of America (ABNDX)
• Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund (FUBFX)
• Baird Aggregate Bond Fund (BAGIX)
• PGIM Total Return Bond Fund (PDBAX)

Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.