C000138918 Fees and Costs — Multimanager Mid Cap Growth Portfolio, Class IA

Data updated: 2020-08-25

The net expense ratio is 1.10%: a 0.80% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.26% other expenses, less a 0.21% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $64K in broker commissions, 0.0304% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 47%.

C000138918 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000138918. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2020.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.80%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.26%
Gross expense ratio1.31%
Fee waiver−0.21%
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 recoupmentYes

C000138918 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000138918, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $705 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.19% 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$623
Trading costs (broker commissions)$3$10$17
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$18$65
Total costs$119$388$705
Value after costs$10,381$11,188$12,058
Impact on return, per year1.19%1.19%1.19%

C000138918 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0304%
  • Total broker commissions: $64K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $48.6M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 47%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $14.0M
  • Net income from securities lending: $173K (0.082% of average net assets)

C000138918 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$12K27.22%
Virtu Americas LLC$5K11.12%
UBS Securities LLC$4K9.89%
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.$4K9.55%
Cowen and Company$4K8.97%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$4K8.83%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$3K7.23%
Jefferies LLC$3K6.89%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$2K5.41%
Rosenblatt Securities Inc.$2K4.90%

C000138918 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$47.2M97.15%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$840K1.73%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$261K0.54%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$173K0.36%
SVB Leerink LLC$36K0.07%
UBS Securities LLC$26K0.05%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$17K0.03%
Instinet, LLC$14K0.03%
BMO Nesbitt Burns Securities Ltd.$10K0.02%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.$9K0.02%

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.