C000145197 Fees and Costs — BMO Alternative Strategies Fund, Class I

Data updated: 2020-07-20

The net expense ratio is 1.45%: a 1.00% management fee plus 1.04% other expenses, less a 0.59% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2019 the fund paid $89K in broker commissions, 0.1521% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 64%.

C000145197 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000145197. Prospectus, as of December 31, 2019.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee1.00%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses1.04%
Gross expense ratio2.04%
Fee waiver−0.59%
Net expense ratio1.45%
Sales charges
Max front load0.00%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee0.00%
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearYes
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000145197 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000145197, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $990 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.68% 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 1.45%)$152$472$813
Trading costs (broker commissions)$16$50$85
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$26$91
Total costs$168$548$990
Value after costs$10,332$11,029$11,773
Impact on return, per year1.68%1.68%1.68%

C000145197 Trading Costs

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

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.1521%
  • Total broker commissions: $89K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $737.5M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 64%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000145197 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$27K43.40%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$9K13.61%
Cowen and Company, LLC$4K6.91%
State Street Bank and Trust Company$4K6.43%
Barclays Capital Inc.$4K5.86%
Investment Technology Group, Inc.$3K5.52%
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.$3K5.30%
Liquidnet, Inc.$3K4.61%
Fidelity Capital Markets, Inc.$3K4.45%
Instinet, LLC$2K3.91%

C000145197 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
JPMorgan Chase & Co.$423.6M57.44%
State Street Bank and Trust Company$285.3M38.68%
Nomura Holdings, Inc.$6.7M0.90%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$6.7M0.90%
Bank of Montreal$6.0M0.81%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated$5.5M0.74%
Barclays Capital Inc.$3.2M0.44%
Natwest Markets Securities Inc.$500K0.07%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$121K0.02%
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.$9K0.00%

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.