C000180081 Fees and Costs — AB FlexFee Large Cap Growth Portfolio, Advisor Class

Data updated: 2021-11-22

The net expense ratio is 0.10%: a 0.05% management fee plus 0.18% other expenses, less a 0.14% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2020 the fund paid $19K in broker commissions, 0.0057% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 37%.

C000180081 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000180081. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2021.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.05%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses0.18%
Gross expense ratio0.24%
Fee waiver−0.14%
Net expense ratio0.10%
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

C000180081 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000180081, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $67 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.11% 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 0.10%)$10$33$58
Trading costs (broker commissions)$1$2$3
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$2$6
Total costs$11$37$67
Value after costs$10,489$11,540$12,696
Impact on return, per year0.11%0.11%0.11%

C000180081 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0057%
  • Total broker commissions: $19K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $366.5M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 37%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $1.2M
  • Net income from securities lending: $2K (0.000% of average net assets)

C000180081 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$6K35.96%
UBS Securities LLC$3K15.65%
Cowen and Company, LLC$2K8.99%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$1K7.41%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$1K6.83%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$9905.87%
Citation Group Ltd.$9705.75%
Liquidnet, Inc.$8535.06%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$7744.59%
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.$6563.89%

C000180081 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.$365.4M99.72%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$1.0M0.28%

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.