C000203170 Fees and Costs — EQ/Franklin Strategic Income Portfolio, Class IB

Data updated: 2022-11-28

The net expense ratio is 0.93%: a 0.59% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.26% other expenses, less a 0.17% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2021 the fund paid $3K in broker commissions, 0.0026% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 63%.

C000203170 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000203170. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2022.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.59%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.26%
Gross expense ratio1.10%
Fee waiver−0.17%
Net expense ratio0.93%
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

C000203170 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000203170, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $584 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.98% 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 0.93%)$98$305$529
Trading costs (broker commissions)$0$1$1
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$15$54
Total costs$98$321$584
Value after costs$10,402$11,255$12,179
Impact on return, per year0.98%0.98%0.98%

C000203170 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0026%
  • Total broker commissions: $3K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $143.9M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 63%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $2.6M
  • Net income from securities lending: $16K (0.014% of average net assets)

C000203170 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$2K53.26%
Virtu Americas LLC$63821.38%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$42014.07%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$1755.86%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.$1254.19%
BTIG, LLC$341.14%
Instinet, LLC$30.10%

C000203170 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$51.2M40.33%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$14.5M11.41%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$12.6M9.93%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$11.2M8.84%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$8.8M6.94%
BofA Securities, Inc.$8.2M6.42%
Barclays Capital, Inc.$6.3M4.96%
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.$5.9M4.66%
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC$4.4M3.46%
Jefferies LLC$3.9M3.06%

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.