C000230843 Fees and Costs — BlackRock Sustainable Total Return Fund, Institutional Class

Data updated: 2025-08-28

The net expense ratio is 0.45%: a 0.39% management fee plus 1.20% other expenses, less a 1.15% fee waiver. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2024 the fund paid $10K in broker commissions, 0.0247% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 832%.

C000230843 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000230843. Prospectus, as of January 31, 2025.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.39%
12b-1 fee0.00%
Other expenses1.20%
Gross expense ratio1.60%
Fee waiver−1.15%
Net expense ratio0.45%
Sales charges
Max front load0.00%
Max deferred load0.00%
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearYes
Waived fees subject to recoupmentYes

C000230843 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000230843, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $300 over 5 years, cutting the return by 0.50% 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 0.45%)$47$148$258
Trading costs (broker commissions)$3$8$14
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$8$27
Total costs$50$164$300
Value after costs$10,450$11,412$12,463
Impact on return, per year0.50%0.50%0.50%

C000230843 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0247%
  • Total broker commissions: $10K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $786.1M
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 832%
  • Securities lending: none during the year

C000230843 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC$3K32.21%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$2K16.16%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$1K12.85%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$1K11.46%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$9469.44%
Barclays Capital, Inc.$6866.84%
BofA Securities, Inc.$5445.43%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$2742.74%
Bank of Montreal$1461.46%
UBS Securities LLC$1421.42%

C000230843 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$138.6M18.41%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$130.2M17.29%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$115.5M15.34%
BofA Securities, Inc.$115.1M15.29%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$92.9M12.34%
BlackRock Liquidity Funds T-Fund$47.8M6.35%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$42.9M5.69%
Barclays Capital, Inc.$30.4M4.03%
Mizuho Securities USA LLC$27.9M3.70%
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.$11.7M1.55%

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.