497K 1 d497k.htm EQ/INTERMEDIATE GOVERNMENT BOND INDEX EQ/Intermediate Government Bond Index

EQ Advisors TrustSM

 

EQ/Intermediate Government Bond Index Portfolio – Class IA and IB Shares

 

Summary Prospectus dated May 1, 2011

 

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its risks. The Portfolio’s current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), dated May 1, 2011, and the Portfolio’s audited financial statements included in its annual report to shareholders dated December 31, 2010, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Portfolio’s Prospectus, SAI and other information about the Portfolio online at www.axa-equitablefunds.com/allportfolios.aspx. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-877-222-2144 or by sending an e-mail request to service@axa-equitable.com. This Summary Prospectus is intended for use in connection with a variable contract as defined in Section 817(d) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Contracts”) and certain other eligible investors and is not intended for use by other investors.

 

Investment Objective: Seeks to achieve a total return before expenses that approximates the total return performance of the Barclays Capital Intermediate U.S. Government Bond Index (“Intermediate Government Bond Index”), including reinvestment of dividends, at a risk level consistent with that of the Intermediate Government Bond Index.

 

FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE PORTFOLIO

 

The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The table below does not reflect any fees and expenses associated with variable life insurance contracts and variable annuity certificates and contracts (“Contracts”), which would increase overall fees and expenses. See the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.

 

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

 

Not applicable.

               

 

Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of
your investment)
 
EQ/Intermediate Government Bond Index Portfolio   Class IA
Shares
    Class IB
Shares
 

Management Fee

    0.35%        0.35%   

Distribution and/or Service Fees (12b-1 fees)

    None        0.25%   

Other Expenses

    0.13%        0.13%   

Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses

    0.04%        0.04%   

Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses

    0.52%        0.77%   

 

Example

 

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other portfolios. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of these periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. This Example does not reflect any Contract-related fees and expenses including redemption fees (if any) at the Contract level. If such fees and expenses were reflected, the total expenses would be higher. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 

     1 Year     3 Years     5 Years     10 Years  

Class IA Shares

  $ 53      $ 167      $ 291      $ 653   

Class IB Shares

  $ 79      $ 246      $ 428      $ 954   

 

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

 

The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 50% of the average value of the Portfolio.

 

INVESTMENTS, RISKS, AND PERFORMANCE

 

Principal Investment Strategy: The Portfolio normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in debt securities that are included in the Intermediate Government Bond Index, or other financial instruments that derive their value from those securities. The Intermediate Government Bond Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of securities consisting of all U.S. Treasury and agency securities with remaining maturities of from one to ten years and issue amounts of at least $250 million outstanding, which may include zero-coupon securities.

 

In seeking to achieve the Portfolio’s investment objective, the Adviser will employ a stratified sample approach to build a portfolio whose broad characteristics match those of the Intermediate Government Bond Index. This strategy is commonly referred to as an indexing strategy. Individual securities holdings may differ from the Government Bond Index, and the Portfolio may not track the performance of the Intermediate Government Bond Index perfectly due to expenses and transaction costs, the size and frequency of cash flow into and out of the Portfolio, and differences between how and when the Portfolio and the Intermediate Government Bond Index are valued. The Adviser may also purchase or sell futures contracts on fixed-income securities in lieu of investment directly in fixed-income securities themselves.

 

The Manager has been granted relief by the Securities and Exchange Commission to hire, terminate and replace Advisers and amend advisory agreements subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees and without obtaining shareholder approval. However, the Manager may not enter into an advisory agreement on behalf of the Portfolio with an “affiliated person” of the Manager, such as AllianceBernstein L.P., unless the advisory agreement is approved by the Portfolio’s shareholders. The Manager has ultimate responsibility to oversee Advisers and recommend their hiring, termination and replacement.

 

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Principal Risks: An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. You may lose money by investing in the Portfolio. Performance may be affected by one or more of the following risks.

 

Credit Risk: The risk that the issuer or the guarantor of a fixed income security, or the counterparty to a derivatives contract, repurchase agreement, loan of portfolio securities or other transaction, is unable or unwilling, or is perceived (whether by market participants, ratings agencies, pricing services or otherwise) as unable or unwilling, to make timely principal and/or interest payments, or otherwise honor its obligations. Securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in their credit ratings.

 

Index Strategy Risk: A Portfolio that employs an index strategy generally invests in the securities included in the relevant index or a representative sample of such securities regardless of market trends. Such a portfolio generally will not modify its index strategy to respond to changes in the economy, which means that it may be particularly susceptible to a general decline in the market segment relating to the relevant index. In addition, although the index strategy attempts to closely track its benchmark index, the Portfolio may not invest in all of the securities in the index. Also, the Portfolio’s fees and expenses will reduce the Portfolio’s returns, unlike those of the benchmark index. Cash flow into and out of the Portfolio, portfolio transaction costs, changes in the securities that comprise the index, and the Portfolio’s valuation procedures also may affect the Portfolio’s performance. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the performance of the index strategy will match that of the benchmark index.

 

Interest Rate Risk: The risk that fixed income securities will decline in value because of changes in interest rates. When interest rates decline, the value of a Portfolio’s debt securities generally rises. Conversely, when interest rates rise, the value of a Portfolio’s debt securities generally declines. A Portfolio with a longer average duration will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than a fund with a shorter average duration.

 

Investment Grade Securities Risk: Debt securities are rated by national bond ratings agencies. Securities rated BBB by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”) or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”) or Baa by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) are considered investment grade securities, but are somewhat riskier than higher rated obligations because they are regarded as having only an adequate capacity to pay principal and interest, and are considered to lack outstanding investment characteristics.

 

Zero Coupon and Pay-in-Kind Securities Risk: A zero coupon or pay-in-kind security pays no interest in cash to its holder during its life. Accordingly, zero coupon securities usually trade at a deep discount from their face or par value and, together with pay-in kind securities, will be subject to greater fluctuations in market value in response to changing interest rates than debt obligations of comparable maturities that make current distribution of interest in cash.

 

Risk/Return Bar Chart and Table

 

The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Portfolio’s average annual total returns for the past one, five and ten years through December 31, 2010 compare to the returns of a broad-based market index. Past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance.

 

The performance results do not reflect any Contract-related fees and expenses, which would reduce the performance results.

 

Calendar Year Annual Total Returns — Class IB

 

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Best quarter (% and time period)      Worst quarter (% and time period)
4.83% (2001 3rd Quarter)      –2.35% (2004 2nd Quarter)

 

Average Annual Total Returns                        
      One
Year
     Five
Years
     Ten
Years
 

EQ/Intermediate Government Bond Index Portfolio – Class IA Shares

     4.55%         3.32%         3.95%   

EQ/Intermediate Government Bond Index Portfolio – Class IB Shares

     4.19%         3.06%         3.69%   

Barclays Capital Intermediate U.S. Government Bond Index

     4.98%         5.41%         5.11%   

 

WHO MANAGES THE PORTFOLIO

 

Investment Manager: AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC (“FMG LLC” or the “Manager”).

 

Adviser: SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (“SSgA FM”)

 

Portfolio Managers: The members of the team that are jointly and primarily responsible for the management of the Portfolio are:

 

Name    Title    Date Began
Managing
the Portfolio

John Kirby

   Managing Director of SSgA FM    January 2009

Michael Brunell

   Vice President of SSgA FM    January 2009

 

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF PORTFOLIO SHARES

 

The Portfolio’s shares are currently sold only to insurance company separate accounts in connection with Contracts issued by AXA Equitable Life

 

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Insurance Company (“AXA Equitable”), AXA Life and Annuity Company, other affiliated or unaffiliated insurance companies and to The AXA Equitable 401(k) Plan (“AXA Equitable Plan”). Shares also may be sold to other tax-qualified retirement plans, to other portfolios managed by FMG LLC that currently sell their shares to such accounts and plans and other eligible investors.

 

The Portfolio does not have minimum initial or subsequent investment requirements. Shares of the Portfolio are redeemable on any business day upon receipt of a request. All redemption requests will be processed and payment with respect thereto will normally be made within seven days after tender. Please refer to your Contract prospectus for more information on purchasing and redeeming Portfolio shares.

 

TAX INFORMATION

 

The Portfolio currently only sells its shares to insurance company separate accounts, qualified plans and other eligible investors. Accordingly, distributions the Portfolio makes of its net investment income and net realized gains — most or all of which it intends to distribute annually — and redemptions or exchanges of Portfolio shares generally will not be taxable to its shareholders (or to the holders of underlying Contracts or plan participants or beneficiaries). See the prospectus for your Contract for further tax information.

 

PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

 

This Portfolio is not sold directly to the general public but instead is offered as an underlying investment option for Contracts, retirement plans and other eligible investments. The Portfolio and its related companies may make payments to a sponsoring insurance company (or its affiliates) or other financial intermediary for distribution and/or other services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the insurance company or other financial intermediary and your financial adviser to recommend the Portfolio over another investment or by influencing an insurance company to include the Portfolio as an underlying investment option in the Contract. The prospectus (or other offering document) for your Contract may contain additional information about these payments.

 

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