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EQ ADVISORS TRUST

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EQ/PIMCO Global Real Return Portfolio — Class IB and Class K Shares

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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Seeks to achieve maximum real return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management.

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell 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.

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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140.00%

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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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, that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same, and that the Expense Limitation Arrangement is not renewed. 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, whether you redeem or hold your shares, your costs would be:

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in inflation-indexed bonds of varying maturities issued by the U.S. (e.g., Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (“TIPS”)) and non-U.S. governments, their agencies or instrumentalities, and corporations, which may be represented by forwards or derivatives such as options, futures contracts or swap agreements. Inflation-indexed bonds are fixed income securities that are structured to provide protection against inflation. The value of the bonds’ principal or the interest income paid on the bonds is adjusted to track changes in an official inflation measure. Assets not invested in inflation-indexed bonds may be invested in other types of fixed income instruments, including bonds, debt securities and other similar instruments issued by various U.S. and non-U.S. public- or private-sector entities. The Portfolio is non-diversified, which means that it may invest a greater portion of its assets in the securities of one or more issuers and invests overall in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified portfolio. The Portfolio invests primarily in investment-grade securities, but may invest up to 10% of its total assets in high yield securities, also known as “junk bonds,” rated B or higher by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or equivalently rated by Standard & Poor’s Global Rating (“S&P”) or Fitch, Inc. (“Fitch”), or, if unrated, determined by the Adviser or the Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality (except that within such 10% limitation, the Portfolio may invest in mortgage-related securities rated below B). The Portfolio normally invests a significant portion of its net assets in issuers tied economically to a number of different countries and normally invests in issuers in at least three countries (one of which may be the United States). The Portfolio may invest, without limitation, in securities that are economically tied to emerging market countries. The Portfolio may also invest without limitation in foreign currency transactions, including currency forward transactions. Subject to applicable law and any other restrictions described in the Portfolio’s Prospectus or Statement of Additional Information, the Portfolio may invest without limitation in derivative instruments, such as options, futures contracts or swap agreements, or in mortgage or asset-backed securities. The Portfolio’s investments in derivatives may be deemed to involve the use of leverage because the Portfolio is not required to invest the full market value of the contract upon entering into the contract but participates in gains and losses on the full contract price. The use of derivatives also may be deemed to involve the use of leverage because the heightened price sensitivity of some derivatives to market changes may magnify the Portfolio’s gain or loss. It is not expected, however, that the Portfolio will be leveraged by borrowing money for investment purposes. The Portfolio’s investments in derivatives may require it to maintain a percentage of its assets in cash, cash equivalent instruments or other liquid assets to serve as margin or collateral for the Portfolio’s obligations under derivative transactions. The Portfolio may, without limitation, seek to obtain market exposure to the securities in which it primarily invests by entering into a series of purchase and sale contracts (such as contracts for derivative instruments) or by using other investment techniques (such as “sale-buyback” or “dollar roll” transactions). In sale-buyback and dollar roll transactions, the Portfolio sells a security to another party and simultaneously agrees to repurchase the same security (in the case of a sale-buyback) or a similar, but not the same, security (in the case of a dollar roll) on a specified date and predetermined price. The Portfolio may purchase or sell securities on a when-issued, delayed delivery or forward commitment basis and may engage in short sales. The Portfolio may also invest up to 10% of its total assets in preferred securities. The Portfolio may also invest, to a limited extent, in loan participations. The Sub-Adviser manages the Portfolio’s duration based on the Sub-Adviser’s view of the market and interest rates. The Portfolio may invest in securities of any maturity. Duration is a measure used to determine the sensitivity of a security’s price to changes in interest rates. The longer a security’s duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates, which may increase the volatility of the security’s value and may lead to losses. Effective duration, a common method of calculating duration, takes into account that for certain bonds expected cash flows will fluctuate as interest rates change and is defined in nominal yield terms, which is market convention for most bond investors and managers. Because market convention for bonds is to use nominal yields to measure effective duration, effective duration for real return bonds, which are based on real yields, are converted through a conversion factor. The resulting nominal duration typically can range from 20% and 90% of the respective real duration. All security holdings will be measured in nominal effective duration terms. Similarly, the effective duration of the Bloomberg World Government Inflation-Linked Index (hedged) will be calculated using the same conversion factors. The effective duration of the Portfolio normally varies within three years (plus or minus) of the effective portfolio duration of the securities comprising the Bloomberg World Government Inflation-Linked Index (hedged), as calculated by the Sub-Adviser, which as of December 31, 2024, as converted, was 8.52 years. The Sub-Adviser may sell a security for a variety of reasons, such as to make other investments believed by the Sub-Adviser to offer superior investment opportunities.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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Risk/Return Bar Chart and Table

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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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, 2024, compared to the returns of a broad-based securities market index.

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance is not an indication of future performance.

Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text]

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

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Average Annual Total Returns