ASCAB — SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-04-27
ASCAB — SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio. Developed ex-US Growth Equity · $2.01B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ASCAB Fund Overview
ASCAB — SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Anchor Series Trust, categorised as Developed ex-US Growth Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Anchor Series Trust
- Category: Developed ex-US Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $2.01B
- 1-year return: 20.0%
- Ticker: ASCAB
- SEC CIK: 0000726735
- SEC series ID: S000007949
- Share class ID: C000021555
ASCAB Investment Objective and Strategy
SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Anchor Series Trust.
Investment objective
The investment goal of the SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio (the Portfolio) is long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Portfolios principal investment strategy is to invest primarily in growth equity securities across a wide range of industries and companies, using a wide-ranging and flexible stock selection approach. The Portfolio uses an active trading strategy to achieve its investment goal. The Portfolio will principally invest in equity securities of large-, mid- and small-cap companies. The Portfolio may also invest in foreign equity securities, including depositary receipts (up to 30% of total assets). A growth philosophy that of investing in securities believed to offer the potential for capital appreciation focuses on securities of companies that may have one or more of the following characteristics: accelerating or high revenue growth, improving profit margins, or improving balance sheets. The Portfolio, from time to time, may have significant positions in particular sectors, such as technology.
ASCAB Performance
Total returns for ASCAB (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 20.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 28.4% |
ASCAB Risk Information
Risk metrics for ASCAB, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 16.4%
ASCAB Costs and Fees
ASCAB costs about $88 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.88%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.88%
- Portfolio turnover: 89%
- Brokerage commissions: 4.91 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ASCAB Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-09, SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio had net inflows of $88.69M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-09 | $2.33M |
| 2021-08 | −$373.04K |
| 2021-07 | −$5.40M |
| 2021-06 | $7.12M |
| 2021-05 | $7.89M |
| 2021-04 | $25.40M |
ASCAB Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
ASCAB Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official SA Wellington Capital Appreciation Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-11-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-08-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-05-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-03-15
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-03-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.