Equity Income Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-20
C000000077 — Equity Income Portfolio. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $827.44M AUM · 0.57% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000000077 Fund Overview
Equity Income Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Northwestern Mutual Series Fund INC, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Northwestern Mutual Series Fund INC
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $827.44M
- 1-year return: 23.2%
- SEC CIK: 0000742212
- SEC series ID: S000000042
- Share class ID: C000000077
C000000077 Investment Objective and Strategy
Equity Income Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Northwestern Mutual Series Fund INC.
Investment objective
The investment objective of the Portfolio is long-term growth of capital and income.
Principal investment strategy
Normally, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks with a track record of paying dividends. The adviser considers a security to have a track record of paying dividends if the security has paid a dividend within the past 12 months. The Portfolio generally seeks investments in large-capitalization companies, which it considers to be those companies with a market capitalization greater than $5 billion. Additionally, the Portfolios yield, which reflects the level of dividends paid by the Portfolio, is expected to normally exceed the yield of the Russell 1000 Value Index. This level is merely a guideline and there can be no certainty this level will be achieved. The Portfolio will typically employ a value approach in selecting investments.
The advisers in-house research team seeks to identify companies that appear to be undervalued as measured by price to earnings ratio, dividend yield, enterprise value to sales, among other metrics and may be temporarily out of favor, but have good prospects for capital appreciation and dividend growth. While the Portfolio does not seek to focus its investments in any particular economic sector, the Portfolio may at times have a relatively high percentage of its assets invested in a particular sector as a result of the advisers stock selection process. While most assets will be invested in U.S. common stocks, the Portfolio may also invest in foreign securities and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) (up to 20% of net assets), including those of issuers located in emerging markets. The Portfolio may also invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs).
The Portfolio may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.
C000000077 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Equity Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Amazon.com Inc | 4.20% |
| Microsoft Corp | 3.93% |
| Apple Inc | 3.10% |
| MetLife Inc | 2.03% |
| Intel Corp | 2.02% |
| Southern Co/The | 1.94% |
| Citigroup Inc | 1.79% |
| QUALCOMM Inc | 1.75% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.70% |
| TotalEnergies SE | 1.69% |
C000000077 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Equity Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.7% |
C000000077 Performance
Total returns for C000000077 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 14.1% |
| 1 year | 23.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 16.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 10.5% |
C000000077 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000000077, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 11.1%
C000000077 Costs and Fees
C000000077 costs about $57 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.57%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.65%
- Portfolio turnover: 28%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.87 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000000077 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Equity Income Portfolio had net inflows of $5.91M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$9.00M |
| 2026-05 | −$8.19M |
| 2026-04 | −$9.12M |
| 2026-03 | −$6.56M |
| 2026-02 | −$9.76M |
| 2026-01 | −$7.52M |
C000000077 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Equity Income Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000000077 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Equity Income Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-24
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-25
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2024-04-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-20
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-11
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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.