Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series
Data updated: 2026-08-28
C000005146 — Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series. United States Real Estate · $116.24M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000005146 Fund Overview
Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Virtus Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Real Estate
- Assets under management: $116.24M
- 1-year return: 17.9%
- SEC CIK: 0000792359
- SEC series ID: S000001962
- Share class ID: C000005146
C000005146 Investment Objective and Strategy
Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Virtus Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The Series has investment objectives of capital appreciation and income with approximately equal emphasis.
Principal investment strategy
The Series offers exposure to the equity real estate investment trust (REIT) market utilizing a quality and relative value style with a fundamental security analysis approach designed to identify the most attractive investment candidates. The subadviser believes the value of a REIT extends beyond the value of the underlying real estate and that through fundamental research, it can uncover and exploit inefficiencies in the market. Under normal circumstances, the Series invests at least 80% of its assets in publicly-traded REITs and companies that are principally engaged in the real estate industry. Generally, REITs are publicly-traded companies that manage portfolios of real estate to earn profits for shareholders through investments in commercial and residential real estate. Equity REITs own real estate directly.
The Series may invest in issuers of any capitalization. As of December 31, 2025, the total market capitalization range of the issuers in which the Series was invested was $1.7 billion to $127 billion. The Series concentrates its assets in the real estate industry.
C000005146 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Welltower, Inc. | 10.85% |
| Prologis, Inc. | 8.91% |
| Equinix, Inc. | 6.99% |
| Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | 5.07% |
| Ventas, Inc. | 4.86% |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. | 4.73% |
| American Healthcare REIT, Inc. | 4.09% |
| Public Storage | 3.64% |
| Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. | 3.28% |
| Avalonbay Communities, Inc. | 3.17% |
C000005146 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.0% |
C000005146 Performance
Total returns for C000005146 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 17.0% |
| 1 year | 17.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 11.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 5.2% |
C000005146 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000005146, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.5%
C000005146 Costs and Fees
C000005146 costs about $110 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.10%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.19%
- Portfolio turnover: 22%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.25 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000005146 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series had net outflows of $339.23K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $1.30M |
| 2026-05 | −$797.18K |
| 2026-04 | −$1.40M |
| 2026-03 | −$1.28M |
| 2026-02 | −$488.64K |
| 2026-01 | $261.19K |
C000005146 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000005146 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Securities Series filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-21
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-22
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17
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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.