Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund

Data updated: 2026-05-27

C000010837 — Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund data: holdings, portfolio allocation, expenses, performance, cashflows, risk and SEC filings. Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond · $24.94M AUM · 0.50% expense ratio · 7.1% 1-yr return. From SEC regulatory filings.

C000010837 Fund Overview

Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Putnam Variable Trust, categorised as Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

  • Type: US mutual fund
  • Manager: Putnam Variable Trust
  • Category: Long Securitized (MBS/ABS/CMBS) Bond
  • Assets under management: $24.94M
  • 1-year return: 7.1%
  • SEC CIK: 0000822671
  • SEC series ID: S000003871
  • Share class ID: C000010837

C000010837 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

Holding% of net assets
FNMA or FHLMC26.59%
FNMA or FHLMC24.53%
FNMA or FHLMC16.15%
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund11.95%
FNMA or FHLMC10.12%
FNMA or FHLMC8.46%
FNMA or FHLMC4.93%
Gnma4.17%
Gnma4.08%
Gnma4.04%

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C000010837 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

Asset classAllocation
Securitized231.9%
Other11.9%
Real Estate3.7%
Cash & Equivalents2.4%

C000010837 Performance

Total returns for C000010837 (as of 2026-08-01), from SEC filings.

PeriodTotal return
YTD2.1%
1 year7.1%
3 years (annualised)7.2%
5 years (annualised)1.0%

C000010837 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000010837, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

  • 1-year volatility (annualised): 4.0%

C000010837 Costs and Fees

C000010837 costs about $50 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

  • Net expense ratio: 0.50%
  • Gross expense ratio: 1.00%
  • Portfolio turnover: 871%
  • Brokerage commissions: 1.65 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000010837 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-03, Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund had net outflows of $2.01M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

MonthNet flow
2026-03$783.52K
2026-02−$311.75K
2026-01−$173.32K
2025-12−$89.22K
2025-11−$873.57K
2025-10−$167.01K

C000010837 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000010837 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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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.