NVIT Nationwide Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000014724 — NVIT Nationwide Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $706.30M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000014724 Fund Overview
NVIT Nationwide Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $706.30M
- 1-year return: 12.3%
- SEC CIK: 0000353905
- SEC series ID: S000005412
- Share class ID: C000014724
C000014724 Investment Objective and Strategy
NVIT Nationwide Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The NVIT J.P. Morgan Equity and Options Total Return Fund seeks total return through a flexible combination of capital appreciation and current income.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund uses a multi-pronged approach to total return, sourced from dividends, options premium and capital appreciation. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by (1) creating an actively managed portfolio of equity securities and (2) by selling (writing) call options with exposure to the S&P 500 Index (the Index). Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in a combination of equity securities and options. For these purposes, equity securities are securities that represent an ownership interest in the issuer. A call option gives the purchaser of the option the right to buy, and the seller of the option the obligation to sell, an underlying security or futures contract at a specified price during the option period. The Fund is designed to provide investors with total return while exposing investors to less risk through lower volatility than the broad U.S.
large-capitalization stock market. If the Fund is successful in providing lower volatility, then the value of the Funds portfolio will fluctuate less than the overall market over a full market cycle (typically, a three to five year time horizon). In order to reduce volatility and provide a diversified source of total return, the Fund will write call options based on the Index or on exchange-traded funds that seek to replicate the Index (S&P 500 ETFs). Such options will be at an exercise price (also known as a strike price) that is out-of-the-money. The premiums generated from the written call options are an important source of the Fund's diversified return stream and will be reinvested in the Funds portfolio, instead of having the premiums paid out to investors as income. Selling call options may also reduce volatility.
The written call options are reset periodically to seek to better capitalize on current market conditions and opportunities; these resets assist the Fund in seeking to provide relatively stable returns. In addition to the use of the options overlay strategy, the Fund may use derivatives, primarily futures contracts and options on futures, to gain exposure to its index or certain securities in its index or to more effectively gain targeted equity exposure from its cash positions. To the extent the Fund invests in index futures with exposure to securities in the index, it may have the effect of increasing the Funds exposure to a relatively small number of securities, making the Funds shares more sensitive to the economic results of those securities. Long Equity Portfolio in managing the equity portion of the Fund, the subadviser employs a fundamental data science enabled investment approach that combines research, data insights, and risk management.
The subadviser defines data science as the discipline of extracting useful insights from collections of information, and the subadviser utilizes the insights as a part of its investment process. The subadviser utilizes proprietary techniques to process, analyze, and combine a wide variety of information, including the subadvisers multi-decade history of proprietary fundamental research, company financial statements, and a variety of other data sources that the subadviser finds relevant to conducting fundamental analysis. The subadviser combines insights derived from these sources to forecast the financial prospects of each security, also known as fundamental analysis. Alongside its own insights, the subadvisers portfolio management team uses the forecasts developed through data science techniques to help to identify securities that are priced favorably relative to their associated levels of risk.
The subadvisers portfolio management team then constructs a portfolio that seeks to maximize expected future financial performance while controlling for key risks to the underlying companies businesses identified by the subadvisers analysis. The subadviser assesses key risks by analyzing potential events or conditions that may have a negative impact on the subadvisers valuation of a particular security. Such key risks may include, but are not limited to, sensitivity to changes in macroeconomic conditions, competitive risks from existing companies or new entrants, and operational risks related to the companies business models. The subadviser regularly evaluates the efficacy of the sources of information included within the investment process, and seeks to identify new data sources that will be additive to the subadvisers forecasts and portfolio construction, assessing the validity of its models and assumptions as new information becomes available and market conditions change.
The Fund invests primarily in large, well-established companies, which are companies with market capitalizations similar to those within the universe of the Index at the time of purchase. The Fund also may invest in equity securities of U.S. mid-cap companies. The subadviser may sell a security for several reasons. A security may be sold due to a change in the companys fundamentals or if the subadviser believes the security is no longer attractively valued relative to its associated levels of risk. Investments may also be sold if the subadviser identifies a stock that it believes offers a better investment opportunity. Options Overlay the Funds options overlay is intended to provide the Fund with consistent options premium as a diversified source of total return, as well as dampen the Funds overall volatility profile.
To implement the strategy, the subadviser sells exchange-traded equity options that typically have a reference asset of the Index or an S&P 500 ETF. Premiums are generated from the sale of out-of-the-money call options. The Fund will sell multiple options positions that expire at various dates, and a portion of the options overlay strategy may be reset as the applicable options approach expiration.
C000014724 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of NVIT Nationwide Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp. | 8.36% |
| Apple, Inc. | 6.70% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 5.18% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 4.97% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.15% |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 3.00% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 2.60% |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.42% |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | 2.15% |
| Lam Research Corp. | 1.76% |
C000014724 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of NVIT Nationwide Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
C000014724 Performance
Total returns for C000014724 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 4.8% |
| 1 year | 12.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.0% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.7% |
C000014724 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000014724, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.6%
C000014724 Costs and Fees
C000014724 costs about $79 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.79%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.79%
- Portfolio turnover: 91%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.06 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000014724 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, NVIT Nationwide Fund had net outflows of $12.60M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$4.44M |
| 2026-05 | −$6.58M |
| 2026-04 | −$4.83M |
| 2026-03 | −$6.64M |
| 2026-02 | −$6.80M |
| 2026-01 | −$7.56M |
C000014724 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in NVIT Nationwide Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000014724 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official NVIT Nationwide Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-09
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-05
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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.