Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000021462 — Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $524.92M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000021462 Fund Overview
Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP is a US mutual fund managed by Transamerica Series Trust, 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: Transamerica Series Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $524.92M
- 1-year return: 24.6%
- SEC CIK: 0000778207
- SEC series ID: S000007908
- Share class ID: C000021462
C000021462 Investment Objective and Strategy
Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Transamerica Series Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks total return gained from the combination of dividend yield, growth of dividends and capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The portfolios sub-adviser, Aegon Asset Management UK plc (the sub-adviser), deploys an active strategy that generally invests in large and middle capitalization U.S. companies, focusing on those that pay dividends and that the sub-adviser views as having a favorable sustainability profile. Under normal circumstances, the portfolio will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in equity securities. The sub-adviser generally looks to buy stocks and hold them over multi-year periods in an effort to benefit from the compounding effects of increasing dividends. When selecting dividend-paying stocks, the sub-adviser normally seeks to invest in companies that fall within one of three groupings established by the sub-adviser. One group is compounders or those companies that the sub-adviser sees as consistent annual dividend growers with long-term records of growing dividend-per-share.
A second group is hoarders or those companies that are viewed by the sub-adviser as having the operating success and balance sheet strength to potentially increase dividend payout ratios and positively surprise the market. The third group is de-equitizers with capital structures that the sub-adviser believes offer the potential for mergers and acquisitions or share buy-backs. In addition, the sub-adviser applies its sustainability assessment framework in evaluating each company considered for the portfolio. The sub-advisers Responsible Investment team defines companies as being sustainability Leaders, Improvers, Neutrals or Laggards (as further defined below). The sub-adviser will invest at least 85% of the portfolios net assets in stocks of companies with what the sub-adviser views as having positive sustainability credentials, which are companies the sub-advisers Responsible Investment team has identified as Leaders or Improvers.
The sub-adviser may invest up to 15% of the portfolios net assets in stocks of companies that the Responsible Investment team views as Neutral. The sub-adviser will not invest in companies identified by the Responsible Investment team as Laggards. The sub-adviser maintains an exclusion list containing companies involved in a range of activities that the sub-adviser believes have a negative impact on the environment and/or social factors. These are therefore excluded by the sub-adviser from the investible universe at the start of the investment process, based on the following criteria: adult entertainment (own an adult entertainment company or produce adult entertainment), animal testing (engage in the production or sale of animal tested cosmetics), gambling (derive more than 10% of revenue from gambling), genetic modification (conduct genetic modification for agricultural policies), tobacco (derive more than 10% revenue from tobacco), weapons (produce or sell civilian firearms and firms which manufacture or sell armaments, nuclear weapons or associated products), nuclear power (own a nuclear power facility), fossil fuels (engagement in the extraction of coal and oil) and human rights (companies failing to address serious allegations of violations of international standards on human rights including the use of child forced or bonded labor).
In assessing whether an individual company is an eligible investment or excluded based on the exclusionary list, the sub-adviser utilizes Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) to check revenue exposure to excluded activities. As the portfolios portfolio securities are reviewed during the course of a year, or as material corporate events occur, the sub-adviser utilizes MSCI and ISS to reassess revenue exposures. Sustainability research by the sub-advisers Responsible Investment team, composed of employees of the sub-adviser and certain of its affiliates, forms a key part of the sub-advisers investment process. For companies not excluded based on the sub-advisers exclusion list, the Responsible Investment team independently conducts sustainability research on each company proposed for investment by the sub-advisers investment team.
The sustainability research uses a three-dimensional framework to analyze each company, focusing on what the sub-adviser views as material sustainability factors with clear links to risks and opportunities. For each company, this process analyzes (i) its products (what it does), (ii) its practices (how it does it) and (iii) its sustainable improvement (is it improving from a sustainability perspective or does it have credible plans to do so?). The outcome of this analysis is that each company proposed for investment by the sub-advisers investment team is classified by its Responsible Investment team as either a sustainability Leader, Improver, Neutral or Laggard company. Sustainability leaders are companies that the Responsible Investment team believes exhibit top-quartile performance relative to global and regional peers from a combination of positive operational practices and being strategically well positioned with regard to the impact of their products or services.
Activities that generate clear positive impact are viewed positively by the team. Improvers are companies in which the Responsible Investment team has identified sustainability issues that need to be addressed but where the team believes the company is taking action to address these and is showing clear signs of improvement, or has credible plans to do so. Neutral companies are those with products and practices that do not have clear positive sustainability characteristics, but which do not also have a meaningful negative impact on the environment or society, as determined by the sub-advisers Responsible Investment team. Laggards have, in the Responsible Investment teams view, a poor product impact and/or have unacceptably low operational standards. A minimum of 85% of the portfolios net assets will be invested in any combination of companies classified by the sub-advisers Responsible Investment team as Leaders and Improvers.
If a company is classified as a Laggard, it cannot be held in the portfolio. The remaining proportion of the portfolio (constituting a maximum of 15% of the portfolios net assets) may be invested in stocks of companies that are categorized as Neutral. The sub-advisers Responsible Investment team may reclassify a company should its sustainability analysis of the company change. A change in classification can cause a security to be sold or render a security eligible for investment. The sub-adviser constructs a portfolio of individual stocks, selected on a bottom-up basis, meaning that it selects individual securities based on their specific merits, using fundamental analysis. The portfolio will typically consist of approximately 35 to 50 stocks with individual position sizes generally ranging from 1% to 10% of the portfolios net assets (10% maximum position weighting).
Non-U.S. stocks, including American Depository Receipts (ADRs), are limited to 10% of the portfolios net assets. Annual portfolio turnover is anticipated to normally be less than 40%. The sub-adviser generally employs a fully invested strategy. Therefore, under normal market conditions, cash and cash equivalents will generally be less than 5% of the portfolios net assets. The portfolio may, but is not required to, invest in index-traded futures to equitize cash in order to gain general equity market exposure until investments are made into stocks of individual companies. All investments by the portfolio, with the exception of cash, cash equivalents, short-term debt securities, repurchase agreements, money market instruments and index-traded futures, are subject to the sub-advisers sustainability assessment framework.
C000021462 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Apple Inc | 4.97% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 4.75% |
| Microsoft Corp | 4.57% |
| Morgan Stanley | 3.61% |
| AbbVie Inc | 3.43% |
| Citizens Financial Group Inc | 3.13% |
| Gilead Sciences Inc | 3.01% |
| KLA Corp | 3.00% |
| Linde PLC | 2.99% |
| Bank of America Corp | 2.95% |
C000021462 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.6% |
C000021462 Performance
Total returns for C000021462 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 19.1% |
| 1 year | 24.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 17.3% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 9.0% |
C000021462 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000021462, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.0%
C000021462 Costs and Fees
C000021462 costs about $97 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.97%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.97%
- Portfolio turnover: 17%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.47 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000021462 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP had net outflows of $55.37M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$6.47M |
| 2026-05 | −$5.02M |
| 2026-04 | −$7.66M |
| 2026-03 | −$8.37M |
| 2026-02 | −$4.19M |
| 2026-01 | −$5.20M |
C000021462 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000021462 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Transamerica Barrow Hanley Dividend Focused VP filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-13
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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.