Rational Insider Buying VA Fund
Data updated: 2021-11-23
C000038331 — Rational Insider Buying VA Fund. United States Value Equity · $22.30M AUM · 1.26% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000038331 Fund Overview
Rational Insider Buying VA Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Mutual Fund & Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States 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: Mutual Fund & Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Value Equity
- Assets under management: $22.30M
- 1-year return: 5.8%
- SEC CIK: 0000810695
- SEC series ID: S000014032
- Share class ID: C000038331
C000038331 Investment Objective and Strategy
Rational Insider Buying VA Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mutual Fund & Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The Funds investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in common stocks of U.S. companies. The Fund will purchase positions in stocks that are experiencing insider buying by corporate executives, directors, large shareholders or activist shareholders. The Fund may invest in companies of any market capitalization, including smaller- sized companies, but intends to emphasize larger capitalization stocks. The Advisor uses public information that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on corporate insider and large shareholder buying and selling activity for its investment decisions. The Advisors research and historical analysis of corporate insider trading market data has resulted in the development of a proprietary method of analyzing insider trading activity that it believes can provide long-term capital appreciation.
The underlying thesis is that corporate insiders and large or activist shareholders know more about the prospects of the company than anybody else. The Advisors investment process focuses on insider identities (position in the company), motivations, insider trading trends, trading volumes, firm size and other factors to select stocks for the portfolio. Stocks are sold when the relevant insider trading trends reverse or when portfolio positions achieve or no longer provide the targeted risk adjusted return. The Fund actively trades its portfolio investments, which may lead to higher transaction costs that may affect the Funds performance.
C000038331 Performance
Total returns for C000038331 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 5.8% |
C000038331 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000038331, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 20.9%
C000038331 Costs and Fees
C000038331 costs about $126 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.26%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.65%
- Portfolio turnover: 255%
- Brokerage commissions: 47.30 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000038331 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-09, Rational Insider Buying VA Fund had net inflows of $10.42M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-09 | $555.54K |
| 2021-08 | $358.91K |
| 2021-07 | $1.19M |
| 2021-06 | $1.14M |
| 2021-05 | $279.72K |
| 2021-04 | $1.11M |
C000038331 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Rational Insider Buying VA Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000038331 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Rational Insider Buying VA Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-05-12
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-05-10
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-11-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-08-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-05-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-03-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-03-16
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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.