Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund

C000069235 Fund Overview

Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Rydex Variable Trust, categorised as Commodity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Rydex Variable Trust
• Category: Commodity
• Assets under management: $12.56M
• 1-year return: 13.5%
• SEC CIK: 0001064046
• SEC series ID: S000023531
• Share class ID: C000069235

C000069235 Investment Objective and Strategy

Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Rydex Variable Trust.

Investment objective

The Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund (the Fund) seeks to generate positive total returns over time.

Principal investment strategy

The Funds investment strategy focuses on the use of a systematic, price-based statistical process to identify and profit from price trends in the global commodity, currency, equity, and fixed income markets. The Advisor uses proprietary methods of comparing current prices to historical prices over varying periods of time to identify trends of varying lengths in the commodity, currency, equity, and fixed income markets. When the Funds investment strategy identifies a price trend in a particular market for a specific time frame, the Fund will take either a long or short position in the related futures or forward contract. If the Funds investment strategy does not identify a trend, the Fund will not establish a position with exposure to that particular market segment. The size of each position is determined by the estimated risk of each position as measured by recent volatility.

Position sizes also may be constrained by position margin requirements, liquidity needs, leverage limits, and other portfolio or market measures. The Advisor may employ systematic relative value trading strategies and other risk-management strategies to seek to mitigate declines in the market price of the Funds shares, reduce risk, and improve returns over time. Such strategies may reduce the Funds level of investment during periods of declining Fund performance. The Fund will implement the strategys targeted exposures principally through the use of futures, forwards, and swap agreements. The Fund may invest in a variety of futures, forwards and swap agreements, including those based on interest rates, commodities, currencies, fixed income securities, equities and equity indices. Options and options on futures may be employed principally for hedging purposes, especially as tools of the risk management strategies.

In the course of implementing the Funds investment strategy, the Advisor may purchase and sell options and futures contracts and swap agreements. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in managed futures. For these purposes, managed futures are investments in equity-linked, commodity-linked, currency-linked and financial-linked instruments, as well as U.S. government securities and money market instruments, that taken together have economic characteristics similar or equivalent to those of the listed commodity, currency and financial futures contracts described above. The Fund's investments are expected to be economically tied to multiple countries at any given time. The countries to which the Fund is exposed is expected to vary.

Certain of the countries may be considered emerging market countries. Investments in derivative instruments, such as futures, options, and forward contracts and swap agreements, have the economic effect of creating financial leverage in the Funds portfolio because such investments may give rise to losses that exceed the amount the Fund has invested in those instruments. Financial leverage will magnify, sometimes significantly, the Funds exposure to any increase or decrease in prices associated with a particular reference asset resulting in increased volatility in the value of the Funds portfolio. The value of the Funds portfolio is likely to experience greater volatility over short-term periods. While such financial leverage has the potential to produce greater gains, it also may result in greater losses, which in some cases may cause the Fund to liquidate other portfolio investments at a loss to comply with limits on leverage imposed by the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), satisfy margin or collateral requirements, or meet redemption requests.

The Funds use of derivatives and the leveraged investment exposure created by such use are expected to be significant. The majority of the Funds derivatives investments will be used to obtain exposure to the commodity, fixed income, currency, and equity markets; however, certain of the Funds derivatives investments may be employed to hedge risk and limit leveraged exposure created by certain of the Funds investments. Certain of the Funds derivatives investments may be traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. On a day-to-day basis, the Fund may hold U.S. government securities, short-term fixed income securities (generally rated AA or higher), money market instruments, overnight and fixed-term repurchase agreements, cash, and other cash equivalents with maturities of one year or less to collateralize it derivatives positions.

In addition, the Fund may invest, without limitation, in bank obligations, which may include certificates of deposit, commercial paper, asset-backed commercial paper, unsecured bank promissory notes, bank loans, bankers acceptances, and time deposits. Bank obligations may be issued or backed by U.S. banks or be U.S. dollar-denominated obligations issued or guaranteed by foreign banks. The Fund also may enter into repurchase agreements with counterparties that are deemed to present acceptable credit risks. The Fund may invest a portion of its assets, and at times, a substantial portion of its assets, in other short-term fixed income investment companies advised by the Advisor, or an affiliate of the Advisor, for various purposes, including for liquidity management purposes ( e.g. , to increase yield on liquid investments used to collateralize derivatives positions) or when such investment companies present a more cost-effective investment option than direct investments in the underlying securities.

Investments in these investment companies will significantly increase the portfolios exposure to certain other asset categories, including: (i) a broad range of high yield, high risk debt securities rated below the top four long-term rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or, if unrated, determined by the Advisor to be of comparable quality (also known as junk bonds); (ii) securities issued by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities; (iii) collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), other asset-backed securities (including mortgage-backed securities) and similarly structured debt investments; and (iv) other short-term fixed income securities. Such investments will expose the Fund to the risks of these asset categories and increases or decreases in the value of these investments may cause the Fund to deviate from its investment objective.

The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in a wholly-owned and controlled Cayman Islands subsidiary (the Subsidiary) as measured at the end of every quarter of the Fund's taxable year. The Subsidiary is advised by the Advisor and has the same investment objective as the Fund. Unlike the Fund, however, the Subsidiary may invest to a greater extent in commodity-linked derivative instruments. The Subsidiarys investments in such instruments are subject to limits on leverage imposed by the 1940 Act. The Funds investment in the Subsidiary is expected to provide the Fund with an effective means of obtaining exposure (long or short) to the investment returns of global commodities markets. Because the Fund seeks to gain exposure to the commodity, currency, equity, and fixed income markets, the Fund, from time to time, may have significant indirect exposure through its derivatives investments to one or more of those markets or sectors comprising those markets.

The Fund has adopted an investment policy to not invest 25% or more of the value of its assets in the securities of one or more issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry.

C000069235 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000069235 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000069235 Performance

Total returns for C000069235 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000069235 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000069235, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.7%

C000069235 Costs and Fees

C000069235 costs about $218 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 2.18%
• Gross expense ratio: 2.32%
• Portfolio turnover: 0%
• Brokerage commissions: 62.48 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000069235 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund had net outflows of $23.08K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000069235 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000069235 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-29
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-21
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-01
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-02
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14

Related Funds

Other Commodity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
• VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ)
• Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (PDBC)
• PIMCO CommoditiesPLUS Strategy Fund (PCLAX)
• First Eagle Gold Fund (SGGDX)

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.