SFT Real Estate Securities Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000072686 — SFT Real Estate Securities Fund. United States Real Estate · $124.61M AUM · 1.24% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000072686 Fund Overview
SFT Real Estate Securities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Securian Funds Trust, categorised as United States Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Securian Funds Trust
- Category: United States Real Estate
- Assets under management: $124.61M
- 1-year return: 13.2%
- SEC CIK: 0000766351
- SEC series ID: S000024510
- Share class ID: C000072686
C000072686 Investment Objective and Strategy
SFT Real Estate Securities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Securian Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks above average income and long-term growth of capital.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Funds net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) will be invested in common stocks and other equity securities issued by real estate companies A real estate company is one that (i) derives at least 50% of its revenue from the ownership, construction, financing, management or sale of commercial, industrial or residential real estate and land; or (ii) has at least 50% of its assets invested in such real estate. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are companies that own interest in real estate or in real estate related loans or other interests, and their revenue primarily consists of rent derived from owned, income producing real estate properties and capital gains from the sale of such properties. The Fund may invest without limit in shares of REITs.
A REIT in the U.S. is generally not taxed on income distributed to shareholders so long as it meets certain tax related requirements, including the requirement that it distribute substantially all of its taxable income to such shareholders (other than net capital gains for each taxable year). REIT-like entities are organized outside of the U.S. and have operations and receive tax treatment in their respective countries similar to that of U.S. REITs. The Fund retains the ability to invest in real estate companies of any market capitalization. The Fund may invest in securities of foreign issuers which meet the same criteria for investment as domestic companies, including such investment in such companies in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) and European Depository Receipts (EDRs), but in no event may such investments exceed more than 20% of its total assets.
In selecting securities, Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc. (Cohen & Steers), the Funds sub-adviser, adheres to a bottom-up, relative value investment process. To guide the portfolio construction process, Cohen & Steers utilizes a proprietary valuation model that quantifies relative valuation of real estate securities based on price-to-net asset value (NAV), cash flow multiple/growth ratios and a dividend discount model. Analysts incorporate both quantitative and qualitative analysis in their NAV, cash flow, growth and dividend discount model estimates. Cohen & Steers research process includes an evaluation of the commercial real estate supply and demand dynamics, management, strategy, property quality, financial strength and corporate structure. Judgments with respect to risk control, geographic and property sector diversification, liquidity and other factors are considered along with the models output and drive the portfolio managers investment decisions.
The Fund will not seek to achieve specific environmental, social or governance (ESG) outcomes through its portfolio of investments, nor will it pursue an overall impact or sustainable investment strategy. However, the sub-adviser will incorporate consideration of relevant ESG factors into its investment decision-making. For example, although the sub-adviser does not generally exclude investments based on ESG factors alone, when considering an investment opportunity with material exposure to carbon emissions regulation, this risk may be considered as one factor in the sub-advisers holistic review process.
C000072686 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of SFT Real Estate Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Welltower Inc | 13.74% |
| Digital Realty Trust Inc | 9.23% |
| Prologis Inc | 4.52% |
| American Tower Corp | 4.52% |
| Extra Space Storage Inc | 4.38% |
| Crown Castle Inc | 4.04% |
| Equinix Inc | 3.90% |
| Agree Realty Corp | 3.59% |
| Sun Communities Inc | 3.26% |
| Iron Mountain Inc | 3.10% |
C000072686 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of SFT Real Estate Securities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.4% |
| Derivatives | 0.4% |
C000072686 Performance
Total returns for C000072686 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 14.6% |
| 1 year | 13.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 9.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.7% |
C000072686 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000072686, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.9%
C000072686 Costs and Fees
C000072686 costs about $124 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.24%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.24%
- Portfolio turnover: 29%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.59 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000072686 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, SFT Real Estate Securities Fund had net outflows of $7.26M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$702.38K |
| 2026-05 | −$1.06M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.59M |
| 2026-03 | −$1.69M |
| 2026-02 | −$693.29K |
| 2026-01 | −$232.29K |
C000072686 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in SFT Real Estate Securities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000072686 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official SFT Real Estate Securities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-17
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-10
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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.