Transamerica Core Bond
Data updated: 2022-09-23
C000077984 — Transamerica Core Bond. Money Market · $952.60M AUM · 0.49% expense ratio · -8.6% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000077984 Fund Overview
Transamerica Core Bond is a US mutual fund managed by Transamerica Funds, categorised as Money Market. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Transamerica Funds
- Category: Money Market
- Assets under management: $952.60M
- 1-year return: -8.6%
- SEC CIK: 0000787623
- SEC series ID: S000025951
- Share class ID: C000077984
C000077984 Investment Objective and Strategy
Transamerica Core Bond describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Transamerica Funds.
Investment objective
Seeks total return, consisting of current income and capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The funds sub-adviser, J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (the sub-adviser), seeks to achieve the funds objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the funds net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in bonds, including (without limitation): U.S. government securities, including Treasury obligations and government sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac and securities issued by other government agencies and instrumentalities Medium- to high-quality corporate bonds Mortgage-backed securities, including U.S. agency and non-agency pass through and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) Asset-backed securities Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) Generally, such bonds will have intermediate to long maturities.
To a lesser extent, the fund may invest in: U.S. dollar-denominated foreign bonds Short-term securities, including agency discount notes, commercial paper and money market funds The fund may invest in bonds and other debt securities that are rated in the lowest investment grade category (commonly known as junk bonds). The funds average weighted maturity will ordinarily range between four and 12 years. The sub-adviser analyzes four major factors in managing and constructing the funds portfolio: duration, market sector, maturity concentrations and individual securities. The sub-adviser looks for market sectors and individual securities that it believes will perform well over time. The sub-adviser is value oriented and selects individual securities after performing a risk/reward analysis that includes an evaluation of interest rate risk, credit risk, and the complex legal and technical structure of the transaction.
The fund may use futures contracts, options, swaps and other derivatives as tools in the management of fund assets. The fund may use derivatives as a substitute for various investments, to alter the investment characteristics of the fund, for risk management and/or to increase income or gain to the fund.
C000077984 Performance
Total returns for C000077984 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -8.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.4% |
C000077984 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000077984, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.0%
C000077984 Costs and Fees
C000077984 costs about $49 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.49%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.49%
- Portfolio turnover: 27%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000077984 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-07, Transamerica Core Bond had net inflows of $202.83M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-07 | $2.10M |
| 2022-06 | −$8.29M |
| 2022-05 | −$4.57M |
| 2022-04 | −$551.96K |
| 2022-03 | −$5.69M |
| 2022-02 | $198.42M |
C000077984 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Transamerica Core Bond's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000077984 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Transamerica Core Bond filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-02-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-02-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-03-20
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-09-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-06-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-03-30
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-01-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-01-13
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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.