Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000099459 — Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000099459 Fund Overview
Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP is a US mutual fund managed by Transamerica Series Trust, categorised as United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core 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 Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $182.11M
- 1-year return: 10.5%
- SEC CIK: 0000778207
- SEC series ID: S000031950
- Share class ID: C000099459
C000099459 Investment Objective and Strategy
Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Transamerica Series Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks current income and preservation of capital.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the portfolios sub-adviser, BlackRock Investment Management, LLC (the sub-adviser), seeks to achieve the portfolios objective by investing its assets primarily in a combination of underlying exchange-traded funds (ETFs) advised by an affiliate of the sub-adviser. The portfolios target allocation for long-term investments (the Strategic Asset Allocation) is approximately 35% in equity ETFs and approximately 65% in fixed-income ETFs that are not money market funds (fixed-income ETFs). The portfolios sub-adviser may periodically adjust the portfolios asset class allocations in accordance with its investment process and in an effort to appropriately position the portfolio to changing market environments. The sub-adviser may also allow the relative weighting of the portfolios investments within asset classes to vary from its Strategic Asset Allocation in response to market conditions, and may from time to time make tactical increases or decreases to the portfolios investment in a particular asset class beyond the Strategic Asset Allocation based on a broad range of market and economic trends and quantitative factors, such as market pricing and economic growth, inflation and policy data.
The portfolios equity exposure will generally range from 20% to 50% of its net assets under periods of normal market conditions. The sub-adviser will seek to manage the portfolios volatility in an effort to stabilize performance. The sub-adviser will monitor the expected volatility of the portfolio on a daily basis. The sub-adviser will apply a volatility control framework that may cause the sub-adviser to respond to periods of higher than expected volatility by deviating from the Strategic Asset Allocation, allocating away from riskier asset classes such as equities, and increasing the portfolios exposure to cash and defensive assets in order to attempt to reduce volatility within the portfolio. Under this framework, if the sub-advisers risk forecast exceeds the portfolios volatility ceiling of 7%, the sub-adviser will normally allocate the portfolios assets away from riskier asset classes and to defensive assets in an effort to remain at or below the volatility ceiling.
The sub-adviser expects to allocate back to riskier assets away from defensive assets as volatility normalizes. The strategy is intended to result in lower volatility of the portfolios net asset value under negative market conditions. The underlying ETFs have a variety of investment focuses. The underlying equity ETFs include ETFs that are based on large cap U.S. equity, small cap U.S. equity and international equity (including emerging markets) indexes. The underlying fixed-income ETFs include ETFs that are based on broad, short, intermediate and long-term fixed-income indexes, as well as high yield (commonly known as junk bonds) and floating rate bond indexes. Junk bonds are high-risk debt securities rated below investment grade (that is, securities rated below BBB by Standard & Poors or Fitch or below Baa by Moodys or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable quality by the portfolios sub-adviser).
The portfolio may be a significant shareholder in certain underlying ETFs and/or may invest a significant percentage of its assets in one or more underlying ETFs. The portfolios net asset value will fluctuate, and the fluctuations may be sizable. The portfolio may also invest in short-term defensive instruments (including Treasury bills, repurchase agreements, money market funds and cash).
C000099459 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 32.98% |
| iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 18.31% |
| iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF | 12.47% |
| iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | 11.53% |
| iShares 0-1 Year Treasury Bond ETF | 10.27% |
| State Street Global Advisors | 7.14% |
| iShares iBoxx USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF | 4.82% |
| iShares Russell 2000 ETF | 4.39% |
| iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF | 2.49% |
| iShares MSCI Japan ETF | 1.10% |
C000099459 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 7.1% |
C000099459 Performance
Total returns for C000099459 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 4.5% |
| 1 year | 10.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 8.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.1% |
C000099459 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000099459, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.3%
C000099459 Costs and Fees
C000099459 costs about $63 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.63%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.68%
- Portfolio turnover: 91%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.78 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000099459 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP had net outflows of $24.90M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.84M |
| 2026-05 | −$2.61M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.64M |
| 2026-03 | −$2.70M |
| 2026-02 | −$1.18M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.68M |
C000099459 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative VP's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000099459 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Transamerica QS Investors Active Asset Allocation - Conservative 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.