MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-24
C000104627 — MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio. Balanced Allocation · $2.07B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000104627 Fund Overview
MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust, categorised as Balanced Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Mainstay Vp Funds Trust
- Category: Balanced Allocation
- Assets under management: $2.07B
- 1-year return: 11.0%
- SEC CIK: 0000887340
- SEC series ID: S000033928
- Share class ID: C000104627
C000104627 Investment Objective and Strategy
MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Portfolio seeks long-term capital growth, consistent with preservation of capital and balanced by current income.
Principal investment strategy
"The Portfolio pursues its investment objective by normally investing 45%-70% of its assets in equity securities and the remaining assets in fixed-income securities and cash equivalents. The Portfolio normally invests at least 25% of its assets in fixed-income senior securities. Equity securities may include, but are not limited to, common stocks and other securities with equity characteristics. Fixed-income securities may include corporate debt securities, U.S. government obligations, mortgage-backed securities and other mortgage-related products, and short-term securities. The Portfolio may invest in foreign equity and debt securities, which may include investments in emerging markets. An issuer of a security is considered to be a U.S. or foreign issuer based on the issuer's ""country of risk"" (or similar designation) as determined by a third-party such as Bloomberg.
The Portfolio will limit its investment in high-yield/high-risk bonds, also known as junk bonds, to 20% or less of the fixed-income portion of its net assets. The Portfolio may enter into to be announced or TBA commitments when purchasing mortgage-backed securities or other securities. TBA purchase commitments are commitments to purchase mortgage-backed securities for a fixed price at a future date. At the time of purchase, the seller does not specify the particular mortgage-backed securities to be delivered. Instead, the buyer agrees to accept any mortgage-backed security that meets specified terms. The Portfolio may also invest its assets in derivatives. In particular, the Portfolio may use forward currency contracts to offset risks associated with an investment, currency exposure, or market conditions and may use interest rate swaps and futures, including Treasury bond futures, to manage interest rate risk, yield curve positioning, and country exposure.
The Portfolio may also use index credit default swaps for hedging purposes (to offset risks associated with exposure to an investment or market conditions), to increase or decrease the Portfolios exposure to a particular market, to manage or adjust the risk profile of the Portfolio relative to its benchmark index, and to earn income, enhance returns or preserve capital. The Portfolios exposure to derivatives will vary and may include derivatives that have characteristics similar to the securities in which the Portfolio may directly invest. The Portfolio may take short positions through the use of derivatives instruments. In choosing investments for the equity portion of the Portfolio, Janus Henderson Investors US LLC, the Portfolios Subadvisor, applies a bottom up approach. In other words, the Subadvisor looks at companies one at a time to determine if a company is an attractive investment opportunity and if it is consistent with the Portfolio's investment policies.
Factors that the Subadvisor may consider in its fundamental analysis include a companys revenue growth potential, returns on capital, and balance sheet flexibility. In choosing investments for the fixed-income portion of the Portfolio, the Subadvisor uses research-driven, top-down and bottom-up factors to identify and manage exposure to risks across sectors, industries, and individual investments. The Subadvisor evaluates expected risk-adjusted returns on a Portfolio level and a position level by analyzing fundamentals, valuations, and market technical indicators. The portfolio managers share day-to-day responsibility for the Portfolio's investments. The Subadvisor will generally consider selling a security when, among other things, it reaches or exceeds its targeted value, the investment thesis for owning the position has changed, or to rebalance industry or sector weightings.
The equity portion of the Portfolio may consider one or more environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors alongside other fundamental characteristics considered in the investment research process. In the equity portfolio managers view, ESG factors, along with other attributes relevant to fundamental analysis, could potentially impact investment risk and/or returns. The identification of an ESG risk factor will not necessarily exclude a particular security or sector that, in the equity portfolio managers view, is otherwise suitable for investment. To facilitate the assessment of ESG factors, the equity portfolio managers use a mix of third-party data and internally generated analyses and may engage directly with companies. ESG factors may or may not be relevant or considered for each and every investment decision depending on the equity portfolio managers perspective.
The equity portfolio managers may assess the relevance of ESG factors to their fundamental research process differently across issuers, sectors, regions, and asset classes. The fixed-income portion of Portfolio integrates ESG factors by incorporating ESG information into the Portfolios investment process. The fixed-income portfolio managers focus on the ESG factors they consider most likely to have a material impact on the financial performance of the issuers in the Portfolio, which includes identifying material ESG risk factors attributable to a particular sector, industry, or issuer. The fixed-income portfolio managers believe that an issuers ESG practices may have an impact, positive or negative, on the issuers long-term financial performance, and, at their discretion, engage with an issuers management to encourage improved ESG practices.
ESG factors are one of many considerations in the investment decision-making process and may not be determinative in deciding to include or exclude an investment from the Portfolio."
C000104627 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp. | 5.60% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 4.44% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 3.28% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.09% |
| NYLIM U.S. Government Liquidity Fund | 2.81% |
| Apple, Inc. | 2.66% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 2.49% |
| United States of America | 2.48% |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.16% |
| Lam Research Corp. | 1.74% |
C000104627 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 65.1% |
| Securitized | 17.2% |
| Fixed Income | 16.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.0% |
| Loans | 0.8% |
C000104627 Performance
Total returns for C000104627 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 4.1% |
| 1 year | 11.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 7.6% |
C000104627 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000104627, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.7%
C000104627 Costs and Fees
C000104627 costs about $58 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.58%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.58%
- Portfolio turnover: 103%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.64 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000104627 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio had net inflows of $96.19M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$9.66M |
| 2026-05 | −$3.86M |
| 2026-04 | −$139.61K |
| 2026-03 | −$6.51M |
| 2026-02 | −$3.78M |
| 2026-01 | −$1.38M |
C000104627 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States of America | 2.48% |
| United States of America | 1.61% |
| United States of America | 1.53% |
| United States of America | 1.20% |
| United States of America | 0.96% |
| United States of America | 0.74% |
| United States of America | 0.21% |
| Big Sky Funding LLC | 0.17% |
| Bank of America Corp. | 0.16% |
| Black Pearl Compute LLC | 0.14% |
C000104627 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MainStay VP Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-19
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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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.