1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-25
C000112530 — 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio. Short Corporate Bond · $417.99M AUM · 0.77% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000112530 Fund Overview
1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Eq Advisors Trust, categorised as Short Corporate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Eq Advisors Trust
- Category: Short Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $417.99M
- 1-year return: 4.0%
- SEC CIK: 0001027263
- SEC series ID: S000036793
- Share class ID: C000112530
C000112530 Investment Objective and Strategy
1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eq Advisors Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks to maximize current income.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in a broad range of high-yield, below investment-grade bonds. For purposes of this investment policy, a debt security is considered a bond. Debt securities represent an issuers obligation to repay a loan of money that generally pays interest to the holder. Bank loans, bonds, loan participations, notes and debentures are examples of debt securities. It is expected that the Portfolio will invest primarily in high-yield corporate bonds. Securities below investment grade include those securities rated Ba1 or lower by Moodys Investors Service, Inc. (Moodys) or BB+ or lower by Fitch Ratings Ltd. (Fitch) or by Standard & Poors Global Ratings (S&P) or, if unrated, deemed by the Adviser or Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality.
Split rated securities, which are securities that receive different ratings from two or more rating agencies, will be considered to have the lower credit rating. The Portfolio may invest in debt securities issued by small-, mid- and large- capitalization companies. The Portfolio may invest up to 25% of its net assets in debt securities of issuers located outside the United States, including emerging markets issuers and U.S. dollar-denominated securities of non-U.S. issuers. Certain debt instruments in which the Portfolio may invest may be structured as pay-in-kind securities. The Portfolio may invest in privately placed and restricted securities. The Portfolios assets normally are allocated among two portions, each of which is managed using a different but complementary investment strategy.
One portion of the Portfolio is actively managed (Active Allocated Portion) and the other portion of the Portfolio invests in ETFs that are passively managed and that meet the investment objective of the Portfolio (ETF Allocated Portion). Under normal circumstances, the Active Allocated Portion consists of approximately 90% of the Portfolios net assets and the ETF Allocated Portion consists of approximately 10% of the Portfolios net assets. These percentages can deviate from the amounts shown above by up to 15% of the Portfolios assets. The ETFs in which the ETF Allocated Portion may invest may be changed from time to time without notice or shareholder approval. The Active Allocated Portion will invest in high yield corporate debt securities as well as floating rate loans, and participations in and assignments of loans.
The Active Allocated Portion may invest in securities of any maturity because the Sub-Advisers to the Active Allocated Portion place greater emphasis on credit risk in selecting securities than either maturity or duration. Maturity measures the average final payable dates of debt instruments. Duration measures the sensitivity of the value of a bond or bond portfolio to changes in interest rates. Typically, a bond portfolio with a low (short) duration means that its value is less sensitive to interest rate changes, while a bond portfolio with a high (long) duration is more sensitive. The ETF Allocated Portion will generally invest in the following ETFs: the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund and the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF. These ETFs seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of a fixed-income securities benchmark index.
An investor in the Portfolio will bear both the expenses of the Portfolio as well as the indirect expenses associated with the ETFs held by the ETF Allocated Portion. The Portfolio also may lend its portfolio securities to earn additional income.
C000112530 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF | 3.79% |
| iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 3.79% |
| Invesco Govt And Agcy Lex | 2.60% |
| JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund | 1.53% |
| Allspring Govt Fund Lex | 1.20% |
| Caesars Entertainment, Inc. | 0.99% |
| iShares iBoxx USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 0.72% |
| Dreyfus Treasury & Agency Lex | 0.72% |
| State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF | 0.71% |
| UKG, Inc. | 0.65% |
C000112530 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 84.3% |
| Other | 9.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 8.2% |
| Loans | 2.6% |
C000112530 Performance
Total returns for C000112530 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.1% |
| 1 year | 4.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 8.0% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.9% |
C000112530 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000112530, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 2.3%
C000112530 Costs and Fees
C000112530 costs about $77 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.77%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.84%
- Portfolio turnover: 39%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.17 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000112530 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio had net inflows of $173.15M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$920.06K |
| 2026-05 | $2.36M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.19M |
| 2026-03 | −$3.52M |
| 2026-02 | −$324.51K |
| 2026-01 | $1.94M |
C000112530 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Caesars Entertainment, Inc. | 0.99% |
| UKG, Inc. | 0.65% |
| Shift4 Payments LLC | 0.60% |
| TransDigm, Inc. | 0.58% |
| Ardonagh Group Finance Ltd. | 0.58% |
| VT Topco, Inc. | 0.57% |
| AthenaHealth Group, Inc. | 0.57% |
| Capstone Borrower, Inc. | 0.54% |
| ZoomInfo Technologies LLC | 0.54% |
| RB Global Holdings, Inc. | 0.52% |
C000112530 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official 1290 VT High Yield Bond Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
- 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.