Transamerica MLP & Energy Income
Data updated: 2026-09-28
C000125980 — Transamerica MLP & Energy Income. United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Energy Equity · $157.90M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000125980 Fund Overview
Transamerica MLP & Energy Income is a US mutual fund managed by Transamerica Funds, categorised as United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Energy 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 Funds
- Category: United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Energy Equity
- Assets under management: $157.90M
- 1-year return: 27.0%
- SEC CIK: 0000787623
- SEC series ID: S000040645
- Share class ID: C000125980
C000125980 Investment Objective and Strategy
Transamerica MLP & Energy Income describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Transamerica Funds.
Investment objective
Seeks long-term growth of capital while providing current income.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the funds sub-adviser, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. (the sub-adviser), seeks to achieve the funds stated objective by investing at least 80% of the funds net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in the equity and debt securities of energy master limited partnerships (MLPs), MLP-related entities, energy infrastructure companies and other issuers in the energy sector. The sub-adviser considers the energy sector to consist of companies involved in exploring, developing, producing, generating, transporting, transmitting, storing, gathering, processing, refining, distributing, mining or marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products, coal or electricity (energy-related assets). MLPs are publicly traded partnerships that principally own and operate assets used in energy logistics, including, but not limited to, assets used in transporting, storing, gathering, processing, distributing, or marketing of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil or refined products (midstream assets).
MLPs also include general partner MLPs whose assets consist of ownership interests of an affiliated MLP (which may include general partnership interests, incentive distribution rights, common units and subordinated units). MLP-related entities include companies structured as MLPs that have elected to be taxed as corporations for federal income tax purposes and affiliates of MLPs, substantially all of whose assets consist of i-units and instruments that are derivatives of interests in MLPs. MLP affiliates are not treated as publicly traded partnerships for federal income tax purposes. Energy infrastructure companies are companies, other than MLPs, that own or operate midstream assets. This includes companies that (i) derive at least 50% of their revenues or operating income from midstream assets or (ii) have midstream assets that represent a majority of their assets.
Energy infrastructure companies are not structured as MLPs and are taxed as corporations. Investments in other issuers in the energy sector will consist of companies that own, operate or provide services to energy-related assets. MLP and MLP-related equity investments by the fund may include securities of any capitalization that are publicly traded on an exchange or in the over-the-counter market, including MLP and limited liability company common units; the equity securities issued by MLP-related entities, such as I-shares of MLP-related entities and common shares of corporations that own, directly or indirectly, MLP general partner interests; and other investment companies that invest in MLPs and energy infrastructure companies. The fund may invest in the debt securities of issuers in the energy sector, but not more than 10% of its total assets may be invested in debt securities that are rated below investment grade (commonly known as junk bonds), including defaulted securities.
The fund may directly invest up to, but not more than, 25% of its total assets in equity or debt securities of MLPs and other entities that are treated as qualified publicly traded partnerships for federal income tax purposes. This limit does not apply to I-shares of MLP-related entities, substantially all of whose assets consist of limited partnership interests in MLPs in the form of i-units, which are not treated as publicly traded partnerships for federal income tax purposes. MLP-related entities receive additional i-units in an amount equal to the cash distributions received by MLP common units. Similarly, holders of I-shares will receive additional I-shares, in the same proportion as the MLP-related entities receipt of i-units, rather than cash distributions. The fund may use short sales, arbitrage and other strategies to try to generate additional return, the maximum exposure to which may not exceed 20% of the funds net assets.
As part of such strategies, the fund may (1) engage in paired long short trades in an attempt to arbitrage pricing disparities in securities held in the fund (e.g., establishing a long or short position in the equity of an MLP issuer while simultaneously establishing an opposite position in an affiliated MLP-related entity or other affiliated equity security); (2) trade call or put options; (3) enter into total return swaps or credit default contracts; or (4) sell securities short. The fund may also invest in foreign securities, but generally will not invest more than 10% of fund assets in foreign securities. The fund only invests in securities traded on U.S. and Canadian exchanges. Options trading is not a core strategy of the fund, but may be used to monetize existing positions when price targets are reached, to generate income and to help hedge the fund.
In addition, by taking both long and short positions, the fund seeks to provide some protection in down markets when compared to a fund that takes only long positions. The fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in cash, cash equivalent securities or short-term debt securities, repurchase agreements and money market instruments to serve as collateral for the positions the fund takes, to earn income, and for cash management purposes. The above investment restrictions apply at the time of purchase, and the fund will not be required to reduce a position due solely to market value fluctuations in order to comply with these restrictions. The fund is non-diversified.
C000125980 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Transamerica MLP & Energy Income by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Cheniere Energy Inc | 9.59% |
| Williams Cos Inc/The | 9.30% |
| Enterprise Products Partners LP | 7.76% |
| Energy Transfer LP | 7.56% |
| Targa Resources Corp | 5.96% |
| ONEOK Inc | 5.95% |
| TC Energy Corp | 4.44% |
| Mplx LP | 4.31% |
| Kinder Morgan Inc | 4.27% |
| Western Midstream Partners LP | 4.10% |
C000125980 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Transamerica MLP & Energy Income by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.3% |
C000125980 Performance
Total returns for C000125980 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 26.0% |
| 1 year | 27.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 22.7% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 16.7% |
C000125980 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000125980, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 15.0%
C000125980 Costs and Fees
C000125980 costs about $119 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.19%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.19%
- Portfolio turnover: 53%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.63 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000125980 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-07, Transamerica MLP & Energy Income had net outflows of $3.04M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-07 | −$1.60M |
| 2026-06 | −$1.16M |
| 2026-05 | −$99.68K |
| 2026-04 | $413.19K |
| 2026-03 | $1.40M |
| 2026-02 | $186.73K |
C000125980 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Transamerica MLP & Energy Income's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000125980 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Transamerica MLP & Energy Income filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-20
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-10
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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.