Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-27
C000126058 — Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000126058 Fund Overview
Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by American Funds Insurance Series, categorised as United States Large 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: American Funds Insurance Series
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $304.15M
- 1-year return: 11.5%
- SEC CIK: 0000729528
- SEC series ID: S000040667
- Share class ID: C000126058
C000126058 Investment Objective and Strategy
Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by American Funds Insurance Series.
Investment objective
The funds investment objective is to produce income and to provide an opportunity for growth of principal consistent with sound common stock investing while seeking to manage volatility and provide downside protection.
Principal investment strategy
The fund pursues its investment objective by investing in shares of two underlying funds, the American Funds Insurance Series Washington Mutual Investors Fund (the Washington Mutual Investors Fund) and the American Funds Insurance Series U.S. Government Securities Fund (the Government Fund) while seeking to manage portfolio volatility and provide downside protection primarily through the use of exchange-traded options and futures contracts. The fund normally seeks to invest 85% of its assets in the Washington Mutual Investors Fund. The investment objective of the Washington Mutual Investors Fund is to produce income and to provide an opportunity for growth of principal consistent with sound common stock investing. The Washington Mutual Investors Fund invests primarily in common stocks of established companies that are listed on, or meet the financial listing requirements of, the New York Stock Exchange and have a strong record of earnings and dividends.
The Washington Mutual Investors Fund strives to accomplish its objective through fundamental research, careful selection and broad diversification. In the selection of common stocks and other securities for investment, current and potential income as well as the potential for long-term capital appreciation are considered. The Washington Mutual Investors Fund seeks to provide an above-average yield in its quarterly income distribution in relation to the S&P 500 Index (a broad unmanaged index). The Washington Mutual Investors Fund strives to maintain a fully invested, diversified portfolio, consisting primarily of high-quality common stocks. The Washington Mutual Investors Fund has an Eligible List of securities considered appropriate for a prudent investor seeking opportunities for income and growth of principal consistent with common stock investing.
The investment adviser generates and maintains the Eligible List and selects the funds investments exclusively from the securities on the Eligible List. The fund invests the remainder of its assets in the Government Fund and in cash, financial futures and options as part of the managed risk strategy. The Government Funds investment objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with prudent investment risk and preservation of capital. The Government Fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets in securities that are guaranteed or sponsored by the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities, including bonds and other debt securities denominated in U.S. dollars, which may be represented by derivatives. The Government Fund may also invest in mortgage-backed securities issued by federal agencies and instrumentalities that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.
government. The funds investment in the Government Fund seeks to provide a level of diversification across asset classes. Because different asset classes often react differently to changes in market conditions, such diversification seeks to manage the fund's risk to market changes, including stock market declines. Additionally, the fund employs a risk-management overlay referred to in this prospectus as the managed risk strategy. The managed risk strategy consists of using hedge instruments primarily exchange-traded futures contracts and/or exchange-traded put options to attempt to stabilize the volatility of the fund around a target volatility level and to seek to reduce the downside exposure of the fund. The fund employs a subadviser to select individual put options and futures contracts on equity indexes of U.S.
markets and markets outside the United States that the subadviser believes are correlated to the underlying funds equity exposure. These instruments are selected based on the subadvisers analysis of the relation of various equity indexes to the underlying funds portfolio. In addition, the subadviser will monitor liquidity levels of relevant options and futures contracts and transparency provided by exchanges as the counterparties in hedging transactions. The target volatility level will be set from time to time by the investment adviser and the subadviser and may be adjusted if deemed advisable in the judgment of the investment adviser and the subadviser. The subadviser may also seek to hedge the funds currency risk related to its exposure to equity index options and futures denominated in currencies other than the U.S.
dollar. A futures contract on an index is an agreement pursuant to which two parties agree to take or make delivery of an amount of cash linked to the value of the index at the close of the last trading day of the contract. Though similar, an option on an index gives one party the contractual right (but not the obligation) to take or make delivery of an amount of cash linked to the value of the underlying index. Because such instruments derive their respective values from the price of an underlying index, both options and futures contracts are considered derivatives. A long position in an equity index put option and a short position in an equity index futures contract are both expected to gain in value when the underlying index declines, and lose value when the underlying index rises. The subadviser regularly adjusts the level of exchange-traded options and futures contracts held by the fund to seek to manage the funds overall net risk level.
In situations of extreme market volatility, the subadviser will tend to use exchange-traded equity index options and/or futures more heavily, as such investments could significantly reduce the funds net economic exposure to equity securities. Even in periods of low volatility in the equity markets, however, the subadviser will continue to employ exchange-traded equity index put options to seek to preserve gains after favorable market conditions and to reduce losses in adverse market conditions. During such periods of low equity market volatility, the subadviser may also continue to use exchange-traded equity index futures contracts for hedging purposes, though it need not necessarily do so. In certain market conditions, the fund may also purchase exchange-traded equity index call options, write or sell exchange-traded equity index put and call options and/or take net long positions in exchange-traded equity index futures contracts.
C000126058 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| American Funds Insurance Series - Washington Mutual Investors Fund | 85.05% |
| American Funds Insurance Series - U.s. Government Securities Fund | 11.83% |
| State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund - Premier Class | 2.72% |
| Spx US 12/18/26 P5225 | 0.12% |
| Spx US 09/18/26 P4750 | 0.07% |
| S&p500 Emini Fut Sep26 | 0.04% |
| Spx US 12/18/26 P5100 | 0.02% |
| Spx US 12/18/26 P5450 | 0.01% |
| Spx US 12/18/26 P5175 | 0.01% |
| Spx US 12/18/26 P5125 | 0.01% |
C000126058 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.7% |
| Derivatives | 0.3% |
C000126058 Performance
Total returns for C000126058 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 5.1% |
| 1 year | 11.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.3% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 7.5% |
C000126058 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000126058, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.2%
C000126058 Costs and Fees
C000126058 costs about $63 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.63%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.63%
- Portfolio turnover: 22%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000126058 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund had net outflows of $41.90M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.41M |
| 2026-05 | −$3.97M |
| 2026-04 | −$2.99M |
| 2026-03 | −$3.18M |
| 2026-02 | −$6.28M |
| 2026-01 | −$4.54M |
C000126058 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000126058 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Managed Risk Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund 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 2024-04-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17
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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.