1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-25
C000131494 — 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio. Global (incl. US) Large Cap Blend / Core Thematic Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000131494 Fund Overview
1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Eq Advisors Trust, categorised as Global (incl. US) Large Cap Blend / Core Thematic Equity. 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: Global (incl. US) Large Cap Blend / Core Thematic Equity
- Assets under management: $365.48M
- 1-year return: 8.8%
- SEC CIK: 0001027263
- SEC series ID: S000042512
- Share class ID: C000131494
C000131494 Investment Objective and Strategy
1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eq Advisors Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities. The Portfolio invests primarily in equity securities of U.S. companies and foreign companies in developed markets. The Portfolio may invest in large, mid and small capitalization companies and will be broadly diversified across companies and industries. Equity securities in which the Portfolio may invest include common stocks, preferred stocks, warrants, American Depositary Receipts and similar instruments. The Sub-Adviser believes that investing in equity markets using a traditional indexing approach exposes the investor to general market risk, including concentration in the largest capitalization securities in the applicable index, volatility and unpredictable earnings that, over a market cycle, do not necessarily provide optimal returns.
In the Sub-Advisers view, market return, or beta, can be achieved with less exposure to general market risk. The Sub-Advisers SmartBeta Equity strategy seeks to achieve, over a full market cycle, above-market returns with less volatility compared to the equity markets as a whole. Generally, a full market cycle consists of a period of increasing stock prices and strong performance (a bull market) followed by a period of weak performance and falling prices (a bear market), and a return to a bull market. The Sub-Advisers strategy differs from a traditional indexing approach under which a portfolio generally invests in all or a representative sample of the securities in the applicable index and weights those securities according to their market capitalization weightings. In constructing the portfolio, the Sub-Adviser begins with a universe of global developed market equity securities.
The Sub-Adviser then uses computer-aided quantitative analysis to identify securities for investment. This is accomplished through the application of proprietary filters which interact to analyze individual issuer data for such risk factors as lower earnings quality, higher price volatility, speculation and distress. Those securities that pass the filters are assigned a preliminary weighting in the portfolio. The Sub-Adviser next applies a proprietary diversification methodology which is designed to produce a weighting scheme that reduces concentration risk by applying a greater level of diversification to the largest securities (by market capitalization) that progressively lessens with smaller capitalization companies. The Sub-Adviser also integrates Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations into its portfolio construction process based on the Sub-Advisers proprietary ESG framework and scoring that seeks to optimize the ESG portfolio while substantially retaining the desired risk/return thereof.
The Sub-Adviser may apply this investment selection process to invest in emerging market equity securities. The Sub-Adviser may sell a security for a variety of reasons, such as if its fundamentals no longer meet the Sub-Advisers criteria, to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into securities believed to offer superior investment opportunities. The Portfolio also may lend its portfolio securities to earn additional income.
C000131494 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp. | 4.49% |
| Apple, Inc. | 4.28% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 3.67% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 2.89% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 1.80% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 1.53% |
| Visa, Inc. | 1.22% |
| Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.13% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 0.99% |
| Coca-Cola Co. (The) | 0.94% |
C000131494 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.9% |
| Other | 0.2% |
C000131494 Performance
Total returns for C000131494 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 3.2% |
| 1 year | 8.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.2% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.6% |
C000131494 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000131494, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.3%
C000131494 Costs and Fees
C000131494 costs about $110 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.10%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.10%
- Portfolio turnover: 28%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.62 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000131494 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio had net outflows of $4.06M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$2.48M |
| 2026-05 | −$4.33M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.23M |
| 2026-03 | −$4.81M |
| 2026-02 | −$4.23M |
| 2026-01 | −$3.63M |
C000131494 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000131494 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official 1290 VT SmartBeta Equity ESG 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.