SFT Ivy Growth Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000140836 — SFT Ivy Growth Fund. United States Large Cap Growth Equity · $609.25M AUM · 0.96% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000140836 Fund Overview
SFT Ivy Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Securian Funds Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Growth Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Securian Funds Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $609.25M
- 1-year return: 3.3%
- SEC CIK: 0000766351
- SEC series ID: S000045238
- Share class ID: C000140836
C000140836 Investment Objective and Strategy
SFT Ivy Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Securian Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to provide growth of capital.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing primarily in a portfolio of common stocks issued by large capitalization, growth-oriented companies that Nomura Investments Fund Advisers ( NIFA ), the Funds investment sub-adviser, believes have a competitively advantaged business model, thereby eluding competition, and have the ability to sustain growth over the long term beyond investors expectations. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in large capitalization companies, which typically are companies with market capitalizations of at least $10 billion at the time of acquisition. Growth- oriented companies are those whose earnings NIFA believes are likely to grow faster than the economy. The Fund is non-diversified, meaning that it may invest a significant portion of its total assets in a limited number of issuers.
In selecting securities for the Fund, NIFA begins its investment process by screening large-capitalization companies based on profitability (capital returns and margins) and growth (sales and earnings), while simultaneously utilizing fundamental analysis to assess any unique business attributes that validate those financial characteristics. NIFA uses a bottom-up (researching individual issuers) strategy in selecting securities for the Fund. NIFA seeks to invest for the Fund in companies that it believes possess a structural competitive advantage or durable market leadership position. NIFA looks for companies which serve large, addressable markets with a demonstrated ability to sustain unit growth and high profitability. NIFA also seeks to invest in companies that it believes have improving growth prospects or improving levels of profitability and returns.
A competitively advantaged business model can be defined by such factors as: brand loyalty, proprietary technology, cost structure, scale, exclusive access to data, or distribution advantages. Other factors considered include strength of management; ESG characteristics; level of competitive intensity; return of capital; strong balance sheets and cash flows; the threat of substitute products; and the interaction and bargaining power between a company, its customers, suppliers, and competitors. NIFA s process for selecting stocks is based primarily on fundamental research, but does utilize quantitative analysis during the screening process. From a quantitative standpoint, NIFA concentrates on the level of profitability, capital intensity, cash flow and capital allocation measures, as well as earnings growth rates and valuations.
NIFA s fundamental research effort tries to identify those companies that it believes possess a sustainable competitive advantage, an important characteristic which typically enables a company to generate above-average levels of profitability and the ability to sustain growth over the long-term. The Fund typically holds a limited number of stocks (generally 35 to 50). Many of the companies in which the Fund may invest have diverse operations, with products or services in foreign markets. Therefore, the Fund may have indirect exposure to various foreign markets through investments in these companies, even if the Fund is not invested directly in such markets. In general, NIFA may sell a security when, in NIFA s opinion, a company experiences deterioration in its growth and/or profitability characteristics, or a fundamental breakdown of its sustainable competitive advantages.
NIFA also may sell a security if it believes that the security no longer presents sufficient appreciation potential; this may be caused by, or be an effect of, changes in the industry or sector of the issuer, loss by the company of its competitive position, poor execution by management, the threat of technological disruption and/or poor use of resources. NIFA also may sell a security to reduce the Funds holding in that security, to take advantage of what it believes are more attractive investment opportunities or to raise cash. As of December 31, 2025 , the Fund was concentrated in the Information Technology sector.
C000140836 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of SFT Ivy Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp | 15.61% |
| Apple Inc | 8.59% |
| Microsoft Corp | 7.75% |
| Alphabet Inc | 7.09% |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 5.15% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 5.07% |
| Visa Inc | 4.87% |
| Eli Lilly & Co | 4.81% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 3.99% |
| Broadcom Inc | 3.22% |
C000140836 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of SFT Ivy Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 100.1% |
C000140836 Performance
Total returns for C000140836 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | -1.6% |
| 1 year | 3.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.8% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.6% |
C000140836 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000140836, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 16.4%
C000140836 Costs and Fees
C000140836 costs about $96 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.96%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.96%
- Portfolio turnover: 26%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.63 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000140836 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, SFT Ivy Growth Fund had net outflows of $53.72M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$2.81M |
| 2026-05 | −$5.92M |
| 2026-04 | $5.35M |
| 2026-03 | −$11.26M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.70M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.82M |
C000140836 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in SFT Ivy Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000140836 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official SFT Ivy Growth Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-17
- 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.