SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000140837 — SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund. United States Small Cap Growth Equity · $194.21M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000140837 Fund Overview
SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Securian Funds Trust, categorised as United States Small 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 Small Cap Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $194.21M
- 1-year return: 32.7%
- SEC CIK: 0000766351
- SEC series ID: S000045239
- Share class ID: C000140837
C000140837 Investment Objective and Strategy
SFT Ivy Small Cap 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, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of small capitalization companies. For the purposes of this Fund, small capitalization companies typically are companies with market capitalizations similar to those of issuers included in the Russell 2000 Growth Index over the last 13 months at the time of acquisition. As of December 31, 2025 , this range of market capitalizations was between approximately $ 13.7 million and $ 26.0 billion. The Fund emphasizes smaller companies positioned in new or emerging industries where Nomura Investments Fund Advisers ( NIFA ), the Funds investment sub-adviser, believes there is opportunity for higher growth than in established companies or industries. The Funds investments in equity securities may include common stocks that are offered in initial public offerings (IPOs).
NIFA utilizes a bottom-up (researching individual issuers) stock picking process that considers quality of management and superior financial characteristics (e.g., return on assets, return on equity, operating margin) in its search for companies, thereby focusing on what it believes are higher-quality companies with sustainable growth prospects. NIFA seeks companies that it believes exhibit successful and scalable business models by having one or more of the following characteristics: serving markets that are growing at rates substantially in excess of the average industry and/or the general economy; a company that is a leader in its industry and that possesses an identifiable competitive advantage; that features strong and effective management; that demonstrates a strong commitment to shareholders; that is serving a large and/or fast-growing market opportunity; that is experiencing upward margin momentum, a growth in earnings, growth in revenue and sales and/or positive cash flows; that is increasing market share and/or creating increasing barriers to entry, either through technological advancement, marketing, distribution or some other innovative means; or that emphasizes organic growth.
NIFA believes that such companies generally have a replicable business model that allows for sustained growth. Generally, in determining whether to sell a security, NIFA uses the same type of analysis that it uses in buying securities. For example, NIFA may sell a security if it believes that the stock no longer offers significant growth potential, which may be due to a change in the business or management of the company or a change in the industry or sector of the company. NIFA also may sell a security to reduce the Funds holding in that security, if its analysis reveals evidence of a meaningful deterioration in operating trends, if it anticipates a decrease in the companys ability to grow, if it loses confidence in the management of the company and/or the companys founder departs, to take advantage of what it believes are more attractive investment opportunities or to raise cash.
As of December 31, 2025 , the Fund had a focused investment in the Information Technology, Health Care and Industrials sectors. As of December 31, 2025 , the Fund was concentrated in the Health Care sector.
C000140837 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Mirum Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2.34% |
| PriceSmart Inc | 2.20% |
| DigitalOcean Holdings Inc | 2.17% |
| FirstCash Holdings Inc | 2.10% |
| Kontoor Brands Inc | 2.08% |
| Agilysys Inc | 1.99% |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp | 1.98% |
| Advanced Energy Industries Inc | 1.96% |
| Encompass Health Corp | 1.95% |
| A10 Networks Inc | 1.93% |
C000140837 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 100.1% |
C000140837 Performance
Total returns for C000140837 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 21.7% |
| 1 year | 32.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 16.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 4.1% |
C000140837 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000140837, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 16.3%
C000140837 Costs and Fees
C000140837 costs about $134 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.34%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.34%
- Portfolio turnover: 78%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.89 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000140837 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund had net outflows of $13.97M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.28M |
| 2026-05 | −$1.04M |
| 2026-04 | −$674.56K |
| 2026-03 | −$1.39M |
| 2026-02 | −$1.22M |
| 2026-01 | −$1.13M |
C000140837 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in SFT Ivy Small Cap Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000140837 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official SFT Ivy Small Cap 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
Related Funds
Other United States Small Cap Growth Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:
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.