7Twelve Balanced Portfolio
Data updated: 2022-11-25
C000148604 — 7Twelve Balanced Portfolio. Balanced Allocation · $38.55M AUM · 1.19% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000148604 Fund Overview
7Twelve Balanced Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Northern Lights Variable Trust, categorised as Balanced Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Northern Lights Variable Trust
- Category: Balanced Allocation
- Assets under management: $38.55M
- 1-year return: -11.9%
- SEC CIK: 0001352621
- SEC series ID: S000034666
- Share class ID: C000148604
C000148604 Investment Objective and Strategy
7Twelve Balanced Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Northern Lights Variable Trust.
Investment objective
The 7Twelve Balanced Portfolio (?the Portfolio?) seeks to provide superior volatility risk-adjusted returns when compared to the bond and equity markets in general.
Principal investment strategy
The Portfolio?s adviser seeks to achieve the Portfolio?s investment objective by allocating assets among securities that represent 7 broad asset classes and 12 subcategories using the adviser?s 7Twelve TM asset allocation model (the ?7Twelve TM Model?). The adviser usually does not select individual stocks and bonds, but instead selects exchange-traded funds (?ETFs?) or mutual funds (together, ?underlying funds?) that each invest primarily in securities representing one of the 12 subcategories of assets selected under the 7Twelve TM Model. The Portfolio may invest in underlying funds that hold securities from issuers of any market capitalization, credit quality, maturity, country, or trading currency. However, bond credit quality will be primarily investment grade (that is, rated Baa3 or higher by Moody?s Investors Service, or equivalently rated by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization).
The Portfolio may also buy underlying funds that invest in foreign securities traded on exchanges outside the U.S. and through American depositary receipts (?ADRs?). Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio invests at least 25% of its assets in equity securities (common stocks) and at least 25% of its assets in bonds. For purposes of meeting these 25% allocations, the Portfolio defines equity securities to include underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and defines bonds to include underlying funds that invest primarily in bonds and other fixed income securities. Unlike traditional diversification strategies that rely primarily on two asset classes (stocks and bonds) in what is commonly known as a traditional balanced portfolio strategy, the 7Twelve TM Model utilizes multiple asset classes to enhance performance and reduce risk as measured by return volatility.
The complete set of asset classes and subcategories utilized under the 7Twelve TM Model are presented in the table below. Assets are initially allocated equally using the 7Twelve TM Model, meaning that each subcategory represents 1/12th of the portfolio. This allocation is maintained by rebalancing the portfolio back to equal portions monthly, quarterly or annually depending on the size of the deviation caused by changes in market value. The adviser buys and sells securities to rebalance asset class allocations as determined under its 7Twelve TM Model and also sells specific underlying funds when it believes it can be replaced by an underlying fund with greater liquidity, lower expenses or other features that make it an attractive replacement for an existing ETF.
C000148604 Performance
Total returns for C000148604 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -11.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.6% |
C000148604 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000148604, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.3%
C000148604 Costs and Fees
C000148604 costs about $119 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.19%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.19%
- Portfolio turnover: 5%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.81 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000148604 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-09, 7Twelve Balanced Portfolio had net inflows of $11.07M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-09 | $260.97K |
| 2022-08 | $536.99K |
| 2022-07 | $589.00K |
| 2022-06 | $460.79K |
| 2022-05 | $1.88M |
| 2022-04 | $681.30K |
C000148604 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in 7Twelve Balanced Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000148604 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official 7Twelve Balanced Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-18
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-05-05
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-05-04
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-11-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-05-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-03-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-03-16
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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.