MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-24
C000154686 — MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000154686 Fund Overview
MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust, categorised as Global (incl. US) Mid Cap Blend / Core Utilities Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Mainstay Vp Funds Trust
- Category: Global (incl. US) Mid Cap Blend / Core Utilities Equity
- Assets under management: $48.20M
- 1-year return: 14.2%
- SEC CIK: 0000887340
- SEC series ID: S000049057
- Share class ID: C000154686
C000154686 Investment Objective and Strategy
MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mainstay Vp Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Portfolio seeks total return.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes) in securities issued by infrastructure companies. The Portfolio expects to invest primarily in equity securities of companies located in a number of different countries, including the United States. Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio will invest more than 25% of the value of its total assets at the time of purchase in the securities of issuers conducting their business activities in the infrastructure group of industries. The Portfolios Subadvisor, CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets LLC, defines an infrastructure company as a company that derives at least 50% of its revenues or profits from, or devotes at least 50% of its assets to, the ownership, management, development, construction, renovation, enhancement, or operation of infrastructure assets or the provision of services to companies engaged in such activities.
Examples of infrastructure assets include transportation assets (such as toll roads, bridges, railroads, airports, and seaports), utility assets (such as electric transmission and distribution lines, gas distribution pipelines, water pipelines and treatment facilities, and sewer facilities), energy assets (such as oil and gas pipelines, storage facilities, and other facilities used for gathering, processing, or transporting hydrocarbon products as well as contracted renewable power assets), and communications assets (such as communications towers, data centers, fiber networks, and satellites). Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests primarily in common stock, but may also invest in other equity securities including preferred stocks, convertible securities, rights or warrants to buy common stocks, and depositary receipts with characteristics similar to common stock.
The Portfolio may also invest up to 25% of its net assets in master limited partnerships. The Portfolio may invest in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds. Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio will invest a significant amount of its net assets (at least 40%, unless the Subadvisor deems market conditions to be unfavorable, in which case the Portfolio will invest at least 30%) in foreign securities. An issuer of a security is considered to be a U.S. or foreign issuer based on the issuers country of risk (or similar designation) as determined by a third party such as Bloomberg. The Portfolio will normally invest in companies located in at least three countries outside of the United States. The Portfolio may invest up to 30% of its assets in securities of issuers in emerging markets.
The Subadvisor defines emerging market countries as those countries that are included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The Portfolios investments may be denominated in U.S. dollars, non-U.S. currencies, or multinational currency units. The Portfolio may hedge its currency exposure to securities denominated in non-U.S. currencies. The Portfolio may invest in securities of companies of any market size. Investment Process: The Subadvisor uses a multi-step investment process for constructing the Portfolios investment portfolio that combines top-down geographic region and infrastructure sector allocation with bottom-up individual stock selection. The Subadvisor first selects infrastructure sectors in certain geographic regions in which to invest, and determines the degree of representation in the portfolio of such sectors and regions, through a systematic evaluation of the regulatory environment and economic outlook, capital market trends, macroeconomic conditions, and the relative value of infrastructure sectors.
The Subadvisor then uses an in-house valuation process to identify infrastructure companies whose risk-adjusted returns it believes are compelling relative to their peers. The Subadvisors in-house valuation process examines several factors, including the companys management and strategy, the stability and growth potential of cash flows and dividends, the location of the companys assets, the regulatory environment in which the company operates; sustainability considerations (such as environmental, social and governance factors); and the companys capital structure. The Subadvisor includes sustainability considerations as one of the factors in its analysis to assess a companys exposure to, and ability to manage, sustainability related risk. Sustainability factors are assessed based on internal research and information from an independent global provider of environmental, social and corporate governance research.
The Subadvisors approach and implementation of all factors including sustainability is applied consistently across all investments and industries and does not change based on the size of the company or potential position size. As sustainability considerations are one of several factors in the Subadvisor's analysis, the Subadvisor generally will not forgo potential investments strictly based on evaluation of sustainability factors. The Subadvisor may sell securities for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into opportunities believed to be more promising, among others.
C000154686 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 5.01% |
| Canadian National Railway Co. | 4.84% |
| Xcel Energy, Inc. | 4.50% |
| Ferrovial NV | 4.37% |
| Enbridge, Inc. | 4.26% |
| SSE plc | 4.16% |
| Atmos Energy Corp. | 4.07% |
| PPL Corp. | 4.04% |
| American Tower Corp. | 3.82% |
| Vinci SA | 3.74% |
C000154686 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.5% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.3% |
C000154686 Performance
Total returns for C000154686 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 9.4% |
| 1 year | 14.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 11.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 7.0% |
C000154686 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000154686, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.7%
C000154686 Costs and Fees
C000154686 costs about $120 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.20%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.34%
- Portfolio turnover: 73%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.26 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000154686 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio had net inflows of $8.33M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $584.81K |
| 2026-05 | $101.97K |
| 2026-04 | $1.82M |
| 2026-03 | $964.10K |
| 2026-02 | $889.37K |
| 2026-01 | −$85.65K |
C000154686 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000154686 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MainStay VP Cushing Renaissance Advantage Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-19
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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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.