Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000154895 — Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP. United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000154895 Fund Overview
Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP is a US mutual fund managed by Transamerica Series Trust, categorised as United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Transamerica Series Trust
- Category: United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $772.96M
- 1-year return: 13.4%
- SEC CIK: 0000778207
- SEC series ID: S000049122
- Share class ID: C000154895
C000154895 Investment Objective and Strategy
Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Transamerica Series Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks to provide total return (including income and capital gains) consistent with preservation of capital over the long term while seeking to manage volatility and provide downside protection.
Principal investment strategy
The portfolio is a fund of funds. The portfolios sub-adviser, Milliman Financial Risk Management LLC (the sub-adviser), seeks to achieve the portfolios objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the portfolios net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in the American Funds Insurance Series Asset Allocation Fund SM (the Underlying Portfolio). The portfolio employs a risk management strategy in an effort to manage return volatility. The investment objective of the Underlying Portfolio is to seek to provide investors with high total return (including income and capital gains) consistent with the preservation of capital over the long term. In seeking to pursue its investment objective, the Underlying Portfolio varies its mix of equity securities, debt securities and money market instruments.
Under normal market conditions, the Underlying Portfolios investment adviser, Capital Research and Management Company SM , expects (but is not required) to maintain an investment mix falling within the following ranges: 40%-80% in equity securities, 20%-50% in debt securities and 0%-40% in money market instruments. As of December 31, 2025, the Underlying Portfolio was approximately 65.3% invested in equity securities, 30.9% invested in debt securities and 3.8% invested in cash and cash equivalent securities. The proportion of equities, debt and money market securities held by the Underlying Portfolio varies with market conditions and its investment advisers assessment of their relative attractiveness as investment opportunities. The primary benchmark of the Underlying Portfolio is the S&P 500 Index.
The Underlying Portfolio invests in a diversified portfolio of common stocks and other equity securities, bonds and other intermediate and long-term debt securities, and money market instruments (debt securities maturing in one year or less). Although the Underlying Portfolio focuses on investments in medium to larger capitalization companies, the Underlying Portfolios investments are not limited to a particular capitalization size. The Underlying Portfolio may invest up to 15% of its assets in common stocks and other equity securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States and up to 5% of its assets in debt securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States. In addition, the Underlying Portfolio may invest up to 25% of its debt assets in lower quality debt securities (rated Ba1 or below and BB+ or below by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the Underlying Portfolios investment adviser or unrated but determined to be of equivalent quality by the Underlying Portfolios investment adviser).
Such securities are sometimes referred to as junk bonds. The Underlying Portfolios investment adviser uses a system of multiple portfolio managers in managing the Underlying Portfolios assets. Under this approach, the portfolio of the Underlying Portfolio is divided into segments managed by individual managers who decide how their respective segments will be invested. The Underlying Portfolio relies on the professional judgment of its investment adviser to make decisions about the Underlying Portfolios portfolio investments. The basic investment philosophy of the Underlying Portfolios investment adviser is to seek to invest in attractively priced securities that, in its opinion, represent good, long-term investment opportunities. The Underlying Portfolios investment adviser believes that an important way to accomplish this is through fundamental analysis, which may include meeting with company executives and employees, suppliers, customers and competitors.
Securities may be sold when the Underlying Portfolios investment adviser believes that they no longer represent relatively attractive investment opportunities. The portfolio seeks to manage return volatility by employing a managed risk strategy. The portfolios managed risk strategy seeks to stabilize the volatility of the portfolio around a target volatility level. Managing to the portfolios volatility target is expected to, on average over time, result in approximately 60% equity related exposure and approximately 40% fixed income exposure. Managing to the target volatility level may, at times, result in the portfolios exposures varying significantly from this asset mix goal. The sub-adviser may use derivative instruments to accomplish this goal, which may include: equity futures contracts, treasury futures contracts, currency futures contracts, and other derivative instruments judged by the sub-adviser to be necessary to achieve the goals of the managed risk strategy.
The sub-adviser may also buy or sell derivative instruments based on one or more market indices in an attempt to maintain the portfolios volatility at the targeted level in an environment in which the sub-adviser expects market volatility to decrease or increase, respectively. The sub-adviser selects individual derivative instruments that it believes will have prices that are highly correlated to the Underlying Portfolios positions. The sub-adviser adjusts derivative instruments to manage overall net portfolio risk exposure, in an attempt to stabilize the volatility of the portfolio around a predetermined target level and reduce the potential for portfolio losses during periods of significant market declines. The sub-adviser seeks to monitor and forecast volatility in the markets using a proprietary model, and adjust the portfolios derivative instruments accordingly.
In addition, the sub-adviser will monitor liquidity levels of relevant derivative instruments and transparency provided by exchanges or the counterparties in derivatives transactions. The sub-adviser adjusts derivatives positions to manage overall net portfolio risk exposure. The sub-adviser may, during periods of rising security prices, implement strategies in an attempt to preserve gains on the portfolios positions. The sub-adviser may, during periods of falling security prices, implement additional strategies in an effort to reduce losses in adverse market conditions. In these situations, the sub-advisers activity could significantly reduce the portfolios net economic exposure to equity securities. Following market declines, a downside rebalancing strategy may be used to decrease the amount of derivative instruments used to hedge the portfolio.
The sub-adviser also adjusts derivative instruments to realign individual positions when the portfolio's asset allocation profile is rebalanced. The target volatility level will be set from time to time by the investment adviser and sub-adviser and may be adjusted if deemed advisable in the judgment of the investment adviser and sub-adviser. Depending on market conditions, scenarios may occur where the portfolio has no positions in any derivative instruments. The portfolio is non-diversified.
C000154895 Holdings
Top 1 holdings of Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| American Funds Insurance Series - Asset Allocation Fund | 96.35% |
C000154895 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.4% |
C000154895 Performance
Total returns for C000154895 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 6.3% |
| 1 year | 13.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.7% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 6.6% |
C000154895 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000154895, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.5%
C000154895 Costs and Fees
C000154895 costs about $110 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.10%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.10%
- Portfolio turnover: 4%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.04 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000154895 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP had net outflows of $103.61M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$17.34M |
| 2026-05 | −$10.60M |
| 2026-04 | −$15.75M |
| 2026-03 | −$14.58M |
| 2026-02 | −$13.02M |
| 2026-01 | −$10.87M |
C000154895 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000154895 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Transamerica American Funds Managed Risk VP filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-13
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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.