Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund
Data updated: 2024-01-26
C000156848 — Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund. Target Date / Glide Path Allocation · $63.09M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000156848 Fund Overview
Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Allspring Funds Trust, categorised as Target Date / Glide Path Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Allspring Funds Trust
- Category: Target Date / Glide Path Allocation
- Assets under management: $63.09M
- 1-year return: 3.3%
- SEC CIK: 0001081400
- SEC series ID: S000049601
- Share class ID: C000156848
C000156848 Investment Objective and Strategy
Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Allspring Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks total return over time, consistent with its strategic target allocation.
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund is a fund of funds that invests in various master portfolios (""Underlying Funds""), which in turn, invest in a combination of securities to get exposure to the following asset classes: equity and fixed income (including money market securities). The Fund's investment strategy is to diversify the Fund's investments among these asset classes. The equity Underlying Funds are each intended to provide exposure to a specific market segment. Those segments include U.S. large- and small-capitalization companies, international (non-U.S.) developed and emerging markets, and real estate. The large- and small-cap companies, international developed markets and emerging markets allocations are designed to track (replicate the performance of) indexes created with a proprietary methodology. This methodology is designed to provide exposure to specific factors (or characteristics) that are commonly tied to a stock's potential for enhanced risk-adjusted returns relative to the market.
Those factors include, but are not limited to value, quality, momentum, small size, and low volatility. The process to construct each index begins with a reference index universe and systematically excludes constituents based on their expected contribution to projected risk and return of that overall universe. Each constituent's expected contribution to the overall risk and return of the universe is a function of that constituent's factor exposures and the volatility of each factor. The U.S. large-company and small-cap company indexes are expected to rebalance semi-annually, while the international developed and emerging market indexes are expected to rebalance on a quarterly basis. The large-cap company allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Large Cap Index.
The small-cap company allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Small Cap Index. The developed international allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced International Index. The emerging markets allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Emerging Market Index. The real estate allocation invests in real estate investment trusts (REITs) and is managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo US REIT Index, a traditional market-capitalization weighted index designed to provide diversified exposure to real estate. The Wells Fargo US REIT Index rebalances quarterly. The fixed income Underlying Funds provide diversified exposure across a wide range of market sectors, including U.S.
Government obligations (including Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS), investment grade corporate bonds, below investment grade bonds (commonly known as ""high yield bonds"" or ""junk bonds""), other U.S. bond sectors (including mortgage- and asset-backed securities), and emerging markets foreign issues. The inflation-protected Treasury and intermediate-term government allocations will be managed to replicate the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury Inflation-Linked1-10 Year Bond Index and the Bloomberg Barclays US Government Intermediate Bond Index, respectively, each a traditional market-capitalization weighted index designed to provide diversified exposure to their respective allocation. Each index rebalances monthly. The investment grade corporate bond and below investment grade corporate bond allocations will be managed to replicate the performance of indexes created with a proprietary index methodology.
The methodology is designed to provide broadly diversified fixed income exposure and is constructed to enhance issuer diversification and liquidity versus other standard traditional passive bond indexes. Specifically, the indexes first reweight the reference index universe of securities to limit concentration in the largest issuers and remove lower liquidity securities. They then reweight across size groupings to better align the yield and duration characteristics of the index with the original reference index, while at the same time maintaining the greater diversification and increased liquidity achieved through the prior step. The indexes rebalance monthly. The investment grade corporate bond allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index.
The below investment grade bond allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the Wells Fargo U.S. High Yield Bond Index. The U.S. aggregate bond ex-corporate allocation, which includes mortgage- and asset-backed securities, will be managed to replicate the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate ex- Corporate Index, a traditional market-capitalization weighted index designed to provide diversified exposure to the allocation. The index rebalances monthly. The emerging markets bond allocation will be managed to replicate the performance of the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index, an index that deviates from a traditional market capitalization weighting to provide more robust diversification across its constituent countries; the index rebalances monthly. The ""Today"" designation in the Fund's name is meant to indicate that the Fund is primarily designed for investors either in retirement and/or currently withdrawing funds from their investments.
The Fund does not decrease its equity holdings in an attempt to become increasingly conservative over time, but rather maintains a strategic target allocation to equity and fixed income securities (including money market instruments) in the weights of 40% and 60%, respectively. The Fund will incorporate a derivatives overlay strategy that contains three specific risk management components: 1.) Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) Overlay, 2.) Volatility Management Overlay (VMO), and 3.) Put Replication Overlay (PRO). Together these strategies will allow the Fund to attempt to manage short-term volatility, mitigate risk and/or improve returns under certain market conditions. To execute this overlay strategy, the Fund invests in long and/or short positions in exchange-traded futures and/or currency forward contracts across a variety of asset classes, which include, but are not limited to, stocks, bonds, and currencies.
1. The Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) Overlay seeks to improve the Fund's risk return profile through the tactical use of futures and/or currency forward contracts. The TAA Overlay uses qualitative and quantitative inputs to guide equity and fixed income exposures in the Fund. The TAA Overlay may increase exposures to a given asset class under certain market conditions while decreasing exposure during others. 2. The Volatility Management Overlay (VMO) seeks to keep the Fund's short-term volatility in-line with its strategic long-term target. The VMO uses quantitative inputs and strives to decrease the portfolio's effective equity exposure when projected equity market volatility is higher than average, and increasing the portfolio's effective equity exposure when projected equity market volatility is lower than average.
The VMO may increase exposures to a given asset class under certain market conditions while decreasing exposure during others. 3. The Put Replication Overlay (PRO) is a quantitatively driven, structured hedging component designed to buffer the Fund against portfolio losses. Although executed using futures contracts, this component is designed substantially to replicate the payout structure of a theoretical protective put option on a given portfolio. The PRO will only seek to decrease market exposure under certain market conditions. At any point, as a result of the utilization of the futures overlay and changes otherwise implemented by the portfolio managers, there may be significant divergences between the effective asset allocation of the Fund and its strategic target allocation. At their discretion, the Fund's portfolio managers may make changes to the Fund's asset allocation.
Portfolio Asset Allocation The following table provides the Fund's target allocations to various underlying portfolios as of its most recent fiscal year end. Portfolio Target Allocation Equity Securities Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Large Cap Portfolio 19.07% Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced International Portfolio 9.88% Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Small Cap Portfolio 4.76% Wells Fargo U.S. REIT Portfolio 3.33% Wells Fargo Factor Enhanced Emerging Markets Portfolio 2.96% Fixed Income Securities Wells Fargo Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate ex-Corp Portfolio 29.57% Wells Fargo Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio 15.39% Wells Fargo Strategic Retirement Bond Portfolio (includes both TIPs & Intermediate Government Bond allocations) 10.00% Wells Fargo Emerging Markets Bond Portfolio 2.52% Wells Fargo High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio 2.52%"
C000156848 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Allspring Bloomberg US Aggregate ex-Corporate Portfolio | 28.61% |
| Allspring Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio | 15.06% |
| Allspring Factor Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Equity Portfolio | 14.63% |
| Allspring Factor Enhanced International Equity Portfolio | 9.90% |
| Allspring Strategic Retirement Bond Portfolio | 9.63% |
| Allspring Factor Enhanced U.S. Small Cap Equity Portfolio | 4.69% |
| Allspring Government Money Mar | 3.83% |
| Allspring U.S. REIT Portfolio | 3.33% |
| Allspring Factor Enhanced Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio | 2.92% |
| Allspring High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio | 2.48% |
C000156848 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 93.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.8% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
C000156848 Performance
Total returns for C000156848 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 3.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 1.5% |
C000156848 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000156848, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.5%
C000156848 Costs and Fees
C000156848 costs about $29 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.29%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.81%
- Portfolio turnover: 89%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.98 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000156848 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-11, Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund had net outflows of $5.59M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-11 | −$764.28K |
| 2023-10 | −$347.78K |
| 2023-09 | −$856.26K |
| 2023-08 | −$1.73M |
| 2023-07 | $2.69M |
| 2023-06 | −$301.21K |
C000156848 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000156848 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Allspring Dynamic Target Today Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-06-23
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-08-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-06-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-01-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-10-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-07-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-04-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-05-16
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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.