Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000169892 — Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund. Long Total / Aggregate Bond · $129.51M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000169892 Fund Overview
Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products Trust, categorised as Long Total / Aggregate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Guardian Variable Products Trust
- Category: Long Total / Aggregate Bond
- Assets under management: $129.51M
- 1-year return: 3.8%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000054040
- Share class ID: C000169892
C000169892 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Guardian Variable Products Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks income and capital appreciation to produce a high total return.
Principal investment strategy
"Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes (measured at the time of investment) in fixed income investments. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in high-yield fixed income investments (commonly referred to as ""high yield"" or ""junk"" bonds). The Fund currently intends to limit such investments to those, at the time of purchase, rated B-/B3 or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Inc., S&P Global Ratings or Fitch, Inc. (or comparably rated by another rating agency), or, if unrated, determined by Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC, the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), to be of comparable quality. The Fund also may invest in fixed income investments issued by non-U.S. entities but denominated in U.S.
dollars, and fixed income investment issued by non-U.S. entities and denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The Fund generally invests in the following types of fixed income investments: securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities; corporate debt securities; mortgage-backed, mortgage-related, and other asset-backed securities; inflation-linked investments (e.g., Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities or ""TIPS""); and senior loans, including bridge loans, novations, assignments, and participations. The Fund may invest in derivatives, including futures, forwards, options, and swaps, for hedging and non-hedging purposes. The Fund may also invest in derivatives to seek to manage portfolio duration, as a substitute for holding, or to adjust exposure to, the underlying asset on which the derivative is based, or for cash management or portfolio management purposes.
For example, the Fund may invest in or sell short U.S. Treasury futures, securities index futures (such as the Markit CMBX Index, a synthetic tradable index referencing a basket of commercial mortgage-backed securities), other futures, and/or currency forwards to adjust the Fund's related exposures or for other portfolio management reasons. The Subadviser seeks to manage the Fund's interest rate risk through the Subadviser's management of the average duration of the investments the Fund holds in its portfolio. The Fund expects to maintain an average duration plus or minus two years of the bond market's duration, as measured by the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index (which was approximately 5.86 years as of March 31, 2026). The Subadviser buys and sells fixed income investments for the Fund using a relative value-oriented investment process, meaning the Subadviser generally seeks more investment exposure to fixed income investments that the Subadviser believes to be undervalued and less investment exposure to fixed income investments that the Subadviser believes to be overvalued.
The Subadviser combines top-down and bottom-up analysis to construct its portfolio, using a blend of quantitative and fundamental research. As part of its top-down analysis, the Subadviser evaluates global economic conditions, including monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy, as well as the political and geopolitical environment, in order to identify and assess opportunities and risks across different segments of the fixed income market. The Subadviser employs bottom-up analysis to identify and select securities for investment by the Fund based on in-depth company, industry, and market research and analysis. The Subadviser may actively rotate the Fund's sector exposure based on its assessment of relative value. The Fund may sell a fixed income investment when the Subadviser believes the fixed income investment is less likely to benefit from the current market and economic environment, or shows signs of deteriorating fundamentals, among other reasons."
C000169892 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 2.93% |
| Umbs, Tba | 2.67% |
| United States Treasury | 2.64% |
| United States Treasury | 2.41% |
| United States Treasury | 2.09% |
| United States Treasury | 1.70% |
| United States Treasury | 1.65% |
| United States Treasury | 1.62% |
| Fixed Income Clearing Corp. | 1.55% |
| United States Treasury | 1.48% |
C000169892 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 58.1% |
| Securitized | 54.0% |
| Loans | 1.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.5% |
C000169892 Performance
Total returns for C000169892 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 0.5% |
| 1 year | 3.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 4.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 0.0% |
C000169892 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000169892, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.2%
C000169892 Costs and Fees
C000169892 costs about $83 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.83%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.95%
- Portfolio turnover: 116%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000169892 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund had net outflows of $26.44M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$3.26M |
| 2026-05 | −$1.04M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.74M |
| 2026-03 | −$2.95M |
| 2026-02 | $2.06M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.45M |
C000169892 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 2.93% |
| United States Treasury | 2.64% |
| United States Treasury | 2.41% |
| United States Treasury | 2.09% |
| United States Treasury | 1.70% |
| United States Treasury | 1.65% |
| United States Treasury | 1.62% |
| United States Treasury | 1.48% |
| United States Treasury | 1.31% |
| United States Treasury | 0.70% |
C000169892 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Core Plus Fixed Income VIP 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 2024-04-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-14
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-18
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-06
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-06
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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.