Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000169896 — Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $72.96M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000169896 Fund Overview
Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. 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: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $72.96M
- 1-year return: 30.1%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000054044
- Share class ID: C000169896
C000169896 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value 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 to provide long-term growth of capital primarily through investment in equity securities.
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes (measured at the time of investment) in equity securities, or other investments with similar economic characteristics, of companies with large market capitalizations. Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc., the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), defines large capitalization companies as companies with market capitalizations similar to companies in the Russell 1000 Value Index (the ""Index"") at the time of purchase. Although expected to change frequently, the market capitalization range of the Index was approximately $907 million to $3.5 trillion as of March 31, 2026. The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity securities that are identified by the Subadviser as having value characteristics.
The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in foreign currency-denominated securities, measured at the time of investment. The Fund may participate as a purchaser in initial public offerings of securities (""IPOs""). The Subadviser examines various factors in determining the value characteristics of issuers, including price-to-book value ratios and price-to-earnings ratios. These value characteristics are examined in the context of the issuer's operating and financial fundamentals, such as return on equity and earnings growth and cash flow. The Subadviser selects securities for the Fund based on a continuous study of trends in industries and companies, earnings power and growth, and other investment criteria. The Subadviser typically may sell investments when it believes that they no longer offer attractive future returns compared with other investment opportunities or that they present undesirable risks or in an attempt to limit losses on investments that may decline or have declined in value."
C000169896 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Amazon.com Inc | 4.87% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.96% |
| Applied Materials Inc | 3.59% |
| Micron Technology Inc | 2.66% |
| Fixed Income Clearing Corp. | 2.55% |
| Dell Technologies Inc | 2.38% |
| Philip Morris International Inc | 2.17% |
| US Foods Holding Corp | 2.09% |
| Flex Ltd | 2.08% |
| ConocoPhillips | 2.01% |
C000169896 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.5% |
C000169896 Performance
Total returns for C000169896 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 18.2% |
| 1 year | 30.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 20.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 13.1% |
C000169896 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000169896, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 11.6%
C000169896 Costs and Fees
C000169896 costs about $98 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.98%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.11%
- Portfolio turnover: 48%
- Brokerage commissions: 3.09 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000169896 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund had net outflows of $32.11M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$2.37M |
| 2026-05 | −$2.06M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.39M |
| 2026-03 | −$1.22M |
| 2026-02 | −$5.89M |
| 2026-01 | −$1.76M |
C000169896 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value VIP Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000169896 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Large Cap Disciplined Value 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 supplement (497) — filed 2026-05-01
- 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.