Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000169897 — Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $93.67M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000169897 Fund Overview
Guardian Growth & Income 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: $93.67M
- 1-year return: 20.2%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000054045
- Share class ID: C000169897
C000169897 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Growth & 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 long-term growth of capital.
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of U.S. companies that AllianceBernstein L.P., the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), believes are undervalued, focusing on dividend-paying securities. Although the Fund invests primarily in large capitalization companies, the Fund may invest in companies with different market capitalizations (i.e., mid capitalization). 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 may also invest in foreign securities. The Subadviser believes that, over time, a company's stock price will come to reflect its intrinsic economic value.
The Subadviser depends heavily upon the fundamental analysis and research of its internal research staff in making investment decisions for the Fund. The research staff follows a primary research universe of approximately 500 primarily U.S. companies. In determining a company's intrinsic economic value, the Subadviser takes into account many fundamental and financial factors that it believes bear on the company's ability to perform in the future, including earnings growth, prospective cash flows, dividend growth and growth in book value. The Subadviser then ranks each of the companies in its research universe in the relative order of disparity between their intrinsic economic values and their current stock prices, with companies with the greatest disparities receiving the highest rankings (i.e., being considered the most undervalued).
The Subadviser anticipates that the Fund's portfolio normally will include companies ranking in the top three deciles of the Subadviser's valuation model. The Subadviser recognizes that the perception of what is a ""value"" stock is relative and the factors considered in determining whether a stock is a ""value"" stock may, and often will, have differing relative significance in different phases of an economic cycle. Also, at different times, and as a result of how individual companies are valued in the market, the Fund may be attracted to investments in companies engaged in particular types of business (e.g., banks and other financial institutions), although the Fund does not intend to concentrate in any particular industries or businesses. The Fund's emphasis upon particular industries or sectors will be a by-product of the stock selection process rather than the result of assigned targets or ranges.
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."
C000169897 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 4.08% |
| RTX Corp | 3.86% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3.55% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.49% |
| Philip Morris International Inc | 3.31% |
| Alphabet Inc | 3.12% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 3.01% |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | 2.65% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 2.32% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 2.07% |
C000169897 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.2% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.7% |
C000169897 Performance
Total returns for C000169897 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 13.6% |
| 1 year | 20.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 14.5% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 9.4% |
C000169897 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000169897, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.9%
C000169897 Costs and Fees
C000169897 costs about $103 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.03%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.14%
- Portfolio turnover: 59%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.59 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000169897 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund had net outflows of $25.64M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.72M |
| 2026-05 | −$2.03M |
| 2026-04 | −$2.30M |
| 2026-03 | −$2.16M |
| 2026-02 | −$5.53M |
| 2026-01 | −$1.39M |
C000169897 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Guardian Growth & Income VIP Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000169897 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Growth & 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 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.