Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000169898 — Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund. United States Mid Cap Growth Industrials Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000169898 Fund Overview
Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products Trust, categorised as United States Mid Cap Growth Industrials 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 Mid Cap Growth Industrials Equity
- Assets under management: $39.49M
- 1-year return: 14.3%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000054046
- Share class ID: C000169898
C000169898 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth 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, 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 mid-capitalization companies. Janus Henderson Investors US LLC, the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), defines mid-capitalization companies as companies with market capitalizations similar to companies in the Russell Midcap Growth Index (the ""Index"") at the time of purchase. Although expected to change frequently, the market capitalization range of the Index was approximately $122 million to $95 billion as of March 31, 2026. The Fund may also invest in foreign securities. The Fund invests primarily in common stocks selected for their growth potential.
The Subadviser applies a ""bottom-up"" approach in choosing investments. In other words, the Subadviser looks at companies one at a time to determine if a company is an attractive investment opportunity and if it is consistent with the Fund's investment objective and strategies. 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."
C000169898 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Flex Ltd | 5.36% |
| Ferguson Enterprises Inc | 3.45% |
| ON Semiconductor Corp | 3.21% |
| JB Hunt Transport Services Inc | 2.89% |
| Revvity Inc | 2.85% |
| Teledyne Technologies Inc | 2.70% |
| LPL Financial Holdings Inc | 2.68% |
| DoorDash Inc | 2.60% |
| Aramark | 2.50% |
| API Group Corp | 2.45% |
C000169898 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.8% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.4% |
C000169898 Performance
Total returns for C000169898 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 9.3% |
| 1 year | 14.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 6.9% |
C000169898 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000169898, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.0%
C000169898 Costs and Fees
C000169898 costs about $107 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.07%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.39%
- Portfolio turnover: 21%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.81 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000169898 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund had net outflows of $11.99M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.25M |
| 2026-05 | −$841.44K |
| 2026-04 | −$722.00K |
| 2026-03 | −$628.85K |
| 2026-02 | −$709.67K |
| 2026-01 | −$891.84K |
C000169898 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth VIP Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000169898 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Mid Cap Traditional Growth 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.