Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund
Data updated: 2024-08-14
C000175117 — Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund. United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000175117 Fund Overview
Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Voya EQUITY TRUST, categorised as United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Voya EQUITY TRUST
- Category: United States Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $27.18M
- 1-year return: 19.7%
- SEC CIK: 0001063946
- SEC series ID: S000055625
- Share class ID: C000175117
C000175117 Investment Objective and Strategy
Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Voya EQUITY TRUST.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to maximize total return.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund invests primarily in equity securities of issuers included in the Russell 1000 Index (Index). The sub-adviser (Sub-Adviser) seeks to maximize total return to the extent consistent with maintaining lower volatility than the Index. Volatility generally measures how much a funds returns have varied over a specified time frame. The Fund may invest in derivative instruments including, but not limited to, index futures. The Fund typically uses derivatives as a substitute for purchasing securities included in the Index or for the purpose of maintaining equity market exposure on its cash balance. The Fund may also invest in real estate-related securities, including real estate investment trusts. The Fund may invest in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules, regulations, and exemptive orders thereunder (1940 Act).
The Sub-Adviser uses an internally developed quantitative computer model to create a target universe of securities with above average dividend yields compared to the Index, which the Sub-Adviser believes exhibit stable and growing dividend yields within each industry sector. The model also seeks to exclude from the target universe securities issued by companies that the Sub-Adviser believes exhibit characteristics that indicate they are at risk of reducing or eliminating the dividends paid on their securities. Once the Sub-Adviser creates this target universe, the Sub-Adviser seeks to identify the most attractive securities within each sector by ranking each security relative to other securities within its sector using proprietary fundamental sector-specific models. The Sub-Adviser then uses optimization techniques to seek to achieve the portfolios target dividend yield, manage target beta, determine active weights, and neutralize sector exposures in order to create a portfolio that the Sub-Adviser believes will provide the potential for maximum total return consistent with maintaining lower volatility than the Index.
Under certain market conditions, the Fund will likely earn a lower level of total return than it would in the absence of its strategy of maintaining a relatively low level of volatility. The Sub-Adviser will rebalance the portfolio on a quarterly basis in accordance with its target parameters. The rebalancing techniques may result in higher portfolio turnover compared to a buy and hold strategy. The Fund may lend portfolio securities on a short-term or long-term basis, up to 33 1 /3% of its total assets.
C000175117 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.14% |
| Merck & Co Inc | 1.80% |
| iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF | 1.74% |
| Verizon Communications Inc | 1.45% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 1.38% |
| Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.34% |
| Philip Morris International In | 1.30% |
| Comcast Corp | 1.26% |
| AT&T Inc | 1.19% |
| Cigna Group/The | 0.99% |
C000175117 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.3% |
C000175117 Performance
Total returns for C000175117 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 19.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 6.4% |
C000175117 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000175117, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 11.6%
C000175117 Costs and Fees
C000175117 costs about $35 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.35%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.40%
- Portfolio turnover: 76%
- Brokerage commissions: 11.96 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000175117 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-05, Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund had net outflows of $29.67M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-05 | −$235.26K |
| 2024-04 | −$26.00M |
| 2024-03 | −$38.77M |
| 2024-02 | $3.05M |
| 2024-01 | $4.42M |
| 2023-12 | $5.85M |
C000175117 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000175117 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Voya U.s. High Dividend Low Volatility Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-09-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-09-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-09-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-07-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-04-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-01-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-08-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-08-14
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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.