Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund

C000200221 Fund Overview

Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products Trust, categorised as Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign 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: Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond
• Assets under management: $128.06M
• 1-year return: 2.8%
• SEC CIK: 0001668512
• SEC series ID: S000061843
• Share class ID: C000200221

C000200221 Investment Objective and Strategy

Guardian U.S. Government/Credit 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 total return with an emphasis on current income as well as capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

"Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes in U.S. government securities and corporate credit investments. The Fund typically invests at least 50% of its net assets in U.S. government securities. The U.S. government securities in which the Fund invests include U.S. Treasury securities or other securities issued, guaranteed or otherwise backed by the U.S. government, its agencies, instrumentalities or government-sponsored enterprises, including bonds, notes, mortgage-backed securities and other fixed-income or debt instruments. These investments may also include securities issued by U.S. government agencies that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. In addition to mortgage-backed securities, the Fund may invest in other types of asset-backed securities, including commercial mortgage-backed securities (""CMBS""), collateralized mortgage obligations (""CMOs"") and collateralized loan obligations (""CLOs"").

The CLOs in which the Fund invests generally will be investment grade. The Fund may also invest in U.S. and foreign corporate debt securities, inflation-linked securities (e.g., Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities or ""TIPS"") and U.S. municipal securities. The corporate credit investments in which the Fund invests typically will be investment grade. Under certain market conditions, the Fund may use futures contracts, options, swaps, and forward contracts to seek to (i) hedge various investments, (ii) manage or adjust duration and yield curve positioning, (iii) manage risk, (iv) enhance potential returns, or (v) as substitutes for permitted Fund investments. Duration is a measure of a bond price's sensitivity to changes in interest rates. Yield curve positioning represents the relationship between the interest rates of bonds having the same credit quality but different maturity dates.

Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC (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 as a whole expects to maintain an average duration of plus or minus one year of the duration of the U.S. government securities market, as measured by the Bloomberg US Intermediate Government/Credit Index (which was approximately 3.74 years as of March 31, 2026). The Subadviser applies an active top-down and bottom-up analysis to construct the Fund's investment portfolio. The Subadviser uses a blend of fundamental research and quantitative tools to evaluate global economic conditions, opportunities, and risks across different segments of the fixed income market. The Subadviser selects specific investments for the Fund by considering a wide variety of factors, including yield, potential for appreciation in value, the credit quality of the issuer or collateral, maturity, and the degree of perceived risk associated with a specific investment relative to the potential for favorable investment returns and to other investments.

The Subadviser may actively rotate the Fund's exposure to various fixed income asset classes based on its assessment of relative value. The Fund's foreign investments may include debt securities issued by companies domiciled in emerging markets countries and companies whose principal business activities are located in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries are countries whose financial and capital markets are in the development phase and include countries located in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and developing countries of Europe, primarily Eastern Europe. The Fund may sell a security when the Fund believes the security is less likely to benefit from the current market and economic environment, or shows signs of deteriorating fundamentals, among other reasons.

The Fund may deviate from the investment strategy described above for temporary defensive purposes. The Fund may miss certain investment opportunities if defensive strategies are used and thus may not achieve its investment objective."

C000200221 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000200221 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000200221 Performance

Total returns for C000200221 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000200221 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000200221, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 2.3%

C000200221 Costs and Fees

C000200221 costs about $73 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.73%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.89%
• Portfolio turnover: 157%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.18 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000200221 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund had net outflows of $17.54M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000200221 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Guardian U.S. Government/Credit VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000200221 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Guardian U.S. Government/Credit 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

Related Funds

Other Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund (VBIIX)
• Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund (VSIGX)
• iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT)
• iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI)
• Fidelity SAI Inflation-Protected Bond Index Fund (FSPWX)

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.