NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000203214 — NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund. Alternative · $107.68M AUM · 0.22% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000203214 Fund Overview
NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund is a US ETF managed by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as Alternative. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: Alternative
- Assets under management: $107.68M
- 1-year return: 3.8%
- SEC CIK: 0000353905
- SEC series ID: S000062668
- Share class ID: C000203214
C000203214 Investment Objective and Strategy
NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund (Fixed Income Fund or the Fund) seeks total return.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund is a fund-of-funds that aims to provide diversification across traditional fixed-income (debt) asset classesU.S. and foreign corporate bonds, U.S. government bonds, sovereign bonds issued by foreign governments, mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securitiesby investing in a portfolio of unaffiliated exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsored by BlackRock Fund Advisors (or its affiliates) (BFA) and which utilize a passive index-based strategy to track the performance of fixed-income indexes (each, an Underlying Fund or collectively, Underlying Funds). Some indexes are designed to provide broader market exposure, while other indexes are designed to provide exposure to specific market sectors. Each Underlying Fund invests directly in bonds and other debt securities, as appropriate to its investment objective and strategies.
The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in fixed-income securities through its investments in ETFs. For these purposes, fixed-income securities are bonds and other debt securities that represent an obligation to pay a specified rate of interest or dividend at specified times. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements to generate additional income. Securities in which the Underlying Funds invest may include those of any maturity or duration, and those that are either investment grade or below investment grade. Securities that are rated below investment grade often are known as junk bonds or high-yield bonds, and are considered to be speculative. Many foreign bonds are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. BFA uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve each Underlying Funds investment objective.
This means that the Underlying Fund does not try to beat the index it tracks (the Underlying Index) and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. BFA uses a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage each Underlying Fund, meaning that it invests in a representative sample of securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to that of the applicable Underlying Index. An Underlying Fund also may invest in securities not included in the Underlying Index which BFA believes may help such Underlying Fund to track its Underlying Index. BFA believes that indexing may eliminate the chance that an Underlying Fund will substantially underperform its Underlying Index, but also may reduce some of the risks of active management, such as poor security selection.
BFAs indexing approach seeks to achieve lower costs by keeping portfolio turnover low in comparison to actively managed mutual funds. In order to provide the Fund with diversified investment exposure to various types of fixed-income securities, the Funds subadviser, which is an affiliate of BFA, selects Underlying Funds that themselves invest in different types of fixed-income securities, such as bonds issued by the U.S. or foreign governments, bonds and other debt securities issued by U.S. or foreign corporations, mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. The Funds average portfolio duration, average credit quality and the proportion of U.S. versus foreign securities may vary based on the subadvisers forecast of interest rates, yield curve analysis and other market factors consistent with the Funds objective to seek total return.
The subadviser generally sells shares of Underlying Funds in order to meet or change Underlying Fund allocations or in response to shareholder redemptions. The Fund is designed for investors who are comfortable with assuming the risks associated with investing in bonds and other fixed-income securities. The Underlying Funds may lend their portfolio securities to generate additional income. The Underlying Funds also may, when consistent with their investment objectives, use certain futures, options and swap contracts (collectively, commonly known as derivatives), either for hedging purposes or to increase returns. Although the Fund seeks to provide diversification across traditional fixed-income asset classes, the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in a small number of issuers (i.e., one or more Underlying Funds).
However, many of the Underlying Funds in which the Fund invests are diversified. The Underlying Funds will concentrate their investments in a particular industry, group of industries or market sector to approximately the same extent that the applicable Underlying Index is concentrated.
C000203214 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 49.94% |
| iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF | 14.99% |
| iShares MBS ETF | 10.00% |
| iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF | 9.99% |
| iShares Core 10+ Year USD Bond ETF | 9.94% |
| iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF | 4.97% |
| Cf Secured LLC | 0.77% |
| Tfdxx Lex Blackrock Fed Fund | 0.37% |
| Ms Govt US Lex | 0.37% |
| Invesco Govt And Agcy Lex | 0.37% |
C000203214 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Other | 99.8% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.9% |
C000203214 Performance
Total returns for C000203214 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 0.7% |
| 1 year | 3.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 4.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | -0.0% |
C000203214 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000203214, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.0%
C000203214 Costs and Fees
C000203214 costs about $22 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.22%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.27%
- Portfolio turnover: 8%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.61 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000203214 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund had net inflows of $24.38M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $642.67K |
| 2026-05 | $692.92K |
| 2026-04 | $3.85M |
| 2026-03 | $1.87M |
| 2026-02 | $107.69K |
| 2026-01 | $1.95M |
C000203214 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000203214 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official NVIT iShares Fixed Income ETF Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-09
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-05
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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.