JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund
Data updated: 2026-05-28
C000210326 — JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $404.45M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000210326 Fund Overview
JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund is a US mutual fund managed by JNL Series Trust, categorised as United States Large 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: JNL Series Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $404.45M
- 1-year return: 9.8%
- SEC CIK: 0000933691
- SEC series ID: S000064958
- Share class ID: C000210326
C000210326 Investment Objective and Strategy
JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by JNL Series Trust.
Investment objective
The investment objective of the Fund is to seek total return. Total return consists of capital appreciation and income.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund pursues a defensive investment style, seeking to provide downside protection with upside potential through active stock selection, risk management, and diversification. The Fund pursues its objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in Equity Instruments of large-capitalization issuers. The Fund primarily invests in large-capitalization issuers located in the United States. Equity Instruments include common stock, preferred stock, warrants, exchange-traded funds that invest in equity securities, stock index futures, real estate investment trusts, and other derivative instruments where the reference asset is an equity security. As of the date of this prospectus, AQR Capital Management, LLC, the Funds sub-adviser (Sub-Adviser), generally considers large-cap issuers to be those issuers with market capitalizations within the range of the Morningstar US Target Market Exposure Index at the time of purchase.
As of December 31, 2024, the market capitalization of the companies comprising the Morningstar US Target Market Exposure Index? ranged from $2.0 billion to $3.8 trillion. The Fund can invest in companies of any size and may invest in small- and mid-cap companies from time to time in the discretion of the Sub-Adviser. The Fund pursues a defensive investment style, meaning it seeks to participate in rising equity markets while mitigating downside risk in declining markets. In other words, the Fund expects to lag the performance of traditional U.S. equity funds when equity markets are rising but to exceed the performance of traditional U.S. equity funds during equity market declines. To achieve this result, the Fund will be broadly diversified across companies and industries and will invest in companies such that the Sub-Adviser believes will result in a portfolio that exhibits low measures of risk and high quality ( e.g.
, holds stable companies in good business health). The Fund is actively managed, and the Sub-Adviser will vary the Funds exposures to issuers and industries based on the Sub-Advisers evaluation of investment opportunities. In constructing the portfolio, the Sub-Adviser uses quantitative models, which combine active management to identify quality companies and statistical measures of risk to assure diversification by issuer and industry, as well as additional criteria that form part of the Sub-Advisers security selection process. The Sub-Adviser uses volatility and correlation forecasting and other portfolio construction methodologies to manage the Fund. The Sub-Adviser utilizes quantitative risk models in furtherance of the Funds investment objective, which seek to control portfolio level risk.
Shifts in allocations among issuers and industries will be determined using the quantitative models based on the Sub-Advisers determinations of risk and quality, as well as other factors including, but not limited to, managing industry and sector exposures. The Fund invests significantly in common stocks. The Fund may also invest in or use financial futures contracts as well as exchange-traded funds and similar pooled investment vehicles for hedging purposes, to gain exposure to the equity market and to maintain liquidity to pay for redemptions. The Fund may invest in short-term instruments, including U.S. Government securities, bank certificates of deposit, money market instruments or funds, and such other liquid investments deemed appropriate by the Sub-Adviser. The Fund may invest in these securities without limit for temporary defensive purposes.
C000210326 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| JNL Government Money Market Fund | 4.52% |
| NVIDIA Corporation | 1.46% |
| Microsoft Corporation | 1.45% |
| CBOE Global Markets, Inc. | 1.44% |
| Accenture Public Limited Company | 1.44% |
| Chubb Limited | 1.43% |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 1.43% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1.43% |
| McDonald's Corporation | 1.43% |
| Costco Wholesale Corporation | 1.42% |
C000210326 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 95.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.5% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
C000210326 Performance
Total returns for C000210326 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.5% |
| 1 year | 9.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.0% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 9.9% |
C000210326 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000210326, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.4%
C000210326 Costs and Fees
C000210326 costs about $56 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.56%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.56%
- Portfolio turnover: 21%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.07 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000210326 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-03, JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund had net outflows of $37.55M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-03 | −$2.19M |
| 2026-02 | −$6.98M |
| 2026-01 | −$6.47M |
| 2025-12 | −$6.16M |
| 2025-11 | −$8.61M |
| 2025-10 | −$6.34M |
C000210326 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000210326 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official JNL/AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-24
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-11-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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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.