First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-21
C000218786 — First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $201.54M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000218786 Fund Overview
First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by First Trust Variable Insurance 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: First Trust Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $201.54M
- 1-year return: 3.8%
- SEC CIK: 0001537395
- SEC series ID: S000068384
- Share class ID: C000218786
C000218786 Investment Objective and Strategy
First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by First Trust Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
"The First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio (the "" Fund"") seeks to provide capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the securities that comprise The Capital Strength TM Index (the Index ). The Index is developed, maintained and sponsored by Nasdaq, Inc. (the Index Provider ). According to the Index Provider, the Index seeks to provide exposure to well-capitalized companies with strong market positions. The companies are screened for strong balance sheets, a high degree of liquidity, the ability to generate earnings growth and a record of financial strength and profit growth. The Indexs initial universe consists of the securities comprising the Nasdaq US Benchmark TM Index, a float adjusted market capitalization-weighted index designed to track the performance of securities assigned to the U.S.
The Index then excludes all securities that do not meet the size and liquidity requirements of the Index and multiple share classes of the same issuer. Securities from the same issuer will be subject to conditions controlled by the Index Provider to determine Index eligibility. In order to be eligible for inclusion in the Index, a security must also be a common stock or real estate investment trust ( ""REIT"" ), have at least $1 billion in cash or short-term investments, after removing restricted cash, have a long-term debt to market capitalization ratio less than 30%, have a positive shareholder equity and have a return on equity greater than15%. The eligible securities are then ranked based upon a combination of their three-month annualized and twelve-month realized volatility (with ranks of 1 representing the lowest values).
? Securities ranked outside the lowest 15 within each Industry, as determined by the Industry Classification Benchmark ( ""ICB"" ), are excluded. The 50 securities with the lowest combined ranks are chosen for inclusion in the Index. In the case of ties in combined ranks, the security with the highest free float market capitalization is chosen for inclusion in the Index. Each security is equal weighted in the Index. The Fund may invest in securities of any market capitalization. The Index is rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly and the Fund will make corresponding changes to its portfolio shortly after the Index changes are made public. The Indexs quarterly rebalance and reconstitution schedule may cause the Fund to experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover. The Fund will be concentrated in an industry or a group of industries to the extent that the Index is so concentrated.
As of March 2, 2026, the Index was composed of 50 securities and the Fund had significant investments in financial companies and industrial companies, although this may change from time to time. The Funds investments will change as the Index changes and, as a result, the Fund may have significant investments in jurisdictions or investment sectors that it may not have had as of March 2, 2026. To the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in a given investment sector, the Fund may be exposed to the risks associated with that jurisdiction or investment sector."
C000218786 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.67% |
| Monster Beverage Corp. | 2.46% |
| T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. | 2.30% |
| Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds | 2.28% |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 2.19% |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 2.18% |
| Agilent Technologies, Inc. | 2.14% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.13% |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 2.13% |
| Visa, Inc. | 2.12% |
C000218786 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.3% |
C000218786 Performance
Total returns for C000218786 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.8% |
| 1 year | 3.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 8.3% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 5.0% |
C000218786 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000218786, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.5%
C000218786 Costs and Fees
C000218786 costs about $110 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.10%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.10%
- Portfolio turnover: 116%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.60 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000218786 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio had net inflows of $28.44M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $9.93M |
| 2026-05 | $794.15K |
| 2026-04 | $1.16M |
| 2026-03 | $1.57M |
| 2026-02 | $222.88K |
| 2026-01 | $1.02M |
C000218786 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000218786 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official First Trust Capital Strength Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- 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.