Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000219766 — Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund. Balanced Allocation · $201.67M AUM · 0.91% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000219766 Fund Overview
Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products Trust, categorised as Balanced Allocation. 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: Balanced Allocation
- Assets under management: $201.67M
- 1-year return: 13.6%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000068790
- Share class ID: C000219766
C000219766 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Balanced Allocation 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 to provide capital appreciation and moderate current income while seeking to manage volatility.
Principal investment strategy
"Wellington Management Company LLP, the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), seeks to achieve the Fund's objective by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity investments and investment grade fixed income and other debt investments. Under normal circumstances, the Subadviser anticipates that approximately 60-70% of the Fund's assets will be allocated to equity investments and 30-40% of the Fund's assets will be allocated to fixed income and other debt investments. The Fund's assets are allocated among these asset classes based on the Subadviser's assessment of the relative risks and returns of each asset class. The Fund's equity strategy seeks to provide long-term total returns by investing primarily in common stocks and other equity securities of U.S. large-capitalization companies and, to a lesser extent, U.S.
mid-capitalization companies and foreign companies. The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded funds (""ETFs""). The Subadviser will allocate the Fund's assets in the equity strategy across a variety of industries, selecting companies in each industry based on the research of the Sub-adviser's team of global industry analysts. The Fund will typically seek to maintain representation in each major industry represented by broad-based, large-capitalization U.S. equity indices. The Subadviser may invest up to 15% of the Fund's net assets allocated to the equity strategy in securities of foreign issuers and non-dollar denominated securities. In analyzing a prospective investment for the Fund's equity strategy, the Subadviser employs a ""bottom-up"" approach, using fundamental analysis to identify specific securities for purchase or sale.
Fundamental analysis of a company involves the Subadviser's assessment of a variety of factors, including the company's business environment, management quality, balance sheet, income statement, anticipated earnings, revenues and dividends, and other related measures or indicators of valuation and growth potential. The Fund's fixed income strategy seeks to provide long-term total returns by investing primarily in a broad range of high-quality U.S. fixed income securities (typically rated AA- or better by S&P Global (Ratings) (""S&P"") or Aa3 or better by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (""Moody's"") or its equivalent by any other nationally recognized statistical rating organization (""NRSRO"")). The Fund's fixed income investments primarily include U.S. government and agency securities, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities, taxable municipal bonds, and investment-grade U.S.
dollar-denominated corporate and sovereign debt securities. The Subadviser will not invest the Fund's assets in securities rated below investment grade at the time of purchase or securities denominated in foreign currencies. The Subadviser may invest in fixed income-related derivatives, including, but not limited to futures contracts, forward transactions, options and swap agreements. The Subadviser typically may sell investments when it believes that they no longer offer attractive future returns compared with other investment opportunities or that they present undesirable risks or in an attempt to limit losses on investments that may decline or have declined in value."
C000219766 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Corp | 6.07% |
| Alphabet Inc | 4.55% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 3.24% |
| Microsoft Corp | 2.45% |
| Broadcom Inc | 2.24% |
| Apple Inc | 2.22% |
| KLA Corp | 2.10% |
| Micron Technology Inc | 1.99% |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.94% |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 1.82% |
C000219766 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 66.8% |
| Fixed Income | 23.9% |
| Securitized | 9.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.7% |
C000219766 Performance
Total returns for C000219766 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 6.0% |
| 1 year | 13.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.4% |
C000219766 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000219766, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.1%
C000219766 Costs and Fees
C000219766 costs about $91 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.91%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.91%
- Portfolio turnover: 137%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.94 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000219766 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund had net outflows of $37.63M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.92M |
| 2026-05 | −$1.59M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.62M |
| 2026-03 | −$3.26M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.66M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.46M |
C000219766 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Guardian Balanced Allocation VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 0.87% |
| United States Treasury | 0.77% |
| United States Treasury | 0.73% |
| United States Treasury | 0.63% |
| United States Treasury | 0.50% |
| United States Treasury | 0.44% |
| United States Treasury | 0.43% |
| United States Treasury | 0.39% |
| United States Treasury | 0.39% |
| United States Treasury | 0.34% |
C000219766 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Balanced Allocation 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 supplement (497) — filed 2026-05-01
- 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
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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.