Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-14
C000219769 — Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000219769 Fund Overview
Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Guardian Variable Products 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: Guardian Variable Products Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $180.42M
- 1-year return: 6.4%
- SEC CIK: 0001668512
- SEC series ID: S000068793
- Share class ID: C000219769
C000219769 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core 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 capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
"AllianceBernstein L.P., the Fund's subadviser (the ""Subadviser""), seeks to achieve the Fund's objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes (measured at the time of investment) in common stocks, or other investments that the Subadviser believes have similar economic characteristics, of companies with large market capitalizations. The Subadviser defines large capitalization companies as companies with market capitalizations similar to companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (the ""Index"") at the time of purchase. Although expected to change frequently, the market capitalization range of the Index was approximately $6.64 billion to $4.24 trillion as of March 31, 2026. The Fund invests in companies that are determined by the Subadviser to offer favorable long-term sustainable profitability, price stability, and attractive valuations.
The Subadviser selects investments based on an integrated approach that combines both fundamental and quantitative research to identify attractive investment opportunities. Factors that the Subadviser considers include: a company's record and projections of profitability, accuracy and availability of information with respect to the company, success and experience of management, competitive advantage, low stock price volatility, and liquidity of the company's securities. The Subadviser compares these results to the characteristics of the general stock markets to determine the relative attractiveness of each company at a given time. The Subadviser weighs economic, political and market factors in making investment decisions. The Subadviser seeks to manage the Fund's portfolio so that it is subject to less share price volatility than many other U.S.
mutual funds, although there can be no guarantee that the Subadviser will be successful in this regard. The Subadviser expects that normally the Fund's portfolio will primarily invest in securities issued by U.S. companies, although it may, at times, also invest in foreign securities. The Fund may, at times, invest in shares of exchange-traded funds (""ETFs"") in lieu of making direct investments in securities or to seek to obtain desired exposures. The Fund may enter into derivatives transactions, such as options, futures contracts, forwards and swaps. The Fund may use options strategies involving the purchase and/or writing of combinations of call and/or put options, including on individual securities and stock indices, futures contracts (including futures contracts on individual securities and stock indices) or shares of ETFs.
Derivatives transactions may be used, for example, in an effort to earn extra income, to attempt to adjust exposure to individual securities or markets, or to seek to protect all, or a portion, of the Fund's portfolio from a decline in value, sometimes within certain ranges. 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."
C000219769 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Alphabet Inc | 6.61% |
| Apple Inc | 6.23% |
| NVIDIA Corp | 5.88% |
| Microsoft Corp | 5.20% |
| Broadcom Inc | 4.55% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 3.36% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 2.71% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 2.34% |
| Visa Inc | 2.23% |
| Merck & Co Inc | 2.18% |
C000219769 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.2% |
C000219769 Performance
Total returns for C000219769 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.7% |
| 1 year | 6.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.5% |
C000219769 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000219769, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.6%
C000219769 Costs and Fees
C000219769 costs about $91 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.91%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.93%
- Portfolio turnover: 43%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000219769 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund had net outflows of $29.04M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$3.69M |
| 2026-05 | −$3.74M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.41M |
| 2026-03 | −$3.19M |
| 2026-02 | $1.71M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.95M |
C000219769 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core VIP Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000219769 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Strategic Large Cap Core 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
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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.