Venerable US Small Cap Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000258265 — Venerable US Small Cap Fund. United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity · $162.60M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000258265 Fund Overview
Venerable US Small Cap Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Venerable Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States Small 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: Venerable Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $162.60M
- SEC CIK: 0001995745
- SEC series ID: S000090882
- Share class ID: C000258265
C000258265 Investment Objective and Strategy
Venerable US Small Cap Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Venerable Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
"The Venerable US Small Cap Fund (the Fund"") seeks to provide long term capital growth."
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. listed small capitalization companies and in derivatives that have economic characteristics similar to such securities. The Fund defines small capitalization companies as those companies included in the Russell 2000 Index or within the capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Index at the time of purchase. Equity securities in which the Fund invests include common stocks and preferred stocks. The Fund also invests in derivatives that are equity equivalent securities or instruments whose values are based on common stocks (i.e., convertible securities, rights, warrants or options (stock or stock index), futures contracts (stock or stock index), and index swaps). The Fund's investments in derivative instruments and other investments which provide exposure to the investment focus indicated in the fund's 80% policy or provide exposure to one or more market risk factors associated with the investment focus indicated in the fund's name, are included in the fund's 80% policy.
The Fund, from time to time, may invest a significant portion of its total assets in securities of companies in a particular sector or particular sectors. As of the date of this Prospectus, the Fund expects to invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of companies in the financials and industrials sectors. The Fund may also invest a portion of its assets in real estate investment trusts (""REITs""), which are companies that own and/or manage properties. The Adviser has engaged Franklin Advisers, Inc. (""FT"") to provide the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio pursuant to a multi-style and multi-manager approach and investment guidelines provided by the Adviser. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by allocating its assets among a number of different investment strategies (or ""sleeves""), each of which is advised by FT or by FT and a non-discretionary sub-adviser affiliated with FT that provides the Adviser and FT with investment recommendations in the form of a model portfolio, which FT utilizes to purchase and sell securities for the Fund.
The sub-advisers utilize different investment strategies in providing investment recommendations for their respective sleeve, act independently from one another, and use their own methodologies for selecting investments. Non-discretionary sub-advisers may employ a fundamental investment approach, a quantitative investment approach, or a combination of both. The Fund's use of such model portfolios and the allocation of Fund assets may change at any time. FT also manages the Fund's cash balances and may manage portions of the Fund during transitions between sub-adviser strategies."
C000258265 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Venerable US Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund | 3.28% |
| Bloom Energy Corp | 0.92% |
| Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.91% |
| Advanced Energy Industries Inc | 0.85% |
| Mercury Systems Inc | 0.72% |
| DigitalOcean Holdings Inc | 0.68% |
| Fabrinet | 0.62% |
| Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.57% |
| Ultra Clean Holdings Inc | 0.56% |
| VSE Corp | 0.55% |
C000258265 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Venerable US Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
C000258265 Performance
Total returns for C000258265 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 27.2% |
C000258265 Costs and Fees
C000258265 costs about $87 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.87%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.41%
- Portfolio turnover: 24%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.29 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000258265 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Venerable US Small Cap Fund had net inflows of $122.92M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$2.20M |
| 2026-05 | −$2.60M |
| 2026-04 | −$2.37M |
| 2026-03 | −$2.30M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.46M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.28M |
C000258265 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Venerable US Small Cap Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000258265 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Venerable US Small Cap Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-29
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-07-16
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-10-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-24
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-16
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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.