Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-31
C000270436 — Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund. Global (incl. US) Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000270436 Fund Overview
Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Sterling Capital Funds, categorised as Global (incl. US) 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: Sterling Capital Funds
- Category: Global (incl. US) Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $44.20M
- SEC CIK: 0000889284
- SEC series ID: S000100607
- Share class ID: C000270436
C000270436 Investment Objective and Strategy
Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Sterling Capital Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation and current income.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of dividend growth companies. Dividend growth companies include both U.S. and non-U.S. companies, including American Depository Receipts (“ADRs”), that pay current dividends with the potential for growth of dividends. The Fund may invest in companies of all sizes but will focus primarily on medium and larger capitalization companies that pay a dividend and may trade warrants and rights. The Fund considers market capitalizations between $2 billion and $25 billion to qualify as medium capitalization, and those over $25 billion to qualify as large capitalization. These dollar amounts may change due to market conditions. The Fund may also invest in real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) and limited partnership interests in Master Limited Partnerships (“MLPs”).
In selecting securities for the Fund, the Adviser primarily seeks to identify companies that it believes have the potential for growth of income and capital appreciation over time, with an emphasis on companies that the Adviser believes have the ability to grow earnings and a willingness to sustainably increase dividends. The international portion of the Fund’s portfolio will generally be diversified across a number of foreign countries, and may, at times, comprise a significant majority of the Fund’s portfolio. The Fund may also invest up to 15% of its net assets in securities of companies that are listed in, or whose principal business activities are located in, emerging market countries. Emerging markets countries include those defined or classified currently or in the future as an emerging market by the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Emerging Markets Index.
The investment process used by Guardian Capital LP, the Fund’s sub-adviser (the “Sub-Adviser”) in selecting securities for the Fund primarily relies on bottom-up analysis an
C000270436 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Asml Holding NV | 6.14% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 5.91% |
| Apple, Inc. | 5.77% |
| Axa SA | 4.87% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 4.84% |
| Williams Companies, Inc. (the) | 4.83% |
| Allianz SE | 4.70% |
| Royal Bank Of Canada | 4.57% |
| Costco Wholesale Corp. | 4.30% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 4.27% |
C000270436 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.0% |
C000270436 Performance
Total returns for C000270436 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 9.5% |
C000270436 Costs and Fees
C000270436 costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.95%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.01%
- Portfolio turnover: 66%
C000270436 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund had net outflows of $2.26M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$225.45K |
| 2026-05 | −$748.06K |
| 2026-04 | −$47.45K |
| 2026-03 | $153.97K |
| 2026-02 | −$1.47M |
| 2026-01 | $73.36K |
C000270436 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000270436 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Guardian Capital Dividend Growth Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
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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.