Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-27
C000271980 — Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund. 0.95% expense ratio · since 2026 · Commodity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000271980 Fund Overview
Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust, categorised as Commodity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust
- Category: Commodity
- Assets under management: $51.49M
- SEC CIK: 0000837274
- SEC series ID: S000101726
- Share class ID: C000271980
C000271980 Investment Objective and Strategy
Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust.
Investment objective
Capital appreciation. The Fund's secondary goal is to provide shareholders with current income through dividends or interest received from its investments.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in securities of gold and precious metals operation companies. Gold and precious metals operation companies include companies that mine, process, or deal in gold or other precious metals, such as silver, platinum, and palladium, including mining finance and exploration companies as well as operating companies with long- or medium-life mines. Several metals, including non-precious metals such as copper, zinc or nickel, often can be found in the earth together and as a result, precious metals may not be the primary business of the company. For purposes of the Fund’s 80% policy, such companies may be considered to be gold and precious metals operation companies as long as the investment manager determines, in its sole discretion, that the company provides attractive exposure to precious metals.
The Fund is a "non-diversified" fund, which means it generally invests a greater portion of its assets in the securities of one or more issuers and may invest overall in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund. The Fund may buy securities of gold and precious metals operation companies located anywhere in the world and in general invests predominantly in non-U.S. companies. Currently a substantial portion of the companies in which the Fund invests are domiciled in Canada, although the mining operations of such companies often take place in other countries, including emerging and frontier markets. The Fund may invest in companies without regard to market capitalization, and may heavily invest in small- and mid-capitalization companies. The Fund primarily invests in equity securities, primarily common stock.
The Fund also invests in American, Global and European Depositary Receipts. The Fund’s investment manager looks for companies with low cost reserves and experienced management teams with established track records, particularly focusing on companies with long life production profiles, ex
C000271980 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Barrick Mining Corp. | 5.32% |
| G Mining Ventures Corp. | 4.88% |
| Alamos Gold, Inc. | 4.46% |
| Newmont Corp. | 3.74% |
| Franklin Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund | 3.29% |
| Anglogold Ashanti plc | 2.84% |
| Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. | 2.56% |
| Equinox Gold Corp. | 2.46% |
| Perseus Mining Ltd. | 2.13% |
| Torex Gold Resources, Inc. | 2.10% |
C000271980 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.6% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.3% |
C000271980 Performance
Total returns for C000271980 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | -15.30% |
C000271980 Costs and Fees
C000271980 costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.95%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.97%
C000271980 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund had net inflows of $65.62M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $2.11M |
| 2026-05 | $63.51M |
| 2026-04 | $0 |
C000271980 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000271980 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Franklin Gold and Precious Metals VIP 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.