LVOL — American Century Low Volatility ETF
Data updated: 2025-04-18
LVOL — American Century Low Volatility ETF. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $15.30M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
LVOL Fund Overview
LVOL — American Century Low Volatility ETF is a US ETF managed by American Century ETF 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 ETF
- Manager: American Century ETF Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $15.30M
- 1-year return: 13.1%
- Ticker: LVOL
- SEC CIK: 0001710607
- SEC series ID: S000070039
- Share class ID: C000222947
LVOL Investment Objective and Strategy
American Century Low Volatility ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by American Century ETF Trust.
Investment objective
The fund seeks capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Portfolio managers utilize quantitative models to select securities with attractive fundamentals that they expect will provide enhanced risk-adjusted returns over the long term, while realizing less volatility. The fund generally invests in common stocks of U.S. companies that have a market capitalization greater than $2 billion. To select securities for the fund, portfolio managers utilize proprietary models to screen and rank companies based on fundamental metrics. The information used to generate these measures is typically contained in financial statement data and market information, but may include other sources. The fund seeks to deliver a lower realized portfolio volatility than its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, by utilizing a stock selection process that expands on traditional measures of price volatility by including measures of asymmetric ( i.e.
, downside) volatility and seeking securities of businesses that demonstrate consistent cash-flows, stable operations, and strong balance sheets. Portfolio managers employ a multi-dimensional approach to stock selection and risk managementwhich includes evaluating empirical measures of stock price risks and fundamental measures of business safety and continuityto construct a portfolio that balances the return and risk objectives of the fund. This approach seeks to identify risks of individual securities and across key dimensions such as economic segment. Finally, portfolio managers review the output of the quantitative model, considering factors such as risk management, transaction costs, and liquidity management. The portfolio managers generally sell securities from the funds portfolio when they believe a security becomes less attractive relative to other opportunities, a securitys risk characteristics outweigh its return opportunity, or specific events alter a securitys prospects.
The fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. When deciding whether to buy or sell a security, and how and when to implement a trade, the portfolio managers may consider the expected implementation costs and tax consequences of the trade in an attempt to gain trading efficiencies, avoid unnecessary risk, minimize tax impact, and/or enhance fund performance.
LVOL Holdings
Top 10 holdings of American Century Low Volatility ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Apple Inc | 7.14% |
| Microsoft Corp | 6.94% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 3.63% |
| Visa Inc | 3.40% |
| Mastercard Inc | 3.05% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.93% |
| Cisco Systems Inc/Delaware | 2.69% |
| Home Depot Inc/The | 2.65% |
| Procter & Gamble Co/The | 2.45% |
| Linde PLC | 2.37% |
LVOL Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of American Century Low Volatility ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.9% |
LVOL Performance
Total returns for LVOL (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 13.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 9.5% |
LVOL Risk Information
Risk metrics for LVOL, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.5%
LVOL Costs and Fees
LVOL costs about $29 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.29%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.29%
- Portfolio turnover: 53%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.53 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
LVOL Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2025-02, American Century Low Volatility ETF had net inflows of $1.73M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2025-02 | $841.90K |
| 2025-01 | $853.58K |
| 2024-12 | $847.57K |
| 2024-11 | −$5.70K |
| 2024-10 | −$819.10K |
| 2024-09 | $0 |
LVOL Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in American Century Low Volatility ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
LVOL Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official American Century Low Volatility ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-12-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-12-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-12-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-04-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-01-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-10-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-11-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-11-09
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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.