VARIX — Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund
Data updated: 2020-12-11
VARIX — Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund. United States Blend / Core Equity · $128.69M AUM · 0.78% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
VARIX Fund Overview
VARIX — Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Opportunities Trust, categorised as United States 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: Virtus Opportunities Trust
- Category: United States Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $128.69M
- 1-year return: -2.3%
- Ticker: VARIX
- SEC CIK: 0001005020
- SEC series ID: S000018974
- Share class ID: C000081783
VARIX Investment Objective and Strategy
Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Virtus Opportunities Trust.
Investment objective
The fund has an investment objective of long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The fund utilizes a rules based investment process and may invest in securities representing the primary sectors of the S&P 500 Index and/or cash equivalents (high-quality short-term securities). Allocations to each sector are based on quantitative models. The fund has the flexibility to invest in any combination of the sectors and high-quality short-term securities, or 100% in high-quality short-term securities. A relative strength momentum model is utilized to rank each sector of the equity market. The fund will allocate to those sectors that the model determines are more likely to outperform the broad market and possess positive absolute momentum. When a sector does not possess positive absolute momentum, a defensive cash equivalent position may be built by allocating from those sectors of the market that are not exhibiting absolute positive momentum, up to 100% of fund assets.
VARIX Performance
Total returns for VARIX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -2.3% |
VARIX Risk Information
Risk metrics for VARIX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 21.2%
VARIX Costs and Fees
VARIX costs about $78 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.78%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.78%
- Portfolio turnover: 347%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.61 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
VARIX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2020-09, Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund had net inflows of $114.10M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2020-09 | $6.74M |
| 2020-08 | $15.65M |
| 2020-07 | $14.49M |
| 2020-06 | $8.39M |
| 2020-05 | $5.55M |
| 2020-04 | $10.79M |
VARIX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
VARIX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Virtus Rampart Sector Trend Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-02-10
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-02-14
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-02-16
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-11-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-05-20
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-12-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-12-13
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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.