Securian AM Balanced Stabilization Fund
Seeks to maximize risk-adjusted returns with a balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds, and hedging techniques.
Investment Objective
Investment Management
Investment Manager
Liberty Street Advisors
Investment Sub-Advisor
Portfolio Managers
Investment Commentary
Investment Philosophy
Management’s investment philosophy is that lower volatility tends to result in better returns over time.
Equity markets regularly cycle through periodic episodes of normal or expected levels of volatility. Periods of market volatility tend to be persistent. Higher volatility makes adverse outcomes more likely. High volatility periods also tend to lead to unfavorable performance. By contrast, low volatility periods tend to produce better performance results, even for risky asset classes. Active hedging and custom equity risk management overlays can potentially reduce the severity of downside risk and volatility.
Investment Focus
The Securian AM Balanced Stabilization Fund targets a 60% equity exposure and 40% fixed income allocation. Management adjusts equity exposure as market conditions change, allowing a minimum equity allocation of 10% and a maximum of 90%. As equity volatility increases, equity exposure is reduced by either selling S&P 500 futures contracts or reducing long positions in them.
Fund Facts
Inception date
9/28/2015
Morningstar asset category
Tactical Allocation
Benchmark
Balanced Stabilization Custom Benchmark
Investment minimum
$100,000
Distributions
Quarterly
Expense Ratios
Gross Expense Ratio
1.07%
Net Expense Ratio*
1.01%
*The Fund’s advisor has contractually agreed to waive its fee and/or pay operating expenses so that total annual fund operating expenses do not exceed 0.95%. The contractual agreement is in effect until December 31, 2023.
Ticker
Institutional Class
VVMIX
Fund Performance
Performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Fund performance current to the most recent month-end may be lower or higher than the performance quoted and can be obtained by calling 800-207-7108.
The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a broad-based benchmark that measures the investment grade, U.S. dollar-denominated, fixed-rate taxable bond market. The index includes Treasuries, government-related and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed-rate and hybrid ARM pass-throughs), ABS and CMBS (agency and non-agency).
The Balanced Stabilization Custom Benchmark consists of 60% S&P 500® Index and 40% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.
The S&P 500® Index consists of 500 large cap common stocks which together represents approximately 80% of the total U.S. stock market. It is a float-adjusted market-weighted index (stock price times float-adjsuted shares outstanding), with each stock affecting the index proportion to it’s market value.
It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
Schedule of Distributions
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 28, 2022 | $0.0000 |
Sep 28, 2022 | $0.0529 |
Jun 28, 2022 | $0.0229 |
Mar 29, 2022 | $0.0404 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 29, 2021 | $0.0000 |
Sept 28, 2021 | $0.0279 |
Jun 28, 2021 | $0.0195 |
Mar 29, 2021 | $0.1014 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
---|---|
Dec 9, 2020 | $0.0000 |
Sept 29, 2020 | $0.0253 |
Jun 29. 2020 | $0.0585 |
Mar 30. 2020 | $0.0414 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 30, 2019 | $0.1876 |
Sep 27, 2019 | $0.0600 |
Jun 27, 2019 | $0.0700 |
Mar 28, 2019 | $0.0500 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 28, 2017 | $0.0543 |
Sep 28, 2017 | $0.0655 |
Jun 29, 2017 | $0.0308 |
Mar 30, 3017 | $0.0422 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 28, 2018 | $0.0044 |
Sep 27, 2018 | $0.0500 |
Jun 28, 2018 | $0.0300 |
Mar 28, 2018 | $0.0507 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 29, 2016 | $0.0523 |
Sep 29, 2016 | $0.0473 |
Jun 29, 2016 | $0.0462 |
Mar 30, 2016 | $0.0470 |
Distribution Date | VVMIX |
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Dec 30, 2015 | $0.0460 |
Top Holdings
As of 12/31/22 | % of Net Assets (Excluding Cash) |
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iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 46.02 |
United States Treasury Note/Bond | 4.35 |
Citigroup Inc | 0.84 |
Kroger Co/The | 0.83 |
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric LLC | 0.79 |
Constellation Brands Inc | 0.78 |
US Bancorp | 0.78 |
Lowe's Cos Inc | 0.78 |
Morgan Stanley | 0.78 |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The | 0.77 |
Fund holdings are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Fund Highlights
Dynamic Hedging
The Fund uses futures contracts to actively and efficiently manage equity allocations. When the Fund expects market volatility will increase based on volatility metrics, we reduce equity positions by selling S&P 500 futures contracts or reducing long positions. Management seeks an average annualized long-term volatility in daily total returns of approximately 10%.
Rules Based
The Fund’s strategy is disciplined and algorithm-based strategy. Management adjusts the percentage of equities based on market volatility. The target portfolio allocation is 60% equities and 40% fixed income. The Fund seeks an average annualized volatility of 10% or less over a full market cycle.
Transparent
The Fund achieves its equity exposure by investing primarily in large capitalization equity securities or in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) that invest in large capitalization equity securities.
The fixed Income portion of the portfolio primarily invests in investment-grade corporate bonds.
Important Risks and Disclosures:
Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus and summary prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained on this website or by calling (800) 207-7108. Please read the prospectus or summary prospectus carefully before you invest.
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund’s Sub-Advisor may be unsuccessful in managing volatility and the Fund may experience a high level of volatility in their returns.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has negatively affected the worldwide economy, individual countries, individual companies and the market in general. The future impact of COVID-19 is currently unknown, and it may exacerbate other risks that apply to the Fund.
The securities used in the strategy are subject to price volatility, and the strategy may not result in less volatile returns for the Fund relative to the market as a whole, and they could be more volatile. Investments in debt securities typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. The risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Investment by the Funds in lower-rated and non-rated securities presents a greater risk of loss to principal and interest than higher-rated securities. Derivatives involve special risks including leverage, correlation, counterparty, liquidity, operational, accounting and tax risks. These risks, in certain cases, may be greater than the risks presented to more traditional investments. The Fund may invest in illiquid securities which involve the risk that the securities will not be able to be sold at the time or prices desired by the Fund, particularly during times of market turmoil. In connection with establishing a short position in an instrument, the Fund is subject to the risk that they may not always be able to borrow the instrument, or to close out a short position at a particular time or at an acceptable price.
The market price of an ETF fluctuates based on changes in the ETF’s net asset value as well as changes in the supply and demand of its shares in the secondary market. It is also possible that an active secondary market of an ETF’s shares may not develop and market trading in the shares of the ETF may be halted under certain circumstances. ETNs are unsecured debt obligations and are subject to the credit risk of their issuers and will lose value if the issuer goes bankrupt. ETN returns are linked to the performance of designated indices which fluctuate due to market changes as well as economic, legal, political and geographic events. The market price of ETNs fluctuates as their returns fluctuate and as the level of supply and demand for the ETNs change.
The Securian AM Balanced Stabilization Fund is distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC.
Please read and consider the prospectus carefully before investing. To obtain a hardcopy of the prospectus, please call 800-207-7108.