AST Wellington Management Hedged Equity Portfolio
Advanced Series Trust
Expense ratio
Net assets1
$1.54B
Holdings1
360
Category
US Equity
Return

Investment objective & strategy

As of April 14, 2022 · prospectus

Objective. The investment objective of the Portfolio is to seek to outperform a mix of 50% Russell 3000 Index, 20% MSCI Europe, Australasia and the Far East (EAFE) Index, and 30% ICE BofA Three-Month US Treasury Bill Index over a full market cycle by preserving capital in adverse markets utilizing an options strategy while maintaining equity exposure to benefit from up markets through investments in the Portfolios subadvisers equity investment strategies.

Strategy. Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks while also pursuing an equity index option overlay. The equity index option overlay involves the purchase of put options on the S&P 500 Index and the sale of call and put options on the S&P 500 Index. By combining these two strategies in a single fund, the Portfolio seeks to provide investors with an investment that will generate attractive total returns over a full market cycle with significant downside equity market protection. The Portfolio utilizes a select spectrum of the Portfolios subadvisers equity investment strategies. Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio currently expects to be fully invested and will invest … Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks while also pursuing an equity index option overlay. The equity index option overlay involves the purchase of put options on the S&P 500 Index and the sale of call and put options on the S&P 500 Index. By combining these two strategies in a single fund, the Portfolio seeks to provide investors with an investment that will generate attractive total returns over a full market cycle with significant downside equity market protection. The Portfolio utilizes a select spectrum of the Portfolios subadvisers equity investment strategies. Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio currently expects to be fully invested and will invest at least 80% of its net assets in the common stocks of small, medium and large companies. The Portfolio may also invest up to 30% of its assets in the equity securities of foreign issuers and non-dollar denominated securities, including companies that conduct their principal business activities in emerging markets or whose securities are traded principally on exchanges in emerging markets. In addition, the Portfolio may implement short positions and may do so by using swaps or futures, or through short sales of any instrument that the Portfolio may purchase for investment. The Portfolio allocates approximately 10% of its net assets to a liquidity strategy, which is employed through an overlay sleeve. The liquidity strategy seeks to allow for the efficient management of Portfolio-level risk and changes in the Portfolio's asset levels, liquidity, and asset allocations. The liquidity strategy is also used to access and adjust exposures to various asset classes and underlying strategy allocations. The liquidity strategy is invested primarily in (i) derivative instruments including, but not limited to, swaps, forwards, index futures, other futures contracts, and options thereon to provide liquid exposure to the applicable equity and fixed income benchmark indices; and (ii) cash, money market equivalents, short-term debt instruments, money market funds, and short-term debt funds to satisfy all applicable margin requirements for the futures contracts and to provide additional portfolio liquidity to satisfy large-scale redemptions. The liquidity strategy may also invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for additional exposure to relevant markets. The liquidity strategy may temporarily deviate from the allocation indicated due to redemptions in the Portfolio or other circumstances relevant to the Portfolios overall investment process.

Top holdings

As of Dec. 30, 2022 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
MSILF-GOVT-INS MVRXX $201.27M 13.04%
PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund - D $92.10M 5.97%
MICROSOFT CORP $29.38M 1.90%
TJX COS INC $27.09M 1.76%
UNITEDHEALTH GRP $20.78M 1.35%
SCHWAB CHARLES CORP $19.95M 1.29%
CHUBB LTD $18.46M 1.20%
NIKE INC CL B $16.52M 1.07%
VISA INC-CLASS A $15.81M 1.02%
DANAHER CORP $15.64M 1.01%
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Allocation by sector

As of December 30, 2022 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Sep 30, 2022 → Dec 30, 2022
Opened
37
Exited
30
Increased
172
Decreased
153
Unchanged
2

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Footnotes

  1. Net assets and holdings count as of December 30, 2022, from the fund's N-PORT filing.

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