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Pioneer Variable Contracts Trust
Pioneer Equity Income

VCT Portfolio
Class I and II Shares
Schedule of Investments  |  September 30, 2022

Pioneer Equity Income VCT Portfolio Pioneer Variable Contracts Trust

Schedule of Investments 9/30/22 (unaudited) 
Shares           Value
  UNAFFILIATED ISSUERS — 101.3%  
  Common Stocks — 100.3% of Net Assets  
  Aerospace & Defense — 1.4%  
14,789 Raytheon Technologies Corp. $ 1,210,628
  Total Aerospace & Defense  $1,210,628
  Air Freight & Logistics — 0.7%  
6,687 CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc. $   644,025
  Total Air Freight & Logistics    $644,025
  Auto Components — 1.1%  
29,080 BorgWarner, Inc. $   913,112
  Total Auto Components    $913,112
  Automobiles — 0.7%  
26,776 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (A.D.R.) $   578,094
  Total Automobiles    $578,094
  Banks — 6.1%  
49,789 Bank of America Corp. $ 1,503,628
9,266 JPMorgan Chase & Co.     968,297
8,417 M&T Bank Corp.  1,484,085
8,894 PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.  1,328,942
  Total Banks  $5,284,952
  Capital Markets — 7.7%  
20,730 Bank of New York Mellon Corp. $   798,520
22,469 Charles Schwab Corp.  1,614,847
6,193 Morgan Stanley     489,309
11,783 Northern Trust Corp.  1,008,153
11,455 Raymond James Financial, Inc.  1,131,983
13,834 State Street Corp.     841,246
6,841 T Rowe Price Group, Inc.    718,373
  Total Capital Markets  $6,602,431
  Chemicals — 1.4%  
8,426 Celanese Corp. $   761,205
7,604 Corteva, Inc.    434,568
  Total Chemicals  $1,195,773
  Commercial Services & Supplies — 0.8%  
6,163 MSA Safety, Inc. $   673,493
  Total Commercial Services & Supplies    $673,493
  Containers & Packaging — 0.5%  
20,927 Graphic Packaging Holding Co. $   413,099
  Total Containers & Packaging    $413,099
  Diversified Telecommunication Services — 2.1%  
22,879 AT&T, Inc. $   350,964
11,602 BCE, Inc.     486,588
26,620 Verizon Communications, Inc.  1,010,761
  Total Diversified Telecommunication Services  $1,848,313
  Electric Utilities — 3.1%  
3,529 American Electric Power Co., Inc. $   305,082
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Shares           Value
  Electric Utilities — (continued)  
14,755 Eversource Energy $ 1,150,300
15,623 NextEra Energy, Inc.  1,224,999
  Total Electric Utilities  $2,680,381
  Electrical Equipment — 0.9%  
10,467 Emerson Electric Co. $   766,394
  Total Electrical Equipment    $766,394
  Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components — 2.5%  
2,747 CDW Corp. $   428,752
12,031 Corning, Inc.     349,140
9,661 National Instruments Corp.     364,606
9,040 TE Connectivity, Ltd.    997,654
  Total Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components  $2,140,152
  Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 5.5%  
12,126 Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. $ 1,699,944
8,574 Camden Property Trust  1,024,164
2,805 Crown Castle, Inc.     405,463
3,605 Digital Realty Trust, Inc.     357,544
10,517 Duke Realty Corp.     506,919
19,029 Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.     396,755
3,598 Prologis, Inc.    365,557
  Total Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)  $4,756,346
  Food Products — 5.4%  
13,842 Campbell Soup Co. $   652,235
2,575 Hershey Co.     567,710
5,307 John B Sanfilippo & Son, Inc.     401,899
14,530 McCormick & Co., Inc., Class VTG  1,035,553
21,894 Mondelez International, Inc., Class A  1,200,448
7,070 Nestle S.A. (A.D.R.)    760,803
  Total Food Products  $4,618,648
  Health Care Equipment & Supplies — 3.3%  
13,767 Abbott Laboratories $ 1,332,095
9,019 Baxter International, Inc.     485,763
2,061 Becton Dickinson and Co.     459,253
2,581 Stryker Corp.    522,756
  Total Health Care Equipment & Supplies  $2,799,867
  Health Care Providers & Services — 4.0%  
4,810 AmerisourceBergen Corp. $   650,937
9,853 Cardinal Health, Inc.     656,998
13,493 CVS Health Corp.  1,286,828
1,832 Humana, Inc.    888,868
  Total Health Care Providers & Services  $3,483,631
  Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure — 0.5%  
3,511 Darden Restaurants, Inc. $   443,510
  Total Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure    $443,510
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Schedule of Investments 9/30/22 (unaudited) (continued)
Shares           Value
  Household Products — 1.8%  
4,342 Clorox Co. $   557,469
7,912 Procter & Gamble Co.    998,890
  Total Household Products  $1,556,359
  Insurance — 5.4%  
6,852 Chubb, Ltd. $ 1,246,242
10,401 First American Financial Corp.     479,486
25,729 Lincoln National Corp.  1,129,761
44,782 Sun Life Financial, Inc.  1,780,532
  Total Insurance  $4,636,021
  IT Services — 3.1%  
3,495 Automatic Data Processing, Inc. $   790,534
3,116 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.     449,701
5,534 International Business Machines Corp.     657,494
7,099 Paychex, Inc.    796,579
  Total IT Services  $2,694,308
  Life Sciences Tools & Services — 1.1%  
1,910 Danaher Corp. $   493,334
908 Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.    460,528
  Total Life Sciences Tools & Services    $953,862
  Machinery — 5.8%  
2,096 Deere & Co. $   699,833
55,794 Gorman-Rupp Co.  1,327,339
2,187 Illinois Tool Works, Inc.     395,082
6,629 Oshkosh Corp.     465,952
15,948 PACCAR, Inc.  1,334,688
12,443 Timken Co.    734,635
  Total Machinery  $4,957,529
  Media — 3.4%  
27,934 Comcast Corp., Class A $   819,305
34,037 Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.     871,347
14,001 Omnicom Group, Inc.     883,323
20,602 Paramount Global, Class B    392,262
  Total Media  $2,966,237
  Metals & Mining — 5.5%  
3,762 Kaiser Aluminum Corp. $   230,798
14,719 Materion Corp.  1,177,520
22,030 Newmont Corp.     925,921
8,828 Nucor Corp.     944,508
8,236 Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.  1,436,441
  Total Metals & Mining  $4,715,188
  Multiline Retail — 1.9%  
3,585 Dollar General Corp. $   859,898
5,360 Target Corp.    795,371
  Total Multiline Retail  $1,655,269
  Multi-Utilities — 0.8%  
11,555 CMS Energy Corp. $   672,963
  Total Multi-Utilities    $672,963
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Shares           Value
  Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 4.7%  
11,333 Chevron Corp. $ 1,628,212
4,662 ConocoPhillips     477,109
14,364 Exxon Mobil Corp.  1,254,121
8,108 Phillips 66    654,478
  Total Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels  $4,013,920
  Pharmaceuticals — 7.8%  
12,809 AstraZeneca Plc (A.D.R.) $   702,446
5,306 Eli Lilly & Co.  1,715,695
6,500 Johnson & Johnson  1,061,840
12,953 Novo Nordisk AS (A.D.R.)  1,290,507
12,598 Organon & Co.     294,793
37,280 Pfizer, Inc.  1,631,373
  Total Pharmaceuticals  $6,696,654
  Road & Rail — 1.2%  
5,031 Norfolk Southern Corp. $ 1,054,749
  Total Road & Rail  $1,054,749
  Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 5.2%  
8,643 Analog Devices, Inc. $ 1,204,316
1,289 Entegris, Inc.     107,013
3,713 KLA Corp.  1,123,665
6,238 Microchip Technology, Inc.     380,705
4,381 QUALCOMM, Inc.     494,965
7,285 Texas Instruments, Inc.  1,127,572
  Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment  $4,438,236
  Software — 0.7%  
2,508 Microsoft Corp. $   584,113
  Total Software    $584,113
  Specialty Retail — 0.8%  
11,598 TJX Cos., Inc. $   720,468
  Total Specialty Retail    $720,468
  Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals — 0.5%  
32,480 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. $   389,110
  Total Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals    $389,110
  Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 1.2%  
10,516 Carter's, Inc. $   689,113
4,115 Ralph Lauren Corp.    349,487
  Total Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods  $1,038,600
  Trading Companies & Distributors — 1.0%  
8,668 Ferguson Plc $   892,197
  Total Trading Companies & Distributors    $892,197
  Water Utilities — 0.7%  
14,362 Essential Utilities, Inc. $   594,300
  Total Water Utilities    $594,300
  Total Common Stocks
(Cost $72,182,167)
$86,282,932
 
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Schedule of Investments 9/30/22 (unaudited) (continued)
Shares           Value
  SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS — 1.0% of Net Assets  
  Open-End Fund — 1.0%  
859,524(a) Dreyfus Government Cash Management,
  Institutional Shares, 2.75%
$   859,524
               $859,524
  TOTAL SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost $859,524)
   $859,524
  TOTAL INVESTMENTS IN UNAFFILIATED ISSUERS — 101.3%
(Cost $73,041,691)
$87,142,456
  OTHER ASSETS AND LIABILITIES — (1.3)% $(1,078,938)
  net assets — 100.0% $86,063,518
             
(A.D.R.) American Depositary Receipts.
(a) Rate periodically changes. Rate disclosed is the 7-day yield at September 30, 2022.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels below.
Level 1 unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
Level 2 other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risks, etc.).
Level 3 significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining fair value of investments).
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of September 30, 2022, in valuing the Portfolio's investments:
  Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Common Stocks $86,282,932 $$$86,282,932
Open-End Fund 859,524 859,524
Total Investments in Securities $87,142,456 $— $— $87,142,456
During the period ended September 30, 2022, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.
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