Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF
Key Statistics
Historical Performance
Total return including reinvested distributions, from adjusted closing prices.
Price History
Price history is being compiled for this fund.
Top Holdings
Top 25 holdings as of Jan 31, 2026 · source: SEC N-PORT. Full holdings & prospectus →
About DFSE
Toachieve the Emerging Markets Sustainability ETF’s investment objective, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP(the ”Advisor”) implements an integrated investment approach that combines research, portfolio design,portfolio management, and trading functions. As further described below, the Portfolio’s design emphasizeslong-term drivers of expected returns identified by the Advisor’s research, while balancing risk throughbroad diversification across companies, sectors, and countries. The Advisor’s portfolio managementand trading processes further balance those long-term drivers of expected returns with shorter-term driversof expected returns and trading costs.The Portfolio is designed topurchase a broad and diverse group of securities within a market capitalization weighted universe (e.g.,the larger the company, the greater the proportion of the universe it represents) of non-U.S. companiesassociated with emerging markets authorized for investment by the Advisor’s Investment Committee (“ApprovedMarkets”), which may include frontier markets (emerging market countries in an earlier stage of development)(the “Emerging Markets Universe”). The Portfolio invests in companies of all sizes and seeks to moderatelyincrease the Portfolio’s exposure to smaller capitalization, lower relative price, and higher profitabilitycompanies as compared to their representation in the Emerging Markets Universe, while adjusting the compositionof the Portfolio based on sustainability considerations. The Portfolio may seek to achieve a moderatelyincreased exposure to smaller capitalization, lower relative price, and higher profitability companiesby decreasing the allocation of the Portfolio’s assets to larger capitalization, higher relative price,or lower profitability companies relative to their weight in the Emerging Markets Universe. An equityissuer is considered to have a high relative price (i.e., a growth stock) primarily because it has ahigh price in relation to its book value. An equity issuer is considered to have a low relative price(i.e., a value stock) primarily because it has a low price in relation to its book value. In assessingrelative price, the Advisor may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earningsratios. An equity issuer is considered to have high profitability because it has high earnings or profitsfrom operations in relation to its book value or assets. The criteria the Advisor uses for assessingrelative price and profitability are subject to change from time to time. Additionally, the representationof securities in the Portfolio as compared to their representation in the Emerging Markets Universe maybe affected by the Portfolio's sustainability considerations.The Advisor may also increaseor reduce the Portfolio’s exposure to an eligible company, or exclude a company, based on shorter-termconsiderations, such as a company’s price momentum, short-run reversals, and investment characteristics.In assessing a company’s investment characteristics, the Advisor considers ratios such as recent changesin assets divided by total assets. The criteria the Advisor uses for assessing a company’s investmentcharacteristics are subject to change from time to time. In addition, the Advisor seeks to reduce tradingcosts using a flexible trading approach that looks for opportunities to participate in the availablemarket liquidity, while managing turnover and explicit transaction costs.Asa non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Portfolio will invest at least 80% of its netassets in emerging markets equity investments that are defined in the Prospectus as Approved Marketssecurities. The Portfolio may gain exposure to companies associated with Approved Markets by purchasingequity securities in the form of depositary receipts, which may be listed or traded outside the issuer’sdomicile country. The Portfolio may also invest in China A-shares (equity securities of companies listedin China) and variable interest entities (special structures that utilize contractual arrangements toprovide exposure to certain Chinese companies).The Portfolio may purchase orsell futures contracts and options on futures contracts for Approved Markets or other equity market securitiesand indices, including those of the United States, to increase or decrease equity market exposure basedon actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio. The above-referenced investmentsare not subject to, although they may incorporate, the Portfolio’s sustainability considerations.ThePortfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.TheAdvisor intends to take into account certain sustainability considerations when making investment decisionsfor the Portfolio. Relative to a fund without these considerations that otherwise has the same investmentobjective, strategies, and policies as the Portfolio, the Portfolio will generally have excluded, andhave less overall weight in, securities of companies that, according to the Portfolio’s sustainabilityconsiderations, may be less sustainable as compared to other companies in the Portfolio’s investmentuniverse. Similarly, relative to such a fund, the Portfolio will generally have more overall weight insecurities of companies that, according to the Portfolio’s sustainability considerations, may be moresustainable as compared to other companies in the Portfolio’s investment universe. In particular, the Advisor ranks companies (i) relative to the broader equity marketbased on potential emissions from reserves and scaled potential emissions from reserves and the securitiesof the worst-ranking companies are generally underweighted or excluded, (ii) relative to the applicableuniverse of securities based on carbon intensity and the securities of the worst-ranking companies aregenerally underweighted or excluded and (iii) relative to their sector peers based primarily on carbonintensity, but also considering several other factors, including controversies related to land use andbiodiversity, toxic spills and releases, operational waste, and water management, and the securitiesof the worst-ranking companies are generally underweighted or excluded and the securities of the remainingcompanies are generally overweighted or neutral-weighted. In addition, the Advisor seeks to exclude securitiesof companies based on sustainability considerations relating to coal, factory farming, palm oil, clustermunitions and landmines, tobacco, child labor, civilian firearms, private prisons, and material involvementin severe environmental, social, or governance controversies that indicate operations inconsistent withresponsible business conduct standards (such as those defined by the United Nations Global Compact Principlesand the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises).For a more detailed description of these sustainability considerations, see “Applying the Portfolios’Sustainability Considerations”. The Advisor engages third party service providers to provide researchinformation relating to the Portfolio’s sustainability considerations with respect to securities inthe Portfolio, where information is available from such providers. The Advisor also may use, or supplementthird party service providers’ data with, proprietary research relating to certain sustainability considerationswhere information is not available or has not been obtained from third party service providers engagedby the Advisor.The Advisor periodically reviews the Portfolio’ssustainability considerations and the Portfolio may periodically modify,add, or remove sustainability considerations.The Portfolio is an activelymanaged exchange traded fund and does not seek to replicate the performance of a specific index and mayhave a higher degree of portfolio turnover than such index funds.
DFSE News
- (DFSE) Volatility Zones as Tactical Triggers
- Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF (NYSEARCA:DFSE) Sees Large Increase in Short Interest
- Price-Driven Insight from (DFSE) for Rule-Based Strategy
- (DFSE) Price Dynamics and Execution-Aware Positioning
- (DFSE) Price Dynamics and Execution-Aware Positioning
- Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF (NYSEARCA:DFSE) Short Interest Update
- (DFSE) as a Liquidity Pulse for Institutional Tactics
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Makes New Investment in Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF $DFSE
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