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DFAE holdings

DFAE reports 6,294 holdings and behaves like 41.7 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 22 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

6.3% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing

1.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 41.4

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

6,294 Positions reported
41.7 Effective holdings
150.9× Concentration multiple
30.48% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 97.1% at a quoted market price (level 1), 34 issuer countries, 3.86% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFAE's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 12.22% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 20.07%. Ten companies are 30.48% of the fund; the other 6,284 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFAE behaves like 41.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 22 quarterly filings DFAE has become more concentrated: it behaved like 77.2 at 2021-01-31 and 50.2 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 137 positions were added and 296 dropped; 10.7% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 26.74% of the portfolio, across 34 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2021

22

Between 2021-01-31 and 2026-04-30, DFAE went from behaving like 77.2 equally weighted positions to 50.2 — 35% fewer, while its top ten went from 27.01% to 27.59% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 6,334 50.2 27.59% 12.19%
2026-01-31 6,491 61.5 25.68% 10.75%
2025-10-31 6,387 66.6 24.93% 10.27%
2025-07-31 6,216 80.9 22.22% 9.22%
2025-04-30 6,113 102 20.57% 7.68%
2025-01-31 6,049 83.2 20.82% 9.46%
2024-10-31 5,911 94.6 20.63% 8.49%
2024-07-31 5,644 104.4 19.96% 7.79%
Earlier filings (14 more, back to 2021-01-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 5,402 121.9 18.93% 6.83%
2024-01-31 5,255 144.4 17.61% 6.03%
2023-10-31 5,104 154.5 17.72% 5.29%
2023-07-31 5,107 159.2 17.47% 5.04%
2023-04-30 4,790 159.7 17.3% 5%
2023-01-31 4,599 148.9 18.27% 5.06%
2022-10-31 4,395 179.8 15.96% 4.4%
2022-07-31 4,304 150.5 17.46% 5.19%
2022-04-30 4,216 158 17.2% 4.94%
2022-01-31 4,122 116.8 20.76% 5.99%
2021-10-31 4,144 124.7 21.12% 5.44%
2021-07-31 4,143 112.2 21.96% 5.51%
2021-04-30 4,125 93.7 24.37% 5.28%
2021-01-31 4,110 77.2 27.01% 5.8%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

1.21% collateral

DFAE's filing lists 6,295 positions including 1.21% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 41.4 effective holdings with a top ten of 31.08%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 41.7 with a top ten of 30.48%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 6,294 positions in DFAE's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited12.19%12.2%
2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.4.34%16.5%
3SK hynix Inc.3.48%20.0%
4Tencent Holdings Limited2.64%22.7%
5Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.39%24.1%
6DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.90%24.9%
7CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.78%25.7%
8MediaTek Inc.0.69%26.4%
9Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.0.64%27.1%
10HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.53%27.6%
11PDD Holdings Inc.0.52%28.1%
12Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.0.46%28.6%
13Alibaba Group Holding Limited0.46%29.0%
14RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED0.45%29.5%
15INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED0.44%29.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of DFAE's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Taiwan 24.82%
South Korea 18.21%
India 13.17%
China 11.22%
Cayman Islands° 10.23%
Brazil 4.12%
South Africa 2.67%
Saudi Arabia 2.65%

Returns the fund reported

2020-11 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFAE's own filings, 66 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

46.9%Last twelve months filed
57%Whole series, compounded
14.2%Best month
-12.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.59 percentage points over 64 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: DFAE.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFAE's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $702m was out to 30 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 25.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $180m 25.6%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $116m 16.5%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $78m 11.2%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $58m 8.3%
Barclays Capital Securities Ltd. $41m 5.9%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter DFAE has filed, with each borrower: DFAE.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

6,475 positions became 6,316: 137 added (0.3% of the fund at the later date), 296 dropped (0.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFAE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited10.75%12.19% Tencent Holdings Limited3.67%2.64%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.3.39%4.34% Alibaba Group Holding Limited2.00%1.39%
SK hynix Inc.2.70%3.48% MEITUAN0.60%0.32%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.55%0.90% Alibaba Group Holding Limited0.66%0.46%
MediaTek Inc.0.43%0.69% KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY0.28%0.14%
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP.0.14%0.30% HDFC BANK LIMITED0.45%0.33%

New: Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd (0.06%), KE Holdings Inc. (0.05%), ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.02%), TEAM GROUP INC. (0.01%), Hygon Information Technology Co Ltd (0.01%), HYUNDAI MOTOR INDIA LIMITED (0.01%). Gone: ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.01%), IQIYI, INC. (0.01%), AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS LIMITED (0.01%), Douzone Bizon Co Ltd (0.01%), PG ELECTROPLAST LIMITED (0.01%), PEKER GAYRIMENKUL YATIRIM ORTAKLIGI ANONIM SIRKETI (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC92.46%
unknown unknown6.34%
short-term investment STIV1.19%

97.1% of DFAE is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $8.86B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

93.6%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (0)
93.6%Sum, % of net assets

4 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased0.452027-05-28as filed, not named
CallPurchased0.32031-01-06as filed, not named
CallPurchased12030-10-27as filed, not named
CallPurchased2.032031-02-03as filed, not named

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of DFAE (41.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SPEM State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 2,921 41.1 26.27% 2026-06-30
JGLO JPMorgan Global Select Equity ETF 86 41.1 39.72% 2026-07-31
FDLO Fidelity Low Volatility Factor ETF 126 41.1 38.49% 2026-07-31
FDV Federated Hermes U.S. Strategic Dividend ETF 50 41.2 34.85% 2026-07-31
HDEF Xtrackers MSCI EAFE High Dividend Yield Equity ETF 121 41.3 41.71% 2026-05-29
PWV Invesco Large Cap Value ETF 51 41.8 34.41% 2026-07-31
XVV iShares ESG Select Screened S&P 500 ETF 445 42 40.93% 2026-06-30
MTUM iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 128 42.4 40.01% 2026-07-31
HELO JPMorgan Hedged Equity Laddered Overlay ETF 156 42.4 39.41% 2026-07-31
IDVO Amplify CWP International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF 54 42.5 33.53% 2026-06-30

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