Fund · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Read 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.
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 2026-07-31DFAE'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
22Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% collateralDFAE'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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 12.19% | 12.2% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 4.34% | 16.5% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 3.48% | 20.0% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.64% | 22.7% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.39% | 24.1% |
| 6 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.90% | 24.9% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.78% | 25.7% |
| 8 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.69% | 26.4% |
| 9 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.64% | 27.1% |
| 10 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.53% | 27.6% |
| 11 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.52% | 28.1% |
| 12 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.46% | 28.6% |
| 13 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.46% | 29.0% |
| 14 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.45% | 29.5% |
| 15 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.44% | 29.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of DFAE's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFAE's own filings, 66 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-306,475 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 10.75% | 12.19% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.67% | 2.64% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 3.39% | 4.34% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.00% | 1.39% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 2.70% | 3.48% | MEITUAN | 0.60% | 0.32% |
| DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.55% | 0.90% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.66% | 0.46% |
| MediaTek Inc. | 0.43% | 0.69% | KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY | 0.28% | 0.14% |
| UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.14% | 0.30% | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.45% | 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 EC | 92.46% |
| unknown unknown | 6.34% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.19% |
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 2026-04-30A 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.
4 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:
| Type | Side | Strike | Expiry | Underlying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call | Purchased | 0.45 | 2027-05-28 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 0.3 | 2031-01-06 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 1 | 2030-10-27 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 2.03 | 2031-02-03 | as filed, not named |
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine DFAE
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