Fund · Dimensional Emerging Markets Core Equity 2 ETF · measured from SEC filings
DFEM holdings
DFEM reports 6,690 holdings and behaves like 64.3 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 17 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Read this figure with the following in mind
5.5% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing
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: 97.6% at a quoted market price (level 1), 37 issuer countries, 3.87% restricted securities.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31DFEM's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 9.23% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 16.14%. Ten companies are 24.28% of the fund; the other 6,680 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFEM behaves like 64.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.5 times the median. Across 17 quarterly filings DFEM has become more concentrated: it behaved like 178 at 2022-04-30 and 81.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 171 positions were added and 105 dropped; 11.2% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 26.11% of the portfolio, across 37 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 2022
17Between 2022-04-30 and 2026-04-30, DFEM went from behaving like 178 equally weighted positions to 81.8 — 54% fewer, while its top ten went from 17.21% to 21.79% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 6,579 | 81.8 | 21.79% | 9.21% |
| 2026-01-31 | 6,512 | 118.9 | 19.67% | 7.08% |
| 2025-10-31 | 6,638 | 126.7 | 18.95% | 6.96% |
| 2025-07-31 | 6,550 | 151.4 | 16.96% | 6.32% |
| 2025-04-30 | 6,516 | 175.3 | 16.18% | 5.33% |
| 2025-01-31 | 6,469 | 144 | 16.48% | 6.75% |
| 2024-10-31 | 6,333 | 156.3 | 16.18% | 6.32% |
| 2024-07-31 | 6,003 | 169.4 | 15.71% | 5.9% |
Earlier filings (9 more, back to 2022-04-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 5,935 | 186 | 15.5% | 5.36% |
| 2024-01-31 | 5,703 | 196.6 | 15.68% | 4.91% |
| 2023-10-31 | 5,542 | 194.3 | 16.15% | 4.43% |
| 2023-07-31 | 5,493 | 209.1 | 15.67% | 3.77% |
| 2023-04-30 | 5,042 | 199 | 15.53% | 3.78% |
| 2023-01-31 | 5,109 | 188 | 16.4% | 3.85% |
| 2022-10-31 | 5,002 | 233.9 | 13.97% | 3.34% |
| 2022-07-31 | 4,797 | 195.1 | 15.89% | 4.3% |
| 2022-04-30 | 4,540 | 178 | 17.21% | 3.96% |
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.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 6,690 positions in DFEM'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 | 9.21% | 9.2% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 3.72% | 12.9% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 3.19% | 16.1% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 1.95% | 18.1% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 0.95% | 19.0% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.74% | 19.8% |
| 7 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.53% | 20.3% |
| 8 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.51% | 20.8% |
| 9 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.51% | 21.3% |
| 10 | UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.47% | 21.8% |
| 11 | MPI CORPORATION | 0.45% | 22.2% |
| 12 | HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY | 0.44% | 22.7% |
| 13 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 0.43% | 23.1% |
| 14 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.40% | 23.5% |
| 15 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.40% | 23.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of DFEM'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 | 25.08% |
| South Korea | 17.63% |
| India | 12.76% |
| China | 11.85% |
| Cayman Islands° | 10.22% |
| Brazil | 3.91% |
| South Africa | 2.75% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2.48% |
Returns the fund reported
2022-02 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFEM's own filings, 51 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: DFEM.json · all funds.
Who borrows DFEM'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, $742m was out to 30 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 20.9% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL | $155m | 20.9% |
| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC | $148m | 19.9% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC | $108m | 14.5% |
| UBS EUROPE SE | $80m | 10.8% |
| Barclays Capital Securities Ltd. | $62m | 8.3% |
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 DFEM has filed, with each borrower: DFEM.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-306,503 positions became 6,569: 171 added (0.3% of the fund at the later date), 105 dropped (0.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 11.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFEM 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 | 7.08% | 9.21% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.75% | 1.95% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 3.03% | 3.72% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.38% | 0.95% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 2.52% | 3.19% | MEITUAN | 0.55% | 0.29% |
| UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. | 0.22% | 0.47% | KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY | 0.36% | 0.18% |
| MPI CORPORATION | 0.25% | 0.45% | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.66% | 0.53% |
| DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.32% | 0.51% | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.37% | 0.27% |
New: Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd (0.07%), ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.06%), KE Holdings Inc. (0.02%), ASPEN PHARMACARE HOLDINGS LIMITED (0.01%), Guararapes Confeccoes S/A (0.01%), ADANI TOTAL GAS LIMITED (0.01%). Gone: ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.05%), Douzone Bizon Co Ltd (0.02%), ANE (Cayman) Inc (0.02%), AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS LIMITED (0.01%), Zinwell Corp (0.01%), Neoenergia S.A. (0.01%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 93.66% |
| unknown unknown | 5.49% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.85% |
97.6% of DFEM is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 $8.54B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
2 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 | 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 DFEM (64.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQEC AQE Core ETF | 65 | 62.6 | 19.07% | 2026-06-30 |
| VIS Vanguard Industrials Index Fund | 382 | 62.7 | 30.57% | 2026-05-31 |
| COWG Pacer US Large Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF | 101 | 63.7 | 28.36% | 2026-07-31 |
| DVYE iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF | 123 | 63.9 | 27.92% | 2026-07-31 |
| PBW Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF | 69 | 64.2 | 21.39% | 2026-04-30 |
| MGV Vanguard Mega Cap Value Index Fund | 125 | 64.5 | 28.31% | 2026-05-31 |
| IDMO Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF | 192 | 65.2 | 29.14% | 2026-07-31 |
| DIVB iShares Core Dividend ETF | 384 | 65.4 | 30.3% | 2026-07-31 |
| ITOT iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF | 2,501 | 66 | 32.12% | 2026-06-30 |
| FLIN Franklin FTSE India ETF | 279 | 66.1 | 30.17% | 2026-06-30 |
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Essays that examine DFEM
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