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DFIS holdings

DFIS reports 3,513 holdings and behaves like 951.3 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 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

4.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 355.2

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.

3,513 Positions reported
951.3 Effective holdings
3.7× Concentration multiple
3.6% 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: 95.85% at a quoted market price (level 1), 33 issuer countries, 4.02% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFIS's largest investment is BE Semiconductor Industries NV at 0.44% of net assets. VAT Group AG and Shibaura Mechatronics Corp follow; the three together are 1.27%. Ten companies are 3.6% of the fund; the other 3,503 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFIS behaves like 951.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 22.4 times the median. Across 17 quarterly filings DFIS has held roughly steady since 2022-04-30 (1051.1 then, 887.8 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 100 positions were added and 92 dropped; 11.1% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 23.02% of the portfolio, across 33 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

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Between 2022-04-30 and 2026-04-30, DFIS went from behaving like 1051.1 equally weighted positions to 887.8 — 16% fewer, while its top ten went from 2.86% to 3.89% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 3,527 887.8 3.89% 0.44%
2026-01-31 3,518 879.6 4.03% 0.53%
2025-10-31 3,528 942.3 3.48% 0.43%
2025-07-31 3,454 984.5 3.38% 0.42%
2025-04-30 3,429 987.8 3.74% 0.51%
2025-01-31 3,424 977.4 3.51% 0.46%
2024-10-31 3,422 943 3.65% 0.46%
2024-07-31 3,398 985.2 3.32% 0.42%
Earlier filings (9 more, back to 2022-04-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 3,433 992.4 3.19% 0.41%
2024-01-31 3,365 1038.8 3.33% 0.41%
2023-10-31 3,320 1032.8 3.31% 0.42%
2023-07-31 3,367 1034.9 3.18% 0.37%
2023-04-30 3,337 1015.8 3.22% 0.36%
2023-01-31 3,217 989.2 3.25% 0.38%
2022-10-31 3,130 992.8 2.94% 0.35%
2022-07-31 3,095 1001.6 2.68% 0.31%
2022-04-30 2,910 1051.1 2.86% 0.36%

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

4.24% collateral

DFIS's filing lists 3,515 positions including 4.24% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 355.2 effective holdings with a top ten of 7.48%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 951.3 with a top ten of 3.6%. 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 3,513 positions in DFIS'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
1BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.0.44%0.4%
2VAT Group AG0.42%0.9%
3SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION0.41%1.3%
4FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC.0.41%1.7%
5BAWAG Group AG0.39%2.1%
6Hudbay Minerals Inc.0.38%2.5%
7TELECOM ITALIA SPA0.38%2.8%
8Mercari, Inc.0.37%3.2%
9Swiss Prime Site AG0.35%3.6%
10Aritzia Inc.0.35%3.9%
11Helvetia Baloise Holding AG0.34%4.2%
12CARREFOUR SA0.33%4.6%
13WHITECAP RESOURCES INC.0.33%4.9%
14REXEL SA0.32%5.2%
15DPM Metals Inc.0.31%5.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 22.96%
Canada 14.25%
United Kingdom 9.85%
Switzerland 7.00%
Germany 6.52%
Australia 6.11%
France 5.18%
Italy 3.68%

Returns the fund reported

2022-02 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFIS's own filings, 51 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

34.1%Last twelve months filed
55%Whole series, compounded
10.1%Best month
-11.3%Worst month

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: DFIS.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFIS'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, $478m was out to 25 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 12.8% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $61m 12.8%
BofA Securities, Inc. $58m 12.2%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $57m 12.0%
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $55m 11.5%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $48m 10.1%

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 DFIS has filed, with each borrower: DFIS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

3,457 positions became 3,465: 100 added (1.3% of the fund at the later date), 92 dropped (1.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 11.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFIS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
IMCD N.V.0.10%0.30% IAMGOLD CORPORATION0.38%0.11%
COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC.0.13%0.28% Helvetia Baloise Holding AG0.53%0.34%
Logitech international S.A.0.02%0.14% ALSTOM SA0.36%0.21%
BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.0.32%0.44% FIRST MAJESTIC SILVER CORP.0.35%0.21%
Fresenius Medical Care AG0.01%0.12% Eldorado Gold Corporation0.35%0.25%
UMICORE SA0.07%0.18% BELLWAY P L C0.22%0.13%

New: COEUR MINING, INC. (0.18%), iA Financial Corporation Inc. (0.16%), B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL PLC (0.09%), KERRY GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.07%), Stantec Inc. (0.07%), WORLEY LIMITED (0.06%). Gone: NEW GOLD INC. (0.34%), NUVISTA ENERGY LTD. (0.11%), JUST GROUP PLC (0.11%), NITTO BOSEKI CO., LTD. (0.10%), HINO MOTORS, LTD. (0.06%), RAKSUL INC. (0.06%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC95.25%
short-term investment STIV4.08%
unknown unknown0.66%

95.8% of DFIS 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 2026-04-30

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 $5.62B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.32%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.17%Futures notional (1)
98.5%Sum, % of net assets

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

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased0.3422026-09-30as filed, not named
CallPurchased4.442026-09-30as filed, not named
CallPurchased4.0122026-08-31as filed, not named
CallPurchased0.12026-12-14as 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 DFIS (951.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
PRFZ Invesco RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF 1,500 718.3 3.81% 2026-07-31
RSSL Global X Russell 2000 ETF 1,961 836.2 3.31% 2026-07-31
IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF 2,016 840.2 3.42% 2026-06-30
DFAS Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF 2,055 896.9 2.54% 2026-07-31
WSML iShares MSCI World Small-Cap ETF 3,520 929.3 4.51% 2026-05-31
FNDC Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 1,582 971 3.66% 2026-05-31
SCZ iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 2,073 1093 2.7% 2026-07-31
GWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) International Small Cap ETF 2,045 1099.2 3% 2026-06-30
EWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF 3,358 1201 4.67% 2026-06-30
VSS Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund 4,861 1638.8 2.57% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine DFIS

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