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DFSE holdings

DFSE reports 3,707 holdings and behaves like 86.4 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 14 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

7.3% 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.

3,707 Positions reported
86.4 Effective holdings
42.9× Concentration multiple
23.75% 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: 97.93% at a quoted market price (level 1), 37 issuer countries, 4.28% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFSE's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 6.99% of net assets. Tencent Holdings Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 12.04%. Ten companies are 23.75% of the fund; the other 3,697 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFSE behaves like 86.4 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times the median. Across 14 quarterly filings DFSE has become more concentrated: it behaved like 232.8 at 2023-01-31 and 121 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 165 positions were added and 150 dropped; 11.7% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 25.82% 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 2023

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Between 2023-01-31 and 2026-04-30, DFSE went from behaving like 232.8 equally weighted positions to 121 — 48% fewer, while its top ten went from 14.87% to 19.73% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 4,230 121 19.73% 6.98%
2026-01-31 4,216 138.8 18.63% 6.21%
2025-10-31 4,222 146.4 17.44% 5.92%
2025-07-31 4,200 174.1 15.67% 5.23%
2025-04-30 4,234 199.5 15.16% 4.36%
2025-01-31 4,264 176.5 15.38% 5.45%
2024-10-31 4,213 192.3 14.97% 5.07%
2024-07-31 4,128 214.4 14.62% 4.57%
Earlier filings (6 more, back to 2023-01-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 4,075 233.9 14.06% 4.12%
2024-01-31 3,952 247 14.56% 3.59%
2023-10-31 3,942 241.3 14.78% 3.21%
2023-07-31 3,882 243.1 14.25% 3%
2023-04-30 3,687 246.7 14.38% 2.83%
2023-01-31 3,772 232.8 14.87% 3.04%

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 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 3,707 positions in DFSE'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 Limited6.98%7.0%
2Tencent Holdings Limited2.56%9.5%
3SK hynix Inc.2.49%12.0%
4Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.2.35%14.4%
5Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.83%16.2%
6Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.06%17.3%
7CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION0.70%18.0%
8DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.60%18.6%
9MediaTek Inc.0.60%19.2%
10HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.0.54%19.7%
11ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD.0.53%20.3%
12TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED0.53%20.8%
13Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.0.51%21.3%
14XIAOMI CORPORATION0.50%21.8%
15PDD Holdings Inc.0.49%22.3%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Taiwan 23.31%
South Korea 19.39%
Cayman Islands° 12.39%
India 11.94%
China 11.28%
Brazil 4.10%
Saudi Arabia 2.21%
South Africa 2.19%

Returns the fund reported

2022-11 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFSE's own filings, 42 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

40.1%Last twelve months filed
74%Whole series, compounded
13.8%Best month
-12.3%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: DFSE.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFSE'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, $33m was out to 26 borrowers. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC, held 22% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $7m 22.0%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $6m 18.1%
UBS EUROPE SE $5m 14.9%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $3m 8.3%
Barclays Capital Securities Ltd. $2m 5.7%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

4,208 positions became 4,223: 165 added (0.8% of the fund at the later date), 150 dropped (1.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 11.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFSE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
SK hynix Inc.1.46%2.49% Tencent Holdings Limited3.52%2.56%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited6.21%6.98% Alibaba Group Holding Limited1.52%1.06%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.85%2.35% MEITUAN0.71%0.29%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.1.42%1.83% KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY0.65%0.33%
ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD.0.22%0.53% INFOSYS LIMITED0.41%0.28%
DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.0.36%0.60% Pop Mart International Group Ltd0.34%0.23%

New: KE Holdings Inc. (0.10%), ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.07%), Hygon Information Technology Co Ltd (0.05%), Rasan Information Technology Company SCJSC (0.02%), INTEGRATED SERVICE TECHNOLOGY INC. (0.02%), ASPEN PHARMACARE HOLDINGS LIMITED (0.02%). Gone: Winbond Electronics Corporation (0.17%), ANGEL ONE LIMITED (0.06%), ZHEN DING TECHNOLOGY HOLDING LIMITED (0.06%), Indian Bank (0.05%), HARMONY GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED (0.05%), ZTE Corporation (0.05%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC91.97%
unknown unknown7.28%
short-term investment STIV0.75%

97.9% of DFSE 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 $590M. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

92.59%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (0)
92.6%Sum, % of net assets

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

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased1.52027-02-05as filed, not named
CallPurchased0.32031-01-06as filed, not named

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of DFSE (86.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SPYV State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio S&P 500(R) Value ETF 441 84.8 23.83% 2026-06-30
NXTG First Trust Indxx NextG ETF 101 84.8 16.33% 2026-06-30
IVE iShares S&P 500 Value ETF 441 84.9 23.82% 2026-06-30
DSTL Distillate U.S. Fundamental Stability & Value ETF 108 85.6 20.08% 2026-06-30
FWD AB Disruptors ETF 116 85.9 21.6% 2026-05-31
WTV WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund 124 88 21.49% 2026-06-30
VPL Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund 2,349 88.7 23.89% 2026-07-31
URTH iShares MSCI World ETF 1,328 88.8 27.73% 2026-05-31
IQLT iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF 318 89.6 22.66% 2026-07-31
FLJP Franklin FTSE Japan ETF 477 90.7 25.51% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine DFSE

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