Fund · Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Read 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.
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 2026-07-31DFSE'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
14Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 6.98% | 7.0% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.56% | 9.5% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 2.49% | 12.0% |
| 4 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 2.35% | 14.4% |
| 5 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.83% | 16.2% |
| 6 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.06% | 17.3% |
| 7 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.70% | 18.0% |
| 8 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.60% | 18.6% |
| 9 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.60% | 19.2% |
| 10 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.54% | 19.7% |
| 11 | ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 0.53% | 20.3% |
| 12 | TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED | 0.53% | 20.8% |
| 13 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.51% | 21.3% |
| 14 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.50% | 21.8% |
| 15 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.49% | 22.3% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of DFSE'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 | 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFSE's own filings, 42 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: DFSE.json · all funds.
Who borrows DFSE'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, $33m was out to 26 borrowers. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC, held 22% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-304,208 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK hynix Inc. | 1.46% | 2.49% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.52% | 2.56% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 6.21% | 6.98% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.52% | 1.06% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.85% | 2.35% | MEITUAN | 0.71% | 0.29% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.42% | 1.83% | KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY | 0.65% | 0.33% |
| ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. | 0.22% | 0.53% | INFOSYS LIMITED | 0.41% | 0.28% |
| DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.36% | 0.60% | Pop Mart International Group Ltd | 0.34% | 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 EC | 91.97% |
| unknown unknown | 7.28% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.75% |
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 2026-04-30A 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 $590M. 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 | 1.5 | 2027-02-05 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Purchased | 0.3 | 2031-01-06 | 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 DFSE (86.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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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