DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio
DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio is an actively managed global bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Short duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The investment objective of the DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio (the Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio or the Portfolio) is to maximize total returns from the universe of debt securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation.
The fund invests in investment-grade corporate and government debt securities maturing within five years, with a weighted average duration of three years or less, adjusting its focus between shorter and longer maturities within that range based on expected term premiums. The fund may also use credit default swaps, currency forwards, and futures to hedge exposures or adjust market positioning. Because the fund's allocation to lower-rated investment-grade securities varies with expected credit premiums, its credit quality composition will shift over time.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| C000071023 | 0.18% |
Portfolio turnover 47.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 91.91% |
| Cash & short-term | 7.64% |
| Stocks | 1.12% |
| Derivatives | -0.26% |
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| International | 33.3% |
| Government | 17.7% |
| Other | 11.8% |
| Financials | 11.8% |
| 11 smaller | 25.5% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: United States Treasury, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, SERVICENOW INC, PSP Capital Inc, ATHENE HOLDING LTD, EASTMAN CHEMICAL CO, Province of Alberta Canada, BASF SE
Largest exited: United States Treasury, The WESTERN UNION CO, ALBERTA PROVINCE, PSP CAPITAL INC, ONTARIO (PROVINCE OF), UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LTD, EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK, LSEG US FIN CORP
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 60.4% |
| Floating rate | 39.6% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 14.7% |
| 1-3y | 24.8% |
| 3-5y | 60.6% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
More of this fund’s sensitivity sits in credit spreads than in interest rates — a rate rally that comes with a credit selloff works against it.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Credit spreads | 56% |
| Interest rates | 44% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +2.44 yr |
| High yield | +0.01 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.51 yr | 26% |
| 5 yr | 1.41 yr | 73% |
| 30 yr | 0.00 yr | 0% |
10 yr is NEGATIVE (-0.00 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.03 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.80 yr | 33% |
| 5 yr | 1.63 yr | 66% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.02 | +0.03 | +0.00 | $15.2k | $130 |
| 1 yr | +0.51 | +0.80 | +0.01 | $467.6k | $3.0k |
| 5 yr | +1.41 | +1.62 | +0.01 | $951.5k | $4.9k |
| 10 yr | -0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 30 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 1.94 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT4.50% · due 2030-05-15 | 2.78% | — | $163.24M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.72% floating · due 2028-01-31 | 1.90% | — | $111.25M | — |
| — | Dimensional Holdings Inc. | 1.14% | — | $66.87M | — |
| — | The DFA Investment Trust Company | 1.12% | $11.56 | $65.68M | 5.7M |
| — | INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP4.09% floating · due 2027-08-19 | 1.05% | — | $61.86M | — |
| — | INTER-AMERICAN DEVEL BK4.00% floating · due 2027-10-04 | 1.04% | — | $60.93M | — |
| — | DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD4.26% floating · due 2028-03-21 | 0.93% | — | $54.67M | — |
| — | SHELL FINANCE US INC4.45% floating · due 2030-11-06 | 0.89% | — | $52.17M | — |
| — | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE | 0.78% | — | $45.67M | — |
| — | SERVICENOW INC1.40% · due 2030-09-01 | 0.71% | — | $41.60M | — |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 12.33% of net assets, top 25 21.26%, across 471 issuers.
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