Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF
Dimensional ETF Trust · 1 share class
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF is an actively managed global bond ETF.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- ETF
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Short duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The investment objective of the Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF (the Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF or Portfolio) is to maximize total returns from the universe of fixed income securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation.
The fund actively manages a portfolio of investment-grade corporate and government debt securities with maturities within five years, adjusting exposure to lower-rated investment-grade bonds based on expected credit premiums and shifting between shorter and longer maturities depending on term premium expectations. The fund maintains a weighted average duration within one year below to one half year above the ICE BofA 1-5 Year US Corporate & Government Index, though it may deviate from this range at the manager's discretion. Because the fund does not track an index and actively selects securities, its performance may diverge from any benchmark.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| DFSD | 0.17% | 0.16% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 20.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 98.84% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.68% |
| Other | 0.02% |
| Derivatives | -0.10% |
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 | 28.0% |
| Other | 21.5% |
| Financials | 13.1% |
| Government | 6.4% |
| 11 smaller | 31.0% |
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: KOMMUNALBANKEN AS, STORE CAPITAL LLC, NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, EATON CORPORATION, REPSOL E&P CAPITAL MARKETS US LLC, BOSTON PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, BROADCOM INC., RCI BANQUE SA
Largest exited: STORE CAPITAL LLC, DNB BANK ASA, KfW, LA BANQUE TORONTO-DOMINION, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA, Citibank National Association, Aktiebolaget Svensk Exportkredit, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED
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 | 90.0% |
| Floating rate | 9.8% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 0.2% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 2.3% |
| 1-3y | 29.8% |
| 3-5y | 67.9% |
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 | 50% |
| Interest rates | 50% |
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 | +2.84 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 | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 1.00 yr | 36% |
| 5 yr | 1.78 yr | 64% |
10 yr and 30 yr are NEGATIVE (-0.00 yr, -0.00 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so they are not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 1.05 yr | 37% |
| 5 yr | 1.78 yr | 63% |
10 yr and 30 yr are NEGATIVE (-0.00 yr, -0.00 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so they are not part of the band above.
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 | +0.01 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $7.9k | $0 |
| 1 yr | +1.00 | +1.05 | +0.00 | $691.0k | $0 |
| 5 yr | +1.78 | +1.78 | +0.00 | $1.17m | $0 |
| 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 2.79 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 | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | New Zealand4.50% · due 2030-05-15 | 2.09% | $137.56M | — |
| — | DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP | 1.68% | $110.85M | — |
| — | United States of America4.63% · due 2028-09-30 | 0.77% | $50.87M | — |
| — | ACCENTURE CAPITAL INC.4.05% · due 2029-10-04 | 0.74% | $48.58M | — |
| — | NOVARTIS CAPITAL CORPORATION3.80% · due 2029-09-18 | 0.64% | $42.20M | — |
| — | JOHNSON & JOHNSON4.80% · due 2029-06-01 | 0.57% | $37.51M | — |
| — | CDP FINANCIAL INC.4.63% · due 2030-01-24 | 0.56% | $36.64M | — |
| — | RADIAN GROUP INC.6.20% · due 2029-05-15 | 0.49% | $31.98M | — |
| — | KOMMUNALBANKEN AS3.99% floating · due 2031-03-04 | 0.49% | $31.97M | — |
| — | AKER BP ASA3.75% · due 2030-01-15 | 0.46% | $29.94M | — |
Top 10 positions are 8.48% of net assets, top 25 14.59%, across 651 issuers.
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