EMERGING MARKETS SMALL CAP PORTFOLIO
Actively managed U.S. stock fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, EMERGING MARKETS SMALL CAP PORTFOLIO held 1 positions with $3.88B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 100.0% of the fund. The DEMSX share class costs 0.6% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, DEMSX returned 24.2%, with dividends reinvested.
The investment objective of the Emerging Markets Small Cap Portfolio (the Portfolio) is to achieve long-term capital appreciation. The Emerging Markets Small Cap Portfolio is a Feeder Portfolio and pursues its objective by investing substantially all of its assets in its corresponding Master Fund, The Emerging Markets Small Cap Series (the Emerging Markets Small Cap Series or the Series) of The DFA Investment Trust Company (the Trust), which has the same investment objective and policies as the Portfolio.
The fund invests substantially all its assets in a master fund that holds a broad portfolio of small-cap companies across emerging and frontier markets, selected by market capitalization thresholds that vary by country. Within that universe, the advisor may emphasize stocks with low relative price, high profitability, or smaller size, and may adjust positions based on price momentum and other shorter-term factors. Because the fund's selections depend on criteria the advisor may change over time and on discretionary shorter-term adjustments, its holdings and performance may diverge from a fixed benchmark.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dimensional Fund Advisors | 100.03% | $3.88B | 28.7M | $134.98 |
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.
All 1 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 101.66% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.50% |
| Derivatives | 0.06% |
Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified.
How it has done
DEMSX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 16.09%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 and Jul 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Fees & fund details
EMERGING MARKETS SMALL CAP PORTFOLIO is an actively managed U.S. equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Master-feeder
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.60%· DEMSX 0.60%
- Portfolio turnover
- 11.00% a year · as of 2026 Q1
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
New and exited totals aren’t verifiable for this fund.
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