The DFA Short Term Investment Fund
Actively managed global bond fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, The DFA Short Term Investment Fund held 174 positions with $23.25B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 20.0% of the fund. Over the 12 months to May 2026, it returned 4.1%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q3 it added 70 new positions and exited 118.
The DFA Short Term Investment Fund is actively managed global bond fund.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
DSTIF CASH BALANCE | 5.68% | $1.32B | — |
BARCLAYS CAPITAL GROUP | 2.15% | $500.00M | — |
GOLDMAN SACHS CO | 1.94% | $450.00M | — |
United States of America 3.83% floating · due 2026-10-31 | 1.72% | $400.31M | — |
United States of America 0.00% · due 2026-05-14 | 1.72% | $399.48M | — |
JP MORGAN SECURITIES | 1.50% | $350.00M | — |
TORONTO DOMINION BANK NY | 1.50% | $350.00M | — |
United States of America 0.00% · due 2026-07-21 | 1.49% | $347.18M | — |
WALMART INC. | 1.15% | $268.14M | — |
EQUINOR ASA | 1.11% | $257.89M | — |
All 174 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%.
| Cash & short-term | 85.33% |
| Bonds | 14.85% |
How it has done
C000086468 share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 0.11%. 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
The DFA Short Term Investment Fund is an actively managed global bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
This fund files no prospectus profile. Unit investment trusts and closed-end funds register on forms that carry no objective or fee tagging, and some fund families file without it — a gap in what was filed, not a fund without an objective or without fees.
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.
70 new· the largest 4
118 exited· the largest 4
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.
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 84.1% |
| Floating rate | 15.9% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 100.0% |
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
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