

DFIC offers attractive characteristics such as a reasonable expense ratio, dividend yield, and liquidity. However, DFAX shows more resilience, with better diversification, exposure to emerging markets, and outperformance over DFIC in shorter time frames. The current economic climate favors DFAX as a hedge against high-growth portfolios, with potential for EM companies to rerate against the S&P 500.

DFIC ETF initiated with a Sell rating due to overly diversified approach. PM team's multiple responsibilities and lack of personal investment in fund raise concerns. DFIC's portfolio of 4,000 holdings limits potential for meaningful outperformance, resembling closet indexing approach.

Active ETF strategies have stormed the scene over the past year and are growing at a dizzying pace. First-quarter net inflows into actively managed ETFs surged past the previous record to $66 billion.

After offering mutual funds for four decades, Dimensional Funds turns three years old as an ETF provider this month. It has been an impressive start and there's much more coming.

And, plenty of ink has been spilled about how much money has gone into active ETFs in 2023, and from a pure top-line flows perspective, it's true. A significant chunk of the $289 billion that has entered U.S.-listed ETFs year to date went into active products — 22%, in fact.

Tumbling markets, global uncertainty may be crimping fund demand.

Passive investing has long been a popular and successful approach to investing, but sometimes opportunities are lost in seeking to track an index due to the constraints that indexing can carry. Gerard O'Reilly, co-CEO of Dimensional, appeared on a recent webcast moderated by Tom Lydon, CEO of ETF Trends, and Todd Rosenbluth, head of research [.

Dimensional Fund Advisors has announced the launch of four new international ETFs. The new ETFs, which begin trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange today, offer broadly diversified exposure to core international equities across market caps and styles as well as component solutions focused on international small-cap, international small-cap value, and international high profitability equities.
SEC filings for DFIC aren't indexed yet — common for recently launched funds. Browse the issuer's filings on SEC EDGAR directly.