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About Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF
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Inception date
Nov 15, 2021
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Physical
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Ordinary income
Primary advisor
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
Distributor
DFA Securities LLC
DFCF rounds out Dimensionals fixed income ETFs suite with its core offering. The actively managed fund includes investment-grade obligations issued or guaranteed by the US and foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, including mortgage-backed securities, corporate debts, bank loans, commercial paper, and money market funds. The funds strategy attempts to capture both expected credit and expected term premiumsthat is return on investment for holding obligations considered to have greater credit risk and longer-term maturities. The fund may invest in fixed income securities of varying maturities while trying to maintain a weighted average duration as its benchmarkBloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. Additionally, the fund uses derivatives such as swaps and futures contracts to hedge against shifts in interest rates, credit quality, and currency exchange rates.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Corporate
Government
Securitized
Bonds, Cash & Other100.00%
Corporate49.60%
Government48.69%
Securitized27.35%
Cash−25.65%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history