DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio

C000071023 Fund Overview

DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Dfa Investment Dimensions Group INC, categorised as Short Corporate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Dfa Investment Dimensions Group INC
• Category: Short Corporate Bond
• Assets under management: $5.90B
• 1-year return: 4.2%
• SEC CIK: 0000355437
• SEC series ID: S000024202
• Share class ID: C000071023

C000071023 Investment Objective and Strategy

DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Dfa Investment Dimensions Group INC.

Investment objective

The investment objective of the DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio (the “Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio”) is to maximize total returns from the universe of debt securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio seeks to maximize total returns from a universe of U.S. and foreign corporate debt securities with an investment grade credit rating. In addition, the Portfolio may invest in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. and foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, bank obligations, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, obligations of other domestic and foreign issuers having investment grade ratings, securities of domestic or foreign issuers denominated in U.S. dollars but not trading in the United States, and obligations of supranational organizations. The Portfolio generally invests with an emphasis on debt securities rated in the lower half of the investment grade spectrum (e.g., rated BBB- to A+ by Standard & Poors Rating Group (S&P) or Fitch Ratings Ltd.

(Fitch) or Baa3 to A1 by Moodys Investors Service, Inc. (Moodys)). The Portfolio will not emphasize investments in the lower half of the investment grade spectrum, however, when Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (the Advisor) believes the expected credit premium is relatively low. The Portfolio will also invest in higher-rated debt securities. At the present time, the Advisor expects that most investments will be made in the obligations of issuers that are located in developed countries. However, in the future, the Advisor anticipates investing in issuers located in other countries as well. The Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio primarily invests in securities that mature within five years from the date of settlement and maintains an average portfolio maturity and an average portfolio duration of three years or less.

In making these purchase decisions, if the expected term premium is greater for longer-term securities in the eligible maturity range, the Advisor will focus on investment in the longer-term area, otherwise, the Portfolio will focus its investment in the shorter-term area of the eligible maturity range. Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of a securitys price to changes in interest rates. The longer a securitys duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Portfolio will invest at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities considered to be investment grade quality. In addition, the Portfolio is authorized to invest more than 25% of its total assets in U.S. Treasury bonds, bills and notes, and obligations of federal agencies and instrumentalities.

The Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolios investments may include foreign securities denominated in foreign currencies. The Portfolio intends to hedge foreign currency exposure to attempt to protect against uncertainty in the level of future foreign currency rates. The Portfolio may enter into foreign currency forward contracts to hedge against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or to transfer balances from one currency to another. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of the Portfolio between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires.

The Portfolio also may enter into credit default swaps on issuers or indices to buy or sell credit protection to hedge its credit exposure; gain market or issuer exposure without owning the underlying securities; or increase the Portfolios total return. The Portfolio also may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts, to hedge its interest rate or currency exposure or for non-hedging purposes, such as a substitute for direct investment or to adjust market exposure based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio. The Portfolio does not intend to sell futures contracts to establish short positions in individual securities or to use derivatives for purposes of speculation or leveraging investment returns. The Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.

C000071023 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000071023 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000071023 Performance

Total returns for C000071023 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000071023 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000071023, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 1.0%

C000071023 Costs and Fees

C000071023 costs about $18 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.18%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.18%
• Portfolio turnover: 47%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000071023 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-04, DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio had net inflows of $284.69M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000071023 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000071023 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-24
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-24
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-27
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-12
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-10

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.