DFA Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio

C000130944 Fund Overview

DFA Short-Duration Real Return 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: $2.28B
• 1-year return: 4.5%
• SEC CIK: 0000355437
• SEC series ID: S000042173
• Share class ID: C000130944

C000130944 Investment Objective and Strategy

DFA Short-Duration Real Return 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-Duration Real Return Portfolio (the “Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio”) is to seek inflation protection and maximize total returns.

Principal investment strategy

The Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio pursues its investment objective by investing in a combination of debt securities, including inflation-protected securities, and derivative instruments. The Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio will maintain an average portfolio duration of three years or less. In making purchase decisions, if the expected term premium is greater for longer-term securities in the eligible maturity range, the Advisor will focus investment in the longer-term area, otherwise, the Portfolio will focus investment in the shorter-term area of the eligible maturity range. The fixed income securities in which the Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio directly or indirectly invests are considered investment grade at the time of purchase. The Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio may invest in inflation protected securities, obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S.

and foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, corporate debt obligations, bank obligations, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, obligations of other domestic and foreign issuers, securities of domestic or foreign issuers denominated in U.S. dollars but not trading in the United States, and obligations of supranational organizations. 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-Duration Real Return Portfolio may enter into swaps, such as inflation swaps, to seek inflation protection. 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 Portfolio may use foreign currency forward contracts to attempt to protect against uncertainty in the level of future foreign currency rates, 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 Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.

C000130944 Holdings

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

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C000130944 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of DFA Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000130944 Performance

Total returns for C000130944 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000130944 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000130944, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 1.2%

C000130944 Costs and Fees

C000130944 costs about $22 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.22%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.22%
• Portfolio turnover: 36%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000130944 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-04, DFA Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio had net inflows of $235.10M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000130944 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of DFA Short-Duration Real Return Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000130944 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official DFA Short-Duration Real Return 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

Related Funds

Other Short Corporate Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund (VFSTX)
• Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund (VSCSX)
• American High Income Trust (AHITX)
• Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (VWEHX)
• PGIM High Yield Fund (JDYRX)

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.