DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-09-24
C000196746 — DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio. Intermediate Total / Aggregate Bond · $2.97B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000196746 Fund Overview
DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Dfa Investment Dimensions Group INC, categorised as Intermediate Total / Aggregate 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: Intermediate Total / Aggregate Bond
- Assets under management: $2.97B
- 1-year return: 4.4%
- SEC CIK: 0000355437
- SEC series ID: S000060107
- Share class ID: C000196746
C000196746 Investment Objective and Strategy
DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income 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 Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio (the ""Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio"" or ""Portfolio"") is to maximize total returns from the universe of fixed income securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"The Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, directly or through other funds managed by the Advisor (""Underlying Funds""), in a universe of U.S. and foreign fixed income securities. The Portfolio, directly or through its Underlying Funds, may invest in 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. At the present time, the Advisor expects that most of the Portfolio's and/or its Underlying Funds' investments will be made in the obligations of issuers that are in developed countries.
However, in the future, the Advisor anticipates investing in issuers located in other countries as well. At inception, the Portfolio may invest a portion of its assets in the DFA Investment Grade Portfolio, DFA Short-Term Extended Quality Portfolio, DFA Intermediate-Term Extended Quality Portfolio, DFA Targeted Credit Portfolio, and DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Portfolio. The Advisor may adjust allocations to or may add or remove Underlying Funds in the Portfolio without notice to shareholders. Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio, directly or through its Underlying Funds, may invest up to 60% of its net assets in U.S. fixed income securities (unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by the Advisor, in which case the Portfolio, through its investments in the Underlying Funds, may invest up to 70% of its net assets in U.S.
fixed income securities). The Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio may invest in fixed income securities considered investment grade at the time of purchase (e.g., rated BBB- or above by Standard & Poor's Rating Group (""S&P"") or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (""Fitch"") or Baa3 or above by Moody's Investor's Service, Inc. (""Moody's"")) and in lower-rated (i.e., below investment grade, also known as ""junk"" bonds) fixed income securities, either directly or through its investment in Underlying Funds. The Portfolio, whether directly or through its Underlying Funds, may invest with an emphasis on fixed income securities rated in the lower half of the investment grade spectrum (e.g., rated BBB- to A+ by S&P or Fitch or Baa3 to A1 by Moody's) and in fixed income securities rated below investment grade.
The Portfolio may not emphasize investments in lower-rated debt securities, however, when the Advisor believes the credit risk premium does not warrant the investment. Under normal market conditions, whether directly or through its investment in Underlying Funds, the Portfolio intends to invest its assets to gain exposure to issuers of at least three different countries, one of which may be the United States. An issuer may be considered to be of a country if it is organized, has the majority of its assets, or derives a majority of its operating income in that country. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Portfolio, directly or through its investment in the Underlying Funds, will invest at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities. The Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio will be managed with a view to capturing credit risk premiums and maturity risk premiums.
The term ""credit risk premium"" means the expected incremental return on investment for holding obligations considered to have greater credit risk than direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury, and ""maturity risk premium"" means the expected incremental return on investment for holding securities having longer-term maturities as compared to shorter-term maturities. In managing the Portfolio, the Advisor will increase or decrease investment exposure to intermediate-term securities held directly or through Underlying Funds depending on the expected maturity risk premium and also increase or decrease investment exposure to lower-rated debt securities held directly or through Underlying Funds depending on the expected credit risk premium. Because many of the Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio's and Underlying Funds' investments may be denominated in foreign currencies, the Portfolio and Underlying Funds may enter into forward foreign currency 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 forward foreign currency 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 or Underlying Fund between the date a forward foreign currency contract is entered into and the date on which it expires. The Portfolio and certain Underlying Funds 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 Portfolio's total return. The Portfolio and Underlying Funds may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts, to hedge their interest rate or currency exposure or for non-hedging purposes, such as a substitute for direct investment or to adjust market exposure, including adjustments based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio or Underlying Fund.
The Portfolio and an Underlying Fund may use derivatives to establish short positions for individual securities, markets, or currencies, in order to adjust the Portfolio's or Underlying Fund's duration or to replace more traditional direct investments. The Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income."
C000196746 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Dimensional Holdings Inc. | 3.22% |
| Japan Government Twenty Year Bonds | 3.14% |
| The DFA Investment Trust Company | 3.11% |
| New Zealand Government Bonds | 2.61% |
| Umbs, Tba | 2.35% |
| Umbs, Tba | 2.02% |
| Exxon Mobil Corporation | 1.78% |
| Umbs, Tba | 1.55% |
| Caisse Francaise De Fin | 1.29% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 1.22% |
C000196746 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 98.0% |
| Securitized | 9.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.2% |
| Equity | 3.1% |
C000196746 Performance
Total returns for C000196746 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 0.4% |
| 1 year | 4.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 5.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 0.6% |
C000196746 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000196746, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.5%
C000196746 Costs and Fees
C000196746 costs about $23 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.23%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.24%
- Portfolio turnover: 44%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000196746 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio had net inflows of $305.96M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | $28.94M |
| 2026-03 | $35.95M |
| 2026-02 | $30.71M |
| 2026-01 | $35.48M |
| 2025-12 | $38.77M |
| 2025-11 | −$15.15M |
C000196746 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Japan Government Twenty Year Bonds | 3.14% |
| New Zealand Government Bonds | 2.61% |
| Exxon Mobil Corporation | 1.78% |
| Caisse Francaise De Fin | 1.29% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 1.22% |
| Siemens Financieringsmat | 1.17% |
| Nestle Capital Corp. | 1.09% |
| Visa, Inc. | 1.09% |
| Province Of Alberta | 1.05% |
| Province Of Saskatchewan | 0.97% |
C000196746 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income 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.