JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund

C000210330 Fund Overview

JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund is a US mutual fund managed by JNL Series Trust, categorised as Developed ex-US Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: JNL Series Trust
• Category: Developed ex-US Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity
• Assets under management: $693.44M
• 1-year return: 21.3%
• SEC CIK: 0000933691
• SEC series ID: S000064960
• Share class ID: C000210330

C000210330 Investment Objective and Strategy

JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by JNL Series Trust.

Investment objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

To achieve the Funds investment objective, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, the Funds sub-adviser (Sub-Adviser), implements an integrated investment approach that combines research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading functions. As further described below, the Funds design emphasizes long-term drivers of expected returns identified by the Sub-Advisers research, while balancing risk through broad diversification across companies and sectors. The Sub-Advisers portfolio management and trading processes further balance those long-term drivers of expected returns with shorter-term drivers of expected returns and trading costs. The Fund is designed to purchase a broad and diverse group of equity securities within a market capitalization weighted universe (e.g., the larger the company, the greater the proportion of the universe it represents) of non-U.S.

companies associated with developed markets that have been authorized for investment by the Sub-Advisors Investment Committee (the International Universe). Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in non-U.S. equity securities and/or investments that provide exposure to non-U.S. securities. The Fund invests in companies of all sizes, with meaningfully increased exposure to smaller capitalization, lower relative price, and higher profitability companies as compared to their representation in the International Universe. The Funds meaningfully increased exposure to smaller capitalization, lower relative price, and higher profitability companies may be achieved by decreasing the allocation of the Funds assets to larger capitalization, higher relative price, or lower profitability companies relative to their weight in the International Universe.

An equity issuer is considered to have a high relative price (i.e., a growth stock) primarily because it has a high price in relation to its book value. An equity issuer is considered to have a low relative price (i.e., a value stock) primarily because it has a low price in relation to its book value. In assessing relative price, the Sub-Adviser may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. An equity issuer is considered to have high profitability because it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The criteria the Sub-Adviser uses for assessing relative price and profitability are subject to change from time to time. Under normal circumstances, the Fund intends to invest at least 40% of its assets in three or more non-U.S.

countries by investing in securities of companies associated with such countries. The Fund intends to purchase securities of companies associated with developed market countries that the Sub-Adviser has designated as approved markets. The Sub-Adviser determines company size on a country- or region-specific basis and based primarily on market capitalization. The Sub-Adviser may also increase or reduce the Funds exposure to an eligible company, or exclude a company, based on shorter-term considerations, such as a companys price momentum, short-run reversals, and investment characteristics. In assessing a companys investment characteristics, the Sub-Adviser considers ratios such as recent changes in assets divided by total assets. The criteria the Sub-Adviser uses for assessing a companys investment characteristics are subject to change from time to time.

In addition, the Sub-Adviser seeks to reduce trading costs using a flexible trading approach that looks for opportunities to participate in the available market liquidity, while managing turnover and explicit transaction costs. The Fund may gain exposure to companies associated with approved markets by purchasing equity securities in the form of depositary receipts, which may be listed or traded outside the issuers domicile country. The Fund also may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts for foreign or U.S. equity securities and indices to increase or decrease equity market exposure based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Fund. Because many of the Funds investments may be denominated in foreign currencies, the Fund may enter into foreign currency exchange transactions, including foreign currency forward contracts, in connection with the settlement of foreign securities or to transfer cash balances from one currency to another currency.

C000210330 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000210330 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000210330 Performance

Total returns for C000210330 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000210330 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000210330, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.8%

C000210330 Costs and Fees

C000210330 costs about $56 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.56%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.61%
• Portfolio turnover: 16%
• Brokerage commissions: 1.85 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000210330 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund had net inflows of $104.60M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000210330 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000210330 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official JNL/DFA International Core Equity Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-23
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-24
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-25
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-12
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14

Related Funds

Other Developed ex-US Mid Cap Blend / Core Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• International Growth and Income Fund (IGAAX)
• Fidelity Advisor International Capital Appreciation Fund (FCPAX)
• Fidelity International Discovery Fund (FIGRX)
• Dimensional International High Profitability ETF (DIHP)
• Victory International Fund (USIFX)

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.