JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000218179 — JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund. United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity · $860.53M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000218179 Fund Overview
JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund is a US mutual fund managed by JNL Series Trust, categorised as United States Small 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: United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $860.53M
- 1-year return: 30.3%
- SEC CIK: 0000933691
- SEC series ID: S000068110
- Share class ID: C000218179
C000218179 Investment Objective and Strategy
JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap 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, using a market capitalization weighted approach, is designed to purchase a broad and diverse group of readily marketable securities of U.S. small capitalization companies.
The Sub-Adviser generally defines a U.S. company as one that is listed and principally traded on a securities exchange in the United States that is deemed appropriate by the Sub-Adviser. A companys market capitalization is the number of its shares outstanding times its price per share. Under a market capitalization weighted approach, companies with higher market capitalizations generally represent a larger proportion of the Fund than companies with relatively lower market capitalizations. The Fund may emphasize certain stocks, including smaller capitalization companies, lower relative price stocks, and/or higher profitability stocks as compared to their representation in the small-cap segment of the U.S. market. 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. As a non-fundamental policy, 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 securities of U.S. small-capitalization companies. As of the date of this Prospectus, for purposes of the Fund, the Sub-Adviser considers small-capitalization companies to be companies whose market capitalizations are generally in the lowest 10% of total market capitalization or companies whose market capitalizations are smaller than the 1,000 th largest U.S.
company, whichever results in the higher market capitalization break. Total market capitalization is based on the market capitalization of eligible U.S. operating companies listed on a securities exchange in the United States that is deemed appropriate by the Sub-Adviser. Under the Sub-Advisers market capitalization guidelines described above, based on market capitalization data as of December 31, 2025, the market capitalization of a small-capitalization company would be $16.77 billion or below. This threshold will change due to market conditions. 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 purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts for 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.
C000218179 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Jackson National Asset Management, LLC | 1.33% |
| TTM Technologies, Inc. | 0.38% |
| IES Holdings, Inc. | 0.31% |
| Onto Innovation Inc. | 0.29% |
| Dycom Industries, Inc. | 0.28% |
| Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. | 0.27% |
| Rambus Inc. | 0.27% |
| DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 0.27% |
| Sanmina Corporation | 0.26% |
| Davita Inc. | 0.25% |
C000218179 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 100.2% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.3% |
C000218179 Performance
Total returns for C000218179 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 19.0% |
| 1 year | 30.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 15.2% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 7.9% |
C000218179 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000218179, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.8%
C000218179 Costs and Fees
C000218179 costs about $64 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.64%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.69%
- Portfolio turnover: 20%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.64 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000218179 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund had net inflows of $29.13M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$120.93K |
| 2026-05 | −$6.47M |
| 2026-04 | $4.12M |
| 2026-03 | $8.34M |
| 2026-02 | $10.64M |
| 2026-01 | $477.74K |
C000218179 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000218179 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official JNL/DFA U.S. Small Cap 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
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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.