Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
Dimensional · Tracks (systematic — no single index) · Inception Dec 1, 2020
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +14.2%
- 3 year
- +21.5%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +8.4%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.29% expense ratio.
Based on $10.06B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 30.5% of net assets.
International Emerging base · ETF wrapper · 2.01% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 13.19% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 5.17% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 4.54% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.57% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.20% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 0.97% |
| 7 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.79% |
| 8 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.77% |
| 9 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.67% |
| 10 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.62% |
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