- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Address
- 6300 Bee Cave Road, Building One Austin TX United States of America 78746
- IPO Date
- Jun 14, 2021
- Business
- Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF (DFAT) is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that invests primarily in U.S. small- and mid-cap value stocks characterized by relatively low prices and higher profitability metrics, with a focus on achieving long-term capital appreciation while minimizing federal income taxes on returns through tax-management strategies. The ETF employs a market capitalization-weighted approach to select a broad and diverse portfolio of readily marketable securities from approximately 1,400 holdings across diversified sectors, including overweight positions in financials, consumer staples, and energy; it benchmarks performance against the Russell 2000 Value Index and Russell 3000 Index, with an expense ratio of 0.28%, assets under management exceeding $11 billion, and quarterly dividend distributions. DFAT trades on the NYSE Arca and targets investors seeking exposure to extended market equity beyond large-cap stocks.
DFAT forms part of the Dimensional ETF suite issued by Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (Dimensional), a global investment firm founded in 1981 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional U.S. offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Santa Monica, California, and 15 international affiliates across Canada, the U.K., Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, and Japan. Dimensional specializes in systematic active strategies grounded in academic research, offering equity and fixed income mutual funds, ETFs, separately managed accounts, and model portfolios to financial advisors and institutions worldwide.
In recent developments, Dimensional expanded its ETF offerings with six new equity and fixed income fund filings in 2023, bringing its active ETF suite near $100 billion in assets under management as of that period, and launched its first active European ETFs on the London Stock Exchange and Xetra in Frankfurt in November 2025. The firm renewed its U.K. transfer agency agreement with SS&C Technologies in March 2025 for OEIC funds managing GBP 8.7 billion and partnered with Prudential Financial and Fiduciary Exchange in January 2025 to integrate protected lifetime income strategies into managed accounts using Dimensional indices. In August 2025, Dimensional's Investment Committee approved strategy design changes for select funds, including enhancements to portfolio construction.