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- DFA Emerging Markets Value Portfolio (DFEVX) is a mutual fund managed by Dimensional Fund Advisors L.P. that seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing substantially all of its assets in the Dimensional Emerging Markets Value Fund, a master fund focused on emerging markets equities exhibiting value characteristics; it typically invests at least 80% of net assets in securities of companies in approved emerging markets, emphasizing those with lower relative prices such as price-to-book, price-to-earnings or price-to-cash-flow ratios, alongside considerations for profitability. The portfolio targets large-cap value stocks across approximately 20 emerging-market nations, with primary regional allocations to Emerging Asia (around 49%), Developed Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa; it employs a systematic, rules-based approach to capture factor premia including value, smaller size tilts and profitability within diversified holdings of emerging market companies. Dimensional Fund Advisors, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore and Japan, provides this Institutional Class share (ticker: DFEVX, launched April 1, 1998) as part of its broad suite of factor-based mutual funds and ETFs serving institutional and advisor clients globally. In August 2025, Dimensional's Investment Committee approved strategy design enhancements for several targeted value funds, including the Emerging Markets Targeted Value Fund, to emphasize higher profitability and lower relative price securities across broader eligible size and value ranges while maintaining exclusions for low-profitability names; this update aims to refine factor exposures without altering core eligible universes. Other recent changes include the implementation of short-run reversal screens in UK- and Irish-domiciled equity strategies starting January 2024 to delay trades on recent winners and losers for enhanced expected returns, and ongoing portfolio adjustments such as excluding REITs from select small cap funds in summer 2025. These evolutions reflect Dimensional's commitment to iterative research-driven improvements in its systematic investment processes amid evolving market dynamics.