DFA Inflation-Protected Securities Portfolio
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- Financial Services
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- Asset Management
- Address
- Santa Monica CA 90401 Santa Monica CA United States of America 90401
- IPO Date
- Sep 20, 2006
- CIK
- 0000355437
- Website
- dimensional.com
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- DFA Inflation-Protected Securities Portfolio (DIPSX) is an institutional-class mutual fund that seeks to provide inflation protection and current income consistent with inflation-protected securities, investing at least 80% of its net assets in such instruments, primarily U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) issued by the U.S. government and its agencies; the portfolio ordinarily targets securities with maturities between five and twenty years, maintaining an average weighted maturity of three to twelve years based on market values, and may employ futures contracts and options on futures for exposure adjustments without anticipating interest rate movements. Top holdings include United States Treasury Notes 0.875% (approximately 9.95%), United States Treasury Bonds 2.5% (9.57%), and United States Treasury Bonds 3.875% (9.36%), comprising about 44.83% of the portfolio, with total net assets of approximately $5.16 billion and a net expense ratio of 0.11%. Managed by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (DFA), founded in 1981 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the fund operates within the Inflation-Protected Bond category, serving institutional and advisor-access clients primarily in the United States. DFA, the fund's investment manager, maintains a global presence with offices in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, and Japan, applying systematic strategies grounded in academic research such as the Fama-French model across equity, fixed income, and other asset classes. The DIPSX portfolio, launched on September 18, 2006, focuses on high credit quality with moderate interest-rate sensitivity and is available through daily pricing with no front-end or deferred loads. In recent developments, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved DFA in November 2025 to launch ETF share classes for 13 mutual funds, expanding access to systematic strategies including potential enhancements to fixed income offerings like inflation-protected securities. DFA renewed its transfer agency agreement with SS&C Global Investor and Distribution Solutions in March 2025 for its U.K. OEIC funds managing GBP 8.7 billion, reinforcing operational efficiency, and partnered with Prudential Financial and Fiduciary Exchange in January 2025 to integrate protected lifetime income strategies into managed accounts using Dimensional's low-turnover approaches. Additionally, DFA filed in September 2025 to launch its first UCITS ETFs in Europe by year-end, targeting developed markets core all-cap and small/mid-cap value exposures listed in London and Frankfurt, complementing its growing ETF lineup that surpassed $200 billion in assets.