Dimensional Market ETFs
Rethink your starting point for market exposure
Dimensional Market ETFs are designed to harness the power of markets by improving upon the potential inefficiencies of index funds. Built with flexibility in their DNA, Dimensional Market ETFs are not bound to tracking an index, allowing them to have a clear focus on what impacts investor outcomes. Starting with broad market exposure, Dimensional makes sensible refinements, such as excluding stocks likely to underperform or drive up tax costs. With a daily process and flexible implementation, our Market solutions offer investors market-like returns with the potential for outperformance.
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Refining Markets for Better Expected Outcomes
Built for improved implementation, our Market ETFs offer broad market exposure with sensible refinements and a daily, flexible process.
Unlike traditional index funds, which may rebalance only a couple of times a year, Dimensional’s Market ETFs use a daily, systematic process to maintain broad market exposure while excluding stocks with lower expected returns and higher tax costs. We focus on reducing costs and adding value with our daily buy and sell decisions—rather than rigidly tracking an index.
Dimensional Market ETFs offer broad market exposure with sensible refinements.
Dimensional Market ETFs offer low tracking error with the potential for outperformance.
Even indexing involves tracking error. Cash exposure, implementation costs, fees, and pricing adjustments can all cause index fund returns to diverge from the indices they track. In addition, index providers often make different methodology choices, even when tracking the same asset class. As a result, indices designed to provide similar asset class exposure can produce meaningfully different returns.
Dimensional Market ETFs go beyond indexing with broad market exposure that makes tracking error the result of intentional investment decisions rather than index constraints.
Tracking Error and Excess Return Relative to the Broad Market
Annualized returns as of June 30, 2026
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Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance shown. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. To obtain performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit dimensional.com. Performance includes reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. Returns for ETFs are based on net asset value (NAV).
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Glossary
Asset growth: Capital raised through equity issuance, debt issuance, or growth in retained earnings.
Initial Public Offering (IPO): The initial offering of a company's shares for sale to the public.
Passive foreign investment companies (PFICs): A company that generates income subject to special tax rules for US investors.
Profitability: A company’s operating income before depreciation and amortization minus interest expense scaled by book equity.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs): Securities that provide investors a focused exposure to the income from real property assets. REITs must hold most of their assets in real estate, derive most of their revenue from real estate related sources, and distribute nearly all of their earnings to shareholders.
Reconstitution: A period when stocks are added to or dropped from an index.
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Diversification does not eliminate the risk of market loss.
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