DFAU

Tough_Phone_3497

Ayyyy another dimensional user. I’ve got DFAU instead. I think mine just has slightly more of a factor tilt than DFUS, but this type of stuff is also why I’m with them.

___Cyanide___

VOO or IVV or SPDR (note that it has only recently tracked the sp500). Something like DFAU can also work. Don’t touch it for decades. Also $700 is nothing. What has your two investments been before? If you want higher risk higher rewards just leverage the sp500 although I wouldn’t exactly recommend that in this market.

Freightliner15

DFAU is more like VTI, DFUS has a stronger tilt.

marikek

Thanks. It matches with what I have found so far, apart from DFAU which from what I understand has a very slight filter tilt and DFUS would be the closer equivalent to VTI, is that correct ? I'd already be covering factors for US with a 14% allocation to DFSV

absurd_logic589

DFAU

JeffB1517

DFA has funds which target value as well as profitability not following. They generally define their big 3 factors as profitability, value and size. DFAU, DFAC... all do value, size and profitability. I think Avantis is a bit ahead on the ETF space especially when it comes to easy naming. But... they seem like mostly clones.

taplar

DFAU looks like it's only a year old'ish, and it's expense ratio is about 4x that of VTI.

absurd_logic589

DFAU it's basically VTI / broad market US with a very slight tilt toward profitability and value .

SteveIsMyRapName

DFA converted many of their mutual funds into ETFs last year. E.g., DFAU is on E*Trade

SteveIsMyRapName

DFA converted many of their mutual funds into ETFs last year. E.g., DFAU is on E*Trade

SirGlass

They are both active managed funds what means they have someone who will pick what companies to invest in DFUS is a large cap fund DFAU is an ALL cap fund However if you check the top holdings they are pretty similar to the S&P500 index. Meaning these funds may outperform the index or under perform because they have some leeway in picking investments vs index funds what just follows the index Owning a larger number of shares is meaningless its the amount invested that matters not share count.

FriendlyPea805

New investor here. Can someone help me with the difference between these new ETFs from Dimension DFUS and DFAU? How do these compare to SPY and VOO? They are attractive to me because of the price per share. Much easier for me to acquire multiple shares per month vs. 1 of SPY/VOO.

Ryanm715

I love ARK's research, but I no longer think it's an investable asset. Too transparent and the ETF wrapper encourages their analysts to trade a LOT, which kinda makes you question their conviction in the stocks that they hold for days or weeks. If you want an aggressive growth fund, go with AOA for a lot fewer basis points on the expense ratio. I spent the last few weeks going through how I want to hold my portfolio and decided to go with nuveen funds. They've outperformed well, are ESG tilted, and have a reasonable expense ratio. (I think under 0.5% is reasonable for active management) I'm also going 10% into DFAU because of their factor tilted strategy which I believe is a smarter version of index investing.

meows_at_idiots

DFAU is better basically VTI with a little bit of tilt to give it slightly better performance in the long run.

realmastodon2

You can try for DFAU and DFAI instead of the usual vti or FZROX.