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Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
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I'm pretty frustrated by this as someone that owns a chunk of index funds. I'm taking the following steps: 1) Rotated my 403B (teacher) to use funds that match the S&P, so that I at least have 6 months before it buys in. 2) Replacing VTI and ITOT with DFAU in my Roth and Reg IRA accounts. Sadly, I can't really touch my VTI in my taxable accounts without paying huge capital gains so that's not worth messing with. I don't mind own SpaceX eventually once the market determines a realistic price (altho will still be inflated due to Musk effect). I just have no desire to be part of an index that is buying in around the IPO.
I understand that. He said DFUS is his core holding in his IRA. My post was to inform that DFAU or DFAC might be more appropriate in a tax advantaged account. The managers of DFUS might make a less desirable investment decision in order to minimize taxes than the managers of DFAU or DFAC. For example, the factors indicate selling a stock, but DFUS will hold it longer to shift from short term capital gain to long term capital gain. Or tax loss harvesting when it might not be the best investment decision.
DFUS is their “tax managed” ETF. One of it’s objectives is to minimize Fed taxes. It’s factor tilts is similar to DFAU with light factor tilts, DFAC has more aggressive tilts.
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.
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.
DFAU is more like VTI, DFUS has a stronger tilt.
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
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.
DFAU looks like it's only a year old'ish, and it's expense ratio is about 4x that of VTI.
DFAU it's basically VTI / broad market US with a very slight tilt toward profitability and value .
DFA converted many of their mutual funds into ETFs last year. E.g., DFAU is on E*Trade
DFA converted many of their mutual funds into ETFs last year. E.g., DFAU is on E*Trade
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.
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.
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.
DFAU is better basically VTI with a little bit of tilt to give it slightly better performance in the long run.
You can try for DFAU and DFAI instead of the usual vti or FZROX.