Dimensional - Global Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
$52.30−0.53 (−1.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.23%
- Fund size
- $3.6B
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.62%
- Holdings
- 1323
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $52.74
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFGP Grade
Score 76 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 88Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 33Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on DFGP
AMost of the aggregate-bond aisle stops at the US border. Dimensional's version buys the world, roughly 1,300 bonds across US and foreign issuers, for well under the category's typical fee.
The fund seeks its objective through investments in U.S. and foreign fixed-income securities.
Why people hold it
- 0.23% a year against a category median near 0.36%. Cheap shelf space for a globally sourced bond portfolio.
- About 1,300 bonds spanning US and foreign issuers, so no single borrower carries much weight.
- Runs to a stated mandate rather than a published index, and it has stayed tightly inside that US-plus-foreign fixed income brief.
- Pays quarterly, and it sits among the stronger builds in a crowded aggregate-bond peer group.
Worth knowing
- Cheap for its niche, not cheap outright. Plain US aggregate trackers (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) charge 0.03%.
- Going global means foreign government and corporate paper, a wider risk set than a US-only aggregate fund carries.
- A 2023 launch, so the record is short, and it trades moderately rather than sitting among the busiest names on the tape.
DFGP Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,323
- 14%
- FNMA 30YR TBA OCT 6%
Geography
- United States66.39%
- Canada12.74%
- Japan6.67%
- France5.61%
- New Zealand3.28%
- United Kingdom1.40%
- Australia1.39%
- Belgium1.17%
- 1.36%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
DFGP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DFGP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.6% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DFGP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.1% | |
| 2025 | +5.9% | |
| 2024 | +3.7% | |
| 2023 | +6.2% |
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DFGP Dividends
- 5.62%
- $2.97
- $0.06 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.41 |
| May 19, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.68 |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 23, 2025 | $0.66 |
| May 20, 2025 | May 22, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Feb 21, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.71 |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Nov 21, 2024 | $0.65 |
DFGP Risk
- 4.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.17
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −3.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.21
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFGP Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
3 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.