Dimensional - Global Sustainability Fixed Income ETF
$49.85−0.45 (−0.90%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.24%
- Fund size
- $754M
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.46%
- Holdings
- 663
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFSB Grade
Score 72 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 94Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 29Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on DFSB
ADimensional's global bond core with a sustainability screen: roughly 700 US and developed-market issues, no named index to hug, and a price tag well under the typical aggregate bond fund.
The ETF seeks to maximize total returns through income and capital appreciation from the debt securities in which it invests.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.24% a year against a 0.36% median for aggregate bond funds, so the sustainability mandate doesn't carry the usual premium.
- Roughly 700 bonds spread across US and developed international issuers, broad enough that no single borrower moves the needle much.
- What it owns lines up closely with what it says: global debt run for income and capital appreciation, with sustainability shaping the mix.
- Pays quarterly and lands in the upper half of a very crowded aggregate-bond field.
Worth knowing
- The plain-vanilla giants (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) charge 0.03%. The sustainability screen here is a real annual cost difference.
- Thinly traded, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads and more slippage on bigger orders than the household-name bond funds.
- Launched in 2022, so the record is short by bond-fund standards, and the fund is mid-sized rather than a giant.
DFSB Holdings
- Bonds
- 663
- 15%
- FNMA 30YR TBA OCT 6%
Geography
- United States33.40%
- Canada14.23%
- Japan6.83%
- United Kingdom6.80%
- Belgium6.42%
- France5.83%
- Netherlands5.56%
- Australia4.99%
- 15.95%
Developed 97% · Emerging 3%
DFSB 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 | DFSB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.8% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +4.8% |
| 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 | DFSB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.1% | |
| 2025 | +5.2% | |
| 2024 | +2.5% | |
| 2023 | +9.3% | |
| 2022 | −0.8% |
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DFSB Dividends
- 6.46%
- $3.25
- $0.07 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.62 |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.37 |
| May 19, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.63 |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 | $0.43 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 23, 2025 | $0.65 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Feb 21, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.74 |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Nov 21, 2024 | $0.41 |
DFSB Risk
- 5.2%
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.
- 0.05
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.
- −5.2%
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.
- 0.88
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFSB Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
4 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.