DFA Japanese Small Company Portfolio

Class Inst (DFJSX)
Scorecard
4 / 5 Stars
Lipper
5 3 2
Zacks Investment Research
1 (Strong Buy)
Standard & Poor's
3 / 5 Stars
TheStreet.com
D+ (Sell)

#4 in Japan Stock

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Performance

The fund has returned 16.40 percent over the past year, 9.11 percent over the past three years, 5.85 percent over the past five years, and 10.16 percent over the past decade.

Trailing Returns Updated 04.30.2013
Year to date 19.7%
1 Year 16.4%
3 Years (Annualized) 9.1%
5 Years (Annualized) 5.8%
10 Years (Annualized) 10.2%

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Summary

The investment seeks long-term capital appreciation. The Portfolio is a Feeder Portfolio and pursues its objective by investing substantially all of its assets in its corresponding Master fund, The Japanese Small Company Series (the "Japanese Small Company Series") of The DFA Investment Trust Company (the "Trust"), which has the same investment objective and policies as the Portfolio. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Japanese Small Company Series will invest at least 80% of its net assets in securities of Japanese small companies.

Fees

Fees are Low compared to funds in the same category.
DFA Japanese Small Company Portfolio has an expense ratio of 0.57 percent.

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Risk

Risk is Below Average compared to funds in the same category according to Morningstar.

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