Summary
DFA Emerging Markets Portfolio I is a mutual fund run by Dimensional. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day.
- Yearly costs
- 0.46%
- Fund size
- $8.12B
- Dividend yield
- 2.16%
- Running since
- 1994
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $8.12B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.7%.
- It has been running since 1994.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.46% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 38% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -9.6%
- 3 months
- -4.7%
- This year
- +14%
- 1 year
- +16%
- 3 years
- +70%
- 5 years
- +26%
- 10 years
- +75%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $46.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,231
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $46.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $2,231.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +5.7%
- Deepest drop
- -38%
- Yearly volatility
- 23%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 38% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.16%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.36
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.94 per share, which is 2.16% of today's price. The last payment was $0.36 on Sep 29, 2026.