SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FORM N-CSRS Certified semi-annual shareholder report of registered management investment companies filed on Form N-CSR Filing Date: 2021-07-09 | Period of Report: 2021-04-30 SEC Accession No. 0001193125-21-211771 (HTML Version on secdatabase.com) FILER Dimensional ETF Trust Mailing Address Business Address 6300 BEE CAVE ROAD 6300 BEE CAVE ROAD CIK:1816125| IRS No.: 000000000 | State of Incorp.:DE | Fiscal Year End: 1031 BUILDING ONE BUILDING ONE Type: N-CSRS | Act: 40 | File No.: 811-23580 | Film No.: 211082792 AUSTIN TX 78746 AUSTIN TX 78746 512-306-7400 Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM N-CSR CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES Investment Company Act file number 811-23580 DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter) 6300 Bee Cave Road, Building One, Austin, TX 78746 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code) Catherine L. Newell, Esquire, President and General Counsel Dimensional ETF Trust, 6300 Bee Cave Road, Building One, Austin, TX 78746 (Name and address of agent for service) Registrants telephone number, including area code: 512-306-7400 Date of fiscal year end: October 31 Date of reporting period: April 30, 2021 Explanatory Note: Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, on June 11, 2021, each of the Tax-Managed U.S. Equity Portfolio, Tax-Managed U.S. Small Cap Portfolio, Tax-Managed U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio and T.A. U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio, series of DFA Investment Dimensions Group Inc. (DFAIDG), converted into an ETF through the reorganization of the fund into a newly-created, corresponding series of Dimensional ETF Trust (i.e., the Dimensional U.S. Equity ETF, Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF, Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF and Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF, respectively) that had the same investment objective and investment strategies as the converted mutual fund. Since each reorganization was not completed until after the date of the reporting period for this Form N-CSRS filing, the semi-annual shareholder reports for the Dimensional U.S. Equity ETF, Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF, Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF and Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF have been filed in the Form N- CSRS filed for DFAIDG on July 9, 2021 (Accession Number 0001193125-21-211534). This Form N-CSRS filing for the Registrant includes the semi-annual reports for Dimensional ETF Trusts other operational series, the Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF, Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF and Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF. Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document ITEM 1. REPORTS TO STOCKHOLDERS. Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document Semi-Annual Report Period Ended: April 30, 2021 (Unaudited) DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document June 2021 Dear Shareholder, This year, we are proud to mark 40 years since Dimensionals founding. We started our business in 1981 with a goal of putting clients at the center of everything we do. That remains a guiding principle today. Our firm was built on the belief that the stock and bond markets provide the information needed to have a good investment experience. What seemed like a bold idea to many at the time has since become a cornerstone of a better way to invest. While aspects of our approach have evolved along with markets, our philosophical framework and client perspective have not changed. We develop practical, cost-effective investment solutions informed by decades of academic inquiry and the findings from our own continual research. We manage these offerings using a flexible, systematic approach to implementation refined over many years. Investors in our funds remain the focus driving all the work we do. The assets entrusted to us are more than just shares in a portfoliothey represent investors savings and sacrifices. On behalf of more than 1,400 employees at Dimensional, we thank you for the confidence you have placed in us. We look forward to many more years of innovating in support of the investors we serve. Sincerely, David P. Butler Gerard OReilly CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER and CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document [THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT (Unaudited) Table of Contents Page Letter to Shareholders Definitions of Abbreviations and Footnotes 1 Disclosure of Expenses 2 Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings 4 Summary Schedules of Portfolio Holdings Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 5 Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 8 Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 13 Statements of Assets and Liabilities 18 Statements of Operations 19 Statements of Changes in Net Assets 20 Financial Highlights 21 Notes to Financial Statements 22 Voting Proxies on Fund Portfolio Securities 29 Statement Regarding Liquidity Risk Management Program 30 Board Approval of Investment Management Agreements 32 This report is submitted for the information of each Funds shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus. i Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document [THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST DEFINITIONS OF ABBREVIATIONS AND FOOTNOTES (Unaudited) Schedules of Investments/Summary Schedules of Portfolio Holdings Investment Abbreviations ADR American Depositary Receipt PLC Public Limited Company SA Special Assessment Investment Footnotes See Note B to Financial Statements Calculated as a percentage of total net assets. Percentages shown parenthetically next to the category headings have been calculated as a percentage of total investments. Other Securities are those securities that are not among the top 50 holdings in unaffiliated issuers of the Fund or do not represent more than 1.0% of the net assets of the Fund. Some of the individual securities within this category may include Total or Partial Securities on Loan and/or Non-Income Producing Securities # Total or Partial Securities on Loan * Non-Income Producing Security @ Security purchased with cash collateral received from Securities on Loan § Affiliated Fund Financial Highlights (a) Computed using average shares outstanding (b) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, if any, and redemption on the last day of the period at net asset value. This percentage is not an indication of the performance of a shareholders investment in the Fund based on market value due to differences between the market price of the shares and the net asset value per share of the Fund (c) Not annualized for periods less than one year (d) Market value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, if any, and redemption on the last day of the period at market value. Market value is determined by the composite closing price. Composite closing security price is defined as the last reported sale price from any primary listing market (e.g., NYSE Arca) or participating regional exchanges or markets. The composite closing price is the last reported sale price from any of the eligible sources, regardless of volume and not an average price and may have occurred on a date prior to the close of the reporting period. Market value may be greater or less than net asset value, depending on the Funds closing price on the listing market (e) Annualized for periods less than one year (f) Excludes impact of in-kind transactions All Statements, Schedules and Notes to Financial Statements Amounts designated as are either zero or rounded to zero SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document Commencement of Operations 1 Copyright © 2021 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST DISCLOSURE OF FUND EXPENSES (Unaudited) The following Expense Tables are shown so that you can understand the impact of fees on your investment. As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include a unitary management fee paid to Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (the Advisor). The Advisor is responsible for substantially all ordinary fund operating expenses, except