Oct. 31, 2025 |
| Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
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| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market
as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods
of time.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk:
Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained
by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market
in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask
spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance
that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares
will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares
may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio
holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional US Core Equity 1 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Core Equity 1 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High
relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy
purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment
strategies.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk:
Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained
by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market
in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask
spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance
that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares
will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares
may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio
holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Large Shareholder Risk |
Large Shareholder Risk: Certain shareholders, including
other funds or accounts advised by the Advisor, may from time to time own a substantial amount of a fund’s
shares. In addition, a third-party investor, the Advisor, an authorized participant, a lead market maker,
or another entity may invest in a fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to
facilitate commencement of a fund or to facilitate a fund achieving a specified size or scale. There
can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of a fund
would be maintained at such levels or that a fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements.
Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on a fund. In addition, transactions
by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange
and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
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| Dimensional US High Profitability ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US High Profitability ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit
purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares
on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met.
Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid
in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may
cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
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| Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit
purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares
on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met.
Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid
in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may
cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
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| Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Small Company Risk |
Small Company Risk: Securities of small companies
are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell a small
company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small company stocks may fluctuate relatively
more in price. In general, smaller capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies
to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market
as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods
of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk:
High relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional US Large Cap Vector ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Large Cap Vector ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that
owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of
falling prices.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk:
Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform
the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to
deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant
variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in
a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional US Vector Equity ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Vector Equity ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities
of small and mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make
it difficult to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small
and mid-cap company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization
companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments
and they may have more limited resources.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to
deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant
variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in
a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Large Shareholder Risk |
Large Shareholder Risk: Certain
shareholders, including other funds or accounts advised by the Advisor, may from time to time own a substantial
amount of a fund’s shares. In addition, a third-party investor, the Advisor, an authorized participant,
a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in a fund and hold its investment for a limited period
of time solely to facilitate commencement of a fund or to facilitate a fund achieving a specified size
or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that
the size of a fund would be maintained at such levels or that a fund would continue to meet applicable
listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on a
fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading
volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market
price of the shares.
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|
| Dimensional US Real Estate ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Real Estate ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Risks of Concentrating in the Real Estate Industry |
Risks of Concentrating in the Real Estate Industry:
A fund that concentrates (i.e., invests more than 25% of its net assets) its investments
in securities of companies in the real estate industry will be exposed to the general risks of direct
real estate ownership. The value of securities in the real estate industry can be affected by changes
in real estate values and rental income, property taxes, and tax and regulatory requirements. Also, the
value of securities in the real estate industry may decline with changes in interest rates. Investing
in REITs and REIT-like entities involves certain unique risks in addition to those risks associated with
investing in the real estate industry in general. REITs and REIT-like entities are dependent upon management
skill, may not be diversified, and are subject to heavy cash flow dependency and self-liquidation. REITs
and REIT-like entities also are subject to the possibility of failing to qualify for tax free pass-through
of income. Also, because REITs and REIT-like entities typically are invested in a limited number of projects
or in a particular market segment, these entities are more susceptible to adverse developments affecting
a single project or market segment than more broadly diversified investments. The performance of a fund
may be materially different from the broad equity market.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities
of small and mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make
it difficult to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small
and mid-cap company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization
companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments
and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized
participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption
orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted
in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary
to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market
conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity
in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market
price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’
bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk:
The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment
may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the
existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen
bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder
purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates
or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than
other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks
of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a
fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods
of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign
Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and
Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time
when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when
the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is
derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes
may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the
fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to
a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management
risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not
correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal
amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also
may have certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information
about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising
shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate
actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments
in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into
which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications
to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities. Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may
be less readily available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and
Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a
fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods
of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Small Company Risk |
Small
Company Risk: Securities of small companies are often less liquid than
those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell a small company security at a desired
time or price. As a result, small company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general,
smaller capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or
economic developments and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk:
To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange
that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there
may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign
market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other
ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency
forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest
rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes
in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and
a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Small Cap ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional International Small Cap ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk:
Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or
political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors
holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency
will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced
to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio
does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject
to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable and
publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A
fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or
interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies,
and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic
issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally subject to the same risks
as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying
issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts,
are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or
to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Depositary receipts
that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily available public
information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic Focus Risk:
If a fund focuses its investments in securities of issuers located in a particular
country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater extent than if its investments were less focused,
to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions and developments that may be particular to
that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets; adverse exchange rates; adverse social,
political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Small Company Risk |
Small Company Risk: Securities of small companies
are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell a small
company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small company stocks may fluctuate relatively
more in price. In general, smaller capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies
to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from
its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced
by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency
forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest
rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes
in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and
a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International High Profitability ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional International High Profitability ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information
about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising
shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate
actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments
in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into
which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications
to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities. Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may
be less readily available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at
all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities.
A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral
falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have
certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Vector Equity ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional International Vector Equity ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities
and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or
to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading
in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be
met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less
liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying
securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a
fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security
pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV
that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is
derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes
may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the
fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to
a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management
risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not
correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal
amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also
may have certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
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| Large Shareholder Risk |
Large Shareholder Risk:
Certain shareholders, including other funds or accounts advised by the Advisor,
may from time to time own a substantial amount of a fund’s shares. In addition, a third-party investor,
the Advisor, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in a fund and
hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of a fund or to facilitate
a fund achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would
not redeem its investment, that the size of a fund would be maintained at such levels or that a fund
would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have
a significant negative impact on a fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account
for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material
upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
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| Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing
in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk:
Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market,
environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of equity securities,
and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices
and periods of falling prices.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities
and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and
Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
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| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of
companies in certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial
influence over many aspects of the private sector and may own or control many companies, including by
embedding Chinese Communist Party or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies.
In addition, the Chinese government continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and
may alter or discontinue economic or trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of
losses due to expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition
of restrictions on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. Investments
in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating
relations with the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies,
which could result in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely
impact the value of such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply
chain diversification or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as
a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy. In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political
and economic relationship with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in
China, such as China A-shares, are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market
liquidity, which could pose risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in
special structures that utilize contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies,
known as variable interest entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts
and/or prohibits foreign investments may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s acceptance
of the VIE structure is evolving. It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators will withdraw
their acceptance of the structure generally, or with respect to certain industries, or whether Chinese
courts or arbitration bodies would decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign investors, each
of which would likely have significant, detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on the value of such
investments.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High
relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy
purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment
strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk:
Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform
the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses
derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Counterparty risk increases when
a fund is a buyer of swaps. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional Emerging Markets High Profitability ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Markets High Profitability ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
|
| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in
certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the
private sector and may own or control many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party
or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies. In addition, the Chinese government
continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and may alter or
discontinue economic or trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of losses due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition of restrictions
on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. Investments
in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating
relations with the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies,
which could result in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely
impact the value of such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply
chain diversification or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as
a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy. In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political
and economic relationship with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in
China, such as China A-shares, are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market
liquidity, which could pose risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in
special structures that utilize contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies,
known as variable interest entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts
and/or prohibits foreign investments may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s acceptance
of the VIE structure is evolving. It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators will withdraw
their acceptance of the structure generally, or with respect to certain industries, or whether Chinese
courts or arbitration bodies would decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign investors, each
of which would likely have significant, detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on the value of such
investments.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High
relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy
purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment
strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk:
Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform
the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as
well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than
the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there
may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover
the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with
cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”).
Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control,
including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls
and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional Emerging Markets Value ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Markets Value ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that
owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of
falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies
Risk: Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because
of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities
markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility
that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will
convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S.
dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not
be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable
and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers.
A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends
and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal
remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect
to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally subject
to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In
addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
|
| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in
certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the
private sector and may own or control many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party
or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies. In addition, the Chinese government
continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and may alter or discontinue economic or
trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of losses due to expropriation, nationalization,
confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and on
repatriation of capital invested. Investments in China, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating relations with
the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies, which could result
in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely impact the value of
such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply chain diversification
or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened
trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political and economic relationship
with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in China, such as China A-shares,
are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market liquidity, which could pose
risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in special structures that utilize
contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies, known as variable interest
entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts and/or prohibits foreign
investments may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s acceptance of the VIE structure
is evolving. It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators will withdraw their acceptance
of the structure generally, or with respect to certain industries, or whether Chinese courts or arbitration
bodies would decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign investors, each of which would likely
have significant, detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on the value of such investments.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending
also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
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| Dimensional Emerging Markets Core Equity 2 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Markets Core Equity 2 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information
about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising
shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate
actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments
in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into
which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications
to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities. Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may
be less readily available public information about the issuer.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and
Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
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| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in
certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the
private sector and may own or control many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party
or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies. In addition, the Chinese government
continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and may alter or discontinue economic or
trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of losses due to expropriation, nationalization,
confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and on
repatriation of capital invested. Investments in China, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating relations with
the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies, which could result
in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely impact the value of
such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply chain diversification
or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened
trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political and economic relationship
with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in China, such as China A-shares,
are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market liquidity, which could pose
risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in special structures that utilize
contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies, known as variable interest
entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts and/or prohibits foreign investments may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s
acceptance of the VIE structure is evolving. It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators
will withdraw their acceptance of the structure generally, or with respect to certain industries, or
whether Chinese courts or arbitration bodies would decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign
investors, each of which would likely have significant, detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on
the value of such investments.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk:
High relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A
fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose
the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems.
Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary
information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer
data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
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| Dimensional Emerging Markets ex China Core Equity ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Markets ex China Core Equity ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
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| Taiwan Investments Risk |
Taiwan Investments
Risk: There are special risks associated with investments in Taiwan. Taiwan and China
are highly interconnected and interdependent, with relationships and tensions built on trade, finance,
culture, and politics. Taiwan’s political stability and ability to sustain its economic growth
could be significantly affected by its political and economic relationship with China and Taiwan remains
vulnerable to both Chinese territorial ambitions and economic downturns. The economic success of China
will continue to have an outsized influence on the growth and prosperity of Taiwan.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic Focus Risk: If a
fund focuses its investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the
fund may be subjected, to a greater extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of
volatile economic cycles and/or conditions and developments that may be particular to that country or
region, such as: adverse securities markets; adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory,
economic, business, environmental or other developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
|
| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience serious, and potentially continuing,
economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging market countries are relatively small,
expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those in developed markets. Securities in
emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed markets and foreigners are often limited
in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these markets. Additional restrictions may be
imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in
frontier market countries.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk:
High relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated
with the use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap
agreement will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default)
and liquidity risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Counterparty risk
increases when a fund is a buyer of swaps. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine
learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside
a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor
seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and
may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
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| Large Shareholder Risk |
Large Shareholder Risk:
Certain shareholders, including other funds or accounts advised by the Advisor,
may from time to time own a substantial amount of a fund’s shares. In addition, a third-party investor,
the Advisor, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity may invest in a fund and
hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to facilitate commencement of a fund or to facilitate
a fund achieving a specified size or scale. There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would
not redeem its investment, that the size of a fund would be maintained at such levels or that a fund
would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have
a significant negative impact on a fund. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account
for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange and may, therefore, have a material
upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
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| Dimensional World Equity ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional World Equity ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing
in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Fund of Funds Risk |
Fund of Funds Risk:
The investment performance of the Portfolio is affected by the investment performance of its underlying
funds in which the fund of funds invests. The ability of the fund of funds to achieve its investment
objective depends on the ability of the underlying funds to meet their investment objectives and on the
Advisor’s decisions regarding the allocation of a fund of funds assets among underlying funds.
A fund of funds may allocate assets to an underlying fund or asset class that underperforms other funds
or asset classes. There can be no assurance that the investment objective of a fund of funds or any underlying
fund will be achieved. When a fund of funds invests in an underlying fund, investors are exposed to a
proportionate share of the expenses of those underlying funds in addition to the expenses of the fund
of funds. Through its investments in underlying funds, a fund of funds is subject to the risks of the
underlying funds’ investments. Certain risks of an underlying funds’ investments that are
principal risks of investing in a fund of funds are described below. In addition to the risks associated
with a underlying funds’ investments, a fund of funds investments in underlying funds operated
as exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are also subject to the following additional risks: (1)
an ETF’s shares may trade at a significant premium or discount to net asset value due to disruptions
to creations and redemptions or the market prices of the ETF’s holdings, the existence of extreme
market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market; (2) an active trading market for an
ETF’s shares may not develop or be maintained by market makers or authorized participants; and
(3) trading in an ETF’s shares may be halted in certain circumstances.
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| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio and each Underlying Fund do not hedge foreign
currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting,
auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial
and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty
voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information
regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with
respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into
which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications
to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities. Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may
be less readily available public information about the issuer.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small
and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High
relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy
purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment
strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk:
Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment
strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use
other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform
the market for long periods of time.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon,
and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices.
The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types
of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those
derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and
procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional Global Real Estate ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Global Real Estate ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that
owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of
falling prices.
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| Risks of Concentrating in the Real Estate Industry |
Risks of Concentrating in
the Real Estate Industry: A fund that concentrates
(i.e., invests more than 25% of its net assets) its investments in securities of companies in the real
estate industry will be exposed to the general risks of direct real estate ownership. The value of securities
in the real estate industry can be affected by changes in real estate values and rental income, property
taxes, and tax and regulatory requirements. Also, the value of securities in the real estate industry
may decline with changes in interest rates. Investing in REITs and REIT-like entities involves certain
unique risks in addition to those risks associated with investing in the real estate industry in general.
REITs and REIT-like entities are dependent upon management skill, may not be diversified, and are subject
to heavy cash flow dependency and self-liquidation. REITs and REIT-like entities also are subject to
the possibility of failing to qualify for tax free pass-through of income. Also, because REITs and REIT-like
entities typically are invested in a limited number of projects or in a particular market segment, these
entities are more susceptible to adverse developments affecting a single project or market segment than
more broadly diversified investments. The performance of a fund may be materially different from the
broad equity market.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies
Risk: Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because
of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities
markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility
that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will
convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S.
dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not
be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable
and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers.
A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends
and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal
remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect
to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally subject
to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In
addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and
Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap
companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell
a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company
stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are
also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may
have more limited resources.
|
| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue
to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become
less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International
Closed Market Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying
securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a
fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security
pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV
that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is
derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes
may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the
fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to
a number of risks including counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks,
as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate
perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount
invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also
may have certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management Strategy Risk: The
tax-management strategies may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared
to those of non-tax managed funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from
that of non-tax managed funds. Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers
the effects of the realization of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless
distribute taxable gains and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized
participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption
orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted
in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary
to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market
conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity
in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market
price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’
bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk:
The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment
may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the
existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen
bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder
purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates
or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than
other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks
of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty,
liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to
valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset,
rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Small Company Risk |
Small Company Risk: Securities
of small companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small company stocks may fluctuate
relatively more in price. In general, smaller capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than
larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management Strategy Risk: The tax-management strategies
may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared to those of non-tax managed
funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from that of non-tax managed funds.
Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers the effects of the realization
of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless distribute taxable gains
and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A
fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the
fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems.
Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary
information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer
data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry
developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform
the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability
Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently
from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to
at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management
Strategy Risk: The tax-management strategies
may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared to those of non-tax managed
funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from that of non-tax managed funds.
Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers the effects of the realization
of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless distribute taxable gains
and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party
to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its
service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market
as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods
of time.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company
Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap companies are often less liquid
than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell a small or mid-cap company security
at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company stocks may fluctuate relatively more
in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies
to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management Strategy Risk: The tax-management strategies
may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared to those of non-tax managed
funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from that of non-tax managed funds.
Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers the effects of the realization
of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless distribute taxable gains
and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service
providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with
periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities
of small and mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make
it difficult to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small
and mid-cap company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization
companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments
and they may have more limited resources.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management
Strategy Risk: The tax-management strategies
may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared to those of non-tax managed
funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from that of non-tax managed funds.
Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers the effects of the realization
of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless distribute taxable gains
and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional International Value ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional International Value ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing
in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk:
Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market,
environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of equity securities,
and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices
and periods of falling prices.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment
Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a
whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform
equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic,
and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may
underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High
relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy
purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment
strategies.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies
Risk: Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because
of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities
markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility
that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will
convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S.
dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not
be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable
and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers.
A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends
and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal
remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect
to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally subject
to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In
addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management
Strategy Risk: The tax-management strategies
may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared to those of non-tax managed
funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from that of non-tax managed funds.
Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers the effects of the realization
of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless distribute taxable gains
and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading
Risk: Active trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed
or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated
to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units,
which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances.
There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing
of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market
for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for
the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s
shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions
or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list and
trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives
are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts,
whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging
purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives,
the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject
to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and
management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than
the principal amount invested.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there
may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover
the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with
cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various
operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances
at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and
procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures
may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks
linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches,
amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer
data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose
operational functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
|
Risk Table - Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description
of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity
Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities
and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally
subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted.
In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered
depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily
available public information about the issuer.
|
| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
|
| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in
certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the
private sector and may own or control many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party
or
People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies. In addition,
the Chinese government continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and may alter or
discontinue economic or trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of losses due to
expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition of restrictions
on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. Investments
in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating
relations with the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies,
which could result in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely
impact the value of such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply
chain diversification or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as
a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy. In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political
and economic relationship with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in
China, such as China A-shares, are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market
liquidity, which could pose risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in
special structures that utilize contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies,
known as variable interest entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts and/or
prohibits foreign investments may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s acceptance of
the VIE structure is evolving. It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators will withdraw
their acceptance of the structure generally, or with respect to certain industries, or whether Chinese
courts or arbitration bodies would decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign investors, each
of which would likely have significant, detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on the value of such
investments.
|
| Tax-Management Strategy Risk |
Tax-Management Strategy Risk: The
tax-management strategies may alter investment decisions and affect portfolio holdings, when compared
to those of non-tax managed funds. The Advisor anticipates that performance of a fund may deviate from
that of non-tax managed funds. Although the Advisor may intend to manage a fund in a manner which considers
the effects of the realization of capital gains and taxable dividend income each year, the fund may nonetheless
distribute taxable gains and dividends to shareholders.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized
participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption
orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted
in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary
to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market
conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity
in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market
price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’
bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk:
The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment
may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the
existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen
bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder
purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the
stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or
discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is
derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes
may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the
fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to
a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management
risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not
correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal
amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at
all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities.
A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral
falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have
certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its
advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that
seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
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|
| Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description
of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Market Risk |
Market
Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit.
Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the
value of securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
|
| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk: Fixed income securities
are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite
direction of interest rates. When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods
of very low or negative interest rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates.
When interest rates fall, fixed income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with
longer maturities are more sensitive to changes in interest rates.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk
that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due.
A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength
may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such securities.
Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees
of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that are supported
by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie
Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored
by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury,
subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by
the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities issued
or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal and/or
interest.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income
risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among
other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in
lower-yielding securities.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign
Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
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| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their
debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and
(c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole
or in part.
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| Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk |
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Risk: Mortgage-backed securities represent interests in “pools”
of mortgages and often involve risks that are different from or potentially more significant than risks
associated with other types of debt instruments. Mortgage securities differ from typical debt securities
in that principal is not paid back at maturity, but rather periodically over the life of the security. A fund may receive unscheduled
payments of principal due to voluntary prepayments, refinancings or foreclosures on the underlying mortgage
loans. When interest rates decline, borrowers may pay off their mortgages sooner than expected. This
can reduce the returns of a fund because it may have to reinvest that money at the lower prevailing interest
rates. As a result, mortgage securities may be less effective than some other types of debt securities
as a means of securing long-term interest rates and may have less potential for capital appreciation
during periods of falling interest rates. Conversely, in a period of rising interest rates, a fund may
exhibit additional volatility since rising interest rates tend to extend the duration of fixed rate mortgage-related
securities, making them more sensitive to changes in interest rates. As interest rates rise mortgage
borrowers are less likely to exercise prepayment options, which may reduce the value of these securities
and potentially cause a fund to lose money. This is known as extension risk.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose
value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting
to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with
derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While
hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the
market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs
the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match
the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities
involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a
fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The
use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of
investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund
is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition,
where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune
times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments
at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase
by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market
developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions
at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio
securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods
of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few
investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or
to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading
in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be
met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less
liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk:
To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange
that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there
may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign
market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other
ETFs.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at
all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities.
A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral
falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have
certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
|
| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk: Fixed
income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of fixed income securities tend
to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates rise, fixed income security
prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund may be subject to a greater
risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security prices rise. In general,
fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes in interest rates.
|
| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk
that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due.
A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength
may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such securities.
Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees
of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that are supported
by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie
Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored
by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury,
subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by
the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities issued
or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal and/or
interest.
|
| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income
risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among
other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in
lower-yielding securities.
|
| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign
Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
|
| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their
debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and
(c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole
or in part.
|
| Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk |
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Risk: Mortgage-backed securities represent interests in “pools”
of mortgages and often involve risks that are different from or potentially more significant than risks
associated with other types of debt instruments. Mortgage securities differ from typical debt securities
in that principal is not paid back at maturity, but rather periodically over the life of the security.
A fund may receive unscheduled payments of principal due to voluntary prepayments, refinancings or foreclosures
on the underlying mortgage loans. When interest rates decline, borrowers may pay off their mortgages
sooner than expected. This can reduce the returns of a fund because it may have to reinvest that money
at the lower prevailing interest rates. As a result, mortgage securities may be less effective than some
other types of debt securities as a means of securing long-term interest rates and may have less potential
for capital appreciation during periods of falling interest rates. Conversely, in a period of rising
interest rates, a fund may exhibit additional volatility since rising interest rates tend to extend the
duration of fixed rate mortgage-related securities, making them more sensitive to changes in interest
rates. As interest rates rise mortgage borrowers are less likely to exercise prepayment options, which
may reduce the value of these securities and potentially cause a fund to lose money. This is known as
extension risk.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency
forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can
be used for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or
non-hedging purposes. Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that
a hedging strategy will work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate
gains or cause losses if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if
the cost of the derivative outweighs the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally
not possible to precisely match the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts
to the value of the securities involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and
cash flows into and out of a fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into
and the date it expires. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more
risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed
to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional
risks are associated with the use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the
other party to a swap agreement will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy
or other default) and liquidity risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement).
Credit risk increases when a fund is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund
is a buyer of swaps. In addition, where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate
portfolio securities at inopportune times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid
or difficult to value.
|
| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk:
Liquidity risk exists when particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase
or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced
due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments
may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor
perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that
a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its
portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities at a material loss or at increased costs.
Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of
shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade
in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
|
| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list
and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities
lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at
all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities.
A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral
falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have
certain adverse tax consequences.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
|
| Dimensional Inflation-Protected Securities ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Inflation-Protected Securities ETF
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Market Risk |
Market Risk:
Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market,
environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities,
and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
|
| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest
Rate Risk: Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk
because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates.
When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest
rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed
income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive
to changes in interest rates.
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| Inflation-Protected Securities Tax Risk |
Inflation-Protected
Securities Tax Risk: Any increase in the principal
amount of an inflation-protected security may be included for tax purposes in a fund’s gross income,
even though no cash attributable to such gross income has been received by a fund. In such event, a fund
may be required to make annual gross distributions to shareholders that exceed the cash it has otherwise
received. In order to pay such distributions, a fund may be required to raise cash by selling its investments.
The sale of such investments could result in capital gains to a fund and additional capital gain distributions
to shareholders. In addition, adjustments during the taxable year for deflation to an inflation-indexed
bond held by a fund may cause amounts previously distributed to shareholders in the taxable year as income
to be characterized as a return of capital, which could increase or decrease a fund’s ordinary
income distributions to shareholders, and may cause some of a fund’s distributed income to be classified
as a return of capital.
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| Inflation-Protected Securities Interest Rate Risk |
Inflation-Protected Securities
Interest Rate Risk: Inflation-protected securities
may react differently from other fixed income securities to changes in interest rates. Because interest
rates on inflation-protected securities are adjusted for inflation, the values of these securities are not materially affected by inflation
expectations. Therefore, the value of inflation-protected securities are anticipated to change in response
to changes in “real” interest rates, which represent nominal (stated) interest rates reduced
by the expected impact of inflation. Generally, the value of an inflation-protected security will fall
when real interest rates rise and will rise when real interest rates fall.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk
that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due.
A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength
may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such securities.
Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees
of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that are supported
by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie
Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored
by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury,
subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by
the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities issued
or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal and/or
interest.
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| Risks of Investing for Inflation Protection |
Risks of Investing for Inflation
Protection: Because the interest and/or principal payments on an inflation-protected
security are adjusted periodically for changes in inflation, the income distributed by a fund investing
in such securities may be irregular. Although the U.S. Treasury guarantees to pay at maturity at least
the original face value of any inflation-protected securities the Treasury issues, other issuers may
not offer the same guarantee. Inflation-protected securities are not protected against deflation. As
a result, in a period of deflation, the principal and income of inflation-protected securities held by
a fund will decline and the fund may suffer a loss during such periods. While inflation-protected securities
are expected to be protected from long-term inflationary trends, short-term increases in inflation may
lead to a decline in the value of a fund holding such securities. For example, if interest rates rise
due to reasons other than inflation, a fund’s investment in these securities may not be protected
to the extent that the increase is not reflected in the securities’ inflation measures. In addition,
positive adjustments to principal generally will result in taxable income to a fund at the time of such
adjustments (which generally would be distributed by the fund as part of its taxable dividends), even
though the principal amount is not paid until maturity. The current market value of inflation-protected
securities is not guaranteed and will fluctuate.
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| Income Risk |
Income
Risk: Income risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause
a fund’s income to decline because, among other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term
securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding securities.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates
or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment
position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there
is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can
also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated
by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs the benefit of the hedge. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market,
credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value
of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could
lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity
Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular portfolio investments
are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid investments, the fund’s
performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune prices or times.
Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase by a fund due to low trading
volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market developments. Liquidity risk
includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when it cannot find
willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities at a material loss
or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market turmoil or in situations
where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors. Investments that are
illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or
to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading
in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be
met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less
liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there
may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover
the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with
cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”).
Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control,
including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls
and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional Global Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Global Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
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| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Market Risk |
Market Risk:
Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market,
environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities,
and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging
Markets Risk: Securities of issuers associated
with emerging market countries may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers
in developed foreign markets. Numerous emerging market countries
have a history of, and continue to experience serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political
problems. Stock markets in many emerging market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in
and generally have higher risks than those in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also
may be less liquid than those in developed markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability
to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other
conditions. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed capital markets
and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market
countries.
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| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk:
There are special risks associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on
trade, finance, culture, and politics. Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion
of private ownership of companies in certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial
influence over many aspects of the private sector and may own or control many companies, including by
embedding Chinese Communist Party or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies.
In addition, the Chinese government continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and
may alter or discontinue economic or trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of
losses due to expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition
of restrictions on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. Investments
in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating
relations with the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies,
which could result in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely
impact the value of such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply
chain diversification or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as
a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy. In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political
and economic relationship with China.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk:
Income risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s
income to decline because, among other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its
portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding securities.
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| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest
Rate Risk: Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk
because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates.
When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest
rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed
income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive
to changes in interest rates.
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| High Yield Risk |
High Yield
Risk: Securities rated below investment grade may be subject to
greater credit, valuation, price volatility, and liquidity risks than investment grade securities. Fixed
income securities that are below investment grade involve high credit risk and are considered speculative.
Below investment grade fixed income securities may also fluctuate in
value more than higher quality fixed income securities and, during periods of
market volatility, may be more difficult to sell at the time and price a fund desires.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk
that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due.
A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength
may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such securities.
Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees
of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that are supported
by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie
Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored
by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury,
subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by
the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities issued
or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal and/or
interest. Credit risk is greater for fixed income securities with ratings below investment grade (e.g.,
BB+ or below by S&P or Fitch or Ba1 or below by Moody’s). Fixed income securities that are
below investment grade involve high credit risk and are considered speculative. Below investment grade
fixed income securities may also fluctuate in value more than higher quality fixed income securities
and, during periods of market volatility, may be more difficult to sell at the time and price the Portfolio
desires.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign
Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
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| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their
debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and
(c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole
or in part.
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| Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk |
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Risk: Mortgage-backed securities represent interests in “pools”
of mortgages and often involve risks that are different from or potentially more significant than risks
associated with other types of debt instruments. Mortgage securities differ from typical debt securities
in that principal is not paid back at maturity, but rather periodically over the life of the security.
A fund may receive unscheduled payments of principal due to voluntary prepayments, refinancings or foreclosures
on the underlying mortgage loans. When interest rates decline, borrowers may pay off their mortgages
sooner than expected. This can reduce the returns of a fund because it may have to reinvest that money
at the lower prevailing interest rates. As a result, mortgage securities may be less effective than some
other types of debt securities as a means of securing long-term interest rates and may have less potential
for capital appreciation during periods of falling interest rates. Conversely, in a period of rising
interest rates, a fund may exhibit additional volatility since rising interest rates tend to extend the
duration of fixed rate mortgage-related securities, making them more sensitive to changes in interest
rates. As interest rates rise mortgage borrowers are less likely to exercise prepayment options, which may reduce the
value of these securities and potentially cause a fund to lose money. This is known as extension risk.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose
value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting
to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with
derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While
hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the
market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs
the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match
the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities
involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a
fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The
use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of
investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund
is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition,
where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune
times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments
at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase
by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market
developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions
at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio
securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods
of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few
investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also
may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and
result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder
purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”).
Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control,
including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls
and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional International Core Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional International Core Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing
in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
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| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them,
to rise or fall.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets Risk:
Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries may be subject
to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets. Numerous
emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience serious, and potentially continuing,
economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging market countries are relatively small,
expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those in developed markets. Securities in
emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed markets and foreigners are often limited
in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these markets. Additional restrictions may be
imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed
capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in
frontier market countries.
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| China Investments Risk |
China Investments
Risk: There are special risks associated with investments in China,
Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly interconnected and interdependent, with
relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics. Despite prior economic and trade reforms
and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in certain sectors, the Chinese government
still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the private sector and may own or control
many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party or People’s Armed Forces Department
personnel in Chinese companies. In addition, the Chinese government continues to maintain a major role
in economic policy making and may alter or discontinue economic or trade reforms at any time. Investing
in China involves risks of losses due to expropriation, nationalization, confiscation of assets and property,
and the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and on repatriation of capital invested. Investments
in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating
relations with the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies,
which could result in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely
impact the value of such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply
chain diversification or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as
a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact
on the Chinese economy. In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political
and economic relationship with China.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk:
Income risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s
income to decline because, among other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its
portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding securities.
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| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest
Rate Risk: Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk
because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates.
When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest
rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed
income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive
to changes in interest rates.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk:
Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a security, including a governmental entity, may be unable
to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating
or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength may affect a security’s value, and
thus, impact a fund’s performance.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk:
Call risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer
will call or repay a higher-yielding fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to
reinvest in fixed income securities with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk:
Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or
political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors
holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency
will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced
to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio
hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to
uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly
available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may
have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest
and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and
obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic
issuers in U.S. courts.
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| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government Debt Risk:
The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the repayment of government
debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest when it becomes due,
due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity’s
debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves,
the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral
agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their debt securities,
which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and (c) there is no
legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole or in part.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose
value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting
to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with
derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While
hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the
market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs
the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match
the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities
involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a
fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The
use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of
investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund
is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition,
where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune
times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments
at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase
by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market
developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions
at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio
securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods
of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few
investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending
also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
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|
| Dimensional Global Credit ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Global Credit ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them,
to rise or fall.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income
risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among
other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in
lower-yielding securities.
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| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk:
Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of
fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates
rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund
may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security
prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes
in interest rates.
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| High Yield Risk |
High Yield Risk:
Securities rated below investment grade may be subject to greater credit, valuation,
price volatility, and liquidity risks than investment grade securities. Fixed income securities that
are below investment grade involve high credit risk and are considered speculative. Below investment
grade fixed income securities may also fluctuate in value more than higher quality fixed income securities
and, during periods of market volatility, may be more difficult to sell at the time and price a fund
desires.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit
risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal
when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial
strength may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such
securities. Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different
degrees of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that
are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration
and Ginnie Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
sponsored by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from
the U.S. Treasury, subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
sponsored by the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities
issued or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal
and/or interest. Credit risk is greater for fixed income securities with ratings below investment grade
(e.g., BB+ or below by S&P or Fitch or Ba1 or below by Moody’s). Fixed income securities that
are below investment grade involve high credit risk and are considered speculative. Below investment
grade fixed income securities may also fluctuate in value more than higher quality fixed income securities
and, during periods of market volatility, may be more difficult to sell at the time and price the Portfolio
desires.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign
Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
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| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies, and/or
other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their debt securities, which may require
holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and (c) there is no legal or bankruptcy
process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole or in part.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose
value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting
to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with
derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While
hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the
market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs
the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match
the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities
involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a
fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The
use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of
investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund
is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition,
where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune
times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments
at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase
by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market
developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions
at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio
securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods
of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few
investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk:
Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely
manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned
securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the
collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also
may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The
net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate.
Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence
of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask
spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases
shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the
market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”).
Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control,
including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls
and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
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|
| Dimensional Ultrashort Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Ultrashort Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
|
| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). Foreign issuers may not
be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable
and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers.
A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends
and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal
remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect
to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
|
| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their debt securities, which may require holders
of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and (c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process
by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole or in part.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income risk is the risk
that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among other reasons,
the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding
securities.
|
| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk:
Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of
fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates
rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund
may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security
prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes
in interest rates.
|
| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit
risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal
when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial
strength may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such
securities. Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different
degrees of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that
are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration
and Ginnie Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
sponsored by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from
the U.S. Treasury, subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
sponsored by the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities
issued or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal
and/or interest.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates
or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment
position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there
is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can
also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated
by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs the benefit of the hedge. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest
rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes
in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and
a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
|
| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity
Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular portfolio investments
are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid investments, the fund’s
performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune prices or times.
Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase by a fund due to low trading
volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market developments. Liquidity risk
includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when it cannot find
willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities at a material loss
or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market turmoil or in situations
where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors. Investments that are
illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
|
| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or
to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading
in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be
met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less
liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
|
| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about
the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums
or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
|
| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
|
| Operational Risk |
Operational
Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel,
system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use
of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances
are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund
and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures
that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible
risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
|
| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber
Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’
use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to
cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst
other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data,
or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational
functionality.
|
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| Dimensional National Municipal Bond ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional National Municipal Bond ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing
in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your
investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment
in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them,
to rise or fall.
|
| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk:
Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of
fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates
rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund
may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security
prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes
in interest rates.
|
| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit
risk is the risk that the issuer of a security, including a governmental entity, may be unable to make
interest payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or
a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength may affect a security’s value, and thus,
impact the performance of a fund holding such securities. The ability of a municipal securities issuer
to make payments could be affected by litigation, legislation or other political events or the bankruptcy
of the issuer.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income
risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among
other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in
lower-yielding securities.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Tax Liability Risk |
Tax
Liability Risk: Tax liability risk is the
risk that distributions by a fund become taxable to shareholders due to noncompliant conduct by a municipal
bond issuer, unfavorable changes in federal or state tax laws, or adverse interpretations of tax laws
by the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities or other factors. Such adverse interpretations
or actions could cause interest from a security to become taxable, possibly retroactively, subjecting
shareholders to increased tax liability. In addition, such adverse interpretations or actions could cause
the value of a security, and therefore, the value of a fund’s shares, to decline.
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| Municipal Securities Risk |
Municipal Securities Risk: The risk of a municipal
security generally depends on the financial and credit status of the issuer. Municipal securities can
be significantly affected by political, regulatory or economic changes, including changes made in the
law after issuance of the securities, as well as uncertainties in the municipal market related to taxation,
legislative changes or the rights of municipal security holders, including in connection with an issuer’s
insolvency. The municipal securities market can be susceptible to increases in volatility and decreases
in liquidity. The secondary market for certain municipal securities tends to be less well developed or
liquid than many other securities markets, which may adversely affect a fund's ability to sell such municipal
securities at attractive prices. Liquidity can decline unpredictably in response to overall economic
conditions or credit tightening. In addition, there may be less publicly available information about
the financial condition of municipal security issuers than for issuers of other types of securities,
making the securities more difficult to value. The price a fund could receive upon the sale of a portfolio
investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for investments
that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair valuation methodology.
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| Municipal Project-Specific Risk |
Municipal Project-Specific Risk: A fund
may be more sensitive to adverse economic, business or political developments if it invests a substantial
portion of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of projects in a segment of
the municipal bond market (such as education, health care, housing, education, utilities or transportation)
or industrial development bonds. A change that affects one project in a particular segment of the market,
such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed for
the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby increasing
market risk.
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| Variable Rate Demand Obligations Risk |
Variable Rate Demand Obligations Risk: Certain
variable rate demand obligations (“VRDOs”) may not have an active
secondary market. These VRDOs could be difficult to dispose of if the remarketing agent defaults on its
payment obligation and/or if the fund is not entitled to exercise its demand rights, which could cause
a loss with respect to such VRDOs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon,
whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging
(attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes.
Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will
work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses
if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative
outweighs the benefit of the hedge. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional
risks are associated with the use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the
other party to a swap agreement will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy
or other default) and liquidity risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement).
Credit risk increases when a fund is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund
is a buyer of swaps. In addition, where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate
portfolio securities at inopportune times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid
or difficult to value. Additionally, payments made or received by a fund under such derivatives may increase
the amount of distributions taxable to you as ordinary income, increase or decrease the amount of capital
gain distributions to you and/or decrease the amount available for distribution to you as exempt-interest
dividends.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk:
Liquidity risk exists when particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase
or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced
due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments
may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor
perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that
a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its
portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities at a material loss or at increased costs.
Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of
shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade
in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response
to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a
significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s
shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the
market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack
of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant
premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a
premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s
or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to
reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A
fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose
the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems.
Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary
information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer
data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional California Municipal Bond ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional California Municipal Bond ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal
risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because
the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even
a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political,
and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them,
to rise or fall.
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| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest Rate Risk:
Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of
fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates
rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund
may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security
prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes
in interest rates.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk: Credit
risk is the risk that the issuer of a security, including a governmental entity, may be unable to make
interest payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or
a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength may affect a security’s value, and thus,
impact the performance of a fund holding such securities. The ability of a municipal securities issuer
to make payments could be affected by litigation, legislation or other political events or the bankruptcy
of the issuer.
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| Income Risk |
Income Risk: Income
risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among
other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in
lower-yielding securities.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Tax Liability Risk |
Tax
Liability Risk: Tax liability risk is the
risk that distributions by a fund become taxable to shareholders due to noncompliant conduct by a municipal
bond issuer, unfavorable changes in federal or state tax laws, or adverse interpretations of tax laws
by the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities or other factors. Such adverse interpretations
or actions could cause interest from a security to become taxable, possibly retroactively, subjecting
shareholders to increased tax liability. In addition, such adverse interpretations or actions could cause
the value of a security, and therefore, the value of a fund’s shares, to decline.
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| Municipal Securities Risk |
Municipal Securities Risk: The risk of a municipal
security generally depends on the financial and credit status of the issuer. Municipal securities can
be significantly affected by political, regulatory or economic changes, including changes made in the
law after issuance of the securities, as well as uncertainties in the municipal market related to taxation,
legislative changes or the rights of municipal security holders, including in connection with an issuer’s
insolvency. The municipal securities market can be susceptible to increases in volatility and decreases
in liquidity. The secondary market for certain municipal securities tends to be less well developed or
liquid than many other securities markets, which may adversely affect a fund's ability to sell such municipal
securities at attractive prices. Liquidity can decline unpredictably in response to overall economic
conditions or credit tightening. In addition, there may be less publicly available information about
the financial condition of municipal security issuers than for issuers of other types of securities,
making the securities more difficult to value. The price a fund could receive upon the sale of a portfolio
investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for investments
that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair valuation methodology.
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| Municipal Project-Specific Risk |
Municipal Project-Specific Risk: A fund
may be more sensitive to adverse economic, business or political developments if it invests a substantial
portion of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of projects in a segment of
the municipal bond market (such as education, health care, housing, education, utilities or transportation)
or industrial development bonds. A change that affects one project in a particular segment of the market,
such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed for
the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby increasing
market risk.
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| State-Specific Risk |
State-Specific Risk:
A fund that focuses its investments primarily in California municipal securities
will be highly sensitive to events affecting the fiscal stability of the State of California and its
agencies, municipalities, authorities and other instrumentalities that issue securities. Having a significant
percentage of its assets invested in the securities of fewer issuers, particularly obligations of government
issuers of a single state, could result in greater credit risk exposure to a smaller number of issuers
due to economic, regulatory or political problems in California. These issues may include economic or
political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, state constitutional
limits on tax increases, natural disasters or environmental issues (including drought and wildfires), budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the
credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of California. Also, to the extent that a fund makes significant
investments in securities issued to finance projects in a particular segment of the California municipal
securities market such focused investment may cause the value of the fund’s shares to change more
than the value of shares of funds that invest more broadly. These risks are disclosed in more detail
in the Portfolio’s Statement of Additional Information.
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| Variable Rate Demand Obligations Risk |
Variable
Rate Demand Obligations Risk: Certain variable
rate demand obligations (“VRDOs”) may not have an active secondary market. These VRDOs could
be difficult to dispose of if the remarketing agent defaults on its payment obligation and/or if the
fund is not entitled to exercise its demand rights, which could cause a loss with respect to such VRDOs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets,
rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment
position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there
is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can
also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated
by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs the benefit of the hedge. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market,
credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value
of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could
lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the use of swaps including
counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement will not fulfill its
contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity risk (the possible
lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund is the seller of
swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition, where a fund is
the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune times in order
to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value. Additionally, payments made
or received by a fund under such derivatives may increase the amount of distributions taxable to you
as ordinary income, increase or decrease the amount of capital gain distributions to you and/or decrease
the amount available for distribution to you as exempt-interest dividends.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments
at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase
by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market
developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions
at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio
securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods
of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few
investors. Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or
to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading
in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be
met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less
liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings,
which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying
value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”)
of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and
redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility
or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares
trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when
the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount
to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational
risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures
in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI”).
Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control,
including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through
controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls
and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service
providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential
risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security
breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information,
customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption
or lose operational functionality.
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|
| Dimensional US Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional US Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk |
Sustainability Consideration
Investment Risk: A fund that takes into account sustainability considerations
may limit the number of investment opportunities available to the fund, and as a result, at times, may
underperform funds that are not subject to such sustainability considerations. For example, a fund may
decline to purchase, or underweight its investment in, certain securities due to sustainability considerations
when other investment considerations would suggest that a more significant investment in such securities
would be advantageous. A fund may also overweight its investment in certain securities due to sustainability
considerations when other investment considerations would suggest that a lesser investment in such securities
would be advantageous. In addition, a fund may sell or retain certain securities due to sustainability
considerations when it is otherwise disadvantageous to do so. The sustainability considerations may also
cause a fund’s industry allocations to deviate from those of funds without these considerations and
of conventional benchmarks. The Advisor may also not be able to assess the sustainability of each company
with securities eligible for purchase. For example, the Advisor may not be able to determine all of the
sustainability considerations for each company because the third party service providers may not have
data on the entire universe of companies with securities considered by the Advisor, or may not have information
with respect to each factor considered as a sustainability consideration. Furthermore, “sustainability”
is not uniformly defined, and there are significant differences in interpretations of what it means for
a company to meet sustainability criteria. A fund’s exposure to companies, industries and sectors of
the market may be affected by sustainability data obtained that may be inaccurate and the Advisor’s
assessment of a company’s sustainability may differ from assessments made by other funds, managers,
or investors. As a result, there is no guarantee that a fund’s investments will reflect the sustainability
considerations of any particular investor.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active
trading markets for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized
participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit
purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares
on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements
of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met.
Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid
in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may
cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well
as an increase in a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
|
| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from
that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered
to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly
exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including
counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties
with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the
underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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|
| Dimensional International Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional International Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
|
| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
|
| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
|
| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
|
| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities
and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial
reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information
about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising
shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate
actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments
in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary
receipts are generally subject to the same risks as the foreign securities that they evidence or into
which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly
unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications
to the holders of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities. Depositary receipts that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may
be less readily available public information about the issuer.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic
Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments
in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater
extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions
and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets;
adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other
developments; or natural disasters.
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| Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk |
Sustainability Consideration
Investment Risk: A fund that takes into account sustainability considerations
may limit the number of investment opportunities available to the fund, and as a result, at times, may
underperform funds that are not subject to such sustainability considerations. For example, a fund may
decline to purchase, or underweight its investment in, certain securities due to sustainability considerations
when other investment considerations would suggest that a more significant investment in such securities
would be advantageous. A fund may also overweight its investment in certain securities due to sustainability
considerations when other investment considerations would suggest that a lesser investment in such securities
would be advantageous. In addition, a fund may sell or retain certain securities due to sustainability
considerations when it is otherwise disadvantageous to do so. The sustainability considerations may also
cause a fund’s industry allocations to deviate from those of funds without these considerations and
of conventional benchmarks. The Advisor may also not be able to assess the sustainability of each company
with securities eligible for purchase. For example, the Advisor may not be able to determine all of the
sustainability considerations for each company because the third party service providers may not have
data on the entire universe of companies with securities considered by the Advisor, or may not have information
with respect to each factor considered as a sustainability consideration. Furthermore, “sustainability”
is not uniformly defined, and there are significant differences in interpretations of what it means for
a company to meet sustainability criteria. A fund’s exposure to companies, industries and sectors of
the market may be affected by sustainability data obtained that may be inaccurate and the Advisor’s
assessment of a company’s sustainability may differ from assessments made by other funds, managers,
or investors. As a result, there is no guarantee that a fund’s investments will reflect the sustainability
considerations of any particular investor.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market
Trading Risk: Active trading markets for
a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized
participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase or redemption
orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted
in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary
to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market
conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity
in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market
price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund’s shares’
bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount Risk:
The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the value of your investment
may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund’s holdings, the
existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen
bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder
purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time
when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from
its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced
by other ETFs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk:
Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward
contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives
for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a
fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative
instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest
rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes
in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and
a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
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| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Equity Market Risk |
Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock
markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.
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| Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk |
Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk: A fund
that takes into account sustainability considerations may limit the number of investment opportunities
available to the fund, and as a result, at times, may underperform funds that are not subject to such
sustainability considerations. For example, a fund may decline to purchase, or underweight its investment
in, certain securities due to sustainability considerations when other investment considerations would
suggest that a more significant investment in such securities would be advantageous. A fund may also
overweight its investment in certain securities due to sustainability considerations when other investment
considerations would suggest that a lesser investment in such securities would be advantageous. In addition,
a fund may sell or retain certain securities due to sustainability considerations when it is otherwise
disadvantageous to do so. The sustainability considerations may also cause a fund’s industry allocations
to deviate from those of funds without these considerations and of conventional benchmarks. The Advisor
may also not be able to assess the sustainability of each company with securities eligible for purchase.
For example, the Advisor may not be able to determine all of the sustainability considerations for each
company because the third party service providers may not have data on the entire universe of companies
with securities considered by the Advisor, or may not have information with respect to each factor considered
as a sustainability consideration. Furthermore, “sustainability” is not uniformly defined, and there
are significant differences in interpretations of what it means for a company to meet sustainability
criteria. A fund’s exposure to companies, industries and sectors of the market may be affected by sustainability
data obtained that may be inaccurate and the Advisor’s assessment of a company’s sustainability may
differ from assessments made by other funds, managers, or investors. As a result, there is no guarantee
that a fund’s investments will reflect the sustainability considerations of any particular investor.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk:
Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or
political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors
holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency
will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced
to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio
does not hedge foreign currency risk. Foreign issuers may not be subject
to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable and
publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A
fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or
interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies,
and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic
issuers in U.S. courts. Depositary receipts are generally subject to the same risks
as the foreign securities that they evidence or into which they may be converted. In addition, the underlying
issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts,
are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts, or
to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities. Depositary receipts
that are not sponsored by the issuer may be less liquid and there may be less readily available public
information about the issuer.
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| Geographic Focus Risk |
Geographic Focus Risk:
If a fund focuses its investments in securities of issuers located in a particular
country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater extent than if its investments were less focused,
to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions and developments that may be particular to
that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets; adverse exchange rates; adverse social,
political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other developments; or natural disasters.
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| Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk |
Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and
mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult
to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap
company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies
are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they
may have more limited resources.
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| Emerging Markets Risk |
Emerging Markets
Risk: Securities of issuers associated with emerging market countries
may be subject to higher and additional risks than securities of issuers in developed foreign markets.
Numerous emerging market countries have a history of, and continue to experience
serious, and potentially continuing, economic and political problems. Stock markets in many emerging
market countries are relatively small, expensive to trade in and generally have higher risks than those
in developed markets. Securities in emerging markets also may be less liquid than those in developed
markets and foreigners are often limited in their ability to invest in, and withdraw assets from, these
markets. Additional restrictions may be imposed under other conditions. Frontier market countries generally
have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in
emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
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| China Investments Risk |
China Investments Risk: There are special risks
associated with investments in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are highly
interconnected and interdependent, with relationships built on trade, finance, culture, and politics.
Despite prior economic and trade reforms and the prior expansion of private ownership of companies in
certain sectors, the Chinese government still exercises substantial influence over many aspects of the
private sector and may own or control many companies, including by embedding Chinese Communist Party
or People’s Armed Forces Department personnel in Chinese companies. In addition, the Chinese government
continues to maintain a major role in economic policy making and may alter or discontinue economic or
trade reforms at any time. Investing in China involves risks of losses due to expropriation, nationalization,
confiscation of assets and property, and the imposition of restrictions on foreign investments and on
repatriation of capital invested. Investments in China, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan are also subject to the risk of escalating tensions and deteriorating relations with
the U.S. as economic and strategic competition between the U.S. and China intensifies, which could result
in further tariffs, trade restrictions, sanctions, or other actions that adversely impact the value of
such investments. A reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, supply chain diversification
or the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened
trade tensions between China and the United States may also have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
In addition, investments in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its political and economic relationship
with China. Certain securities issued by companies located or operating in China, such as China A-shares,
are also subject to trading restrictions, quota limitations and less market liquidity, which could pose
risks to a fund investing in such securities. In addition, investments in special structures that utilize
contractual arrangements to provide exposure to certain Chinese companies, known as variable interest
entities (“VIEs”), that operate in sectors in which China restricts and/or prohibits foreign investments
may present additional risks. The Chinese government’s acceptance of the VIE structure is evolving.
It is uncertain whether Chinese officials and regulators will withdraw their acceptance of the structure
generally, or with respect to certain industries, or whether Chinese courts or arbitration bodies would
decline to enforce the contractual rights of foreign investors, each of which would likely have significant,
detrimental, and possibly permanent losses on the value of such investments.
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| Profitability Investment Risk |
Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability
stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these
securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
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| Value Investment Risk |
Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform
differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause
a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react
differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types
of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to
deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant
variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in
a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to
the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder
may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market
Trading Risk: To the extent that the underlying securities held by a fund
trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities exchange on which a fund’s shares list and
trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote
from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or discounts to NAV that may be greater than those
experienced by other ETFs.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives
Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon,
whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging
purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives,
the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject
to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and
management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative
may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than
the principal amount invested.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities
Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may
fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there
may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover
the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with
cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk: Operational risks include
human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems,
technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine
learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a
fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek
to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be
inadequate to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Dimensional Global Sustainability Fixed Income ETF
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Risk Table - Dimensional Global Sustainability Fixed Income ETF
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The
following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is
the risk that you will lose money.
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| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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| Market Risk |
Market Risk: Even a long-term investment
approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions
and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
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| Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk |
Sustainability Consideration Investment Risk: A fund
that takes into account sustainability considerations may limit the number of investment opportunities
available to the fund, and as a result, at times, may underperform funds that are not subject to such
sustainability considerations. For example, a fund may decline to purchase, or underweight its investment
in, certain securities due to sustainability considerations when other investment considerations would
suggest that a more significant investment in such securities would be advantageous. A fund may also
overweight its investment in certain securities due to sustainability considerations when other investment
considerations would suggest that a lesser investment in such securities would be advantageous. In addition,
a fund may sell or retain certain securities due to sustainability considerations when it is otherwise
disadvantageous to do so. The sustainability considerations may also cause a fund’s industry allocations
to deviate from those of funds without these considerations and of conventional benchmarks. The Advisor
may also not be able to assess the sustainability of each company with securities eligible for purchase.
For example, the Advisor may not be able to determine all of the sustainability considerations for each
company because the third party service providers may not have data on the
entire universe of companies with securities considered by the Advisor, or may not have information with
respect to each factor considered as a sustainability consideration. Furthermore, “sustainability”
is not uniformly defined, and there are significant differences in interpretations of what it means for
a company to meet sustainability criteria. A fund’s exposure to companies, industries and sectors of
the market may be affected by sustainability data obtained that may be inaccurate and the Advisor’s
assessment of a company’s sustainability may differ from assessments made by other funds, managers,
or investors. As a result, there is no guarantee that a fund’s investments will reflect the sustainability
considerations of any particular investor.
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| Income Risk |
Income
Risk: Income risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause
a fund’s income to decline because, among other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities
in its portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding securities.
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| Call Risk |
Call Risk: Call
risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding
fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities
with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
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| Interest Rate Risk |
Interest
Rate Risk: Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk
because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates.
When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest
rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed
income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive
to changes in interest rates.
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| Credit Risk |
Credit Risk:
Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest
payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change
in an issuer’s financial strength may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance
of a fund holding such securities. Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support
and, therefore, different degrees of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities
of the U.S. Government that are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as
the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued
by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s
right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies
and instrumentalities sponsored by the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing
agencies, such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government
agency securities issued or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment
of principal and/or interest.
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| Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk |
Foreign Securities
and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices
may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or
(b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed
to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S.
dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency,
changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk. Foreign
issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there
may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared
to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing
dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing
legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with
respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
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| Foreign Government Debt Risk |
Foreign Government
Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the
repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest
when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental
entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency
reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their
debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and
(c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole
or in part.
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| Mortgage-Backed Securities Risk |
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Risk: Mortgage-backed securities represent interests in “pools”
of mortgages and often involve risks that are different from or potentially more significant than risks
associated with other types of debt instruments. Mortgage securities differ from typical debt securities in that principal
is not paid back at maturity, but rather periodically over the life of the security. A fund may receive
unscheduled payments of principal due to voluntary prepayments, refinancings or foreclosures on the underlying
mortgage loans. When interest rates decline, borrowers may pay off their mortgages sooner than expected.
This can reduce the returns of a fund because it may have to reinvest that money at the lower prevailing
interest rates. As a result, mortgage securities may be less effective than some other types of debt
securities as a means of securing long-term interest rates and may have less potential for capital appreciation
during periods of falling interest rates. Conversely, in a period of rising interest rates, a fund may
exhibit additional volatility since rising interest rates tend to extend the duration of fixed rate mortgage-related
securities, making them more sensitive to changes in interest rates. As interest rates rise mortgage
borrowers are less likely to exercise prepayment options, which may reduce the value of these securities
and potentially cause a fund to lose money. This is known as extension risk.
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| Derivatives Risk |
Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments,
such as swaps, futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose
value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting
to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with
derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While
hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the
market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs
the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match
the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities
involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a
fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The
use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of
investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives.
Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity,
interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation.
Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index,
and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Additional risks are associated with the
use of swaps including counterparty and credit risk (the risk that the other party to a swap agreement
will not fulfill its contractual obligations, whether because of bankruptcy or other default) and liquidity
risk (the possible lack of a secondary market for the swap agreement). Credit risk increases when a fund
is the seller of swaps and counterparty risk increases when the fund is a buyer of swaps. In addition,
where a fund is the seller of swaps, it may be required to liquidate portfolio securities at inopportune
times in order to meet payment obligations. Swaps may be illiquid or difficult to value.
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| Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when
particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid
investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune
prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after purchase by a
fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions, credit tightening and/or other market developments.
Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when
it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities
at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market
turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors.
Investments that are illiquid or that trade in lower volumes may be more difficult to value.
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| Market Trading Risk |
Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets
for a fund’s shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants.
Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund’s shares or to submit purchase
or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange
may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing
exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund’s shares will continue to be met. Additionally,
in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund’s shares may become less liquid in response to
deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant
variance in the market price of a fund’s shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in
a fund’s shares’ bid-ask spread.
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| Premium/Discount Risk |
Premium/Discount
Risk: The net asset value (“NAV”) of a fund’s shares and the
value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price
of a fund’s holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading
market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or
discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time
when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when
the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
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| International Closed Market Trading Risk |
International Closed Market Trading Risk: To the
extent that the underlying securities held by a fund trade on an exchange that is closed when the securities
exchange on which a fund’s shares list and trade is open, there may be market uncertainty about the
stale security pricing (i.e., the last quote from its closed foreign market) resulting in premiums or
discounts to NAV that may be greater than those experienced by other ETFs.
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| Securities Lending Risk |
Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves
the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result,
a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also
lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including
the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse
tax consequences.
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| Operational Risk |
Operational Risk:
Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults
in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence
and machine learning (“AI”). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or
its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce
these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these
operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate
to address these risks.
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| Cyber Security Risk |
Cyber Security
Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology
and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those
technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized
party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or
its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
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| Large Shareholder Risk |
Large Shareholder Risk: Certain shareholders, including
other funds or accounts advised by the Advisor, may from time to time own a substantial amount of a fund’s
shares. In addition, a third-party investor, the Advisor, an authorized participant, a lead market maker,
or another entity may invest in a fund and hold its investment for a limited period of time solely to
facilitate commencement of a fund or to facilitate a fund achieving a specified size or scale. There
can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of a fund
would be maintained at such levels or that a fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements.
Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on a fund. In addition, transactions
by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on the listing exchange
and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the shares.
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