Salient to Investors:

Karen Umland at the DFA Emerging Markets Small Cap Portfolio Fund is slightly overweight India, and had 15 percent of holdings in Taiwan, over 14 percent in South Korea, over 14 percent in China, and 9.2 percent in Brazil at the end of Q1. Umland dislikes Russia and Egypt because of lack of market transparency and trading volume. Umland and co-manager Joseph Chi say companies with very low profits and high relative prices are chronic underperformers.

Patricia Oey at Morningstar said limited variation in country and industry weightings can hold back a fund so the DFA fund may outperform at times, and underperform at other times.

Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-09/dimensional-winning-in-emerging-markets-riskless-return.html

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