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DFA Australia Limited

Sydney, AustraliaSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 107621

Filed as DFA AUSTRALIA LIMITED

DFA Australia Limited is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Sydney, Australia, registered since 1994, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 24, 2026.

31 years
registered since 1994
$361,597,715,620
assets under management
2 arrangements
Fixed fees, Other
2
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is DFA Australia Limited compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), DFA Australia Limited reports these compensation arrangements: fixed fees (other than subscription fees); other. The amounts are in Item 5 of its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.

Where is DFA Australia Limited located?

DFA Australia Limited's principal office is in Sydney, Australia, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is DFA Australia Limited registered with the SEC or a state?

DFA Australia Limited is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1994. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 107621.

How much does DFA Australia Limited manage?

DFA Australia Limited reports $361,597,715,620 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 24, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have DFA Australia Limited's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for DFA Australia Limited: Regulatory assets under management: $243,768,838,481 in the October 2021 data and $361,597,715,620 in the October 2026 data, up 48%. Total employees: 97 in October 2021 and 134 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does DFA Australia Limited serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: investment companies (77); state or municipal government entities (including government pension plans) (19); pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (4).

Which custodians does DFA Australia Limited use?

DFA Australia Limited's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Northern Trust, State Street Bank and Trust Company and The Bank of New York Mellon as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does DFA Australia Limited report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation) and 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/107621

What changed in DFA Australia Limited's recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 50 to 55. Regulatory assets under management went from $273,923,572,670 to $361,597,715,620 (+32%). Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • Other

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

See the firm's brochure (dated March 24, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$361,597,715,620

$361,597,715,620 as of October 2026, filing dated March 24, 2026.

Discretionary: $361,597,715,620.Non-discretionary: $0.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 77 Assets $344,593,914,800 (95%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 4 Assets $4,297,144,484 (1%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 19 Assets $9,840,208,492 (3%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $1,598,651,232 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $1,267,796,612 (0%)
Other
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1994 (31 years)
Employees
Total: 134. Performing investment advisory functions: 55.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
1 other office, as of the April 2026 filing
Melbourne
States registered or notice-filed
1 state or jurisdiction
TX

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

2 Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.D(2) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes?
  • 11.D(4) In the past ten years, has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$244B 2021 $279B 2022 $246B 2023 $274B 2024 $274B 2025 $362B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$361,597,715,620134March 24, 2026
October 2025$273,923,572,670119July 10, 2025
October 2024$274,326,743,649118March 28, 2024
October 2023$246,092,962,847116March 31, 2023
October 2022$278,548,051,842113June 16, 2022
October 2021$243,768,838,48197March 31, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $243,768,838,481 in the October 2021 data and $361,597,715,620 in the October 2026 data, up 48%.

Total employees: 97 in October 2021 and 134 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 50 to 55.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $273,923,572,670 to $361,597,715,620 (+32%).
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
dimensional.com/au-en/financial-professionalsdimensional.com/au-en/individual

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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AdvisorCensus. DFA Australia Limited (CRD 107621): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/dfa-australia-limited-sydney-107621