Personal Investments • Accomodating 2 DFA funds in my AA with index ETFs

I used to be with an advisor who invested in DFA funds, but as I got more comfortable with investing, I decided to DIY and ended the advisor relationship. I had transferred those DFA funds over and any new investments was invested into VTI, VEA and VWO.

I wanted to divest out of the DFA funds and invest those proceeds in the index ETFs. I sold most of the funds as they had low cap gains (few Ks) to some small losses even, but 2 funds have lots of cap gains (over 120K between them), which I want to avoid selling and just let it be until I have need for funds. So I want to account for those when I figure out how to distribute the cash from selling the other funds per my AA.

The funds are:
DFFVX - DFA US Targeted Value (Russell 2000 value index benchmark)
DFVEX - DFA US Vector Equity (Russell 3000 index benchmark)

Based on the benchmarks, DFVEX seems to be total market based, and DFFVX is small cap value. Is that right? So if I consider DFVEX = VTI, should I compensate for the DFFVX with a large cap ETF, ignoring the value tilts?

I know a lot of suggestions are going to be to keep it simple and bite the bullet and pay the taxes, but paying ~24% taxes stings

Statistics: Posted by theRoCK — Tue May 07, 2024 6:26 pm — Replies 3 — Views 272

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