AVDS vs JIDE

AVDSAAvantis International Small Cap Equity ETF

JIDEDJPMorgan International Dynamic ETF

In short

AVDS Avantis casts a wide net: roughly 3,000 non-US developed small caps, weighted with an eye on price, profitability and how much cash companies plow back in. Active management that looks a lot like an index fund with its thumb on the scale.

JIDE J.P. Morgan's concentrated take on developed international: about 90 large- and mid-cap foreign names picked bottom-up from fundamental research plus quant screens, with MSCI EAFE as the yardstick. Active risk by design, priced like it.

Stated mandate

AVDS The ETF seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in a broad group of non-U.S. small-cap companies and considering valuation, profitability, and investment levels when selecting and weighting securities.

JIDE The fund seeks long-term capital growth through international equities, emphasizing large- and mid-cap companies in foreign developed markets. It is actively managed through a bottom-up process that combines fundamental and quantitative insights.

Why people hold it

• AVDS Charges 0.30% a year, about half the typical fee in its active international peer group. Cheap is a durable edge in a corner of the market where fees usually run high.
• Roughly 3,000 holdings, so no single stock or country steers the outcome. This is small-cap breadth, not a concentrated stock-picking bet.
• The tilts are the whole design: valuation, profitability and investment levels shape both what it owns and how much of each, measured against MSCI World ex USA Small Cap.avantisinvestors.com
• Sits among the strongest builds in a crowded field of active international equity funds. Broad, systematic, low-fee: the boxes that tend to stay ticked.

• JIDE Roughly 90 holdings, not a thousand. Each pick has room to matter against the fund's stated yardstick, the MSCI EAFE Index (net total return).
• A clear lane: large- and mid-cap companies in foreign developed markets, chosen bottom-up by combining fundamental research with quantitative insight.
• Sits in the same lineup as JPMorgan's lighter-touch JIRE (0.29%), so you can choose how much active risk you want in developed international.

Worth knowing

• AVDS Thinly traded compared with the big international names. Limit orders and a look at the spread earn their keep here.
• Launched in 2023, so the live record is short even though the approach behind it is not new.
• Costs more than Avantis' broad international fund AVDE (0.23%). Small caps abroad are pricier to research and trade, and they swing harder.

• JIDE At 0.74%, the fee sits above the category median; peers like DFIC (0.22%) and AVDE (0.23%) cost less, and TACN's fee is waived to zero through January 30, 2027.
• Launched in January 2026, so the record is short and the asset base small, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the category's heavyweights.
• Active by design: the holdings and their path can diverge from EAFE in either direction, since results hinge on the managers' picks.

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