AVDS vs TINS

AVDSAAvantis International Small Cap Equity ETF

TINSCTempleton International Insights 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.

TINS Templeton's bargain-hunting instinct, in ETF form. Launched in October 2025, TINS is an actively managed international stock fund seeking long-term capital growth from overseas companies its managers judge to be mispriced, priced just under the active-international median.

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.

TINS The Fund seeks long-term capital growth.

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.

• TINS Real stock picking, not index tracking: the prospectus sets a long-term capital growth objective with a value style across developed and emerging markets.
• The 0.55% expense ratio comes in under the median for active international equity funds, which is unusual for a brand-new stock-picking strategy.
• One ticker reaches both developed and emerging markets, so the manager can move between them instead of you bolting on a separate EM sleeve.
• Franklin Templeton launched it in October 2025 as one of a pair of active international equity ETFs, so it sits inside an established ETF operation rather than a startup shop.businesswire.com

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.

• TINS A 2025 launch means a short live record. There is not yet enough history to judge how the strategy behaves across a full market cycle.
• Systematic rivals undercut it on fee: AVDE charges 0.23% and DFIC 0.22%. The gap is what you pay for human judgment.
• Small asset base and light trading so far, so spreads can run wider than in the giant international index funds. Limit orders matter here.

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