AVLC vs EDGU

AVLCAAvantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF

EDGUC3EDGE Dynamic US Equity ETF

In short

AVLC Active management with index-fund manners: roughly 900 U.S. large caps, with the dial turned toward cheaper, more profitable companies. Avantis charges 0.15% a year to do it.

EDGU The ETF version of 3EDGE's institutional tactical model: a compact set of index ETFs that shifts across size, sector and style, aiming to rise with the market and soften declines. That flexibility runs 0.91%, with no fee waiver.

Stated mandate

AVLC The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It invests broadly in U.S. large-capitalization companies while using active decisions to overweight lower valuations and higher profitability.

EDGU The Fund seeks capital appreciation in rising markets while limiting losses during periods of decline.

Why people hold it

• AVLC 0.15% a year against a 0.65% median for active U.S. equity funds. That is passive-style pricing on an actively run book.
• Holds about 900 names against the Russell 1000, so the value and profitability tilts sit on top of broad market exposure instead of a concentrated bet.avantisinvestors.com
• One of the stronger builds in the active U.S. equity group, priced in the same neighborhood as the Dimensional core funds (DFAU, DFAC) it competes with.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades steadily, so spreads and liquidity are rarely the sticking point. Distributions are paid quarterly.

• EDGU Unusual mandate for a core US equity fund: the prospectus goal is appreciation in rising markets while limiting losses during declines, so exposure can be dialed up or down.sec.gov
• The engine is 3EDGE's proprietary global capital markets model, a rules-and-algorithms system the firm already runs for institutions and advisor model portfolios.3edgeam.com
• Built from index ETFs rather than hand-picked stocks, so the underlying exposures stay plain vanilla; the active call is which slices of size, sector and style to own.3edgeetfs.comsec.gov

Worth knowing

• AVLC Launched in 2023. The tilt philosophy is well worn at Avantis, but this fund's own live record is still short.
• Active, not index-tracking. The Russell 1000 is a reference point, not a leash, so holdings and weights can drift from it.
• Leaning toward cheaper, higher-profitability companies means stretches where it moves differently from the plain cap-weighted market, in either direction.avantisinvestors.com

• EDGU Cost is the trade-off: 0.91% all in (0.70% management plus 0.20% from the ETFs it holds), no waiver, above the category norm and versus 0.12% at DFAU and 0.15% at AVLC.sec.gov
• The loss-limiting aim is an objective, not a buffer. Nothing in the structure floors the downside; it rests on the model's allocation calls.sec.gov
• Young and lightly traded: shares date to 2024, and volume runs below the category's giants, so spreads matter more at the point of trade.

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