AVLC vs GOP

AVLCAAvantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF

GOPCSubversive Congressional Republicans Trading 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.

GOP Congress trades stocks; this fund copies the Republican half of the ledger, buying and selling what sitting Republican members and their families disclose under the STOCK Act, tilted toward the names they buy big, often, and in groups.

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.

GOP The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

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.

• GOP A clean split of the data: the Republican side of the congressional-disclosure trade, with a sibling fund running the Democratic side.sec.govsec.gov 2
• Weighting follows conviction. Large, repeat and multi-member purchases get overweighted; small or one-off trades are underweighted or skipped.sec.gov
• The portfolio stays tight to the mandate it advertises, and the fund sits in the upper half of its active US equity peer group.
• At 0.73% with no fee waiver in place, the price tag lands near the median for active US equity funds.

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

• GOP The lag is structural: members have up to 45 days to file a transaction report, so the fund trades after the disclosure, not alongside it.sec.gov
• Near the category median still means several times the cost of broad active core peers like DFAU (0.12%) and AVLC (0.15%).
• Smaller and thinly traded, so spreads can run wider than the category's giants. Distributions come once or twice a year; pre-2025 history sits under the old ticker, KRUZ.sec.gov

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