AVRE vs CSRE

AVREAAvantis Real Estate ETF

CSRECCohen & Steers Real Estate Active ETF

In short

AVRE Landlord exposure at index-fund pricing. AVRE holds roughly 300 REITs and property companies worldwide, measured against the S&P Global REIT Index, for 0.17% a year while the typical fund in its active-equity peer group charges far more.

CSRE Active real estate, run by a house that specializes in it. Cohen & Steers holds a tight book of listed property names picked bottom-up on relative value, not by index weight. Launched in 2025.

Stated mandate

AVRE The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

CSRE The Fund seeks total return through publicly traded real estate securities. It is actively managed using a bottom-up, relative-value process to select investments.

Why people hold it

• AVRE 0.17% a year, a fraction of the median expense ratio in its active-equity peer group. Fees are the one part of a real estate return you know in advance.avantisinvestors.com
• Global by design: US and developed-market property owners across roughly 300 names, so no single office tower or mall operator sets the tone.avantisinvestors.com
• Rent shows up on a schedule. The fund distributes quarterly, and its stated objective is long-term capital appreciation rather than a yield target.avantisinvestors.com
• On cost and structure it sits among the strongest implementations in its peer group, with a clean record: no structural flags, no scoring caps.

• CSRE Genuinely active, not an index in disguise: a bottom-up, relative-value process using a proprietary valuation model to pick listed real estate securities.
• Roughly 40 holdings, so a single conviction call carries real weight instead of being diluted across hundreds of names.
• The portfolio lines up closely with what the prospectus promises: real estate equity, actively selected, no drift into whatever sector is hot.
• Trades tightly for a fund this young, and distributions come on a quarterly schedule.

Worth knowing

• AVRE One sector, one story. Real estate reacts hard to interest rates and credit conditions, so this moves on its own schedule versus a broad stock fund.
• Global reach means foreign-currency property markets ride along, adding exchange-rate movement on top of the underlying real estate returns.avantisinvestors.com
• Launched in 2021, so its live history is short next to REIT funds that have been through multiple property cycles.

• CSRE 0.70% a year is above the typical active equity ETF, and a large multiple of low-cost core options like DFAU and DFAC. Active selection has to earn that gap.
• Launched in 2025, so the live record is short and risk measures rest on thin history.
• One sector, concentrated: property cycles and interest rates drive the ride here, on a very different path from a broad equity fund.

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