AVSE vs EMOP

AVSEAAvantis Responsible Emerging Markets Equity ETF

EMOPCAB Emerging Markets Opportunities ETF

In short

AVSE Avantis's emerging markets workhorse with a values filter bolted on: the same profitability tilt and thousands-of-stocks build as its flagship EM fund, at the same 0.33% fee, minus the issuers its team flags on ESG grounds.

EMOP Active emerging-markets investing with conviction: roughly 60 stocks picked through AB's Quality, Sentiment and Price lens rather than a thousand-name index. Human judgment makes the country and company calls here.

Stated mandate

AVSE The fund is an actively managed emerging-markets equity strategy that seeks to identify securities with higher expected returns while excluding issuers that raise concerns under the portfolio team's environmental, social, and governance evaluation.

EMOP The fund is an actively managed emerging-markets equity strategy investing across developing economies in companies selected for strong fundamentals and long-term growth potential.

Why people hold it

• AVSE Charges 0.33% a year, roughly half the typical fee among actively managed emerging markets funds. The cost drag stays out of the way of the strategy.
• The screen trims rather than concentrates: the portfolio still spans thousands of emerging markets stocks, not a short list of approved names.avantisinvestors.com
• Active in the Avantis sense: a systematic tilt toward more profitable companies, not a manager's hunches about which stocks pop next.
• Priced level with Avantis's mainstream EM funds (AVEM, AVXC) and JPMorgan's JEMA at 0.33%, and one of the stronger builds in the active EM group.

• EMOP Runs a concentrated book of about 60 emerging-market companies selected on fundamentals and long-term growth potential, not whatever a benchmark happens to hold.alliancebernstein.com
• Blends growth, quality and value under one Quality, Sentiment and Price screen, so it isn't a single-style bet on whichever factor EM markets are rewarding.alliancebernstein.com
• Getting in and out has been among the smoother experiences in the active EM group, which counts when the underlying shares trade in distant time zones.

Worth knowing

• AVSE Thinly traded next to the index-fund giants of emerging markets, so bid-ask spreads can widen and larger orders need care.
• The ESG exclusions are the portfolio team's own judgment calls, so the holdings and the results will drift from a plain broad EM benchmark.
• Emerging markets equity brings currency swings and country-level political risk, and this fund holds that exposure directly. Pays quarterly.

• EMOP The 0.70% expense ratio sits above the active EM median of 0.65% and roughly double systematic peers such as AVEM and JEMA at 0.33%.
• Launched in January 2026, so the live record is short and has not yet spanned a full emerging-markets cycle.
• With about 60 names, single-stock and single-country calls carry real weight; broad EM index funds spread the same money across thousands of positions.

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