AVTM vs GEW

AVTMAAvantis Total Equity Markets ETF 1

GEWACambria Global EW ETF

In short

AVTM Avantis' one-ticket world stock market: roughly 1,700 holdings, U.S. names owned directly and the overseas sleeves held through sister Avantis funds, all tilted toward cheaper, more profitable companies.

GEW Global equities without the megacap pile-up. GEW gives roughly 500 of the world's largest companies the same size slot, so no handful of US tech names runs the portfolio. It was born in 2025 out of a Section 351 in-kind exchange.

Stated mandate

AVTM Seeks long-term capital appreciation through a broadly diversified total-market equity allocation, using individual securities and Avantis ETFs while emphasizing securities expected to offer higher returns or better risk characteristics than a passive market-capitalization-weighted index.

GEW The Fund aims to achieve capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• AVTM Costs 0.22% net of a fee waiver (0.23% gross), a notch under stablemate AVGE at 0.23% and below the typical fee in its category.
• Owns U.S. companies directly rather than only stacking funds, then uses Avantis ETFs for developed and emerging markets abroad. One ticket, all market caps.sec.gov
• Benchmarked to 85% Russell 3000 and 15% MSCI ACWI ex-US IMI: a deliberately U.S.-heavy world portfolio, not a global cap-weight split.avantisinvestors.com
• One of the stronger builds in a crowded field of actively managed global equity funds.

• GEW Equal weight by design: roughly 500 global large caps, each in the same slot. Cap-weighted global funds hand the biggest decisions to whichever megacaps grew biggest.cambriafunds.com
• At 0.30% a year, it undercuts the typical active global equity fund, where the median fee sits closer to 0.69%.
• It opened in September 2025 through a Section 351 exchange, a route that lets holders of concentrated, low-basis stock move into the fund in kind without triggering immediate capital gains.businesswire.com
• The portfolio does what the label says (broad, global, equal-weighted, rebalanced at least annually), and it sits in the top quartile of active global equity funds we grade.cambriafunds.com

Worth knowing

• AVTM Avantis flags that much of the starting portfolio sits on a low tax basis, so the fund may realize and distribute more capital gains than other ETFs.avantisinvestors.com
• Trades thinly next to the index giants in its category, so spreads and order size matter more here.
• Launched January 2026, so the history is short, and with no index to follow the portfolio reflects Avantis' own valuation and profitability tilts.sec.gov

• GEW Cheaper ways to own the world exist: GSWO runs 0.15% and DFAW 0.24%, both under GEW's 0.30%.
• A 2025 launch that trades lightly next to the giant global index funds, so spreads can be wider and the operating record is short.cambriafunds.com
• Equal weighting trims winners and leans on the smaller names in the group, which means higher turnover and results that diverge from cap-weighted global benchmarks.businesswire.comcambriafunds.com

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