AVTM vs GPT

AVTMAAvantis Total Equity Markets ETF 1

GPTCIntelligent Alpha Atlas 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.

GPT The ticker is the thesis. GPT hands global stock picking to large language models, which assemble an equal-weighted portfolio of big companies instead of a human manager's conviction list.

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.

GPT The Fund seeks long-term 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.

• GPT The engine is genuinely different: AI models do the selecting, and the output is an equal-weighted book of global large caps, so no single mega-cap sets the tone.aaii.com
• At 0.69%, it charges the median fee for actively managed global equity ETFs. No novelty premium for the AI wrapper.
• The mandate is plain English: long-term capital appreciation from global large-cap stocks, with a $1 billion market-cap floor on what the models may pick.aaii.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

• GPT The fee sits well above the cheapest global peers (GSWO at 0.15%, DFAW at 0.24%), so the AI process carries a real cost hurdle.
• Small and thinly traded, so spreads tend to be wider and big orders harder to fill than in the category's giants.
• Launched in 2024, so the live record is short. The prospectus also permits indirect exposure to leveraged or inverse leveraged equity ETFs.

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