AVTM vs JSTC

AVTMAAvantis Total Equity Markets ETF 1

JSTCCAdasina Social Justice All Cap Global 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.

JSTC Not an off-the-shelf ESG score. Adasina screens global companies against its own social justice criteria (racial, gender, economic, climate), then runs the book actively across every market cap.

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.

JSTC The Fund seeks capital appreciation and income. It actively invests in global companies whose business practices align with Adasina’s social-justice criteria, including racial, gender, economic, and climate justice.

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.

• JSTC The mandate names what it's screening for: racial, gender, economic and climate justice, applied to company business practices rather than compressed into one vendor ESG rating.
• Global and all-cap in a single ticker, actively managed rather than tracking a broad world index on autopilot.
• Running since 2020 with its own named yardstick, the Adasina Social Justice Index, instead of borrowing a generic global benchmark.

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

• JSTC 0.89% a year is real money beside global peers such as GSWO (0.15%) and AVGE (0.25%), and above the typical actively managed global equity fund.
• Thinly traded next to the household-name global funds, so spreads and order size carry more weight here.
• Distributions land once or twice a year, not monthly.

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