AVTM vs TGLB

AVTMAAvantis Total Equity Markets ETF 1

TGLBBT. Rowe Price Global Equity 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.

TGLB T. Rowe Price's stock pickers go global in one ticker: roughly 60 names, actively chosen, priced under the typical active global fund. A 2025 launch, so the track record is still being written.

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.

TGLB The fund seeks income and capital appreciation through an actively managed investment program.

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.

• TGLB Concentrated on purpose. About 60 stocks from around the world means each pick carries real weight, the opposite of a thousand-name index sleeve.
• Costs 0.46% a year, well under the roughly 0.69% median for active global equity ETFs. Cheap active is rarer than it sounds.
• The mandate is income and capital appreciation together, so dividend payers and growth names compete for the same slots rather than one style running the book.

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

• TGLB Thinly traded with a small asset base. Limit orders matter here more than they do with the household-name global funds.
• Launched in June 2025, so there is little history to judge the manager's calls or how the fund handles a rough market.
• Index-based global rivals cost far less: GSWO at 0.15% and DFAW at 0.24%. You are paying for the stock picking, not the passport.

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