BGGG vs TMFG

BGGGCBaillie Gifford Long Term Global Growth ETF

TMFGCMotley Fool Global Opportunities ETF

In short

BGGG Baillie Gifford's flagship concentrated global growth strategy in an ETF wrapper: roughly 40 businesses picked by bottom-up research, index weights ignored. The firm's long-running mutual fund version was reorganized into this ETF in 2026.

TMFG The Motley Fool's own asset-management arm runs this one: a focused, actively managed portfolio of quality growth companies, with at least 40% of assets outside the US. It started as a 2014 mutual fund and swapped into an ETF wrapper in 2021.

Stated mandate

BGGG The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by actively managing a global portfolio of common stocks and other equity securities. Its managers use bottom-up company research to select businesses with attractive long-term growth prospects without regard to index geographic, industry, sector, or issuer weights.

TMFG The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed, focused portfolio of common stocks and depositary receipts, applying a quality-growth approach.

Why people hold it

• BGGG At 0.70% a year it comes in under the typical fee in its global-growth cohort, and below active peers like WLTG (0.75%) and TMFG (0.85%).
• About 40 holdings chosen by company research, with no deference to index country, sector or issuer weights. This is built to look nothing like a global tracker.
• Not a startup idea: the Long Term Global Growth mutual fund was reorganized into this ETF effective June 1, 2026, bringing the same unconstrained global equity approach.bailliegifford.com

• TMFG Global by rule, not by accident: the prospectus commits to at least 40% of assets outside the US (30% if conditions are unfavorable), spread across three or more countries.sec.gov
• One line on the fee sheet: 0.85% all in, with other expenses listed at 0.00%. That sits at the median for its focused global-growth peers and well under FFND's 1.61%.sec.gov
• Not a new fund in ETF clothing. It opened in 2014 as a mutual fund and converted to an ETF in 2021, so the strategy has been run through real market cycles.fooletfs.com
• The mandate is to stay fully invested and not time the market, so you get the managers' stock picks rather than a cash pile waiting for a dip.sec.gov

Worth knowing

• BGGG Concentration cuts both ways: with about 40 names and no index anchor, a handful of positions can drive the outcome.
• Cheaper competition sits in the same lane: CGGO charges 0.47% and RGLO 0.59%.
• The ETF wrapper dates to 2026, a shorter trading record than longer-running rivals, and the mandate aims at capital appreciation rather than income.

• TMFG Active-manager pricing: 0.85% a year is many times a plain global index fund, and cohort peer CGGO charges 0.47%.
• Thinly traded next to big index ETFs, so spreads can be wider and size can move the price.
• A focused book with no market-cap limits, and the prospectus expects small and mid caps in the mix, so single names carry real weight.sec.gov

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