BGIG vs TGLR

BGIGABahl & Gaynor Income Growth ETF

TGLRDWedbush Laffer Tengler New Era Value ETF

In short

BGIG An active dividend fund that writes the cushion into its own mandate: rising income, downside protection versus the broad market, and growth. Distributions land monthly, and it charges less than the typical active dividend-income fund.

TGLR Named for Nancy Tengler's 2003 book, TGLR runs her Relative Dividend Yield playbook: 25 to 35 US large caps bought when their own yield history flags them as cheap, held with low turnover, for 0.85%.

Stated mandate

BGIG The Fund seeks growing dividend income, downside protection relative to the broader equity market, and long-term capital appreciation.

TGLR The Fund seeks income and long-term capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• BGIG The stated objective names three jobs at once: growing dividend income, downside protection relative to the broader equity market, and long-term capital appreciation.
• Income arrives monthly, not on the quarterly schedule most equity funds keep.
• At 0.45% a year, it sits below the median fee for active US dividend-income funds.
• One of the strongest implementations in its peer group of active US dividend-income funds, with a portfolio that matches the mandate on the label.

• TGLR Relative Dividend Yield and Relative Price-to-Sales flag the entry point; a 12-factor fundamental check, half qualitative, then weeds out stocks that are cheap for a reason.sec.gov
• A 25 to 35 stock portfolio, so individual picks actually move the needle, paired with a stated aim of above-market dividend yield and low turnover.sec.gov
• Portfolio manager Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments, kept the reins when the fund reorganized into the Wedbush Series Trust in April 2026.sec.gov

Worth knowing

• BGIG Cheaper active dividend options exist: CGDV runs 0.33% and HIDV 0.35%.
• Hunting rising dividends means skipping most of the non-payers inside the S&P 500 it measures itself against, so results can look very different from the index.
• Launched in 2023, so there is no live record spanning a full market cycle yet.

• TGLR At 0.85% it costs more than the typical fund in its dividend-income category, and more than peers like VUS at 0.25% and CGDV at 0.33%.
• A small, thinly traded fund, which tends to mean wider bid-ask spreads than on the category's giants.
• Income has arrived on an irregular schedule rather than a fixed monthly or quarterly cadence.

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