DCOR vs GVUS

DCORAU.S. Core Equity 1 Portfolio ETF Class Shares

GVUSAGoldman Sachs MarketBeta Russell 1000 Value Equity ETF

In short

DCOR Index-fund breadth with an active steering wheel: roughly 2,300 US stocks weighted toward smaller, cheaper, more profitable companies, for 0.14% a year. Dimensional's long-running core equity playbook, in an ETF since 2023.

GVUS Goldman's plain-vanilla shelf, not its quant shop. GVUS tracks a daily-capped Russell 1000 Value index for 0.12% a year: roughly 900 large- and mid-cap value names, no overlay, no tilt, no manager's opinion.

Stated mandate

DCOR The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through a broadly diversified portfolio of U.S. equities. Its approach combines portfolio design, research, management, and trading while emphasizing long-term expected-return drivers.

GVUS The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of an underlying index representing the large- and mid-capitalization value segment of U.S. equity issuers.

Why people hold it

• DCOR 0.14% a year, well under half the typical fee among US multifactor peers.
• Roughly 2,300 holdings makes this a whole-market core position, not a factor slice, with the smaller-cap, value and profitability tilts built into the weights.
• What the prospectus advertises is what the portfolio holds: broad US equity, tilted to cheaper and more profitable names. One of the tightest mandate fits in its peer group.

• GVUS Charges 0.12% a year against a 0.32% median for its factor peer group. Index-fund pricing with a Goldman nameplate.
• Tracks its benchmark tightly, one of the cleanest index implementations in its peer group.
• Roughly 900 large- and mid-cap value stocks, sorted by Russell's published style rules rather than anyone's stock picks.gs.com
• The benchmark is the 40 Act Daily Capped version: FTSE Russell watches weights daily to keep single names under 1940 Act diversification thresholds. Concentration control is built into the index.ftserussell.com

Worth knowing

• DCOR Actively managed with no index to replicate, so the holdings rest on Dimensional's judgment and turnover can run higher than an index fund's.sec.gov
• The 0.14% is net of a contractual fee waiver; the gross fee in the prospectus is higher, and the waiver runs on a renewable term.sec.gov
• Moderately traded rather than a volume monster, so spreads can be wider than at the biggest names in the category.

• GVUS One of the thinner-traded names in its category. Spreads matter more here than with the household-name value funds, so limit orders earn their keep.
• Launched in late 2023, so the live record is short next to Russell 1000 Value trackers with decades behind them.
• Cheap, not cheapest: Vanguard's VONV runs the same Russell 1000 Value exposure at 0.06%.

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