EDGI vs JIRE

EDGID3EDGE Dynamic International Equity ETF

JIREAJPMorgan International Research Enhanced Equity ETF

In short

EDGI An actively run international stock fund with a two-part job written into its prospectus: pursue gains when markets rise, limit losses when they fall. Priced like an active manager in a cohort full of cheap trackers.

JIRE EAFE core with a stock-picker's fingerprints. JIRE holds sector and geographic risk close to the MSCI EAFE Index and expresses J.P. Morgan's global analyst calls as small over- and underweights, for 0.29% a year, below the typical active international fee.

Stated mandate

EDGI The Fund pursues capital appreciation in rising markets while seeking to limit losses during market declines.

JIRE JIRE seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in foreign developed-market companies. It uses global fundamental research and seeks to outperform the MSCI EAFE Index while maintaining similar sector and geographic risk characteristics.

Why people hold it

• EDGI The dual mandate is in the prospectus, not just the marketing: pursue capital appreciation in rising markets while seeking to limit losses during declines. A different job than index-tracking.
• Active by design, so managers can reshape international exposure as conditions change rather than holding whatever a benchmark dictates.
• Conventional 1940 Act fund wrapper: the same daily-liquidity plumbing as mainstream ETFs, and a 1099 at tax time instead of a partnership K-1.

• JIRE Index-like by design: sector and geographic risk stay close to MSCI EAFE, so stock-level tilts from J.P. Morgan's worldwide research bench do the work.jpmorgan.com
• 0.29% a year, below the median fee in its active international category, and no waiver is propping that up, so there is no expiry date to watch.
• Risk spread wide: roughly 200 stocks across developed markets outside North America, inside a multi-billion-dollar fund.
• Rates as one of the stronger implementations in the active international equity group.

Worth knowing

• EDGI Fees run 0.97% a year, above the typical international active equity fund and several times what cohort leaders AVDE (0.23%) and DFIC (0.22%) charge.
• It opened in October 2024, so there is not yet a long record showing how the loss-limiting side of the mandate behaves across a full market cycle.
• A small asset base and light trading volume tend to show up as wider bid-ask spreads than the cohort's giants carry.

• JIRE Hugging the benchmark cuts both ways: differences from EAFE come in small slices from stock selection, not bold sector or country bets.
• Cheaper shelf-mates exist: DFIC at 0.22% and AVDE at 0.23%, plus TACN at 0.20% gross but 0% net of a waiver through January 30, 2027.
• Developed-market holdings are priced in foreign currencies, so moves in the dollar ride along with the stock results.jpmorgan.com

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