GURU vs VOOV

GURUDGlobal X Guru Index ETF

VOOVAVanguard S&P 500 Value ETF

In short

GURU The hedge fund cloner. Since 2012, GURU has tracked an index built from hedge funds' high-conviction stock ideas, distilling them into roughly 90 US names you can own in a single ticker.

VOOV Vanguard takes the S&P 500, sorts it by value traits, and hands you the cheap half: roughly 400 familiar large caps, one published index, seven basis points. A value tilt without leaving the blue-chip universe.

Stated mandate

GURU The fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Guru Index. It is designed to generate alpha over the broad market through high-conviction ideas selected from hedge funds.

VOOV The fund seeks to track the performance of the S&P 500 Value Index.

Why people hold it

• GURU One ticker, an index of hedge funds' highest-conviction stock ideas. That is a genuinely different way to assemble a US equity sleeve.globalxetfs.com
• Rules-based, not vibes: it follows the Solactive Guru Index under a published methodology, so the selection process is there to read.globalxetfs.com
• Roughly 90 US stocks spread the exposure, so the portfolio is not riding one manager's single big idea.
• Launched in 2012, which gives this strategy more than a decade of real-world history to inspect rather than a backtest.

• VOOV Charges 0.07% a year against a 0.45% median for its index-tracker peer group. The value tilt arrives without the usual factor-fund markup.
• No manager discretion. It follows one published benchmark, the S&P 500 Value Index, holding roughly 400 large-cap names most investors already know.vanguard.com
• Running since 2010 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, it sits among the strongest implementations in its peer group of plain index wrappers.

Worth knowing

• GURU The idea carries a price: 0.75% a year, well above the typical index wrapper near 0.45%, while plain-beta peers like SCHK and VOOV charge single-digit basis points.
• Thinly traded and modest in size, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than in giant index funds and larger orders need more care.
• It is built to look different from the broad market, so results can diverge from plain S&P 500 exposure in either direction.globalxetfs.com

• VOOV SPYV tracks the same S&P 500 Value Index for 0.04%. Same benchmark, thinner fee.
• You own one side of the index. When the growth half of the S&P 500 leads, this fund's path diverges from the headline benchmark.
• Volume is moderate rather than heavy, so spreads can run wider than the busiest large-cap ETFs. Cash comes back quarterly, not monthly.

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