GUSE vs MFIG

GUSEAGoldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity ETF

MFIGCMotley Fool Innovative Growth ETF

In short

GUSE Goldman's fundamental stock pickers hunting long-term growth in US companies, for 0.30% a year. The strategy dates to 2008 and charges well under the typical active US growth fund.

MFIG The Motley Fool's stock-picking philosophy, coded into a rules-based index. MFIG is a young US growth fund that follows an innovation screen instead of a manager's hunches, and charges 0.50% for the house view.

Stated mandate

GUSE The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in companies that the Investment Adviser believes are positioned for long-term growth.

MFIG The Fund seeks pre-expense total returns that generally correspond to the total return performance of the Motley Fool Innovative Growth Index. It uses a passive indexing approach to track that index.

Why people hold it

• GUSE Charges 0.30% a year, against a 0.54% median for its active US growth cohort. Cheap, for stock picking.
• Actively run with no index to shadow. Managers hold companies they judge positioned for long-term growth, so the portfolio can look different from a large-cap benchmark.
• Inception dates to 2008, so the strategy has run through multiple market cycles, not one long rally.
• One of the stronger implementations in a crowded field of active US growth funds.

• MFIG Rules first: a published index selects holdings with an Innovative Growth Factor Score, so the Fool's growth style shows up as a repeatable screen, not discretion.
• Plain plumbing: an all-US stock mandate in a standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper, so 1099s rather than K-1s and daily creation and redemption.
• The portfolio build is the sturdiest part of the package, holding up better against US growth peers than the price tag does.

Worth knowing

• GUSE Trades thinly next to the category's heavyweights. Spreads can be wider, which bites most on large or hurried orders.
• Two peers in the same top tier undercut it on fee: JUSA at 0.12% and FELG at 0.18%. Price is not where this one stands out.
• Distributions land once or twice a year, not monthly. Growth of capital is the stated goal, not an income stream.

• MFIG You pay up for the house view at 0.50%. Broad US growth funds like VUG and SCHG run at a few basis points, a gap that shows up every year.
• Young and small: it launched in December 2025, and light trading in a small fund can mean wider spreads than the mega-ETFs.
• Not an income story. The mandate is total return from innovative growth names, and distributions have not been part of the picture.

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