LRGC vs MFIG

LRGCAAB US Large Cap Strategic Equities ETF

MFIGCMotley Fool Innovative Growth ETF

In short

LRGC AB's stock pickers in an ETF wrapper: roughly 70 large-cap US names picked with fundamental research plus quant screens, measured against the S&P 500. Active conviction, priced under the typical active peer.

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

LRGC The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital. It is actively managed and normally invests at least 80% of net assets in equities of large-capitalization U.S. companies.

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

• LRGC Roughly 70 holdings against a 500-stock yardstick, with quality and value screens doing the filtering. Each name actually carries weight.
• 0.39% a year sits below the median fee in its active large-cap group, so the manager isn't digging out of a deep cost hole.
• One of the stronger implementations among the actively managed US large-cap funds we track, with a plain mandate: at least 80% of net assets in large-cap US equities.
• Launched in 2023 on one of AB's core US equity strategies, with Jane Street signed on as lead market maker from day one.prnewswire.com

• 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

• LRGC At 0.39%, it costs more than cheaper enhanced-index rivals in the same group, such as JUSA at 0.12% and GUSE at 0.30%.
• Outcomes ride on the team's judgment, not an index rulebook, and about 70 positions concentrate those calls.
• It trades lightly next to the big index names, so spreads can run wider, especially in fast markets.

• 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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