SEIV vs TALV

SEIVASEI QiM U.S. Large Cap Value Active ETF

TALVCTransamerica Large Value Active ETF

In short

SEIV Active quant value stock-picking at an index-fund price. SEIV screens U.S. large caps for cheap valuations plus quality, momentum and low volatility, then runs a concentrated book of roughly 80 names for 0.15% a year.

TALV Transamerica hands its large-value sleeve to Great Lakes, whose quant screen hunts stocks that are both cheap and high quality. It arrived in December 2025 into an aisle full of index-built value funds, priced below the active-value median.

Stated mandate

SEIV The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through primarily U.S. common stocks priced below fundamental valuation measures, using a quantitative, active stock-selection approach.

TALV The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• SEIV 0.15% a year for genuine active selection, against a 0.55% median in its U.S. value peer group. It matches the cheapest large-value quant funds rather than charging active prices.
• Value is not the only screen. The model also weighs quality, momentum and low volatility, which is how a cheap-stock strategy tries to avoid the cheap-for-a-reason trap.
• Other funds measured against the S&P 500 in this cohort charge far more (LSVD 0.40%, GSPY 0.50%, VNSE 1.34%). SEIV runs its version at 0.15%.
• Sits among the strongest implementations in a crowded U.S. value field, and trades with enough regular activity to be workable for ordinary retail order sizes.

• TALV At 0.49% a year it undercuts the typical actively managed US value ETF, where the median fee sits at 0.55%.
• The mandate is specific rather than vague: Great Lakes' proprietary quantitative tool screens for quality and value, with long-term capital appreciation as the stated goal.
• The stock portfolio is the strongest piece of the package, better built than most rivals in the active value aisle.
• A plain 1940 Act ETF: no leverage, no derivatives overlay, no structural asterisks.

Worth knowing

• SEIV About 80 stocks measured against a 500-name benchmark. That concentration means stretches where it looks nothing like the S&P 500, in either direction.
• Launched in 2022, so the live record is short, and the asset base is mid-sized rather than among the giants of the value aisle.
• You get the factor recipe, not the trade-by-trade logic: selection sits inside a quantitative model. Distributions land quarterly, not monthly.

• TALV It trades thinly, so spreads can be wider than the household names in the value aisle.
• It opened in December 2025, leaving a short record to judge the process by and only a brief window of risk data.
• Systematic value rivals such as AVLV (0.15%) and DFLV (0.21%) cost far less; the fee here buys active judgment, not the lowest sticker.

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