TMFG vs WLTG

TMFGCMotley Fool Global Opportunities ETF

WLTGBWealthTrust DBS Long Term Growth ETF

In short

TMFG The Motley Fool's own asset-management arm runs this one: a focused, actively managed portfolio of quality growth companies, with at least 40% of assets outside the US. It started as a 2014 mutual fund and swapped into an ETF wrapper in 2021.

WLTG A growth fund with an escape hatch. Three quarters is a concentrated book of 25 to 35 large-cap names; the rest follows a trend model that can rotate into gold, Treasuries, cash or an inverse ETF when the signal turns negative.

Stated mandate

TMFG The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed, focused portfolio of common stocks and depositary receipts, applying a quality-growth approach.

WLTG The Fund seeks long-term capital growth and has a secondary objective of providing dividend income.

Why people hold it

• TMFG Global by rule, not by accident: the prospectus commits to at least 40% of assets outside the US (30% if conditions are unfavorable), spread across three or more countries.sec.gov
• One line on the fee sheet: 0.85% all in, with other expenses listed at 0.00%. That sits at the median for its focused global-growth peers and well under FFND's 1.61%.sec.gov
• Not a new fund in ETF clothing. It opened in 2014 as a mutual fund and converted to an ETF in 2021, so the strategy has been run through real market cycles.fooletfs.com
• The mandate is to stay fully invested and not time the market, so you get the managers' stock picks rather than a cash pile waiting for a dip.sec.gov

• WLTG The tactical quarter is a risk dial: when the trend model reads a down market, that sleeve can move into gold, Treasuries, cash or an inverse ETF hedging the long equity exposure.sec.gov
• Concentration with intent. The core sleeve normally holds 25 to 35 individual large-cap positions, so the manager's picks move the fund instead of being diluted into an index.sec.gov
• 0.74% a year, with no fee waiver doing the lifting, lands near the typical fee for its category. That sits above BGGG's 0.70% and CGGO's 0.47%, both also unwaived.
• Live since December 2021 on the same quantitative-plus-trend process it launched with, it stands in the upper half of a small global growth peer group.

Worth knowing

• TMFG Active-manager pricing: 0.85% a year is many times a plain global index fund, and cohort peer CGGO charges 0.47%.
• Thinly traded next to big index ETFs, so spreads can be wider and size can move the price.
• A focused book with no market-cap limits, and the prospectus expects small and mid caps in the mix, so single names carry real weight.sec.gov

• WLTG It trades lightly and is small by ETF standards, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than what you see in a big index fund.
• There is no index to check it against. Results ride on the adviser's calls and a third-party trend signal, and trend models can whipsaw in choppy, directionless markets.sec.gov
• Dividend income is only a secondary objective and distributions are declared on a yearly schedule, so this is not built as a steady income stream.

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