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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: AdrianC ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Bogle , back to the real world,
Date: 01/14/26 7:54 AM
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Though that's a nice quote and link, they're selling investment management services, a crowd that is usually worth taking with a grain of salt : )

Sure. Avantis are a fund manager, started by some folks formerly with Dimensional. They are doing quite well.

Avantis Investors Achieves Growth Milestone
In six years, Avantis has passed $100 billion in assets under management

americancentury.com - Avantis investors achieves growth milestone

"Avantis Investors uses quantitative models as a core part of its investment process, making them a type of "quant-leaning" or systematic active fund. They are not purely algorithmic quant funds in the traditional sense, as human portfolio managers make final decisions, but their approach is highly systematic and data-driven."

Avantis expense ratios are fairly low, 0.15% for large cap value AVLV, for example.
AVLV is doing quite well for a "large cap value" fund - currently matching SPY since inception - which perhaps shows how their definition of "value" isn't the traditional "buy what don't grow". Interesting to me, it don't own Tesla or Berkshire.

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