why is either better than vbr?
they're not necessarily better, just more small and valuey than VBR
per the x-ray analyzer at morningstar at least, VBR is almost half mid-cap instead of small-cap
IJS and AVUV are similar but it seemed like AVUV's additional profitability screening had been leading to better performance in this past drop (up until a couple days ago when they all sank like a rock haha)
but AVUV is a new fund so i felt it was too early to tell if it seems to be good or just lucky, so i haven't switched anything to it yet
avantis does have a lot of employees who used to work for DFA though, which has decades of experience in factor-based mutual fund offerings