Designed to provide exposure to a broadly diversified set of companies and sectors and across international developed and emerging market countries while focusing on securities we believe have higher expected returns*–companies trading at lower valuations with higher profitability ratios. The strategy pursues its objective through investing in a series of other Avantis exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Pursues the benefits associated with indexing (diversification, low turnover, transparency of exposures), but with the ability to add value by making investment decisions using information in current prices.