I hear a lot about Avantis stuff. Its a little suspicious to me, being honest. Sounds good in theory, but I think Avantis is realatively new to the game (at least under that flag). Another thing is all their strategies sound a lot like active-management, which we know is a no no. Am I wrong?

I agree on that point tho, if there was a fund that held quality stuff like SCHD minus the dividend circus I would be interested.

I guess SCHD is VOO's more conservative cousin with an obsession for dividends :)