Australian shares
AQLT
Betashares Australian Quality ETF · Betashares
Around 40 Australian companies chosen for 'quality' signals — strong, steady profits, low debt and reliable earnings.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.35% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.35% yearly fee works out to about $35 a year per $10,000 invested.
A rough guide based on the headline fee only. Other costs (such as brokerage or buy/sell spreads) aren’t included.
The basics
- Issuer
- Betashares
- Asset class
- Australian shares
- Number of holdings
- ~40
- Where it invests
- 100% Australia.
- Income paid
- Half-yearly
- Currency hedged
- N/A — It holds Australian companies priced in Australian dollars, so there's no foreign-currency exposure to hedge.
Its character
A narrower, more selective slice of the Australian market than a broad 200-company fund — it screens for quality rather than simply holding the biggest names, though financials and materials still feature heavily, with BHP, Telstra and Wesfarmers near the top.
What to keep in mind
Holding only about 40 companies, it's more concentrated than a broad market fund, so individual holdings carry more weight. It still rises and falls with the Australian market.
Income
As an all-Australian fund, its distributions can carry franking credits from the franked dividends its companies pay.
How this fund relates to others
A 40-stock 'quality' slice of the same Australian market as VAS and A200; it shares their largest names (BHP, the banks) but holds far fewer companies, so it overlaps in the big names while concentrating more.
Figures last verified 2026-06-12against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.