Global shares
ETHI
Betashares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF · Betashares
Around 230 large global companies that pass an ethical screen — climate leaders, with fossil-fuel producers and a range of other activities excluded.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.59% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.59% yearly fee works out to about $59 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
- Global shares
- Number of holdings
- ~230
- Where it invests
- Global developed markets, around 70% United States, with Japan and Europe making up much of the rest.
- Income paid
- Half-yearly
- Currency hedged
- No — It's unhedged, so for an Australian investor the value also moves with the Australian dollar against foreign currencies, on top of the markets themselves.
Its character
An ethically screened take on global shares: it starts from a world index, then filters out fossil fuels and companies failing its responsible-investment screens. The result still leans toward technology and financials, with names like Broadcom, Nvidia and Apple near the top.
What to keep in mind
Because the ethical screens narrow the field, it can look and move differently from a plain world-shares fund, and it still leans on the United States and large technology firms. It also carries currency movements for an Australian holder.
How this fund relates to others
A concentrated, screened global fund that overlaps with the developed-world funds (VGS, BGBL) and especially their ESG versions (IWLD, VESG) in the big US-led names, but holds far fewer companies and screens harder, so it behaves more distinctly than its overlap suggests.
Figures last verified 2026-06-12against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.