Australian shares
FAIR
Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF · Betashares
Around 65 Australian companies that pass an ethical screen — fossil-fuel producers and a range of other activities are excluded, and sustainability leaders are favoured.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.49% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.49% yearly fee works out to about $49 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
- ~65
- Where it invests
- Entirely 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
An ethically screened take on Australian shares. Because the screens rule out fossil fuels and the big banks, it looks very different from a standard Australian fund — leaning instead toward real estate, healthcare, communications and industrials.
What to keep in mind
The ethical screens leave out big parts of the usual Australian market — notably the major banks and miners — so it can behave quite differently from a broad Australian fund, with its own concentration in the sectors that pass the screen.
How this fund relates to others
Because it screens out the big banks and large miners that dominate broad Australian funds like A200, IOZ and VAS, it overlaps with them far less than its Australian label suggests, and behaves more like its own distinct slice of the market.
Figures last verified 2026-06-22against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.