Global shares
QUAL
VanEck MSCI International Quality ETF · VanEck
Around 300 companies from developed countries outside Australia, picked for 'quality' signals — strong, steady profits, low debt and reliable earnings.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.4% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.4% yearly fee works out to about $40 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
- VanEck
- Asset class
- Global shares
- Number of holdings
- ~300
- Where it invests
- Global developed markets, around three-quarters United States, with Switzerland, the UK, Japan and Europe making up much of the rest.
- Income paid
- Annually
- 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. (VanEck's QHAL is the hedged version.)
Its character
A quality-screened take on global shares: instead of holding the whole market, it leans toward companies that score well on profitability and balance-sheet strength. Still heavily weighted to large US names.
What to keep in mind
The quality screen narrows it to fewer companies than a broad world 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 'quality' subset of the same developed-world universe as VGS and BGBL; it shares their largest US-led names but holds fewer companies, so it overlaps in the big holdings while concentrating more. QSML is its small-company sibling (little overlap, different size band).
Figures last verified 2026-06-12against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.