Global shares
ROYL
Betashares Global Royalties ETF · Betashares
A focused basket of around 50 global companies that earn much of their income from royalties — payments for the right to use an asset, such as a mine, an oil field, a drug patent or a music catalogue — rather than from running the underlying business themselves.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.69% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.69% yearly fee works out to about $69 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
- ~50
- Where it invests
- Mostly North America — around 57% United States and 17% Canada — with Brazil, the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan making up much of the rest.
- Income paid
- Monthly
- 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
A niche, fairly concentrated theme: royalty companies collect a slice of someone else's revenue across mining, energy, pharmaceuticals and technology, which can mean steady cash flows without the operating costs. With only around 50 holdings, single companies and sectors carry more weight than in a broad fund.
What to keep in mind
A narrow, specialised theme with only around 50 holdings, so individual companies and sectors — especially mining and energy royalties — carry real weight, and it can move quite differently from a broad global fund. It also carries currency movements for an Australian holder.
How this fund relates to others
A specialist royalty-company theme with little in common with broad global funds; its concentration in mining, energy and pharmaceutical royalty names means only limited overlap with a standard world-shares holding.
Figures last verified 2026-06-22against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.