Global shares
VESG
Vanguard Ethically Conscious International Shares Index ETF · Vanguard
Around 1,400 large and medium-sized companies from developed countries outside Australia, after screening out industries the fund excludes on ethical grounds.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.18% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.18% yearly fee works out to about $18 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
- Vanguard
- Asset class
- Global shares
- Number of holdings
- ~1,400
- Where it invests
- Global developed markets, heavily weighted to the United States, with Europe and Japan making up much of the rest.
- Income paid
- Quarterly
- 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 broad global-shares fund with an ethical filter: it starts from the developed-world index, then screens out activities like fossil fuels, weapons and tobacco. What's left still leans toward the big US names.
What to keep in mind
Spread across many countries, but the ethical screens narrow the field 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
An ethically screened take on the same developed-world-ex-Australia universe as VGS, BGBL and IWLD — heavy overlap in the big names, with the screens removing certain industries. ETHI is a more concentrated cousin in the same space.
Figures last verified 2026-06-12against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.