Australian shares
VETH
Vanguard Ethically Conscious Australian Shares ETF · Vanguard
Australian companies from the top 300 on the market (the FTSE Australia 300 Choice index), after screening out those that don't meet the fund's ethical criteria.
What the fee costs you
The management fee is 0.16% a year. Here’s what that works out to in dollars:
A 0.16% yearly fee works out to about $16 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
- Australian shares
- Number of holdings
- ~230
- Where it invests
- 100% Australia.
- Income paid
- Quarterly
- 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 version of the broad Australian market: it starts from the largest 300 ASX companies, then excludes industries like fossil fuels, tobacco and weapons. What's left still leans on the big banks.
What to keep in mind
All-Australian, so it rises and falls with the local market; the ethical screens narrow the field, so it can behave a little differently from a broad Australian fund.
Income
As an all-Australian fund, distributions can carry franking credits from the franked dividends its companies pay.
Figures last verified 2026-06-19against the issuer’s factsheet and PDS.