VanEck Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality ETF QUAL
Fund description: QUAL gives investors exposure to a diversified portfolio of quality international companies listed on exchanges in developed markets around the world (ex Australia). QUAL aims to provide investment returns before fees and other costs which track the performance of the Index.
Index description: The MSCI World ex Australia Quality Index is intended to capture the performance of quality stocks selected from the Parent Index, MSCI World ex Australia, by identifying companies with high quality scores based on three key fundamental factors: high return on equity; stable year-on-year earnings growth; and low financial leverage.
Management style: Replication
Country of domicile: Australia
as at 22-Jan-21
-
Exchange
ASX -
ASX code
QUAL -
Bloomberg index code
M4CXMVIA -
Index provider
MSCI Inc. -
NAV1
$33.72 -
Units outstanding1
46,975,193 -
Net assets1
$1.6B -
Number of holdings1
299 -
Inception date2
29-Oct-14 -
ASX commencement
31-Oct-14
2The date the ETF was seeded prior to quotation on ASX.
as at 22-Jan-21
-
Dividend frequency
1 each year -
Management costs p.a.
0.40% - Investment management team »
- Market Announcements
- QUAL Fact Sheet
- QUAL Fund Flyer
- White Paper: The long term case for Quality
Fundamentals as at 31-Dec-20
-
Weighted avg. market cap
$570.5B
(AUD) -
Price/earnings ratio
29.1
(last 12 months)* -
Price/book ratio
7.6
(last 12 months)*
Market capitalisation (%)
as at 31-Dec-20
-
Capitalisation ranges
Weightings (%) -
Large (>$5.0B)
99.22 -
Mid ($1.0 - $5.0B)
0.05 -
Small (<$1.0B)
0.00
3-year risk measures
as at 31-Dec-20
-
Beta vs. MSCI World ex
0.90
Australia -
Correlation vs. MSCI World
0.92
ex Australia -
Volatility (standard deviation)
11.50 -
Sharpe ratio
1.19
Source: VanEck, FactSet.
Beta is a measure of sensitivity to market movements. Correlation measures the extent of linear association between the Fund performance and the index performance. Volatility is the annualised standard deviation of the Fund's monthly returns. Sharpe ratio measures risk-adjusted return, and represents the Fund's return less the risk free rate divided by the standard deviation.
Country weightings (%) as at 31-Dec-20
-
Country
Weightings (%) -
United States
71.7 -
Switzerland
6.7 -
United Kingdom
4.8 -
Japan
4.1 -
Denmark
2.0 -
Netherlands
1.6 -
Canada
1.6 -
Ireland
1.5 -
Germany
1.4 -
France
0.9 -
Sweden
0.8 -
China
0.5 -
Finland
0.5 -
Italy
0.4 -
Spain
0.2 -
Israel
0.2 -
New Zealand
0.2 -
Singapore
0.1 -
Jordan
0.0 -
Norway
0.0 -
Belgium
0.0 -
Other/Cash
0.7 -
Total
99.9
Portfolio composition (%)
as at 22-Jan-21
-
Asset classes
% of Fund net assets -
Stocks
99.98 -
Bonds
0.00 -
Other
0.00 -
Cash
0.02 -
Total
100.00
Sector weightings (%) as at 31-Dec-20
-
Sector
Weightings (%) -
Information Technology
34.8 -
Health Care
19.6 -
Consumer Staples
13.9 -
Industrials
9.4 -
Communication Services
9.2 -
Consumer Discretionary
5.4 -
Financials
3.8 -
Materials
2.5 -
Real Estate
0.4 -
Energy
0.3 -
Utilities
0.0 -
n/a
0.0 -
Other/Cash
0.7 -
Total
100.0