Betashares Australian Quality ETF
Performance
Total return to 23 Oct 2026, distributions reinvested, before franking. ASX figures are to 30 Sept 2026 and gross of franking, so they run higher for franked Australian funds.
What it costs to hold
Management fee plus trading costs, compared with similar funds.
A typical fund among Australian equity funds would cost $187 (0.37% a year), so AQLT is $7 cheaper.
Spread is the average gap between buying and selling prices on the ASX. Fees are shown on a flat balance, not compounded on growth. Excludes tax and any adviser or platform fees.
Calendar-year returns
Where the money is
Look-through exposure as at 2 Sept 2026 · 40 securities · top 10 = 48.8%
Country
Sector
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.2 | 2.4 | −7.0 | 3.4 | −0.1 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 3.8 | −2.3 | 2.8 | 11.5YTD | ||
| 2025 | 4.8 | −4.0 | −4.7 | 3.0 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 4.0 | 4.2 | −1.5 | 0.0 | −1.7 | −1.1 | 12.6 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.6 | −3.3 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 4.4 | −2.3 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 8.9 | −2.7 | −1.0 | 3.5 | −2.8 | 1.6 | 3.7 | 0.2 | −2.3 | −5.4 | 6.0 | 7.7 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | −4.8 | −9.6 | 6.5 | 2.6 | −4.8 | 3.1 | 6.5 | −3.3 | −4.8 |
Total return each month in %, distributions reinvested, before franking. The latest month runs to the last price date. The first year starts from listing.
Top holdings
Most similar funds
Overlap is the share of the portfolio held in common, look-through. Correlation is of daily returns. High overlap means close substitutes.
AQLT questions answered
Written from the latest data on this page. General information only, not financial advice.
How diversified is Betashares Australian Quality ETF?
Betashares Australian Quality ETF holds 40 securities, and its ten largest positions make up 48.8% of the fund, close to the 53.0% typical of Australian equity funds. That makes it moderately diversified.
Its country exposure is almost entirely Australia (100.0%), and its biggest sector is Financials at 35.8%, based on holdings as at 2 Sept 2026.
Which ETFs does AQLT double up with most?
AQLT shares the most holdings with VanEck MSCI Australian Quality Plus ETF (AQTY) (46% overlap), Betashares Australian Dividend Harvester Active ETF (HVST) (45% overlap) and Vanguard MSCI Australian Large Companies Index ETF (VLC) (44% overlap). Overlap is the share of the portfolio the two funds hold in common, looking through to the underlying securities.
None of these overlaps is above half, so pairing AQLT with one of them adds some genuinely different holdings.
How is Betashares Australian Quality ETF managed – active or passive?
Betashares Australian Quality ETF is passively managed: it follows an index and holds what that index holds, rather than relying on a manager's stock picks. Its index uses a quality approach, so it is sometimes called "smart beta".
Among Australian equity funds, active funds charge a median 0.85% a year and index funds 0.34%.
What will I pay in fees for AQLT?
AQLT charges a management fee of 0.35% a year, about $35 for every $10,000 invested. That is cheaper than 58% of the 471 ASX ETFs we track, where the median fee is 0.44%. Among Australian equity funds, the median is 0.35%.
It is the cheapest of the 2 quality Australian equity funds we track.
The fee is taken from the fund's assets and is already reflected in its returns. You'll also pay brokerage when you buy or sell, and the bid-ask spread, which has averaged 0.05% for AQLT.
Does Betashares Australian Quality ETF follow a theme?
Not a theme as such, but it follows a quality investment style: it screens for companies with strong profitability, stable earnings and low debt.
Other ASX funds using a quality approach include VanEck MSCI International Quality ETF (QUAL), VanEck MSCI International Quality (AUD Hedged) ETF (QHAL), VanEck MSCI International Small Companies Quality ETF (QSML) and Betashares Global Quality Leaders ETF (QLTY).
What is under the hood of AQLT?
As at 2 Sept 2026, AQLT's ten largest holdings are CSL Ltd (9.0%), Wesfarmers Ltd (5.8%), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (5.1%), Telstra Group Ltd (5.1%), BHP Group Ltd (4.8%), National Australia Bank Ltd (4.5%), ANZ Group Holdings Ltd (3.9%), Westpac Banking Corp (3.8%), Macquarie Group Ltd (3.5%) and Woodside Energy Group Ltd (3.2%). Together they make up 48.7% of the fund.
Rather than simply weighting companies by market size, its index screens for companies with strong profitability, stable earnings and low debt.
How well has Betashares Australian Quality ETF performed?
Based on its category, Betashares Australian Quality ETF aims to grow your capital in line with the index it tracks.
To 23 Oct 2026, with distributions reinvested, it returned 6.4% over 1 year (median 0.6%; ranked 12 of 65) and 20.3% a year over 3 years (median 11.6% a year; ranked 4 of 54). The medians and rankings compare it with Australian equity funds. Since listing in 2022 it has returned 12.3% a year.
Tracking difference is the gap between a fund's return and its index's return. We don't hold index returns, so we can't measure it for AQLT; the issuer reports it in the monthly fact sheet. As a guide, a well-run index fund trails its index by about its fee, here 0.35% a year, and a much bigger gap is a warning sign.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.