Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders 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 FAIR is $68 dearer.
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 · 77 securities · top 10 = 42.1%
Country
Sector
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | −1.7 | −2.9 | −6.1 | 1.9 | −1.5 | 6.1 | −0.3 | 1.3 | −3.0 | 1.8 | −4.7YTD | ||
| 2025 | 4.8 | −4.6 | −4.6 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.7 | −2.9 | −1.2 | −2.4 | −3.3 | −0.4 |
| 2024 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 2.8 | −3.5 | −1.1 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 1.9 | −1.9 | 6.3 | −3.4 | 16.2 |
| 2023 | 5.7 | 0.5 | −0.9 | 4.2 | −0.3 | 0.7 | 2.9 | −1.1 | −4.8 | −7.0 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 12.6 |
| 2022 | −10.7 | −0.5 | 3.7 | −0.8 | −4.1 | −7.6 | 8.3 | 0.2 | −8.5 | 5.6 | 3.2 | −4.3 | −16.2 |
| 2021 | −0.9 | −3.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | −0.5 | 6.1 | 0.2 | 6.0 | −3.4 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 17.6 |
| 2020 | 5.8 | −7.3 | −15.0 | 7.0 | 4.7 | 2.7 | −2.1 | 3.6 | −3.0 | 1.5 | 9.1 | −2.1 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 3.8 | 4.1 | −2.4 | −1.1 | 0.8 | 5.4 | −3.0 | 25.2 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 1.6 | −2.7 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 5.4 | −2.6 | −6.8 | 0.1 | −0.3 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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.
FAIR questions answered
Written from the latest data on this page. General information only, not financial advice.
How diversified is Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF?
Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF holds 77 securities, and its ten largest positions make up 42.1% of the fund, more spread out than 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 Health Care at 18.5%, based on holdings as at 2 Sept 2026.
Which ETFs does FAIR double up with most?
FAIR shares the most holdings with VanEck MSCI Australian Sustainable Equity ETF (GRNV) (45% overlap), VanEck Geared Australian Equal Weight Complex ETF (GMVW) (41% overlap) and VanEck Australian Equal Weight ETF (MVW) (41% 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 FAIR with one of them adds some genuinely different holdings.
How is Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF managed – active or passive?
Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF is passively managed: it follows an index and holds what that index holds, rather than relying on a manager's stock picks.
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 FAIR?
FAIR charges a management fee of 0.49% a year, about $49 for every $10,000 invested. Only 42% of the 471 ASX ETFs we track charge more, and the median fee is 0.44%. Among Australian equity funds, the median is 0.35%.
Lower-cost funds with a similar focus include Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF (VAS) at 0.07%, Betashares Australia 200 ETF (A200) at 0.04% and iShares Core S&P/ASX 200 ETF (IOZ) at 0.05%.
If you would rather have a manager choose the investments, active options such as Airlie Australian Share Fund - Active ETF (AASF) at 0.78% and Ausbil Active Sustainable Equity Fund - Active ETF (ASUS) at 1.00% cost more.
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 0.10% for FAIR.
Does Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF follow a theme?
No. Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF is a broad equity fund: it aims to cover a wide slice of its market (Australia) rather than one theme or sector. Its largest sector, Health Care, is 18.5% of the fund.
It also applies environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens, excluding companies that fail the issuer's ethical criteria.
What is under the hood of FAIR?
As at 2 Sept 2026, FAIR's ten largest holdings are Woolworths Group Ltd (6.5%), Telstra Group Ltd (4.5%), Computershare Ltd (4.5%), Suncorp Group Ltd (4.2%), Insurance Australia Group Ltd (3.9%), CSL Ltd (3.8%), Scentre Group (3.8%), Goodman Group (3.7%), Resmed Inc (3.6%) and Brambles Ltd (3.5%). Together they make up 42.1% of the fund.
It follows an index. Most broad share indices weight companies by market size, so the largest companies take the biggest share; the exact rules for FAIR's index are in the issuer's PDS. Its top 10 weighting of 42.1% compares with 53.0% for similar funds.
How well has Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF performed?
Based on its category, Betashares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF aims to grow your capital in line with the index it tracks.
To 23 Oct 2026, with distributions reinvested, it returned −11.9% over 1 year (median 0.6%; ranked 59 of 65), 6.7% a year over 3 years (median 11.6% a year; ranked 49 of 54) and 1.4% a year over 5 years (median 6.9% a year; ranked 43 of 48). The medians and rankings compare it with Australian equity funds. Since listing in 2017 it has returned 5.5% 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 FAIR; 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 0.49% a year, and a much bigger gap is a warning sign.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.