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Smartshares Asia Pacific ETF

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Not Mindful
Type: Aggressive fund
Past Returns: 2.19%

Average annual returns over the past 3 years, after fees and taxes. * indicates less than 3 years of data.

Annual Fees: 0.55%

Annual fees, including any membership and % management fee.

The graph below shows the percentage of the fund invested in each of the worst issues of concern to New Zealanders. Below the graph are listed all the companies this fund invests in, by issue of concern.

Fossil Fuel

Agl Energy Limited 0.08%
Air Water Inc. 0.04%
Apa Group 0.12%
BHP Group Ltd 1.01%
Chubu Electric Power Company,Incorporated 0.11%
Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. 0.05%
Ck Hutchison Holdings Ltd 0.23%
Clp Holdings Limited 0.21%
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited 0.06%
Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. 0.03%
Eneos Holdings, Inc. 0.15%
Gs Holdings Corp. 0.02%
Hokuriku Electric Power Company 0.02%
Hong Kong & China Gas Co. Ltd. 0.21%
Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co., Ltd. 0.03%
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. 0.07%
Inpex Corporation 0.06%
Itochu Corporation 0.47%
Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited 0.02%
Kobe Steel, Ltd. 0.02%
Korea Electric Power Corporation 0.06%
Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 0.03%
Kyushu Electric Power Company,Incorporated 0.06%
Lg Corp 0.08%
Marubeni Corporation 0.12%
Mitsubishi Corporation 0.38%
Mitsui & Co.,Ltd 0.36%
Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company, Limited 0.02%
Mitsui O.S.K.Lines,Ltd. 0.04%
New World Development Co. Ltd. 0.10%
Nippo Corporation 0.02%
Nippon Steel Corp. 0.11%
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha 0.04%
Nws Holdings Limited 0.02%
Oil Search Limited 0.05%
Origin Energy Limited 0.07%
Orix Corporation 0.21%
Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. 0.11%
Posco 0.18%
Posco Chemical Co., Ltd. 0.02%
Power Assets Holdings Limited 0.10%
Rio Tinto Limited 0.34%
S-Oil Corporation 0.03%
Samsung C&T Corp 0.12%
Santos Limited 0.08%
Sembcorp Industries Ltd. 0.02%
Shikoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated 0.02%
Sk Innovation Co., Ltd 0.08%
Sojitz Corp. 0.04%
South32 Ltd. 0.10%
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 0.07%
Sumitomo Corporation 0.18%
Ube Industries, Ltd. 0.02%
Viva Energy Group Ltd. 0.02%
Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Co. Ltd. 0.02%
Woodside Petroleum Ltd 0.17%

Weapons

Daicel Corporation 0.03%
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. 0.02%
Hanjin Kal Corp. 0.03%
Ihi Corporation 0.02%
Jfe Holdings, Inc. 0.05%
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. 0.03%
Korea Aerospace Industries, Ltd. 0.02%
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 0.09%
Nof Corporation 0.04%
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd 0.06%

Tobacco

Familymart Co., Ltd. 0.05%
Japan Tobacco Inc. 0.32%
Lawson, Inc. 0.03%
Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd. 0.33%

Gambling

Aristocrat Leisure Limited 0.18%
Crown Resorts Limited 0.03%
Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited 0.20%
Genting Singapore Limited 0.04%
Heiwa Corporation 0.01%
Jumbo Interactive Limited 0.01%
Kangwon Land, Inc. 0.03%
Kiwoom Securities Co., Ltd 0.01%
Melco International Development Limited 0.02%
Mgm China Holdings Limited 0.01%
Nagacorp Ltd. 0.02%
Paradise Co., Ltd 0.01%
Pointsbet Holdings Ltd. 0.01%
Sands China Ltd. 0.12%
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. 0.04%
Sjm Holdings Limited 0.03%
Skycity Entertainment Group Limited 0.02%
Star Entertainment Group Limited 0.03%
Tabcorp Holdings Limited 0.07%
Tokyo Dome Corporation 0.01%
Tokyotokeiba Co., Ltd. 0.01%
Wynn Macau Ltd. 0.03%

Alcohol

Asahi Group Holdings,Ltd. 0.19%
Asahi Holdings, Inc. 0.02%
Asia Cement (China) Holdings Corp. 0.01%
Budweiser Brewing Co. Apac Ltd. 0.07%
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited 0.06%
Graincorp Limited Class A 0.01%
Hitejinro Co Ltd 0.01%
Kato Sangyo Co., Ltd. 0.01%
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited 0.20%
Metcash Limited 0.03%
Sapporo Holdings Limited 0.01%
Takara Holdings Inc. 0.03%
Treasury Wine Estates Limited 0.07%
Want Want China Holdings Limited 0.05%

Palm Oil

First Resources Ltd. (Singapore) 0.01%
Fuji Oil Holdings, Inc. 0.02%
Genting Singapore Limited 0.04%
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd 0.01%
Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited 0.02%
Posco 0.18%
Posco Chemical Co., Ltd. 0.02%
Posco International Corporation 0.01%
Wilmar International Limited 0.09%

GMOs

Human Rights & Environmental Violations

BHP Group Ltd 1.01%
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd 0.01%
Hanwha Corp 0.01%
Poongsan Corporation 0.01%
Posco 0.18%
Posco Chemical Co., Ltd. 0.02%
Posco International Corporation 0.01%
Rio Tinto Limited 0.34%
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated 0.06%
Wilmar International Limited 0.09%

Animal Testing

Adeka Corp. 0.020%
Air Water Inc. 0.040%
Amorepacific Corp. 0.070%
Amorepacific Group, Inc. 0.020%
Asahi Group Holdings,Ltd. 0.190%
Cj Cheiljedang Corporation 0.040%
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited 0.060%
Daicel Corporation 0.030%
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. 0.030%
Fancl Corporation 0.030%
Fujifilm Holdings Corp 0.260%
Hanwha Solutions Corporation 0.040%
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. 0.070%
Kagome Co., Ltd. 0.040%
Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. 0.070%
Kao Corp. 0.470%
Kewpie Corporation 0.030%
Kikkoman Corporation 0.130%
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited 0.200%
Kose Corporation 0.050%
Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 0.030%
Lg Household & Health Care Ltd 0.160%
Lg Household & Health Care Ltd Pfd Registered Shs Non-Voting 0.020%
Lintec Corporation 0.020%
Lotte Chemical Corp. 0.040%
Marubeni Corporation 0.120%
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. 0.050%
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 0.060%
Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. 0.030%
Nagase & Co., Ltd. 0.020%
Nippon Paint Holdings Co.Ltd. 0.200%
Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. 0.020%
Nissan Chemical Corporation 0.100%
Orica Limited 0.060%
Pola Orbis Holdings Inc. 0.020%
Prada S.P.A. 0.030%
Ricoh Company, Ltd. 0.060%
Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd. 0.330%
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd 0.760%
Shiseido Company,Limited 0.340%
Showa Denko K.K. 0.030%
Sk Innovation Co., Ltd 0.080%
Skc Co., Ltd. 0.020%
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 0.070%
Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. 0.030%
Tosoh Corporation 0.070%
Unicharm Corporation 0.260%

This data is compiled by Mindful Money from the fund information and portfolios that each fund has filed with the Disclose register to Wed Sept. 30th 2020 and Mindful Money analysis of funds within those portfolios. The list of companies of concern has been drawn from ratings agencies and public sources, including the Norwegian Sovereign Fund, NZ Super Fund, Sustainalytics and research organisations.

Mindful Money uses the term Mindful Funds as our standard for ethical investment and responsible investment. This does not imply that other funds are unethical or that the fund providers that do not meet these standards are unethical providers.

Past annual returns for this fund are after fees and taxes. Please note that higher past returns do not always mean higher future returns.

Year Market Average Fund Annual Return
2020 -7.57% -2.52%
2019 10.01% -1.85%
2018 7.40% 10.93%
2017 9.64% 13.32%

The market average is the average return for funds of the same risk category, sourced from the Commission for Financial Capability's Sorted website. The fund information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to Wed Sept. 30th 2020.

Showing the top 10 investments for this fund:

  • Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF
    United States International Equities
    99.91%
  • Westpac NZD Current Account
    New Zealand Cash and Equivalents
    0.39%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register Wed Sept. 30th 2020.

How the money in this fund is invested against the fund's targets.

Target

Actual


Type Target Actual
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.0% 0.39%
New Zealand Fixed Interest 0.0% 0.0%
International Fixed Interest 0.0% 0.0%
Australasian Equities 0.0% 0.0%
International Equities 100.0% 99.61%
Listed Properties 0.0% 0.0%
Unlisted Properties 0.0% 0.0%
Other 0.0% 0.0%
Commodities 0.0% 0.0%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to Wed Sept. 30th 2020.

Does this fund have a policy to exclude any industries from its investments? The first column shows if the fund has a policy to exclude the issue. The second column shows if there are any current investments (source: Mindful Money research).

The Fund may have investments that are not consistent with their exclusions policy because they are still in the process of implementing their policy.

  • Issue of concern
    Does this fund say it excludes this?
    Actual holdings
  • Adult Entertainment/Pornography:
    0.00%
  • Alcohol:
    0.77%
  • Animal Testing:
    5.31%
  • Fossil Fuels:
    6.65%
  • Gambling:
    0.94%
  • GMOs:
    0.01%
  • Human Rights & Environmental Violations:
    1.74%
  • Palm Oil:
    0.40%
  • Tobacco:
    0.74%
  • Weapons:
    0.45%

This data is compiled by Mindful Money from the fund information and portfolios that each fund has filed with the Disclose register to Wed Sept. 30th 2020 and Mindful Money analysis of funds within those portfolios. The list of companies of concern has been drawn from ratings agencies and public sources, including the Norwegian Sovereign Fund, NZ Super Fund, Sustainalytics and research organisations.

Note that the fund’s intended exclusions may not be consistent with the analysis of the portfolio because of timing issues or because there are companies of concern in indirect investments by the fund.

Note that many funds exclude controversial weapons. However, the category of Weapons used in this analysis is broader in scope, covering all munitions, firearms and military weapons.

In their own words

"The Smartshares Asia Pacific ETF invests in the Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF which is designed to track the return on the FTSE Developed Asia Pacific All Cap Index."

Value $110M NZD
Period of data report Wed Sept. 30th 2020
Members 772
Fund started Wed July 29th 2015
Total annual fund fees 0.55%
Total performance based fees 0.0%
Manager's basic fee 0.45%
Administration charges 0.1%
Total other charges 0.0
Total other charges currency NZD

Key Personnel

Guy Roulston Elliffe

Currently: Director (4 years, 10 months)
Previously: Corporate Governance Manager - ACC (current position) (5 years, 5 months)

Stuart Kenneth Reginald Millar

Currently: Chief Investment Officer - Smartshares (1 years, 4 months)
Previously: Head of Portfolio Management - ANZ Investments (6 years, 4 months)

Hugh Duncan Stevens

Currently: Chief Executive Officer - Smartshares (2 years, 7 months)
Previously: Chief Operating Officer - Implemented Investment Solutions Ltd (2 years, 6 months)

Alister John Williams

Currently: Director (4 years, 10 months)
Previously: Investment Manager - Trust Management (5 years, 8 months)

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each fund has filed with Disclose register to Wed Sept. 30th 2020.

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