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Kanish Chugh

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Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

How much do I hold of BHB, et cetera, et cetera.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

As an ETF, as an ETF provider, our role is purely to track the index.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

We're not actively saying within our ETF, you know, take our FANG ETF.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

We're not saying, well, we should sell Facebook and buy Amazon and we should double the weight of Netflix.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

No, all we're doing is if the index says this, we track the index and every quarter.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And that's the beauty of the passive ETF is that the rules around the indexes, it's all visible.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

You know, investors can jump onto our website, for example, and actually see the holdings of our equity products and

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

Even on our gold and metal products, they can see the exact number of bars, the weights, the serial numbers of each bar.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

Our gold fund has 25 tons of gold.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

You can get to the level of how many bars are in there.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So the transparency is there.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

At the index level, they know when those rules are going to be applied.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

They know what those rules are.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

There's no secret sauce as such.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And that's why you can charge a lot less than what you may have to do if you're an active fund that wants to keep that IP in-house.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

Yeah, so obviously there are a lot of positives, but there are some risks that people need to be aware of.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So an example there is if I've built a portfolio of just ETFs and, you know, say it was, let's call it 15 ETFs because I've got enough, you know, money that I can do that across 15.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And I decided that every quarter I'm going to rebalance that portfolio back to my original weights.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

Well, that essentially means you're doing 15 trades or potentially more of selling down and buying more, et cetera.