Global Quality Leaders Currency Hedged ETF
About this ETF
HQLT aims to track an index (before fees and expenses) that comprises 150 global companies (ex-Australia) ranked by highest quality score, hedged into Australian dollars.
Scout Score
An independent score calculated by ETF Scout across 7 real-data factors (cost, diversification, tracking, liquidity, fund strength, performance, income), ranked against other funds in the same category.
Strengths
No standout strengths relative to category peers.
Weaknesses
- Lower liquidity — 0.62% bid/ask spread, wider than 88% of International Shares peers.
- Small fund — $141M in assets, smaller than 66% of International Shares funds, which can mean wider spreads.
- Wider index tracking — 10.09% tracking error, looser than 65% of International Shares peers.
Performance (as of 4 Nov 2026)
Total returns, net of fees. Periods longer than 1 year are annualised.
Price history
Cumulative return over the selected period, indexed to 0% at the start of the range.
Geographic exposure (as at 4 Nov 2026)
Country (where the company is based).
United States
Japan
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Spain
Sweden
Canada
Germany
Finland
Italy
Singapore
China
Mexico
Poland
DenmarkSector breakdown (as at 4 Nov 2026)
How your portfolio's holdings are spread across GICS sectors.
Top holdings (as of 4 Nov 2026)
The fund's largest individual holdings, ranked by portfolio weight.
- 1.
Visa Inc5.89%
- 2.
Microsoft Corp5.59%
- 3.
Johnson & Johnson5.14%
- 4.
Meta Platforms Inc4.84%
- 5.
ASML Holding NV4.34%
- 6.
Alphabet Inc4.31%
- 7.
Costco Wholesale Corp4.16%
- 8.
Palantir Technologies Inc3.54%
- 9.
Procter & Gamble Co/the3.48%
- 10.
Cisco Systems Inc3.32%
- 11.
Applied Materials Inc2.63%
- 12.
Lam Research Corp2.48%
- 13.
Netflix Inc2.48%
- 14.
Arista Networks Inc1.72%
- 15.
Qualcomm Inc1.63%
- 16.
Intuitive Surgical Inc1.53%
- 17.
Accenture plc1.45%
- 18.Tjx Cos Inc/the1.43%
- 19.
Recruit Holdings Co Ltd1.38%
- 20.
Sony Group Corp1.33%