Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF

VAS

VAS.AX was created on 2009-05-04 by Vanguard. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on total market equity. Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF seeks to track the return of the S&P/ASX 300 Index before taking into account fees, expenses and tax.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

CBA

Commonwealth Bank of Australia engages in the provision of banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales and currently employs 51,346 full-time employees. Its segments include Retail Banking Services, Business Banking, Institutional Banking and Markets, New Zealand, and Corporate Center and Other. Retail Banking Services provides banking products and services to personal and private bank customers, helping them to manage their everyday banking needs, buy a home or invest in the future. Business Banking serves the banking needs of business, corporate and agribusiness customers across the full range of financial services solutions. The company also provides equities trading and margin lending services through the CommSec business. Institutional Banking and Markets offers a full range of domestic and global financing and banking services to institutional and government clients. New Zealand includes the banking and funds management businesses operating in New Zealand under the ASB brand.

National Australia Bank Limited

NAB

National Australia Bank Ltd. engages in the provision of banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria and currently employs 39,976 full-time employees. Its segments include Business and Private Banking, Personal Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking, New Zealand Banking, and Corporate Functions and Other. Business and Private Banking focuses on small and medium enterprise customer segments. This includes diversified businesses, as well as specialized agriculture, health and professional services. Personal Banking provides banking products and services to customers, including securing a home loan and managing personal finances through deposits, credit card or personal loan facilities. Corporate and Institutional Banking partner with customers globally to meet their financial needs, through a range of products and services including client coverage, corporate finance, markets, enterprise payments and asset servicing. New Zealand Banking serves customers across New Zealand with personal and business banking services, through a nationwide network of customer centers.

Westpac Banking Corporation

WBC

Westpac Banking Corp. engages in the provision of banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales and currently employs 34,168 full-time employees. Its segments include Consumer, Business & Wealth, Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB), Westpac New Zealand and Group Businesses. The Consumer segment provides a full range of banking products and services to customers in Australia through three lines of business consisting of mortgages, consumer finance and cash and transactional banking. The Business & Wealth segment comprises business banking, wealth management, private wealth, and Westpac Pacific. The WIB segment delivers a range of financial products and services to corporate, institutional and government customers. The Westpac New Zealand segment provides banking, and wealth products and services for consumer, business and institutional customers in New Zealand.

BHP Group Limited

BHP

BHP Group Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, production and processing of iron ore, metallurgical coal, and copper. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria and currently employs 39,958 full-time employees. The firm is a producer of commodities, including iron ore, copper, nickel, potash and metallurgical (steelmaking) coal. The company is focused on offering a range of resources, which provides copper for renewable energy; nickel for electric vehicles; potash for sustainable farming, and iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition. Its segments include Copper, Iron Ore, and Coal. Its Copper segment is engaged in mining of copper, silver, zinc, molybdenum, uranium, and gold. Its Iron Ore segment is engaged in mining of iron ore. Its Coal segment is engaged in mining of metallurgical coal and energy coal. The firm is also focused on operating Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, and Carrapateena underground copper-gold mines in South Australia. Its operations are situated in Australia, Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, rest of Asia, North America, South America, and others.