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. The ETF currently has 21916.72m in AUM and 303 holdings. 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.

Paladin Energy Ltd

PDN

Paladin Energy Ltd. engages in the development and operation of uranium mines. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The firm also owns a portfolio of uranium exploration and development assets in the mining jurisdictions of Canada and Australia. Its segments include Australia, Namibia and Canada. The LHM is located in central western Namibia, approximately 80 kilometers (km) east of Swakopmund and 85 km northeast of the Walvis Bay deepwater harbor. Its Patterson Lake South (PLS) Project hosts the Triple R deposit, a high-grade and near-surface uranium deposit. The property comprises over 49 claims covering approximately 57,622 hectares. The company owns a number of greenfield exploration projects that are prospective for hosting high-grade uranium, including West Cluff, Larocque, Seahawk, Merlin, Corsair and Typhoon. Its projects also include Michelin (Labrador, Canada), Mount Isa and Manyingee projects in both Queensland and Western Australia.

Santos Limited

STO

Santos Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, transportation, and marketing of natural gas. The company is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia and currently employs 3,958 full-time employees. Supporting these three business units are two functional divisions: Santos Energy Solutions and Upstream Gas and Liquids. The Cooper Basin produces natural gas, gas liquids and crude oil. Gas is sold primarily to domestic retailers, industry and for the production of liquefied natural gas, while gas liquids and crude oil are sold in domestic and export markets. Its GLNG project in Queensland produces liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export to global markets from the LNG plant at Gladstone and is also sold to the domestic market. Northern Australia and Timor-Leste is centered on the Bayu-Undan/Darwin LNG (DLNG) project.

Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited

NEU

Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd. engages in the development of new therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders that emerge in early childhood. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. The company went IPO on 2005-02-03. The firm is developing new drug therapies to treat multiple serious neurological disorders that emerge in early childhood and have no or limited approved treatment options. The Company’s product DAYBUE (trofinetide) is used to treat Rett syndrome in adults and pediatric patients two years of age and older. The United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have both granted orphan drug designation to the Company for trofinetide in Fragile X syndrome. Its second product NNZ-2591 is in phase II clinical trials in Phelan-McDermid syndrome, Angelman syndrome, Pitt Hopkins syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome. The firm has granted an exclusive worldwide license to Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. for the development and commercialization of NNZ-259 for Rett syndrome and Fragile X syndrome.

Lynas Rare Earths Limited

LYC

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. engages in the production of rare earth minerals. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 1,127 full-time employees. The Company’s operations include Mt Weld, Lynas Malaysia, Kalgoorlie and Lynas USA. The company focuses on developing the Mt Weld resource, which includes ongoing exploration, production of mixed rare earths concentrates, and an expansion project to increase concentrate feedstock production to support 12,000 tons per annum of finished NdPr oxide. The Lynas Malaysia advanced materials plant is located on a 100-hectare site in the Gebeng Industrial Estate, a purpose-built petrochemical industry zone near Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaysia. Its rare earths processing facility in Kalgoorlie undertakes value-added processing of rare earths. The firm's subsidiaries include Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Lynas Africa Ltd, Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd and Lynas USA LLC.