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.

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.

Woolworths Group Limited

WOW

Woolworths Group Ltd. engages in the operation of general merchandise consumer stores and supermarkets in Australia, New Zealand and India. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales and currently employs 202,000 full-time employees. The firm's segments include Australian Food, Australian B2B, New Zealand Food, W Living, and Other. The Australian Food segment is engaged in procurement of food, drinks and related products for resale and provision of services (including eCommerce) to retail and business customers in Australia. The Australian B2B segment includes procurement and distribution of food and related products for resale to other businesses and provision of supply chain services to business customers in Australia. The New Zealand Food segment includes procurement of food, drinks and related products for resale and provision of services (including eCommerce) to retail and wholesale customers in New Zealand. The W Living segment includes procurement of discount general merchandise and pet products for resale to retail customers in Australia and New Zealand. The Other segment comprises Quantium and various support functions.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the provision of exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 877 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm owns 100% of an independent hard-rock lithium operation, the Pilgangoora operation in Australia, and the Colina Project in Brazil. Its Pilgangoora operation is located 140 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource rich Pilbara region on Nyamal and Kariyarra Country. Spodumene concentrate from its Pilgangoora operation is shipped from Port Hedland, the bulk export port, to lithium chemical converters primarily in China. The firm's Colina project is located 10 kms from the town of Salinas in the world class mining jurisdiction of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The firm is also integrated into the lithium value chain through its joint venture with POSCO in South Korea, which manufactures battery-grade lithium hydroxide.

Gold

PMGOLD

PMGOLD.AX was created on 2003-05-09 by Perth Mint. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on gold commodities. PMGOLD.AX is designed to track the international price of gold in Australian dollars and offers investors a simple, low cost way to access the returns on gold.