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iShares Core MSCI Australia ESG Leaders ETF (ASX: IESG)

IESG $32.70

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1 year return ▲ 2.89%
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52 week range
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Share price activity

Displays share price activity. Volume = number of shares traded, Turnover = value of shares traded, VWAP = volume-weighted average price for the day, sourced from Morningstar.
Last (Price)
32.70
Change
▲ 0.04 (0.12)
Bid / Ask
32.70 - 33.50
Volume
54,125
Turnover
1,768,416
Open
32.55
Day Range
32.55 - 32.70
VWAP
32.67
Prev Close
32.66
Last Trade
11/11 3:18pm

Fund profile

Displays who issues the fund, how it is structured and invests, its Morningstar category and benchmark, size, headline costs and dates, sourced from Morningstar. Fund size counts every class of the fund; ETF net assets is this listing alone.

Fund size

$460.6M

NOV 2026

Total cost ratio

0.09%

per year

Distributions

Quarterly

Since inception

5.4 yrs

JUN 2021

Legal name
iShares Core MSCI Australia ESG ETF
Issuer
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
Type
Exchange-Traded Fund
Structure
Open Ended Investment Company
Management style
Index fund
Morningstar category
Equity Australia Large Blend
Category index
S&P/ASX 200 TR AUD
Benchmark
MSCI Aus IMI Custom ESG Ldrs AUD
ETF net assets
$460.6M
Units on issue
20.8M
Management fee
0.09% p.a.
Domicile
Australia
Base currency
AUD
ISIN
AU0000150880
Inception
2 JUN 2021
Listed
4 JUN 2021

Objective and strategy

The fund seeks to achieve its objective by tracking the performance of the MSCI Australia IMI Custom ESG Leaders Index. It generally implements a full replication investment strategy to track the performance of the underlying index as risk relative to the underlying index is minimised.

Asset allocation · 30 SEP 2026

Displays how the fund is split between shares, bonds, cash and other assets, sourced from Morningstar.

US equity 0.05%Non-US equity 99.79%

Asset class Net % Long % Short %
Equity 99.84 99.84 0.00
Bond 0.00 0.00 0.00
Cash 0.16 0.16 0.01
Other 0.00 0.00 0.00

Sector exposure

Displays the share of the fund held in each sector, sourced from Morningstar.

Cyclical 71.93%Sensitive 13.92%Defensive 14.15%

Financial Services
31.23%
Basic Materials
20.79%
Healthcare
12.45%
Real Estate
11.15%
Consumer Cyclical
8.76%
Industrials
6.88%
Communication Services
3.60%
Technology
2.72%
Utilities
1.24%
Energy
0.72%
Consumer Defensive
0.46%

Region exposure

Displays the share of the fund held in each region, sourced from Morningstar.

Developed markets 100.00%Emerging markets 0.00%

Australasia
99.49%
United Kingdom
0.46%
North America
0.05%
Latin America
0.00%
Europe Developed
0.00%
Europe Emerging
0.00%
Africa / Middle East
0.00%
Japan
0.00%
Asia Developed
0.00%
Asia Emerging
0.00%

Country exposure

Displays the twelve countries the fund holds most of, sourced from Morningstar.
Australia
99.49%
United Kingdom
0.46%
United States
0.05%

Style box

Displays where the fund's shareholdings sit on Morningstar's style box: size (large, mid, small) down and investment style (value, blend, growth) across, sourced from Morningstar.
Style
Large Growth
Average moat
Narrow

Size score

251

Small Mid Large

Value-growth score

207

Value Blend Growth

Economic moat

Narrow 37%Wide 34%None 29%

Market capitalisation

Displays the share of the fund's shareholdings in giant, large, mid, small and micro cap companies, sourced from Morningstar.
Giant
29.05%
Large
43.06%
Mid
24.73%
Small
3.09%
Micro
0.07%

Giant 29%Large 43%Mid 25%Small 3%Micro 0%

Average market cap
$35.59B
Number of holdings
95
Shares held
92

Portfolio statistics · 5 NOV 2026

Displays the valuation, yield, size, concentration and quality of the fund's shareholdings taken together (trailing twelve months), sourced from Morningstar.
Price / earnings
19.50
Price / book
2.72
Price / sales
2.76
Price / cash flow
10.59
Dividend yield
2.99%
Assets in top 10
56.29%
Return on equity
13.27%
Net margin
23.11%
Earnings growth (3 yr)
14.32%

Top holdings · top 10 = 56.63% of assets

Displays the fund's ten largest holdings and their weight in the portfolio, sourced from Morningstar.
Holding % Weight First bought Market value Currency Units held Sector Country
Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA 13.43 FEB 2026 87.5M AUD 525,076 Financial Services Australia
CSL Ltd CSL 8.34 FEB 2026 54.3M AUD 270,629 Healthcare Australia
Macquarie Group Ltd MQG 7.98 FEB 2026 52.0M AUD 205,915 Financial Services Australia
Wesfarmers Ltd WES 7.55 FEB 2026 49.2M AUD 641,544 Consumer Cyclical Australia
Goodman Group GMG 4.66 FEB 2026 30.4M AUD 1.1M Real Estate Australia
Transurban Group TCL 3.75 FEB 2026 24.4M AUD 1.8M Industrials Australia
QBE Insurance Group Ltd QBE 3.39 FEB 2026 22.1M AUD 844,809 Financial Services Australia
Northern Star Resources Ltd NST 2.97 FEB 2026 19.4M AUD 765,861 Basic Materials Australia
Brambles Ltd BXB 2.47 FEB 2026 16.1M AUD 751,912 Industrials Australia
Evolution Mining Ltd EVN 2.09 FEB 2026 13.6M AUD 1.2M Basic Materials Australia

Trailing returns · 31 OCT 2026

Displays total returns after fees at net asset value, the return at the ASX market price, the return before fees, and where the fund ranks among funds in its Morningstar category, sourced from Morningstar.

Fund (NAV) Market price

1M

3.1

3M

1.8

6M

2.1

YTD

6.8

1Y

6.9

3Y

16.6

5Y

5.0

Period Fund (NAV) % Market price % Before fees % Rank in category
1 month 3.09 2.92 3.10 67 / 338
3 months 1.84 1.65 1.87 65 / 336
6 months 2.10 2.17 2.14 37 / 336
Year to date 6.81 6.82 6.89 79 / 332
1 year 6.89 6.60 6.99 81 / 329
3 years p.a. 16.55 16.58 16.66 53 / 294
5 years p.a. 5.02 4.84 5.11 51 / 277

Returns to 31 OCT 2026, periods of 3 years and longer annualised. Rank is the percentile in the Morningstar category at 30 SEP 2026 (1 = best) over the funds ranked.

Calendar year returns

Displays the total return after fees and the capital (price) return for each calendar year, with the fund's rank in its Morningstar category, sourced from Morningstar.

Total Capital

2022

-10.2

2023

19.6

2024

13.4

2025

7.5

Year Total % Capital % Rank in category
2025 7.54 4.12 70 / 334
2024 13.36 10.90 26 / 334
2023 19.61 13.02 4 / 314
2022 -10.25 -10.91 87 / 340

Financial year returns

Displays the total return after fees for each financial year to 30 June, sourced from Morningstar.

FY22

-8.3

FY23

16.1

FY24

12.8

FY25

17.0

FY26

-2.6

Financial year Total %
Financial year to date 2.73
Year to 30 JUN 2026 -2.56
Year to 30 JUN 2025 16.96
Year to 30 JUN 2024 12.77
Year to 30 JUN 2023 16.12
Year to 30 JUN 2022 -8.28

Risk statistics · 31 OCT 2026

Displays how the fund has moved relative to its category index: alpha (return beyond the index), beta (sensitivity to it), R-squared (how much the index explains), volatility and risk-adjusted returns, sourced from Morningstar.
1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years
Alpha -4.14 -1.23 -1.82 —
Beta 0.90 1.07 1.09 —
R-squared 80.36 87.79 91.62 —
Standard deviation 18.75 17.90 21.29 —
Sharpe ratio -0.34 0.76 0.32 —
Sortino ratio -0.52 1.14 0.29 —
Tracking error 4.70 4.14 4.23 —
Information ratio -0.97 -0.21 -0.37 —
Upside capture % 76.98 99.24 99.16 —
Downside capture % 103.58 105.90 109.18 —
Maximum drawdown % -8.80 -9.01 -15.43 —

Measured against S&P/ASX 200 TR AUD with RBA Bank accepted Bills 90 Days as the risk-free rate, to 31 OCT 2026. Maximum drawdown is on gross returns at the latest quarter end.

Portfolio risk score

Displays Morningstar's Portfolio Risk Score for the fund's holdings, how closely the ETF tracks its index day to day, the estimated cost of holding it against the index, the cost of trading it at market size, and its best and worst quarters since inception, sourced from Morningstar.

Risk score

97.0

Cash 0
Global shares 100

Morningstar Portfolio Risk Score at 30 SEP 2026.

Market impact cost %
0.100
Best quarter
17.98% · JAN 2024
Worst quarter
-12.66% · JUN 2022

Fees and costs

Displays the fund's ongoing costs as a percentage of assets per year: the PDS management fees and costs, performance fee and transaction costs that make up the total cost ratio (the RG 97 forward estimate, and what was charged last financial year), and the buy / sell spread, sourced from Morningstar.
Management fees and costs
0.09% p.a.
Performance fee costs
0.00% p.a.
Transaction costs
0.02% p.a.
Total cost ratio
0.09% p.a.
Total cost ratio (last FY)
0.09% p.a.
Buy / sell spread
0.00% / 0.00%
PDS dated
24 SEP 2026

Distributions

Displays the most recent distribution paid per unit and its key dates, sourced from Morningstar.
Latest distribution
0.3415
Ex Date
8 OCT 2026
Record Date
9 OCT 2026
Pay Date
20 OCT 2026
NAV at ex date
30.27
Paid this year
0.7968

Distributions by year

Displays the total distributions paid per unit in each calendar year, sourced from Morningstar.

2024

0.7

2023

0.8

2022

0.7

2021

0.6

2020

0.2

Year Per unit ($)
2024 0.7448
2023 0.8273
2022 0.7481
2021 0.5847
2020 0.2016

Distribution history

Displays the most recent distributions by ex date, sourced from Morningstar.
Ex Date Per unit ($)
8 OCT 2026 0.3415
1 JUL 2026 0.0677
9 APR 2026 0.2844
7 JAN 2026 0.1031
10 OCT 2025 0.3389
1 JUL 2025 0.1022
7 APR 2025 0.2088
7 JAN 2025 0.0950
10 OCT 2024 0.3282
1 JUL 2024 0.0996
9 APR 2024 0.2622
8 JAN 2024 0.1372

Sustainability rating · 31 AUG 2026

Displays the Morningstar Sustainability Rating (1 to 5 globes, more is better) and the portfolio ESG risk score behind it (lower is less risk), against the average of the fund's global category, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.

Above Average

ESG risk score

19.99

Negligible Low Medium High Severe
Rank in category
15th percentile
Environmental risk
5.94
Social risk
9.07
Governance risk
4.08
Portfolio covered
98.8%

ESG risk of holdings

Displays the share of the covered portfolio held in companies with negligible, low, medium, high and severe ESG risk, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.
Negligible
3.08%
Low
59.09%
Medium
25.48%
High
10.25%
Severe
2.10%

0.00% of assets are in companies with high or severe controversies.

Carbon · 31 AUG 2026

Displays the portfolio carbon risk score (lower is less exposure to the transition to a low-carbon economy), the share of the portfolio in companies with fossil fuel revenue, and whether the fund earns Morningstar's Low Carbon Designation, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.

Carbon risk score

9.21

Low Medium High Severe

Category average 11.06

Carbon risk
Low Risk
Rank in category
13th percentile of 221 funds
Fossil fuel involvement
11.14%
Category average
17.55%
Low Carbon Designation
No
Portfolio covered
99.1%

Fund managers

Displays the people Morningstar lists as managers of the fund, sourced from Morningstar.
  • Colin Zhang

Tenure

Displays how long the managers have run the fund: the average and longest tenure, who has served longest, the latest appointment and how many other funds the team manages, sourced from Morningstar.
Number of managers
1
Average tenure
5.4 years
Longest tenure
5.4 years
Longest serving
Colin Zhang · since 2 JUN 2021
Most recent appointment
Colin Zhang · since 2 JUN 2021
Managed since
2 JUN 2021
Other funds managed
23
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