What are the BetaShares GEAR and Vaneck MVB ETFs designed to do?
BetaShares GEAR Fund is an internally geared fund, investing in the largest 200 companies on the ASX, by market capitalisation.
The VanEck MVB ETF provides focused exposure to Australia’s largest industry, the banking sector. This is a low-cost way to invest in the Australian banking industry through a single fund.
For more information on the GEAR ETF, see our ASX GEAR review.
ASX: GEAR versus ASX: MVB price performance
We’ll keep it basic and just study the fees. Based on our data for December 2021, the GEAR ETF has a management expense ratio (MER) of 0.80% while the MVB ETF’s yearly fee was 0.28%. Therefore, MVB wins on this one. That said, a more useful metric to know is the fee quartiles that these ETFs find themselves in (note: quartile 1 is best). For example, any ETF which has a fee below 0.3% would be considered in our first (best) quartile.
Show me the money
Typically, we want to a see ETFs with a three-year track record of compelling performance. Put another way, when an ETF achieves a three year track record, we score it greater than might otherwise be the case. That said, there are exceptions to this rule of thumb. Also, remember that it’s hard to compare an ETF with a hedge fund strategy against other ETFs. Why? Hedge fund ETFs often use inverse or ‘opposite’ strategies which means that they’re designed to move in an opposite direction to the market. Nevertheless, we can see that both ETFs met their three-year performance milestone.
Okay, one final thing. Let’s talk about the company responsible for the ETF. There are too many factors that go into our internal scoring of fund providers to step through in this article. The provider behind the GEAR ETF is BetaShares. Betashares ranks highly for our scores of ETF providers and issuers in Australia. We believe BetaShares is one of the leading providers of index and non-index style products to retail investors in Australia. Meanwhile, MVB’s provider is Vaneck. VanEck ranks highly for our scores of ETF providers and issuers in Australia. Our team considers VanEck to be one of Australia’s leading providers of specialised ETFs and funds for retail investors and advisers.
Our takeaway
Be sure to visit our free ASX GEAR review or ASX MVB ETF review.
In summary, the GEAR ETF rates more promisingly for our internal scoring methodology but not by much compared to MVB.
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