Guides

The words on your statements, in plain English

5 guides on the things Australian ETF investors run into: what two funds share underneath, what a portfolio actually holds, and what the annual tax paperwork is saying. Each one states facts, links to the tool that does the arithmetic, and stops there.

Overlap

How much of two funds is the same thing underneath.

Look-through

What a portfolio holds once every fund wrapper is removed.

AMMA & distributions

The annual tax statement an Australian fund sends, component by component.

Franking

Franking credits, the gross-up, and how they arrive through a fund.

SMSF

What holding ETFs inside a self-managed super fund involves.

How these are written

Each guide is written and signed by a named author, dated with the day it was last looked at, and corrected in the open when it is wrong. They state facts about how something works; they do not tell anyone what to do about it. See the editorial policy and how we source our data.