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Green Metal Miners ETF

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Reasons to Consider GMTL

Support Clean Energy

Structural tailwinds which are backed by government and corporate clean energy transition initiatives.

Critical Resources Exposure

Diversified exposure to the materials sector with strategic allocations to green metals such as lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt.

Growth Potential

Surging demand for green metals and impending supply crunches are set to spark potential growth.

Product Information As of 26 Mar 2025

Inception Date 24 Oct 2022
Management Costs (% p.a.) 0.69
Currency Hedged No
Domicile Australia
Legal Form Managed Investment Scheme
SMSF Eligible Yes

NAV Information As of 26 Mar 2025

NAV/Unit (A$) 7.88580000
Currency (NAV) AUD
Shares Outstanding 350,352
AUM (A$) 2,762,811.95
NAV History File View

Product Summary

Global X Green Metal Miners ETF (GMTL) provides exposure to global companies which produce critical metals for clean energy infrastructure and technologies, including lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt.

Product Objective

Global X Green Metal Miners ETF (GMTL) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the BITA Global Green Energy Metals Index.

Trading Details

Ticker GMTL
Bloomberg Code GMTL AU Equity
ISIN AU0000233264
Trading Hours 10:00AM – 4:00PM

Management & Administration

Issuer Global X Management (AUS) Limited
Custodian The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Sydney Branch
Registrar Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited

Benchmark Information

Benchmark BITA GLOBAL GREEN ENERGY METALS INDEX
Provider BITA GmbH
Ticker BGGEME

Distributions As of 28 Feb 2025

12-Month Yield 1.10%
12-Month Franking Level 17.71%
Distribution Frequency Annually
Distribution History View

Performance Table As of 26 Mar 2025

Total Return (Fund) Total Return (Benchmark) Tracking Difference Tracking Error
1 Month 4.49% 4.54% -0.05% 0.01%
3 Months 4.12% 4.28% -0.16% 0.17%
1 Year 6.63% 7.25% -0.62% 0.22%
3 Year p.a. -- -- -- --
5 Year p.a. -- -- -- --
10 Year p.a. -- -- -- --
Since Inception p.a. -8.54% -7.84% -0.70% 0.90%

Top Holdings As of 27 Mar 2025

Full Holdings (.xlsx)
Net Assets (%) Name SEDOL Market Price (Local) Shares Held Market Value (A$)
5.87 FIRST QUANTUM 2347608 21.35 6,830 162,220
5.48 BOLIDEN AB BPYTZ57 354.50 2,700 151,317
5.12 ALBEMARLE CORP 2046853 75.72 1,177 141,352
4.94 ALCOA CORP BYNF418 33.34 2,583 136,586
4.64 NORSK HYDRO ASA B11HK39 65.72 12,942 128,206
4.53 ANTOFAGASTA PLC 0045614 18.90 3,239 125,119
4.19 IVANHOE MINES LT BD73C40 14.41 7,218 115,709
4.14 ALUMINUM CORP-A BP3R4D3 7.68 68,500 114,622
3.88 CHINA NORTHERN-A BP3R370 23.34 21,200 107,809
3.53 LUNDIN MINING CO 2866857 12.57 6,966 97,410
3.34 ZHEJIANG HUAYO-A BFF5BV2 35.60 12,000 93,078
3.28 KOREA ZINC CO 6495428 849,000.00 99 90,933
3.26 SUMITOMO MET MIN 6858849 3,694.00 2,400 93,334
3.09 CHINA HONGQIAO B44ZV94 15.64 26,000 82,939
2.49 GUANGZHOU TINC-A BD5LR63 19.31 16,400 68,999
2.45 GEM CO LTD-A BD5CFW8 6.74 46,100 67,698
2.42 TIANQI LITHIUM-A BD5CKH8 31.25 9,900 67,406
2.19 LYNAS RARE EARTH 6121176 7.21 8,278 59,684
1.98 PILBARA MINERALS B2368L5 1.84 29,354 54,011
1.85 CAPSTONE COPPER BMY5XY9 8.33 5,523 51,181
1.84 SANDFIRE RESOURC 6739739 11.23 4,581 51,445
1.83 GANFENG LITHIU-A BD5CB19 34.86 6,700 50,888
1.83 HUDBAY MINERALS B05BDX1 11.48 3,965 50,637
1.77 SIBANYE-STI-ADR BL8F9X9 4.35 7,100 48,985
1.77 MP MATERIALS COR BN15Y35 26.06 1,183 48,896
1.50 AURUBIS AG 5485527 93.95 258 41,451
1.45 CHINA RARE EAR-A BFY8HG9 31.98 5,800 40,413
1.39 JIANGXI COPPER-A BP3R4R7 24.10 7,500 39,382
1.36 XIAMEN TUNGSTE-A BP3R6F9 20.12 8,700 38,139
1.25 SHENZHEN CAPCH-A BD5LRQ3 34.65 4,600 34,728
1.24 QUIMICA Y-SP ADR 2771122 41.62 519 34,260
1.20 BEIJING EASPRI-A BD760M3 42.17 3,600 33,077
1.08 UMICORE BF44466 9.22 1,898 29,909
1.01 SHENGHE RESOUC-A BFYQHK7 11.42 11,300 28,116
0.99 INNUOVO TECHNO-A BD73KR9 11.28 11,300 27,772
0.90 SHENZHEN ZHONG-A BD5CLW0 5.04 23,000 25,257
0.90 IGO LTD 6439567 4.11 5,962 24,504
0.83 BEIJING ZHONGK-A BD5CG69 12.89 8,200 23,029
0.81 JL MAG RARE-EA-A BKDQ8F5 20.70 5,120 23,092
0.56 CENTURY ALUMINUM 2186254 19.00 511 15,399
0.54 ARE HOLDINGS INC B60DQZ7 2,048.00 700 15,092
0.45 YANTAI ZHENGHA-A BD5LZH0 14.79 4,000 12,890
0.29 ERAMET 4017017 54.10 88 8,141
0.24 DISCOVERY SILVER BND9899 1.97 3,047 6,678
Holdings are subject to change.

Sector Breakdown As of 27 Mar 2025

Sector Weight (%)
Materials 90.6
Industrials 8.3
Information Technology 0.8
Other/Cash 0.3

Country Breakdown As of 27 Mar 2025

Country Weight (%)
China 35.3
Canada 17.5
United States 12.4
Australia 6.9
Chile 5.8
Sweden 5.5
Norway 4.6
Japan 3.8
South Korea 3.3
South Africa 1.8
Germany 1.5
Other/Cash 1.6

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Documents

FAQs

  • What are green metals?

    Green metals refer to the minerals needed for the clean energy transition. According to the International Energy Agency, they are: copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, zinc, aluminium, rare earths, and the platinum group metals. Each mineral is used extensively in the production, transmission, and storage of renewable energy.

    To give some examples, copper and aluminium are required to expand the grid, allowing the transmission of renewable electricity. Lithium, cobalt, and nickel are required for batteries. Zinc is required for galvanising steel, used in offshore wind turbines especially. And rare earth elements are required to build permanent magnet motors, which are used in electric cars.

    *IEA (2021), The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions

  • Why invest in green metals?

    Green metals will be instrumental in helping worldwide efforts to fight global warming. To meet these targets, a seismic shift to renewables is starting to take place. Revenue from green metal mining and production is set to outpace coal well before 2040, according to the IEA. This owes to the volume of these commodities needed to produce cleaner power.

    • It only takes 22 kilograms of copper to make a conventional car, whereas EVs need 53 kilograms alongside other minerals such as lithium and cobalt.
    • Thermal power plants – be they coal fired or gas turbine – require 1 – 1.5 tonnes of copper for every megawatt of electricity they produce. By contrast, an offshore wind farm requires 8 tonnes to produce this output.

    As demand increases for green metals, supply will contract – effectively driving up commodity prices.

    *IEA (2021), The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions

  • How does the ESG screen GMTL uses work?

    Our index provider BITA uses data from Arabesque Partners, an Anglo-German investment management and research firm, to build its ESG screen. Arabesque uses proprietary research to score companies based on their compliance with the four core principles of the United Nations Global Compact. The four principles are: human rights, labour rights, the environment and anti-corruption.

    Each of the four principles are scored separately out of 100 and weighted in such a way that poor performance against any one principle results in a poor overall score (i.e., it cannot be offset by strong scores against other principles). Arabesque uses information from NGO campaigns, public news websites, industry reports, corporate disclosures and other sources to grade companies.

    Companies with overall scores below 40, which is deemed to represent a poor performance against any of the four UNGC principles, are ineligible for the index.

  • How are companies weighted within GMTL?

    Companies in the index are weighted based on market capitalisation. However, the index implements a series of caps to ensure diversification and adequate liquidity.

    As part of this, the index includes an absolute weight cap of 7% on each company. This prevents any company on index rebalance day from taking any more than 7% of the total index weight. The cap is in place to prevent any single company becoming too influential in determining index performance.

    The index also includes a cumulative weight cap, preventing companies that take more than 4.5% of the index collectively taking more than 40% of the total index weight on rebalance day. This prevents any small group of companies becoming too influential in determining performance.
    In addition to these outright weight caps, the index includes a liquidity cap. The liquidity cap prevents any company’s weight in the index being so large that, assuming a $25 million daily inflow, funds tracking the index would be required to buy more than 25% of a company’s 90-day average daily traded value.

    Where any stock exceeds these caps, its excess weight is redistributed proportionally among the rest of the uncapped securities at rebalance according to a formula. Rebalancing occurs semi-annually

  • What type of miners is GMTL exposed to?

    The index identifies companies that make the majority of their gross revenue from mining, processing or trading green metals (copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, zinc, aluminium, rare earths, and the platinum group metals). In order to ensure diversification, the index limits each metal to having 10 miners, processers, or traders. This means, for example, that there cannot be more than 10 lithium miners or more than 10 copper miners in the index at any given time.

    As companies are required to meet a revenue purity threshold, the index favours more specialised miners. This means, for example that Rio Tinto, despite being among the world’s largest bauxite (aluminium) miners, does not feature in the index as the majority of its revenue comes from iron ore.

    Furthermore, GMTL does not intend to invest in coal miners and has employed an ESG screen to remove fossil fuel companies. This means for example that BHP, despite being one of the world’s largest copper miners, would not qualify for index inclusion presently due to its coal mining.

  • How can I use GMTL in a portfolio?

    We believe that GMTL can be used in a portfolio in three main ways.

    Firstly, it can be used to invest in the energy transition. As much of the demand growth for these metals comes from clean energy technology, these mining companies stand to benefit as the world moves away from fossil fuels.

    Second, it can be used to replace a conventional resources sector allocation in a portfolio. If investors with resource sector allocations believe that coal mining will be less prevalent in the future, or that seaborne iron ore may decline due to increased steel recycling volumes, for example, then GMTL may provide an alternative.

    Third, it can potentially be used as a way to trade the prices of copper, lithium and other energy transition metals. Mining companies share prices tend to be geared to the prices of the commodities that they mine.

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