ASIA

ASIA.AX was created on 2018-09-18 by BetaShares. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on information technology equity. The investment objective of the BetaShares Asia Technology Tigers ETF is to provide an investment return that aims to track the performance of the Solactive Asia ex-Japan Technology & Internet Tigers Index (the Index), before taking into account fees and expenses.

Appen Limited

APX

Appen Ltd. engages in the development of human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company is headquartered in Chatswood, New South Wales and currently employs 1,475 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-01-07. The firm is engaged in provision of data solutions and services for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The firm operates through two segments: Global Services and New Markets. Global Services represents the services that the Company provides to its five United States technology customers (Global customers) using the customer's data annotation platforms and tools. New Markets comprises the Appen's data annotation platform and tools (Global Product), and the enterprise, government, and China business units. New Markets also includes Quadrant geolocation and Point-of-Interest (POI) data capabilities. Its Annotation Platform is the platform that both customers and internal teams use to design, run and manage data annotation tasks. The firm serves various industries including technology, automotive, financial services, healthcare, retail, and government agencies.

ANZ Group Holdings Limited

ANZ

ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. operates as a non-operating holding company. The company operates in six divisions: Australia Retail, Australia Commercial, Institutional, New Zealand, Pacific, and Group Center. The Australia Retail division offers a range of banking services, such as home loans, deposits, credit cards and personal loans. The company also offers digital and Internet banking and phone banking. The Australia Commercial division provides a full range of banking products and financial services, including asset financing, across customer segments: small business owners and medium commercial customers. The Institutional division services government, global institutional and corporate customers across Australia, New Zealand and International. The New Zealand division provides personal banking and wealth management services. The Pacific division provides retail products for traditional relationship banking. The Group center supports the operating divisions, including technology, property, and risk management.

BHP Group Limited

BHP

BHP Group Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, production and processing of iron ore, metallurgical coal and copper. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria and currently employs 37,908 full-time employees. The firm is a producer of commodities, including iron ore, copper, nickel, potash and metallurgical (steelmaking) coal. The company is focused on offering a range of resources, which provides copper for renewable energy; nickel for electric vehicles; potash for sustainable farming, and iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition. Its segments include Copper, Iron Ore, and Coal. Its Copper segment is engaged in mining of copper, silver, zinc, molybdenum, uranium, and gold. Its Iron Ore segment is engaged in mining of iron ore. Its Coal segment is engaged in mining of metallurgical coal and energy coal. The firm is also focused on operating Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, and Carrapateena underground copper-gold mines in South Australia. The firm's operations are situated in Australia, Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, rest of Asia, North America and South America.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 446 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm is primarily engaged in the exploration, development, and mining of minerals in Australia. Its 100% owned Pilgangoora hard-rock lithium operation is located approximately 120 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region. The operation consists of two processing plants: the Pilgan Plant, located on the northern side of the Pilgangoora area and produces spodumene and tantalite concentrates, and the Ngungaju Plant is located to the south produces spodumene concentrate. The company owns 70% of the Mt Francisco project, which is located 50 km south-west of the Pilgangoora Project and hosts the large occurrence of outcropping pegmatites located nearby to Port Hedland. The company is also pursuing a proposed downstream joint venture (JV) for the development of an approximately 43,000 tons per annum lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) lithium chemical conversion facility in South Korea.