Key Highlights

  • The fund tracks the Solactive Global Copper Miners Index and holds 43 companies.
  • Basic Materials makes up 97.53% of the portfolio, and Canada 34.86%.
  • The management fee is 0.65% and the fund reports a standard deviation of 36.31.
  • The July 2026 distribution of $0.664 is higher than the $0.142 paid in July 2025.

Global X Copper Miners ETF (ASX:WIRE) aims to provide investors with a return that, before fees and expenses, tracks the performance of the Solactive Global Copper Miners Total Return Index. The fund was admitted to the ASX on 23 November 2022 and last traded at $24.24 on 13 October 2026. It reports a fund size of $919.95 million.

Detail

Information

Ticker

ASX:WIRE

Fund

Global X Copper Miners ETF

Category

Equity Global Resources

Benchmark

Solactive Global Copper Miners TR USD

Fund size

$919.95 million

Management fee

0.65%

Total holdings

43

ASX admission date

23 November 2022

Top holdings

The ten largest positions represent 49.78% of the fund. Hudbay Minerals leads at 5.79%, followed by Teck Resources (5.51%), Southern Copper (5.32%), BHP Group (5.09%) and Freeport-McMoRan (4.96%). Antofagasta (4.75%), Glencore (4.70%), KGHM Polska Miedz (4.63%), First Quantum Minerals (4.57%) and Sumitomo Metal Mining (4.41%) complete the list.

Companies above $1 billion in market capitalisation represent 88.11%.

Sector and country exposure

Basic Materials accounts for 97.53% of the fund against 89.93% for the category, and Industrials for 2.47%. The fund has no energy weighting, against 8.10% for the category.

Canada holds 34.86%, below the 49.12% category figure. China holds 14.81%, against 2.67%, the United States 10.95%, Australia 9.77% and Japan 7.05%. Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden each hold between 4% and 5.1%.

Fee, risk and distributions

The management fee is 0.65% a year. The fund reports a beta of 0.98 and a standard deviation of 36.31. The final distribution of $0.664 per unit had an ex-date of 2 July 2026, a record date of 3 July and payment on 16 July, equal to an annual yield of 2.97%.

That is higher than the $0.062 paid in January 2026, $0.142 in July 2025, $0.019 in January 2025 and $0.256 in July 2024.

Category classification and liquidity

Morningstar places the fund in the Equity Global Resources category, which covers funds investing primarily in the equities of companies involved in the extraction or sale of resources, with at least 75% of assets in equities and at least 50% of equity assets in non-Australian resource companies.

Liquidity indicators add a further view. There are 37,610,319 units on issue, and average daily trading volume is 204,831 units. Over the five sessions from 7 to 13 October 2026, daily volume ranged from 58,300 to 198,700 units, with 90,117 recorded on 13 October while the market was still open. The bid-offer range stood at $24.00 to $24.29, and the day range at $24.11 to $24.46. These figures change through the trading day and reflect market activity rather than the fund's holdings.

Recent announcements

The issuer lodged Units on Issue for September 2026 on 7 October, the Annual Financial Report on 28 September and Annual Statements 2026 on 16 September. A Quarterly Exit Periodic Statement followed on 14 August.

Final Takeaway

WIRE gives single-commodity exposure to copper producers, with Basic Materials at 97.53% and no energy holdings. The 0.65% fee, 36.31 standard deviation and uneven distributions describe its profile. These facts are descriptive and not predictive.