Top 10 stocks in the ANZ International Share Fund

The top ten holdings in the ANZ International Share Fund are:

  1. Visa Inc. is an American based financial services corporation headquartered in California. Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash access programs to their customers. Visa is considered the dominant bankcard company in the world (excluding China), where it commands a 50% market share of total card payments.
  2. Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Switzerland. It has been the largest food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. Nestlé operates in 189 countries, and employs around 340,000 people.
  3. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is an American supplier of scientific instrumentation, reagents and consumables, and software services based in Massachusetts. In March 2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific received emergency use authorization from the FDA for a test for SARS-CoV-2 to help mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
  4. Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company providing energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. It addresses homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services.
  5. Accenture PLC is an Ireland-based multinational professional services company that specialises in information technology (IT) services and consulting. Accenture began as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen (one of the “Big Five” accounting firms before being implicated in the Enron scandal). The word "Accenture" is derived from "Accent on the future".
  6. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH SE, is a French multinational conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris. LVMH controls around 60 subsidiaries that each manage a small number of prestigious brands. These include Christian Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loewe, Celine, Princess Yachts, TAG Heuer and Bulgari.
  7. Roche Holding Ltd is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions; Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. In March 2020, the Roche Diagnostics division reached a significant milestone with the FDA approval of its high-volume SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test, capable of analysing 1,400-8,800 samples within 24 hours.
  8. Comcast is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate headquartered in Pennsylvania. It is the second largest broadcasting and cable television business in the world by revenue (behind AT&T), the largest pay TV company and the largest cable TV company.
  9. HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest private sector bank by assets and world's 10th largest bank by market capitalisation. It is the third largest company by market capitalisation on the Indian stock exchanges. It is also the fifteenth largest employer in India with nearly 120,000 employees.
  10. Heineken N.V. is a Dutch multinational brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. The original brewery in Amsterdam closed in 1988 and is preserved as a museum called Heineken Experience. Since the merger between the two largest brewing empires in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, in October 2016, Heineken has been the second-largest brewer in the world.
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16 March 2022