Is it time to look closer at the MVA and VSO ETFs?

If you’re looking for the top ETFs this year, the Vanguard MSCI Australian Small Companies Index ETF (ASX: VSO) and the VanEck Vectors Australian Property ETF (ASX: MVA) could be worthy of your watchlist.

Why investors study the MSCI Australian Small Companies Index ETF and Vectors Australian Property ETF

The Vanguard VSO ETF provides exposure to a diversified portfolio of Australian small caps and tracks the MSCI Australian Shares Small Cap Index. This is a low-cost way to access the performance of Australian small-cap shares through a single fund.

The VanEck MVA ETF provides investors with exposure to the Australian property market by investing in a portfolio of ASX-listed property companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs).

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Obviously, an easy way to analyse any ETF or fund like MVA or VSO is with quantitative methods, such as studying the fees and past performance (keeping in mind past performance is no guarantee of future performance).

We’ll keep it simple and just study the fees. Based on our data for July 2022, the VSO ETF has a management expense ratio (MER) of 0.30% while the MVA ETF’s yearly fee was 0.35%.So VSO comes out on top. That said, a more useful metric to know is the fee quartiles that these ETFs find themselves in (note: quartile 1 is best). For example, any ETF which has a fee below 0.3% would be considered in our first (best) quartile.

Performance analysis

Performance is important. Keep in mind, performance isn’t everything — and past performance is not indicative of future performance. It’s just one part of a much bigger picture. The reason we say performance is not everything is because of volatility of financial markets and the economy from one year to the next. Some ETFs and funds can put in a good return one year just to generate poor returns the next time around. That’s why we prefer three-year or seven-year track records over one-year track records. It can smooth out the temporary performances caused by external factors. Both ETFs have achieved our three-year performance hurdle. As of July 2022, the VSO ETF had an average annual return of 8.64%. During the same time, the MVA ETF returned 0.22%.

Finally, at Best ETFs Australia, we apply a rating to the ETF issuer or provider. That is, the company that starts and is responsible for operating the ETF on the ASX. There are too many considerations that go into our scoring to detail here. The issuer of VSO is Vanguard. Vanguard ranks highly for our scores of ETF providers and issuers in Australia. We consider Vanguard to be in Australia’s top three ETF providers for retail investors, advisers and institutions. MVA’s provider is VanEck. VanEck ranks highly for our scores of ETF providers and issuers in Australia. Our team considers VanEck to be one of Australia’s leading providers of specialised ETFs and funds for retail investors and advisers.

Conclusion

To keep reading about these two ETFs, be sure to visit our free VSO ETF report or MVA ETF review.

In summary, the VSO ETF rates better for our internal scoring methodology but not by much compared to MVA.

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