Topic: How To Invest

Pat, what do you think of this new socially conscious ETF—Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF? Thanks.

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A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $40.81, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 6.4 million; Market cap: $261.2 million; www.gsam.com), was launched on June 7, 2018, by prominent hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones. The ETF now has assets under management of $259 million. Its MER is 0.20%. Jones’s charitable foundation, Just Capital, conducts regular polling to determine the American public’s most important concerns as they relate to business behaviour. That polling then scores companies based on issues such as worker pay, customer treatment, job creation, what if any fines they’ve been charged with, their charitable contributions and greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, the fund managers believe that the 429 companies in the JUST U.S. Large Cap Diversified Index match, on average, the following profile: are twice as likely to pay nearly all their workers a living wage. create U.S. jobs at a 20% greater rate. employ twice as many workers in the U.S. produce 45%…