Topic: How To Invest

Q: Pat, what is your opinion of this socially conscious ETF, Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF? Thank you.

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A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $51.57, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 3.2 million; Market cap: $165.0 million; www.gsam.com), started up June 7, 2018. Prominent hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones launched the fund. The ETF’s MER is a low 0.20%, and it yields 1.4%. Jones’s charitable foundation, Just Capital, conducts regular polling to determine the American public’s most important concerns related to business behaviour. That polling then scores companies based on issues such as worker pay, customer treatment, job creation, what if any fines the company has attracted, its charitable contributions and greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, the fund’s managers believe that each of the 445 companies in the JUST U.S. Large Cap Diversified Index matches, on average, the following profile: it is twice as likely to pay nearly all its workers a living wage creates U.S. jobs at a 20% greater rate employs twice as many workers in the U.S. produces 45% lower…