Corporations as Community Partners in Racial Equity: Newark
How can corporations investing locally advance racial equity in the communities they impact? Join us for a deep look at Newark Venture Partners (NVP), which invests in high-growth startups and generates jobs and opportunities for residents in Newark, New Jersey.
The JUST U.S. Large Cap Diversified Index Continues Strong Performance
We recently marked the 3rd anniversary of Goldman Sachs’ JUST ETF, which tracks the JULCD Index based on our annual Rankings of the Russell 1000.
The JUST Report: Did Stakeholder Capitalism Get the Pink Slip?
This week, Emmanuel Faber, one of the world’s foremost proponents of stakeholder capitalism, lost his job as CEO and chairman of Danone. The easy reaction would be to see this as a blow for proponents of the stakeholder cause. That would be a mistake.
The Future of ESG is Customized, Personalized, and Values-Driven
More investors are recognizing that investing can serve a dual purpose – to both reach financial goals and to perpetuate core values by supporting companies doing right by all shareholders.
The ESG Enforcers Come to Town
Yesterday, acting SEC Chair Allison Herren Lee – who at the beginning of the week had said at a conference that voluntary ESG disclosure wasn’t cutting it – announced the creation of a Climate and ESG Task Force in the Enforcement division
The JUST Report: Show Me The Money…And The Impact
investors are becoming sophisticated enough to tell the difference between greenwashing and value creation…and this Exxon case proves it.
50 Years After the Introduction of the ‘Friedman Doctrine,’ It’s Time to Create a New Capitalism
Milton Friedman and his peers set America on the course of shareholder primacy. Business leaders and academics are considering what must be done for a stakeholder-driven alternative.
Read Our Response to the Department of Labor Proposal We Believe Will Crush Important ESG Momentum
The DOL has stated that ESG funds are “vehicles for furthering social goals or policy objectives that are not in the financial interest of the plan.” We completely disagree – here’s why.
Keeping ESG out of 401(k) Plans Hurts Participants and Produces Worse Outcomes
Last month, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new investment duties rule that would essentially keep ESG funds out of retirement accounts. Everything I’ve seen throughout my career shows that such a move would hurt investors.
ESG investing proves critical in protecting the downside during the bear market.
JUST Capital’s index, the JULCD, has been beating the Russell 1000.
State Street Joins BlackRock in Pushing ESG Forward
Today, State Street CEO Cyrus Taraporevala announced that they would be using their proxy voting power to ensure companies were identifying material ESG issues.
Wider Equity Markets Lose Investment, But ESG Continues to Grow
EPFR, Informa Financial Intelligence, released a staggering chart this week, showing that as wider equity markets have lost investment, ESG funds have only seen their investment levels increase.
What explains the market outperformance of JUST companies?
Business and Markets as a Force for Good
Joining forces with Bloomberg to convene business and investment leaders for a discussion around the state of capitalism today.
Read more about the JULCD’s Q4 performance.
Read more about the JULCD’s Q4 performance.
Learn more about the JULCD’s performance since inception.
“What if Business Could Do Well by Doing Good?” Paul Tudor Jones on Mad Money
The way we’re going to change corporate behavior is: you have to stop talking about earnings and we need to start talking about justness.
Read more about the JULCD’s Q3 performance here.
Redefining Impact Investing with the Wisdom of the Crowd
Investing for return and social impact is a theme no investment professional should ignore.
Read more about the JULCD’s Q2 performance here.
The JUST ETF launches – the first ever exchange-traded fund designed to align with the American public’s priorities for just business behavior.
Creating Shareholder Value from Just Business Behavior
This new analysis provides evidence that U.S. companies performing best on the priorities of the American public generate significantly greater investment returns and exhibit reduced investment risk than their lower performing counterparts.
