JUST ETF

In this week’s Chart of the Week, we take a look at the JUST Industry leaders across our universe to examine their strong outperformance in this economic recovery.

We sat down with two of the ESG’s most prominent leaders –John Goldstein, the head of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs and Megan Starr, the Global Head of Impact for The Carlyle Group, to discuss the future of ESG. 

Companies that support customers by producing non-harmful and quality products, emphasizing privacy, using fair pricing, offering equal treatment, and more, outperform their competitors by 20.7% .

In light of Labor Day this past Monday, we revisit a chart from early June to evaluate how companies’ treatment of their workers continues to affect financial performance throughout 2020.

For Labor Day, we revisit our Chart of the Week from earlier this summer to reevaluate how companies who fully disclose their EEO-1 reports have performed throughout the trailing three months. 

This week, we explore the risk profile of more just companies in comparison to less just ones, and show that JUST companies have less volatility.

This week, we dive into the history of our JUST Rankings and evaluate how America’s Most JUST Companies have performed on a cumulative basis since inception, finding that the top four quintiles as the top quintile has outperformed the bottom quintile by 29.9% cumulatively.

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.

Diego López of Global SWF, in collaboration with JUST Capital’s research team, decided to use a new approach for examining the best practices of sovereign wealth funds – the JUST methodology. 

This month, Argus Research published a white paper featuring their incorporation of JUST Capital’s company ranking and scoring methodology into their Sustainable Impact Investing Trust

These funds are often overweight tech stocks and less invested in energy, which is giving them a boost.

On Tuesday December 5th, JUST CEO Martin Whittaker sat down with Carol Massar at Bloomberg’s Responsible Investing Forum to discuss what it means to build a purpose-driven company.

What explains the market outperformance of JUST companies?

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.

The JUST ETF was named Best New ESG ETF at the 2018 ETF.com Awards.

Paul Tudor Jones II gave a keynote around why the companies that perform best on the issues Americans care about most help not only to build a more just and equitable economy, but to deliver lasting value to shareholders.

The JUST ETF was nominated as a finalist for five ETF.com awards in 2018.

We drill down into the metrics the public sees as central to just business behavior – to better understand the work these companies are doing align their profits with their purpose.

Read more about the JULCD’s Q4 performance.

Learn more about the JULCD’s performance since inception.

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.