Goldman Sachs Is Starting a Socially Responsible ETF
- Fund of ‘just’ companies will track index from JUST Capital
- ETF will compete with products from BlackRock, State Street
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may not be the first name people think of when it comes to values-oriented investing. But the Wall Street titan is hoping to change that with its latest exchange-traded fund -- and a little help from billionaire Paul Tudor Jones.
The lender’s asset management arm is starting an ETF that only invests in U.S. companies that engage in “just business behavior,” as defined by the JUST Capital Foundation, a non-profit organization co-founded by Jones, according to a regulatory filing.