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Dave Nadig
3:00
Good afternoon, and welcome to ETF.com LIve!
As always you can ask questions in the box below, and I'll cram as much as I can into the next 30 minutes.
Don't be bashful!
3:01
We'll post a transcript up later today in case you miss any of the answers.
And with that let's get rolling.
Anonymous
3:01
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Dave Nadig
3:01
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ETF Guy
3:01
Can you explain how to find ESG ETFs on your site?
Dave Nadig
3:02
So, very legit question which highlights the fact that no two people can agree on what ESG even is.
We've taken a few approaches here at ETF.com.
First, we integrated all of the MSCI ESG data.  They have a really robust methodology which assigns various ESG scores to essentially all ETFs based on what they own.
3:03
You can see that data on the "ESG" tab on the main screener (https://www.etf.com/finder will get you there).
If you want to limit your search to only funds with a certain score, you can use the sidebar on the left to do that (under "Analysis).
3:04
What you'll find, however, is that there are a lot of funds that score well in ESG that aren't claiming to be ESG funds.  For example, many EU equity funds score well, because many EU companies have adopted very ESG friendly stances on a number of issues.
Separately, we have a list of funds that make Socially Responsible claims.
You can find that on it's own channel page here:
3:05
Again, some of those funds may not actually rate that highly for ESG.
But between the data, and the list of folks making claims, hopefully you can find what you're looking for.
Ray
3:05
Do you have any concerns or what are the risks of owning a physcially-backed gold ETF... seems like a cheaper way to own gold but you can't hold the gold
Dave Nadig
3:05
I am not myself a huge gold bug, but here's my general thinking.
3:06
First off: I am not worried that there's "no gold in the vault."  That heads into the realm of actual conspiracy theory.  All of the physical gold ETFs have strict security and audit processes, and they're all pretty transparent about it.
To believe its all rigged is pretty much up there with worrying that aliens secretly run the government ...
3:07
The bigger question is: why are you investing in gold.
If you are investing in it for its historical counter-correlation to risk assets, and its correlation to inflation, then really there's no reason not to just buy an ETF.
3:08
If however you are buying gold as some sort of a hedge against the collapse of the global economy, and you think having gold will help in some sort of apocalypse, well, it wont do you any good in a london vault.
If your the latter kind of gold buyer, there's really only one thing you can do: bolt a safe to your basement floor, buy physical gold, and worry a lot about security.
But the ETFs? They do exactly what they say on the tin.
James
3:08
How come much wasn't made about John Hancock lowering fees on 9 smart-beta ETFs? It was difficult to find news about this anywhere, am I missing something?
Dave Nadig
3:09
So a few answers.  I think this happened in mid february, which was both right around the big ETF conference, and in the middle of a ton of etf launches, closures, and fee changes.
I'm pretty sure we covered it, but it probably rolled off the home page almost instantly with all the news right then
The cuts were I think about 10 bps, bringing them from the 50s to the 40s in general.
3:10
Which is great.  I think the "right" price for most funds like there is in the 30s, but they're close now, which is great.
The funds themselves are bit of a mishmash.  Their core funds like the JHML (the large cap US one, which tracks a dimmensional index) hasn't managed to beat the market over any meaningful period since launch.
3:11
But it HAS worked as a risk reducer, a touch.  It's beta comes in under 1.
So I would describe the product line as "subtle tweaks" on traditional cap weighting for the most part.
It's clearly worked for an audience, as the complex now has I think close to 4B in it.
But fee-cut news barely makes headlines anymore, it happens so often!
Options or Stops
3:11
Hey Dave, if used appropriately, do think a better way to protect vs the downside is 1.)options like Innovator Funds use or 2.) to have stops loss orders placed within an account on say something like SPY.
Dave Nadig
3:12
Fantastic question.
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