You want to invest in stocks, but you're worried about some of the bad, pollutey stuff that companies sometimes do. Dumping toxic waste into rivers. Locking employees into factories. Naming the CEO's cousin Irvin as head of corporate governance.
You don't want to research individual companies. You just want to buy an index that only includes companies that have good reputations on things like the environment, or labor practices, or corporate governance.
Enter the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. The "sustainability" part refers to the companies' reputations for a long-term outlook. It includes things like environmental sustainability, corporate governance, and labor relations.
There are actually a bunch of Dow Sustainability Indices, each covering a different geographic region. The Dow Jones Sustainability United States Index covers U.S. stocks. As of 2018, it included companies like GM, Bank of America, and Nike.
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finance a la shmoop- what is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? well it's just
an index. it's a basket of 30 industrial stocks hence the catchy industrial word [list of the 30 stocks involved in the Dow]
in there and it was started in 1896 by Charles Dow and Edward Jones sort of the
Coke and Pepsi of stock averages in the day .worth noting is the fact that while
the Dow average is quoted often in the press it's not something that real Wall
Street traders really rely on that much as a market place holder anymore. why?
well because the Dow comprises only 30 stocks. it isn't really a broad market [Dow Jones in the trash]
representation, and you know the way the S&P 500 is the 500 is bigger than 30. Big
Brother has way more stocks and is thus way more liquid than the relatively
blippi set of 30 stocks that the Dow offers. over time the Dow has changed as
companies were bought and/or died and or just withered and became no longer
relevant. i.e. newspaper industry. which means that this thing has gone through
more faces than Kanye West .yeah. [Kanye West faces pictured]
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