BONUS call: Social Investing
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
I've been taking listener calls for nearly eight years and I think this is the first social investing question we've received. How can you make sure you're not investing in companies that you don't support, such as gun manufacturers? That's the question this week on the latest BONUS call with Russell from Las Vegas. Have a money question? Email me here. Better Off is sponsored by Betterment. Please let us know what you think by leaving a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Better Off Bonus Call of the Week. |
| 0:06.0 | We're sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor. |
| 0:10.0 | Remember, you've got two chances to get on the air with us every single week. We drop |
| 0:14.3 | this particular episode on Tuesdays, the Bonus Call of the Week, and then on |
| 0:19.8 | Thursdays when we have time we'll put the listener question of the week after our |
| 0:23.7 | interview if you'd like to get on the air with us do me a favor just send an email |
| 0:27.7 | ask Jill at better off podcast dot com that's ask Jill at Better Off Podcast.com. |
| 0:34.0 | Today we are talking to Russell. |
| 0:36.0 | He is on the line from Las Vegas. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi Russell, welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.0 | What can we do for you? |
| 0:41.0 | Thanks, Jill. |
| 0:42.0 | I have a question for you about passive fund investing. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay. |
| 0:46.0 | So my concern I think is a little bit antithetical to the reasons that you get involved in passive funds, but maybe you can help me out with so here's my issue |
| 0:54.8 | i love passive fund investing all my investments i believe are passive index type |
| 0:59.6 | funds through my 401k hs a and then I have a brokerage through Vanguard investment. |
| 1:05.3 | So over the next couple weeks, I kind of want to look at the portfolio and the holding |
| 1:09.6 | inside these funds to see which companies comprise them and I'm always thinking for myself |
| 1:15.7 | I know it's a little bit of a political issue I don't if I can help it I prefer not to own |
| 1:19.6 | stock in gun manufacturing companies so if I get into these funds and see that those |
| 1:25.6 | companies are in there is there anything I can do about it. Well I mean look there's |
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