Before founding Adasina Social Capital, Rachel Robasciotti had already built a successful values-driven wealth management firm. So, she knew from experience what clients mean when they say, “I want to make a difference with my money.” Not only were her diverse group of clients interested in making investments having a positive impact, but they also wanted a management team that represented them. Rachel and her team really wanted to fulfill their clients’ desire for impact but weren’t happy with the ETF or mutual fund options available. So, they decided to create a fund that would check all the boxes.
Thus, JSTC was born! Created and managed by a Black woman-owned asset management firm with a diverse staff, this ETF offers advisors a diversified, cost-effective public equities portfolio that aligns with their client’s values and uses tried-and-true investing methods.
With JSTC, investors get both a socially accountable and financially competitive return potential on their investments.
JSTC is an easy-to-purchase public equities ETF that is screened for racial, gender, economic, and climate justice. In addition to excluding companies that fail social justice criteria, JSTC enables investors to contribute to large-scale systemic change through Adasina’s leading-edge approach to advocacy and engagement.
An Impact Fund Clients & Advisors Can Feel Good About
- Black woman-owned and diverse asset management firm
- Diverse and inclusive portfolio management team
- Screened for racial, gender, economic, and climate justice
- Partnerships with well-known social justice organizations for impact
- Distinctive approach to corporate engagement
- Fossil Fuel Free
- Prison Free
- Weapons Free
A Fund Advisors Can Feel Confident About Recommending
Experienced Fund Manager
- Firm with a 15+ year history
- Strategy with a 3+ year track record
Easy to Implement
- Core strategy for public equities
- Diversified, all-cap global exposure
- Trades with the ease of a stock and the diversification of a fund
- Invests long-only in publicly traded companies for ease of reporting
An ETF with a Competitive Advantage
- Impact investing in public markets
- Actively managed for social issues, index-based financial approach
- Competitive fund performance
- Attracted over $70 million in assets in the first 9 months
- Headline risk management for social justice issues
- Uses cutting-edge, proprietary data for a first-mover advantage
- Fund structure with a tax advantages
Easy to Share with Clients
- Accessible screening criteria, data, and research
- Compelling impact stories to share with clients
- Transparency of holdings and exclusions
About Us
At Adasina Social Capital, we’re committed to making large-scale, systemic change through investments in financial markets. Our diverse team of people from non-traditional backgrounds works closely with the communities we intend to impact – aligning investors with social justice movements. Beyond creating our own investment criteria and portfolios, Adasina mobilizes investors to drive long-term impact through industry campaigns and education. Join us in becoming unstoppable agents of meaningful change for people and our planet!
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Investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal. There is no guarantee that the Funds investment strategy will be successful. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to their NAV in the secondary market, and the fund's holdings and returns may deviate from those of its index. These variations may be greater when markets are volatile or subject to unusual conditions. The Fund is new and has a limited operating history. The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that are authorized to purchase and redeem shares directly from the Fund; and there may be a limited number of market makers or other liquidity providers in the marketplace.
Foreign and emerging market investing involves currency, political and economic risk. Applying climate, economic, gender, racial, and movement aligned justice domain criteria to the Fund's investment selection process may exclude securities of certain issuers for non-financial reasons and therefore, the Fund may underperform the broader equity market or other funds that do not utilize similar criteria when selecting investments. Adasina is a newly registered investment advisor and has no long-term track record that an investor may judge. Investments made in small and mid-capitalization companies may be more volatile and less liquid due to limited resources or product lines and more sensitive to economic factors. The securities of large-capitalization companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion.
It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
Shares of the Fund are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC.