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FYI: Vanguard today filed a preliminary registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF and Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF. The new ETFs will complement Vanguard’s existing FTSE Social Index Fund and are expected to begin trading in September 2018. Regards, Ted https://pressroom.vanguard.com/news/Press-Release-Vanguard-Files-For-Two-New-ESG-ETFS-06272018.html
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https://axios.com/top-vanguard-executive-on-trump-climate-f318ee46-9afc-48ae-b928-11e02de5ada6.html
If these SRI/ESG related funds actually changed their specific proxy voting policies on these issues as BlacRock has done for its ESG ETFs, they would become more interesting. Note the difference with iShares ESG ETFs:
https://ishares.com/us/literature/shareholder-letters/proxy-voting-policy-social-index-funds.pdf