High-school shootings drive a fresh look at ETF components

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A U.S. high school student-led protest is prompting changes in the exchange-traded fund business, creating new opportunities for investors to buy gun-free index-linked products. A bigger question is whether there is a push to rethink the bigger index components themselves.
Gun reform activist David Hogg has decided to take on Wall Street and heavyweight investment managers by calling for the boycott of Vanguard and BlackRock, two of the world’s biggest investors and owners of public