When the market experiences overall volatility, is our trust in our investment performance? Or do we trust God to take care of us?
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This post dives into factor investing and how financial and non-financial factors can affect portfolio returns.
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In the days ahead, investors will face many opportunities to abandon their well-reasoned investment plans in favor of speculative reward.
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An influx of novice investors is blurring the line between investing and gambling, so where do Faith Driven Investors step in? What are the gaps in this conversation that we can fill?
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“Even though I am not black, this is still my issue. This is an American issue,” Casey Crawford.
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Andy Crouch, partner for theology and culture at Praxis, shares about the drama of leadership and how to navigate the tensions of authority and vulnerability as a faith driven entrepreneur.
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Governments have an opportunity to partner with impact investors and philanthropists to turn emergency spending into long-term impact.
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If you have been a follower of Access Ventures for any amount of time, you have likely heard of our one-pocket investment approach. If you are new to the concept, a one-pocket mindset places your mission at the center of your investment strategy, thus aligning all of your assets to the values that drive your foundation.
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Critics have also mentioned that businesses that use Christian business practices will not be able to survive in a market economy characterized by cutthroat competition.
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Empirical research studies have shown that people looking to work for a particular company have actually admitted that they factor in whether or not they view the company as a good corporate citizen. Studies have also shown that employees feel good in knowing that their company is engaged in giving back to the community.
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While research highlights the importance of an entrepreneurial identity in acquiring resources, our exploratory study advances research on identity, entrepreneurship, and resource exchange by highlighting the other side of the coin: the role of an investor identity.
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From an economic perspective, the Coronavirus pandemic is both a demand-shock and a supply-shock. So, as opposed to a significant hurricane or blizzard or even the 9/11 terrorist attack, this exogenous event may not simply push back economic activity, but rather may actually destroy it.
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It has become standard practice for U.S. corporations to assure employees of support regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation. There’s now an intensifying push to ensure that companies are similarly supportive and inclusive when it comes to employees’ religious beliefs.
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It’s estimated that Christians manage over 150 trillion dollars. That's over half the world's wealth. That’s 200-300x what is given (around the world) philanthropically each year. Capital has influence. Yet many of us are content to let others determine our investment strategy.
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When it comes to investing, many people today believe you have to choose between financial performance and social impact. Many tend to see these two goals in a kind of a see-saw relationship, where if you want to ‘shoot the lights out’ on performance it will likely come with ethical compromise, and if you want to maximize social benefit it will likely mean accepting a lower rate of return.
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In the same way that the political ambassadors of our day serve as representatives of their home countries while living abroad, we, as followers of Christ, live on the earth as representatives of heaven.
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While Christian ethics around trade (be fair) and services (don’t cheat) and payments (don’t withhold them) is as old as Proverbs, the modern market is a complicated place.
“Most Christians are so removed from their money they don’t even know where it is.”
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We often get the question ... it's probably I would say the number one question that I've gotten over the years is how I as a physician got into investing, and helping start a mutual fund company.
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With an uncertain future, the Principle of Uncertainly tells us that it’s prudent for people to save and invest a reasonable amount of resources for their future provision. Hear how this principle relates to investment decision-making, since uncertainty is the most important reality that we must accept.
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