Janet Ward Black has been practicing law for 30 years. Listen to how Corporate Chaplaincy has influenced her law firm.
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“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too—if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.”
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Faith Driven Investing is a movement of an increasing number of asset owners, fund managers, and entrepreneurs that are driven by their faith. We all come around some unifying principles as a starting point and know that God owns all that we have and that we are called to faithfully steward our gifts - as investors, entrepreneurs, etc.
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Marc Andreesen once said (something that Warren Buffett has since popularized) that he would invest in a house or a boat but not a houseboat. What he meant was that he wanted to put his money toward an investment (i.e. a house) or give it away to charity (i.e. a boat).
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Financial advisors play a critical role in the future of America.
They are stewards of a sacred trust, helping clients to save money for when they can no longer work, live a life of generosity, invest in businesses that align with God’s purposes for the world, spend wisely, and re-discover their calling to work and serve their neighbors over a lifetime.
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Wealth and influence – it’s a topic that comes up regularly in the business and nonprofit worlds, whether it is expressly mentioned or just thought about silently at networking events. It’s important in the world, whether you are a believer or not, and it’s important to God.
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When the Nasdaq closing bell rang last Thursday, investors in Beyond Meat were jubilant. Trading in the plant-based food company had driven up the share price 163 percent during its first day on the exchange.
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Watch Amy Sherman encourage churches to invite all their members in joining God's mission of restoring all creation through the use of their vocations…
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Impact Investing is a buzzword in the faith driven investing world. But there are dozens of definitions out there for what it actually means. On today’s episode, we’re moving toward setting the record straight.
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Brittany Underwood built Akola from nothing — each item of jewelry handmade in Uganda and distributed through their warehouse in the States where most jobs are held by women recently released from prison.
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Christ followers have become known for what we are against—no alcohol, tobacco, adult entertainment, gambling, etc. While acknowledging the good negative screen funds that exist, we desire for our movement to be more known for what we are FOR in how we place our investment capital—things like human flourishing, job creation, redemptive businesses that restore the world to God’s original design in the garden, etc.
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The concept of the buy-out fund has been around for decades, if not centuries. The latest flavor of the buy-out fund, the “search fund,” has garnered an increasing level of press over the past few years.
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Is wealth creation godly or greedy?
The Bible teaches that the creation of wealth is both a godly gift and a command. Unfortunately, the biblical role of wealth creation is misunderstood in many churches today.
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The phrase “What would Jesus do?” or “WWJD” emerged in American consciousness during the 1990s as motto for many Christians seeking to regularly reflect on how the moral teachings of Jesus could be reflected in their daily lives.
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The day after selling our operating company we knew we were in the family office business and we knew we had a great deal to learn about the preservation aspects of wealth, but we then had to get real focused on the growth aspects of those assets.
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One of the goals of this movement is to create an anti-Tower of Babel mindset among investors. It’s so easy to bifurcate the world of investing over and over again with groups splitting and keeping to themselves.
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What a blessing to be in this room. A room of Christ-followers who share a common faith in God as sovereign over everything, including the investment markets in which many of us work day by day. But more than that, we share a common goal that the name of Jesus be glorified in that marketplace; that as stewards we be found faithful with what God has entrusted to us.
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Much attention is being given today to the behavioral study of investors. Irrational investment decisions have resulted in below market returns for many investors. This is coupled with neurological research revealing strong psychological impact from investment gains and losses.
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Our friend Frank Chen stopped by the Faith Driven Investor podcast to talk about how he’s helping entrepreneurs change the World at the Silicon Valley Venture powerhouse of Andreessen Horowitz. As Frank describes it they are “helping entrepreneurs build software companies that are eating the world.”
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More than thirty years ago, I began work in the community investment field as a Jewish activist working with people of other faiths, races and national origins. Working now at the Calvert Foundation, I have found an eagerness among other faith-based investors to continue growing the impact investing field which has become much larger and more financially sophisticated than it was a generation ago.
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