Advisors are increasingly comfortable with Faith Driven Investing, are interested in recommending it, but have been slow to engage in conversations with investor clients.
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God doesn’t need your money, but He does command your obedience. Droves of Christian investors are discovering biblically responsible investing (BRI) for the first time as the BRI movement continues to gain momentum around the country and around the globe.
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A growing trend in corporate America that is being embraced by some of the largest and most recognizable companies will be the topic of a first-of-its-kind conference in February. From Google to Facebook to Walmart, companies from a range of industries are recognizing that faith-friendly environments mean better workplaces and better businesses.
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My genes make it tough to find jeans. I’ve got short legs, and finding a pair of trousers to fit them can be a challenge. They are either too short, too long, too tight or too baggy, so when I find a pair that actually fits, I end up buying several of them to stock up.
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Financial advisors struggle to keep up with the latest trends, grow their network of clients, and integrate their faith with their work. Balancing clients goals, a competitive return, and Christian principles of investing often feels like a juggling act.
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What’s worth saying yes to? Every foundation and every venture capital firm have to answer this question on a perpetual basis. So do many people this time of the year facing requests for year-end giving show up in the mailbox or the inbox.
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Now, why is it hard to see this ownership today? Why has this question been ... has it been so fundamentally obscured? Well, I think most of us, if we think about it, would agree that investing has long been divorced from this original and most basic purpose of simply supplying capital to support businesses.
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As human beings, our capacity to worry is quite exceptional. In a worldly sense, this predilection towards fear is very understandable as bad things do happen in our lives and in the world around us. In fact, at times our worry has likely kept us from danger or harm.
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“Every business has a field, every business has a harvest, every business has some form of work. Every business exists in a greater society. Every greater society on the face of the earth has people on the margins. Gleaning… is part of the natural operation of the business.
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One of our favorite books that we read in the last year was Greg McKeown’s Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Essentialism is defined as “the relentless pursuit of less, but better.” How many of our individual and corporate lives are overloaded?
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Today, we have not one special guest but two for you to hear from. We are talking with Will Thomas and Dean Macfarlan down in the heart of Texas. They’re both accomplished investors on their own, but what makes the story even more compelling is that they’re a part of a new movement of City Networks where like-minded Faith Driven Investors are uniting to do more together than they might be able to do apart.
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At FDI, we are always looking for innovative and inspiring ways to approach finance and capital. In this story below, we get both from a different faith group. In the article, you’ll read about neighbors investing in their neighbors’ houses, avoiding interest, sharing the profits.
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The first thing Jesus says about investing is something which He doesn't explicitly say, but implies: that is, that investment is permitted, and even good. This is implied by the fact that Jesus tells parables in which the investor is 'the good guy'.
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When you have a master’s degree in economics, you get excited when you find economic concepts in unexpected places. Not everyone shares your enthusiasm.
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Scott Weiss, chairman and CEO of OCEAN Accelerator, explains the five capitals that God has endowed everyone with, and how to apply them. This interview is part of a series exploring how faith shapes the way companies treat their employees.
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Edify's mission is to improve and to expand sustainable, affordable Christ-centered education in the developing world. They partner with entrepreneurs who need access to training, capital, and technology to grow their schools.
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“There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
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Today we are talking to Robert Netzly, President & CEO of Inspire Investing. If you’ve been following the Faith Driven Investor website, that name should sound familiar to you as we’ve featured a lot of their content on our blog.
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There are so many needs in the world and so many requests that tug at my heart. On the surface, they all seem to be the “right” thing to do. But they can also be overwhelming, bringing on what feels like a lose–lose scenario: If I give, I feel pressured and off purpose, but if I don’t give, I feel badly.
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