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FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

A NETWORK FOR THE FAITHS AND A BRIDGE TO

FAITH-CONSISTENT INVESTING

FaithInvest helps religious groups to invest in line with their values. We support the rapidly growing movement of faiths and faith-based asset owners actively using their investments to create a better world – for people and planet.

FaithInvest is an international, not-for-profit network serving religious groups and faith-based institutional investors. We support faith organisations seeking to invest in line with their values to achieve environmental and social impact.

The world's faiths have billions of dollars invested in global markets, across all asset classes. We empower religious asset owners to align their investments with their faith values, for the benefit of people and planet.

We do this by:

Convening a vibrant NETWORK for faith-based investors
Providing insightful TRAINING, education, exchange and collaboration
Offering tailored, one-on-one ACCOMPANIMENT on the faith-consistent investing journey.

Promotes faith-consistent, values-driven investing and investment transparency
Empowers faiths to align their investments with their values
Builds skills and capacity
Serves as a bridge to faith-aligned and values-driven investing

What we don't do:

We don’t get involved in decisions about how or where a faith group invests its money
We don't provide investment advice or make investment decisions for faith-based asset owners
We are not here to compete with, or take the place of, your existing investment advisors.

Instead, we seek to EMPOWER you to ensure your investment policies are fully ALIGNED with your faith values so that you can be certain that your money is working the way you want it to work in the world.

OUR MISSION
AND VISION

We exist to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent investing (FCI) worldwide for the benefit of people and planet. We believe faith groups should be a powerhouse for ethical investing. Our vision is of a world in which faith groups invest positively in line with their values, motivated by their passionate conviction that doing so will achieve a just and sustainable world.

WHAT WE
OFFER

We provide a range of free-to-access services such as complimentary assessments of faith-based organisations' investment policies, a network of like-minded investors, and resources and guides on FCI. We also offer fee-based services such as training courses, one-on-one consultative support and more.

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FAITH-CONSISTENT
INVESTING (FCI)

Faith-consistent investing (FCI) is about ensuring your investments reflect your faith values. It is about avoiding harm by not investing in areas where you have concerns, and it is also about seeking to achieve positive impact by investing in a way that reflects your organisation's beliefs, values and principles. Find out more about faith-consistent investing.

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Our question to faith groups is: 'You're doing great things with what you get from the returns on your investments. But where you are putting your funds? The inexorable logic is that your values should affect everything you do – including where you invest your money in the first place.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

Josh Zinner
CEO, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; at our Bold Plans conference

It's been a great conference. What's struck me most is the motivation and the consistency of values across the room. The table conversations have been great.

John Stevens
Trustee,
English Sangha Trust

We had to go on a journey, and FaithInvest's role in the journey was a really critical part, giving us perspective at all steps along the way.

Valerie Brown
Chair, Special Committee on the Ethics of Investment Practice, Church of Scotland

When we met with FaithInvest, we had a lightbulb moment. They were proposing a structure other churches had used... I thought we might have just cracked a way to work through this.

NEWS & ACTIVITIES

Catch up on our latest news

COP30 delivers disappointment but some wins & a sense of momentum

The UN's climate conference, COP30, ended this weekend in Belém, Brazil, with mixed and for many delegations, including faith-based representatives, disappointing results. Protesters at COP30, by Kiara Worth, UN Climate Conference It delivered a major win for climate resilience, including a breakthough on adaptation finance (although the dea dline has been pushed back to 2035). But it failed to explicitly agree on the roadmaps to transition away from fossil fuels, thanks to

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Our 2024 Annual Report: A busy year of change and consolidation

2024 was a year of change and consolidation for FaithInvest, as we outline in our newly published Annual Report. We navigated leadership transitions, sharpened our focus on what faith communities most practically need, and kept building the bridge between faith beliefs and investment decisions. Executive Chair Dave Zellner 'That image of a bridge has long guided our work because it is what we seek to be: a trusted span between values and action, between faith communities and

Oct 28

How the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020

The world’s population expanded from 2010 to 2020, and so did most religious groups, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of more than 2,700 censuses and surveys. But while some religious groups grew, others did not keep pace with global population growth, and the total global percentage of people affliiated with a faith or belief dropped from 84% to 75.8% , according to the report, How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2010 . Since 2010, the share o

Oct 16

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FCI RESEARCH POSTS

Analysis and comment

Morgan Stanley guide to investing with Christian Values

A Morgan Stanley report published earlier this year, Investing and Giving in Alignment with Christian Values: Blessed to be a Blessing , provides Christian investors with a helpful guide for taking 'a holistic approach to embracing their faith'. The guide focuses on the management of investments as an extension of faith and also includes thoughts on philanthropy. We're pleased to see major investment firms such as Morgan Stanley providing such support for faith-based invest

Steven Owen

7 days ago

The Impact Investing Institute's impact guide for wealth managers

The UK-based Impact Investing Institute recently published a guide for wealth managers seeking to support values-oriented clients with impact investments. This guide, written for wealth managers growing their impact business, will be of interest to values investors - and by extension, faith-based asset owners - as it provides insights to the state of impact investing in the UK and by extension, the growing potential for opportunities to express faith-based values in portfoli

Steven Owen

Nov 11

Reviewing your investment policy: A living document of faith in action

At this year’s Association of Provincial Bursars Annual Conference , FaithInvest asked attendees to raise their hands if they had reviewed their investment policy in the past twelve months. Around two-thirds of hands went up. It was a heartening sign. But it also prompted a deeper question: what does it actually mean to 'review' your investment policy? For faith-based organisations, reviewing an investment policy is not only a governance obligation. It can provide a moment o

Catherine Devitt

Nov 4

The need for better impact measurement

The World Economic Forum (WEF) turned its attention to impact measurement last week in an article entitled, Impact investment's open secret is spotty data. Better measurement can change that . The article reports that impact investing has now surpassed $1.1 trillion in assets under management, and goes on to describe it as being 'distinct from ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, philanthropy or corporate social responsibility (CSR)', which is certainly true

Steven Owen

Oct 28

ICCR guide to engaging asset managers on 'systemic stewardship'

The ICCR, in collaboration with The Shareholder Commons, has published a compelling new guide for the trustees and staff of diversified asset owners: Engaging Asset Managers to Responsibly Steward Fund Assets and the Systems that Support Them . The objective of the guide is provide asset owners - including faith-based asset owners - with a toolkit to understanding and practicing system stewardship. The guide defines system stewardship as 'the work that investors do to protect

Steven Owen

Oct 21

From policy to partnership: Insights from the APB conference

FaithInvest had the privilege of joining the Association of Provincial Bursars (APB) conference earlier this month – a gathering that brings together religious treasurers and finance leads from across the UK, writes Catherine Devitt . This was our second year attending the conference. In 2024, we took part in the Conference Marketplace, where we engaged with attendees about our Faithful Finance training course for faith-based investors. This year, we had the pleasure of host

Catherine Devitt

Oct 14

New faith-based funds, apps and screening tools

Many new faith-based funds, apps and screening tools have been launched this year, providing faith-based asset owners with a growing...

Steven Owen

Oct 8

From Faith Values to Investment: An expanded FaithInvest report

FaithInvest has just completed an updated and significantly expanded version of our 2021 report: From Faith Values to Investment: A guide to faith-consistent investment policy and guidelines for institutional faith-based asset owners. The revised version is organised around: the fundamentals of faith-consistent investing; establishing and managing comprehensive FCI programmes; and action items for advancing FCI within faith organisations. It contains four case studies from a

FaithInvest

Oct 1

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FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

A NETWORK FOR THE FAITHS AND A BRIDGE TO

FAITH-CONSISTENT INVESTING

OUR MISSION AND VISION

WHAT WE OFFER

FAITH-CONSISTENT INVESTING (FCI)

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

It's been a great conference. What's struck me most is the motivation and the consistency of values across the room. The table conversations have been great.

We had to go on a journey, and FaithInvest's role in the journey was a really critical part, giving us perspective at all steps along the way.

When we met with FaithInvest, we had a lightbulb moment. They were proposing a structure other churches had used... I thought we might have just cracked a way to work through this.

NEWS & ACTIVITIES

COP30 delivers disappointment but some wins & a sense of momentum

Our 2024 Annual Report: A busy year of change and consolidation

How the global religious landscape changed from 2010 to 2020

FCI RESEARCH POSTS

Morgan Stanley guide to investing with Christian Values

The Impact Investing Institute's impact guide for wealth managers

Reviewing your investment policy: A living document of faith in action

The need for better impact measurement

ICCR guide to engaging asset managers on 'systemic stewardship'

From policy to partnership: Insights from the APB conference

New faith-based funds, apps and screening tools

From Faith Values to Investment: An expanded FaithInvest report

CONTACT US

OUR MISSION
AND VISION

WHAT WE
OFFER

FAITH-CONSISTENT
INVESTING (FCI)