Faith communites essential to dealing with the climate crisis – Prof Johan Rockström
What a wonderful Faith, Science and Philanthropy webinar we had yesterday, with some outstanding speakers and very thought-provoking,...
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FaithInvest CEO Dr Lorna Gold featured in The Tablet
A feature about FaithInvest CEO Dr Lorna Gold and the Pope's participation at COP28 has appeared in the international news weekly The...
Webinar Tues 28: Faith, science & philanthropy unite for COP28
FaithInvest and the Laudato Si' Movement are holding a unique, high-level event bringing together leaders in the areas of science, faith...
FaithInvest Chair of Trustees Dave 'Z' honored in CIO magazine
Chief Investment Officer (CIO) magazine has named Dave Zellner to their 2023 Power 100 list. Dave serves as the Chair of Trustees for...
'A sacred duty to cherish our human family and the fragile ecosystem that cradles us'
More than 200 faith leaders, scientists, young people, business leaders and politicians came together in Abu Dhabi this month to adopt a...
'We are on the cusp of a great change' – the message from our London event
Press release: We are on the cusp of a great change – and faith groups can lead the way. That was the message from an extraordinary event...
Amazing day at our Rome Roundtable yesterday
What an amazing day we had at our roundtable in Rome yesterday, discussing how to ensure our investment decisions are rooted in the...
Pope Francis to attend COP28 for the first time. FaithInvest will be there too
In a sign of how seriously he views the climate crisis, Pope Francis will attend the COP28 climate conference later this year – the first...
Daoists launch a major commitment to ethical investing
Press release: In a significant commitment to ethical investing, the China Daoist Association is supporting the establishment of the...
Nov 6 roundtable: FCI and the needs of frontline communities
We're very excited about our roundtable on Monday November 6, to be held in Rome in collaboration with a number of leading Catholic...
Conference on Tues Nov 7 on church investment in climate solutions
We've got a great event coming up in London aimed at church investors and looking at why climate solutions are needed and how to invest...
Lorna Gold on the moral imperative for action – and two FaithInvest events to help churches take it
Pope Francis has a reputation for not mincing his words. He likes to say things very plainly. His latest letter on the state of the...
FCI, impact investing and 'a world on fire': Mathew Jensen on the Amaly podcast
FaithInvest's Mathew Jensen took part in a fascinating discussion on the latest podcast in the Amaly Legacy Podcast series on the...
Dr Lorna Gold's op-ed in The Tablet
An article by FaithInvest CEO Dr Lorna Gold has appeared in the international news weekly The Tablet on Pope Francis's call for urgent...
Pope Francis issues a plea for urgent action on climate change
Pope Francis has today published a heartfelt plea for urgent action to save our planet from imminent destruction through human-caused...
Good intentions remain just that...intentions
FaithInvest has just released an expanded and revised edition of its Good Intentions study, subtitled: What faith groups say about how...
Planet 'well outside the safe operating space for humanity' – scientists
Earlier this week, FaithInvest CEO Dr Lorna Gold wrote a passionately argued case for a radical re-evaluation of the values underpinning...
'There is no money on a dead planet': Faith & investment at a critical crossroads
Press release: In her first days as FaithInvest's new CEO, Dr Lorna Gold has issued an urgent call for a radical reassessment of the...
Dr Lorna Gold: It's time to re-join the dots: Faith & investment at a critical crossroads
In her first week as FaithInvest CEO, Dr Lorna Gold issues a passionate call for a radical reassessment of the values underpinning all...
'Changes will only happen if we come together' – our new CEO Lorna Gold in the Church Times
Fantastic article in The Church Times on Dr Lorna Gold who takes over as FaithInvest CEO today. In the article Lorna talks about what...
Church of Scotland sets up ethical investment committee, collaborates with FaithInvest
FaithInvest has been working with the Church of Scotland to support the establishment of an ethical investment committee between the...
Pope Francis writing a 2nd Laudato Si' due to 'terrible world war' on nature
When Pope Francis wrote his 2015 encyclical letter, Laudato Si' (On care for our common home), addressed to 'every person living on this...
Why investing is a 'natural home' for a vicar
We were delighted to see this interview with Rev Dr Andrew Harper in the financial digital news platform, Portfolio Advisor, in which he...
Case study: How two Buddhist monasteries' investments became more faith-aligned
FaithInvest has been working with trustees of the English Sangha Trust, a small Buddhist nonprofit serving two monasteries in England, to...
Guest Commentary: A response to our post 'How much does Artificial Intelligence know about FCI'
By Michael Lustig FaithInvest’s exploration of how ChatGPT can be applied towards drafting faith-consistent investing guidelines is...
FaithInvest article in The Fletcher Forum
We are delighted to share an article written by FaithInvest CEO Martin Palmer which has been published by the Fletcher Forum of World...
Church of England divests from fossil fuels
The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board will disinvest from fossil fuels this year over the failure of oil and...
FaithInvest's latest annual report
We're pleased to announce the publication of our Annual Report for 2022. You can find the full report here. The report provides both a...
An exciting transition at FaithInvest
We are delighted to announce that Dr Lorna Gold will be our new Chief Executive Officer from September 2023. She takes over from Martin...
A postcard from Mariapolis 2023
Last weekend, Catherine Devitt of FaithInvest had the pleasure of joining Faith Plans partner, the Focolare Movement, at their...
Very lively and engaging Investing in a Liveable Future conference
We had a great 'Investing in a Liveable Future' conference looking at whether investments and other forms of non-aid financing mechanisms...
New webinar on aligning values and finances in Laudato Si Week
FaithInvest and the Laudato Si Movement – the world's biggest global Catholic environmental network – will hold an online webinar on...
Investing in a Liveable Future: how business and NGOs can work together
FaithInvest and Christian Aid are co-hosting a conference in London on May 15, which focuses on the hugely important issue of how to fund...
FaithInvest and Martin Palmer featured in leading Hong Kong publication
We are delighted to share this article by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, one of Asia's leading publications, after...
Recently aired on Al Jazeera English – faiths & the ecological crisis
We were pleased to be a part of the recent episode in Al Jazeera English's earthrise series, which aired recently. The episode looks at...
The 'resurrected' economy: a reflection rooted in faith
FaithInvest's Director of Movement Building Dr Lorna Gold took part in the first Sister-led Dialogue on the Environment Dialogue in Rome...
FaithInvest visits Hong Kong to meet faith leaders and philanthropists
FaithInvest CEO Martin Palmer has returned from a packed and inspiring week in Hong Kong, where he met faith leaders, discussed plans for...
Insights from the road: three conferences
FaithInvest's Director of Investment Solutions, Mathew Jensen, was recently on the road participating in events hosted by our friends at...
New resources on aligning finances and values for faith communities
FaithInvest and the Laudato Si' Movement, a global network of Catholics working for climate and ecological justice, have joined forces to...
FaithInvest heads to Hong Kong for an exciting week of talks and meetings
The FaithInvest team heads to Hong Kong today for a packed and exciting week of discussions with key faith partners. FaithInvest CEO...
- 4 days ago
Private equity for positive change AND competitive returns
A new paper from researchers at MIT and EBS Business school 'ESG Footprints in Private Equity Portfolios…' looks at the relatively...
- Nov 14
Singing from the same hymnbook: consistent ESG terminology
We regularly hear, and express, concerns over the varying definitions of values investing terms, like screening, stewardship, or ESG...
- Nov 1
The 10 Myths of ESG
A rather direct essay by London Business School professor Alex Edmans - 'the 10 Myths of ESG' - appears in the latest Financial Analyst...
- Aug 17
Is sustainable investing counterproductive?
Seems a steady drip of academic research is out on the ‘real world’ impacts of ESG / sustainable investing, now with improving data sets....
- Aug 2
Has increasing criticism of sustainable investing impacted sustainable funds?
Those of you in the US are no doubt aware of the rising “anti-ESG” chorus of critics (many renaming it “woke investing” – with this...
- Jul 27
Using ESG criteria for faith-consistent investing: clarity is the key!
Working recently with a faith-based asset owner (FBAO) on their investment policy and guidelines (IP&G) – we learned that they had...
- Jul 12
Is ESG your organisation's faith values?
Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors (KoCAA) is out with a paper connecting Catholic beliefs, teachings and values to Mensuram Bonam (MB)...
- Jan 25
What does your Board / Investment Committee know and what training might they need?
In our work with several of you, and hearing from others, identifying board / committee members and proper investment / values-investing...
- Jan 18
Amid a year-end flood of research, among several, research from the MIT Sloan School stood out.
“The Economic Impact of ESG Ratings” (attached below) – examines the impact of ESG ratings on stock returns, and investor (mutual fund)...
- Dec 12, 2022
Assessing the Carbon Footprint of the World's Largest Asset Managers, Europe leading the pack?
Research published recently by MSCI shows that the largest European asset managers are slightly less carbon-intensive (the emission rate...
- Dec 6, 2022
ESG Bonds – is not something we typically cover and are usually overshadowed by ESG equity investing
From our Good Intentions study, just under 50% of faith-based asset owner investment policies addressed bonds (relative to over 75% for...
- Nov 16, 2022
Where exactly did the term ESG come from?
For those fascinated with origins, a new research paper from the University of Pennsylvania Law School has the answer, and digs further...
- Nov 8, 2022
Your PE fund may not be good at ESG,...
...and is probably not Impact --- Earlier this year, we wrote on the new initiative to collect data and report on the ESG characteristics...
- Oct 20, 2022
In our research on faith-based asset owner investment policies,...
...we noted that over three-quarters of asset owners apply some type of values screen to their equity holdings, but just under half do...
- Feb 5, 2021
BlackRock, ESG and the evolution of ethical investing
ANALYSIS: Mike Even, FaithInvest's Director of Strategy and Investment Research, looks at how the landscape is changing for values-driven...
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