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Discover the key issues that our community of faith-based asset owners is focused upon and keep up to date with our weekly faith-consistent investing (FCI) research posts, our quarterly FCI Interest Group and news about faith-based or faith-aligned investing. Join our growing network of subscribers.
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FCI RESEARCH POSTS
Our Investment Solutions team posts weekly on issues around values-driven and faith-consistent investing. Check out the latest posts below or visit our dedicated FCI Research Posts page. And join our subscriber network to get each weekly post delivered to your inbox.
FCI INTEREST
GROUP
We have a lively and active Faith-Consistent Investing (FCI) Interest Group that meets online every quarter to discuss issues facing faith-based asset owners. These are short (45 minute), focused and solutions-oriented meetings that are open to subscribers to our network.
Our next meeting is on:
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Thursday, 6 June 2024: At this Forum we'll review critical lessons learned from Faith-Based Asset Owners (FBAOs) and provide an update to our Faith-Consistent Investing and Smaller Organizations research. We've spent the last 12 months accompanying and listening to many of you on FCI journeys – through our educational course, research, and projects – and we have trends and learnings to share. We'll be joined by two FBAOs to share insights from their recent investment journey. This session is highly relevant for FBAOs – as always – and we also invite investment service providers interested in working more effectively with the faiths to join.
RECENT MEETINGS
FCI Forum: 7 March 2024
We covered developing market climate investing – and a potential path for more involvement from Faiths – with Green Climate Fund, the world's largest climate fund.
FCI Forum: 7 December 2023
We focused on FCI governance with a preview of the launch of a new paper from FaithInvest on the subject that includes commentary from a prominent UK Methodist organisation.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
FaithInvest seeks to increase the visibility and understanding of faith-consistent investing by actively promoting FCI within faith communities and in the wider finance world through research and thought leadership.
Check out our recent publications below and find more on our Resources page.
SHCJ CASE STUDY
The Society of the Holy Child Jesus European Province chose FaithInvest to help guide and accompany them on their journey of greater faith-consistent investing. This Case Study describes the process and results of this effort.
GOOD INTENTIONS
Our April 2022 Good Intentions paper Is the first in-depth, multi-faith analysis to take a deep dive into publicly available faith investment policies and guidelines, and assess how far they align to faith values
FAITH-BASED GOVERNANCE
Written in collaboration with investment consultant NEPC, Faith-based Investment Governance explores the topic of investment governance, with a focus on best practices, ethics and the faiths.
IMPACT INVESTING
Our February 2022 Roadmap discusses three key topics for faith-based investors: understanding alignment versus Impact, private markets for impact investing, and tradeoffs between impact and investment outcomes.
FCI & SMALLER ORGS
This March 2023 paper explores challenges faced by smaller faith organisations where limited resources are stretched in creating customised investment programmes reflecting a faith’s values.
FCI GUIDE
The Faith Values to Investment guide, pubished in September 2021, is aimed at faith organisations seeking to align their values and their investment policies, providing a framework for doing so.
EVENTS & GATHERINGS
We are working to build a broad-based, well-coordinated Faith-Consistent Investing Movement. To that end, we create spaces where the FCI Movement can come together for meaningful conversation and dialogue around relevant topics. Check out our flagship gatherings or find out about more about forthcoming events.
INVESTING IN A
LIVEABLE FUTURE
'A small profit reinvested regularly is something that can give huge amounts of leverage. Quite often a grant is given once... With an investment, every pound could be used 20, 30, 40, 50 times'
– Stewart McCulloch, Stewardship
We had a very lively and engaging conference of faith-based development agencies, business networks and philanthropies in London, UK, in May 2023. Co-hosted with Christian Aid's Salt Business Network, more than 100 delegates discussed whether investments and other non-aid financing mechanisms could help fund development.
'This is possible – we can create
a better future'
– Amy Clarke, Tribe Impact Capital
'Excellent', 'riveting', 'inspiring', 'mind opening' and 'uplifting' – these were some of the words used to describe FaithInvest's two-day Bold Plans and Faith-consistent Investing conference in London, UK, in October 2022. More than 100 people came together to discuss how to catalyse faith-consistent investing and move a greater proportion of faith-owned funds into initiatives focused on creating a better future for people and planet.
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Access to our Faith-Consistent Investing Interest Group: sharing experience, expertise and best practice, meeting quarterly
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Events to motivate, educate, inspire and collaborate with like-minded members of the network and the broader investments ecosystem;
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By donating to FaithInvest, your gift helps us develop the free-to-access tools, programmes and resources needed to support faith groups as across as wide a range of geographies and capacities as possible. We are very grateful for any support you can give us.
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