Church Investors Group (CIG) has launched a faith-consistent investment guide to align portfolios with investors’ values and beliefs.
The guide, titled Working with your investment managers: A guide to support church investors considering faith-consistent approaches, was authored by Chronos Sustainability. It outlines what is involved in manager selection, manager appointment and manager monitoring provides practical guidance to help ensure a Church’s values, beliefs and policies are integrated into the management of their investments, such as making investments towards tangible and positive social and/or environmental outcomes.
Stephen Beer, chair of trustees at CIG, said: “As a coalition of Church investors, we have faith in sustainable investment; but we also want our asset managers to have more room for faith. The role of Christian ethics, as well as risk management, is important for Church investors. Exactly how will depend on their beliefs and investment objectives.
“This new guidance is designed to empower Church and other Christian-based asset owners to think about and describe their ethical or faith-based investment perspectives, and help them with a framework to put those Christian ethical perspectives at the heart of how they assess, select, appoint and monitor managers.
“Church investors should not have to make do with investment solutions which are not designed with Christian faith in mind. Our aim is to help members form long-term relationships with asset managers, built on mutual understanding, that enable both portfolios and humanity to flourish.”
