Does your Investing Represent your Christian Beliefs?

Like most conscientious Christians, you want to do the right thing in your relationships, in your business and in your investments. And like most Americans who own mutual funds and participate in a multitude of financial instruments, you are not really sure how and where your money is invested. You don't know for certain if your money is supporting companies that are involved in all sorts of morally questionable businesses, from abortion, to the promotion of non-marital lifestyles. Then one day you learn that one of the big performers in your investment portfolio is heavily into, say, pornography or the manufacturing of contraception. Your response? Disbelief. Anger. You ask, "Could it possibly be true? Why am I investing in that company?"

These are a few of the comments that I hear from investors when their emotional alarm sounds a response, as they learn about Morally Responsible Investing.

Look around you; moral decay in our society is everywhere. Abortion, Pornography, Anti- Family Entertainment; and the promotion of Non-Marital Lifestyles have all evolved into booming industries. Money is needed by virtually every organization, to pay its employees, its bills, to grow, to exist. "Could my money really be supporting these moral cancers?" Yes, it could and most likely does. If you have money invested in a mutual fund that owns stock in these companies, you are a part owner. The shocking fact is that, unknowingly, investors are profiting from and/or supporting these moral and cultural polluters, through their mutual-fund investments.

So what is Morally Responsible Investing? Morally Responsible Values-Based Investing allows the concerned investor to set up moral guidelines, which are used by the investor or advisor to evaluate, choose and monitor investments that are consistent with their belief system, as well as their financial objectives.

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