In The News
13th Feb 2015
Shareholder Group Fights Fossil-Fuel Divestment
An organization of faith-based and socially responsible investors is pushing back against the call for divestment from fossil fuel companies. At its Winter Conference Wednesday, the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which claims 300...
11th Feb 2015
Journal Devotes Issue to Faith-Based Investors
An issue of Green Money Journal, guest edited by Mark Regier of Everence, explores the history and aspirations of faith-based sustainable investing. First of a two-part series.SocialFunds.com -- Last night, I finished reading Jesus: A Life, a book-...
27th Jan 2015
Burning Questions
Even before the energy boom became a victim of its own success as crude oil prices collapsed in November, it was facing severe headwinds from the fossil fuel divestment movement, which gained serious momentum in 2014. Initiated in 2011, when...
23rd Jan 2015
United Methodist Pension Fund Revises Investment Guidelines
Fund to Avoid Coal Energy and Companies Operating in Countries Thought to Violate Human RightsThe United Methodist Church is implementing new guidelines for its $21 billion pension fund meant to steer it away from investing in coal energy...
23rd Jan 2015
Wendy's to remove soda listing from kids' meal menus
Wendy's is stopping its hard sell on soft drinks — for kids, at least.The fast-food chain is dropping the soda option on its kids' meal menus, the Center for Science in Public Interest announced Thursday."While parents bear most of the...