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Foundations for Faith-Based Investing

Bountiful builds frameworks that organize data, indices, and investments according to faith principles.

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YOUR VALUES

What is Faith-Based Investing?

It’s about aligning a person’s investments with their deeply held beliefs and values, using investment capital to support companies that improve society, and avoiding those companies that damage it. Learn more about faith-based investing by watching this podcast featuring Bountiful CEO Reid Steadman.

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YOUR BELIEFS

Translating Doctrine Into Investable Data

We use investment-grade governance to transform religious teachings and adherents’ lived experiences into investment frameworks, datasets, and indices that asset managers, registered investment advisors, and direct indexing platform providers can license and customize. Frameworks describe the doctrinal standards and principles governing investment categories. Datasets quantify product involvement, controversies, and a company’s positive or negative impact. Indices set thresholds that govern a company’s inclusion or exclusion from the index, directly informed by the datasets.

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YOUR IMPACT

Invest in Righteousness

Our frameworks empower you to align your capital with your values, contributing to positive change and supporting companies that do good in the world. Join the movement of faith-driven investing, where more than $14 trillion in assets influence for positive change according to principles from major faith traditions—Catholics, Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews.

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Investment Frameworks

“Through robust governance, we translate religious principles into actionable investment frameworks by directly engaging with faith communities. Our first three frameworks are based on the teachings of Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Bountiful Financial is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Catholic Church, any Evangelical church, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nor does it speak for or represent the official views of any of these faith communities.”

Evangelical Christian

Promoting Virtuous Corporate Values

Philippians 4:8

“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

Principles:

Honor the Supremacy of God’s Word
Fair Treatment of Employees, Customers, and Partners
Defense of Religious Freedom In the Workplace

Creating a Culture of Life

Genesis 1:27 & 31

“God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”

Principles:

Respect For the Sanctity of Every Stage of Life
Defense of Virtue and Morality
Promotion of Quality of Life

Helping Families Flourish

Ephesians 5:25

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

Principles:

Support For Family Through Products and Services
Promotion of Media Alignment With Biblical Teachings

Extending Grace To Those in Need

Matthew 25:40

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Principles:

Extension of God’s Love Through Service
Support For Community Involvement
Fair Wages and Labor Practices

Stewardship Over the Earth and Its Resources

Psalm 24:1

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

Principles:

Respect For the Earth As God’s Creation
Commitment to Stewardship of the Earth’s Resources
Consistency of Standards Across Supply Chain

Roman Catholic

Protecting Human Life

We believe that the fundamental human right is the right to life itself.

Principles:

Abortion & Euthanasia
In Vitro Fertilization
Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Human Cloning
Access to Drugs & Vaccines

Promoting Human Dignity

We believe that society has the moral responsibility to enhance human dignity.

Principles:

Human Rights
Discrimination
Sexual Exploitation
Trafficking & Forced Labor
Marriage & Family
Contraceptives

Enhancing the Common Good

We are under an obligation to God to ‘love our neighbor’ and sustain a social commitment to the common good.

Principles:

Reducing Arms Production
Harmful Habitual Behaviors
Media & Telecommunications

Pursuing Economic Justice

Wherever our economic arrangements fail to conform to the demands of human dignity, they should be questioned and transformed.

Principles:

Social, Environmental, and Financial Responsibility
Labor Standards
Affordable Housing/Banking
Impact Investing

Saving Our Global Common Home

Our duty to be wise stewards of the environment is linked to our duty to protect the human person.

Principles:

Climate Change
Biodiversity
Water & Natural Resources
Technology
Environmental Impact

Latter-day Saints

Respecting the Worth of Souls

We are commanded to “remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.” We believe that all human beings “have a divine nature and destiny” and that “all are alike unto God.”

Principles:

Protection of Life At All Stages
Enhancing Quality of Life
Equality & Respect For All
Creating Opportunity

Strengthening Families

We are taught that “marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan” in this life and eternity. “Children are an heritage of the Lord,” and parents are accountable before God for the discharge of their obligations towards them. Family relationships should be based on “complete fidelity.”

It is, therefore, incumbent upon us to “promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.”

Principles:

Traditional Family Relationships
Rights & Well-Being of Children
Sexual Integrity
Respect For Modesty & Healthy Body Image

Living Abundantly

Jesus Christ summarized his mission by saying: “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” The prophet Lehi taught: “Men are, that they might have joy.” The human body is a gift of God. Jesus Christ taught: “the spirit and the body are the soul of man,” thereby emphasizing the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. An abundant life includes seeking out and creating beauty: “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things”.

Principles:

Emotional & Physical Wellbeing
Access to Quality Education
Elimination of Poverty
Community Service & Charity

Caring For God’s Creations

God created the Earth for the “benefit and use of man, both to please the eye and gladden the heart; … to strengthen the body and enliven the soul.” He clarified that the earth and its resources were to be used “with thanksgiving” and “with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion.” Adam was commanded to “replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over… every living thing that moveth upon the earth.“

Principles:

Reducing Pollution & Waste In All Forms
Restorative Technologies
Sustainable Development
Responsible Consumption

Upholding Agency & Accountability

God intended for each of his children to be free. We are “permitted to act for [ourselves].” Those who seek to “destroy the agency” of God’s children through oppression, exploitation, or otherwise are acting in direct opposition to God’s intent.

With agency comes accountability: “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.“

Principles:

Strong Institutions
Ethical Practices
Transparent Governance
Strong Reporting Practices
Upholding Religious Freedom
Supporting Democratic Institutions

Promoting Peace

Jesus Christ is the “Prince of Peace”. At his birth, the angels declared that “his gospel [is] a message of peace and goodwill.” During his earthly ministry, Christ taught: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” He taught that “the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention and stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.“

Principles:

Conflict Resolution & Alleviation of Contention
Avoidance of Violence
Defense of Peace & Democracy

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Bountiful Financial brings religious freedom to investing.

News & Announcements

Bountiful Financial Debuts Landmark Research on Catholic Indices at Conference Held in Rome

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Foundations for Faith-Based Investing

YOUR VALUES

What is Faith-Based Investing?

YOUR BELIEFS

Translating Doctrine Into Investable Data

YOUR IMPACT

Invest in Righteousness

Investment Frameworks

Evangelical Christian

Promoting Virtuous Corporate Values

Creating a Culture of Life

Helping Families Flourish

Extending Grace To Those in Need

Stewardship Over the Earth and Its Resources

Roman Catholic

Protecting Human Life

Promoting Human Dignity

Enhancing the Common Good

Pursuing Economic Justice

Saving Our Global Common Home

Latter-day Saints

Respecting the Worth of Souls

Strengthening Families

Living Abundantly

Caring For God’s Creations

Upholding Agency & Accountability

Promoting Peace

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