BOSTON — Eventide Asset Management announces the official launch of its Good Investor Screening Tool, a free resource that helps investors uncover ethical issues they may be profiting from through their investments.
Now available at GoodInvestor.com, the tool reveals the composition of mutual funds, ETFs, and publicly traded investments. Investors can search by security name or ticker symbol to see if particular investments may be generating returns from the five most common issues screened by faith-based investors: Abortion, Alcohol, Gambling, Pornography, and Tobacco.
The tool also offers research reports on each of these five ethical issues, with evidence on how these industries profit from exploitation, addiction, or suffering—enabling users to connect the investment screens to real-life human and societal harm.
Since its founding in 2008, Eventide has sought to invest in ethical companies with good products and good practices. Central to this mission is the firm’s moral discernment framework, Business 360®. Using a proprietary software platform, the dedicated Business 360® team organizes over 170 million data points, combining human discernment with data to ensure investors own companies they can be proud of.
The tool is intended to be educational and is informed by principles from Eventide’s full Business 360® process. “Eventide is giving users a window into over 17 years of thought leadership and experience discerning the moral integrity of the products and practices of publicly-traded companies,” said Robin John, CEO of Eventide Asset Management and author of The Good Investor. “I believe it combines both depth and accessibility for Christians seeking to honor God with their investments.”
John encourages users to view the tool as only the first step in pursuing God-honoring investments. “We believe a fundamental purpose of investing is to supply capital to companies that bring true value to the world,” says John. “Our hope is that faith-based investors can coalesce around these five screens as a minimum standard for their portfolios while pursuing deeper integrity in their investments. We think this tool is a wonderful starting point.”
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