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### [Stakeholders, Shareholders and Faith: Why the Distinction Decides Everything](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/stakeholders-shareholders-and-faith-why-the-distinction-decides-everything)

Milton Friedman said a company answers only to its shareholders. R. Edward Freeman said that question cannot be separated from ethics at all....

 Investing Your Values  Oct 13, 2026

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

### [Faith and Finance: How Different Traditions Approach Values-Based Investing](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/faith-and-finance-how-different-traditions-approach-values-based-investing)

Catholic, Protestant, Islamic and Jewish investing traditions share more than they differ. Each asks the same question in its own language: what does...

 Investing Your Values  Oct 13, 2026

<https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/can-ai-pick-faithful-investments-the-promise-and-the-missing-piece>

Faith-Based Investing (FBI)

### [Can AI Pick Faithful Investments? The Promise and the Missing Piece](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/can-ai-pick-faithful-investments-the-promise-and-the-missing-piece)

Machine learning can optimize a values-based portfolio in ways human analysts cannot match. What it cannot do is understand why those values matter...

 Investing Your Values  Oct 13, 2026

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### [Nine in Ten: Why Faith-Based Investing Is Growing Faster Than Anyone Tracks](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/nine-in-ten-why-faith-based-investing-is-growing-faster-than-anyone-tracks)

88 percent of Christians say they want to invest in funds that do good. Only 23 percent believe they currently do. That gap is the story of...

 Investing Your Values  Oct 13, 2026

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### [How to Screen Your Investments: Positive and Negative Screening in Faith-Based Investing](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/how-to-screen-your-investments-positive-and-negative-screening-in-faith-based-investing)

Knowing what you believe is the first step. Knowing how to apply those beliefs to a portfolio is the next one. Positive and negative screening are...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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### [Investing Without Guilt: A Guide to Faith-Based Investing](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/investing-without-guilt-a-guide-to-faith-based-investing)

Seven out of ten Americans say personal values guide their investment choices. For faith-based investors, that alignment is not a preference. It is a...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Environmental Social Governance (ESG)

### [Yo Corporate Social Irresponsibility: When Doing Wrong Is Still Good for the Stock Price ur Blog Post Title Here...](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/yo-corporate-social-irresponsibility-when-doing-wrong-is-still-good-for-the-stock-price-ur-blog-post-title-here)

BP, Boeing, McDonalds and British American Tobacco tell very different stories about Corporate Social Irresponsibility. One asks whether reputations...

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### [The Public Has Spoken: Why CSR Is Good for Business and What the Business Roundtable Finally Admitted](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-public-has-spoken-why-csr-is-good-for-business-and-what-the-business-roundtable-finally-admitted)

Milton Friedman said a corporation's only duty is to its shareholders. The Business Roundtable, the public, and fifty years of data say otherwise....

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### [Does CSR Pay? What CEO Compensation Reveals About Corporate Conscience](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/does-csr-pay-what-ceo-compensation-reveals-about-corporate-conscience)

Corporate Social Responsibility is widely praised as a moral and strategic imperative. But when a CEO's own money is on the line, does that...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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### [The Value-Added Tax: How the World Funds Itself](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-value-added-tax-how-the-world-funds-itself)

The value-added tax is largely unfamiliar to Americans, yet it funds governments across more than 120 countries and raises roughly a quarter of the...

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<https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/do-ceos-care-about-sustainability-as-much-as-consumers-do>

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### [Do CEOs Care About Sustainability as Much as Consumers Do?](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/do-ceos-care-about-sustainability-as-much-as-consumers-do)

Consumers increasingly demand sustainability, driven by extreme weather and rising climate awareness. CEOs are responding, but unevenly. More than...

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### [The Quiet Economics of a Home Vegetable Garden](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-quiet-economics-of-a-home-vegetable-garden)

Your backyard garden is a refuge from the pressures of the business world, free of corporate jargon and quarterly reports. It is also, quietly, good...

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