Inspire Investing Blog

After 49 members of Congress and several activist organizations sent letters asking Fortune 1000 companies to “defend” DEI values, Inspire Investing worked with Alliance Defending Freedom to organize a response.

Inspire Investing, the world’s largest faith-based ETF provider (as of 9/30/24), is excited to announce it has reached the significant milestone of $3 billion in assets under management (AUM).

Fourteen state treasurers and financial officers from across the nation have joined us in the campaign to urge Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson to stay out of the abortion drug business.

According to a recent report by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Inspire Investing’s score earned them an “A” grade compared to the “C” average among funds in the study.

For the fifth year in a row, Inspire Impact Group, the parent company of Inspire Investing, has made the Inc. 5000 list – the most prestigious ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

This is the eighth year in a row that Financial Advisor Magazine has named Inspire as one of America’s top RIAs.

Here are seven critical ways the Inspire Impact Score differs from ESG and why investors should consider Biblically Responsible Investing.

In recent times, investors worldwide have witnessed the gradual shift in stock market dynamics, particularly in the context of the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks.

The 2024 shareholder engagement season has already yielded significant victories for Christian investors – God is on the move!

The Christian investor community cannot shy away from engaging culture on such a vital topic. We must let our light shine. We must keep our salt salty.

Inspire Investing was recently awarded 2nd place statewide for small employers in Idaho and 1st place in Southwest Idaho, also for small employers, by the “Best Places to Work in Idaho" organization.

Inspire Investing was ranked by USA Today and Statista as a top Registered Investment Advisor for 2024 based on asset growth and recommendations by financial advisors, clients, and industry experts.

Inspire Investing, the world's largest provider of faith-based ETFs, is named to the Financial Times "Americas' Fastest-Growing Companies 2024" list.

Each year, the Inspire Investment Management Team analyzes historical return, risk, and correlation statistics for different asset classes and then formulate assumptions based on current market conditions.

The pressure for businesses to cave into the demands for not just tolerance, nor even acceptance, but promotion and celebration of LGBT sexuality seems to build with each passing year.

Bowyer Research analyzes corporate performance data and concludes that corporate politicking on divisive social issues raises legitimate financial concerns.

Inspire and coalition partners work with ISS to provide new proxy voting options. Now we need your help again!

The lawsuit seeks to hold Target accountable for misleading representations about its ESG and DEI mandates that caused investors to lose billions of dollars.

Inspire makes progress on freedom of speech and religion and holds Target and other companies accountable for promoting divisive, political agendas at shareholder expense.

It is tempting to ignore what lies beneath the ticker symbols on our brokerage statements. But we cannot take the shot that numbs us to the real pain and suffering on the other end of our investment activities.

This marks the 7th year in a row that biblically responsible investing firm, Inspire Investing, has ranked as a top RIA by FA Magazine.

Inspire Impact Group, parent company of Inspire Investing, has made the Inc. 5000 list for the fourth consecutive year.

Biblically responsible investing firm, Inspire Investing, ranked in the top 500 Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) based on growth of assets under management and client recommendations.

Kingdom Focused Financial joins Inspire Advisors to be able to run their firm according to biblical principles.

Biblically responsible investing firm, Inspire Investing, receives a perfect score from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity for putting client interests first when voting on extreme shareholder proposals.

Inspire and Barnabas Capital partner to launch Inspire Faith Notes, the world’s first biblically responsible structured notes.

Greatness is always measured as a relative term. That God is great means that He is exalted above other things. That God is supremely great means that He is exalted above every other thing.

Too often, leaders at megabanks, big tech firms, and other large corporations act like they can brush aside concerns from the shareholders who actually own the company.

Each year, the Inspire Investment Management Team analyzes historical return, risk, and correlation statistics for different asset classes and then formulate assumptions based on current market conditions.

With the recent failures of SIVB and SBNY, investors have been left wondering if the recent banking woes are just the tip of the iceberg for another looming financial crisis.

It is a beautiful experience to travel to another country on a short-term mission trip and experience all that the Lord is doing around the world.

No company comes close to actual heavenly perfection, but so long as we have the opportunity, are we actively choosing to allocate God’s capital toward those businesses which more closely align with His will than others?

I love it when I have good news to share, and today I have excellent news regarding the discriminatory trend of big banks canceling accounts & financing relationships of conservative Christian organizations/individuals.

For the third consecutive year, faith-based investing firm Inspire Investing’s parent earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

We hereby renounce ESG. We have removed ESG from the names of all our products and no longer identify our investment approach as being part of the ESG category.

Inspire grows to $1.9B in assets landing in the Top 50 Fastest Growing list of registered investment advisors (RIA), while sister company Inspire Advisors grows to $446M in assets and #1 Fastest Growing RIA in Idaho.

In response to the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v Wade, many misguided corporations have announced that they are willing to pay thousands of dollars for employees to travel to a state where abortion is still legal.

FinTech Launch – Discover the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in Your Investments

Inspire Advisors celebrates their 3rd advisor transition this year who desires to center their practice around their faith

Inspire Investing and ADF join forces to address corporations undermining free speech, religious freedom, and free markets.

Newfound access to abortifacient drugs through direct mail provide the abortion industry a backdoor to retain profits in the looming overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Inspire Investing ranked in the Financial Times “Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies” list for the second straight year, beating out Tesla, Amazon, Lyft, Netflix, and other notable businesses.

Financial advisor joins rapidly growing Christian-focused registered investment advisor, Inspire Advisors, seeking greater vocational fulfillment by aligning his Christian beliefs with his professional life.

The SEC releases guidance that cryptocurrency investors may be at risk of total and complete loss of their crypto assets in the event that the trading platform they use files for bankruptcy.

Inspire posted 248% revenue growth between 2018 and 2020, landing them at number 31 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Rocky Mountain Region list of fastest-growing private companies.

Inspire Investing's team provides commentary and helpful advice for investors in light of the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

Calculation and Analysis of Inspire’s Approach to Biblically Responsible Investing

Despite its name, The Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Equality Act furthers inequality by eliminating the critical rights of women, children, and religious institutions.

Pro-life advocates are unwittingly benefiting from abortion products through their investment accounts and are urged to screen out violating companies.

Woke ESG managers claim to value diversity and inclusion, which screams irony as they push to exclude conservative viewpoints from the ESG investing community.

What is the duty of a Christian investor? A good investment steward seeks to glorify God by simultaneously ensuring the companies invested in align with God’s values while also earning respectable returns.

After nearly 18 years, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has updated its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) guidelines, a huge step closer to Inspire's approach to faith-based investing.

Money is consistently listed as the number one source of anxiety for Americans. As Christians, there are 3 important money promises that have been given to us.

$100M advisor leaves major firm after 15 years due to lack of biblically responsible investing options.

In November 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) updated its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Guidelines¹ after 18 years.

Medical freedom and biblical alignment attract advisor team to choose Christian RIA firm to align their practice with their convictions.

Inspire Investing teamed up this year with Samaritan’s Purse to pack seven-hundred Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes with toys, toothbrushes and the gospel message of Jesus and sent them to children around the globe.

Inspire Investing's Give50 program completes 3-year transformation efforts to restore a village in dire need of restoration.

October’s higher than expected reading on inflation caught many investors' attention and is sure to be the source of more market volatility going forward.

As more companies push progressive, liberal political agendas, Christian investors say enough is enough

A tender conviction that how we invest and spend God’s money matters to those who suffer in our world.

For the second consecutive year, faith-based investing firm Inspire Investing’s parent earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

Biblically responsible investing firm, Inspire Investing, ranked 3rd fastest growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in the nation for the second consecutive year - FA Magazine’s ‘Top 50 Fastest Growing Firms – 2021’

An overwhelming 97.5% of publicly-traded US companies do not support the Equality Act. Why not?

Biblically responsible investing firm Inspire Investing ranked #166 in The Financial Times’ “Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2021”, beating out Tesla, Uber, Square, Facebook, DocuSign and other notable businesses.

In this post, Inspire CEO, Robert Netzly, discusses the important difference between supporting companies involved in immoral business practices and the participation in those businesses as an owner.

Is it hypocrisy to own an iPhone and exclude AAPL from my portfolio? To drink Starbucks coffee, but avoid buying SBUX? I do not want to be a hypocrite, so this is an important question to answer.

This post dives into factor investing and how financial and non-financial factors can affect portfolio returns.

The biblically responsible Issachar Fund marks seven years of trading on 2/28/2021 with benchmark beating performance.

This post addresses the question of “Will I have to sacrifice performance if I switch my portfolio to biblically responsible investing?” from a different angle and looks to scripture if that question really matters.

The biblically responsible Issachar Fund launches an institutional share class after a record year of performance and net inflows.

“Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.” - Ecclesiastes 11:2

Inspire Investing CEO, Robert Netzly, displays “Jesus Saves” sign on NYSE podium with guests from Biola University ringing the NYSE opening bell to celebrate the growth of the biblically responsible investing movement.

How to avoid gambling in the stock market.

The biblically responsible Issachar Fund (ticker: LIONX) surpassed $50 million in assets under management (AUM) in 2020, adding $32.4Mil in net inflows and notching benchmark beating performance for the year.

Inspire Investing, a leading biblically responsible investing firm, doubled assets under management (AUM) in 2020 despite COVID-19 challenges, reporting a total of $1.3 billion AUM as of 12/31/2020.

Investing with Christian freedom means making investments that seek the good of our neighbor to the glory of God.

If you think that 2020 has been a wild year, we are well reminded of the immortal 1974-era poetry of Bachman Turner Overdrive, “B-b-b-baby you ain’t seen n-n-n-nothing yet”.

Investors are increasingly favoring ETFs over mutual funds (Crittenden, 2017). From 1/31/18 – 3/10/20, ETFs received net inflows of $723 billion while mutual funds experienced net outflows of $450.

For many years, Microsoft has sold a video game with graphic nudity and violence. If Christian investors held shares in Microsoft, would they be morally responsible for the sale of this violent video game?

Biblically responsible investing firm, Inspire Investing, was ranked the 3rd fastest growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in the nation in FA Magazine’s ‘Top 50 Fastest Growing Firms – 2020’ annual report.

Faith-based investing firm Inspire Investing earned a top-quartile spot on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

Fifty-five publicly traded companies were selected for Inspire’s faith-based investor engagement efforts based on specific criterion to help improve their Inspire Impact Score™.

Try as I might to empathize, there is no way I can fully understand the experience of my black fellow Americans.

In my own Christian walk over the decades, one of the biggest challenges in my life has not necessarily been the issue of knowing the right thing to do, but rather actually doing that right thing which I already know!

“Boys go out, and some die…do you think I could take a profit from that?”

Father-son $100M team left Ameriprise after 25 years to join Christian RIA firm Inspire Advisors to align their practice with their Christian faith.

Inspire Advisors, the Christian-focused Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) firm, grew assets under management (AUM) despite the COVID-19 selloff in stocks.

In its recently released Notice of 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders & Proxy Statement, the Board of Amazon.com recommended that shareholders vote against a shareholder resolution on viewpoint diversity. The Board’s op

With every drop in GDP from the quarantine, my stomach drops, as well. I can’t help but ask myself, “is this the right way to go?

With the abrupt end of the longest bull market in the history of the U.S. stock market, investors are now understandably worried about the probable depth and length of the current bear market in which we find ourselves.

The CARES Act highlights contain provisions that will affect US businesses and the stock market in a big way, making it important for investors to pay attention and be educated about what is in the CARES Act and what it

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. — John 14:27

This past Monday, March 9th, 2020, the stock market had its biggest percentage-point drop since the Financial Crisis of 2008, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 7.79% in just one day. In nominal terms, that is

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”—Luke 12:34

I recently had the pleasure of talking shop on the Faith Driven Investor podcast where we discussed what happens when Christian investors speak up and the influence that we can have for the glory of God when we engage in