Case Studies
Mike Sturgess, Chair of Board of Finance, Diocese of Truro, tells their investment story for the launch webinar of the Green Investment Declaration.
“We live the Incarnation in the ordinariness of our everyday life, including the economic aspects of our lives.”
The Society of the Holy Child Jesus is a Roman Catholic Religious Congregation of women. The European province is a registered charity whose resources are for mission and our management and use of them are expressions of the Society’s mission. Our constitutions state that ‘God has chosen to need women and men in every age to reveal divine love and to make known the reality of the Incarnation.’
Our understanding of Incarnation today embraces the whole of creation and the flourishing of the whole web of life. This understanding impels us to address matters of social, economic and environmental justice and other urgent issues of the day.
We live the Incarnation in the ordinariness of our everyday life, including the economic aspects of our lives. It is important to us that our investments, like all of our resources, are aligned with the guiding principles of the enhancement of human dignity and care of our common home and the values that flow from this: justice, peace and compassion.
Moving into sustainable investment
Our investments are held in pooled funds. Our first move into more sustainable investing was in response to the launch of a new fund, a Paris-aligned investment solution for charities, by one of our investment managers. The next step was to place some of our funds in a multi-asset fund designed to have a positive impact on people and planet. More recently we worked with FaithInvest to create an Investment Policy and Guidelines more in line with our values. We now have clearer guidelines in our policy and require more value-based reporting from managers.