Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners is committed to providing its clients competitive investment returns within the context of a CWI portfolio that you would be proud to own. In order to accomplish this objective, Stewardship Partners has formed alliances with two of the leading suppliers of Christian worldview investment research on public companies. While the l... iberal end of the political spectrum has been doing such research for the past twenty years (and have many mutual funds and separate accounts with billions of dollars in assets under management along with the attendant power to impact corporate behavior according to their worldview), there has historically been little effort expended from either a conservative or Christian perspective. The Institute for Christian Worldview Investing and American Values Investments produce the quality values-based research that has been lacking in the past for Christian investors desiring to their align their investments with their Christian worldview. The Institute for Christian Worldview Research (ICWR) is the market leader in Biblically responsible investment research. ICWR is owned by the founders of Stewardship Partners. ICWR was founded in 2000 by Patrick Johnson, who worked diligently to construct a database that highlights those activities of public companies that Christian investors would be concerned about. ICWR's data is also sold to major Christian institutional investors, including the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the North American Missions Board of the Baptist Church. ICWR also performs special consulting studies for Christian investors. American Values Investments (AVI) of Johnson City, Tennessee, is a new effort in the Biblically responsbible investment research arena and is in the process of creating a database that will primarily serve to highlight those companies that we describe as "heroes". These are companies that are not only financial success stories but also produce products that are a credit to mankind, seek to treat their employees and everyone ...Read More