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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 Faith-Based ESG 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.

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

The Inspire Faith-Based Cash debit card program now offers one of the highest FDIC interest rates on the market at a rate of 0.55%.

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.

Inspire Faith-Based Cash allows Christians to spend, invest and earn enhanced interest from biblically responsible banks and investments.

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.

How Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing enhances Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI)

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?

Faith-based ESG 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™.

Inspire Investing was highlighted in the US SIF Foundation’s report titled, “Rise of ESG in Passive Investments” for their efforts to bring a faith-based approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.

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

God doesn’t need your money, but He does command your obedience.

How biblically responsible investors are partners in declaring the good news of God’s sovereignty over all creation.

“You, Lord, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.”—Isaiah 26:3-4

PRID is the second pro-LGBT investment fund to be shuttered this year, after the ALPS “Workplace Equality” ETF [ticker: EQLT] shutdown on April 26th.

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” — Mark 16:15

Inspire Investing attracts $130M in first 9 months with new Inspire Advisors registered investment advisory (RIA) platform dedicated to empowering Christian financial advisors to go all-in for God’s glory.

“He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.”—Ecclesiastes 11:4

Inspire Investing and Virtuous Investing are proud to bring the first ever biblically responsible index to Canada.

Intel Corporation [ticker: INTC] is the largest semiconductor chip manufacturer in the United States (second largest in the world behind #1 Samsung) and ranks number 46th in the 2018 Fortune 500 ranking of largest compan

The former Chief Investment Officer of Wells Fargo’s Private Bank, Dr. Erik Davidson, is bringing his 20+ years of experience to the biblically responsible investing (BRI) movement.

Millions of people look to the Bible for advice on financial matters. And they should. God has provided for us eternal, perfect wisdom through His infallible Word.

Inspire Investing is proud to become the newest member of the Christian Investment Forum (CIF), a Kingdom-focused investment association committed to advancing and promoting the biblically responsible investing.

Biblically responsible investing firm Inspire Investing came in at number 8 fastest growing firm out of the 683 registered investment advisory (RIA) firms listed in Financial Advisor Magazine’s annual report.

Biblically responsible investing (BRI) firm Inspire Investing doubles assets in six months, surpasses $500 million in assets under management with growing demand and positive performance.

LGBT activists are scratching their heads following the abrupt closure of a widely followed investment fund that was focused on LGBT advocacy

‍“The decision to invest in one place rather than another, in one productive sector rather than another, is always a moral and cultural choice.”‍– Saint John Paul II, Centesimus Annus 36

Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) market expands as new Timothy Plan ETFs (exchange-traded funds) join those from Inspire Investing to broaden options for Christian investors.

The Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) movement is exploding — in a good way.

“Faith-based Investment and Sustainability” is a an in depth research paper written by Kevin Bifulco from the University of Siena Department of Business and Legal Studies.

Robert Netzly, CEO of biblical investing firm Inspire Investing, launches new #1 Bestselling book titled “Biblically Responsible Investing: For God’s Glory And Your Joy”.

Robert Netzly, CEO of Inspire Investing, to share success stories of his firm’s major shareholder activism victories in support of conservative, biblical values.

Facebook, the Goliath social media platform, took a historic $120 billion fall on Thursday, winning the top spot for the largest one-day loss of market cap ever on record.