Based on requests from the National Investing Bodies, or on the recommendation of the EIAG, advice is developed by the EIAG, liaising with the three bodies to ensure that the recommendations are fit for use in their investment and stewardship activities. Each National Investing Body is responsible for developing their own investment policies.
The advice of the EIAG provides the basis for a distinctly Christian approach to investment, embracing screening, active stewardship, and alignment with the Church's teaching and values. To this end, there may be some investments that distinctly Christian investors may choose to avoid and others that they actively choose to support. The EIAG’s advice helps to draw these distinctions. We also provide advice on positive steps the investing bodies can take to reflect the Church's teaching and values on a range of issues, including climate change, human rights, responsible technology and extractive industries.
The National Investing Bodies are active stewards of their assets and their respective responsible investment policies are available on their websites.
EIAG Advice
The EIAG has developed a framework under which it organises its advice. The framework is influenced by the Anglican Communion’s Five Marks of Mission and a reading of Scripture and of Christian theology and ethics that seeks to locate our modern contexts and present concerns within the big picture of God’s relationship to the world presented across Scripture as a whole.
The framework organises all EIAG advice into three pillars, see below. We recognise that there will always be overlaps between the three pillars, given the interconnected nature of our world.
- Investing for a renewed and sustainable world
- Investing for a peaceful, just and flourishing world
- Investing in resilient and well-governed systems
The EIAG is undertaking a review and consolidation of existing EIAG papers which will bring greater clarity to the responsibility of the EIAG to develop advice and the separate decision making involved in policy setting for each National Investing Body.
The EIAG Statement of Ethical Investment Policy has been taken down because it is out of date with current EIAG and NIB practice. It will be replaced as soon as practicable with an EIAG guidance paper on ethical investment.
Investing for a peaceful, just and flourishing world:
- Adult Entertainment Advice (650.05 KB)
- Artificial Intelligence Advice (2.61 MB)
- Big Tech Report and Policy (1.12 MB)
- Defence Advice (708.38 KB)
- Human Rights Advice and Policy (1.68 MB)
- Non-Military Firearms Advice (809.64 KB)
- Tobacco and Related Products Advice (1.07 MB)
- Alcohol Advice (2.87 MB)
- Gambling Advice (2.38 MB)
Investing for a renewed and sustainable world:
- Climate Change Advice (2 MB)
- Deforestation Policy (107.53 KB)
- Extractive Industries Policy and Advice (5.92 MB)
- GMOs Advice (506.48 KB)
Investing in resilient and well-governed systems:
- Business and Engagement Advice (855.85 KB)
- Corporate Tax Advice (666.57 KB)
- Executive Remuneration Policy and Advice (797.6 KB)
- Pooled Funds Policy (841.56 KB)
- Property Investments Policy (443.92 KB)
Thought leadership archive:
- Supermarkets and Farmers Report (1.77 MB)
- Supply Chain Paper (624.1 KB)
National Investing Bodies
Annual reviews
Each year we publish a review of our work, which is submitted to General Synod each July.
- EIAG Annual Review 2022/23 (747.23 KB)
- EIAG Annual Review 2021/22 (859.38 KB)
- EIAG Annual Review 2020/21 (811.85 KB)
- EIAG Annual Review 2018/19 (830.08 KB)