EIAG Advice and Annual Reviews | The Church of England

The EIAG gives ethical advice to the National Investing Bodies: the Church Commissioners for England, the Church of England Pensions Board and the CBF Church of England Funds (managed by CCLA).

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The EIAG Statement of Ethical Investment Policy has been taken down because it is out of date with current EIAG and NIB practice.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: