{"id":29841,"date":"2011-12-13T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_church_of_england_ethical_investment_policies_pornography_and_high_inte\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:00:50","slug":"new_church_of_england_ethical_investment_policies_pornography_and_high_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29841","title":{"rendered":"New Church of England ethical investment policies: pornography and high interest rate lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new ethical investment policies have been adopted by the Church of England national investing bodies following advice from the Church&#8217;s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG).<\/p>\n<p>The national investing bodies&#8217; new policy maintains the toughest possible exclusion of companies involved in the production or distribution of pornography that their ethical investment research provider is able to implement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy on high interest rate lending builds on the previous policy under which companies involved in weekly collected home credit (&#8216;doorstep lending&#8217;) were excluded from investment.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy extends the investment exclusion to cover other forms of specialised high interest rate lending, in particular payday and pawnbroker loans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2011\/12\/new-church-of-england-ethical-investment-policies-pornography-and-high-interest-rate-lending.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new ethical investment policies have been adopted by the Church of England national investing bodies following advice from the Church&#8217;s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG). The national investing bodies&#8217; new policy maintains the toughest possible exclusion of companies involved<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29841\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,40,74,389,589,149,168,184,441,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}