{"id":40515,"date":"2013-10-12T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T23:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_church_of_england_sees_momentum_for_ethical_investment\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T23:32:40","slug":"reuters_church_of_england_sees_momentum_for_ethical_investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40515","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Church of England sees momentum for ethical investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global financial crisis has strengthened the Church of England&#8217;s drive for more ethical business practices by making companies and shareholders more receptive to change, according to the man who manages its investment fund.<\/p>\n<p>With about 5.5 billion pounds ($8.8 billion) of financial and property assets, the Church has greater clout than many hedge funds. But it has often struggled to make its voice heard.<\/p>\n<p>That is starting to change, according to First Church Estates Commissioner Andreas Whittam Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/10\/11\/us-britain-church-investor-interview-idUSBRE9990O120131011\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global financial crisis has strengthened the Church of England&#8217;s drive for more ethical business practices by making companies and shareholders more receptive to change, according to the man who manages its investment fund. With about 5.5 billion pounds ($8.8<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40515\">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":[36,39,40,74,389,589,149,168,119,108,599,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40515","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=40515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}