Spiritual Returns: How Graham Aligns Faith with Finance Graham is a canny investor with a heart of gold.
“It’s a competitive market out there and I personally have several accounts with UC Invest,” he explains. “I’m very careful at comparing what the banks offer to what UC Invest offers. And UC Invest is always significantly better.
“UC Invest is also different because I can actually know the people who are managing the funds.
“I respect them. They’re very professional, very astute. And over the last 15 or 20 years, the returns from UC Invest have been absolutely amazing.”
A leader at the Mitcham Hills Church, Graham is both a values- and faith-based investor.
“I know that my money is being invested ethically,” he says. “UC Invest follows the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals but also there’s a stricter investment policy.
“I know that my money is not being invested in weapons, in tobacco, in gambling and those sorts of things.
“That gives me a confidence that, as a Christian, I’m doing the right thing with my money.”
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But Graham, seeks more than a ‘do no harm’ approach when it comes to choosing where he invests.
“UC Invest is about providing opportunities for people in the church, both individuals, congregations, presbyteries and other people. It is a financial part of the church but in many ways, UC Invest is a spiritual part of the church because it’s making a spiritual impact.”
Graham sees another benefit that is a rare quality in the increasingly ‘faceless’ finance sector.
“The frontline staff at UC Invest, in my experience, couldn’t be more helpful,” he says. “You call them, they’re friendly, they’re warm, they’ll have a chat with you, they’re interested.
“And they bend over backwards to do everything that they can to help.”
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