Does the Beyond Babel Model work for screening investments?
If indeed the Beyond Babel Model is valid, it should be a useful tool for analyzing investments in companies. The model asserts that alignment with the principles of the Creator brings blessings from the Creator. Anecdotally, the following article from an Australian financial journal suggests that socially responsible investing produces superior returns. The article is titled “Good Corporate Citizens Outperform the Bad”: “A study of 204 companies by Integrative Strategies found that investments in the top 20 most socially responsible companies performed better than those in the 20 least responsible. An investment of AUD20,000 in July 2002 would now be AUD20,311 if the money was in a portfolio of top 20, and AUD18,303 in a portfolio of the bottom. The study also found that the companies at the top and the bottom of the list performed roughly the same over the past three years, which Integrative Strategies said suggests that socially responsible investments perform well not only in good
If indeed the Beyond Babel Model is valid, it should be a useful tool for analyzing investments in companies. The model asserts that alignment with the principles of the Creator brings blessings from the Creator. Anecdotally, the following article from an Australian financial journal suggests that socially responsible investing produces superior returns. The article is titled “Good Corporate Citizens Outperform the Bad”: “A study of 204 companies by Integrative Strategies found that investments in the top 20 most socially responsible companies performed better than those in the 20 least responsible. An investment of AUD20,000 in July 2002 would now be AUD20,311 if the money was in a portfolio of top 20, and AUD18,303 in a portfolio of the bottom. The study also found that the companies at the top and the bottom of the list performed roughly the same over the past three years, which Integrative Strategies said suggests that socially responsible investments perform well not only in good
