Matt Wagner, Vice President, Institutional Relationships, has prepared a fiduciary focus article that discusses the importance of maintaining a long-term focus on investment strategies, even during challenging and uncertain times. Read the article.
At UCF, we are constantly communicating with and evaluating the investment managers we utilize within our funds, and we have made some significant change in the first half of 2020. We have eliminated Fiduciary Management and added Nuveen’s Core Impact Bond Strategy to our Fixed Income Fund.
This article summarizes the markets and our funds’ performance for the month of July 2020, provided by our Chief Investment Strategist David A. Klassen.
Matthew Illian joins United Church Funds in August 2020 as Director of Responsible Investing, bringing in broad experience in capital markets, personal financial advising and impact investing. We spent time with Matthew to learn how he started in the responsible investing field, the evolvement of responsible investing, his view on racial justice investing and what his family is passionate about.
UCF announced that Brown Endowment grants of over $100,000 has been awarded so far this year to 13 United UCC conferences to help them implement support programs and leadership development for authorized ministers who are addressing and responding to the crisis and trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice.
United Church Funds (UCF) is pleased to welcome Matthew J. Illian as its new Director of Responsible Investing. Illian brings broad experience in capital markets, personal financial advising and impact investing.
This article summarizes the markets and our funds’ performance for the month of June 2020, provided by our Chief Investment Strategist David A. Klassen.
Account statements as of June 30, 2020, are available via the Client Access link. We have also prepared the Q2 investor letter from Charles Buck, President and CEO, which includes preliminary performance information for Q2-2020.
Watch this three-minute video where Don Hill of Don Hill Consulting outlines five steps to creating an effective, dynamic and successful Planned Giving program.
In this three-minutes video, Don Hill of Don Hill Consulting shares four elements to keep in mind when approaching members of your congregations to talk about planned giving at this difficult time.
This article summarizes the markets and our funds’ performance for the month of May 2020, provided by our Chief Investment Strategist David A. Klassen.