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Dear Friends,
JLens is starting off the year 5775 with an ambitious goal - to create the first Jewish values-based mutual fund!
For decades, other faiths have used their investments to promote their values, as evidenced by the 100 faith-based mutual funds in the US with over $31 billion in assets.
JLens is developing the first Jewish mutual fund to:
- Create Jewish investor activists
- Provide a new arena for engaging with Jewish values in daily life that is accessible to everyone, regardless of wealth
- Deploy investment capital to further the social and environmental causes supported by Jewish philanthropy
- Advocate for the fair treatment of Israel through inter-faith shareholder engagement in the increasingly anti-Israel responsible investment field due to BDS (boycott, divest, sanction)
- Engage younger generations who are attracted to investments and businesses that support their values and create positive impact
- Enable the Jewish community to gain familiarity with values-based impact investing through the most common type of investment, an equity index mutual fund, as an entry point to explore additional impact investing options
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