This passionate, ardent community reflected Robin and Finny’s own restless longings. After graduating from Tufts with a degree in Economics, Robin entered institutional finance. And Finny, after degrees at Caltech and MIT, was in the throes of a joint MD and PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard. However, Finny and Robin were both unsettled, praying for wisdom to discern how their skills and energies could participate in God’s intentions to make the world whole and beautiful.

A decade prior, Finny contemplated investing in mutual funds, but he ran into a moral dilemma. Every time he investigated a fund’s top holdings, he always found companies he was uncomfortable owning, businesses conflicting with his values and faith. How could investing in tobacco, gambling, pornography, abortion, or weaponry square with the justice and renewal God envisions for the world? How could Finny work toward human flourishing while profiting from exploitation? How could profiting from predatory businesses cohere with the fundamental call to love our neighbor? Rather than invest in a typical mutual fund and compromise his values, Finny started a do-it-yourself approach of picking stocks for himself that met his ideals. Digesting the work of iconic investor Peter Lynch, he assimilated Lynch’s insight to “invest in what you know.” A young mother might intuitively understand baby products. A construction worker might innately grasp building materials. Adding basic accounting and publicly available information, each might spot companies providing an excellent product at a great price, with a promising future Wall Street hadn’t yet identified. What Finny knew intimately was healthcare and biotech. So, he started methodically investing in companies advancing high-quality technologies without contradicting the Bible’s view of the world. All this led to Robin and Finny, joined by Jason Myhre and Robin’s brother Sony, meeting in Finny’s house to fast and pray for wisdom to know how their vocations could join God’s purposes. One evening, Finny said,

Everyone leaned in. There was obviously an acute need for investment options that were both morally principled and financially savvy. They all recognized how this was work that mattered. They would serve others by engaging rigorous research to discover compelling companies that didn’t undermine fundamental values. The dream that would become Eventide was born.

Tim’s last question struck like lightning. Years earlier on a work assignment in India, Robin witnessed dehumanizing economic forces abusing local workers, and he knew his employer could intervene. But when Robin tried to pull the levers and get those up the chain to act, he met disinterest and varying versions of “this is how things work.” Powerful companies had the influence and resources to make the world better, but instead their inaction perpetuated harm.

But now, Tim’s question ignited dynamic possibilities, a remedy for the helplessness Robin had felt. Investing, aligned with God’s capacious vision for business and human wholeness, includes avoiding bad companies—but also embracing good companies. Targeted investing catalyzes businesses as they develop and sustain products that benefit society and add value to the world. When we engage a company (through our capital, active ownership, or close relationships with management), we partner in holistic, restorative work that advances the common good.

Galvanized by this expanded mission, Eventide launched with its inaugural fund in 2008. Finny focused his specialized knowledge on finding great businesses that would make great investments. Robin applied his entrepreneurial drive to building Eventide into a great company that investors would be proud to have as a partner. And Jason, formally joining the founding team in 2009, built out the biblical framework for analyzing the ethical responsibilities of a good business and narrating this hopeful story.

Our broad vision (to avoid bad companies and embrace good companies) led to the design of our proprietary Business 360^® framework, where we evaluate a company’s long-term competitive advantage as well as its impact on human flourishing. We assess each company’s strategy and operations through a comprehensive, full circle review. Grounded in the truth that every person is created in God’s image and every place is valuable to God, we vigilantly investigate all the stakeholders (or neighbors) every business engages: customers, employees, supply chain, host communities, environment, and broader society.

In the years since, Eventide has built a stellar investment team who blends deep industry expertise with keen moral discernment. Our portfolio managers and analysts use pioneering research to find life-affirming companies, learn these businesses from the inside out, and then create opportunities for investors who want to put their money to work for good. Our singular commitment to investing in good businesses demonstrates how bedrock values integrated with industry ingenuity and an unwavering pursuit of integrity creates a compelling story.

Eventide means evening in Old English and comes from an old hymn. The hymn calls us to faithfully do our work now, while we are able, in the fleeting time given to us. We hope to do this good work through our investing, and we hope to do this good work alongside you.