GuideStone Funds has won one of the most prestigious awards in the financial world for mutual fund families with up to $40 billion in assets – the 2012 Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group in the U.S.
GuideStone Financial Resources chief operating officer John R. Jones, president O.S. Hawkins, SBC Executive Committee president Frank Page and GuideStone chief investment officer Roddy Cummins receive the Lipper trophy honoring GuideStone Funds as the Best Overall Small Fund Group in the U.S. As the first Christian-based, socially screened fund family to win the premier Lipper honor, GuideStone was ranked No. 1 among 182 eligible companies for its consistently strong risk-adjusted investment performance across broad asset classes.
GuideStone president O.S. Hawkins, chief operating officer John Jones and chief investment officer Roddy Cummins, along with Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, were in New York City March 8 to receive the Lipper trophy at a dinner sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters and Investment News.
Hawkins said the Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group “recognizes a standard of excellence that we pursue every day as we seek to honor the Lord and enable our faithful participants to invest according to their biblical principles.”
Page said it was “an incredible night, not just for GuideStone, but for the entire Southern Baptist Convention and other evangelicals who are seeking biblical integrity not only with their lives and families but also with their finances.”
“The financial world publicly acknowledged that people can successfully invest their money in a God-honoring way,” Page said.
“The Lipper Award is a very meaningful accomplishment professionally for our team,” Cummins said, “but most importantly it brings honor to the Lord and reflects favorably on our client base that is faithfully fulfilling their call to Christian ministry or raising their family on biblical values.”
GuideStone Funds are available to Southern Baptist and evangelical Christian churches and ministry organizations that GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention is authorized to serve. In addition, the funds are sold to individuals associated with those organizations that are eligible to utilize products and services made available by GuideStone Financial Resources. For more information, visit www.GuideStone.org. – GuideStone