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The Good Investor: How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World
What if your investments could do more than grow wealth—what if they could unleash hope? Join author Robin John on a transformative journey from a small village in India to leading a multibillion-dollar investment firm and discover how faith-based investing can serve the common good, nurture generosity, and make the world rejoice.
Disrupt the conventional view that investing is simply about returns. Robin John, cofounder and CEO of Eventide Asset Management, offers an inspiring investing as a path to joy, a tool to create value, and a means to heal the world’s brokenness.
Drawing from his personal journey—from a small village in India to leading a multibillion-dollar U.S. investment firm—Robin reveals the transformative potential of aligning your financial decisions with your faith and values. Hollywood may glamorize greed and exploitation in films like The Wolf of Wall Street, but Robin envisions investing as an act of love for our neighbors and an engine for blessing.
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See how your faith and values can drive meaningful financial decisions. Explore investing as a way to fight injustice and build a better world. Discover practical ways to create generative, redemptive good through your work. Embrace a life of generosity and purpose, aligned with God’s calling. Unlock joy and wholeness by integrating purpose into your financial life.
Filled with real-world insights and grounded in Christian faith, The Good Investor invites readers to join a movement of “investing that makes the world rejoice.” Your work, your money, and your life hold the power to make a lasting impact. Are you ready to answer this higher calling?
Disrupt the conventional view that investing is simply about returns. Robin John, cofounder and CEO of Eventide Asset Management, offers an inspiring investing as a path to joy, a tool to create value, and a means to heal the world’s brokenness.
Drawing from his personal journey—from a small village in India to leading a multibillion-dollar U.S. investment firm—Robin reveals the transformative potential of aligning your financial decisions with your faith and values. Hollywood may glamorize greed and exploitation in films like The Wolf of Wall Street, but Robin envisions investing as an act of love for our neighbors and an engine for blessing.
This book will help
See how your faith and values can drive meaningful financial decisions. Explore investing as a way to fight injustice and build a better world. Discover practical ways to create generative, redemptive good through your work. Embrace a life of generosity and purpose, aligned with God’s calling. Unlock joy and wholeness by integrating purpose into your financial life.
Filled with real-world insights and grounded in Christian faith, The Good Investor invites readers to join a movement of “investing that makes the world rejoice.” Your work, your money, and your life hold the power to make a lasting impact. Are you ready to answer this higher calling?
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2025
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February 3, 2026
This was basically a long format sales pitch. At the very least, it was the writer’s philosophy on investing that is the basis for Eventide, his investment firm.
Don’t get me wrong, I think he is quite right and I am even considering investing in his funds. But the book was somewhat flat. For example, he writes about a Chinese business assembling phones that is so bad people keep killing themselves. Bad investment. But later he talked about the wonders of technology and the ability to FaceTime family around the world. Good investment. The problem is, obviously, you can’t have a phone without the production company.
He addresses these kinds of concerns, but only barely. His FAQs at the end address honest critiques, and he answers them. But still rather flatly. Sure, it’s easy to say cigarettes, abortion, porn, and alcohol are bad ideas to invest in. And that pharmaceutical companies solving serious health concerns are good investments. That’s easy. But what about the plethora of companies who support bad ideologies but have rather neutral or benign products? How do you truly invest in pure, good companies? That’s where this falls flat. It looks at these hard questions but only as a glance.
Still, his philosophy is not wrong.
Don’t get me wrong, I think he is quite right and I am even considering investing in his funds. But the book was somewhat flat. For example, he writes about a Chinese business assembling phones that is so bad people keep killing themselves. Bad investment. But later he talked about the wonders of technology and the ability to FaceTime family around the world. Good investment. The problem is, obviously, you can’t have a phone without the production company.
He addresses these kinds of concerns, but only barely. His FAQs at the end address honest critiques, and he answers them. But still rather flatly. Sure, it’s easy to say cigarettes, abortion, porn, and alcohol are bad ideas to invest in. And that pharmaceutical companies solving serious health concerns are good investments. That’s easy. But what about the plethora of companies who support bad ideologies but have rather neutral or benign products? How do you truly invest in pure, good companies? That’s where this falls flat. It looks at these hard questions but only as a glance.
Still, his philosophy is not wrong.
April 24, 2026
Me llevé una gran decepción con este libro. Lo empecé a leer esperando encontrar una exégesis seria sobre la mayordomía y cómo aplicar principios bíblicos a las finanzas modernas, pero me encontré con un texto extremadamente superficial.
El contenido es tan básico que parece escrito para alguien que nunca ha escuchado conceptos elementales de ahorro o inversión. Se limita a citar versículos aislados para justificar consejos financieros genéricos que podrías encontrar en cualquier blog gratuito, sin profundizar en la ética ni en la técnica.
El contenido es tan básico que parece escrito para alguien que nunca ha escuchado conceptos elementales de ahorro o inversión. Se limita a citar versículos aislados para justificar consejos financieros genéricos que podrías encontrar en cualquier blog gratuito, sin profundizar en la ética ni en la técnica.
August 12, 2025
Robin’s story is inspiring and the work Eventide does should be elevated for the good it is endeavoring to put into the world by influencing producers of good over the profit motives of those who pollute the world with unjust and ungodly products and services. I encourage those who are early in their journey of investing to read and apply these concepts in support of works that bring joy and compassion to the world.
January 17, 2026
short, but very thoughtful and biblical argument for the value of faith based investing as a way to participate in Gods plan and contribute to the flourishing of humanity. love eventide and appreciate robin john’s mission, story, and posture. every christian should read!
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