Do Your Financial Investments Undermine Your Values?

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Conservatives across the country might be supporting leftist causes through their investments but have no idea they are doing so. A new investment services consulting company is working to change this. “Prospr Aligned is committed to equipping institutional investors with the tools, insights, and partnerships necessary to ensure their investments deliver reliable returns and reflect the values of their investors and beneficiaries,” according to Derek Kreifels, the company's CEO. Through Prospr Aligned, Kreifels says he helps “institutional investors across the country make sure that their assets are being managed in a way that is actually aligned with their values.” While this might sound simple, Kreifels says, “you would be surprised how many investors are not aware of how asset managers are voting their shares.” Prospr Aligned advises both clients of private and public investment funds on the best investments they can make, placing the priority of financial returns first, while also ensuring investments are not in contradiction with a client's values. Before launching Prospr Aligned, Kreifels headed the State Financial Officers Foundation for 12 years and served as the Assistant State Treasurer of Kansas for the five years prior. Kreifels joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss values-based investing and the unique mission of Prospr Aligned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.3	Conservatives across the country might be supporting leftist causes through their investments,
0:40.3	but have no idea they are doing so. But there's a new investment service consulting company
0:45.5	that's working to change this. Welcome to this Daily Signal bonus edition. I'm Virginia Allen,
0:51.6	and today I am so pleased to be sitting down with Derek Crifles.
0:55.9	He serves as the CEO of the brand new organization, Prosper Aligned.
1:02.2	Prosper Aligned is all about putting needs of investors first and making wise financial
1:07.6	investments, while at the same time making sure that the values that investors are
1:13.3	putting their money into that the values of those companies match that of the investor.
1:18.8	Derek Kreifles is the former head of the state financial officers foundation. He was there
1:25.1	for 12 years and prior to that he served as the assistant state treasurer of Kentucky. He was there for 12 years, and prior to that, he served as the assistant state
1:29.0	treasurer of Kentucky. He has decades of knowledge in the area of finances and making wise
1:35.2	investments for Americans. And I'm so excited to have him join us today to talk about the work
1:40.6	of Prosper Aligned and how they are putting values-based investment first.
1:46.5	Stay tuned for my conversation with Derek Kreifles right after this.
1:50.4	As conservatives, sometimes it feels like we're constantly on defense against bad ideas.
1:55.6	Bad philosophy, revisionist history, junk science, and divisive politics.
2:00.5	But here's something I've come to understand.
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