{"id":7163,"date":"2017-05-22T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2018-10-11T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:26:22","slug":"bbt-adopts-dod-investment-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/bbt-adopts-dod-investment-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Benefit Trust adopts 2017 Department of Defense investment screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Church of the Brethren Newsline<br \/>\nMay\u00a022,\u00a02017<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/drone-conference-pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/drone-conference-pic.png 341w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/drone-conference-pic-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/>The Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT) board has adopted 2017 Department of Defense screens for investments. Each year as part of its Brethren values investing initiatives, BBT\u2019s Board of Directors approves investment screens by adopting two Department of Defense lists comprised of companies that earn significant revenue from US military operations.<\/p>\n<p>One list identifies the top 25 publicly traded defense contractors based on the size of contracts awarded by the Department of Defense, and the other list includes all publicly traded companies that generate more than 10 percent of their revenue from Department of Defense contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The firms on the DOD lists are screened from BBT\u2019s investment portfolios by all investment managers, and BBT also avoids being a customer of any of these companies.<\/p>\n<p>Find the two lists on the BBT website:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; \u201c2017 Top 25 Publicly Traded Companies Receiving Prime Contract Awards from the US Department of Defense\u201d is online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cobbt.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/Investments\/2017%20BBT%20DoD%20Top%2025%20List.pdf\">http:\/\/cobbt.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/Investments\/2017%20BBT%20DoD%20Top%2025%20List.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; \u201c2017 Department of Defense 10 Percent List: Companies Screened Due to Greater than 10 Percent of Gross Revenues from Prime Contracts with the US DoD\u201d is online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cobbt.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/Investments\/2017%20DoD%2010%25%20List%20Final.pdf\">http:\/\/cobbt.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/Investments\/2017%20DoD%2010%25%20List%20Final.pdf<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>(Information provided by Jean Bednar of the BBT communications staff.)<\/p>\n<p>Go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/Newsline\">www.brethren.org\/Newsline<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the Church of the Brethren Newsline free e-mail news service and receive church news every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT) board has adopted 2017 Department of Defense screens for investments. Each year as part of its Brethren values investing initiatives, BBT\u2019s Board of Directors approves investment screens by adopting two Department of Defense lists comprised of companies that earn significant revenue from US military operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1295,160,1263,1278],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advocacy","tag-brethren-benefit-trust","tag-peace","tag-stewardship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}