Working Group
of Church
Investors (AKI)
Our work and tasks
Our work and tasks
"Whatever you do whether in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him" (Colossians 3:17).
In this sense, AKI is committed to ensuring that church and diaconal action with regard to financial investments is not in contradiction but in harmony with God's commandments and the respective mission. This means that with financial investments, ethical and sustainable goals are pursued in addition to economic ones. Money should be invested safely and profitably, but also in a socially acceptable, ecological and generationally appropriate manner, taking Christian values into account.
According to the rules of the AKI, institutional investors in the realm of the Protestant churches and the Diakonie in Germany who share and wish to promote the concerns of the AKI can become members. Partners can be church-institutional investors from the area of the Association of Christian Churches in Germany (ACK) and from abroad as well as organisations in which such investors have joined together.
The AKI as a joint initiative of church investors (which also includes the diaconal-institutional investors) does not replace the actions of its members and partners, but supports and complements them.
The AKI Board of Directors currently consists of seven people:
The managing directors of the AKI are:
The voting members shall propose the maximum of seven Board members to the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) for appointment. The term of office of the Board is six years. Reappointment is possible. For the duration of the term of office, the Board shall elect a chairperson and a deputy chairperson from among its members. The members of the Board work for AKI free of charge. Upon request, they shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred through their work for AKI.
The board has the possibility to call in external expertise to its meetings on a temporary or permanent basis.
The Board shall be responsible for all matters not assigned to another body by these Rules. In particular, it has the following tasks: