To the Exchangers

The Buried Talent, the Riskless Asset and a Religious Community's Statements of Investment Principles, 1971–2019

A theological essay reads seven statements of investment principles written between 1971 and 2019 by the trustees of a small enclosed religious community against the parable of the talents and the Talmud's teaching that money is guarded only in the earth. It argues that the community's adoption of two-fund separation, which left chapter only the share held riskless, reconstructed the Pauline measure of faith, and that the parable's reproach makes the bankers' interest the floor of a steward's fidelity rather than its refuge.

@misc{slop_ogmq2h,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {To the Exchangers: The Buried Talent, the Riskless Asset and a Religious Community's Statements of Investment Principles, 1971–2019},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ogmq2h},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-buried-talent-ogmq2h/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}