EMEA +44 20 7330 7500. Some of the stocks in which Ensign has invested millions include Apple Inc., Chevron Corp., Visa Inc., JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, Amazon and Google, according to the article.". Cookie Settings. The Ensign Peak Advisors management team includes Anthony Kirkham (Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager), Jason Butterfield (Chief Compliance Officer), and Roger Clarke (President). Analytic Investors, Inc. Steven Thorley. (In Conference Report, Apr. [Get more content like this in the Mormon Land newsletter, a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2016, "Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said that each year The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spends about $40 million on welfare, humanitarian and other LDS Church-sponsored projects around the world and has done so for more than 30 years." Ensign Peak's top stock holdings as of December 31 include Walmart, Microsoft, Apple, and JPMorgan. The fund relies on a healthy share of so-called real estate investment trusts (REIT), which package landholdings into shares for sale. According to the head of Ensign Peak, Roger Clark the leaders were afraid that members would pay less tithing if they knew the church didn't need to use it for church operations as they claim. Check us out on Twitter or Facebook as well for future posts and updates, and thank you again for reading! And those companies might consider it an honor when a morally and financially scrutinizing investor such as EPA buys shares. Huntsman, who owns the film distribution company Blue Fox Entertainment, is the son of the late billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr. and brother of former Utah governor and U.S. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. Mr. See all articles by Roger G Clarke Roger G Clarke. The church responded that Nielsens assertions amounted to hearsay and supplied its own sworn statement from Clarke, who was president and managing director over Ensign Peak from its 1997 founding until he retired in May 2020. Fraudulent SEC filings: Nielsens document says EPA disguised its massive investment business by making filings with the SEC of Form 13F in the names of various LLCs more than 260 times over 10+ years, rather than in EPAs own name. "This settlement relates to how the forms were filed previously. From 1995-2020 he served as president of Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., an investment management affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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The church calling the fund a "rainy-day account" is also laughable, because we can see the devastation around the world every day. For example, a combination of four fully invested factor sub-portfolios low beta, small size, value, and momentum captures less than half (e.g., 40%) of the potential improvement over the market portfolios Sharpe ratio. Harindra de Silva. the statement reads. This is no surprise, although I'd just note that if you've never looked at the Word of Wisdom, we covered their recent "Now You Know" video on the Word of Wisdom and you can see how silly the Word of Wisdom is not just in the actual revelation, but the implementation of it as well. If something like that [an economic recession] were to happen again, we wont have to stop missionary work. The church along with our investment manager, Ensign Peak Advisors, have only recently been made aware of allegations brought forward by a former Ensign Peak employee, said Doug Andersen, a church spokesman. Steven received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the University of Washington and holds numerous awards for academic excellence including the Marriott School Outstanding Faculty Award. So, yes, it is a remarkable trust in church leadership. While on academic leaves from BYU, Professor Thorley served as the interim Research Director for Analytic Investors, a quant fund based in Los Angeles, and for Ensign Peak Advisors in Salt Lake City. Get Contact Info for All Departments Ensign Peak Advisors Org Chart Paul Davis Chief Operating Officer 6 There are families that are struggling and continue to pay tithing because they were taught that the church needs it more than they do (and that the prosperity gospel will reward them with blessings to make up for it), and yet church leaders have been lying to every one of these families about the church's own means. Now, EPA has finally admitted in a recently published Form 990-T filing in November 2020 (for 2019) that EPA does have foreign bank and investment accounts. Nielsens document argues that EPA should be liable for more than $2 billion in penalties. The Mormon Church and its investment manager will pay a total of $5 million to settle charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over failing to properly disclose holdings in the church's massive investment portfolio. Of course the church (and church apologists) would reply that Joseph F Smith was speaking as a man in that instance, and that $124 billion in liquid assets is not "sufficient" for the church's needs. Whether you're a believing member or have left the church, the only thing I can say is that if you want to continue tithing, follow the Bible and use the money to help those around you whether it's a children's program, a local animal shelter (always a favorite of mine), or a food pantry. "That same poverty continues from one generation to another, until people pay their tithing." I will never claim to speak for Jesus, but it's beyond clear that the leaders of this church never have either whether it's claiming God called the Native Americans Lamanites from Israel, that dark skin is a curse from God, or that God changed his mind in just 3.5 years on treating LGBT members as apostates. Clarke did not respond to an email . He wrote that it avoided having a compliance officer between 1997 and 2015. It wouldnt completely shock me if the reporting kickstarted the disclosure, said Sam Brunson, a law professor specializing in tax law at Loyola University of Chicago and a practicing Latter-day Saint. In a complaint filed with the IRS, Nielsen accused Ensign of taking in billions from members tithes and other donations and not spending any of it over a 22-year period for charitable purposes. According to its first 2020 report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed months after allegations by whistleblower David Nielsen and his twin brother, Lars, made headlines, Ensign Peaks value was reported at $37.8 billion in stocks and mutual funds. Editors note James Huntsman is a brother of Paul Huntsman, chairman of the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribunes board of directors. Not only is that statement simply untrue, it is beyond self serving for a man who knows the enormous amount of cash they are sitting on to tell those who do not have the means that they have to pay tithing in order to not just get out of poverty, but to enter the temple which they are told is essential to their salvation. To receive the free newsletter in your inbox, subscribe here. As of mid-2021, it reported more than $2 billion each in companies specializing in software; internet services; semiconductors; other computer hardware; and biotechnologies behind new drug treatments. A closer analysis of Ensign Peaks latest disclosures show that beyond big name stocks, technology in a variety of forms accounts for up to 27% of all its shares worth nearly $13.3 billion. Last, the church concedes the whistleblower was accurate when stating their yearly gains were about 7%, which is the benchmark rule of thumb for most investment plans. We covered this above so we won't rehash this much here. View Roger G Clark's profile for company associations, background information, and partnerships. Other former employees said the firms war chest related to preparation for the second coming of Jesus Christ. Originally I didn't plan on doing a write-up because it was all happening during the holidays and I just did not have time to write about it, but this past weekend's Wall Street Journal article really articulated what is so frustrating about the church's lack of transparency on finances, and what we've noted when looking at a lot of other troubling topics of Mormonism - they simply do not trust their members with honest, complete information on their history or finances. The deception began in 2007 with the false statement of EPAs having only $1,000,000 in assets, says Nielsens document. To support that, he offered a freshly sworn statement by David Nielsen in which the whistleblower says that for officials at Ensign Peak every penny was referred to as the widows mite a biblical allusion to its sacred nature. In the 2019 filing, EPA continued to withhold that required information from the IRS, and to repeat the annual, false and deceptive statement, OVER 1,000,000.. Harindra De Silva. Ensign Peak Advisors, the investment firm connected to the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints, started filing a quarterly 13F form on Feb. 14, 2010, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates publicly traded companies and other financial firms. Whether it's hiding church history, changing what the meaning of translation or 'curse of dark skin' is, or hiding finances in over a dozen shell companies, the leaders of this church simply do not believe that members will stick around if they are honest about their history or practices. Put another way, the man who claims to be the lone prophet of God on this Earth is telling people in the poorest areas of the Earth that without giving the church (worth $124 billion in this one investment fund alone) 10% of their income they not only will never get out of poverty, but they will be denied exaltation for eternity. Just as every generation is told they are the chosen generation by the church's prophets, the carrot is always being dangled that time is running out in order to cultivate obedience. Roger Clarke, the head of Ensign Peak, said: 'Paying tithing is more of a sense of commitment than it is the church needing the money' Clarke and other officials say the money is saved. It accused church leaders of fraud over their handling of billions of dollars in members tithing. "In June 2019, the SEC first expressed concern about Ensign Peak's reporting approach," LDS said in a statement on Tuesday. Latter-day Saint officials acknowledged that it used Ensign funds to underwrite construction of City Creek Center mall in downtown Salt Lake City and rescue Beneficial Life, a church-owned insurance company, but said there was nothing illegal in that. If you're reading this post, you have almost certainly heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holding an investment fund worth around $124 billion dollars called Ensign Peak in recent weeks. The members who take their tithing money and donate it to local animal shelters, food pantries, or children's programs are doing the work that the church claimed to be doing when demanding 10% of every member's income. Analytic Investors, Inc. Steven Thorley. 6 (November/December 2016), Posted: 10 Jun 2015 Penske Automotive Group, for example, released its quarterly earnings on Nov. 21, 2020, andnoted in its press release that, among institutional and hedge fund investors, Ensign Peak Advisors increased its stake in Penske by 2,651% and now owns 181,578 shares of Penskes stock, valued at $7 million. And when they get caught, they lie about why they withheld the information from these very members who are padding the account for them. The new document updates, reframes and renews allegations about Ensign Peak Advisors and the Latter-day Saints church. Executive Director It has shifted since mid-2020 into stocks in basic industries and capital goods that might expect to take off in an economic recovery. About $3 billion of that came from combined shares of Apple and Microsoft, accounting for 7% of the funds total value. Nielsen referred to a March 2013 meeting with the firms then-president, Roger Clarke, in which he heard Clarke outline $1.4 billion in spending on City Creek over five years and a one-time payment of $600 million to Beneficial Life, a struggling church-owned insurance company. 1. Manage Products and Account Information. BYU Marriott School of Business. Children are starving to death every minute, millions upon millions of people have no access to clean water, and natural disasters impact poor countries around the world and yet the church has never once made a charitable donation from this $124 billion account according to the whistleblower account. As we tend to do, we'll go through it in chunks to cover what the church is saying along with what they're not saying. When you look at the details of the story along with the church's rationale for deceiving members, it quickly goes from dishonest to reprehensible. View Roger Clarke's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. "These funds are then used to build up the Church and to further God's work throughout the world," LDS' website reads. Hes on Twitter @PaulGlader. But, the paper reported, they gave estimates for its main areas of expenditure that, collectively, total about $5 billion. 1. If EPA were a hedge fund, itwould rank among the top five hedge fundsfor assets under management. Steven Thorley is an Emeritus Professor of Finance at the Marriott School of Business. Ensign Peak Advisors ( email) 60 East South Temple 4th Floor Salt Lake City, UT 84111 United States. In it, Clarke affirms the veracity of all business records submitted on Ensign Peaks role in the case, including its payments to City Creek Reserve. That was in keeping, they said, with then-church President Gordon B. Hinckleys declaration that the faith had a compelling responsibility to protect the environment of the Salt Lake Temple and that it was imperative to do something to revitalize this area.. EPA has always had billions in assets since its formation in 1997. Circuit Court of Appeals. Obviously I no longer believe in the truth claims of the church after researching the historical and doctrinal topics, but I am still a member of record who has contributed to the church's wealth. There is no faith promoting answer here which is apparent from their terrible answer here. From the Deseret News: "We preach tithing to the poor people of the world because the poor people of the world have had cycles of poverty, generation after generation," he said. Staff members at EPA needed to be in good standing with the church to work at the investment firm in downtown Salt Lake City. Nielsens document says that If EPA is not held accountable, this case will undermine confidence among ordinary citizens that our tax laws are enforced even-handedly when wealthy, influential organizations are involved. Paul Glader is executive editor of ReligionUnplugged.com and a professor of journalism at The Kings College NYC. To give a better overview of this topic, we're going to refer to the Salt Lake Tribune's coverage of the recent Wall Street Journal article by Peggy Fletcher Stack, because it covers some of the quotes from Mormon leaders along with Ensign Peak about the fund without getting as deep into the weeds as the WSJ article does. As Deuteronomy 14:28-29 makes clear, the church is supposed to use the tithes collected to actually help those in need: 28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that years produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.". Get Contact Info for All Departments Ensign Peak Advisors Org Chart The Ensign Peak Advisors management team includes Paul Davis (Chief Operating Officer), Anthony Kirkham (Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager), and Jason Butterfield (Chief Compliance Officer) . And while we can point to a laundry list of items that show this church is not true, this is a big reason you know that the church is not good. Carolyn Homer, a Latter-day Saint who lives in Virginia, told The Journal that after she heard about the money held by Ensign Peak, she resolved to tithe less and give more to other charities. The document says Nielsen left a financially lucrative career to work for EPA because he believed it was a worthy cause and organization. Do you really think when Jesus comes back to Earth that he's going to congratulate Russell Nelson on leaving those in need out to dry while accumulating a stock portfolio for his return? When Mr. Nielsen became aware that EPA served no charitable or religious purpose, and that EPAs management led to assets going missing within EPA, he attempted to correct these problems, the document says. Roger G. Clarke currently serves as a research collaborator with Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM) Analytic Investors. Software Updates. This page was processed by aws-apollo-l2 in. Cookie Settings. The church doesnt dispute that payments made to City Creek came from Ensign Peak. Keywords: factor investing, rules-based portfolios, quantitative portfolio management, Suggested Citation: You can Google patriarchal blessings about seeing Jesus before you die and read them, which is yet another example of why this church has no more connection to the divine (or revelation/discernment) than anyone else. Ensign Peak, which manages $124 billion in investments cultivated from tithing funds, is admitting that the church doesn't tell its members about the fund because they know members aren't going to keep paying tithing if they knew the church is sitting on so much money that they could cover every administrative cost for the church with the yearly So they never wanted to be in a position where . Roger served as a professor for more than ten years on the faculty of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. For the original stories in December of 2019,ReligionUnplugged.comreceived awards from Religion News Association and TheSociety for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and was a finalist foran EPPY Award for best business reporting from Editor & Publisher. And yet somehow they don't need to set up shell companies to hide it from the government or their family. At some point, saving needs to be converted into good works and charitable giving.. Ensign Peaks holdings include $40 billion of U.S. stock, timberland in the Florida Panhandle and investments in prominent hedge funds. Here is some of what all these documents have brought into focus: (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. But he filed an appeal in February of 2022 to the 9th U.S. Aseries of storiesby ReligionUnplugged.com in December of 2019 revealed a whistleblower complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service that alleged The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints funneled member tithes into EPA, a nonprofit supporting organization controlled by the church, and amassed more than $100 billion in owned assets under management over 23 years. Tax avoidance: Nielsens document claims EPA has not disputed his original allegations that 1) EPA engaged in no religious, charitable or educational activities in the entire relevant period, 1997-2019, and 2) EPAs only distributions over 22 years were for the for-profit operations of an insurance company and a luxury shopping mall. The investment activity has been the subject of. 323.244.1154. Back to the article: Debates about Mormon finances and the question of transparency have persisted for decades but were triggered again in December by a whistleblower complaint filed by David Nielsen, a former portfolio manager with Ensign Peak, and reported by The Washington Post. And, sadly, as we see with the way leaders shut down critical thinking, demonize those who research it, and hide information from its members, the church will never be good, either. The statement here by the church is a flat out lie, and as a member of record I beg any church leader to explain to me how this is not as damning towards their honesty as it appears to be. I feel terrible for the members who have been contributing their entire lives only to find out that not only did the church not need the money, but that they aren't even using it to help those in need. (Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune). Huntsman seeks to recover his tithing funds that were fraudulently obtained by the LDS Corporation, the lawsuit stated. When the Great Recession hit, however, officials said the church trimmed the budget rather than tap its reserves.". David Nielsen, the former Ensign Peak fund manager, said the tithing-fueled fund held at least $100 billion during his nine-year tenure there ending in 2019. Former employees said the fund mushroomed from about $40 billion in 2012 to around $100 billion by 2019. He has served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Financial Analysts Journal. But there is a time, she told The Tribune on Saturday, to use resources to help and lift people. Roger G Clarke Ensign Peak Advisors Harindra de Silva Analytic Investors, Inc. Steven Thorley BYU Marriott School of Business Date Written: June 1, 2010 Abstract Empirical studies document that equity portfolios constructed to have the lowest possible risk have surprisingly high average returns. Roger Clarke, head of Ensign Peak (Wall Street Journal): "So they never wanted to be in a position where people felt like, you know, they shouldn't make a contribution". He has reported from dozens of countries for outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel Online and others. They also did not respond to a request to comment this week for this update story. This page was processed by aws-apollo-l2 in 0.084 seconds, Using these links will ensure access to this page indefinitely. But its lawyers go to great lengths in challenging Huntsmans lawsuit including filing rare financial documents under seal and blocking information from public view on others to show that no actual tithing went into those transactions. Given the popularity of factor investing, also known as rules-based, smart beta, or simply quantitative portfolio management, a number of students and traditional equity analysts have asked for a primer to introduce basic terms, concepts, and calculation procedures. . Since that time, 13 quarterly reports have been filed in full accordance with SEC requirements.". Ensign Peak Advisors ( email) 60 East South Temple 4th Floor Salt Lake City, UT 84111 United States. Counselor says: March 19, 2022 at 9:10 pm. This new memorandum to the U.S. Senate clarifies and follows up on his complaint about EPA. Its holdings dwarf those ofendowments at any university,such as Stanford, Harvard or Yale. The Mormon church created a system of more than a dozen shell companies to make their investments harder to track? Ensign Peak Advisors employs 11 employees. Last revised: 12 Oct 2016. In criminal conduct, EPA has engaged in a Klein conspiracy to defraud the IRS by pretending to be tax-exempt while concealing and falsifying the facts of its massive securities investment business, the document states. Roger G Clarke, Harindra de Silva and Steven Thorley. Roger G. Clarke Beyond tech, Ensign Peaks top holdings read like a typical blue chip roster: J.P. Morgan, Merck, Berkshire Hathaway and Intel. Ensign Peak Advisers, the non-profit that oversees the Church's portfolio, failed to comply with the regulator's disclosure rules by filing forms for shell companies that "obscured" the Church's investments, according to the SEC on Tuesday. It noted that the whistleblower report and media reporting on it heaped pressure on the church to be more transparent about its finances, something the church has avoided for decades.. The Salt Lake Tribune gets straight to the point here, because this is a massive statement and acknowledgement by the Mormon church. . Nielsen was also someone who had experience on Wall Street, working at a major New York hedge fund for five years and obtaining an MBA at UCLA before EPA recruited him in 2010 as an investment portfolio manager. This is a true 'liar liar pants on fire' moment for the church, and the leaders of the First Presidency are all in on it. There is simply no statistical evidence that paying tithing brings people out of poverty (anecdotally I have been much better off in my career since I left as have thousands of others who leave the church), and tithing was not enforced to enter the temple until 1899, which is why Prophet Joseph F Smith assured members there would be the day that the church would have "sufficient" money to not require tithing money from members. Please email us anytime at ldsdiscussion@gmail.com if you would like more resources to learn about these issues or if you are looking for people that you can safely talk to as you continue your faith journey. And the funny part about the quote is that many church leaders thought they knew when Jesus was coming back, but they just happened to be wrong. According to lead counsel for Mr. Nielsen, Michael A. Sullivan of Finch McCranie, LLP, the team representing Mr. Nielsen includes a former senior official of the SEC, more than one former federal criminal prosecutor, a former IRS Criminal Investigative Division agent, another former IRS official, and an international tax lawyer, all with decades of experience. We take seriously the responsibility to care for the tithes and donations received from members, the church statement said. And while that might not be against the law (there are questions of whether it's lawful to be tax exempt when you are not actively using the fund for charitable purposes), it is absolutely against their own definition of honesty. 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