Every investment passes a USCCB values screen before it enters the portfolio. No exceptions. No overrides. The saints and popes have been thinking rigorously about markets for 800 years — St. Thomas Aquinas on just price, the Salamanca School on monetary theory, Leo XIII on labor. We build on that tradition, not around it.
We report what the numbers actually say — with survivorship bias corrected, look-ahead bias removed, and transaction costs included. The corrected track record, with all its warts, is the only one worth publishing. We never show investors a number we wouldn't stake our own capital on.
Zero management fee. Performance fee only — 20% of profits, nothing if there are none. Ten percent of all fees tithed to Catholic Charities and diocesan outreach. Written into the operating agreement. This is not a marketing promise — it is the structure of the business.
The system is multi-asset and rules-based. Concentrated leadership in equities — the strongest names in the strongest groups — paired with a trend-following sleeve in gold and long-term Treasuries, so capital works across market regimes instead of sitting idle in cash. Every position, in every asset, passes the USCCB screen first.
AI does not pick our investments. It holds our ideas to a higher standard.
Most strategies fail for the same quiet reasons — a pattern that was luck, not edge; a backtest that peeked at the future; a return carried by two trades out of fifty. We use AI to hunt those errors before the market does: thousands of historical simulations and stress tests, the validation discipline that catches look-ahead bias and overfitting, and — when we ask it to — a genuine effort to disprove what we believe.
When we tested whether AI could predict our biggest winners in advance, the honest answer came back: it couldn't. That "no" was worth as much as any "yes" — it kept us from building on sand.
The trading decisions stay rule-based and human-governed. The person remains responsible. AI informs the research; it does not replace the judgment. That is the order the tradition asks for — the tool serves the person, never the reverse.
This morning, Leo XIV published his first encyclical — on the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. Signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum. What he wrote is what this system was built to do.
"Today's universally-intended goods include patents, algorithms, platforms, infrastructure, and data. When concentrated without adequate sharing, new imbalance emerges contradicting universal destination." Every USCCB screen enforces this principle in financial markets. Gate Zero runs before any price data is fetched.
"Employment must remain source of dignity, not mere cost-cutting variable." Labor is "a fundamental good enabling self-expression, contribution, and human flourishing." The labor exploitation exclusion is here — not because regulation requires it, but because the Church requires it.
The 10% tithe written into the operating agreement is not a marketing promise. It is the recognition that returns which do not flow back to the common good have violated the purpose of capital. Leo XIV named it. We built it in before he did.
Full text: vatican.va — Magnifica Humanitas · Full doctrine → 33-holding.com/principles
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