Creative Planning
Rating Overview
Rating Criteria
Rating Criteria Detail
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria:
Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Risk Level:
MediumRationale:
Creative Planning integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2025 ADV Part 2: “Creative Planning offers personalization of investing, which allows investors to emphasize stocks with characteristics like low [ESG] risk exposure or high exposure to thematic investment tilts like Catholic values” (1). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).
Criteria:
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Risk Level:
LowerRationale:
Creative Planning does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. The company’s charitable giving focus areas are community impact and education (1).
Criteria:
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Risk Level:
MediumRationale:
Creative Planning does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (1).
Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria:
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Risk Level:
LowerRationale:
Creative Planning has not supported ideological causes or policies (1).
Criteria:
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Risk Level:
LowerRationale:
Creative Planning has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).