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Will Lofland GuideStone Funds

Will Lofland
Director, Head of Intermediary Distribution

Will Lofland leads the sales efforts to bring GuideStone’s award-winning1, faith-based mutual funds to the financial advisor marketplace. In addition, he directs the firm’s shareholder advocacy strategy and represents GuideStone as a participant in the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

Mr. Lofland has over 13 years of investment experience. He has been at GuideStone since 2014 and previously held positions at Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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Faith-Based Investing with GuideStone Funds

March 26, 2019

Faith-Based Investing - Introduction

Welcome to our new podcast series where we'll take a closer look at the intersection between traditional investment strategies and Christian values.

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1 The entire GuideStone Funds family won the Lipper Fund Award for 2012 Best Overall Small Company over 3 years (out of 26 eligible as of November 30, 2011). Moreover, the MyDestination 2025 Fund-Investor share class won the 2013 Mixed Asset Target 2025 Fund Award-3 year (out of 92 funds as of November 30, 2012); the Extended-Duration Bond Fund-Institutional share class won the 2014 Corporate Debt A-Rated Fund Award-3 year (out of 57 funds as of November 30, 2013), 2014 Corporate Debt A-Rated Fund Award-5 year (out of 51 funds as of November 30, 2013), 2015 Corporate Debt A-Rated Fund Award-3 year (out of 44 funds as of November 30, 2014) and 2015 Corporate Debt A-Rated Fund Award-5 year (out of 41 funds as of November 30, 2014); the Defensive Market Strategies Fund-Institutional share class won the 2017 Flexible Portfolio Funds Award-3 year (out of 147 funds as of November 30, 2016) and 2017 Flexible Portfolio Funds Award-5 year (out of 107 funds as of November 30, 2016); and the entire GuideStone Funds Family won the Lipper Fund Award for 2019 Best Overall Small Fund Family-3 year (out of 29 fund families as of November 30, 2018). Awards are based on risk-adjusted total return.

Investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal. The Funds may experience negative performance, and past performance does not guarantee future results. There can be no guarantee that any strategy (risk management or otherwise) will be successful.

The U.S. Lipper Fund Award for Best Overall Small Fund Family is based on a review of 29 fund families for 2019 and based on risk-adjusted performance for the three-year period ended November 30, 2018.

In order to qualify for Lipper’s Overall Small Fund Family Group Award, a fund family will need to have at least three distinct portfolios in each of the following asset classes: equity, bond and mixed-asset. An overall Group Award will be given to the fund family with the lowest average decile ranking of its respective asset class results based on the three-year Consistent Return measure of the eligible funds per asset class and group. The Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is a risk-adjusted performance measure, is calculated over 36, 60 and 120 months. The fund with the highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value in each eligible classification wins the Lipper Fund Award. The Lipper Fund Awards, granted annually, highlight funds and fund companies that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. Additional information is available at LipperFundAwards.com.

Group Award Methodology: For the 2019 Lipper Fund Awards from Refinitiv, a small fund family is defined as having assets of $76.8 billion or less.

Lipper Fund Awards from Refinitiv, ©2019 Refinitiv. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution or retransmission of this content without express written permission is prohibited.

You should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the GuideStone Funds® before investing. A prospectus with this and other information about the Funds may be obtained by calling 1-888-GS-FUNDS (1-888-473-8637) or downloading one. It should be read carefully before investing.

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