Raising the bar — impact investing in a changing world

Endnotes

¹Nuveen defines impact investing according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) definition: Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. https://thegiin.org/impact-investing/

²The figures stated below are absolute at an investee level and have not been adjusted to reflect Nuveen’s pro rata ownership share.

³Low income defined and reported by each investee, based on geography and operating context.

⁴https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator

⁵Excludes patients reached through mobile health services.

⁶Defined as affordable for people earning less than 60% of area median income (AMI).

⁷https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator

⁸https://globalfindex.worldbank.org/

⁹Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008.

¹⁰Steer L, van Fleet JW, Sacks G, Burnett N, Isenman P, King E, Wils A, et al. The Learning Generation: Investing in Education for a Changing World. New York: International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, 2016.

¹¹UNICEF. Education Cannot Wait: A Fund for Education in Emergencies. London: UNICEF, 2016.

¹²Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) State of the Nation’s Housing 2019. Cost burdened is defined as households spending more than 30 percent of income on housing, with severely cost burdened defined as spending more than half of its income on housing. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2019

¹³https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas#methane

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