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Global Impact Strategy

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The Nuveen Global Impact Strategy team focuses on private equity investment that seeks to address some of the most critical sustainable development challenges of our day — income inequality and climate change — by investing in companies ready to meet these challenges while also offering the potential for attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Our approach is differentiated
  1. High quality impact deal flow & market position
    Proprietary access to 200+ potential portfolio companies through fund and sector relationships developed over a decade
  2. Disciplined, commercial approach
    Pure-play impact strategy with strong risk-adjusted returns
  3. Strong client alignment
    Our parent, TIAA, is investing alongside clients
  4. Proven track record
    Proven impact investing with $406m+ in direct and indirect private equity capital invested firmwide since 2012 aligned with the UN SDGs
  5. Dedicated, diverse and experienced team
    Eight investment professionals with broad expertise and track records in private equity and impact investing

Representative investments

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Resource efficiency with View Glass
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Inclusive growth with Samunnati
A team led by experienced investors
Rekha Unnithan
Rekha Unnithan, CFA, CIMA
Co-Head of Impact Investing, Managing Director
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David Haddad
Managing Director, Co-Head of Impact Investing
Radhika Shroff
Radhika Shroff
Impact investing
Allison Spector
Allison Spector
Director of Sustainability, Real Assets & Private Markets
Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee
Director, Impact Investing
Chris Steinbaugh
Chris Steinbaugh
Director, Impact
Impact insights
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Responsible Investing Investing in resilience
In the midst of an endless cycle of unsettling news about events around the world, we are pleased to share an encouraging set of achievements from our private markets impact investing portfolio.
07 Apr 2021
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News Nuveen Global Impact strategy invests in India’s microfinance lender, Annapurna
Nuveen announces that it has invested in Annapurna Finance Private Limited.
29 Mar 2021
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Responsible Investing Case study: A common language for impact
Together with the Impact Management Project and the Impact Alliance, this case study focuses on Nuveen's usage of the IMP+ACT Classification System (ICS).
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