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Nuveen Natural Capital
About Nuveen Natural Capital
Nuveen Natural Capital is a land-focused asset management platform. Combining expertise across farmland and timberland investment specialists, we have over 35 years of land-based investing experience. With $9.7 billion of assets under management and 3 million acres across 600 properties in 10 countries, our platform is equipped to deliver investment solutions to protect and enhance nature, climate and people.
Nuveen Natural Capital deploys a value-added mindset and regional hands-on management to land-based investments to advance best practices and help create sustainable production systems for food, fiber and timber.
$9.7B
of assets under management*
3M
acres under management*
590+
properties in 10 countries*
200+
employees*
Featured insights
Why natural capital now?
Over the past year, impacts related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have produced major supply chain disruptions contributing to market volatility, historically high inflation rates and aggressive monetary policies.
Our approach to sustainability
Benefits of investing in natural capital
- Portfolio benefits such as diversification, inflation hedging and strong risk adjusted returns
- Structural tailwinds such as a growing population and income growth as well as industry and market changes in technology, consumer preferences, net zero carbon commitments and regulatory changes
- Real-life solutions to critical sustainability challenges — natural capital assets offer a diverse set of scalable ecosystem services that include solutions to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity and improve food security
Land-based assets are uniquely positioned to help meet investors’ financial and climate objectives while contributing to solutions for the food, land and carbon challenges we face globally.
Nuveen Natural Capital investment strategies
Learn about investing in natural capital
The earth’s natural capital can be thought of as a stock of assets—air, lands and waters and their biodiversity— that yields a flow of benefits or ecosystem services over time. The flow of these benefits includes provisioning services such as food, fiber and timber as well as a broad range of regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services that drive the global economy and human wellbeing.
19 Apr 2022 | 2 min read
Nuveen Natural Capital leadership team
Martin Davies
Global Head of Nuveen Natural Capital
Skye Macpherson, CAIA
Head of Portfolio Management
Christopher Lipton
Head of Timberland Investments, Nuveen Natural Capital
Cristina Hastings Newsome
Head of Sustainability, Nuveen Natural Capital
Michael L. Robinson, CPA
Chief Operating Officer, Nuveen Natural Capital
Spencer Klingman, CPA
Head of Finance, Nuveen Natural Capital
Kimberly S. Owens
Co-head of Legal, Nuveen Natural Capital
Duane Nelson
Co-head of Legal, Nuveen Natural Capital
Thomas Grenville
Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer
Renewable energy opportunities
on our farmland properties
on our farmland properties
*Nuveen internal sources as of June 30, 2022.
