Nuveen invests across the alternative credit spectrum to help clients add diversification, market-swing resilience and cashflow-driven return profiles to their portfolios. We offer innovative strategies tailored for tomorrow’s investors, financing the growth of businesses and powering the energy transition across direct lending, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), energy and infrastructure credit, real estate debt, and investment-grade private credit investments.
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Investing for resilience with alternative credit
Why Nuveen for alternative credit?
$594B+
total credit AUM¹
50+
years as an active private credit investor2
Owned by TIAA
the 3rd largest global private debt investor3
Featured insights
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Our alternative credit capabilities
Investment grade private credit
- Corporate private placements
- Credit tenant loans (CTLs)
- Private asset-backed securities (ABS)
- Infrastructure debt (project finance)
- C-PACE Lending
Leveraged finance
- High yield
- High yield ESG
- CLO issuance
- CLO investing
- Senior loans
- Senior loan ESG
Direct middle market lending
- U.S. senior lending
- U.S. junior capital
- European direct lending
- European capital solutions
- Private capital
Real estate debt
- Australian debt
- European debt
- U.K. debt
- U.S. debt
Infrastructure
- Energy infrastructure credit
- European energy transition enhanced credit
- Investment grade infrastructure debt
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¹ AUM as of 31 Mar 2025. Nuveen assets under management is inclusive of underlying investment specialists. Totals may not equal 100% due to rounding.
² Nuveen’s private capital investing team (inclusive of TIAA’s private credit and private equity investing teams) started investing in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) in 1969.
³ Rankings published in the Private Debt Investor Magazine’s Global Investor 50, December 2023/January 2024.
² Nuveen’s private capital investing team (inclusive of TIAA’s private credit and private equity investing teams) started investing in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) in 1969.
³ Rankings published in the Private Debt Investor Magazine’s Global Investor 50, December 2023/January 2024.
