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Investing for resilience with alternative credit

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.

Why Nuveen for alternative credit?

$585B+
total alternative credit AUM¹
50+

 years as an active private credit investor2

Owned by TIAA

the 3rd largest global private debt investor3

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Our alternative credit capabilities

  • Corporate private placements
  • Credit tenant loans (CTLs)
  • Private asset-backed securities (ABS)
  • Infrastructure debt (project finance)
  • C-PACE Lending
  • U.S. senior lending
  • U.S. junior capital
  • European direct lending
  • European capital solutions
  • Private capital

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¹ AUM as of 31 Dec 2024. 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.
 
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