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Emerging Markets Debt

Focused on driving returns through consistent, diversified alpha sources

We believe emerging markets debt is an inefficient asset class. Therefore, a disciplined investment process focused on downside risk management that efficiently allocates active risk can deliver long-term outperformance through consistent, diversified sources of alpha.

Investing in emerging markets debt is a core competency of our organization. Since making our first non-U.S. investment in the 1970s and forming a dedicated team in 1997, we've built one of the largest emerging markets debt platforms in the industry.¹ A dedicated focus on emerging markets debt gives our team the specialized expertise to identify relative value across sovereigns, corporates, frontier markets, and local currency.

Featured insights

Katherine Renfrew, Head of Emerging Markets Corporates and Quasi-Sovereigns, discusses how investors could benefit from investing in the global emerging markets debt asset class.
Beyond borders: a new framework for global fixed income investing
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Access our EMD expertise

$13B+ 2
Size and Scale
EMD assets managed by a 16-person investment team
1997
Established presence
Nearly 3 decades of experience in EMD. An early investor in EM corporate debt (preceded JPM CEMBI benchmarks).
+17yrs
Tenure at Nuveen
Average years of experience for the EMD leadership team.

Why Nuveen for emerging markets debt

SCALE

Taps into expertise and market insights of USD 1.4 trillion global asset manager

LONGEVTY

Successfully managed through multiple market cycles

CONTINUITY

Key tenets of investment philosophy and approach have not wavered under the leadership of a long-tenured, closely knit team

Our capabilities

Emerging markets debt
Broad, diversified emerging markets debt strategy with exposure spanning hard currency sovereign, hard currency corporates with a modest allocation to local currency investments
Emerging markets sovereign
Hard currency emerging markets debt strategy that invests primarily in sovereign and quasi sovereign issuers
Emerging markets local currency
Local currency emerging markets debt strategy that invests primarily in sovereign issuers
Emerging markets corporate
Emerging markets debt strategy that primarily invests in corporate and quasi-sovereign issuers across the quality spectrum
Emerging markets high yield
Emerging markets debt strategy that invests in a diversified mix of below investment grade sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate issuers

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1 Pensions & Investments, 16 Jun 2025. Rankings based on active U.S. bonds, U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets under management as of 31 Dec 2024 reported by each responding asset manager; updated annually. TIAA is the parent company of Nuveen.

2 As of 31 Mar 2026. Includes non-dedicated EM multi-sector fixed income accounts.

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