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Nuveen fund

Fixed income impact investing

Financing positive social and environmental outcomes

Nuveen’s global fixed income ESG/impact platform embeds responsible investing standards into actively managed fixed income to help address many of the large-scale, systemic challenges the world faces today. We believe our approach can deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns, add incremental return over market cycles, diversify traditional fixed income allocations and finance positive social and environmental outcomes.

Our experience, reputation for innovation, and thought leadership help drive first-of their-kind new issues, hone issuer best practices, and scale the impact market across sectors.

Highlights from our impact, leadership and advocacy experience


Blue bond investing in the Seychelles

A beach in the Seychelles 

Our ESG capabilities

Core bond strategy that invests primarily across investment grade, U.S. dollar fixed income markets in securities that demonstrate environmental/social impact or ESG leadership.

Multi-currency bond strategy that invests primarily in global government and credit markets in securities that demonstrate environmental/social impact or ESG leadership.

Hard currency emerging markets debt strategy that invests in issuers demonstrating environmental, social and governance leadership and are best positioned to address social and/or climate challenges, or securities that meet Nuveen’s proprietary fixed income direct and measurable impact framework.

Short Duration Impact Bond

Short-term bond strategy that invests primarily across investment grade, U.S. dollar fixed income markets in securities that demonstrate environmental/social impact or ESG leadership.

Green Bond

Invests primarily across investment grade, U.S. dollar fixed income markets in securities that demonstrate direct and measurable environmental impact.

Social Bonds

Invests primarily across investment grade, U.S. dollar fixed income markets in securities that demonstrate direct and measurable societal impact.

More about responsible investing
Nuveen global fixed income impact report 2021
How impact investing in public fixed income markets is not only possible, but vital to addressing many of the large-scale, systemic challenges the world faces today.
Stephen M. Liberatore, CFA, head of ESG/Impact, global fixed income, explores how Nuveen seeks to generate competitive returns while funding projects that yield positive social and environmental outcomes.
Sustainability-linked bonds do not fit our impact framework
We believe that our impact framework provides clear line of sight into the projects and initiatives financed in the bond market, and enables us to support anticipated outcomes that benefit local communities and more.
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Responsible investing incorporates Environmental Social Governance (ESG) factors that may affect exposure to issuers, sectors, industries, limiting the type and number of investment opportunities available, which could result in excluding investments that perform well.

1Operating Principles for Impact Management Nuveen Disclosure Statement June 2022 https://documents.nuveen.com/Documents/Nuveen/Default.aspx?uniqueId=d41de448-fa00-4682-be45-7fe6cbf1524a
2Emission-reduction bond https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/02/14/emission-reduction-linked-bond-helps-provide-clean-drinking-water-to-two-million-children-in-vietnam
3Zero coupon wildlife conservation bond (World Bank/IBRD, Mar 2022) https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/03/23/wildlife-conservation-bond-boosts-south-africa-s-efforts-to-protect-black-rhinos-and-support-local-communities
4Blue bond (Republic of the Seychelles, Oct 2018) https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/29/seychelles-launches-worlds-first-sovereign-blue-bond
5Forest bond (International Finance Corporation, Oct 2016) https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/corp_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/about+ifc_new/investor+relations/ir-products/forest_bond
6Solar sale & lease back ABS (SolarCity 2013-1A, Nov 2013)
7https://iixglobal.com/orange-bond-initiative/
8https://www.environmental-finance.com/content/awards/green-social-and-sustainability-bond-awards-2020/winners/investor-of-the-year-(not-a-fund).html
9https://www.environmental-finance.com/content/awards/environmental-finances-bond-awards-2022/winners/impact-report-of-the-year-(for-investors)-nuveen.html
10https://www.wealthmanagement.com/wealthies-circle/wm-awards-categories/asset-managers/
11https://www.pensionsforpurpose.com/knowledge-centre/thought-leadership/2022/02/25/Global-fixed-income-impact-report-2021-%E2%80%93-Nuveen/

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