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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 39 years of land-based investing experience. With $13.1B of assets under management and 3 million acres across over 580 properties in 11 countries1, 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.
$13.1B
of assets under management1
3M
acres under management1
580+
properties in 11 countries1
175+
employees1
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Natural capital as a shock absorber in investment portfolios
We evaluate how natural capital may serve three key portfolio objectives during periods of high volatility and significant drawdowns.
Our approach to sustainability
Benefits of investing in natural capital
- Portfolio benefits such as diversification, inflation hedging and potential for 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.
20 May 2022 | 2 min read
Nuveen Natural Capital leadership team
1Nuveen internal sources as of December 31, 2024, AUM represents Fair Market Value, acres rounded.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. All investments carry a certain degree of risk, including the loss of principal. Investment objectives may not be met.
As an asset class, agricultural investments are less developed, more illiquid, and less transparent compared to traditional asset classes. Agricultural investments will be subject to risks generally associated with the ownership of real estate-related assets, including changes in economic conditions, environmental risks, the cost of and ability to obtain insurance, and risks related to leasing of properties.
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.
ESG integration incorporates financially relevant ESG factors into investment research in support of portfolio management for actively managed strategies. Financial relevancy of ESG factors varies by asset class and investment strategy. Applicability of ESG factors may differ across investment strategies. ESG factors are among many factors considered in evaluating an investment decision, and unless otherwise stated in the relevant offering memorandum or prospectus, do not alter the investment guidelines, strategy or objectives.
Nuveen, LLC provides investment solutions through its investment specialists, including Nuveen Natural Capital LLC
