Nuveen’s inaugural private markets impact investing report highlights its approach to impact investing and the results it has achieved by putting more than $1 billion to work over 10 years, from 2008-2019. Nuveen focuses on capital solutions that can create tangible and measurable social and environmental impact, aligned with the UN SDGs, as well as risk-adjusted financial returns for investors.
Since Nuveen’s first private-markets impact investment in 1989, its capital has enabled low-income consumers to access essential services and affordable housing and disrupted traditional production processes and supply chains to achieve resource efficiency. This report shares the impact track record of its private markets impact investing portfolio over the last decade and showcases its ability to drive sustainable development for people and planet.