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Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Behavioral Advisor: The Power of Planning
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Planning is a powerful tool to help investors succeed and achieve better outcomes. The table below highlights the benefits of planning taken from a study on retirement planning among Americans over age 50.
Sustainable Investing
Impact: Driving positive environmental and social results
We drive impact through our investing practices across asset classes. Our strategies help channel capital to areas that address societal needs and environmental issues.
Sustainable Investing
How We Invest In Farmland: An introduction to Nuveen’s global agricultural sustainability approach
This introduction describes Nuveen’s sustainable farmland investing policies and procedures. It is intended to complement our Farmland Sustainability Annual Report, which documents our progress in meeting the PRI Farmland Guidelines.
Sustainable Investing
Fourth annual responsible investing survey
Responsible investing (RI) is most attractive as a strategy for higher performance by managing risk among high-net-worth investors. There has been a 200% increase in RI conversations between advisors and investors over the past year.
Manager & Investment Selection
Strategy Series: Strategy Preference Can Indicate Expected Stock Market Return
Rather surprisingly, the equity strategy framework can provide an estimate of current expected stock market returns. This is accomplished by measuring the recent investor response to each strategy, which, it turns out, captures the deep behavioral currents driving market returns. The resulting information is useful when managing equity market exposure.
Sustainable Investing
Investor Interest in Responsible Investing Soars
Advisors are recommending responsible investing less but assets are rising. Read more about the trends in the impact space in this report from Nuveen.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Behavioral Financial Markets
The analytical tools derived from behavioral finance’s more realistic representation of financial markets and human behavior will likely replace the wealth-limiting MPT tools in use today.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: New Frontiers of Risk
One modern portfolio theory (MPT) pillar that is unquestionably broken is the use of volatility, specifically standard deviation, as a measure of risk.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: The Rise and Fall of MPT
After the dust settles, virtually nothing of modern portfolio theory (MPT) will remain, asserts C. Thomas Howard and Jason Voss, CFA.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Rejecting a Broken 1970's Model
If enough mandates are added, a potential positive alpha is transformed into an actual negative alpha. So what can be done to launch an active equity renaissance?
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Understanding the Cult of Emotion
“I know you are afraid and you should be afraid. I will invest you in products that will not stir up your fears.” This sentiment is applied over and over in the investment industry.