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Sustainable Investing
Green bonds: Financing the transition to a new economy
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Green bonds are a type of fixed income instrument where the proceeds raised are used to finance clearly defined projects that have environmental benefits. Projects financed include renewable energy, water conservation, energy efficiency, green buildings, clean transport and sustainable land use.
Sustainable Investing
Performance with principles: How can ESG investing support financial returns?
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When ethical funds were in their infancy, a common assumption was that funds that incorporate ESG characteristics, and in particular those with a strict ethical screen applied, must necessarily involve a trade-off with performance.But over time, the debate about performance has turned on its head. Increasingly, investors recognize the potential financial materiality of issues such as corporate governance, labor management and environmental performance — and history is littered with examples of companies that have neglected these issues and paid the financial price.
Business Development
Janus Henderson Knowledge Labs™ Resources Overview
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At Janus Henderson, we designed Knowledge Labs™ to empower you through the challenges these changes bring.
Through our years of experience working with financial professionals, we believe our solutions help you more effectively shoulder the responsibility of guiding your clients toward better futures. When it comes to tools and advice for inspiring loyalty, enhancing business savvy and offering exceptional service, we partner with you to help you exceed expectations.
Active/Passive Management
Adding alpha through active management and a consumer sector focus
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Growth in emerging market economies and equity markets continues to be driven by rising levels of income and consumer spending by an expanding middle class.
Portfolio Construction Insights
How rates rise matters
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In prior rising rate environments, various parts of the municipal yield curve reacted differently based on economic conditions and the pace and scale of Fed activity.
Active/Passive Management
Active equity managers may outperform in the coronavirus era
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Equity investors continue to debate the merits of active versus passive management. But rather than frame the discussion in absolute terms, at Nuveen we believe it’s more important to understand how and why different market environments tend to favor either an active or passive approach. The investment landscape in the era of coronavirus invites such an inquiry.
Human Capital
Diversity is Good Business for Advisory Firms
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U.S. demographics are changing and we are expected to be a minority/majority by 2045. Yet the majority of financial advisors are still overwhelmingly white, male and shrinking in numbers. FlexShares conducted a survey of investors and advisors to see if diversity was being pursued and how firms were building diverse teams.
Sustainable Investing
Socially beneficial and notably efficient: Fruits of Employment program
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Nuveen’s Fruits of Employment (FoE) initiative gives individuals with disabilities access to competitive employment across four custom-farmed properties in California, Oregon and Washington. The initiative trains and employs workers with disabilities in the same job functions as other employees – an important effort considering that in the U.S. only 41% of people with disabilities are employed, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
As of March 2019, the program had 34 active workers, many of whom have worked on the farms since the start of the initiative in 2009. For a third of these employees, it was their first time having a job. The FoE program offers many benefits to farm managers, namely stable employment: unlike guest workers who are in the U.S. mainly during harvesting season, FoE workers are employed year round, helping to reduce labor shortages.
Overall, Nuveen’s Fruits of Employment initiative provides mutually beneficial outcomes for both farmland employers and employees, through the promotion of inclusive employment and decent work for all. Watch the video to explore the Fruits of Employment program, and to learn more about Nuveen’s progress in achieving numerous sustainability goals across our global farmland assets, view our latest Farmland Sustainability Report.