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Client Experience
Enhance Client Relationships with Tech
The end of the year is an ideal time to check in with clients to gauge their financial and emotional wellbeing. Especially in the current environment, your clients may want reassurance that they’ll be okay.
Client Relationships
Help Your Clients Understand the Markets and Their Portfolios
While the markets have seemingly recovered from the early impact of COVID-19, the past few months have been a reminder that unpredictability is a part of investing, and downturns are inevitable.
Sustainable Investing
Socially beneficial and notably efficient: Fruits of Employment program
This piece is approved to use with clients.
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.
Sustainable Investing
Introducing Carbon Beta: What pricing carbon means for investors
For the first time ever, BlackRock is enabling all portfolio managers to stress test their portfolios to future carbon price scenarios. Andre and Mike explain why.
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.
Client Relationships
The Bid: Money talks, stress walks
Money is ranked the #1 source of stress in people’s lives, higher than physical health, work or family. But while we’re often willing to talk about the rest of these stressors, money is surrounded by taboo. How can we turn this concept into something approachable and part of cultural conversation?