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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.
Sustainable Investing
An Investor's Guide to Understanding Federated's Money Management
Overview of Federated's approach to managing money market funds, including process, philosophy and intensive credit analysis.
Sustainable Investing
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs are a universal set of goals, targets and indicators for global development.
Children & College Savings
College: the new 'debt sentence'
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At nearly $1.6 trillion, student debt is double the size of the Defense budget and is second only to mortgages on the list of the largest household liabilities.
Sustainable Investing
ESG shopping? Do your homework
A scarcity of disclosures is creating an information vacuum for ESG investors who rely only on off-the-shelf ratings.
Client Life Events
Millennials are just getting started
Millennials' biggest impact on consumption and housing will come in the years ahead.
Investing Ideas
What is ELB?
As global market rates move closer to zero, policymakers confront what "effective lower bound'' is for the Fed's benchmark rate.
Investing Ideas
Are International equities worth a look?
Beaten-down valuations are creating potentially attractive opportunities in the eurozone.
Investing Ideas
3 things to know about IPOs
Client Portfolio Manager Jordan Stuart discusses how the naturally volatile nature of the initial public offering (IPO) process represents part of a healthy movement of capital into new, more productive growth channels that drive economic opportunity for individuals, companies and countries.
Sustainable Investing
ESG Investing: A Social Uprising
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Whether a true believer in ESG investing or new to the concept, benefit from a deeper understanding on how ESG integration generates risk-adjusted returns.