Strategies
Private Equity Impact StrategyBuyout
The Nuveen Private Equity Impact team seeks to address the defining global challenges of our time — climate change and inequality — by investing in businesses that drive an inclusive transition to a low carbon economy to drive attractive risk adjusted returns for our investors.
Energy Transition
Global Clean EnergyInfrastructure
Nuveen’s global clean energy strategy invests in the transition to a low carbon economy, and aims to deliver reliable income streams and capital appreciation through exposure to high quality defensive infrastructure assets. Since 2007, Nuveen Infrastructure has a deep history investing in clean energy infrastructure, with projects in Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific. As part of our investment process we raise long-term capital to invest in clean energy power generation projects, including wind farms, solar parks and small-scale hydro power plants. Our carefully selected, risk-managed investments aim to deliver sustained performance and predictable returns over periods of 10 years or more.
Energy Transition
Other managers
AlpInvest
Amsterdam, NetherlandsAlpInvest, the Global Investment Solutions division of The Carlyle Group, is a large global private equity investor. The firm’s professionals have deep, global experience managing primary fund commitments, secondary and portfolio finance investments, and co-investments.
AlpInvest manages private equity investments for 500+ institutional investors worldwide through both commingled funds and customized strategic accounts.
Leveraging decades of experience, our teams work closely together to build differentiated portfolios that deliver value for our investors.
AlpInvest employs more than 225 professionals and operates globally with offices in New York, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, and Tokyo.
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Ardian is a world-leading private investment house, managing or advising $166bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,600 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Through Ardian Customized Solutions we create bespoke portfolios that allow institutional clients to specify the precise mix of assets they require and to gain access to funds managed by leading third-party sponsors. Private Wealth Solutions offers dedicated services and access solutions for private banks, family offices and private institutional investors worldwide. Ardian is majority-owned by its employees and places great emphasis on developing its people and fostering a collaborative culture based on collective intelligence. Our 1,000+ employees, spread across 19 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Middle East are strongly committed to the principles of Responsible Investment and are determined to make finance a force for good in society. Our goal is to deliver excellent investment performance combined with high ethical standards and social responsibility.
At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.
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Norvestor Advisory
Oslo, NorwayNorvestor is a leading private equity firm focusing on mid-market buyouts in the Nordic region with offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Luxembourg. The team has worked together since 1991 making it one of the most experienced private equity teams in the Nordics, having executed 75 investments with more than 300 follow-on M&A transactions, in addition to executing 51 exits including 15 IPOs. The Norvestor funds seek to invest in growth companies in the Nordic mid-market that have potential to achieve a leading Nordic or international position, typically through organic growth, acquisitions across fragmented industries and by geographic expansion.
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Pantheon
London, United KingdomPantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments, secondary purchases and direct customized solutions, across private equity, real assets and private credit.
We have partnered with more than 1,000 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with $68.3 billion in discretionary assets under management and a combined $102.3 billion in assets managed or advised (as of June 30, 2024) through a wide range of pooled funds and bespoke, customized accounts.
Pantheon currently has more than 470 employees located across its offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bogotá, Tokyo, Dublin, Berlin, Geneva and Singapore. Its global workforce includes more than 120 investment professionals.
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Wealth Management Partners
Amstelveen, NetherlandsWealth Management Partners is a Dutch based fund of funds manager covering the private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. It manages over EUR 1.5 billion in private capital assets. Its typical clients are predominantly private wealth clients, high net worth individuals, institutions and charities.
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Ardian is a world-leading private investment house, managing or advising $156bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,400 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Through Ardian Customized Solutions we create bespoke portfolios that allow institutional clients to specify the precise mix of assets they require and to gain access to funds managed by leading third-party sponsors. Private Wealth Solutions offers dedicated services and access solutions for private banks, family offices and private institutional investors worldwide. Ardian is majority-owned by its employees and places great emphasis on developing its people and fostering a collaborative culture based on collective intelligence. Our 1,000+ employees, spread across 16 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Middle East are strongly committed to the principles of Responsible Investment and are determined to make finance a force for good in society. Our goal is to deliver excellent investment performance combined with high ethical standards and social responsibility.
At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.
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AEA Investors
New York, United StatesFounded by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests with S.G. Warburg & Co. in 1968, AEA Investors is a pioneer in the private equity industry with an unparalleled global network of investors, business leaders and sector-focused investment professionals. Today, AEA is a leading global private investment firm with approximately $19 billion assets under management as of September 2023, focused on private equity, growth capital and private debt investments in the middle market. We believe our success is due to the fact that we have been able to steadfastly adhere to our principles and processes over many years and many economic cycles.
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Blackstone Group
New York, United StatesBlackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which we invest. Our more than $1 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, credit, real assets, secondaries and hedge funds.
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Apollo Global Management
New York, United StatesApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
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AlpInvest Partners
Amsterdam, NetherlandsAlpInvest, the Global Investment Solutions division of The Carlyle Group, is a large global private equity investor. The firm’s professionals have deep, global experience managing primary fund commitments, secondary and portfolio finance investments and co-investments.
AlpInvest manages private equity investments for 450+ institutional investors worldwide through both commingled funds and customized strategic accounts.
Leveraging decades of experience, our teams work closely together to build differentiated portfolios that deliver value for our investors.
AlpInvest employs more than 200 professionals and operates globally with offices in New York, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, and Tokyo.
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