TIAA is the United States’ leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. Our investment management subsidiary, Nuveen, is a global asset manager with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Founded over 100 years ago to help teachers retire with dignity, TIAA now serves five million individuals and more than 15,000 institutions across the entire not-for-profit sector, providing clients with financial solutions including investing, banking, advice and education, and retirement services. We manage money with a long-term perspective to help clients achieve financial well-being throughout their lives. Guided by our mission, we were one of the first institutional investors to engage its portfolio companies on social responsibility issues, beginning with corporate engagement on anti-apartheid in the 1970s. Today, we are a leader in Responsible Investing, with two-thirds of our assets committed to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment – and a goal to expand this to 100% of assets under management by 2020. Our aim is to achieve better outcomes for investors, our communities, and the planet.
Alignment with Guiding Principles
At the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, we invite companies of all sizes, industries, and geographies to champion our Guiding Principles for Inclusive Action and demonstrate how they contribute to meaningful change. To ensure alignment with our principles, our members are assessed by at least one reporting body, sustainability-related certificate, benchmark, rating agency or similar organization.
