Nuveen, the $1.3 trillion global asset manager, has created a dedicated Global Infrastructure Investment Platform to expand on its existing $36 billion infrastructure business. The new platform brings together Nuveen’s established energy credit, infrastructure equity, and green capital teams under one umbrella, positioning the firm to capture growing institutional demand for infrastructure exposure. 

Jessica Bailey, formerly CEO of Nuveen Green Capital, has been named head of Global Infrastructure, a newly created role reporting to Nuveen CIO Saira Malik. Bailey will oversee the scaling of the platform, which spans both private infrastructure debt and equity as well as listed infrastructure strategies. 

With the launch, Nuveen has streamlined its capabilities into six core asset class pillars: infrastructure, real estate, natural capital, private capital, fixed income, and equities. The firm’s largest platforms remain global fixed income ($569B AUM, led by Anders Persson) and global equities ($536B AUM, led by Willis Tsai). On the private markets side, global real estate remains the largest ($135B AUM, led by Chad Philips), followed by private capital ($87B AUM, co-CEOs Ken Kencel and Anthony Fobel), which recently entered a strategic partnership with Hunter Point Capital and Temasek. Nuveen’s natural capital unit ($11B AUM, led by Martin Davies) invests across farmland and timberland. 

Nuveen CEO Bill Huffman underscored the firm’s ambition to deliver comprehensive infrastructure solutions across the risk-return spectrum, from development-stage clean energy projects to stabilized digital infrastructure assets and securitized investment-grade opportunities. “By bringing together our specialized teams, we can better serve clients who are seeking to allocate capital to the infrastructure investments that are essential to the global economy,” Huffman said.