NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST (Form: 485BPOS, Received: 10/28/2014 12:00:17)

immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

on October 31, 2014 pursuant to paragraph (b)

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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2014

1933 Act Registration No. 333-03715

1940 Act Registration No. 811-07619

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form N-1A


REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933		¨

Pre-Effective Amendment No.		¨

Post-Effective Amendment No. 106		x

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940		¨

Amendment No. 108		x

Nuveen Investment Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Declaration of Trust)


333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois		60606
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (312) 917-7700

Kevin J. McCarthy

Vice President and Secretary

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Eric F. Fess

Chapman and Cutler LLP

111 West Monroe Street

Chicago, Illinois 60603

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Title of Securities Being Registered: Shares of beneficial interest.

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CONTENTS OF POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 106

This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement comprises the following papers and contents:


The Facing Sheet

Part A—The Prospectus for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund; the Prospectus for Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund; the Prospectus for Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund; the Prospectus for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

Part B—The Statement of Additional Information for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund; the Statement of Additional Information for Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund; the Statement of Additional Information for Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund; the Statement of Additional Information for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

Part C—Other Information

Signatures

Exhibit Index

Exhibits



Mutual Funds

Prospectus


		October 31, 2014

Class / Ticker Symbol

Fund Name

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class R6

Class I

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund

NQVAX

NQVCX

NMCTX

—

NQVRX

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund

NQCAX

NQCCX

NQCQX

—

NQCRX

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund

NSMAX

NSMCX

NWQRX

—

NSMRX

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund

NSCAX

NSCCX

NSCQX

NSCFX

NSCRX

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund

NVOAX

NVOCX

NTVTX

—

NVORX

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Table of Contents



Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund		2

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		6

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		10

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		14

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		18


Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

Who Manages the Funds		22

More About Our Investment Strategies		24

How We Select Investments		27

What the Risks Are		28


Section 3 How You Can Buy and Sell Shares

What Share Classes We Offer		31

How to Reduce Your Sales Charge		34

How to Buy Shares		35

Special Services		36

How to Sell Shares		38


Section 4 General Information

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes		41

Distribution and Service Payments		42

Net Asset Value		44

Frequent Trading		45

Fund Service Providers		46


Section 5 Financial Highlights	47


Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms	52

NOT FDIC OR GOVERNMENT INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 31 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 34 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-66 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)

5.75%

None

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹

None

1.00%

None

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends

None

Exchange Fee

None

Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²

$15

None

$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Management Fees

0.78%

Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees

0.25%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

Other Expenses

0.25%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

1.28%

2.03%

1.53%

1.03%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	698	$	206	$	156	$	105	$	698	$	206	$	156	$	105
3 Years	$	958	$	637	$	483	$	328	$	958	$	637	$	483	$	328
5 Years	$	1,237	$	1,093	$	834	$	569	$	1,237	$	1,093	$	834	$	569
10 Years	$	2,031	$	2,358	$	1,824	$	1,259	$	2,031	$	2,358	$	1,824	$	1,259

Portfolio Turnover

Section 1 Fund Summaries

are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 37% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of companies with large, medium and small capitalizations. The Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to identify under-valued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability. The Fund’s sub-adviser maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. The Fund’s sub-adviser will sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that the company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or catalysts. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities, but it may invest up to 35% of its net assets in non-U.S. equity securities, including up to 10% of its net assets in equity securities of companies located in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks

The value of your investment in this Fund will change daily. You could lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The principal risks of investing in the Fund, listed alphabetically, include:

Currency Risk —Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, the value of dividends and interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio.

Equity Security Risk —Equity securities may decline significantly in price over short or extended periods of time, and such declines may occur because of declines in the equity market as a whole, or because of declines in only a particular country, company, industry, or sector of the market.

Non-U.S./Emerging Markets Risk —Non-U.S. issuers or U.S. issuers with significant non-U.S. operations may be subject to risks in addition to those of issuers located in or that principally operate in the United States as a result of, among other things, political, social and economic developments abroad and different legal, regulatory and tax environments. These additional risks may be heightened for securities of issuers located in, or with significant operations in, emerging market countries.

Smaller Company Risk —Small-cap stocks involve substantial risk. Prices of small-cap stocks may be subject to more abrupt or erratic movements, and to wider fluctuations, than stock prices of larger, more established companies or the market averages in general. It may be difficult to sell small-cap stocks at the desired time and price. While mid-cap stocks may be slightly less volatile than small-cap stocks, they still involve similar risks.

Value Stock Risk —The intrinsic value of a stock with value characteristics may not be fully recognized by the market for a long time or a stock judged to be undervalued may actually be appropriately priced at a low level.

Fund Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at www.nuveen.com/performance or by calling (800) 257-8787.

Section 1 Fund Summaries

The bar chart below shows the variability of the Fund’s performance from year to year for Class A shares. The bar chart and highest/lowest quarterly returns that follow do not reflect sales charges, and if these charges were reflected, the returns would be less than those shown.

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 0.00%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 22.83% and -25.36%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of broad measures of market performance (the Russell 3000 ^® Value Index is the Fund’s primary benchmark) and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. Class R3 shares commenced operations on August 4, 2008. The 10 year return for Class R3 shares shown below reflects Class I performance prior to August 4, 2008 adjusted for the difference in fees between the classes. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

Both the bar chart and the table assume that all distributions have been reinvested. Performance reflects fee waivers, if any, in effect during the periods presented. If any such waivers were not in place, returns would be reduced.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			10 Years
Class A (return before taxes)		26.43	%		16.72	%		5.10	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		26.32	%		16.67	%		4.82	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		15.04	%		13.56	%		4.08	%
Class C (return before taxes)		33.10	%		17.23	%		4.93	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		33.76	%		17.81	%		5.44	%
Class I (return before taxes)		34.41	%		18.42	%		5.99	%
Russell 3000 ^® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		32.69	%		16.75	%		7.66	%
S&P 500 ^® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		32.39	%		17.94	%		7.41	%
Lipper Multi-Cap Value Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		33.25	%		18.45	%		7.26	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Portfolio Manager


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Jon D. Bosse, CFA	Chief Investment Officer, Co-President, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager	1997

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

You may purchase, redeem or exchange shares of the Fund on any business day, which is any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for business. You may purchase, redeem or exchange shares of the Fund either through a financial advisor or other financial intermediary or directly from the Fund. The Fund’s initial and subsequent investment minimums generally are as follows, although the Fund may reduce or waive the minimums in some cases:


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions are taxable and will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred account, such as an IRA or 401(k) plan (in which case you may be taxed upon withdrawal of your investment in such account).

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank or financial advisor), the Fund, its distributor or its investment adviser may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

5.75%

None

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹

None

1.00%

None

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends

None

Exchange Fee

None

Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²

$15

None

$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Management Fees

0.68%

Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees

0.25%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

Other Expenses

0.15%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

1.08%

1.83%

1.33%

0.83%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	679	$	186	$	135	$	85	$	679	$	186	$	135	$	85
3 Years	$	899	$	576	$	421	$	265	$	899	$	576	$	421	$	265
5 Years	$	1,136	$	990	$	729	$	460	$	1,136	$	990	$	729	$	460
10 Years	$	1,816	$	2,148	$	1,601	$	1,025	$	1,816	$	2,148	$	1,601	$	1,025

Portfolio Turnover

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations at the time of investment comparable to companies in the Russell 1000 ^® Value Index. As of September 30, 2014, the market cap range for the Russell 1000 ^® Value Index was $195.3 million to $403.9 billion. The Fund will not be forced to sell a stock because it has exceeded or fallen below the current market capitalization range. The Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to identify under-valued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability. The Fund’s sub-adviser maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. The Fund’s sub-adviser will sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that the company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or catalysts. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities, but it may invest up to 35% of its net assets in non-U.S. equity securities, including up to 10% of its net assets in equity securities of companies located in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks

Large Cap Stock Risk —Because it invests primarily in large capitalization stocks, the Fund may underperform funds that invest primarily in stocks of smaller capitalization companies during periods when the stocks of such companies are in favor.

Fund Performance

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 4.19%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the seven-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 19.12% and -19.14%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. Class R3 shares commenced operations on September 29, 2009. The 5 years and since inception returns for Class R3 shares shown below reflect Class I performance prior to September 29, 2009 adjusted for the difference in fees between the classes. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			Since Inception (December 15, 2006)
Class A (return before taxes)		22.09	%		12.83	%		1.67	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		21.36	%		12.60	%		1.51	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		13.08	%		10.30	%		1.30	%
Class C (return before taxes)		28.53	%		13.32	%		1.77	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		29.24	%		13.87	%		2.27	%
Class I (return before taxes)		29.80	%		14.45	%		2.79	%
Russell 1000 ^® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		32.53	%		16.67	%		4.48	%
Lipper Large-Cap Value Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		32.27	%		16.06	%		4.21	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Portfolio Manager


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Jon D. Bosse, CFA	Chief Investment Officer, Co-President, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager	December 2006

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

5.75%

None

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹

None

1.00%

None

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends

None

Exchange Fee

None

Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²

$15

None

$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Management Fees

0.77%

Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees

0.25%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

Other Expenses

0.29%

0.28%

0.29%

0.28%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

1.31%

2.05%

1.56%

1.05%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	701	$	208	$	159	$	107	$	701	$	208	$	159	$	107
3 Years	$	966	$	643	$	493	$	334	$	966	$	643	$	493	$	334
5 Years	$	1,252	$	1,103	$	850	$	579	$	1,252	$	1,103	$	850	$	579
10 Years	$	2,063	$	2,379	$	1,856	$	1,283	$	2,063	$	2,379	$	1,856	$	1,283

Portfolio Turnover

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations at the time of investment comparable to companies in the Russell 2500 ^® Value Index. As of September 30, 2014, the market cap range for the Russell 2500 ^® Value Index was $53.8 million to $11.2 billion. The Fund will not be forced to sell a stock because it has exceeded or fallen below the current market capitalization range. The Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to identify under-valued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability. The Fund’s sub-adviser maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. The Fund’s sub-adviser will sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that the company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or catalysts. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities, but it may invest up to 35% of its net assets in non-U.S. equity securities, including up to 10% of its net assets in equity securities of companies located in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks

Fund Performance

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was -3.37%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the seven-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 25.71% and -29.66%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			Since Inception (December 15, 2006)
Class A (return before taxes)		30.46	%		21.17	%		4.55	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		30.46	%		21.17	%		4.55	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		17.24	%		17.38	%		3.58	%
Class C (return before taxes)		37.39	%		21.79	%		4.63	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		38.04	%		22.31	%		4.99	%
Class I (return before taxes)		38.76	%		22.93	%		5.53	%
Russell 2500 ^TM Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		33.32	%		19.61	%		6.32	%
Lipper Small-Cap Core Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		36.81	%		20.33	%		7.07	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Portfolio Manager

Name

Title

Portfolio Manager of Fund Since

Phyllis Thomas, CFA

Managing Director

and Portfolio Manager

December 2006

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class R6

Class I

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

5.75%

None

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹

None

1.00%

None

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends

None

Exchange Fee

None

Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²

$15

None

$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class R6

Class I

Management Fees

0.91%

Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees

0.25%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

Other Expenses

0.20%

0.11%

0.20%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

1.36%

2.11%

1.61%

1.02%

1.11%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example


	Redemption										No Redemption
	A		C		R3		R6		I		A		C		R3		R6		I
1 Year	$	706	$	214	$	164	$	104	$	113	$	706	$	214	$	164	$	104	$	113
3 Years	$	981	$	661	$	508	$	325	$	353	$	981	$	661	$	508	$	325	$	353
5 Years	$	1,277	$	1,134	$	876	$	563	$	612	$	1,277	$	1,134	$	876	$	563	$	612
10 Years	$	2,116	$	2,441	$	1,911	$	1,248	$	1,352	$	2,116	$	2,441	$	1,911	$	1,248	$	1,352

Portfolio Turnover

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Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations at the time of investment comparable to companies in either the Russell 2000 ^® Value Index or the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index. As of September 30, 2014, the market cap range for the Russell 2000 ^® Value Index was $53.8 million to $4.0 billion and the market cap range for the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index was $100.3 million to $3.8 billion. The Fund will not be forced to sell a stock because it has exceeded or fallen below the current market capitalization range. The Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to identify under-valued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability. The Fund’s sub-adviser maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. The Fund’s sub-adviser will sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that the company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or catalysts. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities, but it may invest up to 35% of its net assets in non-U.S. equity securities, including up to 10% of its net assets in equity securities of companies located in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks

Small-Cap Stock Risk —Small-cap stocks involve substantial risk. Prices of small-cap stocks may be subject to more abrupt or erratic movements, and to wider fluctuations, than stock prices of larger, more established companies or the market averages in general. It may be difficult to sell small-cap stocks at the desired time and price.

Fund Performance

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Class A Annual Total Return*

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Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was -1.85%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the nine-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 25.53% and -35.69%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.

Performance is not shown for Class R6 shares, which have not been offered for a full calendar year.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			Since Inception (December 8, 2004)
Class A (return before taxes)		32.67	%		22.77	%		8.00	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		32.67	%		22.77	%		7.82	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		18.49	%		18.77	%		6.41	%
Class C (return before taxes)		39.72	%		23.33	%		7.92	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		40.47	%		23.97	%		20.80	%
Class I (return before taxes)		41.15	%		24.58	%		8.99	%
Russell 2000 ^® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		34.52	%		17.64	%		7.54	%
Lipper Small-Cap Core Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		36.81	%		20.33	%		8.55	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

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Portfolio Manager

Name

Title

Portfolio Manager of Fund Since

Phyllis Thomas, CFA

Managing Director

and Portfolio Manager

December 2004

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	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class R6	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only to certain qualified retirement plans and other investors as described in the prospectus. $5 million for all accounts except: •No minimum for certain qualified retirement plans as described in the prospectus.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

5.75%

None

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption
proceeds) ¹

None

1.00%

None

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends

None

Exchange Fee

None

Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²

$15

None

$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Management Fees

0.78%

Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees

0.25%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

Other Expenses

0.22%

0.21%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

1.25%

2.00%

1.50%

0.99%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	695	$	203	$	153	$	101	$	695	$	203	$	153	$	101
3 Years	$	949	$	627	$	474	$	315	$	949	$	627	$	474	$	315
5 Years	$	1,222	$	1,078	$	818	$	547	$	1,222	$	1,078	$	818	$	547
10 Years	$	1,999	$	2,327	$	1,791	$	1,213	$	1,999	$	2,327	$	1,791	$	1,213

Portfolio Turnover

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Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in equity securities of companies with varying market capitalizations, which may include small-, mid- and large-capitalization companies. The Fund’s sub-adviser opportunistically seeks to identify under-valued companies considering absolute valuation and security pricing in the context of industry and market conditions. The sub-adviser’s disciplined, value-oriented investment strategy focuses on rigorous financial statements and valuation analysis, qualitative factors and portfolio downside protection. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. equity securities, but it may invest up to 35% of its net assets in non-U.S. equity securities, including up to 15% of its net assets in equity securities of companies located in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks

Fund Performance

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Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 2.60%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the nine-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 22.01% and -16.11%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. Class R3 shares commenced operations on August 4, 2008. The since inception return for Class R3 shares shown below reflects Class I performance prior to August 4, 2008 adjusted for the difference in fees between the classes. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			Since Inception (December 8, 2004)
Class A (return before taxes)		20.00	%		16.67	%		10.58	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		18.48	%		15.69	%		9.61	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		11.76	%		13.51	%		8.53	%
Class C (return before taxes)		26.38	%		17.17	%		10.47	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		27.04	%		17.78	%		11.02	%
Class I (return before taxes)		27.67	%		18.36	%		11.58	%
Russell 3000 ^® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		32.69	%		16.75	%		6.96	%
Lipper Global Multi-Cap Value Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		25.80	%		14.54	%		6.48	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC

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Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Joann M. Barry, CFA	Managing Director, Equity Analyst and Portfolio Manager	March 2012
F. Rowe Michels, CFA	Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Equity Analyst and Director of Research	March 2012

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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To help you better understand the Funds, this section includes a detailed discussion of the Funds’ investment and risk management strategies. For a more complete discussion of these matters, please see the statement of additional information, which is available by calling (800) 257-8787 or by visiting Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com.

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“Nuveen Fund Advisors”) , the Funds’ investment adviser, offers advisory and investment management services to a broad range of mutual fund clients. Nuveen Fund Advisors has overall responsibility for management of the Funds, oversees the management of the Funds’ portfolios, manages the Funds’ business affairs and provides certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services. Nuveen Fund Advisors is located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Nuveen Fund Advisors is a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. ( “Nuveen Investments” ). The Nuveen family of advisers has been providing advice to investment companies since 1976, and had $231.1 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2014.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has selected its affiliate, NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (“ NWQ ”), located at 2049 Century Park East, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067, to serve as sub-adviser to the investment portfolios of Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund. NWQ manages the investment of the Funds’ assets on a discretionary basis, subject to the supervision of Nuveen Fund Advisors.

Jon D. Bosse is the portfolio manager for the assets of Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund. Phyllis Thomas is the portfolio manager for the assets of Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund.

•

Jon D. Bosse, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Co-President, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at NWQ since 1996, has been the portfolio manager of Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund since their inception.

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Phyllis Thomas, CFA, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of NWQ since 1990, has been the portfolio manager of Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund since their inception.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has selected its affiliate, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC (“ Tradewinds ”), located at 2049 Century Park East, 20th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067, to serve as sub-adviser to the investment portfolio of Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund. Tradewinds specializes in international and global investment strategies. Tradewinds manages the investment of the Fund’s assets on a discretionary basis, subject to the supervision of Nuveen Fund Advisors. Joann M. Barry and F. Rowe Michels are the portfolio managers of the Fund.

•

Joann M. Barry, CFA, is a Managing Director, a portfolio manager and a Consumer Discretionary analyst at Tradewinds. She joined Tradewinds in

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2009 after spending ten years at Deutsche Bank, most recently as managing director/head of the North American Consumer Discretionary team. She managed multiple investment funds during her tenure at that firm, including a global portfolio of gold-related investments. Before that she was a senior equity analyst at Monetta Financial Services and a portfolio manager and equity analyst at Farmers Insurance Group, where she managed diversified domestic equity portfolios. Joann began her career as an investment analyst at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

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F. Rowe Michels, CFA, is a Managing Director, a portfolio manager, a Utilities Analyst and is the Director of Research at Tradewinds. He joined Tradewinds after serving as director of research for Wexford Capital’s hedge funds. Before that time Rowe spent 10 years at Bear Stearns, beginning his tenure as an emerging markets utilities analyst, two years later taking on the additional responsibility of serving as the director of Latin American research, and two years after that, becoming the director of emerging markets research. Prior to Bear Stearns he was director of research and an emerging markets utilities analyst at Caspian Securities. Before joining Caspian, Rowe was an equity analyst at D.A. Campbell Co. and a management consultant at Kurt Salmon Associates. Rowe began his career at Morgan Stanley as an associate in the U.S. Equities Division.

Additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and the portfolio managers’ ownership of securities in the Funds is provided in the statement of additional information.

Management Fees

The management fee schedule for each Fund consists of two components: a Fund-level fee, based only on the amount of assets within a Fund, and a complex-level fee, based on the aggregate amount of all eligible fund assets managed by Nuveen Fund Advisors.

The annual Fund-level fee, payable monthly, is based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as follows:


Average Daily Net Assets	Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Small/ Mid-Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund			Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund
For the first $125 million		0.6300	%		0.5500	%		0.6000	%		0.7500	%		0.6300	%
For the next $125 million		0.6175	%		0.5375	%		0.5875	%		0.7375	%		0.6175	%
For the next $250 million		0.6050	%		0.5250	%		0.5750	%		0.7250	%		0.6050	%
For the next $500 million		0.5925	%		0.5125	%		0.5625	%		0.7125	%		0.5925	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5800	%		0.5000	%		0.5500	%		0.7000	%		0.5800	%
For net assets over $2 billion		0.5550	%		0.4750	%		0.5250	%		0.6750	%		0.5550	%

The complex-level fee is the same for each Fund. It begins at a maximum rate of 0.2000% of each Fund’s average daily net assets, based upon complex-level assets of $55 billion, with breakpoints for eligible assets above that level. Therefore, the maximum management fee rate for each Fund is the Fund-level fee plus 0.2000%. As of June 30, 2014, the effective complex-level fee for each Fund was 0.1653% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.

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For the most recent fiscal year, each Fund paid Nuveen Fund Advisors the following management fees (net of fee waivers and expense reimbursements, where applicable) as a percentage of average daily net assets:


Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	0.78	%
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund	0.68	%
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund	0.77	%
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund	0.91	%
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund	0.78	%

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.13% for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, and 1.10% (1.45% after October 31, 2015) for Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. The expense limitation expiring October 31, 2015 may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund. The expense limitation in effect thereafter may be terminated or modified only with the approval of shareholders of the Fund.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.35% for Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund and 1.50% for Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. These expense limitations may be terminated or modified only with the approval of shareholders of the Funds.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.50% for Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares adjusted downward for Class R6 for savings resulting from the sub-transfer agent and similar fees that are not charged to the R6 shares. The expense limitation may be terminated or modified only with the approval of shareholders of the Fund.

Information regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the investment management agreements is available in the Funds’ annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.

The Funds’ investment objectives, which are described in the “Fund Summaries” section, may not be changed without shareholder approval.

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund have each adopted a

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non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (a “Name Policy” ). Details about each Fund’s Name Policy can be found in the statement of additional information. Each Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy.

The Funds’ investment policies may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval unless otherwise noted in this prospectus or the statement of additional information.

The Funds’ principal investment strategies are discussed in the “Fund Summaries” section. These are the strategies that the Funds’ investment adviser and sub-adviser believe are most likely to be important in trying to achieve the Funds’ investment objectives. This section provides more information about these strategies, as well as information about some additional strategies that the Funds’ sub-adviser uses, or may use, to achieve the Funds’ objectives. The strategies described below are principal investment strategies unless otherwise noted. You should be aware that each Fund may also use strategies and invest in securities that are not described in this prospectus, but that are described in the statement of additional information. For a copy of the statement of additional information, call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787 or visit Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com.

Equity Securities

Under normal market conditions, each Fund primarily invests in equity securities. Equity securities generally include common stocks; preferred securities; warrants to purchase common stocks and preferred securities; convertible debt securities that are either in the money or immediately convertible into common stocks or preferred securities; depositary receipts; and other securities with equity characteristics.

Non-U.S. Investments

The Funds may invest in equity securities of non-U.S. issuers. The Funds will classify an issuer of a security as being a U.S. or non-U.S. issuer based on the determination of an unaffiliated, recognized financial data provider. Such determinations are based on a number of criteria, such as the issuer’s country of domicile, the primary exchange on which the security trades, the location from which the majority of the issuer’s revenue comes, and the issuer’s reporting currency.

The Funds may invest in issuers located in emerging markets. Emerging market countries include any country other than Canada, the United States and the countries comprising the MSCI EAFE ^® Index (currently, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

As a non-principal investment strategy, the Funds may invest in cash and in U.S. dollar-denominated high-quality money market instruments and other short-term securities, including money market funds, in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Funds’ principal investment strategies. The Funds may temporarily invest without limit in such holdings for liquidity purposes, or in an attempt to respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. Being invested in these

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securities may keep a Fund from participating in a market upswing and prevent a Fund from achieving its investment objective.

Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles

As a non-principal investment strategy, the Funds may invest in securities of other open-end or closed-end investment companies, including exchange-traded funds ( “ETFs” ), that invest primarily in securities of the types in which the Funds may invest directly. In addition, the Funds may invest a portion of their assets in pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies) that invest primarily in securities of the types in which the Funds may invest directly. An ETF is an investment company that holds a portfolio of securities generally designed to track the performance of a securities index, including industry, sector, country and region indexes. ETFs trade on a securities exchange and their shares may, at times, trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.

As a shareholder in a pooled investment vehicle, the Funds will bear their ratable share of that vehicle’s expenses, and would remain subject to payment of the Funds’ advisory and administrative fees with respect to assets so invested. Shareholders would therefore be subject to duplicative expenses to the extent the Funds invest in other pooled investment vehicles. In addition, the Funds will incur brokerage costs when purchasing and selling shares of ETFs. Securities of other pooled investment vehicles may be leveraged, in which case the value and/or yield of such securities will tend to be more volatile than securities of unleveraged vehicles.

Generally, investments in ETFs are subject to statutory limitations prescribed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. These limitations include a prohibition on a Fund acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any other investment company, and a prohibition on investing more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets in the securities of any one investment company or more than 10% of its total assets, in the aggregate, in investment company securities. Many ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in the ETFs’ shares beyond these statutory limitations, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to a contractual arrangement between the ETFs and the investing Fund. The Funds may rely on these exemptive orders in order to invest in unaffiliated ETFs beyond the foregoing statutory limitations. Subject to certain conditions, a Fund also may invest in money market funds beyond the statutory limits described above.

Derivatives

As a non-principal investment strategy, the Funds may use futures, interest rate swaps, total return swaps, non-U.S. currency swaps, credit default swaps, options and other derivative instruments to seek to enhance return, to hedge some of the risks of their investments in securities, as a substitute for a position in the underlying asset, to reduce transaction costs, to maintain full market exposure (which means to adjust the characteristics of their investments to more closely approximate those of the markets in which they invest), to manage cash flows, to limit exposure to losses due to changes to non-U.S. currency exchange rates or to preserve capital.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

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your Fund using the “Mutual Fund Finder” and clicking on the “Holdings & Detail” tab. By following these links, you can obtain a list of your Fund’s top ten holdings as of the end of the most recent month. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available on the Funds’ website ten business days after the end of the month. This information will remain available on the website until the Funds file with the Securities and Exchange Commission their annual, semi-annual or quarterly holdings report for the fiscal period that includes the date(s) as of which the website information is current.

Each sub-adviser independently conducts its own research, analysis, security selection and portfolio construction for the assets which it manages pursuant to the investment philosophy described below.

NWQ

NWQ manages Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund. NWQ seeks to identify undervalued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability, such as new management, industry consolidation, corporate restructuring or a turn in company fundamentals. NWQ’s portfolio managers and analysts collaborate closely in a rigorous, bottom-up research-focused investment process that focuses on financial statement and valuation analysis, qualitative factors and downside protection. NWQ believes that the companies identified by the team through this process are often underappreciated or misperceived by Wall Street. NWQ maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. NWQ will sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that the company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or catalysts.

Tradewinds

Tradewinds manages Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund. Tradewinds adheres to disciplined, value-driven investment strategies. Tradewinds emphasizes securities carefully chosen through in-depth research and follows those securities closely over time to assess whether they continue to meet the purchase rationale.

Tradewinds selects equity securities through bottom-up fundamental research focusing on both absolute valuation and qualitative measures. The research-driven investment process seeks to add value through active management and through research focused on selecting companies that possess opportunities misperceived by the market. Tradewinds considers absolute valuation and security pricing in the context of industry and market conditions and makes use of convertible securities on an opportunistic basis as an alternative to the underlying equity. Tradewinds applies a sell discipline emphasizing elimination of positions that no longer possess favorable risk/reward characteristics or attractive valuations or when superior investment alternatives are identified. Tradewinds maintains a long-term investment approach and a focus on securities it believes possess attractive risk/reward characteristics and provide downside protection over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations.

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Risk is inherent in all investing. Investing in a mutual fund involves risk, including the risk that you may receive little or no return on your investment or even that you may lose part or all of your investment. Therefore, before investing you should consider carefully the principal risks and certain other risks that you assume when you invest in the Funds. These risks are listed alphabetically below. Because of these risks, you should consider an investment in the Funds to be a long-term investment.

Principal Risks

Currency risk: Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, the value of dividends and interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities, and hence will affect the net asset value of a Fund that invests in such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of a Fund to the extent it invests in such non-U.S. dollar denominated securities.

Equity security risk: Equity securities may decline significantly in price over short or extended periods of time. Price changes may occur in the market as a whole, or they may occur in only a particular country, company, industry, or sector of the market. In addition, the types of securities in which a particular Fund invests, such as value stocks, growth stocks, large-capitalization stocks, mid-capitalization stocks, small-capitalization stocks and/or micro-capitalization stocks, may underperform the market as a whole.

Large cap stock risk: While large cap companies may be less volatile than those of mid- and small-cap companies, they still involve risk. To the extent a Fund invests in large capitalization stocks, the Fund may underperform funds that invest primarily in stocks of smaller capitalization companies during periods when the stocks of such companies are in favor.

Non-U.S./emerging markets risk: Non-U.S. issuers or U.S. issuers with significant non-U.S. operations may be subject to risks in addition to or different than those of issuers that are located in or principally operated in the United States due to political, social and economic developments abroad, different regulatory environments and laws, potential seizure by the government of company assets, higher taxation, withholding taxes on dividends and interest and limitations on the use or transfer of portfolio assets.

To the extent a Fund invests in depositary receipts, the Fund will be subject to many of the same risks as when investing directly in non-U.S. securities. The holder of an unsponsored depositary receipt may have limited voting rights and may not receive as much information about the issuer of the underlying securities as would the holder of a sponsored depositary receipt.

Other non-U.S. investment risks include the following:

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Enforcing legal rights may be difficult, costly and slow in non-U.S. countries, and there may be special problems enforcing claims against non-U.S. governments.

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Non-U.S. companies may not be subject to accounting standards or governmental supervision comparable to U.S. companies, and there may be less public information about their operations.

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Non-U.S. markets may be less liquid and more volatile than U.S. markets.

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The U.S. and non-U.S. markets often rise and fall at different times or by different amounts due to economic or other developments particular to a given country or region. This phenomenon would tend to lower the overall price volatility of a portfolio that included both U.S. and non-U.S. securities. Sometimes, however, global trends will cause the U.S. and non-U.S. markets to move in the same direction, reducing or eliminating the risk reduction benefit of international investing.

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non-U.S. exchanges and investment professionals are subject to less governmental regulation, and commissions may be higher than in the United States. Also, there may be delays in the settlement of non-U.S. exchange transactions.

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A Fund’s income from non-U.S. issuers may be subject to non-U.S. withholding taxes. In some countries, the Fund also may be subject to taxes on trading profits and, on certain securities transactions, transfer or stamp duties tax. To the extent non-U.S. income taxes are paid by the Fund, U.S. shareholders may be entitled to a credit or deduction for U.S. tax purposes.

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Some countries, particularly in emerging markets, restrict to varying degrees foreign investment in their securities markets. In some circumstances, these restrictions may limit or preclude investment in certain countries or may increase the cost of investing in securities of particular companies.

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Emerging markets generally do not have the level of market efficiency and strict standards in accounting and securities regulation to be on par with advanced economies. Investments in emerging markets come with much greater risk due to political instability, domestic infrastructure problems and currency volatility.

Smaller company risk: Stocks of small-cap companies involve substantial risk. These companies may lack the management expertise, financial resources, product diversification, and competitive strengths of larger companies. Prices of small-cap stocks may be subject to more abrupt or erratic movements than stock prices of larger, more established companies or the market averages in general. In addition, the frequency and volume of their trading may be less than is typical of larger companies, making them subject to wider price fluctuations. In some cases, there could be difficulties in selling the stocks of small-cap companies at the desired time and price. Stocks at the bottom end of the capitalization range of small-cap companies sometimes are referred to as “micro-cap” stocks. These stocks may be subject to extreme price volatility, as well as limited liquidity and limited research. While mid-cap stocks may be slightly less volatile than small-cap stocks, they still involve similar risks.

Value stock risk: The intrinsic value of a stock with value characteristics in which a Fund invests may not be fully recognized by the market for a long time or a stock judged to be undervalued may actually be appropriately priced at a low level.

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Non-Principal Risks

Derivatives risk: The use of derivatives presents risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional securities. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value, and there is the risk that changes in the value of a derivative held by a Fund will not correlate with the asset, index or rate underlying the derivative contract.

The use of derivatives can lead to losses because of adverse movements in the price or value of the underlying asset, index or rate, which may be magnified by certain features of the contract. A derivative transaction also involves the risk that a loss may be sustained as a result of the failure of the counterparty to the contract to make required payments. These risks are heightened when the management team uses derivatives to enhance a Fund’s return or as a substitute for a position or security, rather than solely to hedge (or offset) the risk of a position or security held by the Fund.

In addition, when a Fund engages in certain derivative transactions, it is effectively leveraging its investments, which could result in exaggerated changes in the net asset value of the Fund’s shares and can result in losses that exceed the amount originally invested. The success of a Fund’s derivatives strategies will depend on the sub-adviser’s ability to assess and predict the impact of market or economic developments on the underlying asset, index or rate and the derivative itself, without the benefit of observing the performance of the derivative under all possible market conditions.

A Fund may also enter into over-the-counter (“ OTC ”) transactions in derivatives. Transactions in the OTC markets generally are conducted on a principal-to-principal basis. The terms and conditions of these instruments generally are not standardized and tend to be more specialized or complex, and the instruments may be harder to value. In general, there is less governmental regulation and supervision of transactions in the OTC markets than of transactions entered into on organized exchanges. In addition, certain derivative instruments and markets may not be liquid, which means a Fund may not be able to close out a derivatives transaction in a cost-efficient manner.

Short positions in derivatives may involve greater risks than long positions, as the risk of loss on short positions is theoretically unlimited (unlike a long position, in which the risk of loss may be limited to the notional amount of the instrument).

Swap agreements may involve fees, commissions or other costs that may reduce a Fund’s gains from a swap agreement or may cause the Fund to lose money.

Futures contracts are subject to the risk that an exchange may impose price fluctuation limits, which may make it difficult or impossible for a Fund to close out a position when desired.

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The Funds offer multiple classes of shares, each with a different combination of sales charges, fees, eligibility requirements and other features. Your financial advisor can help you determine which class is best for you. For further details, please see the statement of additional information. Because the prospectus and the statement of additional information are available free of charge on Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com, we do not disclose the following share class information separately on the website.

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Class A Shares

You can purchase Class A shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived, as described in “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge.” Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25% of your Fund’s average daily net assets, which compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “ Distributor ”), a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments and the distributor of the Funds, retains the up-front sales charge and the service fee on accounts with no financial intermediary of record. The up-front Class A sales charges for the Funds are as follows:


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		5.75	%		6.10	%		5.00	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		4.50			4.71			4.00
$100,000 but less than $250,000		3.75			3.90			3.25
$250,000 but less than $500,000		2.75			2.83			2.50
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

You can purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 1.00% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.75% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a contingent deferred sales charge (“ CDSC ”) of 1.00% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Class C Shares

You can purchase Class C shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class C shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 1.00% of your Fund’s average daily net assets. The annual 0.25% service fee compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. The annual 0.75% distribution fee compensates the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission as well as an advance of the first year’s service and distribution fees. The Distributor retains the service and distribution fees on accounts with no financial intermediary of record. If you redeem your shares within 12 months of purchase, you will normally pay a 1.00% CDSC, which is calculated on the

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lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds. You do not pay a CDSC on any Class C shares you purchase by reinvesting dividends.

Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 will not be accepted. In addition, the Funds limit the cumulative amount of Class C shares that may be purchased by a single purchaser. Your financial intermediary may set lower maximum purchase limits for Class C shares. See the statement of additional information for more information.

Investors purchasing Class C shares should consider whether they would qualify for a reduced or eliminated sales charge on Class A shares that would make purchasing Class A shares a better choice. Class A share sales charges can be reduced or eliminated based on the size of the purchase, or pursuant to a letter of intent or rights of accumulation. See “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” below.

Class R3 Shares

You can purchase Class R3 shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class R3 shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 0.50% of your Fund’s average daily net assets.

Class R3 shares are only available for purchase by eligible retirement plans. Class R3 shares are not available to traditional and Roth IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs or individual 403(b) plans. See the statement of additional information for more information.

Class R6 Shares

Class R6 shares are available to certain qualified retirement plans and other investors as set forth in the statement of additional information. There is no minimum initial investment for qualified retirement plans; however, the shares must be held through plan-level or omnibus accounts held on the books of the Fund. All other eligible investors must meet a minimum initial investment of at least $5 million in the Fund in which they invest. Such minimum investment requirement may be applied collectively to affiliated accounts, in the discretion of the Distributor. Class R6 shares are only available through financial intermediaries that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer Class R6 shares. Class R6 shares are only available in cases where neither the investor nor the intermediary will receive any commission payments, account servicing fees, record keeping fees, 12b-1 fees, sub-transfer agent fees, so called “finder’s fees,” administration fees or similar fees with respect to Class R6 shares. Provided they meet the minimum investment and other eligibility requirements, eligible investors include:

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Qualified retirement plans;

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Foundations and endowment funds;

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Any state, county, or city, or its instrumentality, department, authority or agency;

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457 plans, including 457(b) governmental entity plans and tax exempt plans;

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Omnibus or other pooled accounts registered to insurance companies, trust companies, bank trust departments, registered investment advisor firms and family offices;

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Investment companies, both affiliated and not affiliated with the Adviser;

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Corporations, including corporate non-qualified deferred compensation plans of such corporations;

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Collective investment trusts;

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Discretionary accounts managed by the Advisor or its affiliates; and

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529 savings plans held in plan-level omnibus accounts.

Class R6 shares are not available directly to traditional or Roth IRAs, Coverdell Savings Accounts, Keoghs, SEPs, SARSEPs, or SIMPLE IRAs. Class R6 shares also are not available through retail, advisory fee-based wrap platforms.

Only Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund issues Class R6 shares.

Class I Shares

You can purchase Class I shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. As Class I shares are not subject to sales charges or ongoing service or distribution fees, they have lower ongoing expenses than the other classes.

Class I shares are available for purchase by clients of financial intermediaries who charge such clients an ongoing fee for advisory, investment, consulting or related services. Such clients may include individuals, corporations, endowments and foundations. The minimum initial investment for such clients is $100,000, but this minimum will be lowered to $250 for clients of financial intermediaries that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000. The Distributor may also lower the minimum to $250 for clients of financial intermediaries anticipated to reach this Class I share holdings level.

Class I shares are also available for purchase by family offices and their clients. A family office is a company that provides certain financial and other services to a high net worth family or families. The minimum initial investment for family offices and their clients is $100,000, but this minimum will be lowered to $250 for clients of family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000. The Distributor may also lower the minimum to $250 for clients of family offices anticipated to reach this Class I share holdings level.

Class I shares are also available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Certain bank or broker-affiliated trust departments.

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Advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates.

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Current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (as defined in the statement of additional information).

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Officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Certain financial intermediary personnel, and their immediate family members.

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Certain other institutional investors described in the statement of additional information.

Please refer to the statement of additional information for more information about Class A, Class C, Class R3, Class R6 and Class I shares, including more detailed program descriptions and eligibility requirements. Additional

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information is also available from your financial advisor, who can also help you prepare any necessary application forms.

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The Funds offer a number of ways to reduce or eliminate the up-front sales charge on Class A shares. See “What Share Classes We Offer” (above) for a discussion of eligibility requirements for purchasing Class I shares.

Class A Sales Charge Reductions

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Rights of Accumulation. In calculating the appropriate sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of a Fund, you may be able to add the amount of your purchase to the value, based on the current net asset value per share, of all of your prior purchases of any Nuveen Mutual Fund.

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Letter of Intent. Subject to certain requirements, you may purchase Class A shares of a Fund at the sales charge rate applicable to the total amount of the purchases you intend to make over a 13-month period.

For purposes of calculating the appropriate sales charge as described under Rights of Accumulation and Letter of Intent above, you may include purchases by (i) you, (ii) your spouse or domestic partner and children under the age of 21 years, and (iii) a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship that is 100% owned by any of the persons in (i) or (ii). In addition, a trustee or other fiduciary can count all shares purchased for a single trust, estate or other single fiduciary account that has multiple accounts (including one or more employee benefit plans of the same employer).

Class A Sales Charge Waivers

Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge as follows:

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Purchases of $1,000,000 or more (although such purchases may be subject to a CDSC in certain circumstances, see “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below).

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Monies representing reinvestment of Nuveen Mutual Fund distributions.

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates. Purchases by full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates and such employees’ immediate family members (as defined in the statement of additional information).

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Current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds.

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Financial intermediary personnel. Purchases by any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director, or employee of any financial intermediary or any such person’s immediate family member.

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Certain trust departments. Purchases by bank or broker-affiliated trust departments investing funds over which they exercise exclusive discretionary investment authority and that are held in a fiduciary, agency, advisory, custodial or similar capacity.

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intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services; and (iii) through a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer the Funds’ shares to self-directed investment brokerage accounts and that may or may not charge a transaction fee to its customers.

In order to obtain a sales charge reduction or waiver, it may be necessary at the time of purchase for you to inform the Funds or your financial advisor of the existence of other accounts in which there are holdings eligible to be aggregated for such purposes. You may need to provide the Funds or your financial advisor information or records, such as account statements, in order to verify your eligibility for a sales charge reduction or waiver. This may include account statements of family members and information regarding Nuveen Mutual Fund shares held in accounts with other financial advisors. You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor at the time of each purchase if you are eligible for any of these programs. The Funds may modify or discontinue these programs at any time.

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Fund shares may be purchased on any business day, which is any day the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”) is open for business. Generally, the NYSE is closed on weekends and national holidays. The share price you pay depends on when the Distributor receives your order and on the share class you are purchasing. Orders received before the close of trading on a business day (normally, 4:00 p.m. New York time) will receive that day’s closing share price; otherwise, you will receive the next business day’s price.

You may purchase Fund shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly from the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

You may buy shares through your financial advisor, who can handle all the details for you, including opening a new account. Financial advisors can also help you review your financial needs and formulate long-term investment goals and objectives. In addition, financial advisors generally can help you develop a customized financial plan, select investments and monitor and review your portfolio on an ongoing basis to help assure your investments continue to meet your needs as circumstances change. Financial advisors (including brokers or agents) are paid for providing ongoing investment advice and services, either from Fund sales charges and fees or by charging you a separate fee in lieu of a sales charge.

Financial advisors or other dealer firms may charge their customers a processing or service fee in connection with the purchase or redemption of Fund shares. The amount and applicability of such a fee is determined and disclosed to customers by each individual dealer. Processing or service fees typically are fixed, nominal dollar amounts and are in addition to the sales and other charges described in this prospectus and the statement of additional information. Your dealer will provide you with specific information about any processing or service fees you will be charged. Shares you purchase through your financial advisor or other intermediary will normally be held with that firm. For more information, please contact your financial advisor.

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Directly from the Funds

Eligible investors may purchase shares directly from the Funds.

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By wire . You can purchase shares by making a wire transfer from your bank. Before making an initial investment by wire, you must submit a new account form to a Fund. After receiving your form, a service representative will contact you with your account number and wiring instructions. Your order will be priced at the next closing share price based on the share class of your Fund, calculated after your Fund’s custodian receives your payment by wire. Wired funds must be received prior to 4:00 p.m. New York time to be eligible for same day pricing. Neither your Fund nor the transfer agent is responsible for the consequences of delays resulting from the banking or Federal Reserve wire system, or from incomplete wiring instructions. Before making any additional purchases by wire, you should call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787. You cannot purchase shares by wire on days when federally chartered banks are closed.

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By mail . You may open an account directly with the Funds and buy shares by completing an application and mailing it along with your check to: Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530. Applications may be obtained at www.nuveen.com or by calling (800) 257-8787. No third party checks will be accepted.

The Funds do not consider the U.S. Postal Service or other independent delivery services to be their agents. Therefore, deposit in the mail or with such services, or receipt at the post office box above, of purchase orders or redemption requests does not constitute receipt by the transfer agent of the Funds.

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On-line . Existing shareholders with direct accounts may process certain account transactions on-line. You may purchase additional shares or exchange shares between existing, identically registered direct accounts. You can also look up your account balance, history and dividend information, as well as order duplicate account statements and tax forms from the Funds’ website. To access your account, click the “Individual Investors” link on www.nuveen.com and then choose “Account Access” under the “Resources” tab. The system will walk you through the log-in process. To purchase shares on-line, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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By telephone . Existing shareholders with direct accounts may also process account transactions via the Funds’ automated information line. Simply call (800) 257-8787, press 1 for mutual funds and the voice menu will walk you through the process. To purchase shares by telephone, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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To help make your investing with us easy and efficient, we offer you the following services at no extra cost. Your financial advisor can help you complete the forms for these services, or you can call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787 for copies of the necessary forms.

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Systematic Investing

Once you have opened an account satisfying the applicable investment minimum, systematic investing allows you to make regular additional investments through automatic deductions from your bank account, directly from your paycheck or from exchanging shares from another mutual fund account. The minimum automatic deduction is $100 per month. There is no charge to participate in your Fund’s systematic investment plan. You can stop the deductions at any time by notifying your Fund in writing.

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From your bank account . You can make systematic investments of $100 or more per month by authorizing your Fund to draw pre-authorized checks on your bank account.

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From your paycheck . With your employer’s consent, you can make systematic investments each pay period (collectively meeting the monthly minimum of $100) by authorizing your employer to deduct monies from your paycheck.

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Systematic exchanging . You can make systematic investments by authorizing the Distributor to exchange shares from one Nuveen Mutual Fund account into another identically registered Nuveen Mutual Fund account of the same share class.

Systematic Withdrawal

If the value of your Fund account is at least $10,000, you may request to have $50 or more withdrawn automatically from your account. You may elect to receive payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, and may choose to receive a check, have the monies transferred directly into your bank account ( see “Fund Direct” below), paid to a third party or sent payable to you at an address other than your address of record. You must complete the appropriate section of the account application or Account Update Form to participate in each Fund’s systematic withdrawal plan.

You should not establish systematic withdrawals if you intend to make concurrent purchases of Class A or Class C shares because you may unnecessarily pay a sales charge or CDSC on these purchases.

Exchanging Shares

You may exchange Fund shares into an identically registered account for the same class of another Nuveen Mutual Fund available in your state. Your exchange must meet the minimum purchase requirements of the fund into which you are exchanging. You may also, under certain limited circumstances, exchange between certain classes of shares of the same fund, subject to the payment of any applicable CDSC. Please consult the statement of additional information for details.

Each Fund reserves the right to revise or suspend the exchange privilege, limit the amount or number of exchanges, or reject any exchange. Shareholders will be provided with at least 60 days’ notice of any material revision to or termination of the exchange privilege.

Because an exchange between funds is treated for tax purposes as a purchase and sale, any gain may be subject to tax. An exchange between classes of shares of the same fund may not be considered a taxable event. You should consult your tax advisor about the tax consequences of exchanging your shares.

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a variety of account transactions, including purchasing shares by telephone and investing through a systematic investment plan. You may also have dividends, distributions, redemption payments or systematic withdrawal plan payments sent directly to your bank account.

Reinstatement Privilege

If you redeem Fund shares, you may reinvest all or part of your redemption proceeds up to one year later without incurring any additional charges. You may only reinvest into the same share class you redeemed. If you paid a CDSC, any shares purchased pursuant to the reinstatement privilege will not be subject to a CDSC. You may use this reinstatement privilege only once for any redemption.

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You may sell (redeem) your shares on any business day, which is any day the NYSE is open for business. You will receive the share price next determined after your Fund has received your properly completed redemption request. Your redemption request must be received before the close of trading on the NYSE (normally, 4:00 p.m. New York time) for you to receive that day’s price. The Fund will normally mail your check the next business day after a redemption request is received, but in no event more than seven days after your request is received. If you are selling shares purchased recently with a check, your redemption proceeds will not be mailed until your check has cleared, which may take up to ten business days from your purchase date.

You may sell your shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly to the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

You may sell your shares through your financial advisor, who can prepare the necessary documentation. Your financial advisor may charge for this service.

Directly to the Funds

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By mail. You can sell your shares at any time by sending a written request to the appropriate Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530. Your request must include the following information:

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The Fund’s name;

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Your name and account number;

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The dollar or share amount you wish to redeem;

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The signature of each owner exactly as it appears on the account;

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The name of the person to whom you want your redemption proceeds paid (if other than to the shareholder of record);

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The address where you want your redemption proceeds sent (if other than the address of record);

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Any certificates you have for the shares; and

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Any required signature guarantees.

After you have established your account, signatures on a written request must be guaranteed if:

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You would like redemption proceeds payable or sent to any person, address or bank account other than that on record;

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An Important Note About Telephone Transactions

Although Nuveen Investor Services has certain safeguards and procedures to confirm the identity of callers, it will not be liable for losses resulting from following telephone instructions it reasonably believes to be genuine. Also, you should verify your trade confirmations immediately upon receipt.

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You have changed the address on your Fund’s records within the last 30 days;

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Your redemption request is in excess of $50,000; or

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You are requesting a change in ownership on your account.

Non-financial transactions, including establishing or modifying certain services such as changing bank information on an account, will require a signature guarantee or signature verification from a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program member or other acceptable form of authentication from a financial institution source. In addition to the situations described above, the Funds reserve the right to require a signature guarantee, or another acceptable form of signature verification, in other instances based on the circumstances of a particular situation.

A signature guarantee assures that a signature is genuine and protects shareholders from unauthorized account transfers. Banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, credit unions, broker-dealers and member firms of a national securities exchange may guarantee signatures. Call your financial intermediary to determine if it has this capability. A notary public is not an acceptable signature guarantor. Proceeds from a written redemption request will be sent to you by check unless another form of payment is requested.

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On-line. You may redeem shares or exchange shares between existing, identically registered accounts on-line. To access your account, click the “Individual Investors” link on www.nuveen.com and then choose “Account Access” under the “Resources” tab. The system will walk you through the log-in process. On-line redemptions are not available for shares owned in certificate form and, with respect to redemptions where the proceeds are payable by check, may not exceed $50,000. Checks will only be issued to you as the shareholder of record and mailed to your address of record. If you have established Fund Direct privileges, you may have redemption proceeds transferred electronically to your bank account.

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By telephone. If your account is held with your Fund and not in your brokerage account, and you have authorized telephone redemption privileges, call (800) 257-8787 to redeem your shares, press 1 for mutual funds and the voice menu will walk you through the process. Telephone redemptions are not available for shares owned in certificate form and, with respect to redemptions where the proceeds are payable by check, may not exceed $50,000. Checks will only be issued to you as the shareholder of record and mailed to your address of record, normally the next business day after the redemption request is received. If you have established Fund Direct privileges, you may have redemption proceeds transferred electronically to your bank account. In this case, the redemption proceeds will be transferred to your bank on the next business day after the redemption request is received. You should contact your bank for further information concerning the timing of the credit of the redemption proceeds in your bank account.

Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

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a different order. No CDSC is imposed on shares you buy through the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. The CDSC holding period is calculated on a monthly basis and begins on the first day of the month in which the purchase was made. When you redeem shares subject to a CDSC, the CDSC is calculated on the lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds, deducted from your redemption proceeds, and paid to the Distributor. The CDSC may be waived under certain special circumstances as described in the statement of additional information.

Accounts with Low Balances

The Funds reserve the right to liquidate or assess a low balance fee on any account (other than accounts holding Class R3 or Class R6 shares) held directly with the Funds that has a balance that has fallen below the account balance minimum of $1,000 for any reason, including market fluctuations.

If a Fund elects to exercise the right to assess a low balance fee, then annually the Fund will assess a $15 low balance account fee on certain accounts with balances under the account balance minimum that are IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts or accounts established pursuant to the UTMA or UGMA. At the same time, other accounts with balances under the account balance minimum will be liquidated, with proceeds being mailed to the address of record. Prior to the assessment of any low balance fee or liquidation of low balance accounts, affected shareholders will receive a communication notifying them of the pending action, thereby providing time for shareholders to bring their accounts up to the account balance minimum prior to any fee assessment or account liquidation. You will not be assessed a CDSC if your account is liquidated.

Redemptions In-Kind

The Funds generally pay redemption proceeds in cash. However, if a Fund determines that it would be detrimental to its remaining shareholders to make payment of a redemption order wholly in cash, that Fund may pay a portion of your redemption proceeds in securities or other Fund assets. Although it is unlikely that your shares would be redeemed in-kind, you would probably have to pay brokerage costs to sell the securities or other assets distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from that sale.

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Section 4 General Information

To help you understand the tax implications of investing in the Funds, this section includes important details about how the Funds make distributions to shareholders. We discuss some other Fund policies as well. Please consult the statement of additional information and your tax advisor for more information about taxes.

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The Funds intend to pay income dividends and any taxable gains annually.

Payment and Reinvestment Options

The Funds automatically reinvest your dividends in additional Fund shares unless you request otherwise. You may request to have your dividends paid to you by check, sent via electronic funds transfer through Automated Clearing House network or reinvested in shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund. For further information, contact your financial advisor or call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787. If you request that your distributions be paid by check but those distributions cannot be delivered because of an incorrect mailing address, or if a distribution check remains uncashed for six months, the undelivered or uncashed distributions and all future distributions will be reinvested in Fund shares at the current net asset value.

Non-U.S. Income Tax Considerations

Investment income that the Funds receive from their non-U.S. investments may be subject to non-U.S. income taxes, which generally will reduce Fund distributions. However, the United States has entered into tax treaties with many non-U.S. countries that may entitle you to certain tax benefits.

Taxes and Tax Reporting

The Funds will make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income (which may be taxable at different rates, depending on the sources of the distributions) or capital gains (which may be taxable at different rates, depending on the length of time a Fund holds its assets). Distributions from a Fund’s long-term capital gains are generally taxable as capital gains, while distributions from short-term capital gains and net investment income are generally taxable as ordinary income. However, certain ordinary income distributions received from a Fund that are determined to be qualified dividend income may be taxed at tax rates equal to those applicable to long-term capital gains. The tax you pay on a given capital gains distribution depends generally on how long the Fund has held the portfolio securities it sold and not on how long you have owned your Fund shares. Distributions generally do not qualify for a dividends received deduction if you are a corporate shareholder.

Early in each year, you will receive a statement detailing the amount and nature of all distributions that you were paid during the prior year. If you hold your investment at the firm where you purchased your Fund shares, you will receive the statement from that firm. If you hold your shares directly with the Fund, the Distributor will send you the statement. The tax status of your distributions is the same whether you reinvest them or elect to receive them

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in cash. The sale of shares in your account may produce a gain or loss, and is a taxable event. For tax purposes, an exchange of shares between funds is generally the same as a sale.

Please note that if you do not furnish your Fund with your correct Social Security number or employer identification number, you fail to provide certain certifications to your Fund, you fail to certify whether you are a U.S. citizen or a U.S. resident alien, or the Internal Revenue Service notifies the Fund to withhold, federal law requires your Fund to withhold federal income tax from your distributions and redemption proceeds at the applicable withholding rate.

Buying or Selling Shares Close to a Record Date

Buying Fund shares shortly before the record date for a taxable dividend or capital gain distribution is commonly known as “buying the dividend.” The entire distribution may be taxable to you even though a portion of the distribution effectively represents a return of your purchase price.

Cost Basis Method

For shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012, you may elect a cost basis method to apply to all existing and future accounts you may establish. The cost basis method you select will determine the order in which shares are redeemed and how your cost basis information is calculated and subsequently reported to you and to the Internal Revenue Service. Please consult your tax advisor to determine which cost basis method best suits your specific situation. If you hold your account directly with a Fund, please contact Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787 for instructions on how to make your election. If you hold your account with a financial intermediary, please contact that financial intermediary for instructions on how to make your election. If you hold your account directly with a Fund and do not elect a cost basis method, your account will default to the average cost basis method. For a definition of “average cost basis method,” please see the glossary. Financial intermediaries choose their own default method.

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Distribution and Service Plan

The Distributor serves as the selling agent and distributor of the Funds’ shares. In this capacity, the Distributor manages the offering of the Funds’ shares and is responsible for all sales and promotional activities. In order to reimburse the Distributor for its costs in connection with these activities, including compensation paid to financial intermediaries, each Fund has adopted a distribution and service plan under Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. See “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares—What Share Classes We Offer” for a description of the distribution and service fees paid under this plan.

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other expenses, including printing and distributing prospectuses to persons other than shareholders, and preparing, printing, and distributing advertising materials, sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of shares. Because fees paid under the plan are paid out of a Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Long-term holders of Class C and Class R3 shares may pay more in distribution and service fees and CDSCs (Class C shares only) than the economic equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted under the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Conduct Rules.

Other Payments by the Funds

In addition to the distribution and service fees that the Funds pay under the plan and fees the Funds pay to their transfer agent, the Distributor or Nuveen Fund Advisors, on behalf of the Funds, may enter into non-plan agreements with financial intermediaries pursuant to which the Funds will pay financial intermediaries for administrative, networking, recordkeeping, sub-transfer agency and shareholder services. These non-plan payments are generally based on either (1) a percentage of the average daily net assets of Fund shareholders serviced by a financial intermediary or (2) a fixed dollar amount for each account serviced by a financial intermediary. The aggregate amount of these payments may be substantial.

Other Payments by the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors

In addition to the sales commissions and payments from distribution and service fees made to financial intermediaries as previously described, the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors may from time to time make additional payments, out of their own resources, to certain financial intermediaries that sell shares of Nuveen Mutual Funds in order to promote the sales and retention of Fund shares by those firms and their customers. The amounts of these payments vary by financial intermediary and, with respect to a given firm, are typically calculated by reference to the amount of the firm’s recent gross sales of Nuveen Mutual Fund shares and/or total assets of Nuveen Mutual Funds held by the firm’s customers. The level of payments that the Distributor and/or Nuveen Fund Advisors is willing to provide to a particular financial intermediary may be affected by, among other factors, the firm’s total assets held in and recent net investments into Nuveen Mutual Funds, the firm’s level of participation in Nuveen Mutual Fund sales and marketing programs, the firm’s compensation program for its registered representatives who sell Nuveen Mutual Fund shares and provide services to Nuveen Mutual Fund shareholders, and the asset class of the Nuveen Mutual Funds for which these payments are provided. The statement of additional information contains additional information about these payments, including the names of the firms to which payments are made. The Distributor may also make payments to financial intermediaries in connection with sales meetings, due diligence meetings, prospecting seminars and other meetings at which the Distributor promotes its products and services.

In connection with the availability of Nuveen Mutual Funds within selected mutual fund no-transaction fee institutional platforms and fee-based wrap programs at certain financial intermediaries, the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors also make payments out of their own assets to those firms as compensation for certain recordkeeping, shareholder communications and other account administration services provided to Nuveen Mutual Fund shareholders who own their Fund shares through these platforms or programs.

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These payments are in addition to the service fee and any applicable sub-transfer agency or similar fees paid to these firms with respect to these services by the Nuveen Mutual Funds out of Fund assets.

The amounts of payments to a financial intermediary could be significant, and may create an incentive for the intermediary or its representatives to recommend or offer shares of the Funds to you. The intermediary may elevate the prominence or profile of the Funds within the intermediary’s organization by, for example, placing the Funds on a list of preferred or recommended funds and/or granting the Distributor and/or its affiliates preferential or enhanced opportunities to promote the Funds in various ways within the intermediary’s organization.

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The price you pay for your shares or the amount you receive upon redemption of your shares is based on your Fund’s net asset value per share, which is determined as of the close of trading (normally 4:00 p.m. New York time) on each day the NYSE is open for business. Each Fund’s latest net asset value per share is available on the Funds’ website at www.nuveen.com. Net asset value is calculated for each class of each Fund by taking the value of the class’s total assets, including interest or dividends accrued but not yet collected, less all liabilities, and dividing by the total number of shares outstanding. The result, rounded to the nearest cent, is the net asset value per share.

In determining net asset value, portfolio instruments generally are valued using prices provided by independent pricing services or obtained from other sources, such as broker-dealer quotations. Exchange-traded instruments generally are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on an exchange, if available. Independent pricing services typically value non-exchange-traded instruments utilizing a range of market-based inputs and assumptions, including readily available market quotations obtained from broker-dealers making markets in such instruments, cash flows, and transactions for comparable instruments. In pricing certain instruments, the pricing services may consider information about an instrument’s issuer or market activity provided by the Funds’ investment adviser or sub-adviser. Non-U.S. securities and currency are valued in U.S. dollars based on non-U.S. currency exchange rate quotations supplied by an independent quotation service.

For non-U.S. traded securities whose principal local markets close before the close of the NYSE, a Fund may adjust the local closing price based upon such factors as developments in non-U.S. markets, the performance of U.S. securities markets and the performance of instruments trading in U.S. markets that represent non-U.S. securities. A Fund may rely on an independent fair valuation service in making any such fair value determinations. If a Fund holds portfolio instruments that are primarily listed on non-U.S. exchanges, the value of such instruments may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or redeem the Fund’s shares.

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changed for an identified period of time, or has changed from the previous day’s price by more than a threshold amount, and recent transactions and/or broker dealer price quotations differ materially from the price in question.

The Board of Trustees has adopted valuation procedures for the Funds and has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to Nuveen Fund Advisors’ Valuation Committee. All fair value determinations made by the Valuation Committee are subject to review and ratification by the Board of Trustees. As a general principle, the fair value of a portfolio instrument is the amount that an owner might reasonably expect to receive upon the instrument’s current sale. A range of factors and analysis may be considered when determining fair value, including relevant market data, interest rates, credit considerations and/or issuer specific news. However, fair valuation involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a portfolio instrument may be materially different from the value that could be realized upon the sale of that instrument.

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The Funds are intended for long-term investment and should not be used for excessive trading. Excessive trading in the Funds’ shares can disrupt portfolio management, lead to higher operating costs, and cause other operating inefficiencies for the Funds. However, the Funds are also mindful that shareholders may have valid reasons for periodically purchasing and redeeming Fund shares.

Accordingly, the Funds have adopted a Frequent Trading Policy that seeks to balance the Funds’ need to prevent excessive trading in Fund shares while offering investors the flexibility in managing their financial affairs to make periodic purchases and redemptions of Fund shares.

The Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy generally limits an investor to two “round trip” trades in a 60-day period. A “round trip” is the purchase and subsequent redemption of Fund shares, including by exchange. Each side of a round trip may be comprised of either a single transaction or a series of closely-spaced transactions.

The Funds primarily receive share purchase and redemption orders through third-party financial intermediaries, some of whom rely on the use of omnibus accounts. An omnibus account typically includes multiple investors and provides the Funds only with a net purchase or redemption amount on any given day where multiple purchases, redemptions and exchanges of shares occur in the account. The identity of individual purchasers, redeemers and exchangers whose orders are aggregated in omnibus accounts, and the size of their orders, will generally not be known by the Funds. Despite the Funds’ efforts to detect and prevent frequent trading, the Funds may be unable to identify frequent trading because the netting effect in omnibus accounts often makes it more difficult to identify frequent traders. The Distributor has entered into agreements with financial intermediaries that maintain omnibus accounts with the Funds’ transfer agent. Under the terms of these agreements, the financial intermediaries undertake to cooperate with the Distributor in monitoring purchase, exchange and redemption orders by their customers in order to detect and prevent frequent trading in the Funds through such accounts. Pursuant to these agreements, financial intermediaries may disclose to a Fund an investor’s taxpayer identification number and a record of the investor’s transactions at the request of the Fund. Technical limitations in operational systems at such intermediaries or

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at the Distributor may also limit the Funds’ ability to detect and prevent frequent trading. In addition, the Funds may permit certain financial intermediaries, including broker-dealer and retirement plan administrators, among others, to enforce their own internal policies and procedures concerning frequent trading. Such policies may differ from the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy and may be approved for use in instances where the Funds reasonably believe that the intermediary’s policies and procedures effectively discourage inappropriate trading activity. Shareholders holding their accounts with such intermediaries may wish to contact the intermediary for information regarding its frequent trading policy. Although the Funds do not knowingly permit frequent trading, they cannot guarantee that they will be able to identify and restrict all frequent trading activity.

The Funds reserve the right in their sole discretion to waive unintentional or minor violations (including transactions below certain dollar thresholds) if they determine that doing so would not harm the interests of Fund shareholders. In addition, certain categories of redemptions may be excluded from the application of the Frequent Trading Policy, as described in more detail in the statement of additional information. These include, among others, redemptions pursuant to systematic withdrawal plans, redemptions in connection with the total disability or death of the investor, involuntary redemptions by operation of law, redemptions in payment of account or plan fees, and certain redemptions by retirement plans, including redemptions in connection with qualifying loans or hardship withdrawals, termination of plan participation, return of excess contributions, and required minimum distributions. The Funds may also modify or suspend the Frequent Trading Policy without notice during periods of market stress or other unusual circumstances.

The Funds reserve the right to impose restrictions on purchases or exchanges that are more restrictive than those stated above if they determine, in their sole discretion, that a transaction or a series of transactions involves market timing or excessive trading that may be detrimental to Fund shareholders. The Funds also reserve the right to reject any purchase order, including exchange purchases, for any reason. For example, a Fund may refuse purchase orders if the Fund would be unable to invest the proceeds from the purchase order in accordance with the Fund’s investment policies and/or objective, or if the Fund would be adversely affected by the size of the transaction, the frequency of trading in the account or various other factors. For more information about the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy and its enforcement, see “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares—Frequent Trading Policy” in the statement of additional information.

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The custodian of the assets of the Funds is State Street Bank & Trust Company, P.O. Box 5043, Boston, Massachusetts 02206-5043. The custodian also provides certain accounting services to the Funds. The Funds’ transfer, shareholder services and dividend paying agent, Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, performs bookkeeping, data processing and administrative services for the maintenance of shareholder accounts.

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Section 5 Financial Highlights

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand a Fund’s financial performance for the past five fiscal years or, if shorter, the period of operations for the class of shares. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in a Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). The information has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report for the most recent fiscal year, along with the Funds’ financial statements, are included in the annual report, which is available upon request.

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations									Less Distributions																Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Return of Capital			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets			Portfolio Turnover Rate(c)

Class A (12/02)
2014	$	22.36	$	.10		$	4.60		$	4.70		$	(.09	)	$	—	$	—		$	(.09	)	$	26.97		21.04	%	$	47,369		1.28	%		.42	%		37	%
2013		18.29		.11			4.04			4.15			(.08	)		—		—			(.08	)		22.36		22.78			42,362		1.31			.55			22
2012		19.11		.04			(.86	)		(.82	)		—			—		—			—			18.29		(4.29	)		42,089		1.32			.20			37
2011		14.73		(.02	)		4.40			4.38			—			—		—			—			19.11		29.74			61,438		1.38			(.10	)		24
2010		12.22		(.06	)		2.61			2.55			(.03	)		—		(.01	)		(.04	)		14.73		20.85			61,514		1.47			(.38	)		34

Class C (12/02)
2014		21.17		(.07	)		4.33			4.26			—			—		—			—			25.43		20.12			46,827		2.03			(.30	)		37
2013		17.38		(.04	)		3.83			3.79			—			—		—			—			21.17		21.81			45,408		2.06			(.20	)		22
2012		18.29		(.09	)		(.82	)		(.91	)		—			—		—			—			17.38		(4.98	)		51,646		2.06			(.54	)		37
2011		14.21		(.14	)		4.22			4.08			—			—		—			—			18.29		28.71			71,116		2.13			(.84	)		24
2010		11.84		(.16	)		2.53			2.37			—			—		—			—			14.21		20.02			71,209		2.21			(1.13	)		34

Class R3 (8/08)
2014		22.13		.05			4.53			4.58			(.03	)		—		—			(.03	)		26.68		20.72			256		1.53			.21			37
2013		18.11		.06			4.00			4.06			(.04	)		—		—			(.04	)		22.13		22.43			204		1.56			.30			22
2012		18.96		—	*		(.85	)		(.85	)		—			—		—			—			18.11		(4.48	)		153		1.57			(.01	)		37
2011		14.66		(.06	)		4.36			4.30			—			—		—			—			18.96		29.33			156		1.63			(.32	)		24
2010		12.16		(.08	)		2.59			2.51			(.01	)		—		—	**		(.01	)		14.66		20.62			202		1.65			(.55	)		34

Class I (11/97)
2014		22.48		.18			4.62			4.80			(.15	)		—		—			(.15	)		27.13		21.38			71,721		1.03			.71			37
2013		18.40		.16			4.05			4.21			(.13	)		—		—			(.13	)		22.48		23.01			60,074		1.06			.79			22
2012		19.17		.07			(.84	)		(.77	)		—			—		—			—			18.40		(4.02	)		67,250		1.07			.41			37
2011		14.74		.03			4.40			4.43			—			—		—			—			19.17		30.05			218,673		1.13			.18			24
2010		12.22		(.01	)		2.60			2.59			(.05	)		—		(.02	)		(.07	)		14.74		21.18			222,707		1.18			(.08	)		34

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Rounds to less than $.01 per share.

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Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations									Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)

Class A (12/06)
2014	$	20.32	$	.19		$	3.79		$	3.98		$	(.16	)	$	(.41	)	$	(.57	)	$	23.73		19.80	%	$	66,452		1.08	%		.85	%		45	%
2013		16.84		.17			3.51			3.68			(.15	)		(.05	)		(.20	)		20.32		22.04			55,055		1.07			.91			16
2012		18.56		.14			(1.64	)		(1.50	)		(.01	)		(.21	)		(.22	)		16.84		(7.99	)		39,940		1.11			.84			35
2011		14.73		.03			3.83			3.86			(.03	)		—			(.03	)		18.56		26.22			26,143		1.20			.19			27
2010		12.71		.03			1.99			2.02			—			—			—			14.73		15.89			13,820		1.32			.20			15

Class C (12/06)
2014		19.73		.02			3.67			3.69			—			(.41	)		(.41	)		23.01		18.90			11,857		1.83			.11			45
2013		16.36		.03			3.41			3.44			(.02	)		(.05	)		(.07	)		19.73		21.08			8,053		1.82			.15			16
2012		18.15		.01			(1.59	)		(1.58	)		—			(.21	)		(.21	)		16.36		(8.64	)		6,903		1.86			.04			35
2011		14.49		(.09	)		3.75			3.66			—			—			—			18.15		25.26			8,660		1.95			(.55	)		27
2010		12.60		(.08	)		1.97			1.89			—			—			—			14.49		15.00			4,665		2.07			(.55	)		15

Class R3 (9/09)
2014		20.25		.13			3.78			3.91			(.11	)		(.41	)		(.52	)		23.64		19.50			64		1.33			.59			45
2013		16.79		.12			3.49			3.61			(.10	)		(.05	)		(.15	)		20.25		21.68			53		1.32			.64			16
2012		18.53		.09			(1.62	)		(1.53	)		—			(.21	)		(.21	)		16.79		(8.19	)		55		1.36			.55			35
2011		14.71		(.01	)		3.83			3.82			—			—			—			18.53		25.97			61		1.45			(.06	)		27
2010(c)		15.24		—	**		(.53	)		(.53	)		—			—			—			14.71		(3.48	)		48		1.58	*		(.02	)*		15

Class I (12/06)
2014		20.35		.24			3.80			4.04			(.21	)		(.41	)		(.62	)		23.77		20.10			642,177		.83			1.06			45
2013		16.87		.21			3.51			3.72			(.19	)		(.05	)		(.24	)		20.35		22.31			1,225,884		.82			1.15			16
2012		18.59		.22			(1.67	)		(1.45	)		(.06	)		(.21	)		(.27	)		16.87		(7.73	)		1,061,400		.85			1.29			35
2011		14.75		.08			3.83			3.91			(.07	)		—			(.07	)		18.59		26.54			400,859		.95			.45			27
2010		12.72		.08			1.97			2.05			(.02	)		—			(.02	)		14.75		16.13			253,558		1.08			.53			15

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	For the period September 29, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(d)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

**	Rounds to less than $.01 per share.

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Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations									Less Distributions											Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income		From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total		Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (12/06)
2014	$	24.50	$	(.12	)	$	5.60		$	5.48		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	29.98		22.33	%	$	8,882		1.31	%		(.45	)%		48	%
2013		19.63		(.04	)		4.91			4.87			—		—		—		24.50		24.81			5,066		1.32			(.20	)		49
2012		19.91		(.09	)		(.19	)		(.28	)		—		—		—		19.63		(1.41	)		4,671		1.33			(.46	)		54
2011		14.32		(.09	)		5.68			5.59			—		—		—		19.91		39.13			5,261		1.33			(.50	)		46
2010		11.05		(.09	)		3.36			3.27			—		—		—		14.32		29.50			3,267		1.44			(.63	)		64

Class C (12/06)
2014		23.30		(.33	)		5.33			5.00			—		—		—		28.30		21.46			3,432		2.05			(1.24	)		48
2013		18.81		(.20	)		4.69			4.49			—		—		—		23.30		23.87			2,245		2.07			(.96	)		49
2012		19.22		(.23	)		(.18	)		(.41	)		—		—		—		18.81		(2.13	)		1,928		2.08			(1.21	)		54
2011		13.93		(.22	)		5.51			5.29			—		—		—		19.22		38.07			1,202		2.08			(1.26	)		46
2010		10.83		(.19	)		3.29			3.10			—		—		—		13.93		28.53			636		2.19			(1.37	)		64

Class R3 (9/09)
2014		24.09		(.20	)		5.52			5.32			—		—		—		29.41		22.04			769		1.56			(.73	)		48
2013		19.36		(.09	)		4.82			4.73			—		—		—		24.09		24.43			470		1.57			(.43	)		49
2012		19.68		(.13	)		(.19	)		(.32	)		—		—		—		19.36		(1.63	)		202		1.58			(.70	)		54
2011		14.19		(.13	)		5.62			5.49			—		—		—		19.68		38.69			73		1.58			(.74	)		46
2010(d)		13.53		(.09	)		.75			.66			—		—		—		14.19		4.88			52		1.69	*		(.81	)*		64

Class I (12/06)
2014		24.55		(.06	)		5.63			5.57			—		—		—		30.12		22.65			53,251		1.05			(.23	)		48
2013		19.62		.01			4.92			4.93			—		—		—		24.55		25.13			31,172		1.07			.06			49
2012		19.85		(.04	)		(.19	)		(.23	)		—		—		—		19.62		(1.16	)		15,150		1.08			(.20	)		54
2011		14.24		(.05	)		5.66			5.61			—		—		—		19.85		39.40			14,803		1.08			(.26	)		46
2010		10.96		(.05	)		3.33			3.28			—		—		—		14.24		29.93			7,279		1.19			(.36	)		64

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	For the period September 29, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations							Less Distributions													Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(f)

Class A (12/04)
2014	$	33.14	$	(.29	)	$	9.77	$	9.48	$	—		$	—	$	—		$	42.62		28.61	%	$	51,477		1.36	%		(.73	)%		49	%
2013		26.01		(.12	)		7.25		7.13		—			—		—			33.14		27.41			10,229		1.38			(.40	)		41
2012		25.22		(.17	)		.96		.79		—			—		—			26.01		3.09			7,107		1.45			(.68	)		44
2011		18.30		(.18	)		7.10		6.92		—			—		—			25.22		37.94			7,365		1.43			(.82	)		51
2010		14.14		(.10	)		4.27		4.17		(.01	)		—		(.01	)		18.30		29.41			7,009		1.45			(.54	)		58

Class C (12/04)
2014		31.33		(.55	)		9.20		8.65		—			—		—			39.98		27.61			18,004		2.11			(1.50	)		49
2013		24.77		(.31	)		6.87		6.56		—			—		—			31.33		26.48			5,739		2.12			(1.12	)		41
2012		24.20		(.34	)		.91		.57		—			—		—			24.77		2.36			4,308		2.19			(1.43	)		44
2011		17.68		(.35	)		6.87		6.52		—			—		—			24.20		36.96			4,401		2.18			(1.58	)		51
2010		13.76		(.21	)		4.13		3.92		—			—		—			17.68		28.42			3,494		2.19			(1.21	)		58

Class R3 (9/09)
2014		33.04		(.40	)		9.74		9.34		—			—		—			42.38		28.27			2,632		1.61			(1.01	)		49
2013		25.99		(.24	)		7.29		7.05		—			—		—			33.04		27.13			715		1.68			(.78	)		41
2012		25.26		(.23	)		.96		.73		—			—		—			25.99		2.85			72		1.69			(.93	)		44
2011		18.37		(.25	)		7.14		6.89		—			—		—			25.26		37.64			75		1.68			(1.08	)		51
2010(d)		18.07		(.08	)		.38		.30		—			—		—			18.37		1.60			51		1.68	*		(.57	)*		58

Class R6 (2/13)
2014		33.60		(.16	)		9.91		9.75		—			—		—			43.35		29.02			3,138		1.02			(.42	)		49
2013(e)		31.19		(.10	)		2.51		2.41		—			—		—			33.60		7.73			2,092		1.10	*		(.82	)*		41

Class I (12/04)
2014		33.58		(.20	)		9.90		9.70		—			—		—			43.28		28.89			252,554		1.11			(.50	)		49
2013		26.29		(.04	)		7.33		7.29		—			—		—			33.58		27.73			136,659		1.12			(.14	)		41
2012		25.42		(.11	)		.98		.87		—			—		—			26.29		3.38			91,213		1.19			(.43	)		44
2011		18.40		(.14	)		7.16		7.02		—			—		—			25.42		38.28			85,136		1.18			(.58	)		51
2010		14.21		(.04	)		4.28		4.24		(.05	)		—		(.05	)		18.40		29.74			74,824		1.19			(.21	)		58

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	For the period September 29, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(e)	For the period February 15, 2013 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2013.

(f)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund


Class (Inception Date)			Investment Operations									Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)

Class A (12/04)
2014	$	32.96	$	.36		$	6.97		$	7.33		$	(.37	)	$	(1.04	)	$	(1.41	)	$	38.88		22.67	%	$	225,212		1.25	%		1.01	%		107	%
2013		28.51		.18			5.40			5.58			(1.13	)		—			(1.13	)		32.96		20.08			244,827		1.35			.60			84
2012		35.58		.34			(4.64	)		(4.30	)		(.75	)		(2.02	)		(2.77	)		28.51		(12.46	)		492,397		1.17			1.05			97
2011		29.76		.23			7.26			7.49			(.51	)		(1.16	)		(1.67	)		35.58		25.31			1,291,888		1.20			.65			77
2010		24.17		.13			5.46			5.59			—			—			—			29.76		23.13			658,037		1.43			.44			48

Class C (12/04)
2014		32.10		.10			6.76			6.86			(.11	)		(1.04	)		(1.15	)		37.81		21.75			124,326		2.00			.27			107
2013		27.76		(.04	)		5.26			5.22			(.88	)		—			(.88	)		32.10		19.15			130,098		2.09			(.13	)		84
2012		34.68		.13			(4.55	)		(4.42	)		(.48	)		(2.02	)		(2.50	)		27.76		(13.11	)		224,079		1.91			.40			97
2011		29.06		(.03	)		7.07			7.04			(.26	)		(1.16	)		(1.42	)		34.68		24.39			436,074		1.95			(.07	)		77
2010		23.77		(.09	)		5.38			5.29			—			—			—			29.06		22.25			192,332		2.19			(.31	)		48

Class R3 (8/08)
2014		32.96		.28			6.95			7.23			(.28	)		(1.04	)		(1.32	)		38.87		22.36			4,800		1.50			.78			107
2013		28.51		.12			5.39			5.51			(1.06	)		—			(1.06	)		32.96		19.77			4,503		1.58			.38			84
2012		35.57		.30			(4.67	)		(4.37	)		(.67	)		(2.02	)		(2.69	)		28.51		(12.67	)		6,298		1.40			.93			97
2011		29.76		.17			7.23			7.40			(.43	)		(1.16	)		(1.59	)		35.57		25.00			6,880		1.45			.49			77
2010		24.23		.07			5.46			5.53			—			—			—			29.76		22.82			1,444		1.71			.22			48

Class I (12/04)
2014		33.09		.45			6.99			7.44			(.45	)		(1.04	)		(1.49	)		39.04		22.95			140,424		.99			1.25			107
2013		28.62		.26			5.42			5.68			(1.21	)		—			(1.21	)		33.09		20.39			176,899		1.09			.84			84
2012		35.72		.42			(4.66	)		(4.24	)		(.84	)		(2.02	)		(2.86	)		28.62		(12.27	)		400,383		.92			1.28			97
2011		29.87		.31			7.29			7.60			(.59	)		(1.16	)		(1.75	)		35.72		25.64			1,749,117		.95			.91			77
2010		24.19		.20			5.48			5.68			—			—			—			29.87		23.48			1,046,939		1.18			.69			48

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

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American Depositary Receipts (“ ADRs ”): Certificates issued by a U.S. depositary bank that represent a bank’s holdings of a stated number of shares of a non-U.S. company. ADRs are typically bought and sold in the same manner as U.S. securities (although investors can also purchase the non-U.S. securities overseas and convert them to ADRs, and likewise can convert an ADR to its underlying non-U.S. security and sell it overseas) and are priced in U.S. dollars. ADRs carry most of the risks of investing directly in non-U.S. equity securities.

•

Average cost basis method : Calculating cost basis by determining the average price paid for Fund shares that may have been purchased at different times for different prices.

•

Lipper Global Multi-Cap Value Classification Average: Represents the average annualized total return for all reporting funds in the Lipper Global Multi-Cap Value Classification.

•

Lipper Large-Cap Value Classification Average: Represents the average annualized total return for all reporting funds in the Lipper Large-Cap Value Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Multi-Cap Value Classification Average: Represents the average annualized total return for all reporting funds in the Lipper Multi-Cap Value Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Small-Cap Core Classification Average: Represents the average annualized total return for all reporting funds in the Lipper Small-Cap Core Funds Classification.

•

Russell 1000 ^® Value Index: An index that measures the performance of those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

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Russell 2000 ^® Value Index: An index that measures the performance of those Russell 2000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

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Russell 2500 ^™ Value Index: An index that measures the performance of the 2,500 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index, which represents approximately 20% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000 Index.

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Russell 3000 ^® Value Index: An index that measures the performance of those Russell 3000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

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S&P 500 ^® Index: An unmanaged index generally considered representative of the U.S. stock market.

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

Nuveen Mutual Funds

Nuveen offers a variety of mutual funds designed to help you reach your financial goals. The funds below are grouped by category.

Municipal-National

All-American Municipal Bond

High Yield Municipal Bond

Inflation Protected Municipal Bond

Intermediate Duration Municipal Bond

Limited Term Municipal Bond

Short Duration High Yield Municipal Bond

Short Term Municipal Bond

Municipal-State

Arizona Municipal Bond

California High Yield Municipal Bond

California Municipal Bond

Colorado Municipal Bond

Connecticut Municipal Bond

Georgia Municipal Bond

Kansas Municipal Bond

Kentucky Municipal Bond

Louisiana Municipal Bond

Maryland Municipal Bond

Massachusetts Municipal Bond

Michigan Municipal Bond

Minnesota Intermediate Municipal Bond

Minnesota Municipal Bond

Missouri Municipal Bond

Nebraska Municipal Bond

New Jersey Municipal Bond

New Mexico Municipal Bond

New York Municipal Bond

North Carolina Municipal Bond

Ohio Municipal Bond

Municipal-State (continued)

Oregon Intermediate Municipal Bond

Pennsylvania Municipal Bond

Tennessee Municipal Bond

Virginia Municipal Bond

Wisconsin Municipal Bond

Taxable Fixed Income

Core Bond

Core Plus Bond

Global Total Return Bond

High Income Bond

Inflation Protected Securities

Intermediate Government Bond

NWQ Flexible Income

Preferred Securities

Short Term Bond

Strategic Income

Symphony Credit Opportunities

Symphony Floating Rate Income

Symphony High Yield Bond

U.S. Infrastructure Income

Global/International

Global Growth

International Growth

NWQ Global Equity

NWQ Global Equity Income

Santa Barbara Global Dividend Growth

Santa Barbara International Dividend Growth

Symphony International Equity

Tradewinds Emerging Markets

Tradewinds Global All-Cap

Global/International (continued)

Tradewinds International Value

Tradewinds Japan

Value

Dividend Value

Large Cap Value

Mid Cap Value

NWQ Large-Cap Value

NWQ Multi-Cap Value

NWQ Small-Cap Value

NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value

Small Cap Value

Tradewinds Value Opportunities

Growth

Growth

Large Cap Growth

Large Cap Growth Opportunities

Mid Cap Growth Opportunities

Small Cap Growth Opportunities

Symphony Large-Cap Growth

Winslow Large-Cap Growth

Core

Concentrated Core

Core Dividend

Large Cap Core

Large Cap Core Plus

Large Cap Select

Santa Barbara Dividend Growth

Small Cap Select

Symphony Low Volatility Equity

Core (continued)

Symphony Mid-Cap Core

Symphony Small Cap Core

Real Assets

Global Infrastructure

Gresham Diversified Commodity Strategy

Real Asset Income

Real Estate Securities

Asset Allocation

Strategy Aggressive Growth Allocation

Strategy Balanced Allocation

Strategy Conservative Allocation

Strategy Growth Allocation

Index

Equity Index

Mid Cap Index

Small Cap Index

Non-Traditional Strategies

Equity Long/Short

Equity Market Neutral

Gresham Long/Short Commodity Strategy

Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation

Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation

Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation

Symphony Dynamic Credit

Symphony Dynamic Equity

Tactical Market Opportunities

Several additional sources of information are available to you, including the codes of ethics adopted by the Funds, Nuveen Investments, Nuveen Fund Advisors, NWQ and Tradewinds. The statement of additional information, incorporated by reference into this prospectus, contains detailed information on the policies and operation of the Funds included in this prospectus. Additional information about the Funds’ investments is available in the annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Funds’ annual report, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Funds’ performance during their last fiscal year. The Funds’ most recent statement of additional information, annual and semi-annual reports and certain other information are available, free of charge, by calling Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787, on the Funds’ website at www.nuveen.com, or through your financial advisor. Shareholders may call the toll free number above with any inquiries.

You may also obtain this and other Fund information directly from the Securities and Exchange Commission (“ SEC ”). Reports and other information about the Funds are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or in person at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Call the SEC at (202) 551-8090 for room hours and operation. You may also request Fund information by sending an e-mail request to publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520. The SEC may charge a copying fee for this information.

The Funds are series of Nuveen Investment Trust, whose Investment Company Act file number is 811-07619.

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MPR-NWQ-1014P



Mutual Funds

Prospectus


		October 31, 2014

Class / Ticker Symbol

Fund Name

Class A

Class C

Class I

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund

NGEAX

NGECX

NGEIX

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

NQGAX

NQGCX

NQGIX

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Table of Contents



Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund		2

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund		5


Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

Who Manages the Funds		10

More About Our Investment Strategies		11

How We Select Investments		14

What the Risks Are		14


Section 3 How You Can Buy and Sell Shares

What Share Classes We Offer		20

How to Reduce Your Sales Charge		22

How to Buy Shares		23

Special Services		24

How to Sell Shares		26


Section 4 General Information

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes		29

Distribution and Service Payment s		30

Net Asset Value		32

Frequent Trading		33

Fund Service Providers		34


Section 5 Financial Highlights	35


Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms	37

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Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 20 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 22 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-64 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		5.75%		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class I
Management Fees		0.82%		0.82%		0.82%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.00%
Other Expenses ³		5.41%		5.41%		5.41%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		6.48%		7.23%		6.23%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ⁴		(5.26)%		(5.26)%		(5.26)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		1.22%		1.97%		0.97%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

3	Other Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

The Fund’s investment adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2016 so that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.00% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. This expense limitation may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same, and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2016. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption						No Redemption
	A		C		I		A		C		I
1 Year	$	692	$	200	$	99	$	692	$	200	$	99
3 Years	$	1,467	$	1,165	$	872	$	1,467	$	1,165	$	872

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal period April 1, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 11% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities. The Fund may invest in securities of issuers located anywhere in the world. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 40% of its net assets in non-U.S. securities and invests in securities of companies representing at least three different countries (one of which may be the United States). The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities of companies located in emerging markets.

The Fund may invest in equity securities issued by companies of any market capitalization, including small- and mid-capitalization companies.

The Fund may utilize derivatives, including currency options, currency futures and options on such futures, and currency forwards.The Fund may use these derivatives to manage market or business risk, enhance the Fund’s return, or hedge against adverse movements in currency exchange rates.

The Fund’s sub-adviser employs a rigorous, bottom-up research-focused investment process that seeks to identify undervalued companies with positive risk/reward characteristics it believes will be present over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. The sub-adviser may choose to sell securities or reduce positions if it feels that a company no longer possesses favorable risk/reward characteristics, attractive valuations or a catalyst.

Principal Risks

Derivatives Risk —The use of derivatives involves additional risks and transaction costs which could leave the Fund in a worse position than if it had not used these instruments. Derivative instruments can be used to acquire or to transfer the risk and returns of a security or other asset without buying or selling the security or asset. These instruments may entail investment exposures that are greater than their cost would suggest. As a result, a small investment in derivatives can result in losses that greatly exceed the original investment. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value. A derivative transaction also involves the risk that a loss may be sustained as a result of the failure of the counterparty to the contract to make required payments.

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Fund Performance

Fund performance is not included in this prospectus because the Fund has not been in existence for a full calendar year.

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

Portfolio Manager


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Gregg S. Tenser, CFA	Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst	April 2014

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide high current income and long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 20 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 22 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-64 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		5.75%		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class I
Management Fees ³		0.82%		0.82%		0.82%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.00%
Other Expenses		3.88%		3.88%		4.06%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		4.95%		5.70%		4.88%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ^3,4		(3.73)%		(3.73)%		(3.91)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		1.22%		1.97%		0.97%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

3	Management Fees and Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements have been restated to reflect current contractual fees.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2016. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption						No Redemption
	A		C		I		A		C		I
1 Year	$	692	$	200	$	99	$	692	$	200	$	99
3 Years	$	1,316	$	1,009	$	730	$	1,316	$	1,009	$	730
5 Years	$	2,322	$	2,202	$	1,789	$	2,322	$	2,202	$	1,789
10 Years	$	4,842	$	5,113	$	4,447	$	4,842	$	5,113	$	4,447

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 49% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund will generally focus its investments on income producing securities. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities, including common stock and preferred securities, certain debt securities convertible into common stock or preferred securities, and other securities with equity characteristics.

Up to 20% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in debt securities, including corporate debt securities and U.S. government and agency debt securities. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in below-investment-grade debt securities, commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds.

The Fund may write covered call options in order to generate additional income.

The Fund may invest in securities of issuers located anywhere in the world. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 40% of its net assets in non-U.S. securities and will invest in securities of companies representing at least three different countries (one of which may be the United States). The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities of companies located in emerging markets. The Fund may invest in securities issued by companies of any market capitalization, including small- and mid-capitalization companies.

The Fund may utilize derivatives, including currency options, currency futures and options on such futures, and currency forwards. The Fund may use these derivatives to manage market or business risk, enhance the Fund’s return, or hedge against adverse movements in currency exchange rates.

Principal Risks

Bond Market Liquidity Risk —Primary dealer inventories of bonds appear to be low relative to the size of the fixed income market. These inventories are a core indication of dealers’ capacity to “make a market” in fixed income securities. This reduction in market making capacity has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets in which the Fund invests, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. As a result of this decreased liquidity, the Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance. If the Fund needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices.

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Convertible Security Risk —The value of the Fund’s convertible securities may decline in response to such factors as rising interest rates and fluctuations in the market price of the common stock underlying the convertible securities.

Covered Call Risk —Covered call risk is the risk that the Fund, as a writer of covered call options, will forgo during an option’s life the opportunity to profit from increases in the market value of the security covering the call option.

Credit Risk —Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a debt security may be unable or unwilling to make interest and principal payments when due and the related risk that the value of a debt security may decline because of concerns about the issuer’s ability or willingness to make such payments.

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High Yield Securities Risk —High yield securities, which are rated below investment grade and commonly referred to as “junk” bonds, are high risk investments that may cause income and principal losses for the Fund. They generally have greater credit risk, are less liquid and have more volatile prices than investment grade securities.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

Preferred Security Risk —Preferred securities are subordinated to bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure and therefore will be subject to greater credit risk than those debt instruments. In addition, preferred securities are subject to other risks, such as having no or limited voting rights, being subject to special redemption rights, having distributions deferred or skipped, having limited liquidity, changing tax treatments and possibly being in heavily regulated industries.

Fund Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund’s performance information prior to December 13, 2013 reflects the Fund’s performance using investment strategies that differed significantly from those currently in place. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at www.nuveen.com/performance or by calling (800) 257-8787.

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Class A Annual Total Return*

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Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 0.56%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the four-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 11.96% and
-16.52%, respectively, for the quarters ended March 31, 2012 and September 30, 2011.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. Previously, the Fund used the Russell 1000 ^® Value Index as its benchmark. Going forward, the MSCI World Index will be the Fund’s benchmark because it better reflects how the Fund is being managed. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			Since Inception (September 15, 2009)
Class A (return before taxes)		26.60	%	12.09%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		25.48	%	10.76%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		15.87	%	9.32%
Class C (return before taxes)		33.36	%	12.80%
Class I (return before taxes)		34.70	%	13.93%
MSCI World Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		26.68	%	11.96%
Russell 1000 ^® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		32.53	%	15.87%
Lipper Global Equity Income Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		20.26	%	10.66%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

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Portfolio Manager


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
James T. Stephenson, CFA	Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst	March 2012

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

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Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“ Nuveen Fund Advisors ”), the Funds’ investment adviser, offers advisory and investment management services to a broad range of mutual fund clients. Nuveen Fund Advisors has overall responsibility for management of the Funds, oversees the management of the Funds’ portfolios, manages the Funds’ business affairs and provides certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services. Nuveen Fund Advisors is located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Nuveen Fund Advisors is a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (“ Nuveen Investments ”). The Nuveen family of advisers has been providing advice to investment companies since 1976, and had $231.1 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2014.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has selected its affiliate, NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (“ NWQ ”), located at 2049 Century Park East, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067, to serve as sub-adviser to each Fund. NWQ manages the investment of the Funds’ assets on a discretionary basis, subject to the supervision of Nuveen Fund Advisors.

The portfolio manager for Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund is Gregg S. Tenser. The portfolio manager for Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund is James T. Stephenson.

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Gregg S. Tenser, CFA, is a Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst at NWQ. Prior to joining NWQ in 2001, Mr. Tenser served as a Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst at Sturdivant & Company. Prior to that, he was a Vice President, Senior Analyst and Director of Equity Research at Federated Investors. Prior to that, he was a Senior Analyst at First Chicago Investment Management Company.

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James T. Stephenson, CFA, is a Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst at NWQ. Prior to joining NWQ in 2006, Mr. Stephenson spent seven years at Bel Air Investment Advisors, LLC, a State Street Global Advisors Company, where he was a Managing Director and Partner. Most recently, Mr. Stephenson was Chairman of the firm’s Equity Policy Committee and the Portfolio Manager for Bel Air’s Large Cap Core and Select strategies. Previous to this, he spent five years as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at ARCO Investment Management Company. Prior to that, he was an Equity Analyst at Trust Company of the West.

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Management Fees

The annual Fund-level fee, payable monthly, is based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as follows:


Average Daily Net Assets	Fund-Level Fee
For the first $125 million		0.6500	%
For the next $125 million		0.6375	%
For the next $250 million		0.6250	%
For the next $500 million		0.6125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.6000	%
For net assets over $2 billion		0.5750	%

The complex-level fee begins at a maximum rate of 0.2000% of a Fund’s average daily net assets, based upon complex-level assets of $55 billion, with breakpoints for eligible assets above that level. Therefore, the maximum management fee rate for each Fund is the Fund-level fee plus 0.2000%. As of June 30, 2014, the effective complex-level fee for each Fund was 0.1653% of a Fund’s average daily net assets.

For the most recent fiscal year/period, Nuveen Fund Advisors waived fees and reimbursed expenses in excess of the management fees paid by Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2016, so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) for each Fund do not exceed 1.00% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. These expense limitations may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Funds.

Information regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the investment management agreements is available in the Funds’ annual report for the fiscal period ended June 30, 2014.

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Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund’s investment objective, which is described in the “Fund Summaries” section, may be changed without shareholder approval. If Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund’s investment objective changes, you will be notified at least 60 days in advance. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund’s investment objective, which is described in the “Fund Summaries” section, may not be changed without shareholder approval.

Each Fund has adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (a “Name Policy” ). Details about each Fund’s Name Policy can be found in the statement of additional information. Each Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy.

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The Funds’ investment policies may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval unless otherwise noted in this prospectus or the statement of additional information.

Equity Securities

The Funds invest in equity securities. Equity securities generally include common stocks; preferred securities; warrants to purchase common stocks and preferred securities; convertible debt securities that are either in the money or immediately convertible into common stocks or preferred securities; common and preferred securities issued by master limited partnerships (“ MLPs ”) and real estate investment trusts; depositary receipts; and other securities with equity characteristics. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund may not invest more than 5% of its net assets in MLPs and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may not invest more than 10% of its net assets in MLPs.

Call Options

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may write (e.g., sell) call options on securities in an attempt to generate additional income. A call option enables the purchaser to elect to receive a security from the Fund at a predetermined price and time. The Fund may only sell a call option on a security if the Fund (1) owns the security underlying the call or has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that security without additional cash consideration upon conversion or exchange of another security held by the Fund or (2) holds a call on the same security as the call written where the exercise price of the call held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated assets.

Non-U.S. Investments

The Funds invest in securities of non-U.S. issuers. The Funds will classify an issuer of a security as being a U.S. or non-U.S. issuer based on the determination of an unaffiliated, recognized financial data provider. Such determinations are based on a number of criteria, such as the issuer’s country of domicile, the primary exchange on which the security trades, the location from which the majority of the issuer’s revenue comes, and the issuer’s reporting currency.

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Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

As a non-principal investment strategy, each Fund may invest in cash and in U.S. dollar-denominated high-quality money market instruments and other short-term securities, including money market funds, in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Fund’s principal investment strategies. A Fund may temporarily invest without limit in such holdings for liquidity purposes, or in an attempt to respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. Being invested in these securities may keep a Fund from participating in a market upswing and prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective.

Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles

As a non-principal investment strategy, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund may invest in securities of other open-end or closed-end investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (“ ETFs ”). The Fund will not invest in leveraged ETFs.

As a non-principal investment strategy, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may invest in securities of other open-end or closed-end investment companies, including ETFs, that invest primarily in securities of the types in which the Funds may invest directly. In addition, the Fund may also invest a portion of its assets in pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies) that invest primarily in securities of the types in which the Fund may invest directly. Securities of other pooled investment vehicles may be leveraged, in which case the value and/or yield of such securities will tend to be more volatile than securities of unleveraged vehicles.

An ETF is an investment company that holds a portfolio of securities generally designed to track the performance of a securities index, including industry, sector, country and region indexes. ETFs trade on a securities exchange and their shares may, at times, trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value.

As a shareholder in an investment company or other pooled investment vehicle, a Fund will bear its ratable share of that vehicle’s expenses, and would remain subject to payment of the Fund’s advisory and administrative fees with respect to assets so invested. Shareholders would therefore be subject to duplicative expenses to the extent a Fund invests in investment companies or other pooled investment vehicles. In addition, the Funds will incur brokerage costs when purchasing and selling shares of ETFs.

Generally, investments in ETFs are subject to statutory limitations prescribed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. These limitations include a prohibition on a Fund acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any other investment company, and a prohibition on investing more than 5% of a Fund’s total assets in the securities of any one investment company or more than 10% of its total assets, in the aggregate, in investment company securities. Many ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in the ETFs’ shares beyond these statutory limitations, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to a contractual arrangement between the ETFs and the investing Funds. The Funds may rely on these exemptive orders in order to invest in unaffiliated ETFs beyond the foregoing statutory limitations. Subject to certain conditions, a Fund also may invest in money market funds beyond the statutory limits described above.

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Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

A description of the Funds’ policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds’ portfolio holdings is available in the Funds’ statement of additional information. A list of each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available on the Funds’ website—www.nuveen.com/mf—by navigating to your Fund using the “Mutual Fund Finder” and clicking on the “Holdings & Detail” tab. By following these links, you can obtain a list of your Fund’s top ten holdings as of the end of the most recent month. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available on the Funds’ website ten business days after the end of the month. This information will remain available on the website until the Funds file with the Securities and Exchange Commission their annual, semi-annual or quarterly holdings report for the fiscal period that includes the date(s) as of which the website information is current.

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NWQ seeks to identify undervalued companies with a catalyst to unlock value or improve profitability, such as new management, industry consolidation, corporate restructuring or a turn in company fundamentals. NWQ’s portfolio managers and analysts collaborate closely in a rigorous, bottom-up, research-focused investment process that focuses on financial statement and valuation analysis, qualitative factors and downside protection. The companies identified by the team through this process are often underappreciated or misperceived by Wall Street. NWQ maintains a long-term investment view and a focus on securities it believes can appreciate over an extended time, regardless of interim fluctuations. NWQ’s flexible income team considers the relative attractiveness of a particular security within a company’s capital structure. In addition to the research provided by NWQ’s equity team, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will also benefit from NWQ’s fixed income team, which will analyze the income potential of a security by focusing on the integrity of the balance sheet and the sustainability of cash flows.

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Principal Risks

Bond market liquidity risk : Primary dealer inventories of bonds appear to be low relative to the size of the fixed income market. These inventories are a core indication of dealers’ capacity to “make a market” in fixed income securities. This reduction in market making capacity has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets in which Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund invests, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. As a result of this decreased liquidity, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may have to accept a lower price

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to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance. If the Fund needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices.

Call risk : Many bonds may be redeemed at the option of the issuer, or “called,” before their stated maturity date. In general, an issuer will call its bonds if they can be refinanced by issuing new bonds which bear a lower interest rate. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund is subject to the possibility that during periods of falling interest rates, a bond issuer will call its high yielding bonds. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund would then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund’s income.

Convertible security risk : Convertible securities have characteristics of both equity and debt securities and, as a result, are exposed to certain additional risks that are typically associated with debt. The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. However, a convertible security’s market value also tends to reflect the market price of the common stock of the issuing company. Convertible securities are also exposed to the risk that an issuer is unable to meet its obligation to make dividend or interest and principal payments when due as a result of changing financial or market conditions.

Mandatory convertible securities are distinguished as a subset of convertible securities because the conversion is not optional and the conversion price at maturity is based solely upon the market price of the underlying common stock, which may be significantly less than par or the price (above or below par) paid. Mandatory convertible securities generally do not limit the potential for loss to the same extent as securities convertible at the option of the holder.

Covered call risk : Covered call risk is the risk that Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will forgo, during the option’s life, the opportunity to profit from increases in the market value of the security covering the call option above the sum of the premium and the strike price of the call, but has retained the risk of loss should the price of the underlying security decline. In addition, as Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund writes covered calls over more of its portfolio, its ability to benefit from capital appreciation becomes more limited. The writer of an option has no control over the time when it may be required to fulfill its obligation as a writer of the option. Once an option writer has received an exercise notice, it cannot effect a closing purchase transaction in order to terminate its obligation under the option and must deliver the underlying security at the exercise price.

Credit risk : Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund is subject to the risk that an issuer of a debt security held by the Fund, or to which the Fund otherwise has exposure, may be unable or unwilling to make interest and principal payments and the related risk that the value of a debt security may decline because of concerns about the issuer’s ability or willingness to make such payments. Debt securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings. The credit rating of a debt security may be lowered if the issuer suffers adverse changes in its financial condition, which can lead to greater volatility in the price of the security and in shares of Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund, and can also affect the bond’s liquidity and make it more difficult for the Fund to sell. When Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund purchases unrated securities, it

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will depend on the sub-adviser’s analysis of credit risk without the assessment of an independent rating organization, such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s.

Currency risk : Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, the value of dividends and interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities, and hence will affect the net asset value of a Fund that invests in such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of a Fund to the extent it invests in such non-U.S. dollar denominated securities.

Derivatives risk : The use of derivatives presents risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional securities. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value, and there is the risk that changes in the value of a derivative held by a Fund will not correlate with the asset, index or rate underlying the derivative contract.

Futures contracts are subject to the risk that an exchange may impose price fluctuation limits, which may make it difficult or impossible for a Fund to close out a position when desired.

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High yield securities risk: Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may invest in securities that are rated below-investment grade, which are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. High yield securities usually offer higher yields than investment grade securities, but also involve more risk. High yield securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic conditions than investment grade securities, and they generally have more volatile prices and carry more risk to principal. In addition, liquidity risk is greater for high yield securities than for investment grade securities.

Income risk: Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund’s income could decline in a falling interest rate environment because the Fund generally will have to invest the proceeds from sales of Fund shares, as well as the proceeds from maturing portfolio debt securities (or portfolio securities that have been called, see “Call risk” above), in lower-yielding securities.

Interest rate risk : Debt securities held by Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will fluctuate in value with changes in interest rates. In general, debt securities will increase in value when interest rates fall and decrease in value when interest rates rise. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. Longer-term debt securities are generally more sensitive to interest rate changes. Rising interest rates also may lengthen the duration of debt securities with call features, since exercise of the call becomes less likely as interest rates rise, which in turn will make the securities more sensitive to changes in interest rates and result in even steeper price declines in the event of further interest rate increases.

Non-U.S./emerging markets risk : Non-U.S. issuers or U.S. issuers with significant non-U.S. operations may be subject to risks in addition to or different than those of issuers that are located in or principally operated in the United States due to political, social and economic developments abroad, different regulatory environments and laws, potential seizure by the government of company assets, higher taxation, withholding taxes on dividends and interest and limitations on the use or transfer of portfolio assets.

Other non-U.S. investment risks include the following:

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Enforcing legal rights may be difficult, costly and slow in non-U.S. countries, and there may be special problems enforcing claims against non-U.S. governments.

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Non-U.S. companies may not be subject to accounting standards or governmental supervision comparable to U.S. companies, and there may be less public information about their operations.

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Non-U.S. markets may be less liquid and more volatile than U.S. markets.

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overall price volatility of a portfolio that included both U.S. and non-U.S. securities. Sometimes, however, global trends will cause the U.S. and non-U.S. markets to move in the same direction, reducing or eliminating the risk reduction benefit of international investing.

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Non-U.S. securities traded on foreign exchanges, particularly in emerging markets countries, may be subject to further risks due to the inexperience of local investment professionals and financial institutions, the possibility of permanent or temporary termination of trading, and greater spreads between bid and asked prices for securities. In addition, non-U.S. exchanges and investment professionals are subject to less governmental regulation, and commissions may be higher than in the United States. Also, there may be delays in the settlement of non-U.S. exchange transactions.

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Preferred security risk: There are special risks associated with investing in preferred securities:

Limited voting rights. Generally, preferred security holders (such as a Fund) have no voting rights with respect to the issuing company unless preferred dividends have been in arrears for a specified number of periods, at which time the preferred security holders may elect a number of directors to the issuer’s board. Generally, once all the arrearages have been paid, the preferred security holders no longer have voting rights.

In the case of certain preferred securities, holders generally have no voting rights, except (i) if the issuer fails to pay dividends for a specified period of time or (ii) if a declaration of default occurs and is continuing. In such an event, preferred security holders generally would have the right to appoint and authorize a trustee to enforce the trust or special purpose entity’s rights as a creditor under the agreement with its operating company.

Special redemption rights . In certain circumstances, an issuer of preferred securities may redeem the securities prior to their stated maturity date. For instance, for certain types of preferred securities, a redemption may be triggered by a change in federal income tax or securities laws. As with call provisions, a redemption by the issuer may negatively impact the return of the security held by a Fund.

Payment deferral . Generally, preferred securities may be subject to provisions that allow an issuer, under certain conditions, to skip

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(“non-cumulative” preferred securities) or defer (“cumulative” preferred securities) distributions. Non-cumulative preferred securities can defer distributions indefinitely. Cumulative preferred securities typically contain provisions that allow an issuer, at its discretion, to defer distributions payments for up to 10 years. If a Fund owns a preferred security that is deferring its distribution, the Fund may be required to report income for tax purposes while it is not receiving any income.

Subordination . Preferred securities are subordinated to bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure and therefore are subject to greater credit risk than those debt instruments.

Liquidity . Preferred securities may be substantially less liquid than many other securities, such as U.S. government securities or common stock.

Financial services industry . The preferred securities market is comprised predominately of securities issued by companies in the financial services industry. Therefore, preferred securities present substantially increased risks at times of financial turmoil, which could affect financial services companies more than companies in other sectors and industries.

Tax risk . A Fund may invest in preferred securities or other securities the federal income tax treatment of which may not be clear or may be subject to recharacterization by the Internal Revenue Service. It could be more difficult for a Fund to comply with the tax requirements applicable to regulated investment companies if the tax characterization of the Fund’s investments or the tax treatment of the income from such investments were successfully challenged by the Internal Revenue Service.

Regulatory risk . Issuers of preferred securities may be in industries that are heavily regulated and that may receive government funding. The value of preferred securities issued by these companies may be affected by changes in government policy, such as increased regulation, ownership restrictions, deregulation or reduced government funding.

Smaller company risk : Stocks of small-cap companies involve substantial risk. These companies may lack the management expertise, financial resources, product diversification, and competitive strengths of larger companies. Prices of small-cap stocks may be subject to more abrupt or erratic movements than stock prices of larger, more established companies or the market averages in general. In addition, the frequency and volume of their trading may be less than is typical of larger companies, making them subject to wider price fluctuations. In some cases, there could be difficulties in selling the stocks of small-cap companies at the desired time and price. Stocks at the bottom end of the capitalization range of small-cap companies sometimes are referred to as “micro-cap” stocks. These stocks may be subject to extreme price volatility, as well as limited liquidity and limited research. While mid-cap stocks may be slightly less volatile than small-cap stocks, they still involve similar risks.

Non-Principal Risks

Small fund risk : The Funds currently have less assets than larger funds, and like other relatively small funds, large inflows and outflows may impact a Fund’s market exposure for limited periods of time, causing a Fund’s performance to vary from that of a Fund’s model portfolio. This impact may be positive or negative, depending on the direction of market movement during the period affected. Each Fund has policies in place which seek to reduce the impact of these flows where Nuveen Fund Advisors has prior knowledge of them.

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Class A Shares


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		5.75	%		6.10	%		5.00	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		4.50			4.71			4.00
$100,000 but less than $250,000		3.75			3.90			3.25
$250,000 but less than $500,000		2.75			2.83			2.50
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

Class C Shares

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lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds. You do not pay a CDSC on any Class C shares you purchase by reinvesting dividends.

Class I Shares

Class I shares are also available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Certain bank or broker-affiliated trust departments.

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Advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates.

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Current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (as defined in the statement of additional information).

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Officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Certain financial intermediary personnel, and their immediate family members.

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Certain other institutional investors described in the statement of additional information.

Please refer to the statement of additional information for more information about Class A, Class C and Class I shares, including more detailed program descriptions and eligibility requirements. Additional information is also available from your financial advisor, who can also help you prepare any necessary application forms.

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Class A Sales Charge Reductions

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Class A Sales Charge Waivers

Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge as follows:

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Purchases of $1,000,000 or more (although such purchases may be subject to a CDSC in certain circumstances, see “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below).

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Monies representing reinvestment of Nuveen Mutual Fund distributions.

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds.

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Additional categories of investors. Purchases made (i) by investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program; (ii) by clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services; and (iii) through a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer the Funds’ shares to self-directed investment brokerage accounts and that may or may not charge a transaction fee to its customers.

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You may purchase Fund shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly from the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

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Directly from the Funds

Eligible investors may purchase shares directly from the Funds.

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By wire. You can purchase shares by making a wire transfer from your bank. Before making an initial investment by wire, you must submit a new account form to a Fund. After receiving your form, a service representative will contact you with your account number and wiring instructions. Your order will be priced at the next closing share price based on the share class of your Fund, calculated after your Fund’s custodian receives your payment by wire. Wired funds must be received prior to 4:00 p.m. New York time to be eligible for same day pricing. Neither your Fund nor the transfer agent is responsible for the consequences of delays resulting from the banking or Federal Reserve wire system, or from incomplete wiring instructions. Before making any additional purchases by wire, you should call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787. You cannot purchase shares by wire on days when federally chartered banks are closed.

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On-line. Existing shareholders with direct accounts may process certain account transactions on-line. You may purchase additional shares or exchange shares between existing, identically registered direct accounts. You can also look up your account balance, history and dividend information, as well as order duplicate account statements and tax forms from the Funds’ website. To access your account, click the “Individual Investors” link on www.nuveen.com and then choose “Account Access” under the “Resources” tab. The system will walk you through the log-in process. To purchase shares on-line, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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By telephone. Existing shareholders with direct accounts may also process account transactions via the Funds’ automated information line. Simply call (800) 257-8787, press 1 for mutual funds and the voice menu will walk you through the process. To purchase shares by telephone, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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Systematic Investing

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From your bank account. You can make systematic investments of $100 or more per month by authorizing your Fund to draw pre-authorized checks on your bank account.

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From your paycheck. With your employer’s consent, you can make systematic investments each pay period (collectively meeting the monthly minimum of $100) by authorizing your employer to deduct monies from your paycheck.

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Systematic exchanging. You can make systematic investments by authorizing the Distributor to exchange shares from one Nuveen Mutual Fund account into another identically registered Nuveen Mutual Fund account of the same share class.

Systematic Withdrawal

If the value of your Fund account is at least $10,000, you may request to have $50 or more withdrawn automatically from your account. You may elect to receive payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, and may choose to receive a check, have the monies transferred directly into your bank account (see “Fund Direct” below), paid to a third party or sent payable to you at an address other than your address of record. You must complete the appropriate section of the account application or Account Update Form to participate in each Fund’s systematic withdrawal plan.

You should not establish systematic withdrawals if you intend to make concurrent purchases of Class A or Class C shares because you may unnecessarily pay a sales charge or CDSC on these purchases.

Exchanging Shares

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Fund Direct ^SM

The Fund Direct Program allows you to link your Fund account to your bank account, transfer money electronically between these accounts and perform a variety of account transactions, including purchasing shares by telephone and investing through a systematic investment plan. You may also have dividends, distributions, redemption payments or systematic withdrawal plan payments sent directly to your bank account.

Reinstatement Privilege

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You may sell your shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly to the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

You may sell your shares through your financial advisor, who can prepare the necessary documentation. Your financial advisor may charge for this service.

Directly to the Funds

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The Fund’s name;

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Your name and account number;

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The dollar or share amount you wish to redeem;

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The signature of each owner exactly as it appears on the account;

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The name of the person to whom you want your redemption proceeds paid (if other than to the shareholder of record);

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The address where you want your redemption proceeds sent (if other than the address of record);

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Any certificates you have for the shares; and

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Any required signature guarantees.

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After you have established your account, signatures on a written request must be guaranteed if:

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You would like redemption proceeds payable or sent to any person, address or bank account other than that on record;

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You have changed the address on your Fund’s records within the last 30 days;

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Your redemption request is in excess of $50,000; or

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You are requesting a change in ownership on your account.

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Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

If you redeem Class A or Class C shares that are subject to a CDSC, you may be assessed a CDSC upon redemption. When you redeem Class A or Class C shares subject to a CDSC, your Fund will first redeem any shares that are not subject to a CDSC, and then redeem the shares you have owned for the longest period of time, unless you ask the Fund to redeem your shares in a different order. No CDSC is imposed on shares you buy through the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. The CDSC holding period is calculated on a monthly basis and begins on the first day of the month in which the purchase was made. When you redeem shares subject to a CDSC, the CDSC is calculated on the lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds, deducted from your redemption proceeds, and paid to the Distributor. The CDSC may be waived under certain special circumstances as described in the statement of additional information.

Accounts with Low Balances

The Funds reserve the right to liquidate or assess a low balance fee on any account held directly with the Funds that has a balance that has fallen below the account balance minimum of $1,000 for any reason, including market fluctuations.

Redemptions In-Kind

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Section 4 General Information

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Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund intends to pay income dividends and any taxable gains annually. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund intends to pay income dividends quarterly and any taxable gains annually.

Payment and Reinvestment Options

Non-U.S. Income Tax Considerations

Taxes and Tax Reporting

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distributions is the same whether you reinvest them or elect to receive them in cash. The sale of shares in your account may produce a gain or loss, and is a taxable event. For tax purposes, an exchange of shares between funds is generally the same as a sale.

Buying or Selling Shares Close to a Record Date

Non-U.S. Tax Credits

A regulated investment company with more than 50% of the value of its assets in stock or other securities of non-U.S. corporations at the close of a taxable year may, for such taxable year, elect to pass the regulated investment company’s non-U.S. tax credits through to its investors.

Cost Basis Method

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Distribution and Service Plan

Under the plan, the Distributor receives a distribution fee for Class C shares primarily for providing compensation to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, in connection with the distribution of shares. The Distributor

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receives a service fee for Class A and Class C shares to compensate financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, for providing ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders. Fees paid under the plan also compensate the Distributor for other expenses, including printing and distributing prospectuses to persons other than shareholders, and preparing, printing, and distributing advertising materials, sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of shares. Because fees paid under the plan are paid out of a Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Long-term holders of Class C shares may pay more in distribution and service fees and CDSCs than the economic equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted under the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Conduct Rules.

Other Payments by the Funds

Other Payments by the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors

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compensation for certain recordkeeping, shareholder communications and other account administration services provided to Nuveen Mutual Fund shareholders who own their Fund shares through these platforms or programs. These payments are in addition to the service fee and any applicable sub-transfer agency or similar fees paid to these firms with respect to these services by the Nuveen Mutual Funds out of Fund assets.

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faith by the Board of Trustees or persons acting at their direction. Nuveen Fund Advisors may determine that a price is unreliable in various circumstances. For example, a price may be deemed unreliable if it has not changed for an identified period of time, or has changed from the previous day’s price by more than a threshold amount, and recent transactions and/or broker dealer price quotations differ materially from the price in question.

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intermediaries may disclose to a Fund an investor’s taxpayer identification number and a record of the investor’s transactions at the request of the Fund. Technical limitations in operational systems at such intermediaries or at the Distributor may also limit the Funds’ ability to detect and prevent frequent trading. In addition, the Funds may permit certain financial intermediaries, including broker-dealer and retirement plan administrators, among others, to enforce their own internal policies and procedures concerning frequent trading. Such policies may differ from the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy and may be approved for use in instances where the Funds reasonably believe that the intermediary’s policies and procedures effectively discourage inappropriate trading activity. Shareholders holding their accounts with such intermediaries may wish to contact the intermediary for information regarding its frequent trading policy. Although the Funds do not knowingly permit frequent trading, they cannot guarantee that they will be able to identify and restrict all frequent trading activity.

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Section 5 Financial Highlights

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand a Fund’s financial performance for the life of the Fund. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). The information has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report for the most recent fiscal year/period, along with the Fund’s financial statements, are included in the annual report, which is available upon request.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations						Less Distributions											Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Total		From Net Investment Income		From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total		Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (4/14)
2014(d)	$	20.00	$	0.10	$	0.57	$	0.67	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	20.67		3.35	%	$	52		1.22	%*		1.98	%*		11	%

Class C (4/14)
2014(d)		20.00		0.06		0.57		0.63		—		—		—		20.63		3.15			52		1.97	*		1.22	*		11

Class I (4/14)
2014(d)		20.00		0.11		0.57		0.68		—		—		—		20.68		3.40			931		.97	*		2.23	*		11

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in net asset value without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at net asset value and reinvested capital gains distributions at net asset value, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	For the period April 1, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in Note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

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Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations								Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (9/09)
2014	$	24.08	$	0.69	$	4.60		$	5.29		$	(0.67	)	$	(0.61	)	$	(1.28	)	$	28.09		22.28	%	$	351		1.16	%		2.58	%		49	%
2013		20.20		.36		3.92			4.28			(.36	)		(.04	)		(.40	)		24.08		21.33			301		1.12			1.63			44
2012		23.57		.39		(1.40	)		(1.01	)		(.39	)		(1.97	)		(2.36	)		20.20		(3.57	)		253		1.13			1.85			32
2011		19.81		.34		4.61			4.95			(.36	)		(.83	)		(1.19	)		23.57		25.34			295		1.13			1.51			44
2010(d)		20.00		.30		(.19	)		.11			(.30	)		—			(.30	)		19.81		.48			248		1.14	*		1.83	*		24

Class C (9/09)
2014		24.07		0.49		4.59			5.08			(0.47	)		(0.61	)		(1.08	)		28.07		21.36			351		1.91			1.83			49
2013		20.19		.19		3.92			4.11			(.19	)		(.04	)		(.23	)		24.07		20.45			301		1.87			.88			44
2012		23.56		.23		(1.40	)		(1.17	)		(.23	)		(1.97	)		(2.20	)		20.19		(4.30	)		252		1.88			1.09			32
2011		19.80		.17		4.61			4.78			(.19	)		(.83	)		(1.02	)		23.56		24.43			294		1.88			.76			44
2010(d)		20.00		.18		(.20	)		(.02	)		(.18	)		—			(.18	)		19.80		(.14	)		248		1.89	*		1.08	*		24

Class I (9/09)
2014		24.08		0.89		4.48			5.37			(0.74	)		(0.61	)		(1.35	)		28.10		22.63			645		0.92			3.31			49
2013		20.21		.42		3.90			4.32			(.41	)		(.04	)		(.45	)		24.08		21.57			301		.87			1.88			44
2012		23.57		.44		(1.39	)		(.95	)		(.44	)		(1.97	)		(2.41	)		20.21		(3.28	)		253		.88			2.10			32
2011		19.81		.40		4.61			5.01			(.42	)		(.83	)		(1.25	)		23.57		25.64			295		.88			1.76			44
2010(d)		20.00		.35		(.20	)		.15			(.34	)		—			(.34	)		19.81		.67			248		.89	*		2.08	*		24

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	For the period September 15, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases or sales (as disclosed in Note 5 – Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

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Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

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Average cost basis method: Calculating cost basis by determining the average price paid for Fund shares that may have been purchased at different times for different prices.

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Covered calls : An options strategy whereby the Fund holds a long position in a security and sells a call option on that same security in an attempt to generate increased income from the security.

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Derivatives: Financial instruments whose performance is derived from the performance of an underlying asset, security or index. Derivatives may be used to hedge risk, to exchange a floating rate of return for a fixed rate of return or to gain investment exposure. Derivatives include futures, options and swaps, among other instruments.

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Emerging markets: The financial markets of developing economies in countries with low per capita income in the initial stages of their industrialization cycles. They generally do not have the level of market efficiency and strict standards in accounting and securities regulation to be on par with advanced economies. Investments in emerging markets come with much greater risk due to political instability, domestic infrastructure problems, currency volatility and limited equity opportunities (many large companies may still be “state-run” or private). Also, local exchanges may not offer liquid markets for outside investors.

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Futures: Derivative contracts obligating buyers to purchase an asset or sellers to sell an asset at a predetermined future date and price. Futures contracts are standardized to facilitate trading on a futures exchange.

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Lipper Global Equity Income Classification Average : Represents the average annualized total return for all reporting funds in the Lipper Global Equity Income classification.

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MSCI World Index : A free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to track the equity market performance of developed markets.

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Options: Derivative contracts giving buyers the right to buy or to sell shares of a specified stock at a specified price on or before a given date. There are also options on currencies and other financial assets.

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Russell 1000 ^® Value Index : Measures the performance of those firms in the Russell 1000 ^® Index with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

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Nuveen Mutual Funds

Nuveen offers a variety of mutual funds designed to help you reach your financial goals. The funds below are grouped by category.

Municipal-National

All-American Municipal Bond

High Yield Municipal Bond

Inflation Protected Municipal Bond

Intermediate Duration Municipal Bond

Limited Term Municipal Bond

Short Duration High Yield Municipal Bond

Short Term Municipal Bond

Municipal-State

Arizona Municipal Bond

California High Yield Municipal Bond

California Municipal Bond

Colorado Municipal Bond

Connecticut Municipal Bond

Georgia Municipal Bond

Kansas Municipal Bond

Kentucky Municipal Bond

Louisiana Municipal Bond

Maryland Municipal Bond

Massachusetts Municipal Bond

Michigan Municipal Bond

Minnesota Intermediate Municipal Bond

Minnesota Municipal Bond

Missouri Municipal Bond

Nebraska Municipal Bond

New Jersey Municipal Bond

New Mexico Municipal Bond

New York Municipal Bond

North Carolina Municipal Bond

Ohio Municipal Bond

Oregon Intermediate Municipal Bond

Municipal-State (continued)

Pennsylvania Municipal Bond

Tennessee Municipal Bond

Virginia Municipal Bond

Wisconsin Municipal Bond

Taxable Fixed Income

Core Bond

Core Plus Bond

Global Total Return Bond

High Income Bond

Inflation Protected Securities

Intermediate Government Bond

NWQ Flexible Income

Preferred Securities

Short Term Bond

Strategic Income

Symphony Credit Opportunities

Symphony Floating Rate Income

Symphony High Yield Bond

U.S. Infrastructure Income

Global/International

Global Growth

International Growth

NWQ Global Equity

NWQ Global Equity Income

Santa Barbara Global Dividend Growth

Santa Barbara International Dividend Growth

Symphony International Equity

Tradewinds Emerging Markets

Tradewinds Global All-Cap

Global/International (continued)

Tradewinds International Value

Tradewinds Japan

Value

Dividend Value

Large Cap Value

Mid Cap Value

NWQ Large-Cap Value

NWQ Multi-Cap Value

NWQ Small-Cap Value

NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value

Small Cap Value

Tradewinds Value Opportunities

Growth

Growth

Large Cap Growth

Large Cap Growth Opportunities

Mid Cap Growth Opportunities

Small Cap Growth Opportunities

Symphony Large-Cap Growth

Winslow Large-Cap Growth

Core

Concentrated Core

Core Dividend

Large Cap Core

Large Cap Core Plus

Large Cap Select

Santa Barbara Dividend Growth

Small Cap Select

Symphony Low Volatility Equity

Core (continued)

Symphony Mid-Cap Core

Symphony Small Cap Core

Real Assets

Global Infrastructure

Gresham Diversified Commodity Strategy

Real Asset Income

Real Estate Securities

Asset Allocation

Strategy Aggressive Growth Allocation

Strategy Balanced Allocation

Strategy Conservative Allocation

Strategy Growth Allocation

Index

Equity Index

Mid Cap Index

Small Cap Index

Non-Traditional Strategies

Equity Long/Short

Equity Market Neutral

Gresham Long/Short Commodity Strategy

Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation

Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation

Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation

Symphony Dynamic Credit

Symphony Dynamic Equity

Tactical Market Opportunities

Several additional sources of information are available to you, including the codes of ethics adopted by the Funds, Nuveen Investments, Nuveen Fund Advisors and NWQ. The statement of additional information, incorporated by reference into this prospectus, contains detailed information on the policies and operation of the Funds included in this prospectus. Additional information about the Funds’ investments is available in the annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Funds’ annual report, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Funds’ performance during their last fiscal year. The Funds’ most recent statement of additional information, annual and semi-annual reports and certain other information are available, free of charge, by calling Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787, on the Funds’ website at www.nuveen.com, or through your financial advisor. Shareholders may call the toll free number above with any inquiries.

You may also obtain this and other Fund information directly from the Securities and Exchange Commission ( “SEC” ). Reports and other information about the Funds are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or in person at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Call the SEC at (202) 551-8090 for room hours and operation. You may also request Fund information by sending an e-mail request to publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520. The SEC may charge a copying fee for this information.

The Funds are series of Nuveen Investment Trust, whose Investment Company Act file number is 811-07619.

Distributed by

Nuveen Securities, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(800) 257-8787

www.nuveen.com

MPR-NGEQ-1014P



Mutual Funds

Prospectus


		October 31, 2014

Class / Ticker Symbol

Fund Name

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund

NGTAX

NGTCX

NGTRX

NGTIX

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Table of Contents



Section 1 Fund Summary

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund		2


Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

Who Manages the Fund		7

More About Our Investment Strategies		8

How We Select Investments		11

What the Risks Are		11


Section 3 How You Can Buy and Sell Shares

What Share Classes We Offer		16

How to Reduce Your Sales Charge		18

How to Buy Shares		19

Special Services		21

How to Sell Shares		22


Section 4 General Information

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes		25

Distribution and Service Payments		26

Net Asset Value		28

Frequent Trading		29

Fund Service Providers		31


Section 5 Financial Highlights	32


Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms	33

NOT FDIC OR GOVERNMENT INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE

Section 1 Fund Summary

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to seek total return.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 16 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 18 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-57 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.75%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.57%		0.57%		0.57%		0.57%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses ³		1.09%		1.08%		1.07%		1.08%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.91%		2.65%		2.14%		1.65%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ⁴		(0.94)%		(0.93)%		(0.92)%		(0.93)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.97%		1.72%		1.22%		0.72%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

3	Other Expenses have been restated to reflect current contractual fees.

The Fund’s investment adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2015 so that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities, and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 0.75% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. The expense limitation expiring October 31, 2015 may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2015. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	569	$	175	$	124	$	74	$	569	$	175	$	124	$	74
3 Years	$	960	$	735	$	581	$	429	$	960	$	735	$	581	$	429
5 Years	$	1,374	$	1,322	$	1,065	$	809	$	1,374	$	1,322	$	1,065	$	809
10 Years	$	2,529	$	2,915	$	2,400	$	1,876	$	2,529	$	2,915	$	2,400	$	1,876

Section 1 Fund Summary

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 109% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds from issuers located around the world. The bonds in which the Fund may invest may be of any maturity and include: debt obligations of foreign governments; domestic and foreign corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations; U.S. government securities (securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities); residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities; and asset-backed securities.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 40% of its net assets in non-U.S. issuers and is invested in issuers located in at least three countries (including the United States). The Fund may invest in debt obligations issued by governmental and corporate issuers located in emerging markets countries.

The Fund invests in securities that are U.S. dollar-denominated and in securities that are denominated in foreign currencies. As described in more detail below, the Fund may utilize various currency-related derivatives in an effort to enhance the Fund’s total return or to manage risk.

Up to 30% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in securities rated lower than investment grade or in unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser (such securities commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds). If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

The Fund’s sub-adviser uses a team-based and research-driven investment process for the Fund. The portfolio management team relies on both top-down and bottom-up research to identify attractive investment opportunities and to manage the Fund’s risk.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Section 1 Fund Summary

Currency Risk —Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk —These securities generally can be prepaid at any time and prepayments that occur either more quickly or more slowly than expected can adversely impact the value of such securities. They are also subject to extension risk, which is the risk that rising interest rates could cause mortgages or other obligations underlying the securities to be prepaid more slowly than expected, thereby lengthening the duration of such securities, increasing their sensitivity to interest rate changes and causing their prices to decline. A mortgage-backed security may be negatively affected by the quality of the mortgages underlying such security, the credit quality of its issuer or guarantor, and the nature and structure of its credit support.

Fund Performance

Section 1 Fund Summary

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 4.86%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the two-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 8.81% and -5.34%, respectively, for the quarters ended March 31, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


			Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	Inception Date		1 Year			Since Inception
Class A (return before taxes)		12/2/11		(10.71	)%		2.31	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)				(12.58	)%		0.44	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)				(5.93	)%		1.12	%
Class C (return before taxes)		12/2/11		(6.91	)%		4.15	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		12/2/11		(6.48	)%		4.61	%
Class I (return before taxes)		12/2/11		(6.01	)%		5.13	%
Barclays Global Aggregate Unhedged Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)				(2.60	)%		1.00	%
Lipper Global Income Funds Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)				(2.05	)%		3.19	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Section 1 Fund Summary

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Timothy A. Palmer, CFA	Managing Director	December 2011
Steve S. Lee, CFA	Senior Vice President	December 2011

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

Section 1 Fund Summary

Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

To help you better understand the Fund, this section includes a detailed discussion of the Fund’s investment and risk management strategies. For a more complete discussion of these matters, please see the statement of additional information, which is available by calling (800) 257-8787 or by visiting Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com.

LOGO

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“ Nuveen Fund Advisors ”), the Fund’s investment adviser, offers advisory and investment management services to a broad range of mutual fund clients. Nuveen Fund Advisors has overall responsibility for management of the Fund, oversees the management of the Fund’s portfolio, manages the Fund’s business affairs and provides certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services. Nuveen Fund Advisors is located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Nuveen Fund Advisors is a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (“ Nuveen Investments ”). The Nuveen family of advisers has been providing advice to investment companies since 1976, and had $231.1 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2014.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“ Nuveen Asset Management ”), located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, to serve as sub-adviser to the Fund. Nuveen Asset Management manages the investment of the Fund’s assets on a discretionary basis, subject to the supervision of Nuveen Fund Advisors.

Timothy A. Palmer and Steve S. Lee are the portfolio managers of the Fund.

•

Timothy A. Palmer, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1986 and became a portfolio manager in 1990. He joined FAF in 2003 and most recently served as Senior Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Bonds and Emerging Markets Sector Teams on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

•

Steve S. Lee, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1995 and joined an affiliate of Nuveen Asset Management in 2007 as Vice President and Portfolio Manager. He became Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Head of Foreign Currency Sector Team in 2011.

Additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and the portfolio managers’ ownership of securities in the Fund is provided in the statement of additional information.

Management Fees

The management fee schedule for the Fund consists of two components: a Fund-level fee, based only on the amount of assets within the Fund, and a complex-level fee, based on the aggregate amount of all eligible fund assets managed by Nuveen Fund Advisors.

Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

The annual Fund-level fee, payable monthly, is based upon the average daily net assets of the Fund as follows:


Average Daily Net Assets	Fund-Level Fee
For the first $125 million		0.4000	%
For the next $125 million		0.3875	%
For the next $250 million		0.3750	%
For the next $500 million		0.3625	%
For the next $1 billion		0.3500	%
For net assets over $2 billion		0.3250	%

The complex-level fee begins at a maximum rate of 0.2000% of the Fund’s average daily net assets, based upon complex-level assets of $55 billion, with breakpoints for eligible assets above that level. Therefore, the maximum management fee rate for the Fund is the Fund-level fee plus 0.2000%. As of June 30, 2014, the effective complex-level fee was 0.1653% of the Fund’s average daily net assets.

For the most recent fiscal year, Nuveen Fund Advisors waived fees and reimbursed expenses in excess of the management fees paid by the Fund.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities, and extraordinary expenses) for the Fund do not exceed 0.75% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. The expense limitation expiring October 31, 2015 may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

Information regarding the Board of Trustees’ approval of the investment management agreements is available in the Fund’s annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.

LOGO

The Fund’s investment objective, which is described in the “Fund Summary” section, may be changed without shareholder approval. If the Fund’s investment objective changes, you will be notified at least 60 days in advance.

The Fund has adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (a “Name Policy” ). Details about the Fund’s Name Policy can be found in the statement of additional information. The Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy.

The Fund’s investment policies may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval unless otherwise noted in this prospectus or the statement of additional information.

The Fund’s principal investment strategies are discussed in the “Fund Summary” section. These are the strategies that the Fund’s investment adviser and sub-adviser believe are most likely to be important in trying to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. This section provides more information about these strategies, as well as information about some

Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

additional strategies that the Fund’s sub-adviser uses, or may use, to achieve the Fund’s objective. The strategies described below are principal investment strategies unless otherwise noted. You should be aware that the Fund may also use strategies and invest in securities that are not described in this prospectus, but that are described in the statement of additional information. For a copy of the statement of additional information, call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787 or visit Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com.

Foreign Government Obligations

Foreign government obligations are debt obligations issued or guaranteed by a government of a country other than the United States. The Fund may purchase foreign government obligations that are non-dollar denominated or dollar denominated. Such obligations may be issued by governments of emerging market countries.

Non-U.S. Issuers

Non-U.S. issuers are those (i) whose securities are traded principally on an exchange or over-the-counter in a non-U.S. country, (ii) that are organized under the laws of and have a principal office(s) in a non-U.S. country, or (iii) that have at least 50% of their revenues, profits or assets in non-U.S. countries.

Emerging Markets Issuers

Emerging markets issuers are those that are organized under the laws of and have a principal office(s) in an emerging market country or that have at least 50% of their revenues, profits or assets in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries include any country other than Canada, the United States and the countries comprising the MSCI EAFE ^® Index (currently, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).

Corporate Debt Securities

The Fund may invest in corporate debt securities issued by companies of all kinds, including those with small-, mid- and large-capitalizations. Corporate debt securities are fixed income securities issued by businesses to finance their operations. Notes, bonds, debentures and commercial paper are the most common types of corporate debt securities, with the primary difference being their maturities and secured or unsecured status. Commercial paper has the shortest term and is usually unsecured. Corporate debt securities may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry fixed or floating rates of interest.

High Yield Debt Securities

The Fund may invest in debt securities rated below investment grade or unrated securities deemed by the Fund’s sub-adviser to be of comparable quality. Debt securities rated below investment grade are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. These types of bonds are typically issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by issuers that have questionable credit strength. High yield and comparable unrated debt securities: (a) will likely have some quality and protective characteristics that, in the judgment of the rating agency evaluating the instrument, are outweighed by large uncertainties or major risk exposures to adverse conditions; and (b) are predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal in accordance with the terms of the obligation.

Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

Derivatives

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the OTC market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

U.S. Government Securities

U.S. government securities include U.S. Treasury obligations and securities issued or guaranteed by various agencies of the U.S. government, or by various instrumentalities which have been established or sponsored by the U.S. government. U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. government sponsored instrumentalities may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)

A mortgage-backed security is a type of pass-through security backed by an ownership interest in a pool of mortgage loans. The Fund may invest in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by, or secured by collateral that is guaranteed by, the U.S. government, its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored corporations. The Fund may also invest in privately issued mortgage-backed securities, including commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

Asset-Backed Securities (ABS)

Asset-backed securities are securities issued by trusts and special purpose entities that are backed by pools of assets, such as automobile loans and credit-card receivables, and which pass through the payments on the underlying obligations to the security holders (less servicing fees paid to the originator or fees for any credit enhancement). Typically, the originator of the loan or accounts receivable transfers it to a specially created trust, which repackages it as securities with a minimum denomination and a specific term. The securities are then privately placed or publicly offered.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

As a non-principal investment strategy, the Fund may invest in cash and in U.S. dollar-denominated high-quality money market instruments and other short-term securities, including money market funds, in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Fund’s principal investment strategies. The Fund may temporarily invest without limit in such holdings for liquidity purposes, or in an attempt to respond to adverse

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market, economic, political or other conditions. Being invested in these securities may keep the Fund from participating in a market upswing and prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

A description of the Fund’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Fund’s statement of additional information. A list of the Fund’s portfolio holdings is available on the Fund’s website—www.nuveen.com/mf—by navigating to the Fund using the “Mutual Fund Finder” and clicking on the “Holdings & Detail” tab. By following these links, you can obtain a list of the Fund’s top ten holdings as of the end of the most recent month. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available on the Fund’s website ten business days after the end of the month. This information will remain available on the website until the Fund files with the Securities and Exchange Commission its annual, semi-annual or quarterly holdings report for the fiscal period that includes the date(s) as of which the website information is current.

LOGO

Nuveen Asset Management uses a team-based and research-driven investment process for the Fund. In making buy, sell and hold decisions, the portfolio management team considers input from Nuveen Asset Management’s Fixed Income Strategy Committee, its various sector teams, and its research analysts. It relies on both top-down and bottom-up research to identify attractive investment opportunities and to manage the Fund’s risk. This research contributes to the formulation of sector views as well as to country, currency, industry, and security selection decisions.

The Fund’s top-down approach begins with Nuveen Asset Management’s formulation of its general economic outlook, including an analysis of current and anticipated interest rates and credit conditions. Following this, various sectors and industries are evaluated and selected for investment. Finally, the portfolio management team selects individual securities within these sectors or industries. The team also considers expected changes to the yield curve under multiple market conditions to help define maturity and duration selection.

With its bottom-up approach, the portfolio management team utilizes fundamental information to evaluate the credit quality, relative value and momentum of individual securities. In doing so, the team compares a security’s metrics both to its metrics over time and to the metrics of other securities in the fixed-income market. The team’s quantitative analysis allows it to make detailed comparisons of securities between and within sectors, industries, and rating categories.

LOGO

Risk is inherent in all investing. Investing in a mutual fund involves risk, including the risk that you may receive little or no return on your investment or even that you may lose part or all of your investment. Therefore, before investing you should consider carefully the principal risks and certain other risks that you assume when you invest in the Fund. These risks are listed alphabetically below. Because of these risks, you should consider an investment in the Fund to be a long-term investment.

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Principal Risks

Bond market liquidity risk: Primary dealer inventories of bonds appear to be low relative to the size of the fixed income market. These inventories are a core indication of dealers’ capacity to “make a market” in fixed income securities. This reduction in market making capacity has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets in which the Fund invests, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. As a result of this decreased liquidity, the Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance. If the Fund needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices.

Call risk: Debt securities are subject to call risk. Many bonds may be redeemed at the option of the issuer, or “called,” before their stated maturity date. In general, an issuer will call its bonds if they can be refinanced by issuing new bonds which bear a lower interest rate. The Fund is subject to the possibility that during periods of falling interest rates, a bond issuer will call its high yielding bonds. The Fund would then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund’s income.

Credit risk: Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a debt security held by the Fund, or to which the Fund otherwise has exposure, may be unable or unwilling to make interest and principal payments and the related risk that the value of a debt security may decline because of concerns about the issuer’s ability or willingness to make such payments. Debt securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings. The credit rating of a debt security may be lowered if the issuer suffers adverse changes in its financial condition, which can lead to greater volatility in the price of the security and in shares of the Fund, and can also affect the bond’s liquidity and make it more difficult for the Fund to sell. When the Fund purchases unrated securities, it will depend on the sub-adviser’s analysis of credit risk without the assessment of an independent rating organization, such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s.

Currency risk: Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities, and hence will affect the net asset value of the Fund that invests in such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of the Fund to the extent it invests in such non-U.S. dollar denominated securities.

Derivatives risk: The use of derivatives presents risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional securities. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value, and there is the risk that changes in the value of a derivative held by the Fund will not correlate with the asset, index or rate underlying the derivative contract.

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management team uses derivatives to enhance the Fund’s return or as a substitute for a position or security, rather than solely to hedge (or offset) the risk of a position or security held by the Fund.

In addition, when the Fund engages in certain derivative transactions, it is effectively leveraging its investments, which could result in exaggerated changes in the net asset value of the Fund’s shares and can result in losses that exceed the amount originally invested. The success of the Fund’s derivatives strategies will depend on the sub-adviser’s ability to assess and predict the impact of market or economic developments on the underlying asset, index or rate and the derivative itself, without the benefit of observing the performance of the derivative under all possible market conditions.

The Fund may also enter into over-the-counter (“ OTC ”) transactions in derivatives. Transactions in the OTC markets generally are conducted on a principal-to-principal basis. The terms and conditions of these instruments generally are not standardized and tend to be more specialized or complex, and the instruments may be harder to value. In general, there is less governmental regulation and supervision of transactions in the OTC markets than of transactions entered into on organized exchanges. In addition, certain derivative instruments and markets may not be liquid, which means the Fund may not be able to close out a derivatives transaction in a cost-efficient manner.

Swap agreements may involve fees, commissions or other costs that may reduce the Fund’s gains from a swap agreement or may cause the Fund to lose money.

Futures contracts are subject to the risk that an exchange may impose price fluctuation limits, which may make it difficult or impossible for the Fund to close out a position when desired.

High yield securities risk: Securities that are rated below-investment grade are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. High yield securities usually offer higher yields than investment grade securities, but also involve more risk. High yield securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic conditions than investment grade securities, and they generally have more volatile prices and carry more risk to principal. In addition, liquidity risk is greater for high yield securities than for investment grade securities.

Income risk: The Fund’s income could decline in a falling interest rate environment because the Fund generally will have to invest the proceeds from sales of Fund shares, as well as the proceeds from maturing portfolio debt securities (or portfolio securities that have been called, see “Call risk” above, or prepaid, see “Mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk” below), in lower-yielding securities.

Interest rate risk: Debt securities held by the Fund will fluctuate in value with changes in interest rates. In general, debt securities will increase in value when interest rates fall and decrease in value when interest rates rise. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. Longer-term debt securities are generally

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more sensitive to interest rate changes. Rising interest rates also may lengthen the duration of debt securities with call features, since exercise of the call becomes less likely as interest rates rise, which in turn will make the securities more sensitive to changes in interest rates and result in even steeper price declines in the event of further interest rate increases.

Mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk: The value of mortgage- and asset-backed securities can fall if the owners of the underlying mortgages or other obligations pay off their mortgages or other obligations sooner than expected, which could happen when interest rates fall or for other reasons. Mortgage- and asset-backed securities are also subject to extension risk, which is the risk that rising interest rates could cause mortgages or other obligations underlying the securities to be prepaid more slowly than expected, which would, in effect, convert a short- or medium-duration mortgage- or asset-backed security into a longer-duration security, increasing its sensitivity to interest rate changes and causing its price to decline.

A mortgage-backed security may be negatively affected by the quality of the mortgages underlying such security and the structure of its issuer. For example, if a mortgage underlying a certain mortgage-backed security defaults, the value of that security may decrease. Mortgage-backed securities issued by a private issuer, such as commercial mortgage-backed securities, generally entail greater risk than obligations directly or indirectly guaranteed by the U.S. government or a government-sponsored entity.

Other non-U.S. investment risks include the following:

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Enforcing legal rights may be difficult, costly and slow in non-U.S. countries, and there may be special problems enforcing claims against non-U.S. governments.

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Non-U.S. companies may not be subject to accounting standards or governmental supervision comparable to U.S. companies, and there may be less public information about their operations.

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Non-U.S. markets may be less liquid and more volatile than U.S. markets.

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governmental regulation, and commissions may be higher than in the United States. Also, there may be delays in the settlement of non-U.S. exchange transactions.

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The Fund’s income from non-U.S. issuers may be subject to non-U.S. withholding taxes. In some countries, the Fund also may be subject to taxes on trading profits and, on certain securities transactions, transfer or stamp duties tax. To the extent non-U.S. income taxes are paid by the Fund, U.S. shareholders may be entitled to a credit or deduction for U.S. tax purposes.

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Non-Principal Risks

Small fund risk: The Fund currently has less assets than larger funds, and like other relatively small funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the Fund’s market exposure for limited periods of time, causing the Fund’s performance to vary from that of the Fund’s model portfolio. This impact may be positive or negative, depending on the direction of market movement during the period affected. The Fund has policies in place which seek to reduce the impact of these flows where Nuveen Fund Advisors has prior knowledge of them.

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The Fund offers multiple classes of shares, each with a different combination of sales charges, fees, eligibility requirements and other features. Your financial advisor can help you determine which class is best for you. For further details, please see the statement of additional information. Because the prospectus and the statement of additional information are available free of charge on Nuveen’s website at www.nuveen.com, we do not disclose the following share class information separately on the website.

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Class A Shares

You can purchase Class A shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived, as described in “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge.” Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25% of the Fund’s average daily net assets, which compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “ Distributor ”), a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments and the distributor of the Fund, retains the up-front sales charge and the service fee on accounts with no financial intermediary of record. The up-front Class A sales charges for the Fund are as follows:


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		4.75	%		4.99	%		4.25	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		4.50			4.71			4.00
$100,000 but less than $250,000		3.50			3.63			3.00
$250,000 but less than $500,000		2.50			2.56			2.25
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

You can purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 1.00% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.75% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a contingent deferred sales charge (“ CDSC ”) of 1.00% if you redeem any of your shares within 6 months of purchase, 0.75% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase and 0.50% if you redeem any of your shares within 18 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Class C Shares

You can purchase Class C shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class C shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 1.00% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. The annual 0.25% service fee compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. The annual 0.75% distribution fee compensates the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission as well as an advance of the first year’s service and distribution fees. The Distributor retains the service and distribution fees on accounts with no financial intermediary of record. If you redeem your shares within 12 months of purchase, you will normally pay a 1.00% CDSC, which is calculated on the

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lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds. You do not pay a CDSC on any Class C shares you purchase by reinvesting dividends.

Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 will not be accepted. In addition, the Fund limits the cumulative amount of Class C shares that may be purchased by a single purchaser. Your financial intermediary may set lower maximum purchase limits for Class C shares. See the statement of additional information for more information.

Class R3 Shares

Class I Shares

Class I shares are also available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Certain bank or broker-affiliated trust departments.

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Advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates.

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Current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (as defined in the statement of additional information).

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Officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Certain financial intermediary personnel, and their immediate family members.

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Certain other institutional investors described in the statement of additional information.

Please refer to the statement of additional information for more information about Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, including more detailed program descriptions and eligibility requirements. Additional information is also available from your financial advisor, who can also help you prepare any necessary application forms.

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The Fund offers a number of ways to reduce or eliminate the up-front sales charge on Class A shares. See “What Share Classes We Offer” (above) for a discussion of eligibility requirements for purchasing Class I shares.

Class A Sales Charge Reductions

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Rights of Accumulation. In calculating the appropriate sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of the Fund, you may be able to add the amount of your purchase to the value, based on the current net asset value per share, of all of your prior purchases of any Nuveen Mutual Fund.

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Letter of Intent. Subject to certain requirements, you may purchase Class A shares of the Fund at the sales charge rate applicable to the total amount of the purchases you intend to make over a 13-month period.

Class A Sales Charge Waivers

Class A shares of the Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge as follows:

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Purchases of $1,000,000 or more (although such purchases may be subject to a CDSC in certain circumstances, see “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below).

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Monies representing reinvestment of Nuveen Mutual Fund distributions.

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds.

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Additional categories of investors. Purchases made (i) by investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program; (ii) by clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services; and (iii) through a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer the Fund’s shares to self-directed investment brokerage accounts and that may or may not charge a transaction fee to its customers.

In order to obtain a sales charge reduction or waiver, it may be necessary at the time of purchase for you to inform the Fund or your financial advisor of the existence of other accounts in which there are holdings eligible to be aggregated for such purposes. You may need to provide the Fund or your financial advisor information or records, such as account statements, in order to verify your eligibility for a sales charge reduction or waiver. This may include account statements of family members and information regarding Nuveen Mutual Fund shares held in accounts with other financial advisors. You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor at the time of each purchase if you are eligible for any of these programs. The Fund may modify or discontinue these programs at any time.

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You may purchase Fund shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly from the Fund.

Through a Financial Advisor

Financial advisors or other dealer firms may charge their customers a processing or service fee in connection with the purchase or redemption of

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Fund shares. The amount and applicability of such a fee is determined and disclosed to customers by each individual dealer. Processing or service fees typically are fixed, nominal dollar amounts and are in addition to the sales and other charges described in this prospectus and the statement of additional information. Your dealer will provide you with specific information about any processing or service fees you will be charged. Shares you purchase through your financial advisor or other intermediary will normally be held with that firm. For more information, please contact your financial advisor.

Directly from the Fund

Eligible investors may purchase shares directly from the Fund.

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By wire. You can purchase shares by making a wire transfer from your bank. Before making an initial investment by wire, you must submit a new account form to the Fund. After receiving your form, a service representative will contact you with your account number and wiring instructions. Your order will be priced at the next closing share price based on the share class of the Fund, calculated after the Fund’s custodian receives your payment by wire. Wired funds must be received prior to 4:00 p.m. New York time to be eligible for same day pricing. Neither the Fund nor the transfer agent is responsible for the consequences of delays resulting from the banking or Federal Reserve wire system, or from incomplete wiring instructions. Before making any additional purchases by wire, you should call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787. You cannot purchase shares by wire on days when federally chartered banks are closed.

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By mail. You may open an account directly with the Fund and buy shares by completing an application and mailing it along with your check to: Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530. Applications may be obtained at www.nuveen.com or by calling (800) 257-8787. No third party checks will be accepted.

The Fund does not consider the U.S. Postal Service or other independent delivery services to be its agents. Therefore, deposit in the mail or with such services, or receipt at the post office box above, of purchase orders or redemption requests does not constitute receipt by the transfer agent of the Fund.

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On-line. Existing shareholders with direct accounts may process certain account transactions on-line. You may purchase additional shares or exchange shares between existing, identically registered direct accounts. You can also look up your account balance, history and dividend information, as well as order duplicate account statements and tax forms from the Fund’s website. To access your account, click the “Individual Investors” link on www.nuveen.com and then choose “Account Access” under the “Resources” tab. The system will walk you through the log-in process. To purchase shares on-line, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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By telephone. Existing shareholders with direct accounts may also process account transactions via the Fund’s automated information line. Simply call (800) 257-8787, press 1 for mutual funds and the voice menu will walk you through the process. To purchase shares by telephone, you must have established Fund Direct privileges on your account prior to the requested transaction. See “Special Services—Fund Direct” below.

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Systematic Investing

Once you have opened an account satisfying the applicable investment minimum, systematic investing allows you to make regular additional investments through automatic deductions from your bank account, directly from your paycheck or from exchanging shares from another mutual fund account. The minimum automatic deduction is $100 per month. There is no charge to participate in the Fund’s systematic investment plan. You can stop the deductions at any time by notifying the Fund in writing.

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From your bank account. You can make systematic investments of $100 or more per month by authorizing the Fund to draw pre-authorized checks on your bank account.

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Systematic Withdrawal

If the value of your Fund account is at least $10,000, you may request to have $50 or more withdrawn automatically from your account. You may elect to receive payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, and may choose to receive a check, have the monies transferred directly into your bank account (see “Fund Direct” below), paid to a third party or sent payable to you at an address other than your address of record. You must complete the appropriate section of the account application or Account Update Form to participate in the Fund’s systematic withdrawal plan.

You should not establish systematic withdrawals if you intend to make concurrent purchases of Class A or Class C shares because you may unnecessarily pay a sales charge or CDSC on these purchases.

Exchanging Shares

The Fund reserves the right to revise or suspend the exchange privilege, limit the amount or number of exchanges, or reject any exchange. Shareholders will be provided with at least 60 days’ notice of any material revision to or termination of the exchange privilege.

Because an exchange between funds is treated for tax purposes as a purchase and sale, any gain may be subject to tax. An exchange between

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classes of shares of the same fund may not be considered a taxable event. You should consult your tax advisor about the tax consequences of exchanging your shares.

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Reinstatement Privilege

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You may sell (redeem) your shares on any business day, which is any day the NYSE is open for business. You will receive the share price next determined after the Fund has received your properly completed redemption request. Your redemption request must be received before the close of trading on the NYSE (normally, 4:00 p.m. New York time) for you to receive that day’s price. The Fund will normally mail your check the next business day after a redemption request is received, but in no event more than seven days after your request is received. If you are selling shares purchased recently with a check, your redemption proceeds will not be mailed until your check has cleared, which may take up to ten business days from your purchase date.

You may sell your shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly to the Fund.

Through a Financial Advisor

You may sell your shares through your financial advisor, who can prepare the necessary documentation. Your financial advisor may charge for this service.

Directly to the Fund

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By mail. You can sell your shares at any time by sending a written request to the Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530. Your request must include the following information:

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The Fund’s name;

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Your name and account number;

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The dollar or share amount you wish to redeem;

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The signature of each owner exactly as it appears on the account;

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The name of the person to whom you want your redemption proceeds paid (if other than to the shareholder of record);

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The address where you want your redemption proceeds sent (if other than the address of record);

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Any certificates you have for the shares; and

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Any required signature guarantees.

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An Important Note About Telephone Transactions

After you have established your account, signatures on a written request must be guaranteed if:

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You would like redemption proceeds payable or sent to any person, address or bank account other than that on record;

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You have changed the address on the Fund’s records within the last 30 days;

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Your redemption request is in excess of $50,000; or

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You are requesting a change in ownership on your account.

Non-financial transactions, including establishing or modifying certain services such as changing bank information on an account, will require a signature guarantee or signature verification from a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program member or other acceptable form of authentication from a financial institution source. In addition to the situations described above, the Fund reserves the right to require a signature guarantee, or another acceptable form of signature verification, in other instances based on the circumstances of a particular situation.

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By telephone. If your account is held with the Fund and not in your brokerage account, and you have authorized telephone redemption privileges, call (800) 257-8787 to redeem your shares, press 1 for mutual funds and the voice menu will walk you through the process. Telephone redemptions are not available for shares owned in certificate form and, with respect to redemptions where the proceeds are payable by check, may not exceed $50,000. Checks will only be issued to you as the shareholder of record and mailed to your address of record, normally the next business day after the redemption request is received. If you have established Fund Direct privileges, you may have redemption proceeds transferred electronically to your bank account. In this case, the redemption proceeds will be transferred to your bank on the next business day after the redemption request is received. You should contact your bank for further information concerning the timing of the credit of the redemption proceeds in your bank account.

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Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

If you redeem Class A or Class C shares that are subject to a CDSC, you may be assessed a CDSC upon redemption. When you redeem Class A or Class C shares subject to a CDSC, the Fund will first redeem any shares that are not subject to a CDSC, and then redeem the shares you have owned for the longest period of time, unless you ask the Fund to redeem your shares in a different order. No CDSC is imposed on shares you buy through the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. The CDSC holding period is calculated on a monthly basis and begins on the first day of the month in which the purchase was made. When you redeem shares subject to a CDSC, the CDSC is calculated on the lower of your purchase price or redemption proceeds, deducted from your redemption proceeds, and paid to the Distributor. The CDSC may be waived under certain special circumstances as described in the statement of additional information.

Accounts with Low Balances

The Fund reserves the right to liquidate or assess a low balance fee on any account (other than accounts holding Class R3 shares) held directly with the Fund that has a balance that has fallen below the account balance minimum of $1,000 for any reason, including market fluctuations.

If the Fund elects to exercise the right to assess a low balance fee, then annually the Fund will assess a $15 low balance account fee on certain accounts with balances under the account balance minimum that are IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts or accounts established pursuant to the UTMA or UGMA. At the same time, other accounts with balances under the account balance minimum will be liquidated, with proceeds being mailed to the address of record. Prior to the assessment of any low balance fee or liquidation of low balance accounts, affected shareholders will receive a communication notifying them of the pending action, thereby providing time for shareholders to bring their accounts up to the account balance minimum prior to any fee assessment or account liquidation. You will not be assessed a CDSC if your account is liquidated.

Redemptions In-Kind

The Fund generally pays redemption proceeds in cash. However, if the Fund determines that it would be detrimental to its remaining shareholders to make payment of a redemption order wholly in cash, the Fund may pay a portion of your redemption proceeds in securities or other Fund assets. Although it is unlikely that your shares would be redeemed in-kind, you would probably have to pay brokerage costs to sell the securities or other assets distributed to you, as well as taxes on any capital gains from that sale.

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To help you understand the tax implications of investing in the Fund, this section includes important details about how the Fund makes distributions to shareholders. We discuss some other Fund policies as well. Please consult the statement of additional information and your tax advisor for more information about taxes.

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The Fund declares dividends daily and pays such dividends monthly. Your account will begin to accrue dividends on the business day after the day when the monies used to purchase your shares are collected by the transfer agent. The Fund seeks to pay monthly dividends at a level rate that reflects the past and projected net income of the Fund. To help maintain more stable monthly distributions, the distribution paid by the Fund for any particular monthly period may be more or less than the amount of net income actually earned by the Fund during such period, and any such under- (or over-) distribution of income is reflected in the Fund’s net asset value. This policy is designed to result in the distribution of substantially all of the Fund’s net income over time. The Fund declares and pays any taxable capital gains once a year at year end.

Payment and Reinvestment Options

The Fund automatically reinvests your dividends in additional Fund shares unless you request otherwise. You may request to have your dividends paid to you by check, sent via electronic funds transfer through Automated Clearing House network or reinvested in shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund. For further information, contact your financial advisor or call Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787. If you request that your distributions be paid by check but those distributions cannot be delivered because of an incorrect mailing address, or if a distribution check remains uncashed for six months, the undelivered or uncashed distributions and all future distributions will be reinvested in Fund shares at the current net asset value.

Non-U.S. Income Tax Considerations

Investment income that the Fund receives from its non-U.S. investments may be subject to non-U.S. income taxes, which generally will reduce Fund distributions. However, the United States has entered into tax treaties with many non-U.S. countries that may entitle you to certain tax benefits.

Taxes and Tax Reporting

The Fund will make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income (which may be taxable at different rates, depending on the sources of the distributions) or capital gains (which may be taxable at different rates, depending on the length of time the Fund holds its assets). Distributions from the Fund’s long-term capital gains are generally taxable as capital gains, while distributions from short-term capital gains and net investment income are generally taxable as ordinary income. However, certain ordinary income distributions received from the Fund that are determined to be qualified dividend income may be taxed at tax rates equal to those applicable to long-term capital gains. The tax you pay on a given capital gains distribution depends generally on how long the Fund has held the

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portfolio securities it sold and not on how long you have owned your Fund shares. Distributions generally do not qualify for a dividends received deduction if you are a corporate shareholder.

Please note that if you do not furnish the Fund with your correct Social Security number or employer identification number, you fail to provide certain certifications to the Fund, you fail to certify whether you are a U.S. citizen or a U.S. resident alien, or the Internal Revenue Service notifies the Fund to withhold, federal law requires the Fund to withhold federal income tax from your distributions and redemption proceeds at the applicable withholding rate.

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Non-U.S. Tax Credits

Cost Basis Method

For shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012, you may elect a cost basis method to apply to all existing and future accounts you may establish. The cost basis method you select will determine the order in which shares are redeemed and how your cost basis information is calculated and subsequently reported to you and to the Internal Revenue Service. Please consult your tax advisor to determine which cost basis method best suits your specific situation. If you hold your account directly with the Fund, please contact Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787 for instructions on how to make your election. If you hold your account with a financial intermediary, please contact that financial intermediary for instructions on how to make your election. If you hold your account directly with the Fund and do not elect a cost basis method, your account will default to the average cost basis method. For a definition of “average cost basis method,” please see the glossary. Financial intermediaries choose their own default method.

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Distribution and Service Plan

The Distributor serves as the selling agent and distributor of the Fund’s shares. In this capacity, the Distributor manages the offering of the Fund’s shares and is responsible for all sales and promotional activities. In order to

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reimburse the Distributor for its costs in connection with these activities, including compensation paid to financial intermediaries, the Fund has adopted a distribution and service plan under Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. See “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares—What Share Classes We Offer” for a description of the distribution and service fees paid under this plan.

Under the plan, the Distributor receives a distribution fee for Class C and Class R3 shares primarily for providing compensation to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, in connection with the distribution of shares. The Distributor receives a service fee for Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares to compensate financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, for providing ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders. Fees paid under the plan also compensate the Distributor for other expenses, including printing and distributing prospectuses to persons other than shareholders, and preparing, printing, and distributing advertising materials, sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of shares. Because fees paid under the plan are paid out of the Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Long-term holders of Class C and Class R3 shares may pay more in distribution and service fees and CDSCs (Class C shares only) than the economic equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted under the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Conduct Rules.

Other Payments by the Fund

In addition to the distribution and service fees that the Fund pays under the plan and fees the Fund pays to its transfer agent, the Distributor or Nuveen Fund Advisors, on behalf of the Fund, may enter into non-plan agreements with financial intermediaries pursuant to which the Fund will pay financial intermediaries for administrative, networking, recordkeeping, sub-transfer agency and shareholder services. These non-plan payments are generally based on either (1) a percentage of the average daily net assets of Fund shareholders serviced by a financial intermediary or (2) a fixed dollar amount for each account serviced by a financial intermediary. The aggregate amount of these payments may be substantial.

Other Payments by the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors

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services to Nuveen Mutual Fund shareholders, and the asset class of the Nuveen Mutual Funds for which these payments are provided. The statement of additional information contains additional information about these payments, including the names of the firms to which payments are made. The Distributor may also make payments to financial intermediaries in connection with sales meetings, due diligence meetings, prospecting seminars and other meetings at which the Distributor promotes its products and services.

The amounts of payments to a financial intermediary could be significant, and may create an incentive for the intermediary or its representatives to recommend or offer shares of the Fund to you. The intermediary may elevate the prominence or profile of the Fund within the intermediary’s organization by, for example, placing the Fund on a list of preferred or recommended funds and/or granting the Distributor and/or its affiliates preferential or enhanced opportunities to promote the Fund in various ways within the intermediary’s organization.

LOGO

The price you pay for your shares or the amount you receive upon redemption of your shares is based on the Fund’s net asset value per share, which is determined as of the close of trading (normally 4:00 p.m. New York time) on each day the NYSE is open for business. The Fund’s latest net asset value per share is available on the Fund’s website at www.nuveen.com. Net asset value is calculated for each class of the Fund by taking the value of the class’s total assets, including interest or dividends accrued but not yet collected, less all liabilities, and dividing by the total number of shares outstanding. The result, rounded to the nearest cent, is the net asset value per share.

In determining net asset value, portfolio instruments generally are valued using prices provided by independent pricing services or obtained from other sources, such as broker-dealer quotations. Exchange-traded instruments generally are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on an exchange, if available. Independent pricing services typically value non-exchange-traded instruments utilizing a range of market-based inputs and assumptions, including readily available market quotations obtained from broker-dealers making markets in such instruments, cash flows, and transactions for comparable instruments. In pricing certain instruments, the pricing services may consider information about an instrument’s issuer or market activity provided by the Fund’s investment adviser or sub-adviser. Non-U.S. securities and currency are valued in U.S. dollars based on non-U.S. currency exchange rate quotations supplied by an independent quotation service.

Section 4 General Information

For non-U.S. traded securities whose principal local markets close before the close of the NYSE, the Fund may adjust the local closing price based upon such factors as developments in non-U.S. markets, the performance of U.S. securities markets and the performance of instruments trading in U.S. markets that represent non-U.S. securities. The Fund may rely on an independent fair valuation service in making any such fair value determinations. If the Fund holds portfolio instruments that are primarily listed on non-U.S. exchanges, the value of such instruments may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or redeem the Fund’s shares.

If a price cannot be obtained from a pricing service or other pre-approved source, or if, in the judgment of Nuveen Fund Advisors, a price is unreliable, a portfolio instrument will be valued at its fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of Trustees or persons acting at their direction. Nuveen Fund Advisors may determine that a price is unreliable in various circumstances. For example, a price may be deemed unreliable if it has not changed for an identified period of time, or has changed from the previous day’s price by more than a threshold amount, and recent transactions and/or broker dealer price quotations differ materially from the price in question.

The Board of Trustees has adopted valuation procedures for the Fund and has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to Nuveen Fund Advisors’ Valuation Committee. All fair value determinations made by the Valuation Committee are subject to review and ratification by the Board of Trustees. As a general principle, the fair value of a portfolio instrument is the amount that an owner might reasonably expect to receive upon the instrument’s current sale. A range of factors and analysis may be considered when determining fair value, including relevant market data, interest rates, credit considerations and/or issuer specific news. However, fair valuation involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a portfolio instrument may be materially different from the value that could be realized upon the sale of that instrument.

LOGO

The Fund is intended for long-term investment and should not be used for excessive trading. Excessive trading in the Fund’s shares can disrupt portfolio management, lead to higher operating costs, and cause other operating inefficiencies for the Fund. However, the Fund is also mindful that shareholders may have valid reasons for periodically purchasing and redeeming Fund shares.

Accordingly, the Fund has adopted a Frequent Trading Policy that seeks to balance the Fund’s need to prevent excessive trading in Fund shares while offering investors the flexibility in managing their financial affairs to make periodic purchases and redemptions of Fund shares.

The Fund’s Frequent Trading Policy generally limits an investor to two “round trip” trades in a 60-day period. A “round trip” is the purchase and subsequent redemption of Fund shares, including by exchange. Each side of a round trip may be comprised of either a single transaction or a series of closely-spaced transactions.

The Fund primarily receives share purchase and redemption orders through third-party financial intermediaries, some of whom rely on the use of omnibus accounts. An omnibus account typically includes multiple investors and provides the Fund only with a net purchase or redemption amount on

Section 4 General Information

any given day where multiple purchases, redemptions and exchanges of shares occur in the account. The identity of individual purchasers, redeemers and exchangers whose orders are aggregated in omnibus accounts, and the size of their orders, will generally not be known by the Fund. Despite the Fund’s efforts to detect and prevent frequent trading, the Fund may be unable to identify frequent trading because the netting effect in omnibus accounts often makes it more difficult to identify frequent traders. The Distributor has entered into agreements with financial intermediaries that maintain omnibus accounts with the Fund’s transfer agent. Under the terms of these agreements, the financial intermediaries undertake to cooperate with the Distributor in monitoring purchase, exchange and redemption orders by their customers in order to detect and prevent frequent trading in the Fund through such accounts. Pursuant to these agreements, financial intermediaries may disclose to the Fund an investor’s taxpayer identification number and a record of the investor’s transactions at the request of the Fund. Technical limitations in operational systems at such intermediaries or at the Distributor may also limit the Fund’s ability to detect and prevent frequent trading. In addition, the Fund may permit certain financial intermediaries, including broker-dealer and retirement plan administrators, among others, to enforce their own internal policies and procedures concerning frequent trading. Such policies may differ from the Fund’s Frequent Trading Policy and may be approved for use in instances where the Fund reasonably believes that the intermediary’s policies and procedures effectively discourage inappropriate trading activity. Shareholders holding their accounts with such intermediaries may wish to contact the intermediary for information regarding its frequent trading policy. Although the Fund does not knowingly permit frequent trading, it cannot guarantee that it will be able to identify and restrict all frequent trading activity.

The Fund reserves the right in its sole discretion to waive unintentional or minor violations (including transactions below certain dollar thresholds) if it determines that doing so would not harm the interests of Fund shareholders. In addition, certain categories of redemptions may be excluded from the application of the Frequent Trading Policy, as described in more detail in the statement of additional information. These include, among others, redemptions pursuant to systematic withdrawal plans, redemptions in connection with the total disability or death of the investor, involuntary redemptions by operation of law, redemptions in payment of account or plan fees, and certain redemptions by retirement plans, including redemptions in connection with qualifying loans or hardship withdrawals, termination of plan participation, return of excess contributions, and required minimum distributions. The Fund may also modify or suspend the Frequent Trading Policy without notice during periods of market stress or other unusual circumstances.

The Fund reserves the right to impose restrictions on purchases or exchanges that are more restrictive than those stated above if it determines, in its sole discretion, that a transaction or a series of transactions involves market timing or excessive trading that may be detrimental to Fund shareholders. The Fund also reserves the right to reject any purchase order, including exchange purchases, for any reason. For example, the Fund may refuse purchase orders if the Fund would be unable to invest the proceeds from the purchase order in accordance with the Fund’s investment policies and/or objective, or if the Fund would be adversely affected by the size of the transaction, the frequency of trading in the account or various other

Section 4 General Information

factors. For more information about the Fund’s Frequent Trading Policy and its enforcement, see “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares—Frequent Trading Policy” in the statement of additional information.

LOGO

The custodian of the assets of the Fund is State Street Bank and Trust Company (“ State Street ”), 2 Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111. The Fund’s transfer, shareholder services and dividend paying agent, Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“ BFDS ”), 2000 Crown Colony Drive, Quincy, MA 02169, performs bookkeeping, data processing and administrative services for the maintenance of shareholder accounts. State Street and BFDS maintain certain books and records of the Fund at their respective locations.

Section 4 General Information

Section 5 Financial Highlights

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the Fund’s financial performance for the life of the Fund. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). The information has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report for the most recent fiscal year, along with the Fund’s financial statements, are included in the annual report, which is available upon request.

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations							Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (12/11)
2014	$	20.54	$	.79	$	.68		$	1.47	$	(.73	)	$	(.31	)	$	(1.04	)	$	20.97		7.45	%	$	1,378		.97	%		3.87	%		109	%
2013		21.19		.72		(.14	)		.58		(.86	)		(.37	)		(1.23	)		20.54		2.47			1,037		.97			3.29			176
2012(d)		20.00		.41		1.07			1.48		(.29	)		—			(.29	)		21.19		7.42			310		.98	*		3.46	*		116

Class C (12/11)
2014		20.58		.63		.70			1.33		(.56	)		(.31	)		(.87	)		21.04		6.74			204		1.72			3.11			109
2013		21.18		.56		(.10	)		.46		(.69	)		(.37	)		(1.06	)		20.58		1.94			158		1.72			2.56			176
2012(d)		20.00		.29		1.13			1.42		(.24	)		—			(.24	)		21.18		7.10			53		1.72	*		2.42	*		116

Class R3 (12/11)
2014		20.58		.74		.69			1.43		(.67	)		(.31	)		(.98	)		21.03		7.26			51		1.22			3.61			109
2013		21.20		.66		(.11	)		.55		(.80	)		(.37	)		(1.17	)		20.58		2.34			50		1.22			3.00			176
2012(d)		20.00		.35		1.13			1.48		(.28	)		—			(.28	)		21.20		7.38			53		1.23	*		2.92	*		116

Class I (12/11)
2014		20.61		.84		.69			1.53		(.78	)		(.31	)		(1.09	)		21.05		7.76			19,078		.72			4.13			109
2013		21.23		.77		(.11	)		.66		(.91	)		(.37	)		(1.28	)		20.61		2.86			16,392		.72			3.50			176
2012(d)		20.00		.42		1.12			1.54		(.31	)		—			(.31	)		21.23		7.71			14,767		.73	*		3.42	*		116

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from Nuveen Fund Advisors, where applicable.

(d)	For the period December 2, 2011 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2012.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Footnote 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

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Average cost basis method: Calculating cost basis by determining the average price paid for Fund shares that may have been purchased at different times for different prices.

•

Barclays Global Aggregate Unhedged Bond Index: An index that provides a broad-based measure of the global investment-grade fixed-rate debt markets.

•

Call feature: A feature that allows a bond issuer to redeem the bond before its maturity date.

•

Derivatives: Financial instruments whose performance is derived from the performance of an underlying asset, security or index. Derivatives may be used to hedge risk, to exchange a floating rate of return for fixed rate of return or to gain investment exposure. Derivatives include futures, options and swaps, among other instruments.

•

Lipper Global Income Funds Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Global Income Funds Classification.

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Swaps: Derivative contracts in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cash flows for another stream. Swap agreements define the dates when the cash flows will be paid and how the cash flows are calculated.

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

Nuveen Mutual Funds

Nuveen offers a variety of mutual funds designed to help you reach your financial goals. The funds below are grouped by category.

Municipal-National

All-American Municipal Bond

High Yield Municipal Bond

Inflation Protected Municipal Bond

Intermediate Duration Municipal Bond

Limited Term Municipal Bond

Short Duration High Yield Municipal Bond

Short Term Municipal Bond

Municipal-State

Arizona Municipal Bond

California High Yield Municipal Bond

California Municipal Bond

Colorado Municipal Bond

Connecticut Municipal Bond

Georgia Municipal Bond

Kansas Municipal Bond

Kentucky Municipal Bond

Louisiana Municipal Bond

Maryland Municipal Bond

Massachusetts Municipal Bond

Michigan Municipal Bond

Minnesota Intermediate Municipal Bond

Minnesota Municipal Bond

Missouri Municipal Bond

Nebraska Municipal Bond

New Jersey Municipal Bond

New Mexico Municipal Bond

New York Municipal Bond

North Carolina Municipal Bond

Ohio Municipal Bond

Municipal-State (continued)

Oregon Intermediate Municipal Bond

Pennsylvania Municipal Bond

Tennessee Municipal Bond

Virginia Municipal Bond

Wisconsin Municipal Bond

Taxable Fixed Income

Core Bond

Core Plus Bond

Global Total Return Bond

High Income Bond

Inflation Protected Securities

Intermediate Government Bond

NWQ Flexible Income

Preferred Securities

Short Term Bond

Strategic Income

Symphony Credit Opportunities

Symphony Floating Rate Income

Symphony High Yield Bond

U.S. Infrastructure Income

Global/International

Global Growth

International Growth

NWQ Global Equity

NWQ Global Equity Income

Santa Barbara Global Dividend Growth

Santa Barbara International Dividend Growth

Symphony International Equity

Tradewinds Emerging Markets

Global/International (continued)

Tradewinds Global All-Cap

Tradewinds International Value

Tradewinds Japan

Value

Dividend Value

Large Cap Value

Mid Cap Value

NWQ Large-Cap Value

NWQ Multi-Cap Value

NWQ Small-Cap Value

NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value

Small Cap Value

Tradewinds Value Opportunities

Growth

Growth

Large Cap Growth

Large Cap Growth Opportunities

Mid Cap Growth Opportunities

Small Cap Growth Opportunities

Symphony Large-Cap Growth

Winslow Large-Cap Growth

Core

Concentrated Core

Core Dividend

Large Cap Core

Large Cap Core Plus

Large Cap Select

Santa Barbara Dividend Growth

Small Cap Select

Core (continued)

Symphony Low Volatility Equity

Symphony Mid-Cap Core

Symphony Small Cap Core

Real Assets

Global Infrastructure

Gresham Diversified Commodity Strategy

Real Asset Income

Real Estate Securities

Asset Allocation

Strategy Aggressive Growth Allocation

Strategy Balanced Allocation

Strategy Conservative Allocation

Strategy Growth Allocation

Index

Equity Index

Mid Cap Index

Small Cap Index

Non-Traditional Strategies

Equity Long/Short

Equity Market Neutral

Gresham Long/Short Commodity Strategy

Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation

Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation

Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation

Symphony Dynamic Credit

Symphony Dynamic Equity

Tactical Market Opportunities

Several additional sources of information are available to you, including the codes of ethics adopted by the Fund, Nuveen Investments, Nuveen Fund Advisors and Nuveen Asset Management. The statement of additional information, incorporated by reference into this prospectus, contains detailed information on the policies and operation of the Fund included in this prospectus. Additional information about the Fund’s investments is available in the annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Fund’s annual report, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund’s performance during its last fiscal year. The Fund’s most recent statement of additional information, annual and semi-annual reports and certain other information are available, free of charge, by calling Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787, on the Fund’s website at www.nuveen.com, or through your financial advisor. Shareholders may call the toll free number above with any inquiries.

You may also obtain this and other Fund information directly from the Securities and Exchange Commission ( “SEC” ). Reports and other information about the Fund are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or in person at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Call the SEC at (202) 551-8090 for room hours and operation. You may also request Fund information by sending an e-mail request to publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520. The SEC may charge a copying fee for this information.

The Fund is a series of Nuveen Investment Trust, whose Investment Company Act file number is 811-07619.

Distributed by

Nuveen Securities, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(800) 257-8787

www.nuveen.com

MPR-GTRB-1014P



Mutual Funds

Prospectus


		October 31, 2014

Class / Ticker Symbol

Fund Name

Class A

Class C

Class R3

Class I

Nuveen Core Bond Fund

FAIIX

NTIBX

—

FINIX

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund

FAFIX

FFAIX

FFISX

FFIIX

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund

FJSIX

FCSIX

FANSX

FJSYX

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund

FAIPX

FCIPX

FRIPX

FYIPX

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund

FIGAX

FYGCX

FYGRX

FYGYX

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund

FALTX

FBSCX

NSSRX

FLTIX

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund

FCDDX

FCBCX

FABSX

FCBYX

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

NUSNX

NUSCX

—

NUSIX

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Table of Contents



Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen Core Bond Fund		2

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		7

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		13

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		18

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		24

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		29

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		34

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund		40


Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

Who Manages the Funds		45

More About Our Investment Strategies		48

What the Risks Are		55


Section 3 How You Can Buy and Sell Shares

What Share Classes We Offer		65

How to Reduce Your Sales Charge		68

How to Buy Shares		69

Special Services		71

How to Sell Shares		72


Section 4 General Information

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes		75

Distribution and Service Payments		76

Net Asset Value		78

Frequent Trading		79

Fund Service Providers		81


Section 5 Financial Highlights	82


Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms	90

NOT FDIC OR GOVERNMENT INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Nuveen Core Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with current income to the extent consistent with preservation of capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		3.00%		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class I
Management Fees		0.46%		0.46%		0.46%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.10%		0.10%		0.10%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.81%		1.56%		0.56%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.03)%		(0.03)%		(0.03)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.78%		1.53%		0.53%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, do not exceed 0.78%, 1.53% and 0.53% for Class A, Class C and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

Section 1 Fund Summaries

has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2015. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption						No Redemption
	A		C		I		A		C		I
1 Year	$	377	$	156	$	54	$	377	$	156	$	54
3 Years	$	548	$	490	$	176	$	548	$	490	$	176
5 Years	$	733	$	847	$	310	$	733	$	847	$	310
10 Years	$	1,269	$	1,854	$	699	$	1,269	$	1,854	$	699

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 49% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds, such as:

•

U.S. government securities (securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities), including zero coupon securities;

•

residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

•

asset-backed securities;

•

corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations; and

•

municipal securities in an amount not to exceed 20% of the Fund’s net assets.

Bonds in the Fund will be rated investment grade at the time of purchase or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable quality by the Fund’s sub-adviser. At least 65% of the Fund’s debt securities must be either U.S. government securities or securities that are rated A or better or are unrated and of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so. Unrated securities will not exceed 25% of the Fund’s total assets.

The Fund’s sub-adviser selects securities using a “top-down” approach, which begins with the formulation of the sub-adviser’s general economic outlook. Following this, various sectors and industries are analyzed and selected for investment. Finally, the sub-adviser selects individual securities within these sectors or industries.

The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in U.S. dollar denominated debt obligations of foreign corporations and governments.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund attempts to maintain a weighted average effective maturity for its portfolio securities of three to ten years and an average effective duration of two to six years. The Fund’s weighted average effective maturity and effective duration are measures of how the value of the Fund’s shares may react to interest rate changes.

To generate additional income, the Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in dollar roll transactions. In a dollar roll transaction, the Fund sells mortgage-backed securities for delivery in the current month while contracting with the same party to repurchase similar securities at a future date.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may

Section 1 Fund Summaries

use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Dollar Roll Transaction Risk —The use of dollar rolls can increase the volatility of the Fund’s share price, and it may have an adverse impact on performance unless the sub-adviser correctly predicts mortgage prepayments and interest rates.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk —These securities generally can be prepaid at any time, and prepayments that occur either more quickly or more slowly than expected can adversely impact the value of such securities. They are also subject to extension risk, which is the risk that rising interest rates could cause mortgages or other obligations underlying the securities to be prepaid more slowly than expected, thereby lengthening the duration of such securities, increasing their sensitivity to interest rate changes and causing their prices to decline. A mortgage-backed security may be negatively affected by the quality of the mortgages underlying such security, the credit quality of its issuer or guarantor, and the nature and structure of its credit support.

Section 1 Fund Summaries

Zero Coupon Bonds Risk —Because interest on zero coupon bonds is not paid on a current basis, the values of zero coupon bonds will be more volatile in response to interest rate changes than the values of bonds that distribute income regularly. Although zero coupon bonds generate income for accounting purposes, they do not produce cash flow, and thus the Fund could be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to generate cash to distribute to shareholders as required by tax laws.

Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 4.49%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 9.70% and -5.11%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


			Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	Inception Date		1 Year		5 Years		10 Years		Since Inception (Class C)
Class A (return before taxes)		1/09/95		(4.98)%		6.23%		3.63%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)				(6.09)%		4.86%		2.23%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)				(2.53)%		4.45%		2.34%		N/A
Class C (return before taxes)		1/18/11		(2.91)%		N/A		N/A		1.84%
Class I (return before taxes)		1/05/93		(1.89)%		7.05%		4.12%		N/A
Barclays Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)				(2.02)%		4.44%		4.55%		3.26%
Lipper Core Bond Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)				(1.87)%		6.04%		4.11%		3.51%

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Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Wan-Chong Kung, CFA	Senior Vice President	October 2002
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Senior Vice President	February 2000
Chris J. Neuharth, CFA	Managing Director	May 2012

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with high current income consistent with limited risk to capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.25%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.46%		0.46%		0.46%		0.46%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.13%		0.13%		0.14%		0.14%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.84%		1.59%		1.10%		0.60%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.07)%		(0.07)%		(0.08)%		(0.08)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.77%		1.52%		1.02%		0.52%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, do not exceed 0.77%, 1.52%, 1.02% and 0.52% for Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

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	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	500	$	155	$	104	$	53	$	500	$	155	$	104	$	53
3 Years	$	675	$	495	$	342	$	184	$	675	$	495	$	342	$	184
5 Years	$	865	$	859	$	598	$	327	$	865	$	859	$	598	$	327
10 Years	$	1,412	$	1,883	$	1,333	$	742	$	1,412	$	1,883	$	1,333	$	742

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 50% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds, such as:

•

U.S. government securities (securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities), including zero coupon securities;

•

residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

•

asset-backed securities;

•

corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations; and

•

municipal securities in an amount not to exceed 20% of the Fund’s net assets.

Up to 20% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in securities rated lower than investment grade or unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser (securities commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds). The Fund will not invest in securities rated lower than CCC at the time of purchase or in unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so. Unrated securities will not exceed 25% of the Fund’s total assets.

The Fund may invest up to 35% of its total assets in debt obligations of foreign corporations and foreign governments. However, no more than 10% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in debt obligations of corporations and governments that are located in emerging market countries. A country is considered to have an “emerging market” if it has a relatively low gross national product per capita compared to the world’s major economies, and the potential for rapid economic growth, provided that no issuer included in the Fund’s current benchmark index will be considered to be located in an emerging market country.

Up to 10% of the Fund’s total assets may have non-U.S. dollar currency exposure from non-U.S. dollar denominated securities and currency derivatives, calculated on an absolute notional basis (i.e., adding together the absolute value of net long and net short exposures to individual non-U.S. dollar currencies).

Under normal market conditions, the Fund attempts to maintain a weighted average effective maturity for its portfolio securities of fifteen years or less and an average effective duration of three to eight years. The Fund’s weighted average effective maturity and average effective duration are measures of how the value of the Fund’s shares may react to interest rate changes.

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The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

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Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 4.94%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 13.06% and -6.39%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			10 Years
Class A (return before taxes)		(4.02	)%		7.79	%		4.17	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		(5.93	)%		6.08	%		2.54	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		(2.01	)%		5.46	%		2.60	%
Class C (return before taxes)		(0.60	)%		7.91	%		3.83	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		(0.05	)%		8.48	%		4.40	%
Class I (return before taxes)		0.54	%		9.03	%		4.88	%
Barclays Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		(2.02	)%		4.44	%		4.55	%
Lipper Core Plus Bond Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		(0.99	)%		7.05	%		4.81	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Chris J. Neuharth, CFA	Managing Director	October 2002
Timothy A. Palmer, CFA	Managing Director	May 2003
Wan-Chong Kung, CFA	Senior Vice President	June 2001
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Senior Vice President	December 2005

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

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Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen High Income Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with a high level of current income.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.75%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.56%		0.56%		0.56%		0.56%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.14%		0.14%		0.14%		0.15%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses		0.05%		0.05%		0.05%		0.05%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.00%		1.75%		1.25%		0.76%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

Example


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	572	$	178	$	127	$	78	$	572	$	178	$	127	$	78
3 Years	$	778	$	551	$	397	$	243	$	778	$	551	$	397	$	243
5 Years	$	1,001	$	949	$	686	$	422	$	1,001	$	949	$	686	$	422
10 Years	$	1,641	$	2,062	$	1,511	$	942	$	1,641	$	2,062	$	1,511	$	942

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 85% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds rated lower than investment grade at the time of purchase or in unrated bonds of comparable quality (securities commonly referred to as “high-yield” securities or “junk” bonds). These bonds generally provide high income in an effort to compensate investors for their higher risk of default, which is the failure to make required interest or principal payments. High-yield bond issuers include small or relatively new companies lacking the history or capital to merit investment-grade status, former blue chip companies downgraded because of financial problems, companies electing to borrow heavily to finance or avoid a takeover or buyout, and firms with heavy debt loads. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in fixed and floating rate loans, including senior loans and secured and unsecured junior loans. The Fund may invest in exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and other investment companies (“ investment companies ”).

The Fund’s sub-adviser employs a bottom up approach to investing. The sub-adviser devotes more resources to evaluating individual securities rather than assessing macro-economic trends. Securities are selected using fundamental credit research to identify relative value in the market. Positions are sold in anticipation of credit deterioration or when a security is priced expensively relative to other comparable investments.

There is no minimum rating requirement and no limitation on the average maturity or average effective duration of securities held by the Fund.

The Fund may invest without limitation in debt obligations of foreign corporations and governments, provided that no more than 20% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in debt obligations issued by governmental and corporate issuers that are located in emerging market countries. A country is considered to have an “emerging market” if it has a relatively low gross national product per capita compared to the world’s major economies, and the potential for rapid economic growth, provided that no issuer included in the Fund’s current benchmark index will be considered to be located in an emerging market country.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including interest rate swaps, currency swaps, total return swaps and credit default swaps; and options on swap agreements. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

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Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

Loan Risk —Portfolio transactions in loans may settle in as short as seven days but typically can take up to two or three weeks, and in some cases much longer. Unlike the securities markets, there is no central clearinghouse for loan trades, and the loan market has not established enforceable settlement standards or remedies for failure to settle. Credit risk is heightened for loans in which the Fund invests because companies that issue such loans tend to be highly leveraged and thus are more susceptible to the risks of interest deferral, default and/or bankruptcy.

Other Investment Companies Risk —When the Fund invests in other investment companies, you bear both your proportionate share of Fund expenses and, indirectly, the expenses of the other investment companies. Furthermore, the Fund is exposed to the risks to which the other investment companies may be subject.

Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 4.17%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

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During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 21.96% and -19.17%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			10 Years
Class A (return before taxes)		3.40	%		17.38	%		7.25	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		(0.37	)%		13.90	%		4.30	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		2.06	%		12.50	%		4.42	%
Class C (return before taxes)		7.64	%		17.74	%		7.00	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		8.16	%		18.21	%		7.49	%
Class I (return before taxes)		8.78	%		18.86	%		8.05	%
Barclays High Yield 2% Issuer Capped Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		7.44	%		18.96	%		8.61	%
Lipper High Yield Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		6.82	%		16.16	%		7.21	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
John T. Fruit, CFA	Senior Vice President	November 2005
Jeffrey T. Schmitz, CFA	Vice President	January 2008

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Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with total return while providing protection against inflation.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.25%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.42%		0.42%		0.42%		0.42%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.19%		0.19%		0.21%		0.19%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.86%		1.61%		1.13%		0.61%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.03)%		(0.03)%		(0.05)%		(0.03)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.83%		1.58%		1.08%		0.58%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, do not exceed 0.85%, 1.60%, 1.10% and 0.60% for Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2015. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	506	$	161	$	110	$	59	$	506	$	161	$	110	$	59
3 Years	$	685	$	505	$	354	$	192	$	685	$	505	$	354	$	192
5 Years	$	879	$	873	$	617	$	337	$	879	$	873	$	617	$	337
10 Years	$	1,438	$	1,909	$	1,370	$	759	$	1,438	$	1,909	$	1,370	$	759

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 48% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in inflation protected debt securities. These securities will be issued by the U.S. and non-U.S. governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, and domestic and foreign corporations. The Fund’s investments in U.S. Government inflation protected securities will include U.S. Treasury inflation protected securities as well as inflation protected securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government. Securities issued by the U.S. Treasury are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government. Some securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government are supported only by the credit of the issuing agency or instrumentality.

Inflation protected debt securities are designed to provide protection against the negative effects of inflation. Unlike traditional debt securities, which pay regular fixed interest payments on a fixed principal amount, interest payments on inflation protected debt securities will vary with the rate of inflation. The U.S. Treasury uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) as the inflation measure. Inflation protected debt securities issued by foreign governments and corporations are generally linked to a non-U.S. inflation rate.

Inflation protected debt securities have two common structures. The U.S. Treasury and some other issuers use a structure that accrues inflation into the principal value of the bond. If the index measuring the rate of inflation rises, the principal value of the security will increase. Because interest payments will be calculated with respect to a larger principal amount, interest payments also will increase. Conversely, if the index measuring the rate of inflation falls, the principal value of the security will fall and interest payments will decrease. Other issuers adjust the interest rates payable on the security according to the rate of inflation, but the principal amount remains the same.

In the event of sustained deflation, the U.S. Treasury has guaranteed that it will repay at maturity at least the original face value of the inflation protected securities that it issues. Other inflation protected debt securities that accrue inflation into their principal value may or may not provide a similar guarantee. For securities that do not provide such a guarantee, the adjusted principal value of the security repaid at maturity may be less than the original principal value.

Up to 20% of the Fund’s assets may be invested in holdings that are not inflation protected, which may include:

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domestic and foreign corporate debt obligations;

•

securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies and instrumentalities;

•

debt obligations of foreign governments;

•

residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

•

asset-backed securities; and

•

derivative instruments, as discussed below.

When selecting securities for the Fund, the Fund’s sub-adviser uses a “top-down” approach, looking first at general economic factors and market conditions. The sub-adviser then selects securities that it believes have strong relative value based on an analysis of a security’s characteristics (such as principal value, coupon rate, maturity, duration and yield) in light of these general economic factors and market conditions. The sub-adviser will sell securities if the securities no longer meet these criteria, if other investments appear to be a better relative value, to manage the duration of the Fund, or to meet redemption requests.

Up to 10% of the Fund’s net assets may be invested in securities that are rated lower than investment grade at the time of purchase or that are unrated and of comparable quality (securities commonly referred to as “high-yield” securities or “junk” bonds). The Fund will not invest in securities rated lower than B at the time of purchase or in unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so.

The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in non-U.S. dollar denominated securities, and may invest without limitation in U.S. dollar denominated securities of foreign corporations and governments.

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The Fund may invest in debt securities of any maturity, but expects to maintain, under normal market conditions, a weighted average effective maturity of between eight and fifteen years and an average effective duration of between four and ten years. The Fund’s weighted average effective maturity and average effective duration are measures of how the Fund may react to interest rate changes.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; index- and other asset-linked notes; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates. In addition, because the interest and/or principal payments on inflation protected securities are adjusted periodically for changes in inflation, the income distributed by the Fund may be irregular. In a period of sustained deflation, the inflation protected securities held by the Fund, and consequently the Fund itself, may not pay any income.

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Index Methodology Risk —There can be no assurance that the U.S. or any foreign inflation index will accurately measure the real rate of inflation in the prices of goods and services.

Inflation Risk —If the rate of inflation falls, the principal value of and/or interest payments on inflation protected debt securities held by the Fund will decrease.

Interest Rate Risk —Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the Fund’s portfolio will decline because of rising interest rates. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. Inflation protected securities may react differently from other debt securities to changes in interest rates. Generally, the value of an inflation protected security is affected by changes in “real” interest rates, which are stated interest rates reduced by the expected impact of inflation. Values of these securities normally fall when real interest rates rise and rise when real interest rates fall.

Tax Consequences of Inflation Adjustments —Because inflation adjustments to the principal amount of an inflation protected security will be included in the Fund’s income, the Fund may have to make income distributions to shareholders that exceed the cash it receives.

Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

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Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 3.24%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the nine-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 5.25% and -6.88%, respectively, for the quarters ended March 31, 2008 and June 30, 2013.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates

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and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


			Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	Inception Date		1 Year			5 Years			Since Inception
Class A (return before taxes)		10/1/04		(12.10	)%		4.77	%		3.73	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)				(12.77	)%		4.02	%		2.53	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)				(6.51	)%		3.48	%		2.45	%
Class C (return before taxes)		10/1/04		(8.63	)%		4.99	%		3.47	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		10/1/04		(8.17	)%		5.34	%		3.92	%
Class I (return before taxes)		10/1/04		(7.67	)%		6.03	%		4.51	%
Barclays U.S. TIPs Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)				(8.61	)%		5.63	%		4.68	%
Lipper Inflation Protected Bond Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)				(7.55	)%		4.93	%		4.14	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Wan-Chong Kung, CFA	Senior Vice President	October 2004
Chad W. Kemper	Vice President	October 2010

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

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Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with current income to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		3.00%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.47%		0.47%		0.47%		0.47%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.29%		0.29%		0.29%		0.29%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.01%		1.76%		1.26%		0.76%
Fee Waiver s and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.16)%		(0.16)%		(0.16)%		(0.16)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.85%		1.60%		1.10%		0.60%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, do not exceed 0.85%, 1.60%, 1.10% and 0.60% for Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

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	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	384	$	163	$	112	$	61	$	384	$	163	$	112	$	61
3 Years	$	596	$	539	$	384	$	227	$	596	$	539	$	384	$	227
5 Years	$	826	$	939	$	676	$	407	$	826	$	939	$	676	$	407
10 Years	$	1,485	$	2,060	$	1,509	$	927	$	1,485	$	2,060	$	1,509	$	927

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 31% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in U.S. Government bonds. U.S. Government bonds are securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities, including:

•

U.S. Treasury obligations;

•

Mortgage-backed securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC); and

•

Non-mortgage-related obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. Government agencies or instrumentalities, such as FNMA, FHLMC, Federal Farm Credit Banks, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, including obligations that are issued by private issuers and guaranteed under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program.

U.S. Treasury obligations and some obligations of U.S. Government agencies and instrumentalities are supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government. Other U.S. Government securities are backed by the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury. Still others are supported only by the credit of the issuing agency or instrumentality.

The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets, collectively, in non-U.S. Government debt obligations, asset-backed securities, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, corporate debt obligations, and municipal securities. Such securities will be rated investment grade at the time of purchase or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable quality by the Fund’s sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so.

In selecting securities for the Fund, the Fund’s sub-adviser first determines its economic outlook and the direction in which inflation and interest rates are expected to move. In selecting individual securities consistent with this outlook, the sub-adviser evaluates factors such as credit quality, yield, maturity, liquidity, and portfolio diversification.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund attempts to maintain a weighted average effective maturity between three and ten years and an effective duration of between two and one-half and seven years. The Fund’s weighted average effective maturity and effective duration are measures of how the value of the Fund’s shares may react to interest rate changes.

To generate additional income, the Fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in dollar roll transactions. In a dollar roll transaction, the Fund sells mortgage-backed securities for delivery in the current month while contracting with the same party to repurchase similar securities at a future date.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: futures contracts; options on futures contracts, swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, security indexes and specific securities and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts that are traded on domestic securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of

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securities in the Fund’s portfolio, or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use derivatives to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

Fund Performance

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Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 1.48%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 5.92% and -2.41%, respectively, for the quarters ended December 31, 2008 and June 30, 2004.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

Effective August 31, 2009, the Fund’s investment objective was changed from providing “current income that is exempt from state income tax” to providing “current income,” in each case to the extent consistent with preservation of capital. As of the same date, the Fund’s investment strategies were significantly broadened, consistent with this new investment objective. As a result, the performance information presented below reflects the performance of an investment portfolio that, prior to August 31, 2009, differed materially from the Fund’s portfolio thereafter.


			Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	Inception Date		1 Year			5 Years		10 Years		Since Inception (Class C & Class R3)
Class A (return before taxes)		10/25/02		(4.25	)%		1.47%		3.05%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)				(4.94	)%		0.61%		1.92%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)				(2.41	)%		0.84%		1.99%		N/A
Class C (return before taxes)		10/28/09		(1.95	)%		N/A		N/A		1.68%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		10/28/09		(1.43	)%		N/A		N/A		2.15%
Class I (return before taxes)		10/25/02		(0.95	)%		2.30%		3.54%		N/A
Barclays Intermediate Government Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)				(1.25	)%		2.20%		3.74%		2.60%
Lipper Intermediate U.S. Government Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)				(2.87	)%		2.51%		3.45%		2.39%

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Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Wan-Chong Kung, CFA	Senior Vice President	November 2002
Chris J. Neuharth, CFA	Managing Director	August 2009
Jason J. O’Brien, CFA	Vice President	August 2009

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with current income while maintaining a high degree of principal stability.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		2.25%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.39%		0.39%		0.39%		0.39%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.09%		0.09%		0.09%		0.09%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.73%		1.48%		0.98%		0.48%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.02)%		(0.02)%		(0.02)%		(0.02)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.71%		1.46%		0.96%		0.46%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, do not exceed 0.72%, 1.47%, 0.97% and 0.47% for Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2015. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	296	$	149	$	98	$	47	$	296	$	149	$	98	$	47
3 Years	$	451	$	466	$	310	$	152	$	451	$	466	$	310	$	152
5 Years	$	620	$	806	$	540	$	267	$	620	$	806	$	540	$	267
10 Years	$	1,109	$	1,767	$	1,200	$	602	$	1,109	$	1,767	$	1,200	$	602

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 43% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds, such as:

•

U.S. government securities, which are securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities;

•

residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

•

asset-backed securities;

•

corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations; and

•

municipal securities.

The Fund’s sub-adviser selects securities using a “top-down” approach which begins with the formulation of the sub-adviser’s general economic outlook. Following this, various sectors and industries are analyzed and selected for investment. Finally, the sub-adviser selects individual securities within these sectors or industries.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund attempts to maintain a weighted average effective maturity and an average effective duration for its portfolio securities of one to three years. The Fund’s weighted average effective maturity and effective duration are measures of how the value of the Fund’s shares may react to interest rate changes.

The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

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Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

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Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 0.85%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 5.45% and -3.37%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.


			Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	Inception Date		1 Year		5 Years		10 Years		Since Inception (Class C & Class R3)
Class A (return before taxes)		12/14/92		(0.64)%		4.03%		2.73%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)				(1.47)%		3.04%		1.61%		N/A
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)				(0.37)%		2.75%		1.69%		N/A
Class C (return before taxes)		10/28/09		0.94%		N/A		N/A		1.77%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		9/22/11		1.42%		N/A		N/A		2.82%
Class I (return before taxes)		2/4/94		1.97%		4.70%		3.14%		N/A
Barclays 1-3 Year Government/Credit Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)				0.64%		2.02%		2.91%		1.53%
Lipper Short Investment Grade Debt Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)				0.55%		3.61%		2.73%		2.32%

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Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Chris J. Neuharth, CFA	Managing Director	March 2004
Peter L. Agrimson, CFA	Assistant Vice President	October 2010

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen Strategic Income Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with total return.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.25%		None		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		None		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Management Fees		0.54%		0.54%		0.54%		0.54%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.50%		0.00%
Other Expenses		0.12%		0.12%		0.12%		0.12%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses		0.01%		0.01%		0.01%		0.01%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.92%		1.67%		1.17%		0.67%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ³		(0.07)%		(0.07)%		(0.07)%		(0.07)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.85%		1.60%		1.10%		0.60%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

The Fund’s investment adviser has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse other Fund expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses, after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements and excluding Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, do not exceed 0.84%, 1.59%, 1.09% and 0.59% for Class A, Class C, Class R3 and Class I shares, respectively. Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements will not be terminated prior to that time without the approval of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

Example

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	Redemption								No Redemption
	A		C		R3		I		A		C		R3		I
1 Year	$	508	$	163	$	112	$	61	$	508	$	163	$	112	$	61
3 Years	$	699	$	520	$	365	$	207	$	699	$	520	$	365	$	207
5 Years	$	906	$	901	$	637	$	366	$	906	$	901	$	637	$	366
10 Years	$	1,502	$	1,970	$	1,414	$	828	$	1,502	$	1,970	$	1,414	$	828

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 50% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in debt securities, including:

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U.S. government securities (securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities);

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residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

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asset-backed securities;

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domestic and foreign corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations;

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fixed and floating rate loans, including senior loans and secured and unsecured junior loans, in an amount not to exceed 20% of the Fund’s net assets;

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debt obligations of foreign governments; and

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municipal securities in an amount not to exceed 20% of the Fund’s net assets.

The Fund may invest up to 30% of its total assets in non-U.S. dollar denominated debt obligations of foreign corporations and governments, including debt obligations issued by governmental and corporate issuers that are located in emerging market countries. The Fund may invest without limitation in U.S. dollar denominated securities of foreign issuers.

The Fund may invest up to 50% of its total assets in securities rated lower than investment grade or unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser (securities commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds). The Fund will not invest in securities rated lower than CCC at the time of purchase or in unrated securities of comparable quality as determined by the Fund’s sub-adviser. If the rating of a security is reduced or the credit quality of an unrated security declines after purchase, the Fund is not required to sell the security, but may consider doing so. Unrated securities will not exceed 25% of the Fund’s total assets.

The Fund’s sub-adviser makes buy, sell, and hold decisions using a “top-down” approach, which begins with the formulation of the sub-adviser’s general economic outlook. Following this, various sectors and industries are analyzed and selected for investment. Finally, the sub-adviser selects individual securities within these sectors or industries. The sub-adviser also analyzes expected changes to the yield curve under multiple market conditions to help define maturity and duration selection.

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The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; interest rate caps, collars, and floors; foreign currency contracts; options on foreign currencies; swap agreements, including swap agreements on interest rates, currency rates, security indexes and specific securities, and credit default swap agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The Fund may also use derivatives to gain exposure to non-dollar denominated securities markets to the extent it does not do so through direct investments. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Fund may not use any derivative to gain exposure to a security or type of security that it would be prohibited by its investment restrictions from purchasing directly.

Principal Risks

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates.

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Fund Performance

Class A Annual Total Return*

LOGO

Class A year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2014 was 5.56%. The performance of the other share classes will differ due
to their different expense structures.

During the ten-year period ended December 31, 2013, the Fund’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 22.45% and -8.60%, respectively, for the quarters ended June 30, 2009 and September 30, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Fund’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance and an index of funds with similar investment objectives. All after-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only; after-tax returns for other share classes will vary. Your own actual after-tax returns will depend on your specific tax situation and may differ from what is shown here. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares in tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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	Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013
	1 Year			5 Years			10 Years
Class A (return before taxes)		(2.49	)%		11.27	%		5.54	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions)		(4.42	)%		9.36	%		3.70	%
Class A (return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares)		(1.41	)%		8.13	%		3.55	%
Class C (return before taxes)		1.06	%		11.38	%		5.19	%
Class R3 (return before taxes)		1.71	%		11.89	%		5.73	%
Class I (return before taxes)		2.11	%		12.50	%		6.25	%
Barclays Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		(2.02	)%		4.44	%		4.55	%
Lipper Multi-Sector Income Classification Average (reflects no deduction for taxes or sales loads)		1.70	%		10.77	%		5.78	%

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Timothy A. Palmer, CFA	Managing Director	May 2005
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Senior Vice President	February 2000
Marie A. Newcome, CFA	Vice President	October 2010

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class R3	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through certain retirement plans. No minimum.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.	No minimum.

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Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Fund is to seek current income consistent with limited risk to capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund or in other Nuveen Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts, as well as eligibility requirements for each share class, is available from your financial advisor and in “What Share Classes We Offer” on page 65 of the Fund’s prospectus, “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge” on page 68 of the prospectus and “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” on page S-103 of the Fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)


	Class A		Class C		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)		4.25%		None		None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds) ¹		None		1.00%		None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends		None		None		None
Exchange Fee		None		None		None
Annual Low Balance Account Fee (for accounts under $1,000) ²		$15		$15		$15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A		Class C		Class I
Management Fees		0.62%		0.62%		0.62%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees		0.25%		1.00%		0.00%
Other Expenses ³		0.82%		0.82%		0.82%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.69%		2.44%		1.44%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements ⁴		(0.73)%		(0.73)%		(0.73)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements		0.96%		1.71%		0.71%

1	The contingent deferred sales charge on Class C shares applies only to redemptions within 12 months of purchase.

2	Fee applies to the following types of accounts under $1,000 held directly with the Fund: individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Coverdell Education Savings Accounts and accounts established pursuant to the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA).

3	Other Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

The Fund’s investment adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2017 so that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities, and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 0.74% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares. This expense limitation may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem your shares at the end of a period. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that the contractual fee waivers currently in place are not renewed beyond October 31, 2017. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


	Redemption						No Redemption
	A		C		I		A		C		I
1 Year	$	519	$	174	$	73	$	519	$	174	$	73
3 Years	$	718	$	539	$	227	$	718	$	539	$	227

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Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. For the fiscal period May 12, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 4% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in infrastructure-related debt securities of U.S. issuers. Such securities include:

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Taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds issued to finance the ownership, development, construction, renovation or operation of infrastructure assets.

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Debt securities issued by, or loans issued to, infrastructure-related companies, which include companies involved in the ownership, development, construction, renovation, financing or operation of infrastructure assets, or that provide the services and raw materials necessary for the construction and maintenance of infrastructure assets.

Infrastructure assets are the physical structures and networks upon which the operation, growth and development of a community depends, which include water, sewer, and energy utilities; transportation and communication networks; health care facilities, schools, government accommodations and other public service facilities; and shipping, timber, steel, alternative energy, and other resources and services necessary for the construction and maintenance of these physical structures and networks.

Municipal bonds in which the Fund invests include obligations issued by U.S. states and their subdivisions, authorities, instrumentalities and corporations, as well as obligations issued by U.S. territories (such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam). The Fund may invest in all types of municipal bonds including general obligation bonds, revenue bonds and participation interests in municipal leases. The Fund may invest in zero coupon bonds, which are issued at substantial discounts from their value at maturity and pay no cash income to their holders until they mature.

The Fund does not seek to provide income exempt from federal income tax. The Fund may invest in both taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds. The Fund does not anticipate investing in tax-exempt bonds to the extent that its dividends will qualify as “exempt-interest dividends” and, as a result, it is expected that the Fund’s dividends will be taxable.

Other debt securities in which the Fund may invest include:

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corporate debt obligations, including obligations issued by special-purpose entities that are backed by corporate debt obligations;

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fixed and floating rate loans, including senior loans and secured and unsecured junior loans;

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convertible bonds; and

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preferred securities.

The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in debt obligations of non-U.S. issuers, including debt obligations issued by issuers that are located in emerging market countries.

The Fund may invest up to 40% of its net assets in securities rated below investment grade or, if unrated, judged by the Fund’s sub-advisor to be of comparable quality. Such securities are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds.

The Fund is not subject to any formal restrictions on its average portfolio maturity or duration, or on the duration or maturity of the individual securities in which it invests. However, the Fund generally invests in longer term bonds which are more sensitive to interest rate risk.

The Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in securities whose interest payments vary inversely with changes in short-term interest rates (“ inverse floaters ”). Inverse floaters are derivative securities that provide leveraged exposure to underlying bonds. The Fund’s investments in inverse floaters are designed to increase the Fund’s income and returns through this leveraged exposure. These investments are speculative, however, and also create the possibility that income and returns will be diminished.

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agreements; and options on the foregoing types of swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, currency risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Fund’s portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Fund’s yield or to enhance returns. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions.

In making buy, sell and hold decisions regarding municipal securities, the Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to identify underrated and undervalued municipal securities and sectors. The portfolio management team focuses on both bottom-up and top-down analysis of municipal securities issuers and sectors. Analysts screen each sector for issuers that meet the fundamental tests of creditworthiness and favor those securities with demonstrable growth potential, solid coverage of debt service and a priority lien on hard assets, dedicated revenue streams or tax resources. Evaluating such factors as historical default rates and average credit spreads within each sector, analysts provide top-down analysis that supports decisions to overweight or underweight a given sector. In making buy, sell and hold decisions for other fixed income securities, the portfolio management team considers input from the sub-adviser’s Fixed Income Strategy Committee, its various sector teams and its research analysts.

The Fund’s sub-adviser seeks to manage portfolio risks, including, principally, exposure to individual issuers and sectors and exposure to calls, and to manage the portfolio’s interest rate sensitivity within tolerance bands relative to the Fund’s benchmark indices.

Principal Risks

Bond Market Liquidity Risk —Primary dealer inventories of bonds appear to be low relative to the size of the fixed income market. These inventories are a core indication of dealers’ capacity to “make a market” in fixed income securities. This reduction in market making capacity has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets in which the Fund invests, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. In addition, recent federal banking regulations may cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of municipal bonds, which may further decrease the Fund’s ability to buy or sell bonds. As a result of this decreased liquidity, the Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance. If the Fund needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices.

Call Risk —If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Fund, performance could be adversely impacted.

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General Municipal Securities Market Risk —The amount of public information about the municipal securities in the Fund’s portfolio is generally less than that for corporate equities or bonds, and the Fund’s investment performance may therefore be more dependent on the sub-adviser’s analytic abilities. The secondary market for municipal bonds, and particularly for high-yield municipal bonds, tends to be less well developed and less liquid than many other securities markets. As a result, the Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance.

Income Risk —The Fund’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates. Also, if the Fund invests in inverse floaters, the Fund’s income may decrease if short-term interest rates rise.

Infrastructure Sector Risk —Because the Fund invests significantly in infrastructure-related securities, the Fund has greater exposure to adverse economic, regulatory, political, legal and other changes affecting the issuers of such securities.

Interest Rate Risk —Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the Fund’s portfolio will decline because of rising interest rates. The Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. When interest rates change, the values of longer-duration debt securities usually change more than the values of shorter-duration debt securities. Interest rate risk may be increased by the Fund’s investment in inverse floaters because of the leveraged nature of these investments.

Inverse Floaters Risk —The use of inverse floaters by the Fund creates effective leverage. Due to the leveraged nature of these investments, they will typically be more volatile and involve greater risk than the fixed rate bonds underlying the inverse floaters. An investment in certain inverse floaters will involve the risk that the Fund could lose more than its original principal investment. Distributions on inverse floaters bear an inverse relationship to short-term interest rates. Thus, distributions paid to the Fund on its inverse floaters will be reduced or even eliminated as short-term interest rates rise and will increase when short-term interest rates fall. Inverse floaters generally will underperform the market for fixed rate bonds in a rising interest rate environment.

Municipal Lease Obligations Risk —Participation interests in municipal leases pose special risks because many leases and contracts contain “non-appropriation” clauses that provide that the governmental issuer has no obligation to make future payments under the lease or contract unless money is appropriated for this purpose by the appropriate legislative body.

Political and Economic Risks —The values of municipal securities held by the Fund may be adversely affected by local political and economic conditions and developments. Adverse conditions in an industry significant to a local economy could have a correspondingly adverse effect on the financial condition of local issuers. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in certain sectors of the municipal securities market, such as hospitals and other health care facilities, charter schools and other private educational facilities, special taxing districts and start-up utility districts, and private activity bonds including industrial development bonds on behalf of transportation companies such as airline companies, whose credit quality and performance may be more susceptible to economic, business, political, regulatory and other developments than other sectors of municipal issuers.

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securities are subject to other risks, such as having no or limited voting rights, being subject to special redemption rights, having distributions deferred or skipped, having limited liquidity, changing tax treatments and possibly being in heavily regulated industries.

Zero Coupon Bonds Risk —Zero coupon bonds do not pay interest on a current basis and may be highly volatile as interest rates rise or fall. In addition, while such bonds generate income for purposes of generally accepted accounting standards, they do not generate cash flow and thus could cause the Fund to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by tax laws.

Fund Performance

Fund performance is not included in this prospectus because the Fund has not been in existence for a full calendar year.

Management

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Sub-Adviser

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Portfolio Managers


Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Daniel J. Close, CFA	Senior Vice President	May 2014
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Senior Vice President	May 2014
Jeffrey T. Schmitz, CFA	Vice President	May 2014

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares


	Class A and Class C	Class I
Eligibility and Minimum Initial Investment	$3,000 for all accounts except: •$2,500 for Traditional/Roth IRA accounts. •$2,000 for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts. •$250 for accounts opened through fee-based programs. •No minimum for retirement plans.	Available only through fee-based programs and certain retirement plans, and to other limited categories of investors as described in the prospectus. $100,000 for all accounts except: •$250 for clients of financial intermediaries and family offices that have accounts holding Class I shares with an aggregate value of at least $100,000 (or that are expected to reach this level). •No minimum for eligible retirement plans and certain other categories of eligible investors as described in the prospectus.
Minimum Additional Investment	$100	No minimum.

Tax Information

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

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Section 2 How We Manage Your Money

LOGO

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“Nuveen Fund Advisors”), the Funds’ investment adviser, offers advisory and investment management services to a broad range of mutual fund clients. Nuveen Fund Advisors has overall responsibility for management of the Funds, oversees the management of the Funds’ portfolios, manages the Funds’ business affairs and provides certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services. Nuveen Fund Advisors is located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Nuveen Fund Advisors is a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (“ Nuveen Investments”) . The Nuveen family of advisers has been providing advice to investment companies since 1976, and had $231.1 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2014.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management”) , located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, to serve as sub-adviser to each Fund. Nuveen Asset Management manages the investment of the Funds’ assets on a discretionary basis, subject to the supervision of Nuveen Fund Advisors.

The portfolio managers for Nuveen Core Bond Fund are Wan-Chong Kung, Jeffrey J. Ebert and Chris J. Neuharth. The portfolio managers for Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund are Chris J. Neuharth, Timothy A. Palmer, Wan-Chong Kung and Jeffrey J. Ebert. The portfolio managers for Nuveen High Income Bond Fund are John T. Fruit and Jeffrey T. Schmitz. The portfolio managers for Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund are Wan-Chong Kung and Chad W. Kemper. The portfolio managers for Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund are Wan-Chong Kung, Chris J. Neuharth and Jason J. O’Brien. The portfolio managers for Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund are Chris J. Neuharth and Peter L. Agrimson. The portfolio managers for Nuveen Strategic Income Fund are Timothy A. Palmer, Jeffrey J. Ebert and Marie A. Newcome. The portfolio managers for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund are Dan Close, Jeffrey J. Ebert and Jeffrey T. Schmitz.

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Chris J. Neuharth, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1981 and became a portfolio manager in 1985. He rejoined FAF Advisors, Inc. (“ FAF ”) in 2000 and most recently served as Senior Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Securitized Debt Sector Team on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Bonds and Emerging Markets Sector Teams on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Wan-Chong Kung, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1984 and joined FAF in 1993. She became a portfolio manager in 1993 and most recently served as Senior Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. She joined Nuveen Asset Management as Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Head of Interest Rates and Governments Sector Team on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Jeffrey J. Ebert entered the financial services industry in 1991 when he joined FAF. He became a portfolio manager in 2001 and most recently served as Head of Investment Grade Credit Sector Team at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Head of High-Grade Credit Sector Team on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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John T. Fruit, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1988 and joined FAF in 2001 as a senior fixed-income research analyst. He became a portfolio manager in 2005 and most recently served as Senior Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Head of High-Yield Credit Sector Team on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Jeffrey T. Schmitz, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1987 and joined FAF in 2006. He became a portfolio manager in 2008 and most recently served as Senior Credit Analyst and Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Vice President and Senior Research Analyst on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Chad W. Kemper entered the financial services industry in 1999 when he joined FAF. He became a portfolio manager in 2010 and prior to that was responsible for the management of government benchmarked accounts since September 2008. He most recently served as Senior Fixed-Income Trader at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Assistant Vice President and Assistant Portfolio Manager on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Jason J. O’Brien, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1993 when he joined FAF. He became a portfolio manager in 2001 and most recently served as Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Vice President and Portfolio Manager on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Peter L. Agrimson, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 2005 and joined FAF in 2009. He became a portfolio manager in 2010 and most recently served as Associate Trader at FAF since July 2008 until

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joining Nuveen Asset Management. He joined Nuveen Asset Management as Assistant Vice President and Trader on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Marie A. Newcome, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 1992 and joined FAF in 2004. She became a portfolio manager in 2005 and most recently served as Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager at FAF until joining Nuveen Asset Management. She joined Nuveen Asset Management as Vice President and Portfolio Manager on January 1, 2011 in connection with its acquisition of a portion of FAF’s asset management business.

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Daniel J. Close, CFA, is Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Nuveen Asset Management. He began his career in the financial industry in 1998 and joined Nuveen Asset Management in 2000 as a member of the product management and development team. He then served as a research analyst and assumed certain portfolio management duties in 2007.

Management Fees

The annual Fund-level fee, payable monthly, is based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as follows:


Average Daily Net Assets	Nuveen Core Bond Fund			Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund			Nuveen High Income Bond Fund			Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund			Nuveen Inter mediate Govern ment Bond Fund			Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund			Nuveen Strategic Income Fund			Nuveen U.S. Infra structure Income Fund
For the first $125 million		0.2700	%		0.2800	%		0.4000	%		0.2500	%		0.2700	%		0.2200	%		0.3600	%		0.4500	%
For the next $125 million		0.2575	%		0.2675	%		0.3875	%		0.2375	%		0.2575	%		0.2075	%		0.3475	%		0.4375	%
For the next $250 million		0.2450	%		0.2550	%		0.3750	%		0.2250	%		0.2450	%		0.1950	%		0.3350	%		0.4250	%
For the next $500 million		0.2325	%		0.2425	%		0.3625	%		0.2125	%		0.2325	%		0.1825	%		0.3225	%		0.4125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.2200	%		0.2300	%		0.3500	%		0.2000	%		0.2200	%		0.1700	%		0.3100	%		0.4000	%
For net assets over $2 billion		0.1950	%		0.2050	%		0.3250	%		0.1750	%		0.1950	%		0.1450	%		0.2850	%		0.3875	%

The overall complex-level fee begins at a maximum rate of 0.2000% of each Fund’s average daily net assets, based upon complex-level assets of $55 billion, with breakpoints for eligible assets above that level. As of June 30, 2014, the Funds’ effective complex-level fee rates were as follows:


	Complex-Level Fee Rate
Nuveen Core Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		0.1803	%
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		0.1829	%
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		0.1883	%
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		0.1916	%
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund		0.1653	%

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For the most recent fiscal year/period, each Fund paid Nuveen Fund Advisors the following management fees (net of fee waivers and expense reimbursements, where applicable) as a percentage of average daily net assets:


Nuveen Core Bond Fund	0.43	%
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	0.38	%
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund	0.56	%
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund	0.40	%
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	0.31	%
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund	0.37	%
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund	0.46	%
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	—	*

Nuveen Fund Advisors reimbursed expenses in excess of management fees.

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2015 so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses) for each Fund set forth below do not exceed the following percentage of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares:


	Class A		Class C		Class R3		Class I
Nuveen Core Bond Fund		0.78%		1.53%		—		0.53%
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		0.77%		1.52%		1.02%		0.52%
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		0.85%		1.60%		1.10%		0.60%
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		0.85%		1.60%		1.10%		0.60%
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		0.72%		1.47%		0.97%		0.47%
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		0.84%		1.59%		1.09%		0.59%

Nuveen Fund Advisors has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses through October 31, 2017 so that total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and/or service fees, interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses) for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund do not exceed 0.74% of the average daily net assets of any class of Fund shares.

These expense limitations that expire may be terminated or modified prior to that date only with the approval of the Board of Directors/Trustees’ of the Funds.

Information regarding the Board of Directors’/Trustees’ approval of the investment management agreements is available in the Funds’ annual reports for the fiscal year/period ended June 30, 2014.

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The Funds’ investment objectives, which are described in the “Fund Summaries” section, may be changed without shareholder approval. If a Fund’s investment objective changes, you will be notified at least 60 days in advance.

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Infrastructure Income Fund have each adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (a “Name Policy” ). Details about each Fund’s Name Policy can be found in the statement of additional information. Each Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy.

The Funds’ investment policies may be changed by the Board of Directors/Trustees without shareholder approval unless otherwise noted in this prospectus or the statement of additional information.

U.S. Government Securities

As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen High Income Bond Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, invest in U.S. government securities. U.S. government securities include U.S. Treasury obligations and securities issued or guaranteed by various agencies of the U.S. government, or by various instrumentalities which have been established or sponsored by the U.S. government. U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. government sponsored instrumentalities may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

Municipal Obligations

As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen High Income Bond Fund and Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, may invest in taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds. States, local governments and municipalities and other issuing authorities issue municipal bonds to raise money for various public purposes such as building public facilities, refinancing outstanding obligations and financing general operating expenses. These bonds include general obligation bonds, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the issuer and may be repaid from any revenue source, and revenue bonds, which may be repaid only from the revenue of a specific facility or source.

Municipal bonds issued to finance activities with a broad public purpose are generally exempt from federal income tax. Taxable municipal bonds, however, are issued to finance activities with less significant benefits to the public, such as the construction of sports facilities, and as such the interest paid to holders of such bonds is taxable as ordinary income. Many taxable municipal bonds offer yields comparable to those of other taxable bonds, such as corporate and agency bonds. Taxable municipal bonds may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and pay interest based on fixed or floating rate coupons. Maturities may range from long-term to short-term.

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The Funds may purchase municipal bonds that represent lease obligations. These carry special risks because the issuer of the bonds may not be obligated to appropriate money annually to make payments under the lease. In order to reduce this risk, the Funds will, in making purchase decisions, take into consideration the issuer’s incentive to continue making appropriations until maturity.

The municipal securities in which the Funds invest may include refunded bonds and zero coupon bonds. Refunded bonds may have originally been issued as general obligation or revenue bonds, but become “refunded” when they are secured by an escrow fund, usually consisting entirely of direct U.S. government obligations and/or U.S. government agency obligations. Zero coupon bonds are issued at substantial discounts from their value at maturity and pay no cash income to their holders until they mature. When held to maturity, their entire return comes from the difference between their purchase price and their maturity value.

The municipal securities in which the Funds invest may have variable, floating, or fixed interest rates.

Corporate Debt Securities

As a principal investment strategy, the Funds may invest in corporate debt securities issued by companies of all kinds, including those with small-, mid- and large-capitalizations. Corporate debt securities are fixed income securities issued by businesses to finance their operations. Notes, bonds, debentures and commercial paper are the most common types of corporate debt securities, with the primary difference being their maturities and secured or unsecured status. Commercial paper has the shortest term and is usually unsecured. Corporate debt securities may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry fixed or floating rates of interest.

Loans

As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Fund may invest in loans, including senior secured loans, unsecured and/or subordinated loans, loan participations and unfunded contracts. These loans are typically made by or issued to corporations primarily to finance acquisitions, refinance existing debt, support organic growth, or pay out dividends, and are typically originated by large banks and are then syndicated out to institutional investors as well as to other banks. Loans typically bear interest at a floating rate, although some loans pay a fixed rate. Due to their lower place in the borrower’s capital structure, unsecured and/or subordinated loans involve a higher degree of overall risk than senior bank loans of the same borrower. Loan participations are loans that are shared by a group of lenders. Unfunded contracts are commitments by lenders (such as a Fund) to loan an amount in the future or that is due to be contractually funded in the future.

High Yield Debt Securities

As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen Core Bond Fund and Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, may invest in debt securities rated below investment grade or unrated securities deemed by the Fund’s sub-adviser to be of comparable quality. Debt securities rated below investment grade are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. These types of bonds are typically issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by issuers that have questionable credit strength. High yield and comparable unrated debt

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securities: (a) will likely have some quality and protective characteristics that, in the judgment of the rating agency evaluating the instrument, are outweighed by large uncertainties or major risk exposures to adverse conditions; and (b) are predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal in accordance with the terms of the obligation.

Convertible Securities

As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in convertible securities, which are hybrid securities that combine the investment characteristics of bonds and common stocks. Convertible securities typically consist of debt securities that may be converted within a specified period of time (typically for the entire life of the security) into a certain amount of common stock or other equity security of the same or a different issuer at a predetermined price. They also include debt securities with warrants or common stock attached and derivatives combining the features of debt securities and equity securities. Convertible securities entitle the holder to receive interest paid or accrued on debt securities, until the securities mature or are redeemed, converted or exchanged.

Preferred Securities

As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in preferred securities. Preferred securities, which generally pay fixed or adjustable rate dividends or interest to investors, have preference over common stock in the payment of dividends or interest and the liquidation of a company’s assets, which means that a company typically must pay dividends or interest on its preferred securities before paying any dividends on its common stock. On the other hand, preferred securities are junior to most other forms of the company’s debt, including both senior and subordinated debt. Because of their subordinated position in the capital structure of an issuer, the ability to defer dividend or interest payments for extended periods of time without triggering an event of default for the issuer, and certain other features, preferred securities are often treated as equity-like instruments by both issuers and investors, as their quality and value are heavily dependent on the profitability and cash flows of the issuer rather than on any legal claims to specific assets.

Non-U.S. Investments

As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, may invest in debt securities of non-U.S. issuers. The Fund will classify an issuer of a security as being a U.S. or non-U.S. issuer based on the determination of an unaffiliated, recognized financial data provider. Such determinations are based on a number of criteria, such as the issuer’s country of domicile, the primary exchange on which the security trades, the location from which the majority of the issuer’s revenue comes, and the issuer’s reporting currency.

Inverse Floaters

As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in inverse floaters issued in tender option bond (“ TOB ”) transactions. In a TOB transaction, one or more highly-rated municipal bonds

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are deposited into a special purpose trust that issues floating rate securities (“ floaters ”) to outside parties and inverse floaters to long-term investors like the Fund. The floaters pay interest at a rate that is reset periodically (generally weekly) to reflect current short-term tax-exempt interest rates. Holders of the floaters have the right to tender such securities back to the TOB trust for par plus accrued interest (the “ put option ”), typically on seven days’ notice. Holders of the floaters are paid from the proceeds of a successful remarketing of the floaters or by a liquidity provider in the event of a failed remarketing. The inverse floaters pay interest at a rate equal to (a) the interest accrued on the underlying bonds, minus (b) the sum of the interest payable on the floaters and fees payable in connection with the TOB. Thus, the interest payments on the inverse floaters will vary inversely with the short-term rates paid on the floaters. Holders of the inverse floaters typically have the right to simultaneously (a) cause the holders of the floaters to tender those floaters to the TOB trust at par plus accrued interest and (b) purchase the municipal bonds from the TOB trust.

Because holders of the floaters have the right to tender their securities to the TOB trust at par plus accrued interest, holders of the inverse floaters are exposed to all of the gains or losses on the underlying municipal bonds, despite the fact that their net cash investment is significantly less than the value of those bonds. This multiplies the positive or negative impact of the underlying bonds’ price movements on the value of the inverse floaters, thereby creating effective leverage. The effective leverage created by any TOB transaction depends on the value of the securities deposited in the TOB trust relative to the value of the floaters it issues. The higher the percentage of the TOB trust’s total value represented by the floaters, the greater the effective leverage. For example, if municipal bonds worth $100 are deposited in a TOB trust and the TOB trust issues floaters worth $75 and inverse floaters worth $25, the TOB trust will have a leverage ratio of 3:1 and the inverse floaters will exhibit price movements at a rate that is four times that of the underlying bonds deposited into the trust. If that same TOB trust were to issue only $50 of floaters, the leverage ratio would be 1:1 and the inverse floaters would exhibit price movements at a rate that is only two times that of the underlying bonds.

Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles

As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund may invest in securities of other open-end or closed-end investment companies, including exchange-traded funds ( “ETFs” ). The remaining Funds may invest in securities of other investment companies as a non-principal investment strategy and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in pooled investment vehicles other than investment companies as a non-principal investment strategy.

As a shareholder in an investment company or other pooled investment vehicle, a Fund will bear its ratable share of that vehicle’s expenses, and would remain subject to payment of the Fund’s advisory and administrative fees with respect to assets so invested. Shareholders would therefore be subject to duplicative expenses to the extent a Fund invests in an investment company or other pooled investment vehicle. In addition, the Fund will incur

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brokerage costs when purchasing and selling shares of ETFs. Securities of investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles may be leveraged, in which case the value and/or yield of such securities will tend to be more volatile than securities of unleveraged vehicles.

Generally, investments in ETFs are subject to statutory limitations prescribed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. These limitations include a prohibition on a Fund acquiring more than 3% of the voting shares of any other investment company, and a prohibition on investing more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets in the securities of any one investment company or more than 10% of its total assets, in the aggregate, in investment company securities. Many ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in the ETFs’ shares beyond these statutory limitations, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to a contractual arrangement between the ETFs and the investing Fund. The Funds may rely on these exemptive orders in order to invest in unaffiliated ETFs beyond the foregoing statutory limitations. Subject to certain conditions, the Funds also may invest in money market funds beyond the statutory limits described above.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

As a non-principal investment strategy, the Funds may invest in cash and in U.S. dollar-denominated high-quality money market instruments and other short-term securities, including money market funds, in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Fund’s principal investment strategies. The Funds may temporarily invest without limit in such holdings for liquidity purposes, or in an attempt to respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. Being invested in these securities may keep a Fund from participating in a market upswing and prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective.

Effective Maturity and Effective Duration

Certain Funds attempt to maintain a specified weighted average effective maturity and/or weighted average effective duration of their portfolios. Generally, the longer the effective maturity or effective duration of a Fund’s portfolio, the more sensitive the Fund’s net asset value will be to changes in interest rates.

A bond’s maturity is the length of time until the principal is paid back. The effective maturity of a bond may be substantially shorter than its stated or final maturity. In calculating the effective maturity of bonds in a Fund’s portfolio, the sub-adviser estimates the shortening effect of expected principal prepayments and call provisions on the bonds’ maturities. Effective maturity provides a better estimate of interest rate risk under normal market conditions than stated maturity, but may underestimate interest rate risk in an environment of rising market interest rates.

Effective duration incorporates a bond’s yield, coupon, final maturity and call features into one number that is designed to estimate how much the value of a bond will change with a given change in interest rates. As a general rule, for every 1% increase or decrease in market interest rates, a bond’s price will change approximately 1% in the opposite direction for every year of the bond’s effective duration. For example, if a bond has an effective duration of 5 years and interest rates increase by 1%, the bond’s price would be expected to decline by approximately 5%. Effective duration is subject to a number of limitations. It is most useful when interest rate changes are small,

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rapid, and occur equally in short-term and long-term securities. In addition, it is difficult to calculate precisely for bonds with prepayment options, such as mortgage- and asset-backed securities, because the calculation requires assumptions about prepayment rates. Also, an increase in market interest rates will generally increase a bond’s effective duration, which in turn will make the value of the bond more sensitive to changes in interest rates and result in even steeper price declines in the event of further market interest rate increases. For these reasons, effective duration should not solely be relied upon to indicate a Fund’s potential price volatility in relation to changes in market interest rates.

Credit Quality

Certain Funds have investment strategies requiring them to invest in debt securities that have received a particular rating from a rating service, such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s. Any reference in this prospectus to a specific rating encompasses all gradations of that rating. For example, if the prospectus says that a Fund may invest in securities rated as low as B, the Fund may invest in securities rated B-. Debt securities that are rated below investment grade (BB/Ba or lower) are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. High yield bonds typically offer higher yields than investment grade bonds with similar maturities but involve greater risks, including the possibility of default or bankruptcy, and increased market price volatility.

Securities Lending

Each Fund, except for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of its total assets to broker-dealers, banks, and other institutions to generate additional income. When a Fund loans its portfolio securities, it will receive, at the inception of each loan, cash collateral equal to at least 102% of the value of the loaned securities. Under the Funds’ securities lending agreement, the securities lending agent will generally bear the risk that a borrower may default on its obligation to return loaned securities. The Funds, however, will be responsible for the risks associated with the investment of cash collateral. A Fund may lose money on its investment of cash collateral or may fail to earn sufficient income on its investment to meet its obligations to the borrower.

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Principal Risks

Bond market liquidity risk: Primary dealer inventories of bonds appear to be low relative to the size of the fixed income market. These inventories are a core indication of dealers’ capacity to “make a market” in fixed income securities. This reduction in market making capacity has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets in which the Funds invest, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. As a result of this decreased liquidity, a Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance. If a Fund needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices.

Call risk: Debt securities are subject to call risk. Many bonds may be redeemed at the option of the issuer, or “called,” before their stated maturity date. In general, an issuer will call its bonds if they can be refinanced by issuing new bonds which bear a lower interest rate. Each Fund is subject to the possibility that during periods of falling interest rates, a bond issuer will call its high yielding bonds. A Fund would then be forced to invest the unanticipated proceeds at lower interest rates, resulting in a decline in the Fund’s income.

Convertible security risk: As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund invests in convertible securities, which have characteristics of both equity and debt securities and, as a result, are exposed to certain additional risks that are typically associated with debt. The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. However, a convertible security’s market value also tends to reflect the market price of the common stock of the issuing company. Convertible securities are also exposed to the risk that an issuer is unable to meet its obligation to make dividend or interest and principal payments when due as a result of changing financial or market conditions.

Credit risk: Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a debt security held by a Fund, or to which the Fund otherwise has exposure, may be unable or unwilling to make interest and principal payments and the related risk that the value of a debt security may decline because of concerns about the

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issuer’s ability or willingness to make such payments. Debt securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings. The credit rating of a debt security may be lowered if the issuer suffers adverse changes in its financial condition, which can lead to greater volatility in the price of the security and in shares of a Fund, and can also affect the bond’s liquidity and make it more difficult for a Fund to sell. When a Fund purchases unrated securities, it will depend on the sub-adviser’s analysis of credit risk without the assessment of an independent rating organization, such as Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s.

Currency risk: Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of non-U.S. securities, the value of dividends and interest earned from such securities, gains and losses realized on the sale of such securities, and derivative transactions tied to such securities, and hence will affect the net asset value of a Fund that invests in such securities. A strong U.S. dollar relative to these other currencies will adversely affect the value of a Fund to the extent it invests in such non-U.S. securities.

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Swap agreements may involve fees, commissions or other costs that may reduce a Fund’s gains from a swap agreement or may cause the Fund to lose money.

Futures contracts are subject to the risk that an exchange may impose price fluctuation limits, which may make it difficult or impossible for a Fund to close out a position when desired.

Dollar roll transaction risk. As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in dollar roll transactions. In a dollar roll transaction, a Fund sells mortgage-backed securities for delivery in the current month while contracting with the same party to repurchase similar securities at a future date. Because the Fund gives up the right to receive principal and interest paid on the securities sold, a mortgage dollar roll transaction will diminish the investment performance of a Fund unless the difference between the price received for the securities sold and the price to be paid for the securities to be purchased in the future, plus any fee income received, exceeds any income, principal payments, and appreciation on the securities sold as part of the mortgage dollar roll. Whether mortgage dollar rolls will benefit a Fund may depend upon the sub-adviser’s ability to predict mortgage prepayments and interest rates. In addition, the use of mortgage dollar rolls by a Fund increases the amount of the Fund’s assets that are subject to market risk, which could increase the volatility of the price of the Fund’s shares.

General municipal securities market risk: The amount of public information about the municipal securities in a Fund’s portfolio is generally less than that for corporate equities or bonds, and the Fund’s investment performance may therefore be more dependent on the sub-adviser’s analytic abilities. The secondary market for municipal bonds, and particularly for high-yield municipal bonds, tends to be less well developed and less liquid than many other securities markets. As a result, a Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance.

High yield securities risk: As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen Core Bond Fund and Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, may invest in corporate debt obligations that are rated below-investment grade, which are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or “junk” bonds. High yield securities usually offer higher yields than investment grade securities, but also involve more risk. High yield securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic conditions than investment grade securities, and they generally have more volatile prices and carry more risk to principal. In addition, liquidity risk is greater for high yield securities than for investment grade securities.

Income risk: Each Fund’s income could decline in a falling interest rate environment because a Fund generally will have to invest the proceeds from sales of Fund shares, as well as the proceeds from maturing portfolio securities (or portfolio securities that have been called, see “Call risk” above, or prepaid, see “Mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk” below), in lower-yielding securities.

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund is subject to the risk that, because the interest and/or principal payments on inflation protected securities are adjusted periodically for changes in inflation, the level of income distributed by the Fund may be less regular than that provided by certain fixed income funds that do not invest in inflation protected securities.

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In a period of sustained deflation, the inflation protected securities held by the Fund, and consequently the Fund itself, may not pay any income.

Indexing methodology risk: Interest payments on inflation protected securities held by the Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund will vary with the rate of inflation, as measured by a specified index. There can be no assurance that the CPI-U (used as the inflation measure by U.S. Treasury inflation-protected securities) or any foreign inflation index will accurately measure the real rate of inflation in the prices of goods and services. Moreover, there can be no assurance that the rate of inflation in a foreign country will be correlated to the rate of inflation in the United States. If the market perceives that the adjustment mechanism of an inflation-protected security does not accurately adjust for inflation, the value of the security could be adversely affected. There may be a lag between the time a security is adjusted for inflation and the time interest is paid on that security. This may have an adverse effect on the trading price of the security, particularly during periods of significant, rapid changes in inflation. In addition, to the extent that inflation has increased during the period of time between the inflation adjustment and the interest payment, the interest payment will not be protected from the inflation increase.

Inflation risk: If the rate of inflation falls, the principal value of and/or interest payments on inflation protected debt securities held by the Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund will decrease.

Infrastructure sector risk: Because Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund invests significantly in infrastructure-related securities, the Fund has greater exposure to adverse economic, regulatory, political, legal, and other changes affecting the issuers of such securities. Infrastructure-related businesses are subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business or operations, including high interest costs in connection with capital construction programs, costs associated with environmental and other regulations, the effects of economic slowdown and surplus capacity, increased competition from other providers of services, uncertainties concerning the availability of fuel at reasonable prices, the effects of energy conservation policies and other factors. Additionally, infrastructure-related entities may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may also be affected by governmental regulation of rates charged to customers, service interruption and/or legal challenges due to environmental, operational or other mishaps and the imposition of special tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards. There is also the risk that corruption may negatively affect publicly-funded infrastructure projects, especially in emerging markets, resulting in delays and cost overruns.

Interest rate risk: Debt securities held by a Fund will fluctuate in value with changes in interest rates. In general, debt securities will increase in value when interest rates fall and decrease in value when interest rates rise. A Fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates than would normally be the case due to the current period of historically low rates and the effect of potential government fiscal policy initiatives and resulting market reaction to those initiatives. Longer-term debt securities are generally more sensitive to interest rate changes. Rising interest rates also may lengthen the duration of debt securities with call features, since exercise of the call becomes less likely as interest rates rise, which in turn will make the securities more sensitive to changes in interest rates and result in even steeper price declines in the event of further interest rate increases.

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The effect of interest rate changes on the inflation protected securities held by Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund will be somewhat different. Interest rates have two components: a “real” interest rate and an increment that reflects investor expectations of future inflation. Because interest rates on inflation protected securities are adjusted for inflation, the values of these securities are not materially affected by changes in inflation expectations. Therefore, the values of inflation protected debt securities are expected to change in response to changes in “real” interest rates. Generally, the value of an inflation protected debt security will fall when real interest rates rise and rise when real interest rates fall.

Inverse floaters risk: The use of inverse floaters by Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund creates effective leverage. Due to the leveraged nature of these investments, the value of an inverse floater will increase and decrease to a significantly greater extent than the values of the TOB trust’s underlying municipal bonds in response to changes in market interest rates or credit quality. An investment in inverse floaters typically will involve greater risk than an investment in a fixed rate municipal bond, including, in the case of recourse inverse floaters (discussed below), the risk that the Fund may lose more than its original principal investment.

Distributions on inverse floaters bear an inverse relationship to short-term municipal bond interest rates. Thus, distributions paid to the Fund on its inverse floaters will be reduced or even eliminated as short-term municipal interest rates rise and will increase when short-term municipal interest rates fall. The greater the amount of floaters sold by a TOB trust relative to the inverse floaters (i.e., the greater the effective leverage of the inverse floaters), the more volatile the distributions on the inverse floaters will be. Inverse floaters generally will underperform the market for fixed rate municipal bonds in a rising interest rate environment.

The Fund may invest in recourse inverse floaters. With such an investment, the Fund will be required to reimburse the liquidity provider of a TOB trust for any shortfall between the outstanding amount of any floaters and the value of the municipal bonds in the TOB trust in the event the floaters cannot be successfully remarketed, which could cause the Fund to lose money in excess of its investment.

A TOB trust may be terminated without the Fund’s consent upon the occurrence of certain events, such as the bankruptcy or default of the issuer of the securities in the trust. If that happens, the floaters will be redeemed at par (plus accrued interest) out of the proceeds from the sale of securities in the TOB trust, and the Fund will be entitled to the remaining proceeds, if any. Thus, if there is a decrease in the value of the securities held in the TOB trust, the Fund may lose some or all of the principal amount of its investment in the inverse floaters. As noted above, in the case of recourse inverse floaters, the Fund could lose money in excess of its investment.

Loan risk: The loans in which Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest may not be (i) rated at the time of investment, (ii) registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or (iii) listed on a securities exchange. In addition, the amount of public information available with respect to such loans may be less extensive than that available for more widely rated, registered and exchange-listed securities. Because no active trading market currently exists for some of the loans in which the Funds may invest, such loans may be illiquid and more difficult to value than more liquid instruments for which a trading market does exist. Portfolio transactions in loans may

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settle in as short as seven days but typically can take up to two or three weeks, and in some cases much longer. Unlike the securities markets, there is no central clearinghouse for loan trades, and the loan market has not established enforceable settlement standards or remedies for failure to settle. Because the interest rates of floating-rate loans in which the Funds may invest may reset frequently, if market interest rates fall, the loans’ interest rates will be reset to lower levels, potentially reducing a Fund’s income.

Affiliates of the Funds’ adviser or sub-adviser may participate in the primary and secondary market for loans. Because of limitations imposed by applicable law, the presence of such affiliates in the loan market may restrict a Fund’s ability to acquire some loans or affect the timing or price of loan acquisitions. Also, because the adviser or sub-adviser may wish to invest in the publicly-traded securities of an obligor, the Funds may not have access to material non-public information regarding the obligor to which other investors have access.

Mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk: As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, invest in mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The value of mortgage- and asset-backed securities can fall if the owners of the underlying mortgages or other obligations pay off their mortgages or other obligations sooner than expected, which could happen when interest rates fall or for other reasons. Mortgage- and asset-backed securities are also subject to extension risk, which is the risk that rising interest rates could cause mortgages or other obligations underlying the securities to be prepaid more slowly than expected, which would, in effect, convert a short- or medium-duration mortgage- or asset-backed security into a longer-duration security, increasing its sensitivity to interest rate changes and causing its price to decline.

Municipal lease obligations risk: As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may purchase participation interests in municipal leases. These are undivided interests in a lease, installment purchase contract, or conditional sale contract entered into by a state or local government unit to acquire equipment or facilities. Participation interests in municipal leases pose special risks because many leases and contracts contain “non-appropriation” clauses that provide that the governmental issuer has no obligation to make future payments under the lease or contract unless money is appropriated for this purpose by the appropriate legislative body. Although these kinds of obligations are secured by the leased equipment or facilities, it might be difficult and time consuming to dispose of the equipment or facilities in the event of non-appropriation, and the Fund might not recover the full principal amount of the obligation.

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the United States due to political, social and economic developments abroad, different regulatory environments and laws, potential seizure by the government of company assets, higher taxation, withholding taxes on dividends and interest and limitations on the use or transfer of portfolio assets.

Other non-U.S. investment risks include the following:

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Enforcing legal rights may be difficult, costly and slow in non-U.S. countries, and there may be special problems enforcing claims against non-U.S. governments.

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Non-U.S. companies may not be subject to accounting standards or governmental supervision comparable to U.S. companies, and there may be less public information about their operations.

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Non-U.S. markets may be less liquid and more volatile than U.S. markets.

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Other investment companies risk: As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund may invest in securities of other investment companies. When the Fund invests in other investment companies, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of Fund expenses and, indirectly, the expenses of the other investment companies. Furthermore, the Fund is exposed to the risks to which the other investment companies may be subject.

Political and economic risks: As a principal investment strategy, the Funds, other than Nuveen High Income Fund and Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, may invest in municipal securities. The values of municipal securities may be adversely affected by local political and economic conditions and developments. Adverse conditions in an industry significant to a local economy could have a correspondingly adverse effect on the financial condition of local issuers. Other factors that could affect municipal securities include a change in the local, state, or national economy, demographic factors, ecological or environmental concerns, statutory limitations on the issuer’s ability to increase taxes, and other developments generally affecting the revenue of issuers (for example, legislation or court decisions reducing state aid to local governments or mandating additional services). This risk would be heightened to the extent that a Fund invests a substantial portion of the below-investment grade quality portion of its portfolio in the bonds of similar projects (such as those relating to the education, health care, housing, transportation, or utilities industries), in industrial development bonds, or in particular types of municipal securities (such as general obligation bonds, private activity bonds or moral obligation bonds) that are particularly exposed to specific types of adverse economic, business or political events.

To the extent that a Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the securities of issuers located in a given state or U.S. territory, it will be disproportionally affected by political and economic conditions and developments in that state or territory. In addition, economic, political or regulatory changes in that state or territory could adversely affect municipal bond issuers in that state or territory and therefore the value of the Fund’s investment portfolio.

A Fund may invest in bonds of municipal issuers located in Puerto Rico. Certain municipal issuers in Puerto Rico have recently experienced financial difficulties and rating agency downgrades. On February 4, 2014, Standard & Poor’s downgraded the general obligation rating of Puerto Rico to BB+ with a negative outlook. Moody’s followed with a February 7, 2014 downgrade to Ba2 with a negative outlook and Fitch downgraded its rating on February 11, 2014 to BB with a negative outlook. As a result, general obligation bonds issued by Puerto Rico are currently considered below-investment-grade securities. These rating agencies have also downgraded other Puerto Rican municipal issuers, including bonds guaranteed by the commonwealth, with the possibility of additional downgrades if negative trends continue. Downgrades could place additional strain on Puerto Rico, which is already facing existing economic stagnation and fiscal imbalances, including budget deficits and pension funding shortages. Puerto Rican financial difficulties could potentially lead to less liquidity for its bonds, wider spreads and greater risk of default for Puerto Rican municipal securities, and consequently may affect a Fund’s investments and its performance to the extent that it invests in Puerto Rican bonds.

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Preferred security risk: As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in preferred securities. There are special risks associated with investing in preferred securities:

Limited voting rights. Generally, preferred security holders (such as the Fund) have no voting rights with respect to the issuing company unless preferred dividends have been in arrears for a specified number of periods, at which time the preferred security holders may elect a number of directors to the issuer’s board. Generally, once all the arrearages have been paid, the preferred security holders no longer have voting rights.

Special redemption rights. In certain circumstances, an issuer of preferred securities may redeem the securities prior to their stated maturity date. For instance, for certain types of preferred securities, a redemption may be triggered by a change in federal income tax or securities laws. As with call provisions, a redemption by the issuer may negatively impact the return of the security held by the Fund.

Payment deferral. Generally, preferred securities may be subject to provisions that allow an issuer, under certain conditions, to skip (“non-cumulative” preferred securities) or defer (“cumulative” preferred securities) distributions. Non-cumulative preferred securities can defer distributions indefinitely. Cumulative preferred securities typically contain provisions that allow an issuer, at its discretion, to defer distributions payments for up to 10 years. If the Fund owns a preferred security that is deferring its distribution, the Fund may be required to report income for tax purposes while it is not receiving any income.

Subordination. Preferred securities are subordinated to bonds and other debt instruments in a company’s capital structure and therefore are subject to greater credit risk than those debt instruments.

Liquidity. Preferred securities may be substantially less liquid than many other securities, such as U.S. government securities or common stock.

Financial services industry. The preferred securities market is comprised predominately of securities issued by companies in the financial services industry. Therefore, preferred securities present substantially increased risks at times of financial turmoil, which could affect financial services companies more than companies in other sectors and industries.

Tax risk. The Fund may invest in preferred securities or other securities the federal income tax treatment of which may not be clear or may be subject to recharacterization by the Internal Revenue Service. It could be more difficult for the Fund to comply with the tax requirements applicable to regulated investment companies if the tax characterization of the Fund’s investments or the tax treatment of the income from such investments were successfully challenged by the Internal Revenue Service.

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value of preferred securities issued by these companies may be affected by changes in government policy, such as increased regulation, ownership restrictions, deregulation or reduced government funding.

Tax consequence of inflation adjustments: Periodic adjustments for inflation to the principal amount of an inflation protected security will give rise to original issue discount, which will be includable in gross income for Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund. Because the Fund is required to distribute its taxable income to avoid corporate level tax, the Fund may be required to make annual distributions to shareholders that exceed the cash it receives, which may require the Fund to liquidate certain investments when it is not advantageous to do so.

Zero coupon bonds risk: As a principal investment strategy, Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in zero coupon bonds. As interest on zero coupon bonds is not paid on a current basis, the values of the bonds are subject to greater fluctuations than are the value of bonds that distribute income regularly and may be more speculative than such bonds. Accordingly, the values of zero coupon bonds may be highly volatile as interest rates rise or fall. In addition, while zero coupon bonds generate income for purposes of generally accepted accounting standards, they do not generate cash flow and thus could cause a Fund to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by tax laws.

Non-Principal Risks

Small fund risk: Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund currently has less assets than larger funds, and like other relatively small funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the Fund’s market exposure for limited periods of time, causing the Fund’s performance to vary from that of the Fund’s model portfolio. This impact may be positive or negative, depending on the direction of market movement during the period affected. The Fund has policies in place which seek to reduce the impact of these flows where Nuveen Fund Advisors has prior knowledge of them.

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Class A Shares

You can purchase Class A shares at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived, as described in “How to Reduce Your Sales Charge.” Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25% of your Fund’s average daily net assets, which compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “Distributor” ), a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments and the distributor of the Funds, retains the up-front sales charge and the service fee on accounts with no financial intermediary of record. The up-front Class A sales charges for the Funds are as follows:

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		4.75	%		4.99	%		4.25	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		4.50			4.71			4.00
$100,000 but less than $250,000		3.50			3.63			3.00
$250,000 but less than $500,000		2.50			2.56			2.25
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

You can purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 1.00% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.75% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1.00% if you redeem any of your shares within 6 months of purchase, 0.75% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase and 0.50% if you redeem any of your shares within 18 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		4.25	%		4.44	%		3.75	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		4.00			4.17			3.50
$100,000 but less than $250,000		3.50			3.63			3.00

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Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
$250,000 but less than $500,000		2.50	%		2.56	%		2.25	%
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

You can purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 1.00% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.75% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a CDSC of 1.00% if you redeem any of your shares within 6 months of purchase, 0.75% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase and 0.50% if you redeem any of your shares within 18 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Nuveen Core Bond Fund

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		3.00	%		3.09	%		2.50	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		2.50			2.56			2.00
$100,000 but less than $250,000		2.00			2.04			1.50
$250,000 but less than $500,000		1.50			1.52			1.25
$500,000 but less than $1,000,000		1.25			1.27			1.00
$1,000,000 and over*		—			—			1.00

You can purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 1.00% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.75% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a CDSC of 1.00% if you redeem any of your shares within 6 months of purchase, 0.75% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase and 0.50% if you redeem any of your shares within 18 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund


Amount of Purchase	Sales Charge as % of Public Offering Price			Sales Charge as % of Net Amount Invested			Maximum Financial Intermediary Commission as % of Public Offering Price
Less than $50,000		2.25	%		2.30	%		1.75	%
$50,000 but less than $100,000		2.00			2.04			1.75
$100,000 but less than $250,000		1.25			1.27			1.00
$250,000 and over*		—			—			0.75

You can purchase $250,000 or more of Class A shares at net asset value without an up-front sales charge. The Distributor pays financial intermediaries of record at a rate of 0.75% of the first $2.5 million, plus 0.50% of the next $2.5 million, plus 0.25% of the amount over $5 million, which includes an advance of the first year’s service fee. Unless you are eligible for a waiver, you may be assessed a CDSC of 0.75% if you redeem any of your shares within 6 months of purchase, 0.50% if you redeem any of your shares within 12 months of purchase and 0.25% if you redeem any of your shares within 18 months of purchase. See “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below for more information.

Class C Shares

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Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 ($250,000 for Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund) will not be accepted. In addition, the Funds limit the cumulative amount of Class C shares that may be purchased by a single purchaser. Your financial intermediary may set lower maximum purchase limits for Class C shares. See the statement of additional information for more information.

Class R3 Shares

Nuveen Core Bond Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund do not issue Class R3 shares.

Class I Shares

Class I shares are also available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Certain bank or broker-affiliated trust departments.

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Advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates.

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Current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (as defined in the statement of additional information).

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Officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members.

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Certain financial intermediary personnel, and their immediate family members.

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Certain other institutional investors described in the statement of additional information.

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Class A Sales Charge Reductions

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Class A Sales Charge Waivers

Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge as follows:

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Purchases of $1,000,000 or more ($250,000 or more in the case of Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund) (although such purchases may be subject to a CDSC in certain circumstances, see “How to Sell Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge” below).

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Monies representing reinvestment of Nuveen Mutual Fund distributions.

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Certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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Current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds.

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Fund shares may be purchased on any business day, which is any day the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) is open for business. Generally, the NYSE is closed on weekends and national holidays. The share price you pay depends on when the Distributor receives your order and on the share class you are purchasing. Orders received before the close of trading on a business day (normally, 4:00 p.m. New York time) will receive that day’s closing share price; otherwise, you will receive the next business day’s price.

You may purchase Fund shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly from the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

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(including brokers or agents) are paid for providing ongoing investment advice and services, either from Fund sales charges and fees or by charging you a separate fee in lieu of a sales charge.

Directly from the Funds

Eligible investors may purchase shares directly from the Funds.

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By mail. You may open an account directly with the Funds and buy shares by completing an application and mailing it along with your check to: Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530. Applications may be obtained at www.nuveen.com or by calling (800) 257-8787. No third party checks will be accepted.

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Systematic Investing

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From your bank account. You can make systematic investments of $100 or more per month by authorizing your Fund to draw pre-authorized checks on your bank account.

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Systematic Withdrawal

If the value of your Fund account is at least $10,000, you may request to have $50 or more withdrawn automatically from your account. You may elect to receive payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, and may choose to receive a check, have the monies transferred directly into your bank account (see “Fund Direct“ below), paid to a third party or sent payable to you at an address other than your address of record. You must complete the appropriate section of the account application or Account Update Form to participate in each Fund’s systematic withdrawal plan.

You should not establish systematic withdrawals if you intend to make concurrent purchases of Class A or Class C shares because you may unnecessarily pay a sales charge or CDSC on these purchases.

Exchanging Shares

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subject to the payment of any applicable CDSC. Please consult the statement of additional information for details.

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You may sell your shares (1) through a financial advisor or (2) directly to the Funds.

Through a Financial Advisor

You may sell your shares through your financial advisor, who can prepare the necessary documentation. Your financial advisor may charge for this service.

Directly to the Funds

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The Fund’s name;

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An Important Note About Telephone Transactions

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Your name and account number;

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The dollar or share amount you wish to redeem;

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The signature of each owner exactly as it appears on the account;

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The name of the person to whom you want your redemption proceeds paid (if other than to the shareholder of record);

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The address where you want your redemption proceeds sent (if other than the address of record);

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Any certificates you have for the shares; and

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Any required signature guarantees.

After you have established your account, signatures on a written request must be guaranteed if:

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You would like redemption proceeds payable or sent to any person, address or bank account other than that on record;

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You have changed the address on your Fund’s records within the last 30 days;

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Your redemption request is in excess of $50,000; or

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You are requesting a change in ownership on your account.

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may not exceed $50,000. Checks will only be issued to you as the shareholder of record and mailed to your address of record, normally the next business day after the redemption request is received. If you have established Fund Direct privileges, you may have redemption proceeds transferred electronically to your bank account. In this case, the redemption proceeds will be transferred to your bank on the next business day after the redemption request is received. You should contact your bank for further information concerning the timing of the credit of the redemption proceeds in your bank account.

Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

Accounts with Low Balances

The Funds reserve the right to liquidate or assess a low balance fee on any account (other than accounts holding Class R3 shares) held directly with the Funds that has a balance that has fallen below the account balance minimum of $1,000 for any reason, including market fluctuations.

Redemptions In-Kind

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The Funds declare dividends daily and pay such dividends monthly. Your account will begin to accrue dividends on the business day after the day when the monies used to purchase your shares are collected by the transfer agent. Each Fund seeks to pay monthly dividends at a level rate that reflects the past and projected net income of the Fund. To help maintain more stable monthly distributions, the distribution paid by a Fund for any particular monthly period may be more or less than the amount of net income actually earned by the Fund during such period, and any such under- (or over-) distribution of income is reflected in the Fund’s net asset value. This policy is designed to result in the distribution of substantially all of a Fund’s net income over time. The Funds declare and pay any taxable capital gains once a year at year end.

Payment and Reinvestment Options

Non-U.S. Income Tax Considerations

Taxes and Tax Reporting

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sold and not on how long you have owned your Fund shares. Distributions generally do not qualify for a dividends received deduction if you are a corporate shareholder.

Buying or Selling Shares Close to a Record Date

Non-U.S. Tax Credits

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Distribution and Service Plans

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reimburse the Distributor for its costs in connection with these activities, including compensation paid to financial intermediaries, each Fund has adopted a distribution and service plan under Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. See “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares—What Share Classes We Offer” for a description of the distribution and service fees paid under this plan.

Under the plan, the Distributor receives a distribution fee for Class C and Class R3 shares primarily for providing compensation to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, in connection with the distribution of shares. The Distributor receives a service fee for Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares to compensate financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, for providing ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders. Fees paid under the plan also compensate the Distributor for other expenses, including printing and distributing prospectuses to persons other than shareholders, and preparing, printing, and distributing advertising materials, sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of shares. Because fees paid under the plan are paid out of a Fund’s assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. Long-term holders of Class C and Class R3 shares may pay more in distribution and service fees and CDSCs (Class C shares only) than the economic equivalent of the maximum front-end sales charge permitted under the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Conduct Rules.

Other Payments by the Funds

In addition to the distribution and service fees that the Funds pay under the plans and fees the Funds pay to their transfer agent, the Distributor or Nuveen Fund Advisors, on behalf of the Funds, may enter into non-plan agreements with financial intermediaries pursuant to which the Funds will pay financial intermediaries for administrative, networking, recordkeeping, sub-transfer agency and shareholder services. These non-plan payments are generally based on either (1) a percentage of the average daily net assets of Fund shareholders serviced by a financial intermediary or (2) a fixed dollar amount for each account serviced by a financial intermediary. The aggregate amount of these payments may be substantial.

Other Payments by the Distributor and Nuveen Fund Advisors

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Section 4 General Information

If a price cannot be obtained from a pricing service or other pre-approved source, or if, in the judgment of Nuveen Fund Advisors, a price is unreliable, a portfolio instrument will be valued at its fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors/Trustees or persons acting at their direction. Nuveen Fund Advisors may determine that a price is unreliable in various circumstances. For example, a price may be deemed unreliable if it has not changed for an identified period of time, or has changed from the previous day’s price by more than a threshold amount, and recent transactions and/or broker dealer price quotations differ materially from the price in question.

The Board of Directors/Trustees has adopted valuation procedures for the Funds and has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to Nuveen Fund Advisors’ Valuation Committee. All fair value determinations made by the Valuation Committee are subject to review and ratification by the Board of Directors/Trustees. As a general principle, the fair value of a portfolio instrument is the amount that an owner might reasonably expect to receive upon the instrument’s current sale. A range of factors and analysis may be considered when determining fair value, including relevant market data, interest rates, credit considerations and/or issuer specific news. However, fair valuation involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a portfolio instrument may be materially different from the value that could be realized upon the sale of that instrument.

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Section 4 General Information

and provides the Funds only with a net purchase or redemption amount on any given day where multiple purchases, redemptions and exchanges of shares occur in the account. The identity of individual purchasers, redeemers and exchangers whose orders are aggregated in omnibus accounts, and the size of their orders, will generally not be known by the Funds. Despite the Funds’ efforts to detect and prevent frequent trading, the Funds may be unable to identify frequent trading because the netting effect in omnibus accounts often makes it more difficult to identify frequent traders. The Distributor has entered into agreements with financial intermediaries that maintain omnibus accounts with the Funds’ transfer agent. Under the terms of these agreements, the financial intermediaries undertake to cooperate with the Distributor in monitoring purchase, exchange and redemption orders by their customers in order to detect and prevent frequent trading in the Funds through such accounts. Pursuant to these agreements, financial intermediaries may disclose to a Fund an investor’s taxpayer identification number and a record of the investor’s transactions at the request of the Fund. Technical limitations in operational systems at such intermediaries or at the Distributor may also limit the Funds’ ability to detect and prevent frequent trading. In addition, the Funds may permit certain financial intermediaries, including broker-dealer and retirement plan administrators, among others, to enforce their own internal policies and procedures concerning frequent trading. Such policies may differ from the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy and may be approved for use in instances where the Funds reasonably believe that the intermediary’s policies and procedures effectively discourage inappropriate trading activity. Shareholders holding their accounts with such intermediaries may wish to contact the intermediary for information regarding its frequent trading policy. Although the Funds do not knowingly permit frequent trading, they cannot guarantee that they will be able to identify and restrict all frequent trading activity.

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affected by the size of the transaction, the frequency of trading in the account or various other factors. For more information about the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy and its enforcement, see “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares—Frequent Trading Policy” in the statement of additional information.

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The custodian of the assets of the Funds, except Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, is U.S. Bank National Association, 1555 North RiverCenter Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. The custodian of the assets of Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund is State Street Bank & Trust Company, P.O. Box 5043, Boston, Massachusetts 02206-5043. State Street Bank & Trust Company also provides certain accounting services to Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund. The Funds’ transfer, shareholder services and dividend paying agent, Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, performs bookkeeping, data processing and administrative services for the maintenance of shareholder accounts.

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Section 5 Financial Highlights

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand a Fund’s financial performance for the past five fiscal years or, if shorter, the period of operations for the Fund or class of shares. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in a Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions).

The information for the most recent fiscal year/period has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report, along with the Funds’ financial statements, are included in the annual report, which is available upon request. The financial statements for the year/period ended June 30, 2011 and prior were audited by other independent auditors.

Nuveen Core Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations								Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (1/95)
2014	$	10.13	$	.24	$	.35		$	.59		$	(.22	)	$	(.14	)	$	(.36	)	$	10.36		5.94	%	$	14,857		.78	%		2.32	%		49	%
2013		10.67		.18		(.20	)		(.02	)		(.18	)		(.34	)		(.52	)		10.13		(.38	)		18,331		.78			1.65			85
2012		10.47		.29		.23			.52			(.30	)		(.02	)		(.32	)		10.67		4.93			21,262		.85			2.70			75
2011		10.33		.33		.14			.47			(.33	)		—			(.33	)		10.47		4.70			22,502		.85			3.20			58
2010		9.47		.42		.86			1.28			(.42	)		—			(.42	)		10.33		13.64			26,341		.85			4.12			58

Class C (1/11)
2014		10.08		.16		.36			.52			(.14	)		(.14	)		(.28	)		10.32		5.24			514		1.53			1.57			49
2013		10.62		.09		(.19	)		(.10	)		(.09	)		(.35	)		(.44	)		10.08		(1.17	)		585		1.53			.88			85
2012		10.44		.19		.22			.41			(.22	)		(.01	)		(.23	)		10.62		3.97			1,568		1.67			1.81			75
2011(d)		10.37		.12		.06			.18			(.11	)		—			(.11	)		10.44		1.76			1,152		1.70	*		2.56	*		58

Class I (1/93)
2014		10.09		.26		.22			.48			(.11	)		(.14	)		(.25	)		10.32		6.21			329,901		.53			2.56			49
2013		10.63		.20		(.20	)		—			(.21	)		(.33	)		(.54	)		10.09		(.16	)		481,088		.53			1.89			85
2012		10.43		.30		.23			.53			(.32	)		(.01	)		(.33	)		10.63		5.18			621,066		.68			2.87			75
2011		10.29		.35		.14			.49			(.35	)		—			(.35	)		10.43		4.76			657,129		.70			3.35			58
2010		9.43		.43		.86			1.29			(.43	)		—			(.43	)		10.29		13.87			734,924		.70			4.28			58

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charges, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For the period January 18, 2011 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2011.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations							Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)(e)

Class A (12/87)
2014	$	11.46	$	.46	$	.45		$	.91	$	(.43	)	$	(.19	)	$	(.62	)	$	11.75		8.23	%	$	68,728		.77	%		3.97	%		50	%
2013		11.64		.41		(.12	)		.29		(.42	)		(.05	)		(.47	)		11.46		2.40			79,740		.77			3.46			46
2012		11.44		.41		.21			.62		(.42	)		—			(.42	)		11.64		5.52			83,264		.93			3.55			98
2011		11.22		.43		.21			.64		(.42	)		—			(.42	)		11.44		5.73			85,980		.94			3.77			91
2010		10.04		.51		1.18			1.69		(.51	)		—			(.51	)		11.22		17.11			93,374		.95			4.65			83

Class C (2/99)
2014		11.40		.37		.45			.82		(.34	)		(.19	)		(.53	)		11.69		7.43			7,696		1.52			3.20			50
2013		11.59		.32		(.12	)		.20		(.34	)		(.05	)		(.39	)		11.40		1.59			4,200		1.52			2.71			46
2012		11.40		.32		.21			.53		(.34	)		—			(.34	)		11.59		4.68			4,603		1.67			2.80			98
2011		11.18		.34		.21			.55		(.33	)		—			(.33	)		11.40		4.97			3,711		1.69			3.02			91
2010		10.00		.42		1.19			1.61		(.43	)		—			(.43	)		11.18		16.32			3,796		1.70			3.91			83

Class R3 (9/01)
2014		11.51		.43		.46			.89		(.41	)		(.19	)		(.60	)		11.80		7.97			638		1.02			3.73			50
2013		11.70		.38		(.12	)		.26		(.40	)		(.05	)		(.45	)		11.51		2.11			350		1.02			3.22			46
2012		11.50		.38		.22			.60		(.40	)		—			(.40	)		11.70		5.27			313		1.18			3.27			98
2011		11.27		.40		.22			.62		(.39	)		—			(.39	)		11.50		5.54			380		1.19			3.52			91
2010		10.09		.48		1.19			1.67		(.49	)		—			(.49	)		11.27		16.74			379		1.20			4.42			83

Class I (2/94)
2014		11.44		.49		.46			.95		(.46	)		(.19	)		(.65	)		11.74		8.64			514,961		.52			4.24			50
2013		11.64		.44		(.14	)		.30		(.45	)		(.05	)		(.50	)		11.44		2.52			588,627		.52			3.71			46
2012		11.44		.44		.21			.65		(.45	)		—			(.45	)		11.64		5.79			718,505		.68			3.80			98
2011		11.21		.46		.22			.68		(.45	)		—			(.45	)		11.44		6.09			925,541		.69			4.02			91
2010		10.03		.54		1.18			1.72		(.54	)		—			(.54	)		11.21		17.42			1,179,453		.70			4.93			83

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2011, the Fund will no longer exclude dollar roll transactions, where applicable.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations							Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)

Class A (8/01)
2014	$	8.99	$	.58	$	.53		$	1.11	$	(.61	)	$	(.20	)	$	(.81	)	$	9.29		12.88	%	$	209,830		.95	%		6.37	%		85	%
2013		8.64		.63		.39			1.02		(.67	)		—			(.67	)		8.99		11.99			141,132		.94			6.92			133
2012		9.05		.69		(.38	)		.31		(.69	)		(.03	)		(.72	)		8.64		3.76			92,018		1.04			7.99			124
2011		8.28		.67		.76			1.43		(.66	)		—			(.66	)		9.05		17.61			30,984		1.10			7.50			130
2010		7.15		.67		1.12			1.79		(.66	)		—			(.66	)		8.28		25.47			29,532		1.10			8.12			132

Class C (8/01)
2014		8.98		.51		.52			1.03		(.54	)		(.20	)		(.74	)		9.27		11.98			71,974		1.70			5.64			85
2013		8.62		.56		.40			.96		(.60	)		—			(.60	)		8.98		11.33			67,466		1.70			6.21			133
2012		9.01		.63		(.37	)		.26		(.62	)		(.03	)		(.65	)		8.62		3.18			48,667		1.79			7.27			124
2011		8.25		.60		.75			1.35		(.59	)		—			(.59	)		9.01		16.67			9,792		1.85			6.76			130
2010		7.12		.60		1.13			1.73		(.60	)		—			(.60	)		8.25		24.67			6,969		1.85			7.41			132

Class R3 (9/01)
2014		9.17		.57		.54			1.11		(.60	)		(.20	)		(.80	)		9.48		12.65			1,099		1.20			6.09			85
2013		8.81		.62		.40			1.02		(.66	)		—			(.66	)		9.17		11.79			697		1.19			6.69			133
2012		9.23		.67		(.38	)		.29		(.68	)		(.03	)		(.71	)		8.81		3.46			615		1.29			7.68			124
2011		8.44		.66		.77			1.43		(.64	)		—			(.64	)		9.23		17.28			309		1.35			7.25			130
2010		7.28		.66		1.14			1.80		(.64	)		—			(.64	)		8.44		25.12			343		1.35			7.92			132

Class I (8/01)
2014		9.01		.60		.53			1.13		(.63	)		(.20	)		(.83	)		9.31		13.15			719,640		.71			6.61			85
2013		8.65		.66		.39			1.05		(.69	)		—			(.69	)		9.01		12.39			495,863		.70			7.24			133
2012		9.05		.71		(.37	)		.34		(.71	)		(.03	)		(.74	)		8.65		4.15			465,299		.80			8.23			124
2011		8.29		.69		.75			1.44		(.68	)		—			(.68	)		9.05		17.77			460,785		.85			7.75			130
2010		7.16		.69		1.12			1.81		(.68	)		—			(.68	)		8.29		25.75			350,066		.85			8.38			132

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations									Less Distributions														Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)			Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)

Class A (10/04)
2014	$	11.08	$	.15		$	.32		$	.47		$	(.09	)	$	(.20	)	$	(.29	)	$	11.26		4.35	%	$	24,020		.83	%		1.33	%		48	%
2013		11.80		.07			(.66	)		(.59	)		(.13	)		—			(.13	)		11.08		(5.07	)		21,949		.81			.56			52
2012		10.94		.23			1.01			1.24			(.38	)		—			(.38	)		11.80		11.44			19,330		.84			1.97			47
2011		10.33		.35			.40			.75			(.14	)		—			(.14	)		10.94		7.30			12,080		.85			3.30			45
2010		9.59		.28			.73			1.01			(.27	)		—			(.27	)		10.33		10.62			7,894		.84			2.77			72

Class C (10/04)
2014		11.03		.06			.35			.41			(.03	)		(.20	)		(.23	)		11.21		3.76			6,954		1.58			.52			48
2013		11.72		(.03	)		(.60	)		(.63	)		(.06	)		—			(.06	)		11.03		(5.39	)		9,761		1.56			(.25	)		52
2012		10.84		.14			1.00			1.14			(.26	)		—			(.26	)		11.72		10.62			9,703		1.59			1.21			47
2011		10.24		.26			.41			.67			(.07	)		—			(.07	)		10.84		6.59			8,043		1.60			2.44			45
2010		9.53		.18			.75			.93			(.22	)		—			(.22	)		10.24		9.76			6,673		1.60			1.78			72

Class R3 (10/04)
2014		11.05		.29			.14			.43			(.07	)		(.20	)		(.27	)		11.21		3.97			3,447		1.08			2.68			48
2013		11.74		.04			(.62	)		(.58	)		(.11	)		—			(.11	)		11.05		(5.02	)		519		1.06			.32			52
2012		10.84		.22			.97			1.19			(.29	)		—			(.29	)		11.74		11.10			173		1.09			1.88			47
2011		10.31		.11			.54			.65			(.12	)		—			(.12	)		10.84		6.31			33		1.10			1.05			45
2010		9.58		.26			.72			.98			(.25	)		—			(.25	)		10.31		10.32			1,332		1.09			2.64			72

Class I (10/04)
2014		11.14		.19			.33			.52			(.11	)		(.20	)		(.31	)		11.35		4.82			321,472		.58			1.68			48
2013		11.81		.09			(.61	)		(.52	)		(.15	)		—			(.15	)		11.14		(4.46	)		344,204		.56			.77			52
2012		10.96		.25			1.01			1.26			(.41	)		—			(.41	)		11.81		11.62			321,386		.59			2.15			47
2011		10.34		.40			.38			.78			(.16	)		—			(.16	)		10.96		7.62			255,183		.60			3.74			45
2010		9.59		.33			.71			1.04			(.29	)		—			(.29	)		10.34		10.92			156,983		.59			3.27			72

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations								Less Distributions																	Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total			From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains			Return of Capital			Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (10/02)
2014	$	8.79	$	.11	$	.03		$	.14		$	(.11	)	$	—		$	(.01	)	$	(.12	)	$	8.81		1.65	%	$	9,621		.85	%		1.30	%		31	%
2013		9.02		.14		(.20	)		(.06	)		(.17	)		—			—			(.17	)		8.79		(.74	)		11,034		.85			1.57			55
2012		8.84		.18		.19			.37			(.19	)		—			—			(.19	)		9.02		4.24			12,735		.77			1.99			72
2011		8.77		.20		.07			.27			(.20	)		—			—			(.20	)		8.84		3.10			14.086		.73			2.22			58
2010		8.67		.20		.27			.47			(.20	)		(.17	)		—	*		(.37	)		8.77		5.50			19,003		.75			2.33			105

Class C (10/09)
2014		8.80		.05		.04			.09			(.05	)		—			(.01	)		(.06	)		8.83		.98			639		1.60			.56			31
2013		9.03		.07		(.21	)		(.14	)		(.09	)		—			—			(.09	)		8.80		(1.53	)		1,090		1.60			0.82			55
2012		8.85		.10		.20			.30			(.12	)		—			—			(.12	)		9.03		3.35			1,438		1.60			1.16			72
2011		8.77		.12		.08			.20			(.12	)		—			—			(.12	)		8.85		2.32			1,417		1.58			1.37			58
2010(d)		8.76		.09		.17			.26			(.08	)		(.17	)		—	*		(.25	)		8.77		3.00			1,940		1.60	**		1.50	**		105

Class R3 (10/09)
2014		8.78		.09		.04			.13			(.09	)		—			(.01	)		(.10	)		8.81		1.49			137		1.10			1.05			31
2013		9.01		.12		(.21	)		(.09	)		(.14	)		—			—			(.14	)		8.78		(1.00	)		168		1.10			1.32			55
2012		8.84		.15		.18			.33			(.16	)		—			—			(.16	)		9.01		3.79			214		1.10			1.66			72
2011		8.77		.16		.08			.24			(.17	)		—			—			(.17	)		8.84		2.75			473		1.08			1.87			58
2010(d)		8.76		.09		.20			.29			(.11	)		(.17	)		—	*		(.28	)		8.77		3.34			652		1.10	**		1.78	**		105

Class I (10/02)
2014		8.80		.13		.04			.17			(.14	)		—			(.01	)		(.15	)		8.82		1.90			86,186		.60			1.52			31
2013		9.03		.16		(.21	)		(.05	)		(.18	)		—			—			(.18	)		8.80		(.53	)		52,291		.60			1.83			55
2012		8.84		.19		.21			.40			(.21	)		—			—			(.21	)		9.03		4.50			70,060		.60			2.16			72
2011		8.77		.21		.07			.28			(.21	)		—			—			(.21	)		8.84		3.25			98,960		.58			2.36			58
2010		8.67		.21		.27			.48			(.21	)		(.17	)		—	*		(.38	)		8.77		5.66			152,088		.60			2.39			105

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For the period October 28, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transaction, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Rounds to less than .01 per share.

**	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations							Less Distributions													Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)			Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(f)

Class A (12/92)
2014	$	9.97	$	.19	$	.08		$	.27	$	(.19	)	$	—	$	(.19	)	$	10.05		2.69	%	$	116,365		.71	%		1.86	%		43	%
2013		9.95		.20		.03			.23		(.21	)		—		(.21	)		9.97		.30			141,099		.71			1.99			42
2012		10.06		.24		(.10	)		.14		(.25	)		—		(.25	)		9.95		1.42			112,851		.73			2.42			56
2011		9.98		.24		.06			.30		(.22	)		—		(.22	)		10.06		3.00			80,927		.73			2.37			58
2010		9.66		.31		.34			.65		(.33	)		—		(.33	)		9.98		6.77			87,631		.75			3.17			44

Class C (10/09)
2014		10.00		.11		.08			.19		(.11	)		—		(.11	)		10.08		1.89			39,347		1.46			1.13			43
2013		9.97		.12		.04			.16		(.13	)		—		(.13	)		10.00		1.61			44,414		1.46			1.24			42
2012		10.09		.16		(.11	)		.05		(.17	)		—		(.17	)		9.97		.50			42,346		1.55			1.57			56
2011		10.00		.15		.07			.22		(.13	)		—		(.13	)		10.09		2.22			5,101		1.58			1.53			58
2010(d)		9.95		.13		.06			.19		(.14	)		—		(.14	)		10.00		1.90			3,111		1.60	*		1.95	*		44

Class R3 (9/11)
2014		9.99		.16		.08			.24		(.16	)		—		(.16	)		10.07		2.38			1,049		.96			1.61			43
2013		9.96		.17		.04			.21		(.18	)		—		(.18	)		9.99		2.10			516		.96			1.73			42
2012(e)		9.85		.16		.13			.29		(.18	)		—		(.18	)		9.96		2.92			446		1.05	*		2.07	*		56

Class I (2/94)
2014		9.98		.21		.08			.29		(.21	)		—		(.21	)		10.06		2.93			915,119		.46			2.11			43
2013		9.95		.22		.04			.26		(.23	)		—		(.23	)		9.98		2.65			720,722		.46			2.23			42
2012		10.07		.26		(.11	)		.15		(.27	)		—		(.27	)		9.95		1.51			727,242		.55			2.61			56
2011		9.99		.25		.06			.31		(.23	)		—		(.23	)		10.07		3.16			741,969		.58			2.52			58
2010		9.67		.32		.34			.66		(.34	)		—		(.34	)		9.99		6.92			629,151		.60			3.26			44

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For the period October 28, 2009 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2010.

(e)	For the period September 23, 2011 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2012.

(f)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transaction, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations						Less Distributions													Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(d)(e)

Class A (2/00)
2014	$	11.02	$	.53	$	.59	$	1.12	$	(.54	)	$	—	$	(.54	)	$	11.60		10.46	%	$	128,189		.84	%		4.73	%		50	%
2013		10.83		.52		.16		.68		(.49	)		—		(.49	)		11.02		6.25			72,341		.84			4.57			69
2012		10.72		.44		.10		.54		(.43	)		—		(.43	)		10.83		5.14			52,802		.85			4.10			199
2011		10.27		.43		.45		.88		(.43	)		—		(.43	)		10.72		8.69			25,045		.88			4.10			98
2010		9.01		.52		1.28		1.80		(.54	)		—		(.54	)		10.27		20.21			28,165		.92			5.19			96

Class C (2/00)
2014		10.94		.44		.60		1.04		(.46	)		—		(.46	)		11.52		9.59			48,335		1.59			3.98			50
2013		10.76		.43		.16		.59		(.41	)		—		(.41	)		10.94		5.50			35,146		1.59			3.81			69
2012		10.65		.36		.09		.45		(.34	)		—		(.34	)		10.76		4.32			31,085		1.60			3.37			199
2011		10.20		.35		.44		.79		(.34	)		—		(.34	)		10.65		7.85			8,092		1.73			3.29			98
2010		8.96		.43		1.27		1.70		(.46	)		—		(.46	)		10.20		19.13			6,748		1.75			4.34			96

Class R3 (9/01)
2014		11.05		.51		.60		1.11		(.52	)		—		(.52	)		11.64		10.19			5,321		1.09			4.48			50
2013		10.88		.49		.15		.64		(.47	)		—		(.47	)		11.05		5.89			2,926		1.09			4.34			69
2012		10.77		.41		.10		.51		(.40	)		—		(.40	)		10.88		4.83			1,903		1.12			3.80			199
2011		10.31		.41		.45		.86		(.40	)		—		(.40	)		10.77		8.40			1,020		1.23			3.79			98
2010		9.07		.42		1.32		1.74		(.50	)		—		(.50	)		10.31		19.47			601		1.24			4.19			96

Class I (2/00)
2014		11.01		.56		.59		1.15		(.57	)		—		(.57	)		11.59		10.77			612,214		.59			5.00			50
2013		10.83		.55		.15		.70		(.52	)		—		(.52	)		11.01		6.42			517,292		.59			4.81			69
2012		10.71		.45		.12		.57		(.45	)		—		(.45	)		10.83		5.35			534,608		.63			4.26			199
2011		10.26		.46		.44		.90		(.45	)		—		(.45	)		10.71		8.99			615,107		.73			4.29			98
2010		9.01		.55		1.25		1.80		(.55	)		—		(.55	)		10.26		20.31			655,301		.74			5.44			96

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in NAV without any sales charge, reinvested dividend income at NAV and reinvested capital gains distributions at NAV, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2011, the Fund will no longer exclude dollar roll transactions, where applicable.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund


Class (Commencement Date)			Investment Operations						Less Distributions													Ratios/Supplemental Data
Year Ended June 30,	Beginning NAV		Net Investment Income (Loss)(a)		Net Realized/ Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Total		From Net Investment Income			From Accumulated Net Realized Gains		Total			Ending NAV		Total Return(b)			Ending Net Assets (000)		Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets(c)			Ratios of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c)			Portfolio Turnover Rate(e)

Class A (5/14)
2014(d)	$	20.00	$	.09	$	.30	$	.39	$	(.07	)	$	—	$	(.07	)	$	20.32		1.93	%	$	51		.96	%*		3.27	%*		4	%

Class C (5/14)
2014(d)		20.00		.07		.29		.36		(.05	)		—		(.05	)		20.31		1.81			51		1.71	*		2.52	*		4

Class I (5/14)
2014(d)		20.00		.10		.29		.39		(.07	)		—		(.07	)		20.32		1.95			7,011		.71	*		3.52	*		4

(a)	Per share Net Investment Income (Loss) is calculated using the average daily shares method.

(b)	Total Return is the combination of changes in net asset value without any sales charges, reinvested dividend income at net asset value and reinvested capital gains distributions at net asset value, if any. Total Return is not annualized.

(c)	After fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement from the Adviser, where applicable.

(d)	For the period May 12, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014.

(e)	Portfolio Turnover Rate is calculated based on the lesser of long-term purchases and sales (as disclosed in Note 5—Investment Transactions, in the most recent shareholder report) divided by the average long-term market value during the period.

*	Annualized.

Section 5 Financial Highlights

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

•

Average cost basis method: Calculating cost basis by determining the average price paid for Fund shares that may have been purchased at different times for different prices.

•

Barclays Aggregate Bond Index: An unmanaged index that includes all investment-grade, publicly issued, fixed-rate, dollar denominated, nonconvertible debt issues and commercial mortgage-backed securities with maturities of at least one year and outstanding par values of $150 million or more.

•

Barclays High Yield 2% Issuer Capped Index: An issuer-constrained version of the U.S. Corporate High-Yield Index that covers the U.S. dollar denominated, non-investment grade, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market.

•

Barclays Intermediate Government Bond Index: An unmanaged index that includes all publicly issued, U.S. Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 1 year and less than 10 years, are rated investment grade, and have $250 million or more of outstanding face value.

•

Barclays 1-3 Year Government/Credit Bond Index: An unmanaged index that includes all medium and larger issues of U.S. government, investment grade corporate, and investment grade international dollar-denominated bonds that have maturities of between 1 and 3 years and are publicly issued.

•

Barclays U.S. TIPs Index: An unmanaged index that includes all publicly issued, U.S. Treasury inflation-protected securities that have at least one year remaining to maturity, are rated investment grade, and have $250 million or more of outstanding face value.

•

Lipper Core Bond Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Core Bond Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Core Plus Bond Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Core Plus Bond Funds Classification.

•

Lipper High Yield Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper High Yield Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Inflation Protected Bond Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Inflation Protected Bond Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Intermediate U.S. Government Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Intermediate U.S. Government Funds Classification.

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

•

Lipper Multi-Sector Income Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Multi-Sector Income Funds Classification.

•

Lipper Short Investment Grade Debt Classification Average: Represents the average annualized returns for all reporting funds in the Lipper Short Investment Grade Debt Funds Classification.

•

Zero coupon bonds: Zero coupon bonds pay no cash income to their holders until they mature. When held to maturity, their entire return comes from the difference between their purchase price and their maturity value. They are issued at substantial discounts from their value at maturity.

Section 6 Glossary of Investment Terms

Nuveen Mutual Funds

Nuveen offers a variety of mutual funds designed to help you reach your financial goals. The funds below are grouped by category.

Municipal-National

All-American Municipal Bond

High Yield Municipal Bond

Inflation Protected Municipal Bond

Intermediate Duration Municipal Bond

Limited Term Municipal Bond

Short Duration High Yield Municipal Bond

Short Term Municipal Bond

Municipal-State

Arizona Municipal Bond

California High Yield Municipal Bond

California Municipal Bond

Colorado Municipal Bond

Connecticut Municipal Bond

Georgia Municipal Bond

Kansas Municipal Bond

Kentucky Municipal Bond

Louisiana Municipal Bond

Maryland Municipal Bond

Massachusetts Municipal Bond

Michigan Municipal Bond

Minnesota Intermediate Municipal Bond

Minnesota Municipal Bond

Missouri Municipal Bond

Nebraska Municipal Bond

New Jersey Municipal Bond

New Mexico Municipal Bond

New York Municipal Bond

North Carolina Municipal Bond

Ohio Municipal Bond

Oregon Intermediate Municipal Bond

Municipal-State (continued)

Pennsylvania Municipal Bond

Tennessee Municipal Bond

Virginia Municipal Bond

Wisconsin Municipal Bond

Taxable Fixed Income

Core Bond

Core Plus Bond

Global Total Return Bond

High Income Bond

Inflation Protected Securities

Intermediate Government Bond

NWQ Flexible Income

Preferred Securities

Short Term Bond

Strategic Income

Symphony Credit Opportunities

Symphony Floating Rate Income

Symphony High Yield Bond

U.S. Infrastructure Income

Global/International

Global Growth

International Growth

NWQ Global Equity

NWQ Global Equity Income

Santa Barbara Global Dividend Growth

Santa Barbara International Dividend Growth

Symphony International Equity

Tradewinds Emerging Markets

Tradewinds Global All-Cap

Tradewinds International Value

Global/International (continued)

Tradewinds Japan

Value

Dividend Value

Large Cap Value

Mid Cap Value

NWQ Large-Cap Value

NWQ Multi-Cap Value

NWQ Small-Cap Value

NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value

Small Cap Value

Tradewinds Value Opportunities

Growth

Growth

Large Cap Growth

Large Cap Growth Opportunities

Mid Cap Growth Opportunities

Small Cap Growth Opportunities

Symphony Large-Cap Growth

Winslow Large-Cap Growth

Core

Concentrated Core

Core Dividend

Large Cap Core

Large Cap Core Plus

Large Cap Select

Santa Barbara Dividend Growth

Small Cap Select

Symphony Low Volatility Equity

Symphony Mid-Cap Core

Core (continued)

Symphony Small Cap Core

Real Assets

Global Infrastructure

Gresham Diversified Commodity Strategy

Real Asset Income

Real Estate Securities

Asset Allocation

Strategy Aggressive Growth Allocation

Strategy Balanced Allocation

Strategy Conservative Allocation

Strategy Growth Allocation

Index

Equity Index

Mid Cap Index

Small Cap Index

Non-Traditional Strategies

Equity Long/Short

Equity Market Neutral

Gresham Long/Short Commodity Strategy

Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation

Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation

Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation

Symphony Dynamic Credit

Symphony Dynamic Equity

Tactical Market Opportunities

Several additional sources of information are available to you, including the codes of ethics adopted by the Funds, Nuveen Investments, Nuveen Fund Advisors and Nuveen Asset Management. The statement of additional information, incorporated by reference into this prospectus, contains detailed information on the policies and operation of the Funds included in this prospectus. Additional information about the Funds’ investments is available in the annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. In the Funds’ annual reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Funds’ performance during their last fiscal year. The Funds’ most recent statement of additional information, annual and semi-annual reports and certain other information are available, free of charge, by calling Nuveen Investor Services at (800) 257-8787, on the Funds’ website at www.nuveen.com, or through your financial advisor. Shareholders may call the toll free number above with any inquiries.

Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund are series of Nuveen Investment Funds, Inc., whose Investment Company Act file number is 811-05309.

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund is a series of Nuveen Investment Trust, whose Investment Company Act file number is 811-07619.

Distributed by

Nuveen Securities, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(800) 257-8787

www.nuveen.com

MPR-FINC-1014D

Filed pursuant to Rule 497(e) under the Securities Act of 1933

File No. 333-03715

October 31, 2014

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NQVAX, Class C—NQVCX, Class R3—NMCTX, Class I—NQVRX

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NQCAX, Class C—NQCCX, Class R3—NQCQX, Class I—NQCRX

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NSMAX, Class C—NSMCX, Class R3—NWQRX, Class I—NSMRX

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NSCAX, Class C—NSCCX, Class R3—NSCQX, Class R6—NSCFX, Class I—NSCRX

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NVOAX, Class C—NVOCX, Class R3—NTVTX, Class I—NVORX

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This Statement of Additional Information (“ SAI ”) is not a prospectus. This SAI relates to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus dated October 31, 2014 for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund (each, a “ Fund ,” and collectively, the “ Funds ”), each a series of Nuveen Investment Trust. A Prospectus may be obtained without charge from certain securities representatives, banks and other financial institutions that have entered into sales agreements with Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “ Distributor ”), or from a Fund, by written request to the applicable Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, or by calling (800) 257-8787.

The audited financial statements for each Fund’s most recent fiscal year appear in the Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


		Page
General Information		S-3

Investment Restrictions		S-3

Investment Policies and Techniques		S-6

Asset Coverage Requirements		S-6
Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments		S-6
Derivatives		S-8
Equity Securities		S-16
Non-U.S. Securities		S-18
Other Investment Policies and Techniques		S-20

Management		S-24

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight		S-32
Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications		S-35
Board Compensation		S-39
Share Ownership		S-41
Sales Loads		S-41

Service Providers		S-41

Investment Adviser		S-41
Sub-Advisers		S-43
Portfolio Managers		S-43


		Page
Transfer Agent		S-46
Custodian		S-46
Distributor		S-46
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		S-46

Codes of Ethics		S-46

Proxy Voting Policies		S-47

Portfolio Transactions		S-47

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings		S-49

Net Asset Value		S-51

Shares of Beneficial Interest		S-52

Tax Matters		S-62

Federal Income Tax Matters		S-62
Fund Status		S-62
Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company		S-62
Distributions		S-63
Dividends Received Deduction		S-63
If You Sell or Redeem Shares		S-63
Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses		S-64
Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends		S-64
In-Kind Distributions		S-64
Exchanges		S-64
Deductibility of Fund Expenses		S-64
Non-U.S. Tax Credit		S-64
Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations		S-64
Non-U.S. Investors		S-65
Capital Loss Carry-Forward		S-65

Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares		S-66

Class A Shares		S-66
Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares		S-66
Class C Shares		S-68
Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge		S-68
Class R3 Shares		S-69
Class R6 Shares		S-70
Class I Shares		S-71
Shareholder Programs		S-72
Frequent Trading Policy		S-73
Distribution and Service Plan		S-75
General Matters		S-77
Distribution Arrangements		S-77
Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments		S-78
Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments		S-80

Financial Statements		S-81

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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Funds are diversified series of Nuveen Investment Trust (the “ Trust ”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust on May 6, 1996. Each series of the Trust represents shares of beneficial interest in a separate portfolio of securities and other assets, with its own objective and policies. Currently, 20 series of the Trust are authorized and outstanding. Effective as of the close of business on December 6, 2002, Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund acquired the assets of PBHG Special Equity Fund (formerly, PBHG New Perspective Fund) of PBHG Funds. In addition, effective as of the close of business on December 14, 2001, PBHG Special Equity Fund acquired the assets of NWQ Special Equity Portfolio of UAM Funds, Inc. The Funds’ investment adviser is Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“ Nuveen Fund Advisors ” or the “ Adviser ”). The sub-adviser for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund is NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC ( “NWQ” ). The sub-adviser for Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund is Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC ( “Tradewinds” ). NWQ and Tradewinds are each a “Sub-Adviser” and collectively the “Sub-Advisers.”

Certain matters under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “ 1940 Act ”), which must be submitted to a vote of the holders of the outstanding voting securities of a series, shall not be deemed to have been effectively acted upon unless approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting shares of each series affected by such matter.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment objective and certain investment policies of each Fund are described in the Prospectus for the Funds. Each Fund, as a fundamental policy, may not, without the approval of the holders of a majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting shares:

(1) Borrow money, except as permitted by the 1940 Act and exemptive orders granted under the 1940 Act.

(2) Act as an underwriter of another issuer’s securities, except to the extent that the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.

(3) Make loans, except as permitted by the 1940 Act and exemptive orders granted under the 1940 Act.

(4) Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments; but this restriction shall not prohibit a Fund from investing in options on commodity indices, commodity futures contracts and options thereon, commodity-related swap agreements, other commodity-related derivative instruments, and investment companies that provide exposure to commodities.

(5) Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prohibit the Fund from purchasing or selling securities or other instruments backed by real estate or of issuers engaged in real estate activities).

(6) Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act.

(7) Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a result, 25% or more of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in the securities of issuers whose principal business activities are in the same industry (except that this restriction shall not be applicable to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof).

(8) With respect to 75% of its total assets, purchase the securities of any issuer (except securities issued or guaranteed by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof) if, as a result, (i) more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in securities of that issuer, or (ii) the Fund would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of that issuer.

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Except with respect to the limitation set forth in number (1) above, the foregoing restrictions and limitations will apply only at the time of purchase of securities, and the percentage limitations will not be considered violated unless an excess or deficiency occurs or exists immediately after and as a result of an acquisition of securities, unless otherwise indicated.

For purposes of applying the limitations set forth in numbers (1) and (6) above, under the 1940 Act as currently in effect, a Fund is not permitted to issue senior securities, except that a Fund may borrow from any bank if immediately after such borrowing the value of the Fund’s total assets is at least 300% of the principal amount of all of the Fund’s borrowings (i.e., the principal amount of the borrowings may not exceed 33 ¹ / ₃ % of the Fund’s total assets). In the event that such asset coverage shall at any time fall below 300%, the Fund shall, within three calendar days thereafter (not including Sundays and holidays), reduce the amount of its borrowings to an extent that the asset coverage of such borrowing shall be at least 300%. No exemptive orders have been issued with respect to the limitation set forth in number (1).

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (3) above, there are no limitations with respect to unsecured loans made by a Fund to an unaffiliated party. However, if a Fund loans its portfolio securities, the obligation on the part of the Fund to return collateral upon termination of the loan could be deemed to involve the issuance of a senior security within the meaning of Section 18(f) of the 1940 Act. In order to avoid violation of Section 18(f), the Fund may not make a loan of portfolio securities if, as a result, more than one-third of its total asset value (at market value computed at the time of making a loan) would be on loan. No exemptive orders have been issued with respect to the limitation set forth in number (3).

The limitation in number (7) above will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (7) above, to the extent that the income from a municipal bond is derived from a specific project, the securities will be deemed to be from the industry of that project.

Where a security is guaranteed by a governmental entity or some other facility, such as a bank guarantee or letter of credit, such a guarantee or letter of credit would be considered a separate security and would be treated as an issue of such government, other entity or bank.

The foregoing fundamental investment policies, together with the investment objective of each of the Funds, cannot be changed without approval by holders of a “majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting shares.” As defined in the 1940 Act, this means the vote of (i) 67% or more of the Fund’s shares present at a meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the Fund’s shares are present or represented by proxy, or (ii) more than 50% of the Fund’s shares, whichever is less.

In addition to the foregoing fundamental investment policies, each Fund is also subject to the following non-fundamental restrictions and policies, which may be changed by the Board of Trustees. A Fund may not:

(1) Sell securities short, unless the Fund owns or has the right to obtain securities equivalent in kind and amount to the securities sold short at no added cost, and provided that transactions in options, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, or other derivative instruments are not deemed to constitute selling securities short.

(2) Purchase securities on margin, except that the Fund may obtain such short-term credits as are necessary for the clearance of transactions; and provided that margin deposits in connection with futures contracts, options on futures contracts, or other derivative instruments shall not constitute purchasing securities on margin.

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(3) Purchase securities of open-end or closed-end investment companies except in compliance with the 1940 Act and applicable state law.

(4) Invest in direct interests in oil, gas or other mineral exploration programs or leases; however, the Fund may invest in the securities of issuers that engage in these activities.

(5) Purchase securities when borrowings exceed 5% of its total assets. If due to market fluctuations or other reasons, the value of the Fund’s assets falls below 300% of its borrowings, the Fund will reduce its borrowings within 3 business days.

(6) Invest in illiquid securities if, as a result of such investment, more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets would be invested in illiquid securities.

(7) Invest directly in futures, options on futures and swaps to the extent that the Adviser would be required to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( “CFTC” ) as a commodity pool operator. See “Investment Policies and Techniques—Derivatives—Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps.”

(8) Acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or subparagraph (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund may not:

(9) Pledge, mortgage or hypothecate any assets owned by the Fund except as may be necessary in connection with permissible borrowings or investments and then such pledging, mortgaging, or hypothecating may not exceed 33 ¹ / ₃ % of the Fund’s total assets at the time of the borrowing or investment.

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund may not:

(10) Purchase the securities of any issuer (other than securities issued or guaranteed by domestic or non-U.S. governments or political subdivisions thereof) if, as a result, more than 5% of its net assets would be invested in the securities of issuers that, including predecessors or unconditional guarantors, have a record of less than three years of continuous operation. This policy does not apply to the securities of pooled investment vehicles or mortgage or asset-backed securities.

For purposes of number (6) above, “illiquid securities” will have the same meaning as given in guidance provided by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission ( “SEC” ).

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund has adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the 1940 Act (a “ Name Policy ”) whereby Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with large capitalizations at the time of purchase. Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with medium and small capitalizations at the time of purchase. Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities of companies with small capitalizations at the time of purchase.

As a result, each of Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of their Fund’s Name Policy. For purposes of the Name Policy, the Funds consider the term “investments” to include both direct investments and indirect investments (e.g., investments in an underlying fund, derivatives and synthetic instruments with economic characteristics similar to the underlying asset).

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INVESTMENT POLICIES AND TECHNIQUES

The following information supplements the discussion of the Funds’ investment objectives, principal investment strategies, policies and techniques that appears in the Prospectus for the Funds. Additional information concerning principal investment strategies of the Funds, and other investment strategies that may be used by the Funds, is set forth below in alphabetical order. Additional information concerning the Funds’ investment restrictions is set forth above under “Investment Restrictions.”

References in this section to the Adviser also apply, to the extent applicable, to the Sub-Advisers of the Funds.

Asset Coverage Requirements

To the extent required by SEC guidelines, a Fund will only engage in transactions that expose it to an obligation to another party if it owns either (a) an offsetting position for the same type of financial asset or (b) cash or liquid securities, designated on the Fund’s books or held in a segregated account, with a value sufficient at all times to cover its potential obligations not covered as provided in (a). Examples of transactions governed by these asset coverage requirements include, for example, options, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, forward currency contracts, swaps and when-issued and delayed delivery transactions. Assets used as offsetting positions, designated on a Fund’s books, or held in a segregated account cannot be sold while the positions requiring cover are open unless replaced with other appropriate assets. As a result, the commitment of a large portion of assets to be used as offsetting positions or to be designated or segregated in such a manner could impede portfolio management or the ability to meet redemption requests or other current obligations.

In the case of futures contracts that are not contractually required to cash settle, a Fund must set aside liquid assets equal to such contracts’ full notional value (generally, the total numerical value of the asset underlying a future or forward contract at the time of valuation) while the positions are open. With respect to futures contracts that are contractually required to cash settle, however, a Fund is permitted to set aside liquid assets in an amount equal to the Fund’s daily mark-to-market net obligation (i.e., the Fund’s daily net liability) under the contracts, if any, rather than such contracts’ full notional value. By setting aside assets equal to only its net obligations under cash-settled futures, a Fund may employ leverage to a greater extent than if the Fund were required to segregate assets equal to the full notional value of such contracts.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

The Funds may hold assets in cash or cash equivalents, money market funds and short-term taxable fixed income securities in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and each Fund’s principal investment strategies. For temporary defensive purposes or during periods of high cash inflows or outflows, the Funds may invest up to 100% of their net assets in such holdings. During such periods, a Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective. The Funds may only invest in short-term taxable fixed income securities with a maturity of one year or less and whose issuers have a long-term rating of A- or higher by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“ Standard & Poor’s ”), A3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”) or A- or higher by Fitch, Inc. (“ Fitch ”). Short-term taxable fixed income securities are defined to include, without limitation, the following:

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Business Administration, and the Government National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States; (b) the Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, whose securities are supported by the right of the agency to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the Federal National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the agency or instrumentality; and (d) the Student Loan Marketing Association, whose securities are supported only by its credit. While the U.S. government provides financial support to such U.S. government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities, no assurance can be given that it always will do so since it is not so obligated by law. The U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate. In addition, a Fund may invest in sovereign debt obligations of non-U.S. countries. A sovereign debtor’s willingness or ability to repay principal and interest in a timely manner may be affected by a number of factors, including its cash flow situation, the extent of its non-U.S. reserves, the availability of sufficient non-U.S. exchange on the date a payment is due, the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole, the sovereign debtor’s policy toward principal international lenders and the political constraints to which it may be subject.

(2) Certificates of Deposit. Each Fund may invest in certificates of deposit issued against funds deposited in a bank or savings and loan association. Such certificates are for a definite period of time, earn a specified rate of return, and are normally negotiable. If such certificates of deposit are non-negotiable, they will be considered illiquid securities and be subject to the Fund’s 15% restriction on investments in illiquid securities. Pursuant to the certificate of deposit, the issuer agrees to pay the amount deposited plus interest to the bearer of the certificate on the date specified thereon. Under current FDIC regulations, the maximum insurance payable as to any one certificate of deposit is $250,000; therefore, certificates of deposit purchased by a Fund may not be fully insured. A Fund may only invest in certificates of deposit issued by U.S. banks with at least $1 billion in assets.

(3) Bankers’ Acceptances. Each Fund may invest in bankers’ acceptances, which are short-term credit instruments used to finance commercial transactions. Generally, an acceptance is a time draft drawn on a bank by an exporter or an importer to obtain a stated amount of funds to pay for specific merchandise. The draft is then “accepted” by a bank that, in effect, unconditionally guarantees to pay the face value of the instrument on its maturity date. The acceptance may then be held by the accepting bank as an asset or it may be sold in the secondary market at the going rate of interest for a specific maturity.

(4) Repurchase Agreements. Each Fund may invest in repurchase agreements which involve purchases of debt securities. In such an action, at the time the Fund purchases the security, it simultaneously agrees to resell and redeliver the security to the seller, who also simultaneously agrees to buy back the security at a fixed price and time. This assures a predetermined yield for a Fund during its holding period since the resale price is always greater than the purchase price and reflects an agreed-upon market rate. Such actions afford an opportunity for a Fund to invest temporarily available cash. A Fund may enter into repurchase agreements only with respect to obligations of the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities; certificates of deposit; or bankers’ acceptances in which the Fund may invest. Repurchase agreements may be considered loans to the seller, collateralized by the underlying securities. The risk to a Fund is limited to the ability of the seller to pay the agreed-upon sum on the repurchase date; in the event of default, the repurchase agreement provides that the affected Fund is entitled to sell the underlying collateral. If the value of the collateral declines after the agreement is entered into, however, and if the seller defaults under a repurchase agreement when the value of the underlying collateral is less than the repurchase price, the Fund could incur a loss of both principal and interest. The portfolio managers monitor the value of the collateral at the time the action is entered into and at all times during the term of the repurchase agreement. The portfolio managers do so in an effort to determine that the value of the collateral always equals or exceeds the agreed-upon repurchase price to be paid to a Fund. If the seller were to be subject to a federal bankruptcy proceeding, the ability of a Fund to liquidate the collateral could be delayed or impaired because of certain provisions of the bankruptcy laws.

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(5) Bank Time Deposits. Each Fund may invest in bank time deposits, which are monies kept on deposit with banks or savings and loan associations for a stated period of time at a fixed rate of interest. There may be penalties for the early withdrawal of such time deposits, in which case the yields of these investments will be reduced.

(6) Commercial Paper. Each Fund may invest in commercial paper, which are short-term unsecured promissory notes, including variable rate master demand notes issued by corporations to finance their current operations. Master demand notes are direct lending arrangements between a Fund and a corporation. There is no secondary market for the notes. However, they are redeemable by a Fund at any time. The portfolio manager will consider the financial condition of the corporation ( e.g. , earning power, cash flow and other liquidity ratios) and will continuously monitor the corporation’s ability to meet all of its financial obligations, because a Fund’s liquidity might be impaired if the corporation were unable to pay principal and interest on demand. Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund may only invest in commercial paper rated A-1 or better by Standard & Poor’s, Prime-1 or higher by Moody’s or F2 or higher by Fitch. Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund may only invest in commercial paper rated A-2 or better by Standard & Poor’s, Prime-2 or higher by Moody’s or F2 or higher by Fitch, or unrated commercial paper which is, in the opinion of the portfolio managers, of comparable quality.

Derivatives

Subject to the limitations set forth below under “Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps,” each Fund may use derivative instruments as described below. Generally, a derivative is a financial contract the value of which depends upon, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset, reference rate or index. Derivatives generally take the form of contracts under which the parties agree to payments between them based upon the performance of a wide variety of underlying references, such as stocks, bonds, loans, commodities, interest rates, currency exchange rates, and various domestic and foreign indices.

The Funds may use derivatives for a variety of reasons, including as a substitute for investing directly in securities, as part of a hedging strategy (that is, for the purpose of reducing risk to the Fund), or for other purposes related to the management of the Funds. Derivatives permit a Fund to increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the character of the risk, to which its portfolio is exposed in much the same way as a Fund can increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the character of the risk, of its portfolio by making investments in specific securities. However, derivatives may entail investment exposures that are greater than their cost would suggest. As a result, a small investment in derivatives could have a large impact on a Fund’s performance.

While transactions in some derivatives may be effected on established exchanges, many other derivatives are privately negotiated and entered into in the over-the-counter (“ OTC ”) market with a single counterparty. When exchange-traded derivatives are purchased and sold, a clearing agency associated with the exchange stands between each buyer and seller and effectively guarantees performance of each contract, either on a limited basis through a guaranty fund or to the full extent of the clearing agency’s balance sheet. Transactions in OTC derivatives not subject to a clearing requirement have no such protection. Each party to an uncleared OTC derivative bears the risk that its direct counterparty will default. In addition, OTC derivatives are generally less liquid than exchange-traded derivatives because they often can only be closed out with the other party to the transaction.

The use of derivative instruments is subject to applicable regulations of the SEC, the CFTC, various state regulatory authorities and, with respect to exchange-traded derivatives, the several exchanges upon which they are traded. As discussed above under “Asset Coverage Requirements,” in order to engage in certain transactions in derivatives, a Fund may be required to hold offsetting positions or to hold cash or liquid securities in a segregated account or designated on the Fund’s books. In addition, a Fund’s ability to use derivative instruments may be limited by tax considerations.

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instruments and strategies when they are developed, if those investment methods are consistent with the particular Fund’s investment objective and are permissible under applicable regulations governing the Fund.

Options Transactions

The Funds may purchase put and call options on specific securities (including groups or “baskets” of specific securities), stock indices, and/or foreign currencies.

Options on Securities. The Funds may purchase put and call options on securities. A put option on a security gives the purchaser of the option the right (but not the obligation) to sell, and the writer of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying security at a stated price (the “exercise price”) at any time before the option expires. A call option on a security gives the purchaser the right (but not the obligation) to buy, and the writer the obligation to sell, the underlying security at the exercise price at any time before the option expires. The purchase price for a put or call option is the “premium” paid by the purchaser for the right to sell or buy.

A Fund may purchase put options to hedge against a decline in the value of its portfolio. By using put options in this way, a Fund would reduce any profit it might otherwise have realized in the underlying security by the amount of the premium paid for the put option and by transaction costs. In similar fashion, a Fund may purchase call options to protect against an increase in the price of securities that the Fund anticipates purchasing in the future, a practice sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.” The premium paid for the call option plus any transaction costs will reduce the benefit, if any, realized by the Fund upon exercise of the option, and, unless the price of the underlying security rises sufficiently, the option may expire unexercised.

Options on Stock Indices. The Funds may purchase put and call options on stock indices. An option on a stock index gives the holder the right to receive, upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing value of the underlying stock index is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the exercise-settlement value of the closing price of the index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple (the “multiplier”). The writer of the option is obligated, for the premium received, to make delivery of this amount. Settlements for stock index options are always in cash.

Options on Currencies. The Funds may purchase put and call options on foreign currencies. A foreign currency option provides the option buyer with the right to buy or sell a stated amount of foreign currency at the exercise price at a specified date or during the option period. A call option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy the currency, while a put option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the currency. The option seller (writer) is obligated to fulfill the terms of the option sold if it is exercised. However, either seller or buyer may close its position during the option period in the secondary market for such options at any time prior to expiration.

A foreign currency call option rises in value if the underlying currency appreciates. Conversely, a foreign currency put option rises in value if the underlying currency depreciates. While purchasing a foreign currency option may protect a Fund against an adverse movement in the value of a foreign currency, it would limit the gain which might result from a favorable movement in the value of the currency. For example, if the Fund were holding securities denominated in an appreciating foreign currency and had purchased a foreign currency put to hedge against a decline in the value of the currency, it would not have to exercise its put. In such an event, however, the amount of the Fund’s gain would be offset in part by the premium paid for the option. Similarly, if the Fund entered into a contract to purchase a security denominated in a foreign currency and purchased a foreign currency call to hedge against a rise in the value of the currency between the date of purchase and the settlement date, the Fund would not need to exercise its call if the currency instead depreciated in value. In such a case, the Fund could acquire the amount of foreign currency needed for settlement in the spot market at a lower price than the exercise price of the option.

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Writing Options. The Funds may write (sell) put and call options. These transactions would be undertaken principally to produce additional income. A Fund receives a premium from writing options which it retains whether or not the option is exercised. The Funds may write straddles consisting of a combination of a call and a put written on the same underlying instrument.

A Fund will write a call on a security only if (a) the Fund owns the security underlying the call, (b) the Fund has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that security without additional cash consideration (or, if additional cash consideration is required, cash or other liquid assets in such amount are segregated), or (c) the Fund holds a call on the same security where the exercise price of the call is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

A Fund will write a call option on an index only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets in an amount equal to the contract value of the index, or (b) the Fund holds a call on the index as the call written where the exercise price of the call held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

A Fund will write a put option on a security or index only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets equal to the exercise price or (b) the Fund holds a put on the same security or index as the put written where the exercise price of the put held is (i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the put written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When a Fund writes a straddle, sufficient assets will be segregated to meet the Fund’s immediate obligations. A Fund may segregate the same liquid assets for both the call and put options in a straddle where the exercise price of the call and put are the same, or the exercise price of the call is higher than that of the put. In such cases, the Fund will also segregate liquid assets equivalent to the amount, if any, by which the put is “in the money.”

Expiration or Exercise of Options. If an option written by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital gain equal to the premium received at the time the option was written. If an option purchased by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid. Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an exchange traded option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series (type, exchange, underlying security, or index, exercise price, and expiration). There can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be effected when a Fund desires.

The Funds may sell put or call options it has previously purchased, which could result in a net gain or loss depending on whether the amount realized on the sale is more or less than the premium and other transaction costs paid on the put or call option which is sold. Prior to exercise or expiration, an option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series. A Fund will realize a capital gain from a closing purchase transaction if the cost of the closing option is less than the premium received from writing the option, or, if it is more, the Fund will realize a capital loss. If the premium received from a closing sale transaction is more than the premium paid to purchase the option, the Fund will realize a capital gain or, if it is less, the Fund will realize a capital loss. The principal factors affecting the market value of a put or a call option include supply and demand, interest rates, the current market price of the underlying security or index in relation to the exercise price of the option, the volatility of the underlying security or index, and the time remaining until the expiration date.

Futures

The Funds may engage in futures transactions. The Funds may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1) interest rates, (2) foreign currencies, (3) stock indices, and (4) individual stocks. The Funds may only enter into futures contracts which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign exchange, board of trade or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

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entering into an offsetting purchase or sale of a matching futures contract. Other futures contracts, such as futures contracts on indices, do not call for making or taking delivery of the underlying financial instrument, but rather are agreements pursuant to which two parties agree to take or make delivery of an amount of cash equal to the difference between the value of the financial instrument at the close of the last trading day of the contract and the price at which the contract was originally written. These contracts also may be settled by entering into an offsetting futures contract.

Unlike when a Fund purchases or sells a security, no price is paid or received by the Fund upon the purchase or sale of a futures contract. Initially, a Fund will be required to deposit with its futures broker (also known as a futures commission merchant (“ FCM ”)) an amount of cash or securities equal to a specified percentage of the contract amount. This amount is known as initial margin. The margin deposit is intended to ensure completion of the contract. Minimum initial margin requirements are established by the futures exchanges and may be revised. In addition, FCMs may establish margin deposit requirements that are higher than the exchange minimums. Cash held as margin is generally invested by the FCM in high-quality instruments permitted under CFTC regulations, with returns retained by the FCM and interest paid to the Fund on the cash at an agreed-upon rate. A Fund will also receive any interest paid from coupon-bearing securities, such as Treasury securities, held in margin accounts. Subsequent payments to and from the FCM, called variation margin, will be made on a daily basis as the price of the underlying financial instrument fluctuates, making the futures contract more or less valuable, a process known as marking the contract to market. Changes in variation margin are recorded by a Fund as unrealized gains or losses. At any time prior to expiration of the futures contract, a Fund may elect to close the position by taking an opposite position that will operate to terminate its position in the futures contract. A final determination of variation margin is then made, additional cash is required to be paid by or released to the Fund, and the Fund realizes a gain or loss. In the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of an FCM that holds margin on behalf of a Fund, the Fund may be entitled to the return of margin owed to it only in proportion to the amount received by the FCM’s other customers, potentially resulting in losses to the Fund. Futures transactions also involve brokerage costs.

Most U.S. futures exchanges limit the amount of fluctuation permitted in futures contract prices during a single trading day. The daily limit establishes the maximum amount that the price of a futures contract may vary either up or down from the previous day’s settlement price at the end of a trading session. Once the daily limit has been reached in a particular type of futures contract, no trades may be made on that day at a price beyond that limit. The daily limit governs only price movement during a particular trading day and therefore does not limit potential losses, because the limit may prevent the liquidation of unfavorable positions. Futures contract prices have occasionally moved to the daily limit for several consecutive trading days with little or no trading, thereby preventing prompt liquidation of futures positions and subjecting some futures traders to substantial losses.

Options on Futures

The Funds may also purchase or write put and call options on futures contracts and write straddles, which consist of a call and put option on the same futures contract. A futures option gives the holder the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short position (put) in a futures contract at a specified exercise price prior to the expiration of the option. Upon exercise of a call option, the holder acquires a long position in the futures contract and the writer is assigned the opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true. Prior to exercise or expiration, a futures option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of a futures option of the same series.

The Funds may use options on futures contracts in connection with hedging strategies. The writing of a call option or the purchasing of a put option on a futures contract constitutes a partial hedge against declining prices of the securities which are deliverable upon exercise of the futures contract. If the futures price at expiration of a written call option is below the exercise price, a Fund will retain the full amount of the option premium which provides a partial hedge against any decline that may have occurred in the Fund’s holdings of securities. If the futures price when the option is exercised is above the exercise price, however, a Fund will incur a loss, which may be offset, in whole or in part, by the increase in the value of the securities held by the Fund that were being hedged. Writing a put option or purchasing a call option on a futures contract serves as a partial hedge against an increase in the value of the securities a Fund intends to acquire.

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When writing a call option, the Fund must either segregate liquid assets with a value equal to the fluctuating value market value of the optioned futures contract, or the Fund must own an option to purchase the same futures contract having an exercise price that is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When writing a put option, the Fund must segregate liquid assets in an amount not less than the exercise price, or own a put option on the same futures contract where the exercise price of the put held is (i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the put written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When the Fund writes a straddle, sufficient assets will be segregated to meet the Fund’s immediately obligations. The Fund may segregate the same liquid assets for both the call and put options in a straddle where the exercise price of the call and put are the same, or the exercise price of the call is higher than that of the put. In such cases, the Fund will also segregate liquid assets equivalent to the amount, if any, by which the put is “in the money.”

As with investments in futures contracts, each Fund is required to deposit and maintain margin with respect to put and call options on futures contracts written by it.

Forward Currency Contracts and other Foreign Currency Transactions

The Funds may enter into forward currency contracts. A forward currency contract involves an obligation to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future date, which may be any fixed number of days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at the time of the contract. These contracts are traded directly between currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their customers. Unlike futures contracts, which are standardized contracts, forward contracts can be specifically drawn to meet the needs of the parties that enter into them. The parties to a forward currency contract may agree to offset or terminate the contract before its maturity, or may hold the contract to maturity and complete the contemplated exchange. Because forward contracts are not traded on an exchange, the Funds are subject to the credit and performance risk of the counterparties to such contracts.

The following summarizes the principal currency management strategies involving forward contracts that may be used by the Funds. These Funds also may use currency futures contracts and options thereon, put and call options on foreign currencies and currency swaps for the same purposes.

Transaction Hedges. When a Fund enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security denominated in a foreign currency, or when it anticipates receiving dividend payments in a foreign currency, the Fund might wish to lock in the U.S. dollar price of the security or the U.S. dollar equivalent of the dividend payments. To do so, the Fund could enter into a forward contract for the purchase or sale of the amount of foreign currency involved in the underlying transaction at a fixed amount of U.S. dollars per unit of the foreign currency. This is known as a “transaction hedge.” A transaction hedge will protect a Fund against a loss from an adverse change in the currency exchange rate during the period between the date on which the security is purchased or sold or on which the payment is declared, and the date on which the payment is made or received. Forward contracts to purchase or sell a foreign currency may also be used by a Fund in anticipation of future purchases or sales of securities denominated in a foreign currency, even if the specific investments have not yet been selected by a Sub-Adviser. This strategy is sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.”

Position Hedges. A Fund could also use forward contracts to lock in the U.S. dollar value of portfolio positions. This is known as a “position hedge.” When a Fund believes that a foreign currency might suffer a substantial decline against the U.S. dollar, it could enter into a forward contract to sell an amount of that foreign currency approximating the value of some or all of the Fund’s portfolio securities denominated in that foreign currency. When a Fund believes that the U.S. dollar might suffer a substantial decline against a foreign currency, it could enter into a forward contract to buy that foreign currency for a fixed dollar amount. Alternatively, a Fund could enter into a forward contract to sell a different foreign currency for a fixed U.S. dollar amount if the Fund’s portfolio manager believes that the U.S. dollar value of that foreign currency will fall whenever there is a decline in the U.S. dollar value of the currency in which portfolio securities of the Fund are denominated. This is referred to as a “cross hedge.”

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Shifting Currency Exposure. A Fund may also enter into forward contracts to shift its investment exposure from one currency into another. This may include shifting exposure from U.S. dollars to foreign currency or from one foreign currency to another foreign currency. This strategy tends to limit exposure to the currency sold, and increase exposure to the currency that is purchased, much as if a Fund had sold a security denominated in one currency and purchased an equivalent security denominated in another currency.

Swap Transactions

The Funds may enter into equity, interest rate, currency, and credit default swap agreements.

A Fund may enter into swap transactions for any purpose consistent with its investment objectives and strategies, such as for the purpose of attempting to obtain or preserve a particular return or spread at a lower cost than obtaining a return or spread through purchases and/or sales of instruments in other markets, to protect against an increase in the price of securities the Fund anticipates purchasing at a later date, to reduce risk arising from the ownership of a particular instrument, or to gain exposure to certain securities, reference rates, sectors or markets.

Swap agreements are two party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for a specified period of time. In a standard swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on a particular predetermined asset, reference rate or index. The gross returns to be exchanged or swapped between the parties are generally calculated with respect to a notional amount, e.g., the return on or increase in value of a particular dollar amount invested at a particular interest rate or in a basket of securities representing a particular index. The notional amount of the swap agreement generally is only used as a basis upon which to calculate the obligations that the parties to the swap agreement have agreed to exchange. A Fund’s current obligations under a net swap agreement will be accrued daily (offset against any amounts owed to the Fund) and the Fund will segregate assets determined to be liquid by the Sub-Adviser for any accrued but unpaid net amounts owed to a swap counterparty. See “Asset Coverage Requirements” above.

Equity Swaps. In a typical equity swap, one party agrees to pay another party the return on a stock, stock index or basket of stocks in return for a specified interest rate. By entering into an equity index swap, for example, the index receiver can gain exposure to stocks making up the index of securities without actually purchasing those stocks. Equity index swaps involve not only the risk associated with investment in the securities represented in the index, but also the risk that the performance of such securities, including dividends, will not exceed the return on the interest rate that a Fund will be committed to pay.

Interest Rate Swaps. Interest rate swaps are financial instruments that involve the exchange of one type of interest rate for another type of interest rate cash flow on specified dates in the future. Some of the different types of interest rate swaps are “fixed-for floating rate swaps,” “termed basis swaps” and “index amortizing swaps.” Fixed-for floating rate swaps involve the exchange of fixed interest rate cash flows for floating rate cash flows. Termed basis swaps entail cash flows to both parties based on floating interest rates, where the interest rate indices are different. Index amortizing swaps are typically fixed-for floating swaps where the notional amount changes if certain conditions are met. Like a traditional investment in a debt security, a Fund could lose money by investing in an interest rate swap if interest rates change adversely.

Currency Swaps. A currency swap is an agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to make interest rate payments in one currency and the other promises to make interest rate payments in another currency. A Fund may enter into a currency swap when it has one currency and desires a different currency. Typically the interest rates that determine the currency swap payments are fixed, although occasionally one or both parties may pay a floating rate of interest. Unlike an interest rate swap, however, the principal amounts are exchanged at the beginning of the contract and returned at the end of the contract. Changes in non-U.S. exchange rates and changes in interest rates may negatively affect currency swaps.

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default or credit quality deterioration in one or more of its individual holdings or in a segment of the fixed income securities market to which it has exposure, or to take a “short” position in individual bonds or market segments which it does not own. A Fund may sell protection in an attempt to gain exposure to the credit quality characteristics of particular bonds or market segments without investing directly in those bonds or market segments.

As the buyer of protection in a credit default swap, a Fund will pay a premium (by means of an upfront payment or a periodic stream of payments over the term of the agreement) in return for the right to deliver a referenced bond or group of bonds to the protection seller and receive the full notional or par value (or other agreed upon value) upon a default (or similar event) by the issuer(s) of the underlying referenced obligation(s). If no default occurs, the protection seller would keep the stream of payments and would have no further obligation to the Fund. Thus, the cost to the Fund would be the premium paid with respect to the agreement. If a credit event occurs, however, the Fund may elect to receive the full notional value of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable obligations of the reference entity that may have little or no value. The Fund bears the risk that the protection seller may fail to satisfy its payment obligations.

If a Fund is a seller of protection in a credit default swap and no credit event occurs, the Fund would generally receive an up-front payment or a periodic stream of payments over the term of the swap. If a credit event occurs, however, generally the Fund would have to pay the buyer the full notional value of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable obligations of the reference entity that may have little or no value. As the protection seller, the Fund effectively adds economic leverage to its portfolio because, in addition to being subject to investment exposure on its total net assets, the Fund is subject to investment exposure on the notional amount of the swap. Thus, the Fund bears the same risk as it would by buying the reference obligations directly, plus the additional risks related to obtaining investment exposure through a derivative instrument discussed below under “Risks and Special Considerations Concerning Derivatives.”

Caps, Collars and Floors. Caps and floors have an effect similar to buying or writing options. In a typical cap or floor agreement, one party agrees to make payments only under specified circumstances, usually in return for payment of a fee by the other party. For example, the buyer of an interest rate cap obtains the right to receive payments to the extent that a specified interest rate exceeds an agreed-upon level. The seller of an interest rate floor is obligated to make payments to the extent that a specified interest rate falls below an agreed-upon level. An interest rate collar involves selling a cap and purchasing a floor or vice versa to protect the Fund against interest rate movements exceeding given minimum or maximum levels.

Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps

Each Fund will limit its direct investments in CFTC-regulated futures, options on futures and swaps (“ CFTC Derivatives ”) to the extent necessary for the Adviser to claim the exclusion from regulation as a commodity pool operator with respect to the Fund under CFTC Rule 4.5, as such rule may be amended from time to time. Under Rule 4.5 as currently in effect, each Fund will limit its trading activity in CFTC Derivatives (excluding activity for “bona fide hedging purposes,” as defined by the CFTC) such that it meets one of the following tests:

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Aggregate initial margin and premiums required to establish its positions in CFTC Derivatives do not exceed 5% of the liquidation value of the Fund’s portfolio, after taking into account unrealized profits and losses on such positions; or

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Aggregate net notional value of its positions in CFTC Derivatives does not exceed 100% of the liquidation value of the Fund’s portfolio, after taking into account unrealized profits and losses on such positions.

With respect to each Fund, the Adviser has filed a notice of eligibility for exclusion from the definition of the term commodity pool operator under the Commodity Exchange Act and therefore is not subject to registration or regulation as a commodity pool operator thereunder.

The requirements for qualification as a regulated investment company may also limit the extent to which each Fund may invest in CFTC Derivatives. See “Tax Matters—Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company.”

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Federal Income Tax Treatment of Futures Contracts and Options

Each Fund’s transactions in futures contracts and options will be subject to special provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), that, among other things, may affect the character of gains and losses realized by a Fund (i.e., may affect whether gains or losses are ordinary or capital, or short-term or long-term), may accelerate recognition of income to a Fund and may defer Fund losses. These rules could, therefore, affect the character, amount and timing of distributions to shareholders. These provisions also (a) will require a Fund to mark-to-market certain types of the positions in its portfolio (i.e., treat them as if they were closed out) and (b) may cause a Fund to recognize income without receiving cash with which to make distributions in amounts necessary to satisfy the 90% distribution requirement for qualifying to be taxed as a regulated investment company and the distribution requirement for avoiding excise taxes.

Risks and Special Considerations Concerning Derivatives

The use of derivative instruments involves certain general risks and considerations as described below.

(1) Market Risk. Market risk is the risk that the value of the underlying assets may go up or down. Adverse movements in the value of an underlying asset can expose a Fund to losses. The successful use of derivative instruments depends upon a variety of factors, particularly the portfolio managers’ ability to predict movements in the relevant markets, which may require different skills than predicting changes in the prices of individual securities. There can be no assurance that any particular strategy adopted will succeed.

(2) Counterparty Risk. Counterparty risk is the risk that a loss may be sustained as a result of the failure of a counterparty to comply with the terms of a derivative instrument. The counterparty risk for exchange-traded derivatives is generally less than for OTC derivatives, since generally a clearing agency, which is the issuer or counterparty to each exchange-traded instrument, provides a guarantee of performance. For many OTC instruments, there is no similar clearing agency guarantee. In all transactions, a Fund will bear the risk that the counterparty will default, and this could result in a loss of the expected benefit of the derivative transactions and possibly other losses to the Fund. A Fund will enter into derivatives transactions only with counterparties that its portfolio manager reasonably believes are capable of performing under the contract.

(3) Correlation Risk. Correlation risk is the risk that there might be an imperfect correlation, or even no correlation, between price movements of a derivative instrument and price movements of investments being hedged. When a derivative transaction is used to completely hedge another position, changes in the market value of the combined position (the derivative instrument plus the position being hedged) result from an imperfect correlation between the price movements of the two instruments. With a perfect hedge, the value of the combined position remains unchanged with any change in the price of the underlying asset. With an imperfect hedge, the value of the derivative instrument and its hedge are not perfectly correlated. For example, if the value of a derivative instrument used in a short hedge (such as writing a call option, buying a put option or selling a futures contract) increased by less than the decline in value of the hedged investments, the hedge would not be perfectly correlated. This might occur due to factors unrelated to the value of the investments being hedged, such as speculative or other pressures on the markets in which these instruments are traded. The effectiveness of hedges using instruments on indices will depend, in part, on the degree of correlation between price movements in the index and the price movements in the investments being hedged.

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such payments until the position expires, matures or is closed out. These requirements might impair a Fund’s ability to sell a security or make an investment at a time when it would otherwise be favorable to do so, or require that the Fund sell a portfolio security at a disadvantageous time. A Fund’s ability to sell or close out a position in an instrument prior to expiration or maturity depends upon the existence of a liquid secondary market or, in the absence of such a market, the ability and willingness of the counterparty to enter into a transaction closing out the position. There is no assurance that any derivatives position can be sold or closed out at a time and price that is favorable to a Fund.

(5) Legal Risk. Legal risk is the risk of loss caused by the unenforceability of a party’s obligations under the derivative. While a party seeking price certainty agrees to surrender the potential upside in exchange for downside protection, the party taking the risk is looking for a positive payoff. Despite this voluntary assumption of risk, a counterparty that has lost money in a derivative transaction may try to avoid payment by exploiting various legal uncertainties about certain derivative products.

(6) Systemic or “Interconnection” Risk. Systemic or interconnection risk is the risk that a disruption in the financial markets will cause difficulties for all market participants. In other words, a disruption in one market will spill over into other markets, perhaps creating a chain reaction. Much of the OTC derivatives market takes place among the OTC dealers themselves, thus creating a large interconnected web of financial obligations. This interconnectedness raises the possibility that a default by one large dealer could create losses for other dealers and destabilize the entire market for OTC derivative instruments.

(7) Leverage Risk. Leverage risk is the risk that a Fund may be more volatile than if it had not been leveraged due to leverage’s tendency to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of the Fund’s portfolio securities. The use of leverage may also cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations or to meet segregation requirements.

(8) Regulatory Risk. The Dodd-Frank Act Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “ Dodd-Frank Act ”) has initiated a dramatic revision of the U.S. financial regulatory framework and covers a broad range of topics, including (among many others) a reorganization of federal financial regulators; a process intended to improve financial systemic stability and the resolution of potentially insolvent financial firms; and new rules for derivatives trading. Instruments in which the Funds may invest, or the issuers of such instruments, may be affected by the new legislation and regulation in ways that are unforeseeable. Many of the implementing regulations have not yet been finalized. Accordingly, the ultimate impact of the Dodd-Frank Act, including on the derivative instruments in which the Funds may invest, is not yet certain.

Equity Securities

Under normal market conditions, the Funds primarily invest in equity securities, which include common stocks, preferred securities, warrants to purchase common stocks or preferred securities, convertible securities and other securities with equity characteristics, including participatory notes and pooled investment vehicles.

Common Stocks

Common stocks represent units of ownership in a company. Common stocks usually carry voting rights and earn dividends. Unlike preferred securities, dividends on common stocks are not prescribed in advance but are declared at the discretion of a company’s board.

While investing in stocks allows shareholders to participate in the benefits of owning a company, such shareholders must accept the risks of ownership. Unlike bondholders, who have preference to a company’s earnings and cash flow, common stockholders are entitled only to the residual amount after a company meets its other obligations. For this reason, the value of a company’s stock will usually react more strongly to actual or perceived changes in the company’s financial condition or prospects than its debt obligations. Stockholders of a company that fares poorly can lose money.

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Stock markets tend to move in cycles with short or extended periods of rising and falling stock prices. The value of a company’s stock may fall because of:

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Factors that directly relate to that company, such as decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company’s products or services;

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Factors affecting an entire industry, such as increases in production costs; and

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Changes in financial market conditions that are relatively unrelated to the company or its industry, such as changes in interest rates, currency exchange rates or inflation rates.

An investment in common stocks of issuers with small or medium market capitalizations generally involves greater risk and price volatility than an investment in common stocks of larger, more established companies. This increased risk may be due to the greater business risks of their small or medium size, limited markets and financial resources, narrow product lines and frequent lack of management depth. The securities of small and medium capitalization companies are often traded in the over-the-counter market, and might not be traded in volumes typical of securities traded on a national securities exchange. Thus, the securities of small and medium capitalization companies are likely to be less liquid and subject to more abrupt or erratic market movements than securities of larger, more established companies.

Preferred Securities

Like common stocks, preferred securities are also units of ownership in a company, but preferred securities normally have preference over common stocks in the payment of dividends and the liquidation of the company. In all other respects, however, preferred securities are subordinated to the liabilities of the issuer. Unlike common stocks, preferred securities are generally not entitled to vote on corporate matters. Types of preferred securities include adjustable-rate preferred securities, fixed dividend preferred securities, perpetual preferred securities and sinking fund preferred securities. Generally, the market value of preferred securities with a fixed dividend rate and no conversion element varies inversely with interest rates and perceived credit risk.

Because preferred securities are generally junior to most other forms of debt securities and other obligations of the issuer, deterioration in the credit quality of the issuer will cause greater changes in the value of a preferred security than in a more senior debt security with similar stated yield characteristics.

Warrants

The Funds may invest in warrants if, after giving effect thereto, not more than 5% of their net assets will be invested in warrants other than warrants acquired in units or attached to other securities. Investing in warrants is purely speculative in that they have no voting rights, pay no dividends, and have no rights with respect to the assets of the corporation issuing them. Warrants are issued by the issuer of a security and provide their holder the option to purchase that security upon the warrants’ exercise at a specific price for a specific period of time. They do not represent ownership of the securities but only the right to buy them. The prices of warrants do not necessarily parallel the prices of the underlying securities.

Convertible Securities

Convertible securities are hybrid securities that combine the investment characteristics of bonds and common stocks. Convertible securities typically consist of debt securities or preferred securities that may be converted within a specified period of time (typically for the entire life of the security) into a certain amount of common stock or other equity security of the same or a different issuer at a predetermined price. They also include debt securities with warrants or common stock attached and derivatives combining the features of debt securities and equity securities. Convertible securities entitle the holder to receive interest paid or accrued on debt, or dividends paid or accrued on preferred securities, until the security matures or is redeemed, converted or exchanged.

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determined by, among other things, reference to its credit quality and the current value of its yield to maturity or probable call date. At any given time, investment value is dependent upon such factors as the general level of interest rates, the yield of similar non-convertible securities, the financial strength of the issuer and the seniority of the security in the issuer’s capital structure. A security’s “conversion value” is determined by multiplying the number of shares the holder is entitled to receive upon conversion or exchange by the current price of the underlying security. If the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly below its investment value, the convertible security will trade like nonconvertible debt or a preferred security in the sense that its market value will not be influenced greatly by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying security into which it can be converted. Instead, the convertible security’s price will tend to move in the opposite direction from interest rates. Conversely, if the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly above its investment value, the market value of the convertible security will be more heavily influenced by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying stock. In that case, the convertible security’s price may be as volatile as that of the common stock. Because both interest rate and market movements can influence its value, a convertible security is not generally as sensitive to interest rates as a similar fixed-income security, nor is it generally as sensitive to changes in share price as its underlying stock.

A Fund’s investments in convertible securities, particularly securities that are convertible into securities of an issuer other than the issuer of the convertible security, may be illiquid. A Fund’s investments in convertible securities may at times include securities that have a mandatory conversion feature, pursuant to which the securities convert automatically into common stock or other equity securities (of the same or a different issuer) at a specified date and a specified conversion ratio, or that are convertible at the option of the issuer. For issues where the conversion of the security is not at the option of the holder, the Fund may be required to convert the security into the underlying common stock even at times when the value of the underlying common stock or other equity security has declined substantially.

In addition, some convertible securities are often rated below investment-grade or are not rated, and therefore may be considered speculative investments. The credit rating of a company’s convertible securities is generally lower than that of its conventional debt securities. Convertible securities are normally considered “junior” securities—that is, the company usually must pay interest on its conventional corporate debt before it can make payments on its convertible securities. Some convertible securities are particularly sensitive to interest rate changes when their predetermined conversion price is much higher than the issuing company’s common stock.

Participatory Notes

The Funds may invest in participatory notes issued by banks or broker-dealers that are designed to replicate the performance of certain non-U.S. companies traded on a non-U.S. exchange. Participatory notes are a type of equity-linked derivative which generally are traded over-the-counter. Even though a participatory note is intended to reflect the performance of the underlying equity securities on a one-to-one basis so that investors will not normally gain or lose more in absolute terms than they would have made or lost had they invested in the underlying securities directly, the performance results of participatory notes will not replicate exactly the performance of the issuers or markets that the notes seek to replicate due to transaction costs and other expenses. Investments in participatory notes involve risks normally associated with a direct investment in the underlying securities. In addition, participatory notes are subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the broker-dealer or bank that issues the notes will not fulfill its contractual obligation to complete the transaction with a Fund. Participatory notes constitute general unsecured, unsubordinated contractual obligations of the banks or broker-dealers that issue them, and a Fund is relying on the creditworthiness of such banks or broker-dealers and has no rights under a participatory note against the issuers of the securities underlying such participatory notes. There can be no assurance that the trading price or value of participatory notes will equal the value of the underlying value of the equity securities they seek to replicate.

Non-U.S. Securities

The Funds may invest in a variety of equity securities issued by non-U.S. companies. Investments in securities of non-U.S. companies involve risks in addition to the usual risks inherent in domestic

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investments, including currency risk. The value of a non-U.S. security in U.S. dollars tends to decrease when the value of the U.S. dollar rises against the non-U.S. currency in which the security is denominated and tends to increase when the value of the U.S. dollar falls against such currency.

Non-U.S. securities are affected by the fact that in many countries there is less publicly available information about issuers than is available in the reports and ratings published about companies in the United States and such issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards. Other risks inherent in non-U.S. investments include expropriation; confiscatory taxation; withholding taxes on dividends and interest; less extensive regulation of non-U.S. brokers, securities markets and issuers; diplomatic developments; and political or social instability. Non-U.S. economies may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in various respects, and many non-U.S. securities are less liquid and their prices tend to be more volatile than comparable U.S. securities. From time to time, non-U.S. securities may be difficult to liquidate rapidly without adverse price effects.

The Funds may invest directly in non-U.S. securities that are denominated in non-U.S. currencies or in dollar-denominated securities of non-U.S. companies. The Funds may also invest in non-U.S. securities by purchasing depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts ( “ADRs” ), European Depositary Receipts (“ EDRs ”), Global Depositary Receipts (“ GDRs ”) or other securities representing indirect ownership interests in the securities of non-U.S. companies, including New York Shares. Generally, ADRs, in registered form, are denominated in U.S. dollars and are designated for use in the U.S. securities markets, while EDRs and GDRs are typically in bearer form and may be denominated in non-U.S. currencies and are designed for use in European and other markets. ADRs are receipts typically issued by a U.S. bank or trust company evidencing ownership of the underlying non-U.S. security. ADRs, EDRs and GDRs are deemed to have the same classification as the underlying securities they represent, except that ADRs, EDRs and GDRs shall be treated as indirect non-U.S. investments. Thus, an ADR, EDR or GDR representing ownership of common stock will be treated as common stock. ADRs, EDRs and GDRs do not eliminate all of the risks associated with directly investing in the securities of non-U.S. companies, such as changes in non-U.S. currency exchange rates. However, by investing in ADRs rather than directly in non-U.S. companies’ stock, the Funds avoid currency risks during the settlement period.

Other types of depositary receipts include American Depositary Shares (“ ADSs ”), Global Depositary Certificates (“ GDCs ”) and International Depositary Receipts (“ IDRs ”). ADSs are shares issued under a deposit agreement representing the underlying ordinary shares that trade in the issuer’s home market. An ADR, described above, is a certificate that represents a number of ADSs. GDCs and IDRs are typically issued by a non-U.S. bank or trust company, although they may sometimes also be issued by a U.S. bank or trust company. GDCs and IDRs are depositary receipts that evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by either a non-U.S. or a U.S. corporation.

Depositary receipts may be available through “sponsored” or “unsponsored” facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by a depositary and the issuer of the security underlying the receipt. An unsponsored facility may be established by a depositary without participation by the issuer of the security underlying the receipt. There are greater risks associated with holding unsponsored depositary receipts. For example, if a Fund holds an unsponsored depositary receipt, it will generally bear all of the costs of establishing the unsponsored facility. In addition, the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security. Whether a sponsored or unsponsored facility, there is no assurance that either would pass through to the holders of the receipts voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.

In considering whether to invest in the securities of a non-U.S. company, the portfolio managers consider such factors as the characteristics of the particular company, differences between economic trends, and the performance of securities markets in the United States and other countries. The portfolio managers also consider factors relating to the general economic, governmental and social conditions of the country or countries where the company is located.

Securities transactions conducted outside the United States may not be regulated as rigorously as in the United States, may not involve a clearing mechanism and related guarantees, and are subject to

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the risk of governmental actions affecting trading in, or the prices of, non-U.S. securities, currencies and other instruments. The value of such positions also could be adversely affected by (i) other complex non-U.S. political, legal and economic factors, (ii) lesser availability than in the United States of data on which to make trading decisions, (iii) delays in a Fund’s ability to act upon economic events occurring in non-U.S. markets during non-business hours in the United States, (iv) the imposition of different exercise and settlement terms and procedures and the margin requirements than in the United States, (v) currency exchange rate changes, and (vi) lower trading volume and liquidity.

Emerging Markets Risk

Each Fund may invest in equity securities issued by companies located in emerging markets. Emerging market countries are generally in the initial stages of their industrialization cycles with low per capita income. The markets of emerging markets countries are generally more volatile than the markets of developed countries with more mature economies. They generally do not have the level of market efficiency and strict standards in accounting and securities regulation to be on par with advanced economies, but emerging markets will typically have a physical financial infrastructure, including banks, a stock exchange and a unified currency. Emerging markets often experience faster economic growth as measured by gross domestic product. Investments in emerging markets come with much greater risk due to political instability, domestic infrastructure problems, currency volatility and limited investment opportunities (many large companies may still be “state-run” or private). Also, local securities exchanges may not offer liquid markets for outside investors. All of the risks of investing in non-U.S. securities described above are heightened by investing in emerging markets countries.

Currency Risk

By investing in non-U.S. securities, the Funds will be subject to currency risk, which is the risk that an increase in the U.S. dollar relative to the non-U.S. currency will reduce returns or portfolio value. Generally, when the U.S. dollar rises in value relative to a non-U.S. currency, a Fund’s investment in securities denominated in that currency will lose value because its currency is worth fewer U.S. dollars. On the other hand, when the value of the U.S. dollar falls relative to a non-U.S. currency, a Fund’s investments denominated in that currency will tend to increase in value because that currency is worth more U.S. dollars. The exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and non-U.S. currencies depend upon such factors as supply and demand in the currency exchange markets, international balance of payments, governmental intervention, speculation and other economic and political conditions. Although a Fund values its assets daily in U.S. dollars, such Fund may not convert its holdings of non-U.S. currencies to U.S. dollars on a daily basis. A Fund may incur conversion costs when it converts its holdings to another currency. Non-U.S. exchange dealers may realize a profit on the difference between the price at which a Fund buys and sells currencies. A Fund may engage in non-U.S. currency exchange transactions in connection with its portfolio investments. A Fund conducts its non-U.S. currency exchange transactions either on a spot ( i.e. , cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the non-U.S. currency exchange market or through forward contracts to purchase or sell non-U.S. contracts. The Fund may also be subject to currency risk through investments in ADRs and other non-U.S. securities denominated in U.S. dollars.

Other Investment Policies and Techniques

Over-the-Counter Market

The Funds may invest in over-the-counter securities. In contrast to the securities exchanges, the over-the-counter market is not a centralized facility that limits trading activity to securities of companies which initially satisfy certain defined standards. Generally, the volume of trading in an unlisted or over-the-counter security is less than the volume of trading in a listed security. This means that the depth of market liquidity of some securities in which the Funds invest may not be as great as that of other securities and, if the Funds were to dispose of such a security, they might have to offer the securities at a discount from recent prices, or sell the securities in small lots over an extended period of time.

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Initial Public Offerings (“IPO”)

The Funds may invest a portion of their assets in securities of companies offering shares in IPOs. IPOs may have a magnified performance impact on the Funds with a small asset base. The impact of IPOs on the Funds’ performance likely will decrease as the Funds’ asset size increases, which could reduce each Fund’s total returns. IPOs may not be consistently available to a Fund for investing, particularly as the Fund’s asset base grows. Because IPO shares frequently are volatile in price, a Fund may hold IPO shares for a very short period of time. This may increase the turnover of a Fund and may lead to increased expenses for a Fund, such as commissions and transaction costs. By selling shares, a Fund may realize taxable gains it will subsequently distribute to shareholders. In addition, the market for IPO shares can be speculative and/or inactive for extended periods of time. The limited number of shares available for trading in some IPOs may make it more difficult for a Fund to buy or sell significant amounts of shares without an unfavorable impact on prevailing prices. Holders of IPO shares (including the Funds) can be affected by substantial dilution in the value of their shares, by sales of additional shares and by concentration of control in existing management and principal shareholders.

A Fund’s investment in IPO shares may include the securities of unseasoned companies (companies with less than three years of continuous operations), which present risks considerably greater than common stocks of more established companies. These companies may have limited operating histories and their prospects for profitability may be uncertain. These companies may be involved in new and evolving businesses and may be vulnerable to competition and changes in technology, markets and economic conditions. These companies may also be more dependent on key managers and third parties and may have limited product lines.

When-Issued or Delayed-Delivery Transactions

Each Fund may from time to time purchase securities on a “when-issued” or other delayed-delivery basis. The price of securities purchased on a when-issued basis is fixed at the time the commitment to purchase is made, but delivery and payment for the securities take place at a later date. Normally, the settlement date occurs within 45 days of the purchase. During the period between the purchase and settlement, no payment is made by a Fund to the issuer and no interest is accrued on debt securities and no dividend income is earned on equity securities. Forward commitments involve a risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased declines prior to the settlement date. This risk is in addition to the risk of decline in value of a Fund’s other assets. Although when-issued securities may be sold prior to the settlement date, the Funds intend to purchase such securities with the purpose of actually acquiring them. At the time a Fund makes the commitment to purchase a security on a when-issued basis, it will record the transaction and reflect the value of the security in determining its net asset value. The Funds do not believe that net asset value will be adversely affected by purchases of securities on a when-issued basis.

Each Fund will designate on its books or maintain in a segregated account cash and liquid securities equal in value to commitments for when-issued securities. When the time comes to pay for when-issued securities, each Fund will meet its obligations from then-available cash flow, sale of the segregated securities, sale of other securities or, although it would not normally expect to do so, from the sale of the when-issued securities themselves (which may have a market value greater or less than the Fund’s payment obligation).

Illiquid Securities

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advice of the Sub-Advisers in making these liquidity determinations. Although no definitive liquidity criteria are used, the Board of Trustees has directed the Adviser to look to such factors as (i) the nature of the market for a security (including the institutional private resale market; the frequency of trades and quotes for the security; the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the security; and the amount of time normally needed to dispose of the security, the method of soliciting offers and the mechanics of transfer), (ii) the terms of certain securities or other instruments allowing for the disposition to a third party or the issuer thereof ( e.g. , certain repurchase obligations and demand instruments), and (iii) other permissible relevant facts.

Restricted securities may be sold only in privately negotiated transactions or in a public offering with respect to which a registration statement is in effect under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Where registration is required, a Fund may be obligated to pay all or part of the registration expenses and a considerable period may elapse between the time of the decision to sell and the time the Fund may be permitted to sell a security under an effective registration statement. If, during such a period, adverse market conditions were to develop, the Fund might obtain a less favorable price than that which prevailed when it decided to sell. Illiquid securities will be priced at fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of Trustees or its delegate.

Short Sales Against the Box

When a Fund’s portfolio managers believe that the price of a particular security held by a Fund may decline, it may make “short sales against the box” to hedge the unrealized gain on such security. Selling short against the box involves selling a security which a Fund owns for delivery at a specified date in the future. The Funds will limit their transactions in short sales against the box to 5% of their net assets. If, for example, a Fund bought 100 shares of ABC at $40 per share in January and the price appreciates to $50 in March, the Fund might “sell short” the 100 shares at $50 for delivery the following July. Thereafter, if the price of the stock declines to $45, it will realize the full $1,000 gain rather than the $500 gain it would have received had it sold the stock in the market. On the other hand, if the price appreciates to $55 per share, the Fund would be required to sell at $50 and thus receive a $1,000 gain rather than the $1,500 gain it would have received had it sold the stock in the market. A Fund may also be required to pay a premium for short sales which would partially offset any gain.

Investment Companies

Each Fund may invest in other investment companies, including open-end funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, and exchange-traded funds ( “ETFs” ) registered under the 1940 Act ( “1940 Act ETFs” ). Under the 1940 Act, a Fund’s investment in such securities is generally limited to 3% of the total voting stock of any one investment company; 5% of such Fund’s total assets with respect to any one investment company; and 10% of such Fund’s total assets in the aggregate. Many 1940 Act ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the SEC to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in their shares beyond these statutory limits, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to contractual arrangements between the ETFs and the investing funds. The Funds may rely on these exemptive orders in investing in 1940 Act ETFs. A Fund will only invest in other investment companies and pooled investment vehicles that invest primarily in Fund eligible investments. A Fund’s investments in other investment companies may include money market mutual funds. Investments in money market funds are not subject to the percentage limitations set forth above.

ETFs in which the Funds may invest are a type of index fund bought and sold on a securities exchange. An ETF trades like common stock and represents a portfolio of securities designed to track a particular market index. ETFs can give exposure to all or a portion of the U.S. market, a foreign market, a region, a commodity, a currency, or to any other index that an ETF tracks. The risks of owning an ETF generally reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities they are designed to track, although lack of liquidity in an ETF could result in it being more volatile and ETFs have management fees that increase their costs. An ETF may fail to accurately track the returns of the market segment or index that it is designed to track, and the price of an ETF’s shares may fluctuate. In addition, because they, unlike traditional mutual funds, are traded on an exchange, ETFs are subject to the following risks: (i) the performance of the ETF may not replicate the performance of the underlying index that it is designed to track; (ii) the market price of the ETF’s shares may trade at a premium or discount to the ETF’s net asset value; (iii) an active trading market for an ETF may not develop or be maintained; and (iv) there is no assurance that the requirements of the exchange

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necessary to maintain the listing of the ETF will continue to be met or remain unchanged. Trading in an ETF may be halted if the trading in one or more of the ETF’s underlying securities is halted, which could result in the ETF being more volatile. In the event substantial market or other disruptions affecting ETFs should occur in the future, the liquidity and value of a Fund’s shares could also be substantially and adversely affected.

If a Fund invests in other investment companies, Fund shareholders will bear not only their proportionate share of the Fund’s expenses, but also, indirectly, the similar expenses of the underlying investment companies. Shareholders would also be exposed to the risks associated not only to such Fund, but also to the portfolio investments of the underlying investment companies. Shares of certain closed-end funds may at times be acquired at market prices representing premiums to their net asset values. Shares acquired at a premium to their net asset value may be more likely to subsequently decline in price, resulting in a loss to a Fund and its shareholders.

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MANAGEMENT

The management of the Trust, including general supervision of the duties performed for the Funds by the Adviser under the Investment Management Agreement, is the responsibility of the Board of Trustees. The number of trustees of the Trust is twelve, two of whom are “ interested person s ” (as the term “interested person” is defined in the 1940 Act) and ten of whom are not interested persons (referred to herein as “ independent trustees ”). None of the independent trustees has ever been a trustee, director or employee of, or consultant to, the Adviser or its affiliates. The names, business addresses and years of birth of the trustees and officers of the Funds, their principal occupations and other affiliations during the past five years, the number of portfolios each oversees and other directorships they hold are set forth below. The trustees of the Trust are directors or trustees, as the case may be, of 106 Nuveen-sponsored open-end funds (the “ Nuveen Mutual Funds ”) and 96 Nuveen-sponsored closed-end funds (collectively with the Nuveen Mutual Funds, the “ Nuveen Funds ”).


Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Independent Trustees:

Robert P. Bremner 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1940	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2003	Private Investor and Management Consultant; Treasurer and Director, Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.; Board Member, Independent Directors Council affiliated with the Investment Company Institute.	202	None

Jack B. Evans 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 1999	President, The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation (since 1996); Director, Source Media Group; Life Trustee of Coe College and the Iowa College Foundation; formerly, Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; formerly, President and Chief Operating Officer, SCI Financial Group, Inc., a regional financial services firm; formerly, Member and President Pro Tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa University System.	202	Director and Chairman, United Fire Group, a publicly held company; formerly, Director, Alliant Energy.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

William C. Hunter 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2004	Dean Emeritus (since June 30, 2012), formerly, Dean (2006-2012), Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Director (since 2005) and President (since July 2012), Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Honor Society; Director of Wellmark, Inc. (since 2009); formerly, Director (1997-2007), Credit Research Center at Georgetown University; formerly, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Finance, School of Business at the University of Connecticut (2003-2006); previously, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1995-2003).	202	Director (since 2004) of Xerox Corporation.

David J. Kundert 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1942	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2005	Formerly, Director, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013); retired (since 2004) as Chairman, JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management, President and CEO, Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation, and President, One Group Mutual Funds; prior thereto, Executive Vice President, Bank One Corporation and Chairman and CEO, Banc One Investment Management Group; Regent Emeritus, Member of Investment Committee, Luther College; Member of the Wisconsin Bar Association; Member of Board of Directors, Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens; Member of Board of Directors and Chair of Investment Committee, Greater Milwaukee Foundation; Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

John K. Nelson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2013	Senior external advisor to the financial services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP (since 2012); Member of Board of Directors of Core12 LLC (since 2008), a private firm which develops branding, marketing and communications strategies for clients; Director of The Curran Center for Catholic American Studies (since 2009) and The President’s Council, Fordham University (since 2010); former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Marian University (2010-2014 as trustee, 2011-2014 as Chairman); formerly, Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO N.V. North America, and Global Head of its Financial Markets Division (2007-2008); prior senior positions held at ABN AMRO include Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Global Markets—the Americas (2006-2007), CEO of Wholesale Banking—North America and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Futures Markets (2001-2006), and Regional Commercial Treasurer and Senior Vice President Trading—North America (1996-2001); formerly, Trustee at St. Edmund Preparatory School in New York City.	202	None

William J. Schneider 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Chairman of the Board and Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2003	Chairman of Miller-Valentine Partners, a real estate investment company; Board Member of Med-America Health System, of Tech Town, Inc., a not-for-profit community development company, and of WDPR Public Radio station; formerly, Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer (retired, 2004) of Miller-Valentine Group; formerly, Director, Dayton Development Coalition; formerly, Board Member, Business Advisory Council, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and University of Dayton Business School Advisory Council.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Judith M. Stockdale 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2003	Board Member of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (since 2013); Board Member of the Land Trust Alliance (since 2013); formerly, Executive Director (1994-2012), Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; prior thereto, Executive Director, Great Lakes Protection Fund (1990-1994).	202	None

Carole E. Stone 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2007	Director, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (since 2006); Director, C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated (since 2009); formerly, Commissioner, New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform (2005-2010); formerly, Chair, New York Racing Association Oversight Board (2005-2007).	202	Director, CBOE Holdings, Inc. (since 2010).

Virginia L. Stringer 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2011	Board Member, Mutual Fund Directors Forum; former Member, Governing Board, Investment Company Institute’s Independent Directors Council; Governance consultant and non-profit board member; former Owner and President, Strategic Management Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm; previously, held several executive positions in general management, marketing and human resources at IBM and The Pillsbury Company.	202	Previously, Independent Director (1987-2010) and Chair (1997-2010), First American Fund Complex.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Terence J. Toth 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1959	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2008	Managing Partner, Promus Capital (since 2008); Director, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012); formerly, Director, Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (2008-2013); formerly, CEO and President, Northern Trust Global Investments (2004-2007); Executive Vice President, Quantitative Management & Securities Lending (2000-2004); prior thereto, various positions with Northern Trust Company (since 1994); Member, Chicago Fellowship Board (since 2005), Catalyst Schools of Chicago Board (since 2008) and Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and a member of its investment committee; formerly, Member, Northern Trust Mutual Funds Board (2005-2007), Northern Trust Global Investments Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Japan Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Securities Inc. Board (2003-2007) and Northern Trust Hong Kong Board (1997-2004).	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Interested Trustees:

William Adams IV** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1955	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Senior Executive Vice President, Global Structured Products of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2010); Co- President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011); President (since 2011), formerly, Managing Director (2010-2011), of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Board Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of Gilda’s Club Chicago; formerly, Executive Vice President, U.S. Structured Products, of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (1999-2010).	202	None

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Vice Chairman, Wealth Management of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2011); Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chairman of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Member of the Board of Governors and Chairman’s Council of the Investment Company Institute; formerly, Chief Executive Officer (2000-2010) and Chief Investment Officer (2007-2010) of FAF Advisors, Inc.; formerly, President of First American Funds (2001-2010).	202	None

Each trustee serves an indefinite term until his or her successor is elected.

Mr. Adams and Mr. Schreier are “interested persons” of the Trust, as defined in the 1940 Act, by reason of their positions with Nuveen Investments, Inc. (“Nuveen Investments”) and certain of its subsidiaries.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Officers of the Trust:

Gifford R. Zimmerman 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Chief Administrative Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 1996	Managing Director (since 2002) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Managing Director (since 2002), Assistant Secretary (since 1997) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director (since 2004) and Assistant Secretary (since 1994) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (since 2002); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc. (since 2002); Managing Director, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Symphony Asset Management LLC (since 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC (since 2006) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since 2013), formerly, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Compliance Officer (2006-2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Margo L. Cook 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1964	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 2009	Executive Vice President of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2008), Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011) and Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2013); Managing Director—Investment Services of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC (since August 2011); previously, Head of Institutional Asset Management (2007-2008) of Bear Stearns Asset Management; Head of Institutional Asset Management (1986-2007) of Bank of NY Mellon; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Lorna C. Ferguson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1945	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 1998	Managing Director of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Stephen D. Foy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1954	Vice President and Controller	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 1998	Managing Director (since 2014), formerly, Senior Vice President (2013-2014) and Vice President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chief Financial Officer (since 2010) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Senior Vice President (2010-2011), formerly, Vice President (2005-2010) and Funds Controller of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Scott S. Grace 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Treasurer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 2009	Managing Director and Treasurer (since 2009) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc., Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, Nuveen Securities, LLC and (since 2011) Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Vice President and Treasurer of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Treasurer (2006-2009), Senior Vice President (2008-2009), previously, Vice President (2006-2008) of Janus Capital Group, Inc.; formerly, Senior Associate in Morgan Stanley’s Global Financial Services Group (2000-2003); Chartered Accountant.	203

Walter M. Kelly 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 2003	Senior Vice President (since 2008) of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Tina M. Lazar 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1961	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since 2002	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Kevin J. McCarthy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1966	Vice President and Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2007	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary (since 2008) of Nuveen Securities, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Managing Director (since 2008), Assistant Secretary (since 2007) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Managing Director (since 2008) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.; Vice President (since 2007) and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, NWQ Holdings, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President (since 2010) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Kathleen L. Prudhomme 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402 1953	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Deputy General Counsel, FAF Advisors, Inc. (2004-2010).	203

Joel T. Slager 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1978	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service— Since August 2013	Fund Tax Director for Nuveen Funds (since May, 2013); previously, Vice President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., Assistant Treasurer of the Morgan Stanley Funds (from 2010 to 2013); Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (from 2008 to 2010).	203

Jeffery M. Wilson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); formerly, Senior Vice President of FAF Advisors, Inc. (2000-2010).	106

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight

The Board of Directors or the Board of Trustees (as the case may be, each is referred to hereafter as the “ Board ” or “ Board of Trustees ” and the directors or trustees of the Nuveen Funds, as applicable, are each referred to herein as “ trustees ”) oversees the operations and management of the Nuveen Funds, including the duties performed for the Nuveen Funds by the Adviser. The Board has adopted a unitary board structure. A unitary board consists of one group of directors who serve on the board of every fund in the Nuveen Fund complex. In adopting a unitary board structure, the trustees seek to provide effective governance through establishing a board, the overall composition of which will, as a body, possess the appropriate skills, independence and experience to oversee the Nuveen Funds’ business. With this overall framework in mind, when the Board, through its Nominating and Governance Committee discussed below, seeks nominees for the Board, the trustees consider, not only the candidate’s particular background, skills and experience, among other things, but also whether such background, skills and experience enhance the Board’s diversity and at the same time complement the Board given its current composition and the mix of skills and experiences of the incumbent trustees. The Nominating and Governance Committee believes that the Board generally benefits from diversity of background, experience and views among its members, and considers this a factor in evaluating the composition of the Board, but has not adopted any specific policy on diversity or any particular definition of diversity.

The Board believes the unitary board structure enhances good and effective governance, particularly given the nature of the structure of the investment company complex. Funds in the same complex generally are served by the same service providers and personnel and are governed by the same regulatory scheme which raises common issues that must be addressed by the directors across the fund complex (such as compliance, valuation, liquidity, brokerage, trade allocation or risk management). The Board believes it is more efficient to have a single board review and oversee common policies and procedures which increases the Board’s knowledge and expertise with respect to the many aspects of fund operations that are complex-wide in nature. The unitary structure also enhances the Board’s influence and oversight over the investment adviser and other service providers.

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In an effort to enhance the independence of the Board, the Board also has a Chairman that is an independent trustee. The Board recognizes that a chairman can perform an important role in setting the agenda for the Board, establishing the boardroom culture, establishing a point person on behalf of the Board for fund management, and reinforcing the Board’s focus on the long-term interests of shareholders. The Board recognizes that a chairman may be able to better perform these functions without any conflicts of interests arising from a position with fund management. Accordingly, the trustees have elected William J. Schneider to serve as the independent Chairman of the Board. Specific responsibilities of the Chairman include: (i) presiding at all meetings of the Board and of the shareholders; (ii) seeing that all orders and resolutions of the trustees are carried into effect; and (iii) maintaining records of and, whenever necessary, certifying all proceedings of the trustees and the shareholders.

Although the Board has direct responsibility over various matters (such as advisory contracts, underwriting contracts and fund performance), the Board also exercises certain of its oversight responsibilities through several committees that it has established and which report back to the full Board. The Board believes that a committee structure is an effective means to permit trustees to focus on particular operations or issues affecting the Nuveen Funds, including risk oversight. More specifically, with respect to risk oversight, the Board has delegated matters relating to valuation and compliance to certain committees (as summarized below) as well as certain aspects of investment risk. In addition, the Board believes that the periodic rotation of trustees among the different committees allows the trustees to gain additional and different perspectives of a Nuveen Fund’s operations. The Board has established six standing committees: the Executive Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Audit Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee. The Board may also from time to time create ad hoc committees to focus on particular issues as the need arises. The membership and functions of the standing committees are summarized below.

The Executive Committee, which meets between regular meetings of the Board, is authorized to exercise all of the powers of the Board. The members of the Executive Committee are William Adams IV, William J. Schneider, Chair, and Judith M. Stockdale. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Executive Committee did not meet.

The Audit Committee assists the Board in the oversight and monitoring of the accounting and reporting policies, processes and practices of the Nuveen Funds, and the audits of the financial statements of the Nuveen Funds; the quality and integrity of the financial statements of the Nuveen Funds; the Nuveen Funds’ compliance with legal and regulatory requirements relating to the Nuveen Funds’ financial statements; the independent auditors’ qualifications, performance and independence; and the pricing procedures of the Nuveen Funds and the Adviser’s internal valuation group. It is the responsibility of the Audit Committee to select, evaluate and replace any independent auditors (subject only to Board and, if applicable, shareholder ratification) and to determine their compensation. The Audit Committee is also responsible for, among other things, overseeing the valuation of securities comprising the Nuveen Funds’ portfolios. Subject to the Board’s general supervision of such actions, the Audit Committee addresses any valuation issues, oversees the Nuveen Funds’ pricing procedures and actions taken by the Adviser’s internal valuation group which provides regular reports to the committee, reviews any issues relating to the valuation of the Nuveen Funds’ securities brought to its attention and considers the risks to the Nuveen Funds in assessing the possible resolutions to these matters. The Audit Committee may also consider any financial risk exposures for the Nuveen Funds in conjunction with performing its functions.

To fulfill its oversight duties, the Audit Committee receives annual and semi-annual reports and has regular meetings with the external auditors for the Nuveen Funds and the Adviser’s internal audit group. The Audit Committee also may review in a general manner the processes the Board or other Board committees have in place with respect to risk assessment and risk management as well as compliance with legal and regulatory matters relating to the Nuveen Funds’ financial statements. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. Members of the Audit Committee shall be independent (as set forth in the charter) and free of any relationship that, in the opinion of the trustees, would interfere with their exercise of independent judgment as an Audit Committee member. The members of the Audit Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans,

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Chair, David J. Kundert, Carole E. Stone and Terence J. Toth, each of whom is an independent trustee of the Nuveen Funds. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Audit Committee met four times.

The Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for seeking, identifying and recommending to the Board qualified candidates for election or appointment to the Board. In addition, the Nominating and Governance Committee oversees matters of corporate governance, including the evaluation of Board performance and processes, the assignment and rotation of committee members, and the establishment of corporate governance guidelines and procedures, to the extent necessary or desirable, and matters related thereto. Although the unitary and committee structure has been developed over the years and the Nominating and Governance Committee believes the structure has provided efficient and effective governance, the committee recognizes that as demands on the Board evolve over time (such as through an increase in the number of funds overseen or an increase in the complexity of the issues raised), the committee must continue to evaluate the Board and committee structures and their processes and modify the foregoing as may be necessary or appropriate to continue to provide effective governance. Accordingly, the Nominating and Governance Committee has a separate meeting each year to, among other things, review the Board and committee structures, their performance and functions, and recommend any modifications thereto or alternative structures or processes that would enhance the Board’s governance of the Nuveen Funds.

In addition, the Nominating and Governance Committee, among other things, makes recommendations concerning the continuing education of trustees; monitors performance of legal counsel and other service providers; establishes and monitors a process by which security holders are able to communicate in writing with members of the Board; and periodically reviews and makes recommendations about any appropriate changes to trustee compensation. In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the Nominating and Governance Committee receives suggestions from various sources, including shareholders, as to suitable candidates. Suggestions should be sent in writing to Lorna Ferguson, Manager of Fund Board Relations, Nuveen Investments, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606. The Nominating and Governance Committee sets appropriate standards and requirements for nominations for new trustees and reserves the right to interview any and all candidates and to make the final selection of any new trustees. In considering a candidate’s qualifications, each candidate must meet certain basic requirements, including relevant skills and experience, time availability (including the time requirements for due diligence site visits to sub-advisers and service providers) and, if qualifying as an independent trustee candidate, independence from the Adviser, the Sub-Advisers, the Distributor and other service providers, including any affiliates of these entities. These skill and experience requirements may vary depending on the current composition of the Board, since the goal is to ensure an appropriate range of skills, diversity and experience, in the aggregate. Accordingly, the particular factors considered and weight given to these factors will depend on the composition of the Board and the skills and backgrounds of the incumbent trustees at the time of consideration of the nominees. All candidates, however, must meet high expectations of personal integrity, independence, governance experience and professional competence. All candidates must be willing to be critical within the Board and with management and yet maintain a collegial and collaborative manner toward other Board members. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. This committee is composed of the independent trustees of the Nuveen Funds. Accordingly, the members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans, William C. Hunter, David J. Kundert, John K. Nelson, William J. Schneider, Chair, Judith M. Stockdale, Carole E. Stone, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Nominating and Governance Committee met seven times.

The Dividend Committee is authorized to declare distributions on the Nuveen Funds’ shares, including, but not limited to, regular and special dividends, capital gains and ordinary income distributions. The members of the Dividend Committee are Jack B. Evans, Chair, William C. Hunter, Judith M. Stockdale and Terence J. Toth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Dividend Committee met four times.

The Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee (the “ Compliance Committee ”) is responsible for the oversight of compliance issues, risk management and other

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regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds that are not otherwise the jurisdiction of the other committees. The Board has adopted and periodically reviews policies and procedures designed to address the Nuveen Funds’ compliance and risk matters. As part of its duties, the Compliance Committee reviews the policies and procedures relating to compliance matters and recommends modifications thereto as necessary or appropriate to the full Board; develops new policies and procedures as new regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds arise from time to time; evaluates or considers any comments or reports from examinations from regulatory authorities and responses thereto; and performs any special reviews, investigations or other oversight responsibilities relating to risk management, compliance and/or regulatory matters as requested by the Board.

In addition, the Compliance Committee is responsible for risk oversight, including, but not limited to, the oversight of risks related to investments and operations. Such risks include, among other things, exposures to particular issuers, market sectors, or types of securities; risks related to product structure elements, such as leverage; and techniques that may be used to address those risks, such as hedging and swaps. In assessing issues brought to the committee’s attention or in reviewing a particular policy, procedure, investment technique or strategy, the Compliance Committee evaluates the risks to the Nuveen Funds in adopting a particular approach compared to the anticipated benefits to the Nuveen Funds and their shareholders. In fulfilling its obligations, the Compliance Committee meets on a quarterly basis, and at least once a year in person. The Compliance Committee receives written and oral reports from the Nuveen Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer (“ CCO ”) and meets privately with the CCO at each of its quarterly meetings. The CCO also provides an annual report to the full Board regarding the operations of the Nuveen Funds’ and other service providers’ compliance programs as well as any recommendations for modifications thereto. The Compliance Committee also receives reports from the Adviser’s investment services group regarding various investment risks. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the full Board also participates in discussions with management regarding certain matters relating to investment risk, such as the use of leverage and hedging. The investment services group therefore also reports to the full Board at its quarterly meetings regarding, among other things, fund performance and the various drivers of such performance. Accordingly, the Board directly and/or in conjunction with the Compliance Committee oversees matters relating to investment risks. Matters not addressed at the committee level are addressed directly by the full Board. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Compliance Committee are William C. Hunter, John K. Nelson, Judith M. Stockdale, Chair, and Virginia L. Stringer. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Compliance Committee met six times.

The Open-End Funds Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in the oversight and monitoring of the Nuveen Funds that are registered as open-end management investment companies (“ Open-End Funds ”). The committee may review and evaluate matters related to the formation and the initial presentation to the Board of any new Open-End Fund and may review and evaluate any matters relating to any existing Open-End Fund. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Open-End Funds Committee are Robert P. Bremner, David J. Kundert, William J. Schneider, Judith M. Stockdale, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth, Chair. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Open-End Funds Committee met four times.

Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications

In determining that a particular trustee was qualified to serve on the Board, the Board has considered each trustee’s background, skills, experience and other attributes in light of the composition of the Board with no particular factor controlling. The Board believes that trustees need to have the ability to critically review, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, and to interact effectively with Fund management, service providers and counsel, in order to exercise effective business judgment in the performance of their duties, and the Board believes each trustee satisfies this standard. An effective trustee may achieve this ability through his or her educational background; business, professional training or practice; public service or academic positions; experience from service as a board member or executive of investment funds, public companies or significant private or not-for-profit entities or other organizations; and/or other life experiences. Accordingly, set forth below is a summary of the experiences, qualifications, attributes, and skills that

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led to the conclusion, as of the date of this document, that each trustee should continue to serve in that capacity. References to the experiences, qualifications, attributes and skills of trustees are pursuant to requirements of the SEC, do not constitute holding out of the Board or any trustee as having any special expertise or experience and shall not impose any greater responsibility or liability on any such person or on the Board by reason thereof.

William Adams IV

Mr. Adams has been Senior Executive Vice President, Global Structured Products of Nuveen Investments since November 2010. Mr. Adams has also served as Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC since January 2011. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President, U.S. Structured Products from December 1999 until November 2010 and served as Managing Director of Structured Investments from September 1997 to December 1999 and Vice President and Manager, Corporate Marketing from August 1994 to September 1997. Mr. Adams earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and his Masters of Business Administration (“ MBA ”) from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He is an Associate Fellow of Yale’s Timothy Dwight College and is currently on the Board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of Gilda’s Club Chicago.

Robert P. Bremner

Mr. Bremner is a private investor and management consultant in Washington, D.C. His biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr., a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was published by Yale University Press in November 2004. From 1994 to 1997, he was a Senior Vice President at Samuels International Associates, an international consulting firm specializing in governmental policies, where he served in a part-time capacity. Previously, Mr. Bremner was a partner in the LBK Investors Partnership and was chairman and majority stockholder with ITC Investors Inc., both private investment firms. He currently serves on the Board and as Treasurer of the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. and is a Board Member of the Independent Directors Council affiliated with the Investment Company Institute. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Bremner was an independent Trustee of the Flagship Funds, a group of municipal open-end funds. He began his career at the World Bank in Washington D.C. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University and received his MBA from Harvard University.

Jack B. Evans

President of the Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation, since 1996, Mr. Evans was formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of the SCI Financial Group, Inc., a regional financial services firm headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Formerly, he was a member of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, a Director of Alliant Energy and Member and President Pro Tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa University System. Mr. Evans is Chairman of the Board of United Fire Group, sits on the Board of Source Media Group and is a Life Trustee of Coe College. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe College and an MBA from the University of Iowa.

William C. Hunter

Mr. Hunter became Dean Emeritus of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa on June 30, 2012. He was appointed Dean of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa on July 1, 2006. He had been Dean and Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Connecticut School of Business since June 2003. From 1995 to 2003, he was the Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. While there he served as the Bank’s Chief Economist and was an Associate Economist on the Federal Reserve System’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). In addition to serving as a Vice President in charge of financial markets and basic research at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, he held faculty positions at Emory University, Atlanta University, the University of Georgia and Northwestern University. A past Director of the Credit Research Center at Georgetown University, SS&C Technologies, Inc. (2005) and past President of the Financial Management Association International, he has consulted with numerous foreign central banks and official agencies in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Central America and South America. From 1990 to 1995, he was a U.S. Treasury Advisor to Central and Eastern Europe. He has been a Director of the Xerox

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Corporation since 2004 and Wellmark, Inc. since 2009. He is a Director and President of Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Business Honor Society.

David J. Kundert

Mr. Kundert retired in 2004 as Chairman of JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management, and as President and CEO of Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation, and as President of One Group Mutual Funds. Prior to the merger between Bank One Corporation and JPMorgan Chase and Co., he was Executive Vice President, Bank One Corporation and, since 1995, the Chairman and CEO, Banc One Investment Management Group. From 1988 to 1992, he was President and CEO of Bank One Wisconsin Trust Company. Mr. Kundert recently retired as a Director of the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013). He started his career as an attorney for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Kundert has served on the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and he is currently a member of the Wisconsin Bar Association. He is on the Board of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and chairs its Investment Committee. He is a Regent Emeritus and a Member of the Investment Committee of Luther College. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Luther College, and his Juris Doctor from Valparaiso University.

John K. Nelson

Mr. Nelson is currently a senior external advisor to the financial services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He is on the Board of Directors of Core12 LLC (since 2008), a private firm which develops branding, marketing, and communications strategies for clients. Mr. Nelson has served in several senior executive positions with ABN AMRO Holdings N.V. and its affiliated entities and predecessors, including LaSalle Bank Corporation from 1996 to 2008. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Nelson was Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO N.V. North America, and Global Head of its Financial Markets Division. He was a member of the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, and during his tenure with ABN AMRO, served as the bank’s representative on various committees of the Bank of Canada, European Central Bank, and the Bank of England. At Fordham University, he currently serves as a director of The Curran Center for Catholic American Studies, and The President’s Council. He is also a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and The Hyde Park Angels, and was formerly a Trustee at St. Edmund Preparatory School in New York City. He formerly served as the Chairman of The Board of Trustees of Marian University (2011-2014). Mr. Nelson graduated and received his MBA from Fordham University.

William J. Schneider

Mr. Schneider, the Nuveen Funds’ Independent Chairman, is currently Chairman, formerly Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer (retired, 2004) of Miller-Valentine Partners, a real estate investment company. He is an owner in several other Miller-Valentine Group entities. He is currently a member of the boards of WDPR Public radio station, of Med-America Health System and of Tech Town, Inc., a not-for-profit Dayton community development corporation. He was formerly a Director and Past Chair of the Dayton Development Coalition. He was formerly a member of the Community Advisory Board of the National City Bank in Dayton as well as a former member of the Business Advisory Council of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. Mr. Schneider was also a member of the Business Advisory Council for the University of Dayton College of Business. He also served as Chair of the Miami Valley Hospital and as Chair of the Finance Committee of its parent holding company. Mr. Schneider was an independent Trustee of the Flagship Funds, a group of municipal open-end funds. Mr. Schneider has a Bachelor of Science in Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Dayton.

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

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and an MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Schreier is a member of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and is on its Chairman’s Council. He has also served as director, chairman of the finance committee, and member of the audit committee for Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Mr. Schreier is former chairman of the Saint Thomas Academy Board of Trustees, a founding investor of Granite Global Ventures, and a member of the Applied Investment Management Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame.

Judith M. Stockdale

Ms. Stockdale retired in 2012 as Executive Director of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, a private foundation working in land conservation and artistic vitality in the Chicago region and the Low country of South Carolina. She is currently a board member of the Land Trust Alliance (since June 2013) and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (since November 2013). Her previous positions include Executive Director of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, Executive Director of Openlands, and Senior Staff Associate at the Chicago Community Trust. She has served on the Boards of the National Zoological Park, the Governor’s Science Advisory Council (Illinois), the Nancy Ryerson Ranney Leadership Grants Program, Friends of Ryerson Woods and the Donors Forum. Ms. Stockdale, a native of the United Kingdom, has a Bachelor of Science degree in geography from the University of Durham (UK) and a Master of Forest Science degree from Yale University.

Carole E. Stone

Ms. Stone retired from the New York State Division of the Budget in 2004, having served as its Director for nearly five years and as Deputy Director from 1995 through 1999. Ms. Stone is currently on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, CBOE Holdings, Inc. and C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated. She has also served as the Chair of the New York Racing Association Oversight Board, as a Commissioner on the New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform and as a member of the Boards of Directors of several New York State public authorities. Ms. Stone has a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College in Business Administration.

Virginia L. Stringer

Ms. Stringer served as the independent chair of the Board of the First American Fund Complex from 1997 to 2010, having joined such Board in 1987. Ms. Stringer serves on the board of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Corporate Director award from Twin Cities Business Monthly and the Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Ms. Stringer is the past board chair of the Oak Leaf Trust, director emeritus and former Chair of the Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation and also served as President of the Minneapolis Club’s Governing Board. She is a director and former board chair of the Minnesota Opera and a Life Trustee and former board member of the Voyageur Outward Bound School. She also served as a trustee of Outward Bound USA. She was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota to the Board on Judicial Standards and also served on a Minnesota Supreme Court Judicial Advisory Committee to reform the state’s judicial disciplinary process. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum and attended the London Business School as an International Business Fellow. Ms. Stringer also served as board chair of the Human Resource Planning Society, the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund and the Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable. Ms. Stringer is the retired founder of Strategic Management Resources, a consulting practice focused on corporate governance, strategy and leadership. She has twenty five years of corporate experience having held executive positions in general management, marketing and human resources with IBM and the Pillsbury Company.

Terence J. Toth

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currently serves on the Board of Chicago Fellowship, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012), and is Chairman of the Board of Catalyst Schools of Chicago. He is on the Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and is a member of its investment committee. Mr. Toth graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and received his MBA from New York University. In 2005, he graduated from the CEO Perspectives Program at Northwestern University.

Board Compensation

The following table shows, for each independent trustee, (1) the aggregate compensation paid by the Funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, (2) the amount of total compensation paid by the Funds that has been deferred, and (3) the total compensation paid to each trustee by the Nuveen Funds during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.


Name of Trustee	Aggregate Compensation From Funds ¹		Amount of Total Compensation that Has Been Deferred ²		Total Compensation From Nuveen Funds Paid to Trustee ³
Robert P. Bremner	$	8,498	$	1,212	$	298,602
Jack B. Evans		8,432		1,455		291,892
William C. Hunter		7,659		—		261,500
David J. Kundert		8,895		8,065		311,960
John K. Nelson ⁴		5,490		—		152,167
William J. Schneider		10,115		9,155		363,918
Judith M. Stockdale		8,148		442		285,359
Carole E. Stone		8,565		3,958		300,367
Virginia L. Stringer		7,803		—		270,500
Terence J. Toth		8,800		2,506		316,839

The compensation paid, including deferred amounts, to the independent trustees for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Funds.

Pursuant to a deferred compensation agreement with the Funds, deferred amounts are treated as though an equivalent dollar amount has been invested in shares of one or more eligible Nuveen Funds. The amounts provided are the total deferred fees (including the return from the assumed investment in the eligible Nuveen Funds) payable from the Funds.

Based on the compensation paid (including any amounts deferred) to the trustees for the one-year period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Nuveen Funds.

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Mr. Nelson was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Nuveen Funds effective September 1, 2013.

Prior to January 1, 2014, independent trustees received a $140,000 annual retainer plus (a) a fee of $4,500 per day for attendance in person or by telephone at regularly scheduled meetings of the Board; (b) a fee of $3,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at special, non-regularly scheduled Board meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (c) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Audit Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (d) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (e) a fee of $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Dividend Committee meetings; (f) a fee of $500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at all other committee meetings ($1,000 for shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance was required and $250 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such committee meetings (excluding shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance was not required, and $100 per meeting when the Executive Committee acted as pricing committee for IPOs, plus, in each case, expenses incurred in attending such meetings, provided that no fees were received for

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meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held; and (g) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Open-End Funds Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; provided that no fees were received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held. In addition to the payments described above, the Chairman of the Board received $75,000, the chairpersons of the Audit Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee received $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee received $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent trustees also received a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provided services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting was held. When ad hoc committees were organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee at the time of formation determined compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees were $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses were allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management might have, in its discretion, established a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

Effective January 1, 2014, independent trustees receive a $150,000 annual retainer, plus they receive (a) a fee of $5,000 per day for attendance in person or by telephone at regularly scheduled meetings of the Board; (b) a fee of $3,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at special, non-regularly scheduled Board meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (c) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Audit Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (d) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (e) a fee of $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Dividend Committee meetings; (f) a fee of $500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at all other committee meetings ($1,000 for shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance is required and $250 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such committee meetings (excluding shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance is not required, and $100 per meeting when the Executive Committee acts as pricing committee for IPOs, plus, in each case, expenses incurred in attending such meetings, provided that no fees are received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings are held; and (g) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Open-End Funds Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; provided that no fees are received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings are held. In addition to the payments described above, the Chairman of the Board receives $75,000, the chairpersons of the Audit Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee receive $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee receives $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent trustees also receive a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provide services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting is held. When ad hoc committees are organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee will at the time of formation determine compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees will be $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses are allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management may, in its discretion, establish a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

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The Trust does not have a retirement or pension plan. The Trust has a deferred compensation plan (the “ Deferred Compensation Plan ”) that permits any independent trustee to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of his or her compensation as an independent trustee. The deferred compensation of a participating trustee is credited to a book reserve account of the Trust when the compensation would otherwise have been paid to the trustee. The value of the trustee’s deferral account at any time is equal to the value that the account would have had if contributions to the account had been invested and reinvested in shares of one or more of the eligible Nuveen Funds. At the time for commencing distributions from a trustee’s deferral account, the independent trustee may elect to receive distributions in a lump sum or over a period of five years. The Trust will not be liable for any other fund’s obligations to make distributions under the Deferred Compensation Plan.

The Funds have no employees. The officers of the Trust and the trustees of the Trust who are not independent trustees serve without any compensation from the Funds.

Share Ownership

The information in the table below discloses the dollar ranges of (i) each trustee’s beneficial ownership in each Fund, and (ii) each trustee’s aggregate beneficial ownership in all funds within the Nuveen Funds complex, including in each case the value of fund shares elected by the trustee in the trustees’ deferred compensation plan, based on the value of fund shares as of September 30, 2014:


Name of Trustee	Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the Funds					Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in All Registered Investment Companies Overseen by Trustee in Family of Investment Companies
Name of Trustee	Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund	Nuveen NWQ Small/ Mid-Cap Value Fund	Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund	Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund
William Adams IV	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Robert P. Bremner	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Jack B. Evans	Over $100,000	$0	$0	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000
William C. Hunter	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000	$0	Over $100,000
David J. Kundert	Over $100,000	$0	$0	$10,001-$50,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000
John K. Nelson	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
William J. Schneider	Over $100,000	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Judith M. Stockdale	Over $100,000	$0	$0	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000
Carole E. Stone	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Virginia L. Stringer	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000
Terence J. Toth	$10,001-$50,000	$0	$50,001-$100,000	$50,001-$100,000	$50,001-$100,000	Over $100,000

As of October 2, 2014, the officers and trustees of the Trust, in the aggregate, owned less than 1% of the shares of each of the Funds.

As of October 2, 2014, none of the independent trustees or their immediate family members owned, beneficially, or of record, any securities in (i) an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds or (ii) a person (other than a registered investment company) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds.

Sales Loads

Trustees of the Trust and certain other Fund affiliates may purchase the Funds’ Class I shares. See the Funds’ Prospectus for details.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the investment adviser of each Fund, with responsibility for the overall management of each Fund. The Adviser is also responsible for managing the Funds’ business affairs and providing day-to-day administrative services to the Funds. The Adviser has selected its affiliate, NWQ, located at 2049 Century Park East, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the

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investment portfolios of Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund. The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Tradewinds, located at 2049 Century Park East, 20th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund. For additional information regarding the management services performed by the Adviser and the Sub-Advisers, see “Who Manages the Funds” in the Prospectus.

The Adviser is an affiliate of the Distributor, which is located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. The Distributor is the principal underwriter for the Nuveen Mutual Funds, and has served as co-managing underwriter for the shares of the Nuveen Closed-End Funds. The Adviser and the Distributor are subsidiaries of Nuveen Investments.

On October 1, 2014, Nuveen Investments was acquired by TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization.

For the management services and facilities furnished by the Adviser, each of the Funds has agreed to pay an annual management fee at a rate set forth in the Prospectus under “Who Manages the Funds.” In addition, the Adviser has agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee or reimburse certain expenses of the Funds. The Prospectus includes current fee waivers and expense reimbursements for the Funds.

Each Fund’s management fee is divided into two components—a complex-level fee based on the aggregate amount of all eligible Nuveen Fund assets and a specific fund-level fee based only on the amount of assets within each individual Fund. This pricing structure enables Fund shareholders to benefit from growth in the assets within each individual Fund as well as from growth in the amount of complex-wide assets managed by the Adviser. Under no circumstances will this pricing structure result in a Fund paying management fees at a rate higher than would otherwise have been applicable had the complex-wide management fee structure not been implemented.

Each Fund has agreed to pay an annual fund-level management fee, payable monthly, based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as set forth in the Prospectus.

The annual complex-level management fee for each Fund, payable monthly, which is additive to the fund-level fee, is based on the aggregate amount of total eligible assets managed for all Nuveen Funds as stated in the table below:


Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level*	Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level
$55 billion		0.2000	%
$56 billion		0.1996	%
$57 billion		0.1989	%
$60 billion		0.1961	%
$63 billion		0.1931	%
$66 billion		0.1900	%
$71 billion		0.1851	%
$76 billion		0.1806	%
$80 billion		0.1773	%
$91 billion		0.1691	%
$125 billion		0.1599	%
$200 billion		0.1505	%
$250 billion		0.1469	%
$300 billion		0.1445	%

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assets managed by the Adviser that are attributable to financial leverage. For these purposes, financial leverage includes the closed-end funds’ use of preferred stock and borrowings and certain investments in the residual interest certificates (also called inverse floating rate securities) in tender option bond (TOB) trusts, including the portion of assets held by a TOB trust that has been effectively financed by the trust’s issuance of floating rate securities, subject to an agreement by the Adviser as to certain funds to limit the amount of such assets for determining eligible assets in certain circumstances. As of June 30, 2014, the complex-level fee rate was 0.1653%.

The following table sets forth the management fees (net of fee waivers and expense reimbursements) paid by the Funds and the fees waived and expenses reimbursed by the Adviser for the specified periods.


	Amount of Management Fees (Net of Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements by the Adviser) for the Fiscal Year Ended						Amount of Fees Waived and Expenses Reimbursed by the Adviser for the Fiscal Year Ended
	6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14		6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	$	2,039,094	$	1,279,122	$	1,276,328	$	—	$	—	$	—
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		4,146,324		8,141,216		9,672,499		—		—		—
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		113,934		237,205		445,941		58,934		5,281		—
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		899,600		1,156,018		1,996,508		—		—		—
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		21,211,607		5,927,264		4,219,136		—		—		—

In addition to the Adviser’s management fee, each Fund also pays a portion of the Trust’s general administrative expenses allocated in proportion to the net assets of each Fund. All fees and expenses are accrued daily and deducted before payment of dividends to investors.

Sub-Advisers

The Adviser has selected its affiliate, NWQ, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolios of Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund. Nuveen Investments purchased NWQ on August 1, 2002. NWQ is organized as a member-managed Delaware limited liability company, and its sole managing member is Nuveen Investments. The Adviser pays NWQ a portfolio management fee out of the advisory fee paid to the Adviser for its services to the Funds.

The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Tradewinds, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund. Tradewinds is organized as a member-managed limited liability company, and its sole managing member is NWQ Holdings, LLC, which in turn is wholly-owned by Nuveen Investments. The Adviser pays Tradewinds a portfolio management fee out of the advisory fee paid to the Adviser for its services to the Fund.

Portfolio Managers

The following individuals have primary responsibility for the day-to-day implementation of the investment strategies of the Funds:


Name		Fund
NWQ
Jon D. Bosse, CFA		Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund
		Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund
Phyllis G. Thomas, CFA		Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund
		Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund
Tradewinds
Joann M. Barry, CFA		Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund
F. Rowe Michels, CFA		Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund

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Compensation

NWQ . NWQ’s portfolio managers participate in a highly competitive compensation structure with the purpose of attracting and retaining the most talented investment professionals and rewarding them through a total compensation program as determined by the firm’s executive committee. The total compensation program consists of both a base salary and an annual bonus that can be a multiple of the base salary. Each portfolio manager’s performance is formally evaluated annually and based on a variety of factors. Bonus compensation is primarily a function of the firm’s overall annual profitability and the individual portfolio manager’s contribution as measured by the overall investment performance of client portfolios in the strategy they manage relative to the strategy’s general benchmark for one, three and five year periods (as applicable), as well as an objective review of stock recommendations and the quality of primary research, and subjective review of the professional’s contributions to portfolio strategy, teamwork, collaboration and work ethic.

Additionally, certain portfolio managers have been provided compensation in conjunction with signing long-term employment agreements. Finally, certain key employees of NWQ, including the portfolio managers, have received long-term equity awards tied to the performance and growth of NWQ.

Tradewinds. Tradewinds’ portfolio managers participate in a highly competitive compensation structure with the purpose of attracting and retaining the most talented investment professionals and rewarding them through a total compensation program as determined by the firm’s executive committee. The total compensation program consists of both a base salary and an annual bonus that can be a multiple of the base salary. The portfolio manager’s performance is formally evaluated annually based on a variety of factors. Bonus compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts is primarily a function of the firm’s overall annual profitability as well as the individual’s contribution, including the relative performance of their stock recommendations over a period of up to four years, depending on tenure. Tradewinds also evaluates and considers the professional’s quality of research and work ethic, as well as their contributions to portfolio strategy, teamwork, and collaboration. Additionally, each member of the investment team participates in the firm’s employee equity participation program which enables team members to participate in the long-term success of Tradewinds.

Other Accounts Managed

In addition to the Funds, as of June 30, 2014, the portfolio managers were also primarily responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of the following accounts:


Portfolio Manager	Type of Account Managed	Number of Accounts		Assets		Number of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees		Assets of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees
Jon D. Bosse	Registered Investment Companies Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Other Accounts		1 10 14,651	$	138.5 million 246.8 million 7.89 billion		0 0 2	$	0 0 267.4 million
Phyllis G. Thomas	Registered Investment Companies Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Other Accounts		2 1 1,360		130.6 million 83.8 million 2.2 billion		0 0 0		0 0 0
Joann M. Barry	Registered Investment Companies Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Other Accounts		0 0 128		0 0 157.7 million		0 0 0		0 0 0
F. Rowe Michels	Registered Investment Companies Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Other Accounts		0 0 3		0 0 96.1 million		0 0 0		0 0 0

Conflicts of Interest

NWQ . Actual or perceived conflicts of interest may arise when a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities with respect to more than one account. More specifically, portfolio managers who manage multiple accounts are presented with the following potential conflicts, which are not intended to be an exhaustive list:

•

The management of multiple accounts may result in a portfolio manager devoting unequal time and attention to the management of each account. NWQ seeks to manage such

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competing interests for the time and attention of the portfolio manager by utilizing investment models for the management of most investment strategies.

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If a portfolio manager identifies a limited investment opportunity which may be suitable for more than one account, an account may not be able to take full advantage of that opportunity due to an allocation of filled purchase or sale orders across all eligible accounts. To deal with these situations, NWQ has adopted procedures for allocating limited opportunities across multiple accounts.

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With respect to many of its clients’ accounts, NWQ determines which broker to utilize when placing orders for execution, consistent with its duty to seek best execution of the transaction. However, with respect to certain other accounts, NWQ may be limited by the client with respect to the selection of brokers or may be instructed to direct trades through a particular broker. In these cases, NWQ may place separate transactions for certain accounts which may temporarily affect the market price of the security or the execution of the transaction, or both, to the detriment of other accounts. NWQ seeks to minimize market impact by using its discretion in releasing orders in a manner which seeks to cause the least possible impact while keeping within the approximate price range of the discretionary block trade.

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Finally, the appearance of a conflict of interest may arise where NWQ has an incentive, such as a performance-based management fee, which relates to the management of some accounts, with respect to which the portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities. NWQ periodically performs a comparative analysis of the performance between accounts with performance fees and those without performance fees.

NWQ has adopted certain compliance procedures which are designed to address these types of conflicts common among investment managers. However, there is no guarantee that such procedures will detect each and every situation in which a conflict arises.

Tradewinds . Actual or perceived conflicts of interest may arise when a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities with respect to more than one account. More specifically, portfolio managers who manage multiple accounts are presented with the following potential conflicts, which are not intended to be an exhaustive list:

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The management of multiple accounts may result in a portfolio manager devoting unequal time and attention to the management of each account. Tradewinds seeks to manage such competing interests for the time and attention of the portfolio manager by utilizing investment models for the management of most investment strategies.

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If a portfolio manager identifies a limited investment opportunity which may be suitable for more than one account, an account may not be able to take full advantage of that opportunity due to an allocation of filled purchase or sale orders across all eligible accounts. To deal with these situations, Tradewinds has adopted procedures for allocating limited opportunities across multiple accounts.

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With respect to many of its clients’ accounts, Tradewinds determines which broker to utilize when placing orders for execution, consistent with its duty to seek best execution of the transaction. However, with respect to certain other accounts, Tradewinds may be limited by the client with respect to the selection of brokers when the client requests Tradewinds to direct trades through a particular broker. In these cases, Tradewinds may place separate transactions for certain accounts that may temporarily affect the market price of the security or the execution of the transaction, or both, to the detriment of other accounts. Tradewinds seeks to minimize market impact by using its discretion in releasing orders in a manner that seeks to cause the least possible impact.

•

Finally, the appearance of a conflict of interest may arise where Tradewinds has an incentive, such as a performance-based management fee, which relates to the management of some accounts, with respect to which the portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities. Tradewinds periodically performs a comparative analysis of the performance between accounts with performance fees and those without performance fees.

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Tradewinds has adopted certain compliance procedures which are designed to address these types of conflicts common among investment managers. However, there is no guarantee that such procedures will detect each and every situation in which a conflict arises.

Beneficial Ownership of Securities

The following table indicates as of June 30, 2014 the value, within the indicated range, of shares beneficially owned by the portfolio managers in the Funds they manage. For purposes of this table, the following letters indicate the range listed next to each letter:


A	-	$0
B	-	$1-$10,000
C	-	$10,001-$50,000
D	-	$50,001-$100,000
E	-	$100,001-$500,000
F	-	$500,001-$1,000,000
G	-	More than $1 million


Name of Portfolio Manager	Fund	Dollar Range of Equity Securities Beneficially Owned in Fund Managed
Joann M. Barry	Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		G
Jon D. Bosse	Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund		G
	Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		E
F. Rowe Michels	Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		A
Phyllis G. Thomas	Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		C
	Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		A

Transfer Agent

The Funds’ transfer, shareholder services, and dividend paying agent is Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“ BFDS ”), P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530.

Custodian

The custodian of the assets of the Funds is State Street Bank & Trust Company, P.O. Box 5043, Boston, Massachusetts 02206-5043. The custodian performs custodial, fund accounting and portfolio accounting services.

Distributor

Nuveen Securities, LLC, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the distributor for the Funds’ shares pursuant to a “best efforts” arrangement as provided by a Distribution Agreement dated August 1, 1998 (the “ Distribution Agreement ”). Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Funds appointed the Distributor to be their agent for the distribution of the Funds’ shares on a continuous offering basis.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“ PwC ”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, independent registered public accounting firm, has been selected as auditors for the Trust. In addition to audit services, PwC provides assistance on accounting, tax and related matters.

CODES OF ETHICS

The Funds, the Adviser, the Sub-Advisers and the Distributor have adopted codes of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and with respect to the Adviser and the Sub-Advisers, Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Acts of 1940, as amended, addressing personal securities transactions and other conduct by investment personnel and access persons who may have access to

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information about the Funds’ securities transactions. The codes are intended to address potential conflicts of interest that can arise in connection with personal trading activities of such persons. Persons subject to the codes are generally permitted to engage in personal securities transactions, including investing in securities eligible for investment by the Funds, subject to certain prohibitions, which may include prohibitions on investing in certain types of securities, pre-clearance requirements, blackout periods, annual and quarterly reporting of personal securities holdings and limitations on personal trading of initial public offerings. Violations of the codes are subject to review by the Board of Trustees and could result in severe penalties.

PROXY VOTING POLICIES

Each Fund has adopted a proxy voting policy that seeks to ensure that proxies for securities held by the Fund are voted consistently and solely in the best economic interests of the Fund.

A member of each Fund’s management team is responsible for oversight of the Fund’s proxy voting process. With regard to equity securities, the Sub-Adviser has engaged the services of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ ISS ”) to make recommendations on the voting of proxies relating to securities held by the Funds and managed by the Sub-Adviser. ISS provides voting recommendations based upon established guidelines and practices. The Sub-Adviser reviews and frequently follows the ISS recommendations. However, on selected issues, the Sub-Adviser may not vote in accordance with the ISS recommendations when it believes that specific ISS recommendations are not in the best economic interest of the applicable Fund. If the Sub-Adviser manages the assets of a company or its pension plan and any of the Sub-Adviser’s clients hold any securities of that company, the Sub-Adviser will vote proxies relating to such company’s securities in accordance with the ISS recommendations to avoid any conflict of interest. Where a material conflict of interest has been identified by the Sub-Adviser and ISS does not offer a recommendation on the matter, the Sub-Adviser shall disclose the conflict and the Sub-Adviser’s Proxy Voting Committee shall determine the manner in which to vote and notify the applicable Fund’s Board of Trustees or its designated committee.

Although the Sub-Adviser has affiliates that provide investment advisory, broker-dealer, insurance or other financial services, the Sub-Adviser does not receive non-public information about the business arrangements of such affiliates (except with regard to major distribution partners of its investment products) or the directors, officers and employees of such affiliates. Therefore, the Sub-Adviser is unable to consider such information when determining whether there are material conflicts of interests.

Information regarding how each Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787 or by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS

The Sub-Advisers are responsible for decisions to buy and sell securities for the Funds and for the placement of the Funds’ securities business, the negotiation of the commissions to be paid on brokered transactions, the prices for principal trades in securities, and the allocation of portfolio brokerage and principal business. It is the policy of the Sub-Advisers to seek the best execution at the best security price available with respect to each transaction, and with respect to brokered transactions, in light of the overall quality of brokerage and research services provided to the respective adviser and its advisees. The best price to the Funds means the best net price without regard to the mix between purchase or sale price and commission, if any. Purchases may be made from underwriters, dealers, and, on occasion, the issuers. Commissions will be paid on the Funds’ futures and options transactions, if any. The purchase price of portfolio securities purchased from an underwriter or dealer may include underwriting commissions and dealer spreads. The Funds may pay mark-ups on principal transactions. In selecting broker-dealers and in negotiating commissions, the portfolio managers consider, among other things, the firm’s reliability, the quality of its execution services on a continuing basis and its financial condition. Brokerage will not be allocated based on the sale of a Fund’s shares.

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Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 permits an investment adviser, under certain circumstances, to cause an account to pay a broker or dealer who supplies brokerage and research services a commission for effecting the transaction in excess of the amount of commission another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting the transaction. Brokerage and research services include, but are not limited to, (a) furnishing advice as to the value of securities, the advisability of investing, purchasing or selling securities, and the availability of securities or purchasers or sellers of securities; (b) furnishing analyses and reports concerning issuers, industries, securities, economic factors and trends, portfolio strategy, and the performance of accounts; and (c) effecting securities transactions and performing functions incidental thereto (such as clearance, settlement, and custody).

In light of the above, in selecting brokers, the portfolio managers consider investment and market information and other research, such as economic, securities and performance measurement research, provided by such brokers, and the quality and reliability of brokerage services, including execution capability, performance and financial responsibility. Accordingly, the commissions charged by any such broker may be greater than the amount another firm might charge if the portfolio managers determine in good faith that the amount of such commissions is reasonable in relation to the value of the research information and brokerage services provided by such broker to a Sub-Adviser or a Fund. The Sub-Advisers believe that the research information received in this manner provides a Fund with benefits by supplementing the research otherwise available to the Fund. The Investment Management Agreement and the Sub-Advisory Agreement provide that such higher commissions will not be paid by a Fund unless the applicable Sub-Adviser determines in good faith that the amount is reasonable in relation to the services provided. The investment advisory fees paid by a Fund to the Adviser under the Investment Management Agreement and the sub-advisory fees paid by the Adviser to the Sub-Advisers under the Sub-Advisory Agreement are not reduced as a result of receipt by either the Adviser or the Sub-Advisers of research services.

Each Sub-Adviser places portfolio transactions for other advisory accounts managed by it. Research services furnished by firms through which the Funds effect their securities transactions may be used by the Sub-Advisers in servicing all of its accounts; not all of such services may be used by the Sub-Advisers in connection with the Funds. The Sub-Advisers believe it is not possible to measure separately the benefits from research services to each of the accounts (including the Funds) managed by the Sub-Advisers. Because the volume and nature of the trading activities of the accounts are not uniform, the amount of commissions in excess of those charged by another broker paid by each account for brokerage and research services will vary. However, the Sub-Advisers believe such costs to the Funds will not be disproportionate to the benefits received by the Funds on a continuing basis. The Sub-Advisers seek to allocate portfolio transactions equitably whenever concurrent decisions are made to purchase or sell securities by the Funds and another advisory account. In some cases, this procedure could have an adverse effect on the price or the amount of securities available to the Funds. In making such allocations between the Fund and other advisory accounts, the main factors considered by the Sub-Advisers are the respective investment objectives, the relative size of portfolio holdings of the same or comparable securities, the availability of cash for investment and the size of investment commitments generally held.

The following table sets forth the aggregate amount of brokerage commissions paid by the Funds for the fiscal years ended:


	Aggregate Amount of Brokerage Commissions
	6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	$	384,800	$	168,400	$	137,849
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		869,245		420,895		1,198,730
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		31,194		52,046		79,316
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		131,860		164,254		360,636
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		6,908,979		1,912,665		963,560

Brokerage commissions paid by a Fund may vary significantly from year to year. During the last fiscal year, Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund experienced decreases in brokerage commissions due to lower assets under management or fund

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outflows. During the last fiscal year, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund and Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund experienced increases in brokerage commissions due to fund inflows.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund, and Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund paid to brokers as commissions in return for research services $130,086, $1,116,426, $61,338, $276,640 and $813,893, respectively, and the aggregate amount of those transactions per Fund on which such commissions were paid were $117,891,974, $1,808,943,215, $49,371,820, $226,278,536 and $1,013,425,817, respectively.

The Funds have acquired during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014 the securities of their regular brokers or dealers as defined in Rule 10b-1 under the 1940 Act or of the parents of the brokers or dealers. The following table sets forth those brokers or dealers and states the value of the Funds’ aggregate holdings of the securities of each issuer as of close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014:


Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/ Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc.	$5,991,120
	JPMorgan Securities, Inc.	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	3,457,200
	State Street Bank & Trust Co.	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement	429,804
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc.	28,468,182
	JPMorgan Clearing Corporation	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	21,735,416
	State Street Bank & Trust Co.	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement	10,994,065
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund	State Street Bank & Trust Co.	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement	1,365,340
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund	State Street Bank & Trust Co.	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement	21,081,242
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund	State Street Bank & Trust Co.	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement	13,354,669
	UBS Securities LLC.	UBS AG	7,443,727

Under the 1940 Act, a Fund may not purchase portfolio securities from any underwriting syndicate of which the Distributor is a member except under certain limited conditions set forth in Rule 10f-3. The Rule sets forth requirements relating to, among other things, the terms of a security purchased by a Fund, the amount of securities that may be purchased in any one issue and the assets of a Fund that may be invested in a particular issue. In addition, purchases of securities made pursuant to the terms of the Rule must be approved at least quarterly by the Board of Trustees, including a majority of the independent trustees.

DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

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month, approximately two to five business days after the end of the month for which the information is current. This information will remain available on the website at least until the Funds file with the SEC their Forms N-CSR or Forms N-Q for the period that includes the date as of which the website information is current.

Additionally, the Funds may disclose portfolio holdings information that has not been included in a filing with the SEC or posted on the Funds’ website (i.e., non-public portfolio holdings information) only if there is a legitimate business purpose for doing so and if the recipient is required, either by explicit agreement or by virtue of the recipient’s duties to the Funds as an agent or service provider, to maintain the confidentiality of the information and to not use the information in an improper manner (e.g., personal trading). In this connection, the Funds may disclose on an ongoing basis non-public portfolio holdings information in the normal course of their investment and administrative operations to various service providers, including the Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers, independent registered public accounting firm, custodian, financial printer (R.R. Donnelley Financial and Financial Graphic Services), proxy voting service(s) (including ISS, ADP Investor Communication Services, and Glass, Lewis & Co.), and to the legal counsel for the Funds’ independent trustees (Chapman and Cutler LLP). Also, the Adviser may transmit to Vestek Systems, Inc. daily non-public portfolio holdings information on a next-day basis to enable the Adviser to perform portfolio attribution analysis using Vestek’s systems and software programs. Vestek is also provided with non-public portfolio holdings information on a monthly basis approximately 2-3 business days after the end of each month so that Vestek may calculate and provide certain statistical information (but not the non-public holdings information itself) to its clients (including retirement plan sponsors or their consultants). The Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may also provide certain portfolio holdings information to broker-dealers from time to time in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or requests for price quotations or bids on one or more securities. In providing this information, reasonable precautions are taken in an effort to avoid potential misuse of the disclosed information, including limitations on the scope of the portfolio holdings information disclosed, when appropriate.

Non-public portfolio holdings information may be provided to other persons if approved by the Funds’ Chief Administrative Officer or Secretary upon a determination that there is a legitimate business purpose for doing so, the disclosure is consistent with the interests of the Funds, and the recipient is obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the information and not misuse it.

Compliance officers of the Funds and the Adviser and Sub-Advisers periodically monitor overall compliance with the policy to ascertain whether portfolio holdings information is disclosed in a manner that is consistent with the Funds’ policy. Reports are made to the Funds’ Board of Trustees on an annual basis.

There is no assurance that the Funds’ policies on portfolio holdings information will protect the Funds from the potential misuse of portfolio holdings information by individuals or firms in possession of such information.

The following parties currently receive non-public portfolio holdings information regarding one or more of the Nuveen Mutual Funds on an ongoing basis pursuant to the various arrangements described above:

ADP Investor Communications Services

Barclays Capital, Inc.

Barra

Bloomberg

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Broadridge Systems

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Commerz Markets LLC

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

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Dresdner Kleinwort Securities, LLC

Ernst & Young LLP

FactSet Research Systems

Financial Graphic Services

First Clearing, LLC

Forbes

Glass, Lewis & Co.

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

ING Financial Markets, LLC

The Investment Company Institute

ISS

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.

J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.

KPMG LLP

Lipper Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Moody’s

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Morningstar, Inc.

MS Securities Services, Inc.

Newedge USA, LLC

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Pershing, LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

RBS Securities, Inc.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company

R.R. Donnelley Financial

Scotia Capital (USA), Inc.

SG Ameritas Securities, LLC

Societe Generale, New York Branch

Standard & Poor’s

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

Strategic Insight

TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.

ThomsonReuters LLC

UBS Securities, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC

U.S. Bank N.A.

Value Line

Vestek Systems, Inc.

Vickers

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Wilshire Associates Incorporated

NET ASSET VALUE

Each Fund’s net asset value is determined as set forth in the Prospectus under “General Information—Net Asset Value.”

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SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

The Board of Trustees of the Trust is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares in one or more series, which may be divided into classes of shares. Currently, there are 20 series authorized and outstanding, each of which may be generally divided into different classes of shares designated as Class A shares, Class C shares, Class R3 shares, Class R6 shares and Class I shares. Each class of shares represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments of a Fund. Each class of shares has equal rights as to voting, redemption, dividends and liquidation, except that each bears different class expenses, including different distribution and service fees, and each has exclusive voting rights with respect to any distribution or service plan applicable to its shares. There are no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights. The Board of Trustees of the Trust has the right to establish additional series and classes of shares in the future, to change those series or classes and to determine the preferences, voting powers, rights and privileges thereof.

The Trust is not required and does not intend to hold annual meetings of shareholders. Shareholders owning more than 10% of the outstanding shares of a Fund have the right to call a special meeting to remove trustees or for any other purpose.

Under Massachusetts law applicable to Massachusetts business trusts, shareholders of such a trust may, under certain circumstances, be held personally liable as partners for its obligations. However, the Declaration of Trust of the Trust contains an express disclaimer of shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Trust and requires that notice of this disclaimer be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the trustees. The Trust’s Declaration of Trust further provides for indemnification out of the assets and property of the Trust for all losses and expenses of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Trust. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Trust or a Fund itself was unable to meet its obligations. The Trust believes the likelihood of the occurrence of these circumstances is remote.


Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund Class A Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		25.54%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		20.01%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		8.64%

	Raymond James Omnibus for Mutual Funds House Acct Attn: Courtney Waller 880 Carillon Parkway St Petersburg FL 33716-1102		6.14%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		5.09%

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund Class C Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		31.56%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		21.50%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		13.95%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		7.84%

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund Class R3 Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		54.75%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		44.17%

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund Class I Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		25.92%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		16.50%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		14.27%

	Wells Fargo Bank FBO Nuveen Investments 401(K) 1525 West Wt Harris Blvd Charlotte NC 28288-1076		9.06%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Reinvest Account Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		8.17%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admn 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		6.69%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		5.19%

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund Class A Shares	LPL Financial FBO: Customer Accounts Attn: Mutual Fund Operations 9785 Towne Centre Drive San Diego CA 92121-1968		26.07%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		22.58%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		17.55%

	FIIOC FBO Santander Consumer USA Inc 401K Plan 100 Magellan Way Covington KY 41015-1987		5.91%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund Class C Shares	LPL Financial FBO Customer Accounts Attn Mutual Fund Operations PO Box 509046 San Diego CA 92150-9046		38.47%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		16.74%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		13.28%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		7.99%

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund Class R3 Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		99.24%

Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund Class I Shares	LPL Financial FBO: Customer Accounts Attn: Mutual Fund Operations 9785 Towne Centre Drive San Diego CA 92121-1968		55.81%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		22.73%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		6.51%

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund Class A Shares	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		19.40%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		12.55%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		10.84%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		9.77%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		9.48%

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund Class C Shares	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		43.62%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		15.48%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		10.81%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		8.68%

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund Class R3 Shares	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		52.95%

	Ascensus Trust Company FBO Make-A-Wish 401(K) Plan P.O. Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		17.09%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	FIIOC FBO Cochran Law Firm PA Profit Sharing Plan and Trust 100 Magellan Way Covington KY 41015-1987		14.59%

	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		8.01%

	Ascensus Trust Company FBO Golden West Construction 401(k) Pla P.O. Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		6.03%

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund Class I Shares	Voya Institutional Trust Company FBO ING Plans One Orange Way B3N Windsor CT 06095-4773		40.09%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc For the Benefit of their Customers 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		18.48%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		9.25%

	Doe Run Corporation Mail Stop JHT0515 200 Clarenden St Boston MA 02116-5021		8.52%

	Saxon & Co P O Box 7780-1888 Philadelphia PA 19182-0001		6.99%

	Reliance Trust Company FBO ING Americas NQ P.O. Box 48529 Atlanta GA 30362-1529		5.07%

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc For the Benefit of their Customers 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		27.90%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		13.21%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		11.46%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		9.23%

	LPL Financial FBO: Customer Accounts Attn: Mutual Fund Operations 9785 Towne Centre Drive San Diego CA 92121-1968		8.20%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		7.56%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		6.10%

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund Class C Shares	LPL Financial FBO Customer Accounts Attn Mutual Fund Operations PO Box 509046 San Diego CA 92150-9046		19.26%

	MLPF&S for the Sole Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		17.16%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		11.23%

	Raymond James Omnibus for Mutual Funds House Acct Attn: Courtney Waller 880 Carillon Parkway St Petersburg FL 33716-1102		10.71%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		8.39%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		7.74%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		7.38%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		7.20%

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund Class R3 Shares	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		78.85%

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund Class R6 Shares	Wells Fargo Bank FBO Nuveen Investments, Inc Employees’ 1525 West Wt Harris Blvd Charlotte NC 28288-1151		95.83%

Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund Class I Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc For the Benefit of their Customers 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		34.71%

	LPL Financial FBO: Customer Accounts Attn: Mutual Fund Operations 9785 Towne Centre Drive San Diego CA 92121-1968		34.55%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		9.16%

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund Class A Shares	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		14.55%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		13.90%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		10.48%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		7.52%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		6.78%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		6.49%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc For the Benefit of their Customers 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		5.97%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		5.55%

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund Class C Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		26.44%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		18.62%

	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		12.85%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		9.80%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		5.44%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		5.14%

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund Class R3 Shares	MLPF&S for the Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admn 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		31.35%

	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 1295 State Street C105 Springfield MA 01111-0001		23.22%

	MG Trust Company Cust. FBO Kinetic Ventures, LLC Profit S 717 17th Street Suite 1300 Denver CO 80202-3304		8.75%

	Ascensus Trust Company FBO 711 New York Painting 401K PS Plan PO Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		8.38%

	Ascensus Trust Company FBO Specialty Graphics, Inc. 401(K) Pla P.O. Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		6.88%

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund Class I Shares	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		32.05%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market Street St Louis MO 63103-2523		15.70%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		13.49%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		11.28%

	MLPF&S for the Sole Benefit of its Customers Attn Fund Admn 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		6.74%

TAX MATTERS

Federal Income Tax Matters

This section summarizes some of the main U.S. federal income tax consequences of owning shares of a Fund. This section is current as of the date of this SAI. Tax laws and interpretations change frequently, and this summary does not describe all of the tax consequences to all taxpayers. For example, this summary generally does not describe your situation if you are a corporation, a non-U.S. person, a broker-dealer or other investor with special circumstances, or if you are investing through a tax-deferred account, such as an IRA or 401(k) plan. In addition, this section does not describe your state, local or non-U.S. tax consequences. This federal income tax summary is based in part on the advice of counsel to the Funds. The Internal Revenue Service could disagree with any conclusions set forth in this section. In addition, Funds’ counsel was not asked to review, and has not reached a conclusion with respect to the federal income tax treatment of the assets to be deposited in the Funds. Consequently, this summary may not be sufficient for you to use for the purpose of avoiding penalties under federal tax law. As with any investment, you should seek advice based on your individual circumstances from your own tax professional.

Fund Status

Each Fund intends to qualify as a “regulated investment company” under the federal tax laws. If a Fund qualifies as a regulated investment company and distributes its income as required by the tax law, the Fund generally will not pay federal income taxes. If a Fund fails for any taxable year to qualify as a regulated investment company for federal income tax purposes, the Fund itself will generally be subject to federal income taxation (which will reduce the amount of Fund income available for distribution) and your tax consequences will be different from those described in this section (for example, all distributions to you will generally be taxed as ordinary income, even if those distributions are derived from capital gains realized by a Fund).

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company

As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (as that term is defined in the Code, but without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain ( i.e. , the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss), if any, that it distributes to shareholders, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its net investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt interest income for the year (the “ Distribution Requirement ”) and satisfies certain

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other requirements of the Code that are generally described below. Each Fund also intends to make such distributions as are necessary to avoid the otherwise applicable 4% non-deductible excise tax on certain undistributed earnings.

In addition to satisfying the Distribution Requirement, each Fund must, among other things, derive in each taxable year at least 90% of its gross income from (1) dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or disposition of stock, securities or non-U.S. currencies and other income (including but not limited to gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies, and (2) net income derived from an interest in “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (as such term is defined in the Code). Each Fund must also satisfy an asset diversification test in order to qualify as a regulated investment company. Under this test, at the close of each quarter of a Fund’s taxable year, (1) 50% or more of the value of the Fund’s assets must be represented by cash and cash items (including receivables), United States government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount not greater than 5% of the value of the Fund’s assets and not greater than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer and (2) not more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s assets may be invested in securities of (a) any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other regulated investment companies), or of two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same, similar or related trades or businesses or (b) in the securities of one or more “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (as such term is defined in the Code). There are certain exceptions for failure to qualify if the failure is for reasonable cause or is de minimis and certain corrective action is taken and certain tax payments are made by a Fund.

Distributions

Fund distributions are generally taxable. After the end of each year, you will receive a tax statement that separates your Fund’s distributions into three categories, ordinary income distributions, capital gains dividends and returns of capital. Ordinary income distributions are generally taxed at your ordinary tax rate, however, as further discussed below, certain ordinary income distributions received from the Fund may be taxed at the capital gains tax rates. Generally, you will treat all capital gains dividends as long-term capital gains regardless of how long you have owned your shares. To determine your actual tax liability for your capital gains dividends, you must calculate your total net capital gain or loss for the tax year after considering all of your other taxable transactions, as described below. In addition, a Fund may make distributions that represent a return of capital for tax purposes and thus will generally not be taxable to you unless the distribution exceeds your basis in your shares. The tax status of your distributions from your Fund is not affected by whether you reinvest your distributions in additional shares or receive them in cash. The income from your Fund that you must take into account for federal income tax purposes is not reduced by amounts used to pay a deferred sales fee, if any. The tax laws may require you to treat distributions made to you in January as if you had received them on December 31 of the previous year. Under the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,” income from the Fund may also be subject to a new 3.8 percent “Medicare tax” imposed for taxable years beginning after 2012. This tax will generally apply to your net investment income if your adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts, which are $250,000 in the case of married couples filing joint returns and $200,000 in the case of single individuals.

Dividends Received Deduction

A corporation that owns shares generally will not be entitled to the dividends received deduction with respect to dividends received from the Funds, because the dividends received deduction is generally not available for distributions from regulated investment companies. However, certain ordinary income dividends on shares that are attributable to qualifying dividends received by a Fund from certain corporations may be reported by the Fund as being eligible for the dividends received deduction.

If You Sell or Redeem Shares

If you sell or redeem your shares, you will generally recognize a taxable gain or loss. To determine the amount of this gain or loss, you must subtract your tax basis in your shares from the

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amount you receive in the transaction. Your tax basis in your shares is generally equal to the cost of your shares, generally including sales charges. In some cases, however, you may have to adjust your tax basis after you purchase your shares.

Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses

Net capital gain equals net long-term capital gain minus net short-term capital loss for the taxable year. Capital gain or loss is long-term if the holding period for the asset is more than one year and is short-term if the holding period for the asset is one year or less. You must exclude the date you purchase your shares to determine your holding period. However, if you receive a capital gain dividend from your Fund and sell your share at a loss after holding it for six months or less, the loss will be recharacterized as long-term capital loss to the extent of the capital gain dividend received. The tax rates for capital gains realized from assets held for one year or less are generally the same as for ordinary income. The Code treats certain capital gains as ordinary income in special situations.

Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends

Ordinary income dividends received by an individual shareholder from a regulated investment company such as the Fund are generally taxed at the same rates that apply to net capital gain (as discussed above), provided certain holding period requirements are satisfied and provided the dividends are attributable to qualifying dividends received by the Fund itself. The Fund will provide notice to its shareholders of the amount of any distribution which may be taken into account as a dividend which is eligible for the capital gains tax rates.

In-Kind Distributions

Under certain circumstances, as described in the Prospectus, you may receive an in-kind distribution of Fund securities when you redeem shares or when your Fund terminates. This distribution will be treated as a sale for federal income tax purposes and you will generally recognize gain or loss, generally based on the value at that time of the securities and the amount of cash received. The Internal Revenue Service could, however, assert that a loss may not be currently deducted.

Exchanges

If you exchange shares of a Fund for shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund, the exchange would generally be considered a sale for federal income tax purposes.

Deductibility of Fund Expenses

Expenses incurred and deducted by your Fund will generally not be treated as income taxable to you. In some cases, however, you may be required to treat your portion of these Fund expenses as income. In these cases you may be able to take a deduction for these expenses. However, certain miscellaneous itemized deductions, such as investment expenses, may be deducted by individuals only to the extent that all of these deductions exceed 2% of the individual’s adjusted gross income. Some individuals may also be subject to further limitations on the amount of their itemized deductions, depending on their income.

Non-U.S. Tax Credit

If your Fund invests in any non-U.S. securities, the tax statement that you receive may include an item showing non-U.S. taxes your Fund paid to other countries. In this case, dividends taxed to you will include your share of the taxes your Fund paid to other countries. You may be able to deduct or receive a tax credit for your share of these taxes.

Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations

If your Fund holds an equity interest in any “passive foreign investment companies” (“ PFICs ”), which are generally certain foreign corporations that receive at least 75% of their annual gross income

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from passive sources (such as interest, dividends, certain rents and royalties or capital gains) or that hold at least 50% of their assets in investments producing such passive income, your Fund could be subject to U.S. federal income tax and additional interest charges on gains and certain distributions with respect to those equity interests, even if all the income or gain is timely distributed to its shareholders. Your Fund will not be able to pass through to its shareholders any credit or deduction for such taxes. Your Fund may be able to make an election that could ameliorate these adverse tax consequences. In this case, your Fund would recognize as ordinary income any increase in the value of such PFIC shares, and as ordinary loss any decrease in such value to the extent it did not exceed prior increases included in income. Under this election, your Fund might be required to recognize in a year income in excess of its distributions from PFICs and its proceeds from dispositions of PFIC stock during that year, and such income would nevertheless be subject to the distribution requirement and would be taken into account for purposes of the 4% excise tax. Dividends paid by PFICs are not treated as qualified dividend income.

Non-U.S. Investors

If you are a non-U.S. investor (i.e., an investor other than a U.S. citizen or resident or a U.S. corporation, partnership, estate or trust), you should be aware that, generally, subject to applicable tax treaties, distributions from a Fund will be characterized as dividends for federal income tax purposes (other than dividends which a Fund properly reports as capital gain dividends) and will be subject to U.S. income taxes, including withholding taxes, subject to certain exceptions described below. However, distributions received by a non-U.S. investor from a Fund that are properly reported by a Fund as capital gain dividends may not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes, including withholding taxes, provided that a Fund makes certain elections and certain other conditions are met. In the case of dividends with respect to taxable years of the Funds beginning prior to 2014, distributions from the Funds that are properly reported by the Funds as an interest-related dividend attributable to certain interest income received by the Funds or as a short-term capital gain dividend attributable to certain net short-term capital gain income received by the Funds may not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes, including withholding taxes when received by certain foreign investors, provided that the Funds make certain elections and certain other conditions are met. In addition, distributions in respect of shares after June 30, 2014 may be subject to a U.S. withholding tax of 30% in the case of distributions to (i) certain non-U.S. financial institutions that have not entered into an agreement with the U.S. Treasury to collect and disclose certain information and are not resident in a jurisdiction that has entered into such an agreement with the U.S. Treasury and (ii) certain other non-U.S. entities that do not provide certain certifications and information about the entity’s U.S. owners. Dispositions of shares by such persons may be subject to such withholding after December 31, 2016.

Capital Loss Carry-Forward

When a Fund has a capital loss carry-forward, it does not make capital gains distributions until the loss has been offset or expired. As of June 30, 2014, the following Funds had capital loss carry-forwards available for federal income tax purposes, expiring in the year indicated.


Fund	Expiration Year		Capital Loss Carry-Forwards (000’s omitted)
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund		2017	$	118,298,392
		2018		100,615,795
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund*		2016		2,799,236
		2017		21,132,667
		2018		838,796
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		2018		16,285,506

A portion of Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid Cap Value Fund’s capital loss carry-forwards are subject to an annual limitation under the Code and related regulations.

The foregoing relates only to federal income taxation and is a general summary of the federal tax law in effect as of the date of this SAI.

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PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF FUND SHARES

As described in the Prospectus, the Funds provide you with alternative ways of purchasing Fund shares based upon your individual investment needs and preferences.

Each class of shares of a Fund represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments. Each class of shares is identical in all respects except that each class bears its own class expenses, including distribution and administration expenses, and each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to any distribution or service plan applicable to its shares. As a result of the differences in the expenses borne by each class of shares, net income per share, dividends per share and net asset value per share will vary among a Fund’s classes of shares. There are no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights.

Shareholders of each class will share expenses proportionately for services that are received equally by all shareholders. A particular class of shares will bear only those expenses that are directly attributable to that class, where the type or amount of services received by a class varies from one class to another. For example, class-specific expenses generally will include distribution and service fees for those classes that pay such fees.

The expenses to be borne by specific classes of shares may include (i) transfer agency fees attributable to a specific class of shares, (ii) printing and postage expenses related to preparing and distributing materials such as shareholder reports, prospectuses and proxy statements to current shareholders of a specific class of shares, (iii) SEC and state securities registration fees incurred by a specific class of shares, (iv) the expense of administrative personnel and services required to support the shareholders of a specific class of shares, (v) litigation or other legal expenses relating to a specific class of shares, (vi) trustees’ fees or expenses incurred as a result of issues relating to a specific class of shares, (vii) accounting expenses relating to a specific class of shares and (viii) any additional incremental expenses subsequently identified and determined to be properly allocated to one or more classes of shares.

Class A Shares

Class A shares may be purchased at a public offering price equal to the applicable net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge imposed at the time of purchase as set forth in the Prospectus. Shareholders may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived in its entirety, as described below. Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25%. See “Distribution and Service Plan.” Set forth below is an example of the method of computing the offering price of the Class A shares of a Fund. The example assumes a purchase on June 30, 2014 of Class A shares of Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund aggregating less than $50,000 subject to the schedule of sales charges set forth in the Prospectus at a price based upon the net asset value of the Class A shares.


Net asset value per share	$	26.97
Per share sales charge—5.75% of public offering price (6.12% of net asset value per share)		1.65

Per share offering price to the public	$	28.62

Each Fund receives the entire net asset value of all Class A shares that are sold. The Distributor retains the full applicable sales charge from which it pays the uniform reallowances shown in the Prospectus to financial intermediaries.

Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares

Rights of Accumulation. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of a Fund if the amount of your purchase, when added to the value that day of all of your shares of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, falls within the amounts stated in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Fund’s transfer agent of any cumulative discount whenever you plan to purchase Class A shares of a Fund that you wish to qualify for a reduced sales charge.

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Letter of Intent. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of a Fund if you plan to purchase Class A shares of Nuveen Mutual Funds over the next 13 months and the total amount of your purchases would, if purchased at one time, qualify you for one of the reduced sales charges shown in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. In order to take advantage of this option, you must complete the applicable section of the Application Form or sign and deliver to your financial advisor or other financial intermediary or to the Fund’s transfer agent a written Letter of Intent in a form acceptable to the Distributor. A Letter of Intent states that you intend, but are not obligated, to purchase over the next 13 months a stated total amount of Class A shares that would qualify you for a reduced sales charge shown above. You may count shares of all Nuveen Mutual Funds that you already own and any Class C and Class I shares of a Nuveen Mutual Fund that you purchase over the next 13 months towards completion of your investment program, but you will receive a reduced sales charge only on new Class A shares you purchase with a sales charge over the 13 months. You cannot count towards completion of your investment program Class A shares that you purchase without a sales charge through investment of distributions from a Nuveen Mutual Fund or a Nuveen Defined Portfolio, or otherwise.

By establishing a Letter of Intent, you agree that your first purchase of Class A shares of a Fund following execution of the Letter of Intent will be at least 5% of the total amount of your intended purchases. You further agree that shares representing 5% of the total amount of your intended purchases will be held in escrow pending completion of these purchases. All dividends and capital gains distributions on Class A shares held in escrow will be credited to your account. If total purchases, less redemptions, prior to the expiration of the 13 month period equal or exceed the amount specified in your Letter of Intent, the Class A shares held in escrow will be transferred to your account. If the total purchases, less redemptions, are less than the amount specified, you must pay the Distributor an amount equal to the difference between the amounts paid for these purchases and the amounts which would have been paid if the higher sales charge had been applied. If you do not pay the additional amount within 20 days after written request by the Distributor or your financial advisor, the Distributor will redeem an appropriate number of your escrowed Class A shares to meet the required payment. By establishing a Letter of Intent, you irrevocably appoint the Distributor as attorney to give instructions to redeem any or all of your escrowed shares, with full power of substitution in the premises.

You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Funds’ transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Fund shares that you wish to be covered under the Letter of Intent option.

For purposes of determining whether you qualify for a reduced sales charge as described under Rights of Accumulation and Letter of Intent , you may include together with your own purchases those made by your spouse or domestic partner and your children under the age of 21 years, whether these purchases are made through a taxable or non-taxable account. You may also include purchases made by a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship which is 100% owned, either alone or in combination, by any of the foregoing. In addition, a trustee or other fiduciary can count all shares purchased for a single trust, estate or other single fiduciary account that has multiple accounts (including one or more employee benefit plans of the same employer).

Elimination of Sales Charge on Class A Shares. Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge by the following categories of investors:

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investors purchasing $1,000,000 or more;

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current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds;

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full-time and retired employees and directors of Nuveen Investments, and subsidiaries thereof, or their immediate family members (immediate family members are defined as their spouses or domestic partners, parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, siblings, a sibling’s spouse and a spouse’s siblings);

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, or their immediate family members;

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bank or broker-affiliated trust departments investing funds over which they exercise exclusive discretionary investment authority and that are held in a fiduciary, agency, advisory, custodial or similar capacity;

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investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program;

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clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services;

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employer-sponsored retirement plans except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans; and

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investors purchasing through a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer the Funds’ shares to self-directed investment brokerage accounts and that may or may not charge a transaction fee to its customers.

You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or your Fund’s transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Class A shares of any Fund that you wish to be covered under these special sales charge waivers.

Class A shares of any Fund may be issued at net asset value without a sales charge in connection with the acquisition by a Fund of another investment company. All purchases under the special sales charge waivers will be subject to minimum purchase requirements as established by the Funds.

The reduced sales charge programs may be modified or discontinued by the Funds at any time. For more information about the purchase of Class A shares or the reduced sales charge program, or to obtain the required application forms, call Nuveen Investor Services toll-free at (800) 257-8787.

Class C Shares

You may purchase Class C shares at a public offering price equal to the applicable net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class C shares are subject to an annual distribution fee of 0.75% to compensate the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission. Class C shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25% to compensate financial intermediaries for providing you with ongoing financial advice and other account services. The Distributor compensates financial intermediaries for sales of Class C shares at the time of the sale at a rate of 1.00% of the amount of Class C shares purchased, which represents an advance of the first year’s distribution fee of 0.75% plus an advance on the first year’s annual service fee of 0.25%. See “Distribution and Service Plan.”

Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 will not be accepted. In addition, Class C share purchase orders for a single purchaser that, when added to the value that day of all of such purchaser’s shares of any class of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, cause the purchaser’s cumulative total of shares in Nuveen Mutual Funds to equal or exceed $1,000,000 will not be accepted. Your financial intermediary may set a lower maximum for Class C shares. Shareholders purchasing Class C shares should consider whether they would qualify for a reduced or eliminated sales charge on Class A shares that would make purchasing Class A shares a better choice. Class A share sales charges can be reduced or eliminated based on the size of the purchase, or pursuant to a letter of intent or rights of accumulation. See “Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares” above.

Redemption of Class C shares within 12 months of purchase may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“ CDSC ”) of 1.00% of the lower of the purchase price or redemption proceeds. Because Class C shares do not convert to Class A shares and continue to pay an annual distribution fee indefinitely, Class C shares should normally not be purchased by an investor who expects to hold shares for significantly longer than eight years.

Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

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Class C shares are redeemed at net asset value, without any CDSC, except that a CDSC of 1.00% is imposed upon any redemption within 12 months of purchase (except in cases where a shareholder is eligible for a waiver).

In determining whether a CDSC is payable, each Fund will first redeem shares not subject to any charge and then will redeem shares held for the longest period, unless the shareholder specifies another order. No CDSC is charged on shares purchased as a result of automatic reinvestment of dividends or capital gains paid. In addition, no CDSC will be charged on exchanges of shares into another Nuveen Mutual Fund. The holding period is calculated on a monthly basis and begins on the first day of the month in which the purchase was made. The CDSC is assessed on an amount equal to the lower of the then current market value or the cost of the shares being redeemed. Accordingly, no sales charge is imposed on increases of net asset value above the initial purchase price. The Distributor receives the amount of any CDSC shareholders pay.

The CDSC may be waived or reduced under the following circumstances: (i) in the event of total disability (as evidenced by a determination by the federal Social Security Administration) of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner) occurring after the purchase of the shares being redeemed; (ii) in the event of the death of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner); (iii) for redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan, up to 1% monthly, 3% quarterly, 6% semiannually or 12% annually of an account’s net asset value depending on the frequency of the plan as designated by the shareholder; (iv) redemptions in connection with a payment of account or plan fees; (v) redemptions in connection with the exercise of a Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the Board of Trustees has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of a Fund; (vi) in whole or in part for redemptions of shares by shareholders with accounts in excess of specified breakpoints that correspond to the breakpoints under which the up-front sales charge on Class A shares is reduced pursuant to Rule 22d-1 under the Act; (vii) redemptions of shares purchased under circumstances or by a category of investors for which Class A shares could be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge; (viii) redemptions of Class C shares in cases where the Distributor did not advance the first year’s service and distribution fees when such shares were purchased; and (ix) redemptions of Class A shares where the Distributor did not pay a sales commission when such shares were purchased. If a Fund waives or reduces the CDSC, such waiver or reduction would be uniformly applied to all Fund shares in the particular category. In waiving or reducing a CDSC, the Funds will comply with the requirements of Rule 22d-1 under the 1940 Act.

In addition, the CDSC will be waived in connection with the following redemptions of shares held by an employer-sponsored qualified defined contribution retirement plan: (i) partial or complete redemptions in connection with a distribution without penalty under Section 72(t) of the Code from a retirement plan: (a) upon attaining age 59 ¹ / ₂ , (b) as part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments, or (c) upon separation from service and attaining age 55; (ii) partial or complete redemptions in connection with a qualifying loan or hardship withdrawal; (iii) complete redemptions in connection with termination of employment, plan termination or transfer to another employer’s plan or IRA; and (iv) redemptions resulting from the return of an excess contribution. The CDSC will also be waived in connection with the following redemptions of shares held in an IRA account: (i) for redemptions made pursuant to an IRA systematic withdrawal based on the shareholder’s life expectancy including, but not limited to, substantially equal periodic payments described in Code Section 72(t)(A)(iv) prior to age 59 ¹ / ₂ ; and (ii) for redemptions to satisfy required minimum distributions after age 70 ¹ / ₂ from an IRA account (with the maximum amount subject to this waiver being based only upon the shareholder’s Nuveen IRA accounts).

Class R3 Shares

Class R3 shares are available for purchase at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class R3 shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 0.50% of the Funds’ average daily net assets. The annual 0.25% service fee compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. The annual 0.25% distribution fee compensates the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission.

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Class R3 shares are only available for purchase by eligible retirement plans. Eligible retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans, defined benefit plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and health care benefit funding plans. In addition, Class R3 shares are available only to retirement plans where Class R3 shares are held on the books of the Funds through omnibus accounts (either at the retirement plan level or at the level of the retirement plan’s financial intermediary). Class R3 shares are not available to traditional and Roth IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs or individual 403(b) plans.

The administrator of a retirement plan or employee benefits office can provide plan participants with detailed information on how to participate in the retirement plan and how to elect a Fund as an investment option. Retirement plan participants may be permitted to elect different investment options, alter the amounts contributed to the retirement plan, or change how contributions are allocated among investment options in accordance with the retirement plan’s specific provisions. The retirement plan administrator or employee benefits office should be consulted for details. For questions about their accounts, participants should contact their employee benefits office, the retirement plan administrator, or the organization that provides recordkeeping services for the retirement plan.

Eligible retirement plans may open an account and purchase Class R3 shares directly from the Funds or by contacting any financial intermediary authorized to sell Class R3 shares of the Funds. Financial intermediaries may provide or arrange for the provision of some or all of the shareholder servicing and account maintenance services required by retirement plan accounts and their retirement plan participants, including, without limitation, transfers of registration and dividend payee changes. Financial intermediaries may also perform other functions, including generating confirmation statements, and may arrange with retirement plan administrators for other investment or administrative services.

Financial intermediaries may independently establish and charge retirement plans and retirement plan participants transaction fees and/or other additional amounts for such services, which may change over time. Similarly, retirement plans may charge retirement plan participants for certain expenses. These fees and additional amounts could reduce investment returns in Class R3 shares of the Funds.

Financial intermediaries and retirement plans may have omnibus accounts and similar arrangements with a Fund and may be paid for providing shareholder servicing and other services. A financial intermediary or retirement plan may be paid for its services directly or indirectly by the Funds or the Distributor. The Distributor may pay a financial intermediary an additional amount for sub-transfer agency or other administrative services. Such sub-transfer agency or other administrative services may include, but are not limited to, the following: processing and mailing trade confirmations, monthly statements, prospectuses, annual reports, semiannual reports and shareholder notices and other required communications; capturing and processing tax data; issuing and mailing dividend checks to shareholders who have selected cash distributions; preparing record date shareholder lists for proxy solicitations; collecting and posting distributions to shareholder accounts; and establishing and maintaining systematic withdrawals, automated investment plans and shareholder account registrations. Your retirement plan may establish various minimum investment requirements for Class R3 shares of the Funds and may also establish certain privileges with respect to purchases, redemptions and exchanges of Class R3 shares or the reinvestment of dividends. Retirement plan participants should contact their retirement plan administrator with respect to these issues. This SAI should be read in conjunction with the retirement plan’s and/or the financial intermediary’s materials regarding their fees and services.

Class R6 Shares

Class R6 shares are available from Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund to the following classes of investors, provided they meet the minimum investment and other eligibility requirements set forth below:

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Qualified retirement plans, including: 401(k) plans, employer sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing pension plans, money purchase pension plans, target benefit plans, defined benefit pension plans and Taft Hartley multi-employer pension plans (collectively, “Qualified Plans” );

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Foundations and endowment funds;

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Any state, county, or city, or its instrumentality, department, authority or agency;

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457 plans, including 457(b) governmental entity plans and tax exempt plans;

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Omnibus or other pooled accounts registered to insurance companies, trust companies, bank trust departments, registered investment advisor firms and family offices;

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Investment companies, both affiliated and not affiliated with the Adviser;

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Corporations, including corporate non-qualified deferred compensation plans of such corporations;

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Collective investment trusts;

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Discretionary accounts managed by the Advisor or its affiliates; and

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529 savings plans held in plan-level omnibus accounts.

There is no minimum initial investment for qualified retirement plans; however, the shares must be held through plan-level or omnibus accounts held on the books of the Fund. All other eligible investors must meet a minimum initial investment of at least $5 million in the Fund. Such minimum investment requirement may be applied collectively to affiliated accounts, in the discretion of the Distributor. Class R6 shares are only available through financial intermediaries that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer Class R6 shares. Class R6 shares are only available in cases where neither the investor nor the intermediary will receive any commission payments, account servicing fees, record keeping fees, 12b-1 fees, sub-transfer agent fees, so called “finder’s fees,” administration fees or similar fees with respect to Class R6 shares. Class R6 shares are not available directly to traditional or Roth IRAs, Coverdell Savings Accounts, Keoghs, SEPs, SARSEPs, or SIMPLE IRAs. Class R6 shares also are not available through retail, advisory fee-based wrap platforms.

Class I Shares

Class I shares also are available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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any person who was a shareholder of the PBHG Special Equity Fund on December 5, 2002 (for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund only);

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employer-sponsored retirement plans, except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans;

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advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates, including other Nuveen Mutual Funds whose investment policies permit investments in other investment companies;

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any registered investment company that is not affiliated with the Nuveen Funds and which invests in securities of other investment companies;

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any plan organized under section 529 under the Code (i.e., a 529 plan);

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participants in the TIAA-CREF Investment Solutions IRA;

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current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (“immediate family members” are defined as spouses or domestic partners, parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, siblings, a sibling’s spouse and a spouse’s siblings);

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officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members;

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full-time and retired employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members, including any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship or other business organization that is wholly owned by one or more of such persons; and

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, and their immediate family members.

Any shares purchased by investors falling within any of the last four categories listed above must be acquired for investment purposes and on the condition that they will not be transferred or resold except through redemption by a Fund.

Holders of Class I shares may purchase additional Class I shares using dividends and capital gains distributions on their shares.

If you are eligible to purchase either Class I shares or Class A shares without a sales charge at net asset value, you should be aware of the differences between these two classes of shares. Class A shares are subject to an annual service fee to compensate financial intermediaries for providing you with ongoing account services. Class I shares are not subject to a distribution or service fee and, consequently, holders of Class I shares may not receive the same types or levels of services from financial intermediaries. In choosing between Class A shares and Class I shares, you should weigh the benefits of the services to be provided by financial intermediaries against the annual service fee imposed upon the Class A shares.

Shareholder Programs

Exchange Privilege

You may exchange Fund shares into an identically registered account for the same class of another Nuveen Mutual Fund available in your state. Your exchange must meet the minimum purchase requirements of the fund into which you are exchanging. You may also, under certain limited circumstances, exchange between certain classes of shares of the same Fund. An exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund may not be considered a taxable event; please consult your own tax advisor for further information.

If you hold your shares directly with a Fund, you may exchange your shares by either sending a written request to the applicable Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530 or by calling Nuveen Investor Services toll free at (800) 257-8787.

If you exchange shares between different Nuveen Mutual Funds and your shares are subject to a CDSC, no CDSC will be charged at the time of the exchange. However, if you subsequently redeem the shares acquired through the exchange, the redemption may be subject to a CDSC, depending on when you purchased your original shares and the CDSC schedule of the fund from which you exchanged your shares. If you exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund and your original shares are subject to a CDSC, the CDSC will be assessed at the time of the exchange.

For federal income tax purposes, an exchange between different Nuveen Mutual Funds constitutes a sale and purchase of shares and may result in capital gain or loss. Before making any exchange, you should obtain the Prospectus for the Nuveen Mutual Fund you are purchasing and read it carefully. If the registration of the account for the Fund you are purchasing is not exactly the same as that of the fund account from which the exchange is made, written instructions from all holders of the account from which the exchange is being made must be received, with signatures guaranteed by a member of an approved Medallion Signature Guarantee Program or in such other manner as may be acceptable to the Fund. You may also exchange shares by telephone if you authorize telephone exchanges by checking the applicable box on the Application Form or by calling

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Nuveen Investor Services toll-free at (800) 257-8787 to obtain an authorization form. Each Fund reserves the right to revise or suspend the exchange privilege, limit the amount or number of exchanges, or reject any exchange. Shareholders will be provided with at least 60 days’ notice of any material revision to or termination of the exchange privilege.

The exchange privilege is not intended to permit a Fund to be used as a vehicle for short-term trading. Excessive exchange activity may interfere with portfolio management, raise expenses and otherwise have an adverse effect on all shareholders. In order to limit excessive exchange activity and in other circumstances where Fund management believes doing so would be in the best interest of the Fund, each Fund reserves the right to revise or terminate the exchange privilege, or limit the amount or number of exchanges or reject any exchange. Shareholders would be notified of any such action to the extent required by law. See “Frequent Trading Policy” below.

Reinstatement Privilege

If you redeemed Class A, Class C or Class I shares of a Nuveen Mutual Fund, you have up to one year to reinvest all or part of the full amount of the redemption in the same class of shares of any Nuveen Mutual Fund at net asset value. This reinstatement privilege can be exercised only once for any redemption, and reinvestment will be made at the net asset value next calculated after reinstatement of the appropriate class of Fund shares. If you reinstate shares that were subject to a CDSC, any shares purchased pursuant to the reinstatement privilege will not be subject to a CDSC. The federal income tax consequences of any capital gain realized on a redemption will not be affected by reinstatement, but a capital loss may be disallowed in whole or in part depending on the timing, the amount of the reinvestment and the fund from which the redemption occurred.

Suspension of Right of Redemption

Each Fund may suspend the right of redemption of Fund shares or delay payment more than seven days (a) during any period when the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings), (b) when trading in the markets the Fund normally utilizes is restricted or an emergency exists as determined by the SEC so that trading of the Fund’s investments or determination of its net asset value is not reasonably practicable, or (c) for any other periods that the SEC by order may permit for protection of Fund shareholders.

Redemption In-Kind

The Funds have reserved the right to redeem in-kind (that is, to pay redemption requests in cash and portfolio securities, or wholly in portfolio securities). Pursuant to a notice of election under Rule 18f-1, the Funds voluntarily have committed to pay in cash all requests for redemption by any shareholder, limited as to each shareholder during any 90-day period to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net asset value of a Fund at the beginning of the 90-day period.

Frequent Trading Policy

The Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy is as follows:

Nuveen Mutual Funds are intended as long-term investments and not as short-term trading vehicles. At the same time, the Funds recognize the need of investors to periodically make purchases and redemptions of Fund shares when rebalancing their portfolios and as their financial needs or circumstances change. Nuveen Mutual Funds have adopted the following Frequent Trading Policy that seeks to balance these needs against the potential for higher operating costs, portfolio management disruption and other inefficiencies that can be caused by excessive trading of Fund shares.

1. Definition of Round Trip

A Round Trip trade is the purchase and subsequent redemption of Fund shares, including by exchange. Each side of a Round Trip trade may be comprised of either a single transaction or a series of closely-spaced transactions.

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2. Round Trip Trade Limitations

Nuveen Mutual Funds limit the frequency of Round Trip trades that may be placed in a Fund. Subject to certain exceptions noted below, the Funds limit an investor to two Round Trips per trailing 60-day period.

3. Enforcement

Trades placed in violation of the foregoing policies are subject to rejection or cancellation by Nuveen Mutual Funds. Nuveen Mutual Funds may also bar an investor (and/or the investor’s financial advisor) who has violated these policies from opening new accounts with the Funds and may restrict the investor’s existing account(s) to redemptions only. Nuveen Mutual Funds reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to (a) interpret the terms and application of these policies, (b) waive unintentional or minor violations (including transactions below certain dollar thresholds) if Nuveen Mutual Funds determine that doing so does not harm the interests of Fund shareholders, and (c) exclude certain classes of redemptions from the application of the trading restrictions set forth above.

Nuveen Mutual Funds reserve the right to impose restrictions on purchases or exchanges that are more restrictive than those stated above if they determine, in their sole discretion, that a proposed transaction or series of transactions involve market timing or excessive trading that is likely to be detrimental to the Funds. The Funds may also modify or suspend the Frequent Trading Policy without notice during periods of market stress or other unusual circumstances.

The ability of Nuveen Mutual Funds to implement the Frequent Trading Policy for omnibus accounts at certain financial intermediaries may be dependent on receiving from those intermediaries sufficient shareholder information to permit monitoring of trade activity and enforcement of the Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy. In addition, the Funds may rely on a financial intermediary’s policy to restrict market timing and excessive trading if the Funds believe that the policy is reasonably designed to prevent market timing that is detrimental to the Funds. Such policy may be more or less restrictive than the Funds’ Policy. The Funds cannot ensure that these financial intermediaries will in all cases apply the Funds’ policy or their own policies, as the case may be, to accounts under their control.

Exclusions from the Frequent Trading Policy

As stated above, certain redemptions are eligible for exclusion from the Frequent Trading Policy, including: (i) redemptions or exchanges by shareholders investing through the fee-based platforms of certain financial intermediaries (where the intermediary charges an asset-based or comprehensive “wrap” fee for its services) that are effected by the financial intermediaries in connection with systematic portfolio rebalancing; (ii) when there is a verified trade error correction, which occurs when a dealer firm sends a trade to correct an earlier trade made in error and then the firm sends an explanation to the Nuveen Mutual Funds confirming that the trade is actually an error correction; (iii) in the event of total disability (as evidenced by a determination by the federal Social Security Administration) of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner) occurring after the purchase of the shares being redeemed; (iv) in the event of the death of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner); (v) redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan, up to 1% monthly, 3% quarterly, 6% semiannually or 12% annually of an account’s net asset value depending on the frequency of the plan as designated by the shareholder; (vi) redemptions of shares that were purchased through a systematic investment program; (vii) involuntary redemptions caused by operation of law; (viii) redemptions in connection with a payment of account or plan fees; (ix) redemptions or exchanges by any “fund of funds” advised by the Adviser; and (x) redemptions in connection with the exercise of a Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the board has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of a Fund.

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connection with termination of employment, plan termination, transfer to another employer’s plan or IRA or changes in a plan’s recordkeeper; and (iv) redemptions resulting from the return of an excess contribution. Also, the following redemptions of shares held in an IRA account are excluded from the application of the Frequent Trading Policy: (i) redemptions made pursuant to an IRA systematic withdrawal based on the shareholder’s life expectancy including, but not limited to, substantially equal periodic payments described in Code Section 72(t)(A)(iv) prior to age 59 ¹ / ₂ ; and (ii) redemptions to satisfy required minimum distributions after age 70 ¹ / ₂ from an IRA account.

Distribution and Service Plan

The Funds have adopted a plan (the “ Plan ”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Rule 12b-1 provides in substance that a mutual fund may not engage directly or indirectly in financing any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of shares, except pursuant to a plan adopted under the Rule. The Plan authorizes a Fund to pay the Distributor distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees on a Fund’s Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares as described below. The distribution fees under the Plan are used for the primary purpose of compensating participating intermediaries for their sales of the Fund. The shareholder servicing fees are used primarily for the purpose of providing compensation for the ongoing servicing and/or maintenance of shareholder accounts. Pursuant to the Plan, Class C shares are subject to an annual distribution fee and Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares are subject to the annual service fees (distribution and service fees collectively referred to herein as “12b-1 fees” ). The 12b-1 fees are based on the average daily net assets of the class of shares of a Fund and are as follows:


	Annual Distribution Fee			Annual Service Fee			Total 12b-1 Fee
Class A		—			0.25	%		0.25	%
Class C		0.75	%		0.25	%		1.00	%
Class R3		0.25	%		0.25	%		0.50	%

Class R6 or Class I shares are not subject to either distribution or service fees.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Funds incurred 12b-1 fees pursuant to their respective Plan in the amounts set forth in the table below. 12b-1 fees are calculated and accrued daily and paid quarterly or at such other intervals as the Board of Trustees may determine. As noted above, no 12b-1 fees are paid with respect to Class R6 or Class I shares. For this period, substantially all of the 12b-1 service fees on Class A shares were paid out as compensation to financial intermediaries for providing services to shareholders relating to their investments. To compensate for commissions advanced to financial intermediaries, all 12b-1 fees on Class C shares during the first year following a purchase are retained by the Distributor. After the first year following a purchase, 12b-1 fees on Class C shares are paid to financial intermediaries.

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	12b-1 Fees Incurred by Each Fund for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund
Class A	$	109,842
Class C		466,437
Class R3		1,200
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund
Class A	$	157,316
Class C		100,899
Class R3		292
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund
Class A	$	18,176
Class C		28,543
Class R3		2,813
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund
Class A	$	52,034
Class C		98,141
Class R3		8,263
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund
Class A	$	597,562
Class C		1,290,545
Class R3		22,999

The Plan is a “compensation-type” plan under which the Distributor is entitled to receive the distribution and shareholder servicing fees regardless of whether its actual distribution and shareholder servicing expenses are more or less than the amount of the fees. It is therefore possible that the Distributor may realize a profit in a particular year as a result of these payments. The Plan recognizes that the Distributor and the Adviser, in their discretion, may from time to time use their own assets to pay for certain additional costs of distributing Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares. Any such arrangements to pay such additional costs may be commenced or discontinued by the Distributor or the Adviser at any time.

Under each Fund’s Plan, the Fund will report quarterly to the Board of Trustees for its review of all amounts expended per class of shares under the Plan. The Plan may be terminated at any time with respect to any class of shares, without the payment of any penalty, by a vote of a majority of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such class. The Plan may be renewed from year to year if approved by a vote of the Board of Trustees and a vote of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Plan. The Plan may be continued only if the trustees who vote to approve such continuance conclude, in the exercise of reasonable business judgment and in light of their fiduciary duties under applicable law, that there is a reasonable likelihood that the Plan will benefit the Fund and its shareholders. The Plan may not be amended to increase materially the cost which a class of shares may bear under the Plan without the approval of the shareholders of the affected class, and any other material amendments of the Plan must be approved by the independent trustees by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments. During the continuance of the Plan, the selection and nomination of the independent trustees of the Trust will be committed to the discretion of the independent trustees then in office. With the exception of the Distributor and its affiliates, no “interested person” of the Funds, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act, and no trustee of the Funds has a direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or any related agreement.

If a Fund closes to new investors, it may continue to make payments under the Plan. Such payments would be made for the various services provided to existing shareholders by the participating intermediaries receiving such payments.

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General Matters

The Funds have authorized one or more brokers to accept on their behalf purchase and redemption orders. Such brokers are authorized to designate other intermediaries to accept purchase and redemption orders on the Funds’ behalf. The Funds will be deemed to have received a purchase or redemption order when an authorized broker or, if applicable, a broker’s authorized designee accepts the order. Customer orders received by such broker (or their designee) will be priced at the applicable Fund’s net asset value next computed after they are accepted by an authorized broker (or their designee). Orders accepted by an authorized broker (or their designee) before the close of regular trading on the NYSE will receive that day’s share price; orders accepted after the close of trading will receive the next business day’s share price.

If you choose to invest in a Fund, an account will be opened and maintained for you by BFDS, the Funds’ shareholder services agent. Shares will be registered in the name of the investor or the investor’s financial advisor. A change in registration or transfer of shares held in the name of a financial advisor may only be made by an order in good standing form from the financial advisor acting on the investor’s behalf. Each Fund reserves the right to reject any purchase order and to waive or increase minimum investment requirements.

The Funds do not issue share certificates. For certificated shares previously issued, a fee of 1% of the current market value will be charged if the certificate is lost, stolen or destroyed. The fee is paid to Seaboard Surety Company for insurance of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate.

Distribution Arrangements

The Distributor sells shares to or through brokers, dealers, banks or other qualified financial intermediaries (collectively referred to as “ Dealers ”), or others, in a manner consistent with the then effective registration statement of the Trust. Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Distributor, at its own expense, finances certain activities incident to the sale and distribution of the Funds’ shares, including printing and distributing of prospectuses and statements of additional information to other than existing shareholders, the printing and distributing of sales literature, advertising and payment of compensation and giving of concessions to Dealers.

The Distributor receives for its services the excess, if any, of the sales price of a Fund’s shares less the net asset value of those shares, and reallows a majority or all of such amounts to the Dealers who sold the shares. The Distributor also receives distribution fees pursuant to a distribution plan adopted by the Trust pursuant to Rule 12b-1 and described herein under “Distribution and Service Plan.” The Distributor also receives any CDSCs imposed on redemptions of shares. The Distributor may also act as a Dealer.

The following table sets forth the aggregate amounts of underwriting commissions with respect to the sale of Fund shares, the amount thereof retained by the Distributor and the compensation on redemptions and repurchases received by the Distributor for each of the Funds for the fiscal years represented below. All figures are expressed in thousands and are to the nearest thousand.


	Amount of Underwriting Commissions						Amount Retained by the Distributor						Amount of Compensation on Redemptions and Repurchases
Fund	6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14		6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14		6/30/12		6/30/13		6/30/14
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	$	21	$	21	$	11	$	3	$	3	$	1	$	51	$	5	$	1
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		46		56		93		6		7		11		31		2		—
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		27		6		21		3		1		2		1		2		1
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		4		43		203		1		5		22		2		1		3
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		696		56		66		74		7		8		253		27		4

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To help financial advisors and investors better understand and more efficiently use the Funds to reach their investment goals, the Distributor may advertise and create specific investment programs and systems. For example, this may include information on how to use the Funds to accumulate assets for future education needs or periodic payments such as insurance premiums. The Distributor may produce software, electronic information sites or additional sales literature to promote the advantages of using the Funds to meet these and other specific investor needs. In addition, wholesale representatives of the Distributor may visit financial advisors on a regular basis to educate them about the Funds and to encourage the sale of Fund shares to their clients. The costs and expenses associated with these efforts may include travel, lodging, sponsorship at educational seminars and conferences, entertainment and meals to the extent permitted by law. Nuveen wholesalers may receive additional compensation if they meet certain targets for sales of one or more Nuveen Mutual Funds.

Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments

As described in the Prospectus and elsewhere in this SAI, intermediaries that sell shares of the Nuveen Mutual Funds or provide services to their shareholders, such as brokers, dealers, banks, registered investment advisers, retirement plan administrators and other intermediaries (individually, an “ Intermediary ,” and collectively, “ Intermediaries ”) may receive sales charge payments and, out of Fund assets, may be paid Rule 12b-1 distribution and service payments and sub-transfer agency payments. The Distributor and the Adviser may make additional payments out of their own assets to selected Intermediaries. These payments are made for the purposes of promoting the sale of Fund shares, maintaining share balances and/or for sub-accounting, administrative or shareholder processing services.

The amounts of these payments could be significant and may create an incentive for an Intermediary or its representatives to recommend or offer shares of the Nuveen Mutual Funds to its customers. The Intermediary may elevate the prominence or profile of the Funds within the Intermediary’s organization by, for example, placing the Funds on a list of preferred or recommended funds and/or granting the Distributor preferential or enhanced opportunities to promote the Funds in various ways within the Intermediary’s organization.

These payments are made pursuant to negotiated agreements with Intermediaries. The payments do not change the price paid by investors for the purchase of a share or the amount a Fund will receive as proceeds from such sales. Furthermore, these payments are not reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of the Funds’ Prospectus and described above because they are not paid by the Funds.

The categories of payments described below are not mutually exclusive, and a single Intermediary may receive payments under all categories.

Distribution-Related Payments

The Distributor or the Adviser may from time to time make payments (sometimes referred to as “revenue sharing” payments) to selected Intermediaries as compensation for services such as providing the Funds with “shelf space” or a higher profile for the Intermediary’s personnel or their customers, placing the Funds on the Intermediary’s preferred or recommended fund list, granting access to sales meetings, sales representatives and management representatives of the Intermediary, providing assistance in training and educating the Intermediary’s personnel on the Funds, and furnishing marketing support and other services.

The Adviser and/or the Distributor compensate Intermediaries differently depending upon, among other factors, the number or value of Nuveen Mutual Funds shares that the Intermediary sells or may sell, the value of the assets invested in the Nuveen Mutual Funds by the Intermediary’s customers, redemption rates, ability to attract and retain assets, reputation in the industry and the level and/or type of marketing assistance and educational activities provided by the Intermediary. Such payments are generally asset-based but also may include the payment of a lump sum.

Servicing Payments

The Adviser and/or the Distributor may make payments to selected Intermediaries that are registered as holders or dealers of record for accounts invested in one or more of the Nuveen Mutual

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Funds or that make Nuveen Mutual Fund shares available through employee benefit plans or fee-based advisory programs to compensate them for the variety of services they provide.

Services for which an Intermediary receives servicing payments typically include recordkeeping, reporting, or transaction processing, but may also include services rendered in connection with fund/investment selection and monitoring, employee enrollment and education, plan balance rollover or separation, or other similar services. An Intermediary may perform the services itself or may arrange with a third party to perform such services.

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC (“ TIAA - CREF IIS ”), an affiliate of the Adviser, is one intermediary that receives servicing payments. The shareholder services agreement between TIAA-CREF IIS and the Distributor provides that in exchange for such services, TIAA-CREF IIS will receive payments of 0.25% of the average net assets of Fund shares on the TIAA-CREF IIS retirement platform on an annual basis. The Distributor has agreed to pay the portion of the fee that represents 0.05% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to TIAA-CREF IIS and the Funds will pay the remainder.

Servicing payments typically apply to employee benefit plans, such as retirement plans, or fee-based advisory programs but may apply to retail sales and assets in certain situations. The payments are based on such factors as the type and nature of services or support furnished by the Intermediary and are generally asset-based.

Distribution-Related and Servicing Payment Guidelines

In the case of any one Intermediary, marketing support and program servicing payments made by the Adviser and/or the Distributor are not expected, with certain limited exceptions, to exceed, in the aggregate, 0.35% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to that Intermediary on an annual basis. In connection with the sale of a business by U.S. Bank N.A. to Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (“ Great - West ”), the Adviser and/or the Distributor has a services agreement with GWFS Equities, Inc., an affiliate of Great-West, which provides for payments of up to 0.60% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to GWFS Equities, Inc. on an annual basis (which amount also includes payments by the Funds for sub-transfer agency services).

Other Payments

From time to time, the Adviser and/or the Distributor, at their expense, may provide other compensation to Intermediaries that sell or arrange for the sale of shares of the Funds, which may be in addition to the distribution-related and servicing payments described above. For example, the Adviser and/or the Distributor may: (i) compensate Intermediaries for National Securities Clearing Corporation networking system services (e.g., shareholder communication, account statements, trade confirmations, and tax reporting) on an asset-based or per account basis; (ii) compensate Intermediaries for providing Fund shareholder trading information; (iii) make one-time or periodic payments to reimburse selected Intermediaries for items such as ticket charges (i.e., fees that an Intermediary charges its representatives for effecting transactions in Fund shares) of up to $25 per purchase or exchange order, operational charges (e.g., fees that an Intermediary charges for establishing a Fund on its trading system), and literature printing and/or distribution costs; (iv) at the direction of a retirement plan’s sponsor, reimburse or pay direct expenses of an employee benefit plan that would otherwise be payable by the plan; and (v) provide payments to broker-dealers to help defray their technology or infrastructure costs.

When not provided for in a distribution-related or servicing payment agreement, the Adviser and/or the Distributor may pay Intermediaries for enabling the Adviser and/or the Distributor to participate in and/or present at conferences or seminars, sales or training programs for invited registered representatives and other Intermediary employees, client and investor events and other Intermediary-sponsored events, and for travel expenses, including lodging incurred by registered representatives and other employees in connection with prospecting, asset retention and due diligence trips. These payments may vary depending upon the nature of the event. The Adviser and/or the Distributor make payments for such events as it deems appropriate, subject to its internal guidelines and applicable law.

The Adviser and/or the Distributor occasionally sponsor due diligence meetings for registered representatives during which the registered representatives receive updates on various Nuveen

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Mutual Funds and are afforded the opportunity to speak with portfolio managers. Although invitations to these meetings are not conditioned on selling a specific number of shares, those who have shown an interest in Nuveen Mutual Funds are more likely to be considered. To the extent permitted by their firm’s policies and procedures, all or a portion of registered representatives’ expenses in attending these meetings may be covered by the Adviser and/or the Distributor.

Representatives of the Distributor or its affiliates may receive additional compensation from the Adviser and/or the Distributor if certain targets are met for sales of one or more Nuveen Mutual Funds. Such compensation may vary by Fund and by affiliate.

Other compensation may be offered to the extent not prohibited by state laws or any self-regulatory agency, such as FINRA. Investors can ask their Intermediary for information about any payments it receives from the Adviser and/or the Distributor and the services it provides for those payments.

Investors may wish to take Intermediary payment arrangements into account when considering and evaluating any recommendations relating to Fund shares.

Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments

The following is a list of Intermediaries eligible to receive one or more of the types of payments discussed above as of October 24, 2014:

ADP Broker-Dealer, Inc.

American United Life Insurance Company

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Ascensus (formerly BISYS Retirement Services, Inc.)

BB&T

Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc.

Benefit Trust Company

Cetera

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Chase Investment Services

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Commonwealth Equity Services, LLP, DBA Commonwealth Financial Network

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Davenport & Co., LLC

Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Dyatech, LLC

Edward Jones

ExpertPlan, Inc.

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC/National Financial Services LLC

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC)/Fidelity Advisors Retirement

Financial Data Services, Inc.

First Clearing

Genesis Employee Benefits, Inc. DBA America’s VEBA Solution

Goldman Sachs

Great West Life and Annuity Insurance Co.

GWFS Equities, Inc.

Hartford Life Insurance Company

Hartford Securities Distribution Company, Inc.

Hewitt Associates LLC

ICMA Retirement Corporation

ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company/ING Institutional Plan Services LLC/ING Financial Advisors, LLC (formerly CitiStreet LLC/CitiStreet Advisors LLC)

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

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LPL Financial Services

Lincoln Retirement Services Company LLC/AMG Service Corp.

Linsco/Private Ledger Corp.

Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, N.A.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mercer HR Outsourcing LLC

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation

Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC

MSCS Financial Services, LLC

National Financial Services, LLC

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.

Newport Retirement Services, Inc.

NFP Securities, Inc.

Northwestern Mutual

NYLife Distributors LLC

Oppenheimer & Co.

Pershing LLC

Principal Life Insurance Company

Prudential Insurance Company of America (The)

Prudential Investment Management Services, LLC/Prudential Investments LLC

Raymond James & Associates/Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Reliance Trust Company

Retirement Plan Company, LLC (The)

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.

SI Financial Advisors

Southwest Securities, Inc.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc./T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.

TD Ameritrade, Inc.

TD Ameritrade Trust Company (formerly Fiserv Trust Company/International Clearing Trust Company)

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

U.S. Bank N.A.

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Unified Trust Company, N.A.

VALIC Retirement Services Company (formerly AIG Retirement Services Company)

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Wedbush Morgan Securities

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement & Trust

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (formerly AST Capital Trust Company)

Any additions, modifications or deletions to the list of Intermediaries identified above that have occurred since October 24, 2014 are not reflected in the list.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The audited financial statements for each Fund’s most recent fiscal year appear in each Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014. Each Fund’s Annual Report is incorporated by reference into this SAI and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

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MAI-NWQ-1014D

October 31, 2014

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NGEAX, Class C—NGECX, Class I—NGEIX

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NQGAX, Class C—NQGCX, Class I—NQGIX

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This Statement of Additional Information ( “SAI” ) is not a prospectus. This SAI relates to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus dated October 31, 2014 for Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund (each, a “Fund,” and collectively, the “Funds” ), each a series of Nuveen Investment Trust. A Prospectus may be obtained without charge from certain securities representatives, banks and other financial institutions that have entered into sales agreements with Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “Distributor” ), or from a Fund, by written request to the applicable Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, or by calling (800) 257-8787.

The audited financial statements for each Fund’s most recent fiscal period appear in the Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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General Information		S-3

Investment Restrictions		S-3

Investment Policies and Techniques		S-6

Asset Coverage Requirements		S-7
Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments		S-7
Debt Securities		S-9
Derivatives		S-16
Equity Securities		S-24
Non-U.S. Securities		S-27
Other Investment Policies and Techniques		S-29

Management		S-32

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight		S-40
Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications		S-43
Board Compensation		S-47
Share Ownership		S-49
Sales Loads		S-49

Service Providers		S-49

Investment Adviser		S-49
Sub-Adviser		S-51
Portfolio Manager s		S-51
Transfer Agent		S-53
Custodian		S-53
Distributor		S-53
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		S-53

Codes of Ethics		S-53

Proxy Voting Policies		S-54

Portfolio Transactions		S-54

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings		S-56


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Net Asset Value		S-58

Shares of Beneficial Interest		S-58

Tax Matters		S-60

Federal Income Tax Matters		S-60
Fund Status		S-60
Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company		S-60
Distributions		S-61
Dividends Received Deduction		S-61
If You Sell or Redeem Shares		S-62
Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses		S-62
Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends		S-62
In-Kind Distributions		S-62
Exchanges		S-62
Deductibility of Fund Expenses		S-62
Non-U.S. Tax Credit		S-63
Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations		S-63
Non-U.S. Investors		S-63
Capital Loss Carry-Forward		S-64

Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares		S-64

Class A Shares		S-64
Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares		S-65
Class C Shares		S-66
Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge		S-67
Class I Shares		S-68
Shareholder Programs		S-69
Frequent Trading Policy		S-70
Distribution and Service Plan		S-71
General Matters		S-73
Distribution Arrangements		S-73
Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments		S-74
Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments		S-76

Financial Statements		S-78

Appendix A—Ratings of Investments		A-1

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Funds are a diversified series of Nuveen Investment Trust (the “Trust” ), an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust on May 6, 1996. Each series of the Trust represents shares of beneficial interest in a separate portfolio of securities and other assets, with its own objective and policies. Currently, 20 series of the Trust are authorized and outstanding. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund was formerly named Nuveen NWQ Equity Income Fund. The Funds’ investment adviser is Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC ( “Nuveen Fund Advisors” or the “Adviser” ). The Funds’ sub-adviser is NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC ( “NWQ” or the “Sub-Adviser” ).

Certain matters under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act” ), which must be submitted to a vote of the holders of the outstanding voting securities of a series, shall not be deemed to have been effectively acted upon unless approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting shares of each series affected by such matter.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund

The investment objective and certain investment policies of the Fund are described in the Prospectus for the Fund. The Fund, as a fundamental policy, may not, without the approval of the holders of a majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting shares:

(1) Concentrate its investments in a particular industry, as the term “concentrate” is used in the 1940 Act.

(2) Borrow money, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(3) Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(4) Act as an underwriter of another issuer’s securities, except to the extent that the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.

(5) Make loans, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(6) Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments; but this restriction shall not prohibit the Fund from investing in options on commodity indices, commodity futures contracts and options thereon, commodity-related swap agreements, other commodity-related derivative instruments, and investment companies that provide exposure to commodities.

(7) Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments; but this restriction shall not prevent the Fund from purchasing or selling securities or other instruments backed by real estate or interests therein or of issuers engaged in real estate activities.

(8) Make any investment inconsistent with the Fund’s classification as a diversified company under the 1940 Act.

Except with respect to the limitation set forth in number (2) above, the foregoing restrictions and limitations will apply only at the time of purchase of securities, and the percentage limitations will not be considered violated unless an excess or deficiency occurs or exists immediately after and as a result of an acquisition of securities, unless otherwise indicated.

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that investment of 25% or more of a fund’s net assets in one or more issuers conducting their principal activities in the same industry or group of industries constitutes concentration. It is possible that interpretations of concentration could change. The limitation in number (1) will be interpreted to refer to concentration as that term may be interpreted from time to time. The limitation also will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitations set forth in numbers (2) and (3) above, under the 1940 Act as currently in effect, the Fund is not permitted to issue senior securities, except that the Fund may borrow from any bank if immediately after such borrowing the value of the Fund’s total assets is at least 300% of the principal amount of all of the Fund’s borrowings (i.e., the principal amount of the borrowings may not exceed 33 1/3% of the Fund’s total assets). In the event that such asset coverage shall at any time fall below 300%, the Fund shall, within three calendar days thereafter (not including Sundays and holidays), reduce the amount of its borrowings to an extent that the asset coverage of such borrowing shall be at least 300%.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (5) above, there are no limitations with respect to unsecured loans made by the Fund to an unaffiliated party. However, if the Fund loans its portfolio securities, the obligation on the part of the Fund to return collateral upon termination of the loan could be deemed to involve the issuance of a senior security within the meaning of Section 18(f) of the 1940 Act. In order to avoid violation of Section 18(f), the Fund may not make a loan of portfolio securities if, as a result, more than one-third of its total asset value (at market value computed at the time of making a loan) would be on loan.

With respect to the limitation in number (8) above, the Fund is currently classified as a diversified fund under the 1940 Act. This means that the Fund may not purchase securities of an issuer (other than (i) securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities, (ii) repurchase agreements fully collateralized by U.S. government securities, or (iii) securities issued by other investment companies) if, with respect to 75% of its total assets, (i) more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in securities of that issuer, or (ii) the Fund would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of that issuer. With respect to the remaining 25% of total assets, the Fund can invest more than 5% of its assets in one issuer.

The foregoing fundamental investment policies cannot be changed without approval by holders of a “majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting shares.” As defined in the 1940 Act, this means the vote of (i) 67% or more of the Fund’s shares present at a meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the Fund’s shares are present or represented by proxy, or (ii) more than 50% of the Fund’s shares, whichever is less.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

(1) With respect to 75% of its total assets, purchase the securities of any issuer (except securities issued or guaranteed by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof) if, as a result, (i) more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in securities of that issuer, or (ii) the Fund would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of that issuer.

(2) Borrow money, except as permitted by the 1940 Act and exemptive orders granted under the 1940 Act.

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(3) Act as an underwriter of another issuer’s securities, except to the extent that the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.

(4) Make loans, except as permitted by the 1940 Act and exemptive orders granted under the 1940 Act.

(5) Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments; but this restriction shall not prohibit the Fund from investing in options on commodity indices, commodity futures contracts and options thereon, commodity-related swap agreements, other commodity-related derivative instruments, and investment companies that provide exposure to commodities.

(6) Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prohibit the Fund from purchasing or selling securities or other instruments backed by real estate or of issuers engaged in real estate activities).

(7) Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act.

(8) Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a result, 25% or more of the Fund’s total assets would be invested in the securities of issuers whose principal business activities are in the same industry (except that this restriction shall not be applicable to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof).

For purposes of applying the limitations set forth in numbers (2) and (7) above, under the 1940 Act as currently in effect, the Fund is not permitted to issue senior securities, except that the Fund may borrow from any bank if immediately after such borrowing the value of the Fund’s total assets is at least 300% of the principal amount of all of the Fund’s borrowings (i.e., the principal amount of the borrowings may not exceed 33 ¹ / ₃ % of the Fund’s total assets). In the event that such asset coverage shall at any time fall below 300%, the Fund shall, within three calendar days thereafter (not including Sundays and holidays), reduce the amount of its borrowings to an extent that the asset coverage of such borrowing shall be at least 300%. No exemptive orders have been issued with respect to the limitation set forth in number (2).

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (4) above, there are no limitations with respect to unsecured loans made by the Fund to an unaffiliated party. However, if the Fund loans its portfolio securities, the obligation on the part of the Fund to return collateral upon termination of the loan could be deemed to involve the issuance of a senior security within the meaning of Section 18(f) of the 1940 Act. In order to avoid violation of Section 18(f), the Fund may not make a loan of portfolio securities if, as a result, more than one-third of its total asset value (at market value computed at the time of making a loan) would be on loan. No exemptive orders have been issued, applied for or pending with respect to the limitation set forth in number (4). Furthermore, there is no guarantee that such an exemptive order, if applied for, will be issued.

The limitation in number (8) above will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (8) above, to the extent that the income from a municipal bond is derived from a specific project, the securities will be deemed to be from the industry of that project and subject to the concentration limitation.

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The foregoing fundamental investment policies, together with the investment objective of the Fund, cannot be changed without approval by holders of a “majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting shares.” As defined in the 1940 Act, this means the vote of (i) 67% or more of the Fund’s shares present at a meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the Fund’s shares are present or represented by proxy, or (ii) more than 50% of the Fund’s shares, whichever is less.

Both Funds

(1) Invest in illiquid securities if, as a result of such investment, more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets would be invested in illiquid securities.

(2) Invest directly in futures, options on futures and swaps to the extent that the Adviser would be required to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( “CFTC” ) as a commodity pool operator. See “Investment Policies and Techniques—Derivatives—Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps.”

(3) Acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or subparagraph (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

For purposes of number (1) above, “illiquid securities” will have the same meaning as given in guidance provided by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission ( “SEC” ).

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund has adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the 1940 Act ( a “Name Policy” ) whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities. As a result, each Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of their Fund’s Name Policy. For purposes of each Name Policy, the Funds consider the term “investments” to include both direct investments and indirect investments ( e.g., investments in an underlying fund, derivatives and synthetic instruments with economic characteristics similar to the underlying asset).

INVESTMENT POLICIES AND TECHNIQUES

If a percentage limitation on investments by a Fund stated in this SAI or the Prospectus is adhered to at the time of an investment, a later increase or decrease in percentage resulting from changes in asset value will not be deemed to violate the limitation except in the case of the limitations on borrowing. Descriptions of the rating categories of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ( “Standard & Poor’s” ), Fitch, Inc. ( “Fitch” ) and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. ( “Moody’s” ) are contained in Appendix A.

References in this section to the Adviser also apply, to the extent applicable, to the Sub-Adviser of the Funds.

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Asset Coverage Requirements

To the extent required by SEC guidelines, a Fund will only engage in transactions that expose it to an obligation to another party if it owns either (a) an offsetting position for the same type of financial asset or (b) cash or liquid securities, designated on the Fund’s books or held in a segregated account, with a value sufficient at all times to cover its potential obligations not covered as provided in (a). Examples of transactions governed by these asset coverage requirements include, for example, short sales, options, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, forward currency contracts, swaps and when-issued and delayed delivery transactions. Assets used as offsetting positions, designated on a Fund’s books, or held in a segregated account cannot be sold while the positions requiring cover are open unless replaced with other appropriate assets. As a result, the commitment of a large portion of assets to be used as offsetting positions or to be designated or segregated in such a manner could impede portfolio management or the ability to meet redemption requests or other current obligations.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

The Funds may hold assets in cash or cash equivalents, money market funds and short-term taxable fixed income securities in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Funds’ principal investment strategies. For temporary defensive purposes or during periods of high cash inflows or outflows, the Funds may invest up to 100% of their net assets in such holdings. During such periods, a Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective. The Funds may only invest in short-term taxable fixed income securities with a maturity of one year or less and whose issuers have a long-term rating of A- or higher by Standard & Poor’s, A3 or higher by Moody’s or A- or higher by Fitch. Short-term taxable fixed income securities are defined to include, without limitation, the following:

(1) U.S. Government Securities. Each Fund may invest in U.S. government securities, including bills, notes and bonds differing as to maturity and rates of interest, which are either issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury or by U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities. U.S. government agency securities include securities issued by (a) the Federal Housing Administration, Farmers Home Administration, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Small Business Administration, and the Government National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States; (b) the Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, whose securities are supported by the right of the agency to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the Federal National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the agency or instrumentality; and (d) the Student Loan Marketing Association, whose securities are supported only by its credit. While the U.S. government provides financial support to such U.S. government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities, no assurance can be given that it always will do so since it is not so obligated by law. The U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate. In addition, a Fund may invest in sovereign debt obligations of non-U.S. countries. A sovereign debtor’s willingness or ability to repay principal and interest in a timely manner may be affected by a number of factors, including its cash flow situation, the extent of its non-U.S. reserves, the availability of sufficient non-U.S. exchange on the date a payment is due, the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole, the sovereign debtor’s policy toward principal international lenders and the political constraints to which it may be subject.

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(4) Repurchase Agreements. Each Fund may invest in repurchase agreements which involve purchases of debt securities. In such an action, at the time the Fund purchases the security, it simultaneously agrees to resell and redeliver the security to the seller, who also simultaneously agrees to buy back the security at a fixed price and time. This assures a predetermined yield for a Fund during its holding period since the resale price is always greater than the purchase price and reflects an agreed-upon market rate. Such actions afford an opportunity for a Fund to invest temporarily available cash. A Fund may enter into repurchase agreements only with respect to obligations of the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities; certificates of deposit; or bankers’ acceptances in which the Fund may invest. Repurchase agreements may be considered loans to the seller, collateralized by the underlying securities. The risk to a Fund is limited to the ability of the seller to pay the agreed-upon sum on the repurchase date; in the event of default, the repurchase agreement provides that the affected Fund is entitled to sell the underlying collateral. If the value of the collateral declines after the agreement is entered into, however, and if the seller defaults under a repurchase agreement when the value of the underlying collateral is less than the repurchase price, the Fund could incur a loss of both principal and interest. The portfolio manager monitors the value of the collateral at the time the action is entered into and at all times during the term of the repurchase agreement. The portfolio manager does so in an effort to determine that the value of the collateral always equals or exceeds the agreed-upon repurchase price to be paid to a Fund. If the seller were to be subject to a federal bankruptcy proceeding, the ability of a Fund to liquidate the collateral could be delayed or impaired because of certain provisions of the bankruptcy laws.

(6) Commercial Paper. Each Fund may invest in commercial paper, which are short-term unsecured promissory notes, including variable rate master demand notes issued by corporations to finance their current operations. Master demand notes are direct lending arrangements between a Fund and a corporation. There is no secondary market for the notes. However, they are redeemable by a Fund at any time. The portfolio manager will consider the financial condition of the corporation (e.g., earning power, cash flow and other liquidity ratios) and will continuously monitor the corporation’s ability to meet all of its financial obligations, because a Fund’s liquidity might be impaired if the corporation were unable to pay principal and interest on demand. The Funds may only invest in commercial paper rated A-2 or higher by Standard & Poor’s, Prime-2 or higher by Moody’s or F2 or higher by Fitch, or unrated commercial paper which is, in the opinion of the portfolio manager, of comparable quality.

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Debt Securities

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may invest in the following types of debt securities.

Corporate Debt Securities

The broad category of corporate debt securities includes debt issued by U.S. or non-U.S. companies of all kinds, including those with small-, mid- and large-capitalizations. The Fund may invest in debt securities issued by REITs and MLPs. See “Equity Securities—Real Estate Investment Trusts” and “Equity Securities—Master Limited Partnerships,” below. Corporate debt may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry variable or floating rates of interest. Corporate debt securities are fixed-income securities usually issued by businesses to finance their operations, although corporate debt instruments may also include bank loans to companies. Notes, bonds, debentures and commercial paper are the most common types of corporate debt securities, with the primary difference being their maturities and secured or unsecured status. Commercial paper has the shortest term and is usually unsecured.

Because of the wide range of types and maturities of corporate debt securities, as well as the range of creditworthiness of its issuers, corporate debt securities have widely varying potentials for return and risk profiles. For example, commercial paper issued by a large established domestic corporation that is rated investment-grade may have a modest return on principal, but carries relatively limited risk. On the other hand, a long-term corporate note issued by a small non-U.S. corporation from an emerging market country that has not been rated by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization ( “NRSRO” ) may have the potential for relatively large returns on principal, but carries a relatively high degree of risk.

Corporate debt securities carry both credit risk and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the risk that the Fund could lose money if the issuer of a corporate debt security is unable to pay interest or repay principal when it’s due. Some corporate debt securities that are rated below investment-grade are generally considered speculative because they present a greater risk of loss, including default, than higher quality debt securities. The credit risk of a particular issuer’s debt security may vary based on its priority for repayment. For example, higher ranking (senior) debt securities have a higher priority than lower ranking (subordinated) securities. This means that the issuer might not make payments on subordinated securities while making payments on senior securities. In addition, in the event of bankruptcy, holders of higher-ranking senior securities may receive amounts otherwise payable to the holders of more junior securities. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of certain corporate debt securities will tend to fall when interest rates rise. In general, corporate debt securities with longer terms tend to fall more in value when interest rates rise than corporate debt securities with shorter terms.

High Yield Debt Securities

High yield and comparable unrated debt securities (also known as “junk” bonds) are typically issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by companies that have questionable credit strength. These securities: (a) will likely have some quality and protective characteristics that, in the judgment of the NRSRO, are outweighed by large uncertainties or major risk exposures to adverse conditions; and (b) are predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal in accordance with the terms of the obligation.

The yields on high yield and comparable unrated debt securities generally are higher than the yields available on investment-grade debt securities. However, investments in these securities generally involve greater volatility of price and risk of loss of income and principal, including the possibility of default by or insolvency of the issuers of such securities. Since the risk of default is higher for high yield and comparable unrated debt securities, the Fund will try to minimize the risks inherent in investing in these securities by engaging in credit analysis, diversification, and attention to current developments and trends affecting interest rates and economic conditions. The Fund will attempt to identify those issuers of high yield and comparable unrated debt securities with a financial condition that is adequate to meet future obligations, has improved, or is expected to improve in the future. Accordingly, with respect to these types of securities, the Fund may be more dependent on credit analysis than is the case for higher quality bonds.

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The market values of certain high yield and comparable unrated debt securities tend to be more sensitive to individual corporate developments and changes in economic conditions than higher-rated securities. In addition, issuers of these securities often are highly leveraged and may not have more traditional methods of financing available to them so that their ability to service their debt obligations during an economic downturn or during sustained periods of rising interest rates may be impaired.

The risk of loss due to default by such issuers is significantly greater because high yield and comparable unrated debt securities generally are unsecured and frequently are subordinated to senior indebtedness. The Fund may incur additional expenses to the extent that it is required to seek recovery upon a default in the payment of principal or interest on such securities. The existence of limited markets for these securities may diminish the Fund’s ability to: (a) obtain accurate market quotations for purposes of valuing such securities and calculating its net asset value; and (b) sell the securities at fair value either to meet redemption requests or to respond to changes in the economy or in financial markets.

An economic recession could severely disrupt the market for such securities and adversely affect the value of such securities. Any such economic downturn also could severely and adversely affect the ability of the issuers of such securities to repay principal and pay interest thereon.

Because certain high yield and comparable unrated debt securities may be issued by non-U.S. companies, some of which may be located in emerging markets countries, there are certain additional risks associated with such investments. See “Non-U.S. Securities.”

U.S. Government Securities

The U.S. government securities in which the Fund may invest are either issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities. The U.S. government securities in which the Fund invests include:

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direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury, such as U.S. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds;

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notes, bonds, and discount notes issued and guaranteed by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities supported by the full faith and credit of the United States;

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notes, bonds, and discount notes of U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities which receive or have access to federal funding; and

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notes, bonds, and discount notes of other U.S. government instrumentalities supported only by the credit of the instrumentalities.

U.S. Treasury obligations include separately traded interest and principal component parts of such obligations, known as Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal Securities (“ STRIPS ”), which are transferable through the Federal book-entry system. STRIPS are sold as zero coupon securities, which means that they are sold at a substantial discount and redeemed at face value at their maturity date without interim cash payments of interest or principal. This discount is accreted over the life of the security, and such accretion will constitute the income earned on the security for both accounting and tax purposes. Because of these features, such securities may be subject to greater interest rate volatility than interest paying U.S. Treasury obligations.

The government securities in which the Fund may invest are backed in a variety of ways by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities. Some of these securities, such as Government National Mortgage Association (“ GNMA ”) mortgage-backed securities, are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Other securities, such as obligations of Federal National Mortgage Association (“ FNMA ”) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“ FHLMC ”) are backed by the credit of the agency or instrumentality issuing the obligations but not the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. No assurances can be given that the U.S. government will provide financial support to these other agencies or instrumentalities because it is not obligated to do so. See “Mortgage-Backed Securities” below for a description of these securities and the Fund that may invest in them.

Mortgage-Backed Securities

A mortgage-backed security is a type of pass-through security, which is a security representing pooled debt obligations repackaged as interests that pass income through an intermediary to

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investors. In the case of mortgage-backed securities, the ownership interest is in a pool of mortgage loans. Residential mortgage-backed securities (“ RMBS ”) are backed by a pool of mortgages on residential property while commercial mortgage-backed securities (“ CMBS ”) are backed by a pool of mortgages on commercial property. Mortgage-backed securities are most commonly issued or guaranteed by GNMA, FNMA or FHLMC, but may also be issued or guaranteed by other private issuers.

Agency Pass-Through Certificates. The Fund may invest in Agency Pass-Through Certificates. Agency Pass-Through Certificates are mortgage pass-through certificates representing undivided interests in pools of residential mortgage loans. Distribution of principal and interest on the mortgage loans underlying an Agency Pass-Through Certificate is an obligation of or guaranteed by GNMA, FNMA or FHLMC. GNMA is a wholly owned corporate instrumentality of the United States within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The guarantee of GNMA with respect to GNMA certificates is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, and GNMA is authorized to borrow from the U.S. Treasury in an amount which is at any time sufficient to enable GNMA, with no limitation as to amount, to perform its guarantee.

FNMA is a federally chartered and privately owned corporation organized and existing under federal law. Although the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States has discretionary authority to lend funds to FNMA, neither the United States nor any agency thereof is obligated to finance FNMA’s operations or to assist FNMA in any other manner.

FHLMC is a federally chartered corporation organized and existing under federal law, the common stock of which is owned by the Federal Home Loan Banks. Neither the United States nor any agency thereof is obligated to finance FHLMC’s operations or to assist FHLMC in any other manner.

On September 6, 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“ FHFA ”) placed FNMA and FHLMC into conservatorship. As the conservator, FHFA succeeded to all rights, titles, powers and privileges of FNMA and FHLMC and of any stockholder, officer or director of FNMA and FHLMC with respect to FNMA and FHLMC and the assets of FNMA and FHLMC. FHFA selected a new chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors for each of FNMA and FHLMC. In addition, the U.S. Treasury Department agreed to provide FNMA and FHLMC with up to $100 billion of capital each to ensure that they are able to continue to provide ongoing liquidity to the U.S. home mortgage market. FNMA and FHLMC are continuing to operate as going concerns while in conservatorship and each remain liable for all of its obligations, including its guaranty obligations, associated with its mortgage-backed securities.

The mortgage loans underlying GNMA certificates are partially or fully guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration or the Veterans Administration, while the mortgage loans underlying FNMA certificates and FHLMC certificates are conventional mortgage loans which are, in some cases, insured by private mortgage insurance companies. Agency Pass-Through Certificates may be issued in a single class with respect to a given pool of mortgage loans or in multiple classes.

The residential mortgage loans evidenced by Agency Pass-Through Certificates generally are secured by first mortgages on one- to four-family residential dwellings. Such mortgage loans generally have final maturities ranging from 15 to 40 years and generally provide for monthly payments in amounts sufficient to amortize their original principal amounts by the maturity dates. Each monthly payment on such mortgage loans generally includes both an interest component and a principal component, so that the holder of the mortgage loans receives both interest and a partial return of principal in each monthly payment. In general, such mortgage loans can be prepaid by the borrowers at any time without any prepayment penalty. In addition, many such mortgage loans contain a “due-on-sale” clause requiring the loans to be repaid in full upon the sale of the property securing the loans. Because residential mortgage loans generally provide for monthly amortization and may be prepaid in full at any time, the weighted average maturity of a pool of residential mortgage loans is likely to be substantially shorter than its stated final maturity date. The rate at which a pool of residential mortgage loans is prepaid may be influenced by many factors and is not predictable with precision.

Privately Issued Mortgage-Backed Securities. The Fund may invest in privately issued mortgage-backed securities.

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Mortgage-backed securities issued by private issuers, whether or not such obligations are subject to guarantees by the private issuer, may entail greater risk than obligations directly or indirectly guaranteed by the U.S. government. Any investments the Fund makes in mortgage-related securities that are issued by private issuers have some exposure to subprime loans as well as to the mortgage and credit markets generally. Private issuers include commercial banks, savings associations, mortgage companies, investment banking firms, finance companies and special purpose finance entities (called special purpose vehicles or structured investment vehicles) and other entities that acquire and package mortgage loans for resale as mortgage-related securities. Unlike mortgage-related securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its sponsored entities, mortgage-related securities issued by private issuers do not have a government or government-sponsored entity guarantee, but may have credit enhancement provided by external entities such as banks or financial institutions or achieved through the structuring of the transaction itself. Examples of such credit support arising out of the structure of the transaction include: (1) the issuance of senior and subordinated securities (e.g., the issuance of securities by a special purpose vehicle in multiple classes or “tranches,” with one or more classes being senior to other subordinated classes as to the payment of principal and interest, with the result that defaults on the underlying mortgage loans are borne first by the holders of the subordinated class); (2) the creation of “reserve funds” (in which case cash or investments, sometimes funded from a portion of the payments on the underlying mortgage loans, are held in reserve against future losses); and (3) “overcollateralization” (in which case the scheduled payments on, or the principal amount of, the underlying mortgage loans exceeds that required to make payment of the securities and pay any servicing or other fees). However, there can be no guarantee that credit enhancements, if any, will be sufficient to prevent losses in the event of defaults on the underlying mortgage loans.

In addition, mortgage-related securities that are issued by private issuers are not subject to the underwriting requirements for the underlying mortgages that are applicable to those mortgage-related securities that have a government or government-sponsored entity guarantee. As a result, the mortgage loans underlying private mortgage-related securities may, and frequently do, have less favorable collateral, credit risk or other underwriting characteristics than government or government-sponsored mortgage-related securities and have wider variances in a number of terms including interest rate, term, size, purpose and borrower characteristics. Privately issued pools more frequently include second mortgages, high loan-to-value mortgages and manufactured housing loans. The coupon rates and maturities of the underlying mortgage loans in a private-label mortgage-related securities pool may vary to a greater extent than those included in a government guaranteed pool, and the pool may include subprime mortgage loans. Subprime loans refer to loans made to borrowers with weakened credit histories or with a lower capacity to make timely payments on their loans. For these reasons, the loans underlying these securities have had in many cases higher default rates than those loans that meet government underwriting requirements.

The risk of non-payment is greater for mortgage-related securities that are backed by mortgage pools that contain subprime loans, but a level of risk exists for all loans. Market factors adversely affecting mortgage loan repayments may include a general economic turndown, high unemployment, a general slowdown in the real estate market, a drop in the market prices of real estate, or an increase in interest rates resulting in higher mortgage payments by holders of adjustable rate mortgages.

Privately issued mortgage-related securities are generally less liquid than obligations directly or indirectly guaranteed by the U.S. government or a government-sponsored entity, especially when there is a perceived weakness in the mortgage and real estate market sectors. Without an active trading market, mortgage-related securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may be particularly difficult to value because of the complexities involved in assessing the value of the underlying mortgage loans. The average life of a mortgage-backed security is likely to be substantially less than the original maturity of the mortgage pools underlying the securities. Prepayments of principal by mortgagors and mortgage foreclosures will usually result in the return of the greater part of principal invested far in advance of the maturity of the mortgages in the pool or can result in credit losses.

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations. The Fund may invest in collateralized mortgage obligations (“ CMOs ”). CMOs are debt obligations collateralized by mortgage loans or mortgage pass-through securities (collateral collectively referred to hereinafter as “ Mortgage Assets ”).

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Multi-class pass-through securities are interests in a trust composed of Mortgage Assets. All references in this section to CMOs include multi-class pass-through securities. Principal prepayments on the Mortgage Assets may cause the CMOs to be retired substantially earlier than their stated maturities or final distribution dates, resulting in a loss of all or part of the premium if any has been paid. Interest is paid or accrues on all classes of the CMOs on a monthly, quarterly or semi-annual basis. The principal and interest payments on the Mortgage Assets may be allocated among the various classes of CMOs in several ways. Typically, payments of principal, including any prepayments, on the underlying mortgages are applied to the classes in the order of their respective stated maturities or final distribution dates, so that no payment of principal is made on CMOs of a class until all CMOs of other classes having earlier stated maturities or final distribution dates have been paid in full.

Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities. The Fund may invest in stripped mortgage-backed securities (“ SMBS ”). SMBS are derivative multi-class mortgage securities. SMBS are usually structured with two classes that receive different proportions of the interest and principal distributions from a pool of mortgage assets. The Fund will only invest in SMBS whose mortgage assets are U.S. government obligations. A common type of SMBS will be structured so that one class receives some of the interest and most of the principal from the mortgage assets, while the other class receives most of the interest and the remainder of the principal. If the underlying mortgage assets experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the Fund may fail to fully recoup its initial investment in these securities. The market value of any class which consists primarily or entirely of principal payments generally is unusually volatile in response to changes in interest rates.

Risks of Investing in Mortgage-Backed Securities. Investment in mortgage-backed securities poses several risks, including, among others, prepayment, market and credit risk. Prepayment risk reflects the risk that borrowers may prepay their mortgages faster than expected, thereby affecting the investment’s average life and perhaps its yield. Whether or not a mortgage loan is prepaid is almost entirely controlled by the borrower. Borrowers are most likely to exercise prepayment options at the time when it is least advantageous to investors, generally prepaying mortgages as interest rates fall, and slowing payments as interest rates rise. Besides the effect of prevailing interest rates, the rate of prepayment and refinancing of mortgages may also be affected by home value appreciation, ease of the refinancing process and local economic conditions. Market risk reflects the risk that the price of a security may fluctuate over time. The price of mortgage-backed securities may be particularly sensitive to prevailing interest rates, the length of time the security is expected to be outstanding and the liquidity of the issue. In a period of unstable interest rates, there may be decreased demand for certain types of mortgage-backed securities, and the Fund invested in such securities wishing to sell them may find it difficult to find a buyer, which may in turn decrease the price at which they may be sold. Credit risk reflects the risk that the Fund may not receive all or part of its principal because the issuer or credit enhancer has defaulted on its obligations. Obligations issued by U.S. government-related entities are guaranteed as to the payment of principal and interest, but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. The performance of private label mortgage-backed securities, issued by private institutions, is based on the financial health of those institutions.

The risks to which CMBS are subject differ somewhat from the risks to which RMBS are subject. CMBS are typically backed by a much smaller number of mortgages than RMBS are, so problems with one or a small number of mortgages backing a CMBS can have a large impact on its value. As CMBS have a less diversified pool of loans backing them, they are much more susceptible to property-specific risk. The values of CMBS are also more sensitive to macroeconomic trends. For example, when the economy slows rents generally decrease and vacancies generally increase for commercial real estate. Similarly, as many CMBS have a large exposure to retail properties, events that negatively impact the retail industry can also negatively impact the value of CMBS.

Municipal Obligations

The Fund may invest in municipal bonds and other municipal obligations. These bonds and other obligations are issued by the states and by their local and special-purpose political subdivisions. The term “municipal bond” includes short-term municipal notes issued by the states and their political subdivisions, including, but not limited to, tax anticipation notes ( “TANs” ), bond anticipation notes ( “BANs” ), revenue anticipation notes ( “RANs” ), construction loan notes, tax free commercial paper,

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and tax free participation certificates. In general, municipal obligations include debt obligations issued by states, cities and local authorities to obtain funds for various public purposes, including construction of a wide range of public facilities such as airports, bridges, highways, hospitals, housing, mass transportation, schools, streets and water and sewer works. Industrial development bonds and pollution control bonds that are issued by or on behalf of public authorities to finance various privately-rated facilities are included within the term municipal obligations if the interest paid thereon is exempt from federal income tax.

Obligations of issuers of municipal obligations are subject to the provisions of bankruptcy, insolvency and other laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors. In addition, the obligations of such issuers may become subject to the laws enacted in the future by Congress, state legislatures or referenda extending the time for payment of principal and/or interest, or imposing other constraints upon enforcement of such obligations or upon municipalities to levy taxes. There is also the possibility that, as a result of legislation or other conditions, the power or ability of any issuer to pay, when due, the principal of and interest on its municipal obligations may be materially affected.

Municipal Bonds. The two general classifications of municipal bonds are “general obligation” bonds and “revenue” bonds. General obligation bonds are secured by the governmental issuer’s pledge of its faith, credit and taxing power for the payment of principal and interest upon a default by the issuer of its principal and interest payment obligations. They are usually paid from general revenues of the issuing governmental entity. Revenue bonds, on the other hand, are usually payable only out of a specific revenue source rather than from general revenues. Revenue bonds ordinarily are not backed by the faith, credit or general taxing power of the issuing governmental entity. The principal and interest on revenue bonds for private facilities are typically paid out of rents or other specified payments made to the issuing governmental entity by a private company which uses or operates the facilities. Examples of these types of obligations are industrial revenue bond and pollution control revenue bonds. Industrial revenue bonds are issued by governmental entities to provide financing aid to community facilities such as hospitals, hotels, business or residential complexes, convention halls and sport complexes. Pollution control revenue bonds are issued to finance air, water and solids pollution control systems for privately operated industrial or commercial facilities.

Revenue bonds for private facilities usually do not represent a pledge of the credit, general revenues or taxing powers of issuing governmental entity. Instead, the private company operating the facility is the sole source of payment of the obligation. Sometimes, the funds for payment of revenue bonds come solely from revenue generated by operation of the facility. Federal income tax laws place substantial limitations on industrial revenue bonds, and particularly certain specified private activity bonds issued after August 7, 1986. In the future, legislation could be introduced in Congress which could further restrict or eliminate the income tax exemption for interest on debt obligations in which the Fund may invest.

Refunded Bonds. The Fund may invest in refunded bonds. Refunded bonds may have originally been issued as general obligation or revenue bonds, but become refunded when they are secured by an escrow fund, usually consisting entirely of direct U.S. government obligations and/or U.S. government agency obligations sufficient for paying the bondholders. There are two types of refunded bonds: pre-refunded bonds and escrowed-to-maturity ( “ETM” ) bonds. The escrow fund for a pre-refunded municipal bond may be structured so that the refunded bonds are to be called at the first possible date or a subsequent call date established in the original bond debenture. The call price usually includes a premium from 1% to 3% above par. This type of structure usually is used for those refundings that either reduce the issuer’s interest payment expenses or change the debt maturity schedule. In escrow funds for ETM refunded municipal bonds, the maturity schedules of the securities in the escrow funds match the regular debt-service requirements on the bonds as originally stated in the bond indentures.

Municipal Leases and Certificates of Participation. The Fund also may purchase municipal lease obligations, primarily through certificates of participation. Certificates of participation in municipal leases are undivided interests in a lease, installment purchase contract or conditional sale contract entered into by a state or local governmental unit to acquire equipment or facilities. Municipal leases frequently have special risks which generally are not associated with general obligation bonds or

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revenue bonds. Municipal leases and installment purchase or conditional sales contracts (which usually provide for title to the leased asset to pass to the governmental issuer upon payment of all amounts due under the contract) have evolved as a means for governmental issuers to acquire property and equipment without meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements for the issuance of municipal debt.

Although lease obligations do not constitute general obligations of the municipality for which the municipality’s taxing power is pledged, a lease obligation is ordinarily backed by the municipality’s covenant to budget for, appropriate and make the payments due under the lease obligation. However, certain lease obligations contain “nonappropriation” clauses, which provide that the municipality has no obligation to make lease or installment purchase payments in future years unless money is appropriated for such purpose on a yearly basis. In evaluating securities for purchase, the Fund will take into account the incentive of the issuer to appropriate under the lease, among other factors. Some lease obligations may be illiquid under certain circumstances. Although non-appropriation lease obligations are secured by the leased equipment or facilities, disposition of the property in the event of foreclosure might, prove difficult and time consuming. In addition, disposition upon non-appropriation or foreclosure might not result in recovery by the Fund of the full principal amount represented by an obligation.

In light of these concerns, the Fund has adopted and follows procedures for determining whether any municipal lease obligations purchased by the Fund are liquid and for monitoring the liquidity of municipal lease securities held in the Fund’s portfolio. These procedures require that a number of factors be used in evaluating the liquidity of a municipal lease security, including the frequency of trades and quotes for the security, the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the security and the number of other potential purchasers, the willingness of dealers to undertake to make a market in security, the nature of the marketplace in which the security trades, and other factors which the Adviser may deem relevant. As set forth in “Investment Restrictions” above, the Fund is subject to limitations on the percentage of illiquid securities it can hold.

Derivative Municipal Securities. The Fund may also acquire derivative municipal securities, which are custodial receipts of certificates underwritten by securities dealers or banks that evidence ownership of future interest payments, principal payments or both on certain municipal securities. The underwriter of these certificates or receipts typically purchases municipal securities and deposits them in an irrevocable trust or custodial account with a custodian bank, which then issues receipts or certificates that evidence ownership of the periodic unmatured coupon payments and the final principal payment on the obligation.

The principal and interest payments on the municipal securities underlying custodial receipts may be allocated in a number of ways. For example, payments may be allocated such that certain custodial receipts may have variable or floating interest rates and others may be stripped securities which pay only the principal or interest due on the underlying municipal securities.

Variable Rate Demand Notes (“VRDNs”). VRDNs are long-term municipal obligations that have variable or floating interest rates and provide the Fund with the right to tender the security for repurchase at its stated principal amount plus accrued interest. Such securities typically bear interest at a rate that is intended to cause the securities to trade at par. The interest rate may float or be adjusted at regular intervals (ranging from daily to annually), and is normally based on an applicable interest index or another published interest rate or interest rate index. Most VRDNs allow the Fund to demand the repurchase of the security on not more than seven days prior notice. Other notes only permit the Fund to tender the security at the time of each interest rate adjustment or at other fixed intervals. Variable interest rates generally reduce changes in the market value of municipal obligations from their original purchase prices. Accordingly, as interest rates decrease, the potential for capital appreciation is less for variable rate municipal obligations than for fixed income obligations.

Inverse Floating Rate Municipal Securities. The Fund may invest in inverse floating rate municipal securities or “inverse floaters,” whose rates vary inversely to interest rates on a specified short-term municipal bond index or on another instrument. Such securities involve special risks as compared to conventional fixed-rate bonds. Should short-term interest rates rise, the Fund’s investment in inverse floaters likely would adversely affect the Fund’s earnings and distributions to shareholders. Also,

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because changes in the interest rate on the other index or other instrument inversely affect the rate of interest received on an inverse floater, and because inverse floaters essentially represent a leveraged investment in a long-term bond, the value of an inverse floater is generally more volatile than that of a conventional fixed-rate bond having similar credit quality, redemption provisions and maturity. Although volatile in value, inverse floaters typically offer the potential for yields substantially exceeding the yields available on conventional fixed-rate bonds with comparable credit quality, coupon, call provisions and maturity. The markets for inverse floating rate securities may be less developed and have less liquidity than the markets for conventional securities. The Fund will only invest in inverse floating rate securities whose underlying bonds are rated A or higher.

Derivatives

Subject to the limitations set forth below under “Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps,“ each Fund may use derivative instruments as described below. Generally, a derivative is a financial contract the value of which depends upon, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset, reference rate or index. Derivatives generally take the form of contracts under which the parties agree to payments between them based upon the performance of a wide variety of underlying references, such as stocks, bonds, loans, commodities, interest rates, currency exchange rates, and various domestic and foreign indices.

The particular derivative instruments the Funds can use are described below. A Fund’s portfolio manager may decide not to employ some or all of these instruments, and there is no assurance that any derivatives strategy used by a Fund will succeed. The Funds may employ new derivative instruments and strategies when they are developed, if those investment methods are consistent with the particular Fund’s investment objective and are permissible under applicable regulations governing the Fund.

Options Transactions

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may purchase put and call options on specific securities (including groups or “baskets” of specific securities), interest rates, stock indices and/or bond indices. In addition, the Fund may write put and call options on such financial instruments.

Options on Securities. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may purchase put and call options on securities. A put option on a security gives the purchaser of the option the right (but not

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the obligation) to sell, and the writer of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying security at a stated price (the “exercise price”) at any time before the option expires. A call option on a security gives the purchaser the right (but not the obligation) to buy, and the writer the obligation to sell, the underlying security at the exercise price at any time before the option expires. The purchase price for a put or call option is the “premium” paid by the purchaser for the right to sell or buy.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may purchase put options to hedge against a decline in the value of its portfolio. By using put options in this way, the Fund would reduce any profit it might otherwise have realized in the underlying security by the amount of the premium paid for the put option and by transaction costs. In similar fashion, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may purchase call options to protect against an increase in the price of securities that the Fund anticipates purchasing in the future, a practice sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.” The premium paid for the call option plus any transaction costs will reduce the benefit, if any, realized by the Fund upon exercise of the option, and, unless the price of the underlying security rises sufficiently, the option may expire unexercised.

Options on Interest Rates and Indices. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may purchase put and call options on interest rates and on stock and bond indices. An option on interest rates or on an index gives the holder the right to receive, upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing value of the underlying interest rate or index is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the exercise-settlement value of the interest rate option or the closing price of the index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple (the “multiplier”). The writer of the option is obligated, for the premium received, to make delivery of this amount. Settlements for interest rate and index options are always in cash.

Writing Options. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may write (sell) put and call options. These transactions would be undertaken principally to produce additional income. The Fund receives a premium from writing options which it retains whether or not the option is exercised. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may write straddles consisting of a combination of a call and a put written on the same underlying instrument.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will write a call on a security only if (a) the Fund owns the security underlying the call, (b) the Fund has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that security without additional cash consideration (or, if additional cash consideration is required, cash or other liquid assets in such amount are segregated), or (c) the Fund holds a call on the same security where the exercise price of the call is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will write a call option on an index only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets in an amount equal to the contract value of the index, or (b) the Fund holds a call on the index as the call written where the exercise price of the call held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will write a put option on a security or index only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets equal to the exercise price or (b) the Fund holds a put on the same security or index as the put written where the exercise price of the put held is (i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the put written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund writes a straddle, sufficient assets will be segregated to meet the Fund’s immediate obligations. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may segregate the same liquid assets for both the call and put options in a straddle where the exercise price of the call and put are the same, or the exercise price of the call is higher than that of the put. In such cases, the Fund will also segregate liquid assets equivalent to the amount, if any, by which the put is “in the money.”

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Expiration or Exercise of Options. If an option written by Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital gain equal to the premium received at the time the option was written. If an option purchased by Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid. Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an exchange traded option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series (type, exchange, underlying security, or index, exercise price, and expiration). There can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be effected when the Fund desires.

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may sell put or call options it has previously purchased, which could result in a net gain or loss depending on whether the amount realized on the sale is more or less than the premium and other transaction costs paid on the put or call option which is sold. Prior to exercise or expiration, an option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series. The Fund will realize a capital gain from a closing purchase transaction if the cost of the closing option is less than the premium received from writing the option, or, if it is more, the Fund will realize a capital loss. If the premium received from a closing sale transaction is more than the premium paid to purchase the option, the Fund will realize a capital gain or, if it is less, the Fund will realize a capital loss. The principal factors affecting the market value of a put or a call option include supply and demand, interest rates, the current market price of the underlying security or index in relation to the exercise price of the option, the volatility of the underlying security or index, and the time remaining until the expiration date.

Covered Calls

Each Fund may sell (i.e., write) covered call options in an attempt to generate increased income from a security in which a Fund holds a long position. A call option written by a Fund on a security is “covered” if the Fund owns the security underlying the call or has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that security without additional cash consideration upon conversion or exchange of other securities held by the Fund. A call option is also covered if a Fund holds a call on the same security as the call written where the exercise price of the call held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated assets determined to be liquid by the Fund.

As the writer of a covered call option, a Fund forgoes, during the option’s life, the opportunity to profit from increases in the market value of the security covering the call option above the sum of the premium and the strike price of the call, but has retained the risk of loss should the price of the underlying security decline. As a Fund writes covered calls over more of its portfolio, its ability to benefit from capital appreciation becomes more limited. The writer of an option has no control over the time when it may be required to fulfill its obligations as a writer of the option. Once an option writer has received an exercise notice, it cannot effect a closing purchase transaction in order to terminate its obligation under the option and must deliver the underlying security at the exercise price.

There may be significant differences between the securities and options markets that could result in an imperfect correlation between these markets, causing a given covered call transaction not to achieve its objectives. A decision as to whether, when and how to use covered call options involves the exercise of skill and judgment, and even a well-conceived transaction may be unsuccessful to some degree because of market behavior or unexpected events.

Futures

The Funds may engage in futures transactions. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to stock indices and individual stocks. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1) interest rates, (2) debt securities, (3) bond indices, (4) stock indices, and (5) individual stocks. (The Funds may also engage in foreign currency futures contracts as described below under “Non-U.S. Currency Transactions.”) The Funds may only enter into futures contracts which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign exchange, board of trade or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

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such as futures contracts relating to individual securities, call for making or taking delivery of the underlying financial instrument. However, these contracts generally are closed out before delivery by entering into an offsetting purchase or sale of a matching futures contract. Other futures contracts, such as futures contracts on indices, do not call for making or taking delivery of the underlying financial instrument, but rather are agreements pursuant to which two parties agree to take or make delivery of an amount of cash equal to the difference between the value of the financial instrument at the close of the last trading day of the contract and the price at which the contract was originally written. These contracts also may be settled by entering into an offsetting futures contract.

Options on Futures

The Funds may also purchase or write put and call options on futures contracts and enter into closing transactions with respect to such options to terminate an existing position. A futures option gives the holder the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short position (put) in a futures contract at a specified exercise price prior to the expiration of the option. Upon exercise of a call option, the holder acquires a long position in the futures contract and the writer is assigned the opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true. Prior to exercise or expiration, a futures option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of a futures option of the same series.

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or in part, by the increase in the value of the securities held by the Fund that were being hedged. Writing a put option or purchasing a call option on a futures contract serves as a partial hedge against an increase in the value of the securities a Fund intends to acquire.

As with investments in futures contracts, each Fund is required to deposit and maintain margin with respect to put and call options on futures contracts written by it.

Non-U.S. Currency Transactions

Each Fund may engage in non-U.S. currency futures, forwards and options. A Fund will enter into non-U.S. currency transactions for hedging and other permissible risk management purposes only. A Fund will limit its non-U.S. currency transactions such that it will not be obligated to deliver an amount of non-U.S. currency in excess of the value of its portfolio securities or other assets denominated in that currency or, in the case of a “cross-hedge,” denominated in a currency or currencies that the portfolio manager believes will tend to be closely correlated with that currency with regard to price movements.

Currency Futures. A currency future is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (the exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date. Currency futures are exchange-traded and subject to margin requirements. See “Futures” above.

Currency Forwards. A currency forward is similar to a currency futures contract, except that unlike currency futures, which are standardized, exchange-traded contracts, currency forward are individually negotiated between two parties in the OTC market. Transactions in the OTC markets generally are conducted on a principal-to-principal basis, with terms and conditions that are generally not standardized but rather subject to negotiation between the parties. In general, there has been less governmental regulation and supervision of OTC transactions than transactions on organized exchanges, but passage of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act beginning in 2010 and subsequent rulemaking have begun to increase regulation and transparency of OTC markets.

Currency Options. A currency option gives the owner the right but not the obligation to exchange one currency for another at a pre-agreed exchange rate on a specified date in the future. The owner of a call option has the right, but not the obligation, to buy the currency. Conversely, the owner of a put option has the right, but not the obligation, to sell the currency. When the option is exercised, the seller (i.e., writer) of the option is obligated to fulfill the terms of the sold option. However, either the seller or the buyer may, in the secondary market, close its position during the option period at any time prior to expiration.

Swap Transactions

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may enter into total return, interest rate, currency and credit default swap agreements and interest rate caps, floors and collars. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may also enter into options on the foregoing types of swap agreements (“ swap options ”) and in bonds issued by special purpose entities that are backed by a pool of swaps.

The Fund may enter into swap transactions for any purpose consistent with its investment objectives and strategies, such as for the purpose of attempting to obtain or preserve a particular return or spread at a lower cost than obtaining a return or spread through purchases and/or sales of instruments in other markets, to protect against currency fluctuations, as a duration management technique, to protect against an increase in the price of securities the Fund anticipates purchasing at a later date, to reduce risk arising from the ownership of a particular instrument, or to gain exposure to certain securities, sectors or markets.

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obligations under a net swap agreement will be accrued daily (offset against any amounts owed to the Fund) and the Fund will segregate assets determined to be liquid by the Sub-Adviser for any accrued but unpaid net amounts owed to a swap counterparty. See “Asset Coverage Requirements” above.

Interest Rate Swaps, Caps, Collars and Floors. Interest rate swaps are bilateral contracts in which each party agrees to make periodic payments to the other party based on different referenced interest rates (e.g., a fixed rate and a floating rate) applied to a specified notional amount. The purchase of an interest rate floor entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index falls below a predetermined interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling such interest rate floor. The purchase of an interest rate cap entitles the purchaser, to the extent that a specified index rises above a predetermined interest rate, to receive payments of interest on a notional principal amount from the party selling such interest rate cap. Interest rate collars involve selling a cap and purchasing a floor or vice versa to protect the Fund against interest rate movements exceeding given minimum or maximum levels.

Currency Swaps. A currency swap is an agreement between two parties to exchange equivalent fixed amounts in two different currencies for a fixed period of time. The exchange of currencies at the inception date of the contract takes place at the current spot rate. Such an agreement may provide that, for the duration of the swap, each party pays interest to the other on the received amount at an agreed upon fixed or floating interest rate. When the contract ends, the parties re-exchange the currencies at the initial exchange rate, a specified rate, or the then current spot rate. Some currency swaps may not provide for exchanging currencies, but only for exchanging interest cash flows.

Total Return Swaps. In a total return swap, one party agrees to pay the other the “total return” of a defined underlying asset during a specified period, in return for periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or the total return from other underlying assets. A total return swap may be applied to any underlying asset but is most commonly used with equity indices, single stocks, bonds and defined baskets of mortgages. The Fund might enter into a total return swap involving an underlying index or basket of securities to create exposure to a potentially widely-diversified range of securities in a single trade. An index total return swap can be used by the portfolio managers to assume risk, without the complications of buying the component securities from what may not always be the most liquid of markets.

Credit Default Swaps. A credit default swap is a bilateral contract that enables an investor to buy or sell protection against a defined-issuer credit event. The Fund may enter into credit default swap agreements either as a buyer or a seller. The Fund may buy protection to attempt to mitigate the risk of default or credit quality deterioration in one or more of its individual holdings or in a segment of the fixed income securities market to which it has exposure, or to take a “short” position in individual bonds, loans or market segments which it does not own. The Fund may sell protection in an attempt to gain exposure to the credit quality characteristics of particular bonds or market segments without investing directly in those bonds or market segments.

As the buyer of protection in a credit default swap, the Fund will pay a premium (by means of an upfront payment or a periodic stream of payments over the term of the agreement) in return for the right to deliver a referenced bond or group of bonds to the protection seller and receive the full notional or par value (or other agreed upon value) upon a default (or similar event) by the issuer(s) of the underlying referenced obligation(s). If no default occurs, the protection seller would keep the stream of payments and would have no further obligation to the Fund. Thus, the cost to the Fund would be the premium paid with respect to the agreement. If a credit event occurs, however, the Fund may elect to receive the full notional value of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable obligations of the reference entity that may have little or no value. The Fund bears the risk that the protection seller may fail to satisfy its payment obligations.

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total net assets, the Fund is subject to investment exposure on the notional amount of the swap. Thus, the Fund bears the same risk as it would by buying the reference obligations directly, plus the additional risks related to obtaining investment exposure through a derivative instrument discussed below under “Risks Associated with Swap Transactions.”

Swap Options. A swap option is a contract that gives a counterparty the right (but not the obligation), in return for payment of a premium, to enter into a new swap agreement or to shorten, extend, cancel, or otherwise modify an existing swap agreement at some designated future time on specified terms. A cash-settled option on a swap gives the purchaser the right, in return for the premium paid, to receive an amount of cash equal to the value of the underlying swap as of the exercise date. The Fund may write (sell) and purchase put and call swap options. Depending on the terms of the particular option agreement, the Fund generally will incur a greater degree of risk when it writes a swap option than when it purchases a swap option. When the Fund purchases a swap option, it risks losing only the amount of the premium it has paid should it decide to let the option expire unexercised. However, when the Fund writes a swap option, upon exercise of the option the Fund will become obligated according to the terms of the underlying agreement.

Risks Associated with Swap Transactions. The use of swap transactions is a highly specialized activity which involves strategies and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio security transactions. If the Sub-Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of default risks, market spreads or other applicable factors the investment performance of the Fund would diminish compared with what it would have been if these techniques were not used. As the protection seller in a credit default swap, the Fund effectively adds economic leverage to its portfolio because, in addition to being subject to investment exposure on its total net assets, the Fund is subject to investment exposure on the notional amount of the swap. The Fund may only close out a swap, cap, floor, collar or other two-party contract with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty. In addition, the price at which the Fund may close out such a two party contract may not correlate with the price change in the underlying reference asset. If the counterparty defaults, the Fund will have contractual remedies, but there can be no assurance that the counterparty will be able to meet its contractual obligations or that the Fund will succeed in enforcing its rights. It also is possible that developments in the derivatives market, including potential government regulation, could adversely affect the Fund’s ability to terminate existing swap or other agreements or to realize amounts to be received under such agreements.

Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps

Each Fund will limit its direct investments in CFTC-regulated futures, options on futures and swaps ( “CFTC Derivatives” ) to the extent necessary for the Adviser to claim the exclusion from regulation as a commodity pool operator with respect to the Fund under CFTC Rule 4.5, as such rule may be amended from time to time. Under Rule 4.5 as currently in effect, each Fund will limit its trading activity in CFTC Derivatives (excluding activity for “bona fide hedging purposes,” as defined by the CFTC) such that it meets one of the following tests:

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Federal Income Tax Treatment of Futures Contracts and Options

Risks and Special Considerations Concerning Derivatives

The use of derivative instruments involves certain general risks and considerations as described below.

(1) Market Risk. Market risk is the risk that the value of the underlying assets may go up or down. Adverse movements in the value of an underlying asset can expose a Fund to losses. The successful use of derivative instruments depends upon a variety of factors, particularly the portfolio manager’s ability to predict movements in the relevant markets, which may require different skills than predicting changes in the prices of individual securities. There can be no assurance that any particular strategy adopted will succeed.

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such instruments, it might be required to continue to maintain such assets or accounts or make such payments until the position expires, matures or is closed out. These requirements might impair a Fund’s ability to sell a security or make an investment at a time when it would otherwise be favorable to do so, or require that the Fund sell a portfolio security at a disadvantageous time. A Fund’s ability to sell or close out a position in an instrument prior to expiration or maturity depends upon the existence of a liquid secondary market or, in the absence of such a market, the ability and willingness of the counterparty to enter into a transaction closing out the position. There is no assurance that any derivatives position can be sold or closed out at a time and price that is favorable to a Fund.

Equity Securities

Equity securities include common stocks, preferred securities, warrants to purchase common stocks or preferred securities, convertible securities, participatory notes, interests in real estate investment trusts, common and preferred units of master limited partnerships, and other securities with equity characteristics.

Common Stocks

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Stock markets tend to move in cycles with short or extended periods of rising and falling stock prices. The value of a company’s stock may fall because of:

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Factors that directly relate to that company, such as decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company’s products or services;

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Factors affecting an entire industry, such as increases in production costs; and

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Changes in financial market conditions that are relatively unrelated to the company or its industry, such as changes in interest rates, currency exchange rates or inflation rates.

Preferred Securities

Warrants

Convertible Securities

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the general level of interest rates, the yield of similar non-convertible securities, the financial strength of the issuer and the seniority of the security in the issuer’s capital structure. A security’s “conversion value” is determined by multiplying the number of shares the holder is entitled to receive upon conversion or exchange by the current price of the underlying security. If the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly below its investment value, the convertible security will trade like nonconvertible debt or a preferred security in the sense that its market value will not be influenced greatly by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying security into which it can be converted. Instead, the convertible security’s price will tend to move in the opposite direction from interest rates. Conversely, if the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly above its investment value, the market value of the convertible security will be more heavily influenced by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying stock. In that case, the convertible security’s price may be as volatile as that of the common stock. Because both interest rate and market movements can influence its value, a convertible security is not generally as sensitive to interest rates as a similar fixed-income security, nor is it generally as sensitive to changes in share price as its underlying stock.

A Fund’s investments in convertible securities, particularly securities that are convertible into securities of an issuer other than the issuer of the convertible security, may be illiquid. A Fund’s investments in convertible securities may at times include securities that have a mandatory conversion feature, pursuant to which the securities convert automatically into common stock or other equity securities (of the same or a different issuer) at a specified date and a specified conversion ratio, or that are convertible at the option of the issuer. For issues where the conversion of the security is not at the option of the holder, a Fund may be required to convert the security into the underlying common stock even at times when the value of the underlying common stock or other equity security has declined substantially.

Participatory Notes

Real Estate Investment Trusts

Real estate investment trusts ( “REITs” ) are publicly traded corporations or trusts that specialize in acquiring, holding, and managing residential, commercial or industrial real estate. A REIT is not taxed at the entity level on income distributed to its shareholders or unitholders if it distributes to shareholders or unitholders at least 90% of its taxable income for each taxable year and complies with

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regulatory requirements relating to its organization, ownership, assets and income. REITs generally can be classified as Equity REITs, Mortgage REITs and Hybrid REITs. An Equity REIT invests the majority of its assets directly in real property and derives its income primarily from rents and from capital gains on real estate appreciation which are realized through property sales. A Mortgage REIT invests the majority of its assets in real estate mortgage loans and services its income primarily from interest payments. A Hybrid REIT combines the characteristics of an Equity REIT and a Mortgage REIT.

Investment in REITs would subject a Fund to risks associated with the real estate industry. The real estate industry has been subject to substantial fluctuations and declines on a local, regional and national basis in the past and may continue to be in the future. Real property values and income from real property may decline due to general and local economic conditions, overbuilding and increased competition, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, regulatory limitations on rents, changes in neighborhoods and in demographics, increases in market interest rates, or other factors. Factors such as these may adversely affect companies which own and operate real estate directly, companies which lend to such companies, and companies which service the real estate industry.

A Fund is also subject to risks associated with direct investments in REITs. Equity REITs will be affected by changes in the values of and income from the properties they own, while Mortgage REITs may be affected by the credit quality of the mortgage loans they hold. In addition, REITs are dependent on specialized management skills and on their ability to generate cash flow for operating purposes and to make distributions to shareholders or unitholders. REITs may have limited diversification and are subject to risks associated with obtaining financing for real property, as well as to the risk of self-liquidation. REITs also can be adversely affected by their failure to qualify for tax-free pass-through treatment of their income under the Code or their failure to maintain an exemption from registration under the 1940 Act. By investing in REITs indirectly through a Fund, a shareholder bears not only a proportionate share of the expenses of the Fund, but also may indirectly bear similar expenses of some of the REITs in which it invests.

Master Limited Partnerships

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund may invest up to 5% of its net assets in master limited partnerships (“ MLPs ”) and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in MLPs. An MLP is an entity, most commonly a limited partnership, that is taxed as a partnership, publicly traded and listed on a national securities exchange. Holders of common units of MLPs typically have limited control and limited voting rights as compared to holders of a corporation’s common shares. Preferred units issued by MLPs are not typically listed or traded on an exchange. Holders of preferred units can be entitled to a wide range of voting and other rights. Debt securities of MLPs are similar to debt securities of other companies. Such securities may be rated or unrated, may be above or below investment-grade quality, and may carry fixed or floating interest rates. MLPs are limited by the Code to only apply to enterprises that engage in certain businesses, mostly pertaining to the use of natural resources, such as petroleum and natural gas extraction and transportation, although some other enterprises may also qualify as MLPs.

Non-U.S. Securities

The Funds invest in a variety of securities issued by non-U.S. companies. Investments in securities of non-U.S. companies involve risks in addition to the usual risks inherent in domestic investments, including currency risk. The value of a non-U.S. security in U.S. dollars tends to decrease when the value of the U.S. dollar rises against the non-U.S. currency in which the security is denominated and tends to increase when the value of the U.S. dollar falls against such currency.

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non-U.S. securities are less liquid and their prices tend to be more volatile than comparable U.S. securities. From time to time, non-U.S. securities may be difficult to liquidate rapidly without adverse price effects.

The Funds may invest directly in non-U.S. securities that are denominated in non-U.S. currencies or in dollar-denominated securities of non-U.S. companies. The Funds may also invest in non-U.S. securities by purchasing depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts (“ ADRs ”), European Depositary Receipts (“ EDRs ”), Global Depositary Receipts (“ GDRs ”) or other securities representing indirect ownership interests in the securities of non-U.S. companies, including New York Shares. Generally, ADRs, in registered form, are denominated in U.S. dollars and are designated for use in the U.S. securities markets, while EDRs and GDRs are typically in bearer form and may be denominated in non-U.S. currencies and are designed for use in European and other markets. ADRs are receipts typically issued by a U.S. bank or trust company evidencing ownership of the underlying non-U.S. security. ADRs, EDRs and GDRs are deemed to have the same classification as the underlying securities they represent, except that ADRs, EDRs and GDRs shall be treated as indirect non-U.S. investments. Thus, an ADR, EDR or GDR representing ownership of common stock will be treated as common stock. ADRs, EDRs and GDRs do not eliminate all of the risks associated with directly investing in the securities of non-U.S. companies, such as changes in non-U.S. currency exchange rates. However, by investing in ADRs rather than directly in non-U.S. companies’ stock, the Funds avoid currency risks during the settlement period.

In considering whether to invest in the securities of a non-U.S. company, the portfolio manager considers such factors as the characteristics of the particular company, differences between economic trends, and the performance of securities markets in the United States and other countries. The portfolio manager also considers factors relating to the general economic, governmental and social conditions of the country or countries where the company is located.

Securities transactions conducted outside the United States may not be regulated as rigorously as in the United States, may not involve a clearing mechanism and related guarantees, and are subject to the risk of governmental actions affecting trading in, or the prices of, non-U.S. securities, currencies and other instruments. The value of such positions also could be adversely affected by (i) other complex non-U.S. political, legal and economic factors, (ii) lesser availability than in the United States of data on which to make trading decisions, (iii) delays in a Fund’s ability to act upon economic events occurring in non-U.S. markets during non-business hours in the United States, (iv) the imposition of different exercise and settlement terms and procedures and the margin requirements than in the United States, (v) currency exchange rate changes, and (vi) lower trading volume and liquidity.

Emerging Markets Risk

Each Fund may invest in securities issued by companies located in emerging markets. Emerging market countries are generally in the initial stages of their industrialization cycles with low per capita

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income. The markets of emerging markets countries are generally more volatile than the markets of developed countries with more mature economies. They generally do not have the level of market efficiency and strict standards in accounting and securities regulation to be on par with advanced economies, but emerging markets will typically have a physical financial infrastructure, including banks, a stock exchange and a unified currency. Emerging markets often experience faster economic growth as measured by gross domestic product. Investments in emerging markets come with much greater risk due to political instability, domestic infrastructure problems, currency volatility and limited investment opportunities (many large companies may still be “state-run” or private). Also, local securities exchanges may not offer liquid markets for outside investors. All of the risks of investing in non-U.S. securities described above are heightened by investing in emerging markets countries.

Currency Risk

By investing in non-U.S. securities, the Funds will be subject to currency risk, which is the risk that an increase in the U.S. dollar relative to the non-U.S. currency will reduce returns or portfolio value. Generally, when the U.S. dollar rises in value relative to a non-U.S. currency, a Fund’s investment in securities denominated in that currency will lose value because its currency is worth fewer U.S. dollars. On the other hand, when the value of the U.S. dollar falls relative to a non-U.S. currency, a Fund’s investments denominated in that currency will tend to increase in value because that currency is worth more U.S. dollars. The exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and non-U.S. currencies depend upon such factors as supply and demand in the currency exchange markets, international balance of payments, governmental intervention, speculation and other economic and political conditions. Although a Fund values its assets daily in U.S. dollars, such Fund may not convert its holdings of non-U.S. currencies to U.S. dollars on a daily basis. A Fund may incur conversion costs when it converts its holdings to another currency. Non-U.S. exchange dealers may realize a profit on the difference between the price at which a Fund buys and sells currencies. A Fund may engage in non-U.S. currency exchange transactions in connection with its portfolio investments. A Fund conducts its non-U.S. currency exchange transactions either on a spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the non-U.S. currency exchange market or through forward contracts to purchase or sell non-U.S. contracts. A Fund may also be subject to currency risk through investments in ADRs and other non-U.S. securities denominated in U.S. dollars.

Other Investment Policies and Techniques

Over-the-Counter Market

The Funds may invest in over-the-counter securities. In contrast to the securities exchanges, the over-the-counter market is not a centralized facility that limits trading activity to securities of companies which initially satisfy certain defined standards. Generally, the volume of trading in an unlisted or over-the-counter security is less than the volume of trading in a listed security. This means that the depth of market liquidity of some securities in which a Fund invests may not be as great as that of other securities and, if the Fund were to dispose of such a security, they might have to offer the securities at a discount from recent prices, or sell the securities in small lots over an extended period of time.

Initial Public Offerings (“IPO”)

The Funds may invest a portion of their assets in securities of companies offering shares in IPOs. IPOs may have a magnified performance impact on a Fund with a small asset base. The impact of IPOs on a Fund’s performance likely will decrease as the Fund’s asset size increases, which could reduce the Fund’s total returns. IPOs may not be consistently available to a Fund for investing, particularly as the Fund’s asset base grows. Because IPO shares frequently are volatile in price, a Fund may hold IPO shares for a very short period of time. This may increase the turnover of a Fund and may lead to increased expenses for the Fund, such as commissions and transaction costs. By selling shares, a Fund may realize taxable gains it will subsequently distribute to shareholders. In addition, the market for IPO shares can be speculative and/or inactive for extended periods of time. The limited number of shares available for trading in some IPOs may make it more difficult for a Fund to buy or sell significant amounts of shares without an unfavorable impact on prevailing prices. Holders of IPO shares (including a Fund) can be affected by substantial dilution in the value of their shares, by sales of additional shares and by concentration of control in existing management and principal shareholders.

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When-Issued or Delayed-Delivery Transactions

Illiquid Securities

Each Fund may invest in illiquid securities (i.e., securities that are not readily marketable). For purposes of this restriction, illiquid securities include, but are not limited to, restricted securities (securities the disposition of which is restricted under the federal securities laws) and repurchase agreements with maturities in excess of seven days. However, a Fund will not acquire illiquid securities if, as a result, such securities would comprise more than 15% of the value of the Fund’s net assets. The Board of Trustees or its delegate has the ultimate authority to determine, to the extent permissible under the federal securities laws, which securities are liquid or illiquid for purposes of this 15% limitation. The Board of Trustees has delegated to the Adviser the day-to-day determination of the illiquidity of any portfolio security, although it has retained oversight over and ultimate responsibility for such determinations. The Adviser works with and to a large extent relies on the expertise and advice of the Sub-Adviser in making these liquidity determinations. Although no definitive liquidity criteria are used, the Board of Trustees has directed the Adviser to look to such factors as (i) the nature of the market for a security (including the institutional private resale market; the frequency of trades and quotes for the security; the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the security; and the amount of time normally needed to dispose of the security, the method of soliciting offers and the mechanics of transfer), (ii) the terms of certain securities or other instruments allowing for the disposition to a third party or the issuer thereof (e.g., certain repurchase obligations and demand instruments), and (iii) other permissible relevant facts.

Restricted securities may be sold only in privately negotiated transactions or in a public offering with respect to which a registration statement is in effect under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Where registration is required, a Fund may be obligated to pay all or part of the registration expenses and a considerable period may elapse between the time of the decision to sell and the time the Fund may be permitted to sell a security under an effective registration statement. If, during such a period, adverse market conditions were to develop, a Fund might obtain a less favorable price than that which prevailed when it decided to sell. Illiquid securities will be priced at fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of Trustees or its delegate.

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Short Sales Against the Box

When Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund’s portfolio manager believes that the price of a particular security held by the Fund may decline, it may make “short sales against the box” to hedge the unrealized gain on such security. Selling short against the box involves selling a security which the Fund owns for delivery at a specified date in the future. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will limit its transactions in short sales against the box to 5% of its net assets. In addition, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will limit its transactions such that the value of the securities of any issuer in which it is short will not exceed the lesser of 2% of the value of the Fund’s net assets or 2% of the securities of any class of the issuer. If, for example, the Fund bought 100 shares of ABC at $40 per share in January and the price appreciates to $50 in March, the Fund might “sell short” the 100 shares at $50 for delivery the following July. Thereafter, if the price of the stock declines to $45, it will realize the full $1,000 gain rather than the $500 gain it would have received had it sold the stock in the market. On the other hand, if the price appreciates to $55 per share, the Fund would be required to sell at $50 and thus receive a $1,000 gain rather than the $1,500 gain it would have received had it sold the stock in the market. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund may also be required to pay a premium for short sales which would partially offset any gain.

Investment Companies

Each Fund may invest in other investment companies, including open-end funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, and exchange-traded funds ( “ETFs” ) registered under the 1940 Act ( “1940 Act ETFs” ). Under the 1940 Act, a Fund’s investment in such securities, subject to certain exceptions, currently is limited to 3% of the total voting stock of any one investment company; 5% of such Fund’s total assets with respect to any one investment company; and 10% of such Fund’s total assets in the aggregate. Many 1940 Act ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the SEC to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in their shares beyond these statutory limits, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to contractual arrangements between the ETFs and the investing funds. The Funds may rely on these exemptive orders in investing in 1940 Act ETFs. Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund will only invest in other investment companies that invest primarily in Fund-eligible investments. A Fund’s investments in other investment companies may include money market mutual funds. Investments in money market funds are not subject to the percentage limitations set forth above.

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MANAGEMENT

The management of the Trust, including general supervision of the duties performed for the Funds by the Adviser under the Investment Management Agreement, is the responsibility of the Board of Trustees. The number of trustees of the Trust is twelve, two of whom are “interested persons” (as the term “interested person” is defined in the 1940 Act) and ten of whom are not interested persons (referred to herein as “independent trustees” ). None of the independent trustees has ever been a trustee, director or employee of, or consultant to, the Adviser or its affiliates. The names, business addresses and years of birth of the trustees and officers of the Funds, their principal occupations and other affiliations during the past five years, the number of portfolios each oversees and other directorships they hold are set forth below. The trustees of the Trust are directors or trustees, as the case may be, of 106 Nuveen-sponsored open-end funds (the “Nuveen Mutual Funds” ) and 96 Nuveen-sponsored closed-end funds (collectively with the Nuveen Mutual Funds, the “Nuveen Funds” ).


Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Independent Trustees:

Robert P. Bremner 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1940	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2003	Private Investor and Management Consultant; Treasurer and Director, Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.; Board Member, Independent Directors Council affiliated with the Investment Company Institute.	202	None

Jack B. Evans 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 1999	President, The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation (since 1996); Director, Source Media Group; Life Trustee of Coe College and the Iowa College Foundation; formerly, Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; formerly, President and Chief Operating Officer, SCI Financial Group, Inc., a regional financial services firm; formerly, Member and President Pro Tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa University System.	202	Director and Chairman, United Fire Group, a publicly held company; formerly, Director, Alliant Energy.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

William C. Hunter 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2004	Dean Emeritus (since June 30, 2012), formerly, Dean (2006-2012), Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Director (since 2005) and President (since July 2012), Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Honor Society; Director of Wellmark, Inc. (since 2009); formerly, Director (1997-2007), Credit Research Center at Georgetown University; formerly, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Finance, School of Business at the University of Connecticut (2003-2006); previously, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1995-2003).	202	Director (since 2004) of Xerox Corporation.

David J. Kundert 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1942	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2005	Formerly, Director, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013); retired (since 2004) as Chairman, JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management, President and CEO, Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation, and President, One Group Mutual Funds; prior thereto, Executive Vice President, Bank One Corporation and Chairman and CEO, Banc One Investment Management Group; Regent Emeritus, Member of Investment Committee, Luther College; Member of the Wisconsin Bar Association; Member of Board of Directors, Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens; Member of Board of Directors and Chair of Investment Committee, Greater Milwaukee Foundation; Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

John K. Nelson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2013	Senior external advisor to the financial services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP (since 2012); Member of Board of Directors of Core12 LLC (since 2008), a private firm which develops branding, marketing and communications strategies for clients; Director of The Curran Center for Catholic American Studies (since 2009) and The President’s Council, Fordham University (since 2010); former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Marian University (2010-2014 as trustee, 2011-2014 as Chairman); formerly, Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO N.V. North America, and Global Head of its Financial Markets Division (2007-2008); prior senior positions held at ABN AMRO include Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Global Markets—the Americas (2006-2007), CEO of Wholesale Banking—North America and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Futures Markets (2001-2006), and Regional Commercial Treasurer and Senior Vice President Trading—North America (1996-2001); formerly, Trustee at St. Edmund Preparatory School in New York City.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

William J. Schneider 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Chairman of the Board and Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2003	Chairman of Miller-Valentine Partners, a real estate investment company; Board Member of Med-America Health System, of Tech Town, Inc., a not-for-profit community development company, and of WDPR Public Radio station; formerly, Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer (retired, 2004) of Miller-Valentine Group; formerly, Director, Dayton Development Coalition; formerly, Board Member, Business Advisory Council, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and University of Dayton Business School Advisory Council.	202	None

Judith M. Stockdale 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2003	Board Member of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (since 2013); Board Member of the Land Trust Alliance (since 2013); formerly, Executive Director (1994-2012), Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; prior thereto, Executive Director, Great Lakes Protection Fund (1990-1994).	202	None

Carole E. Stone 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2007	Director, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (since 2006); Director, C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated (since 2009); formerly, Commissioner, New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform (2005-2010); formerly, Chair, New York Racing Association Oversight Board (2005-2007).	202	Director, CBOE Holdings, Inc. (since 2010).

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Virginia L. Stringer 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2011	Board Member, Mutual Fund Directors Forum; former Member, Governing Board, Investment Company Institute’s Independent Directors Council; Governance consultant and non-profit board member; former Owner and President, Strategic Management Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm; previously, held several executive positions in general management, marketing and human resources at IBM and The Pillsbury Company.	202	Previously, Independent Director (1987-2010) and Chair (1997-2010), First American Fund Complex.

Terence J. Toth 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1959	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2008	Managing Partner, Promus Capital (since 2008); Director, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012); formerly, Director, Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (2008-2013); formerly, CEO and President, Northern Trust Global Investments (2004-2007); Executive Vice President, Quantitative Management & Securities Lending (2000-2004); prior thereto, various positions with Northern Trust Company (since 1994); Member, Chicago Fellowship Board (since 2005), Catalyst Schools of Chicago Board (since 2008) and Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and a member of its investment committee; formerly, Member, Northern Trust Mutual Funds Board (2005-2007), Northern Trust Global Investments Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Japan Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Securities Inc. Board (2003-2007) and Northern Trust Hong Kong Board (1997-2004).	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Interested Trustees:

William Adams IV** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1955	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Senior Executive Vice President, Global Structured Products of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2010); Co- President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011); President (since 2011), formerly, Managing Director (2010-2011), of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Board Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of Gilda’s Club Chicago; formerly, Executive Vice President, U.S. Structured Products, of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (1999-2010).	202	None

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Vice Chairman, Wealth Management of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2011); Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chairman of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Member of the Board of Governors and Chairman’s Council of the Investment Company Institute; formerly, Chief Executive Officer (2000-2010) and Chief Investment Officer (2007-2010) of FAF Advisors, Inc.; formerly, President of First American Funds (2001-2010).	202	None

Each trustee serves an indefinite term until his or her successor is elected.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Officers of the Trust:
Gifford R. Zimmerman 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Chief Administrative Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1996	Managing Director (since 2002) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Managing Director (since 2002), Assistant Secretary (since 1997) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director (since 2004) and Assistant Secretary (since 1994) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (since 2002); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc. (since 2002); Managing Director, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Symphony Asset Management LLC (since 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC (since 2006) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since 2013), formerly, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Compliance Officer (2006-2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203
Margo L. Cook 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1964	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2009	Executive Vice President of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2008), Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011) and Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2013); Managing Director—Investment Services of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC (since August 2011); previously, Head of Institutional Asset Management (2007-2008) of Bear Stearns Asset Management; Head of Institutional Asset Management (1986-2007) of Bank of NY Mellon; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203
Lorna C. Ferguson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1945	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1998	Managing Director of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203
Stephen D. Foy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1954	Vice President and Controller	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1998	Managing Director (since 2014), formerly, Senior Vice President (2013-2014) and Vice President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chief Financial Officer (since 2010) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Senior Vice President (2010-2011), formerly, Vice President (2005-2010) and Funds Controller of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer
Scott S. Grace 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Treasurer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2009	Managing Director and Treasurer (since 2009) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc., Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, Nuveen Securities, LLC and (since 2011) Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Vice President and Treasurer of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Treasurer (2006-2009), Senior Vice President (2008-2009), previously, Vice President (2006-2008) of Janus Capital Group, Inc.; formerly, Senior Associate in Morgan Stanley’s Global Financial Services Group (2000-2003); Chartered Accountant.	203
Walter M. Kelly 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2003	Senior Vice President (since 2008) of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203
Tina M. Lazar 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1961	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2002	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203
Kevin J. McCarthy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1966	Vice President and Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2007	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary (since 2008) of Nuveen Securities, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Managing Director (since 2008), Assistant Secretary (since 2007) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Managing Director (since 2008) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.; Vice President (since 2007) and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, NWQ Holdings, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President (since 2010) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer
Kathleen L. Prudhomme 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402 1953	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Deputy General Counsel, FAF Advisors, Inc. (2004-2010).	203
Joel T. Slager 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1978	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since August 2013	Fund Tax Director for Nuveen Funds (since May, 2013); previously, Vice President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., Assistant Treasurer of the Morgan Stanley Funds (from 2010 to 2013); Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (from 2008 to 2010).	203
Jeffery M. Wilson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); formerly, Senior Vice President of FAF Advisors, Inc. (2000-2010).	106

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight

The Board of Directors or the Board of Trustees (as the case may be, each is referred to hereafter as the “Board” or “Board of Trustees” and the directors or trustees of the Nuveen Funds, as applicable, are each referred to herein as “trustees” ) oversees the operations and management of the Nuveen Funds, including the duties performed for the Nuveen Funds by the Adviser. The Board has adopted a unitary board structure. A unitary board consists of one group of directors who serve on the board of every fund in the Nuveen Fund complex. In adopting a unitary board structure, the trustees seek to provide effective governance through establishing a board, the overall composition of which will, as a body, possess the appropriate skills, independence and experience to oversee the Nuveen Funds’ business. With this overall framework in mind, when the Board, through its Nominating and Governance Committee discussed below, seeks nominees for the Board, the trustees consider, not only the candidate’s particular background, skills and experience, among other things, but also whether such background, skills and experience enhance the Board’s diversity and at the same time complement the Board given its current composition and the mix of skills and experiences of the incumbent trustees. The Nominating and Governance Committee believes that the Board generally benefits from diversity of background, experience and views among its members, and considers this a factor in evaluating the composition of the Board, but has not adopted any specific policy on diversity or any particular definition of diversity.

In an effort to enhance the independence of the Board, the Board also has a Chairman that is an independent trustee. The Board recognizes that a chairman can perform an important role in setting

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the agenda for the Board, establishing the boardroom culture, establishing a point person on behalf of the Board for fund management, and reinforcing the Board’s focus on the long-term interests of shareholders. The Board recognizes that a chairman may be able to better perform these functions without any conflicts of interests arising from a position with fund management. Accordingly, the trustees have elected William J. Schneider to serve as the independent Chairman of the Board. Specific responsibilities of the Chairman include: (i) presiding at all meetings of the Board and of the shareholders; (ii) seeing that all orders and resolutions of the trustees are carried into effect; and (iii) maintaining records of and, whenever necessary, certifying all proceedings of the trustees and the shareholders.

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In addition, the Nominating and Governance Committee, among other things, makes recommendations concerning the continuing education of trustees; monitors performance of legal counsel and other service providers; establishes and monitors a process by which security holders are able to communicate in writing with members of the Board; and periodically reviews and makes recommendations about any appropriate changes to trustee compensation. In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the Nominating and Governance Committee receives suggestions from various sources, including shareholders, as to suitable candidates. Suggestions should be sent in writing to Lorna Ferguson, Manager of Fund Board Relations, Nuveen Investments, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606. The Nominating and Governance Committee sets appropriate standards and requirements for nominations for new trustees and reserves the right to interview any and all candidates and to make the final selection of any new trustees. In considering a candidate’s qualifications, each candidate must meet certain basic requirements, including relevant skills and experience, time availability (including the time requirements for due diligence site visits to sub-advisers and service providers) and, if qualifying as an independent trustee candidate, independence from the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser, the Distributor and other service providers, including any affiliates of these entities. These skill and experience requirements may vary depending on the current composition of the Board, since the goal is to ensure an appropriate range of skills, diversity and experience, in the aggregate. Accordingly, the particular factors considered and weight given to these factors will depend on the composition of the Board and the skills and backgrounds of the incumbent trustees at the time of consideration of the nominees. All candidates, however, must meet high expectations of personal integrity, independence, governance experience and professional competence. All candidates must be willing to be critical within the Board and with management and yet maintain a collegial and collaborative manner toward other Board members. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. This committee is composed of the independent trustees of the Nuveen Funds. Accordingly, the members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans, William C. Hunter, David J. Kundert, John K. Nelson, William J. Schneider, Chair, Judith M. Stockdale, Carole E. Stone, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Nominating and Governance Committee met seven times.

The Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee (the “Compliance Committee” ) is responsible for the oversight of compliance issues, risk management and other regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds that are not otherwise the jurisdiction of the other committees. The Board has adopted and periodically reviews policies and procedures designed to address the Nuveen Funds’ compliance and risk matters. As part of its duties, the Compliance Committee reviews the policies and procedures relating to compliance matters and recommends

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modifications thereto as necessary or appropriate to the full Board; develops new policies and procedures as new regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds arise from time to time; evaluates or considers any comments or reports from examinations from regulatory authorities and responses thereto; and performs any special reviews, investigations or other oversight responsibilities relating to risk management, compliance and/or regulatory matters as requested by the Board.

In addition, the Compliance Committee is responsible for risk oversight, including, but not limited to, the oversight of risks related to investments and operations. Such risks include, among other things, exposures to particular issuers, market sectors, or types of securities; risks related to product structure elements, such as leverage; and techniques that may be used to address those risks, such as hedging and swaps. In assessing issues brought to the committee’s attention or in reviewing a particular policy, procedure, investment technique or strategy, the Compliance Committee evaluates the risks to the Nuveen Funds in adopting a particular approach compared to the anticipated benefits to the Nuveen Funds and their shareholders. In fulfilling its obligations, the Compliance Committee meets on a quarterly basis, and at least once a year in person. The Compliance Committee receives written and oral reports from the Nuveen Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer ( “CCO” ) and meets privately with the CCO at each of its quarterly meetings. The CCO also provides an annual report to the full Board regarding the operations of the Nuveen Funds’ and other service providers’ compliance programs as well as any recommendations for modifications thereto. The Compliance Committee also receives reports from the Adviser’s investment services group regarding various investment risks. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the full Board also participates in discussions with management regarding certain matters relating to investment risk, such as the use of leverage and hedging. The investment services group therefore also reports to the full Board at its quarterly meetings regarding, among other things, fund performance and the various drivers of such performance. Accordingly, the Board directly and/or in conjunction with the Compliance Committee oversees matters relating to investment risks. Matters not addressed at the committee level are addressed directly by the full Board. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Compliance Committee are William C. Hunter, John K. Nelson, Judith M. Stockdale, Chair, and Virginia L. Stringer. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Compliance Committee met six times.

The Open-End Funds Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in the oversight and monitoring of the Nuveen Funds that are registered as open-end management investment companies ( “Open-End Funds” ). The committee may review and evaluate matters related to the formation and the initial presentation to the Board of any new Open-End Fund and may review and evaluate any matters relating to any existing Open-End Fund. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Open-End Funds Committee are Robert P. Bremner, David J. Kundert, William J. Schneider, Judith M. Stockdale, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth, Chair. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Open-End Funds Committee met four times.

Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications

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William Adams IV

Robert P. Bremner

Jack B. Evans

William C. Hunter

David J. Kundert

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One Investment Management Group. From 1988 to 1992, he was President and CEO of Bank One Wisconsin Trust Company. Mr. Kundert recently retired as a Director of the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013). He started his career as an attorney for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Kundert has served on the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and he is currently a member of the Wisconsin Bar Association. He is on the Board of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and chairs its Investment Committee. He is a Regent Emeritus and a Member of the Investment Committee of Luther College. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Luther College, and his Juris Doctor from Valparaiso University.

John K. Nelson

William J. Schneider

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

Mr. Schreier has been Vice Chairman, Wealth Management of Nuveen Investments since January 2011. Mr. Schreier has also served as Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC since January 2011. Until Nuveen Investments’ acquisition of FAF Advisors on January 1, 2011, Mr. Schreier was Chief Executive Officer of FAF Advisors from November 2000, Chief Investment Officer of FAF Advisors from September 2007 and President of First American Funds from February 2001 to December 2010. From 1998 to November 2000, Mr. Schreier served as Senior Managing Director and Head of Equity Research for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Schreier is a member of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and is on its Chairman’s Council. He has also served as director, chairman of the finance committee, and member of the audit committee for Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Mr. Schreier is former chairman of the Saint Thomas Academy Board of Trustees, a founding investor of Granite Global Ventures, and a member of the Applied Investment Management Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame.

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Judith M. Stockdale

Carole E. Stone

Virginia L. Stringer

Terence J. Toth

Mr. Toth is a Managing Partner, Promus Capital (since 2008). From 2008 to 2013, he was a Director, Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. From 2004 to 2007, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Northern Trust Global Investments, and Executive Vice President of Quantitative Management & Securities Lending from 2000 to 2004. He also formerly served on the Board of the Northern Trust Mutual Funds. He joined Northern Trust in 1994 after serving as Managing Director and Head of Global Securities Lending at Bankers Trust (1986 to 1994) and Head of Government Trading and Cash Collateral Investment at Northern Trust from 1982 to 1986. He currently serves on the Board of Chicago Fellowship, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012), and is Chairman of the Board of Catalyst Schools of Chicago. He is on the Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and is a member of its investment committee. Mr. Toth graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and received his MBA from New York University. In 2005, he graduated from the CEO Perspectives Program at Northwestern University.

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Board Compensation


Name of Trustee	Aggregate Compensation From Funds ¹		Amount of Total Compensation that Has Been Deferred ²		Total Compensation From Nuveen Funds Paid to Trustee ³
Robert P. Bremner	$	5	$	—	$	298,602
Jack B. Evans		5		—		291,892
William C. Hunter		4		—		261,500
David J. Kundert		5		—		311,960
John K. Nelson ⁴		3		—		152,167
William J. Schneider		5		—		363,918
Judith M. Stockdale		5		—		285,359
Carole E. Stone		5		—		300,367
Virginia L.Stringer		4		—		270,500
Terence J. Toth		5		—		316,839

The compensation paid, including deferred amounts, to the independent trustees for the fiscal period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Funds.

Based on the compensation paid (including any amounts deferred) to the trustees for the one-year period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Nuveen Funds.

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Mr. Nelson was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Nuveen Funds effective September 1, 2013.

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and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee received $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee received $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent trustees also received a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provided services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting was held. When ad hoc committees were organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee at the time of formation determined compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees were $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses were allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management might have, in its discretion, established a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

The Trust does not have a retirement or pension plan. The Trust has a deferred compensation plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan” ) that permits any independent trustee to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of his or her compensation as an independent trustee. The deferred compensation of a participating trustee is credited to a book reserve account of the Trust when the compensation would otherwise have been paid to the trustee. The value of the trustee’s deferral account at any time is equal to the value that the account would have had if contributions to the account had been invested and reinvested in shares of one or more of the eligible Nuveen Funds. At

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the time for commencing distributions from a trustee’s deferral account, the independent trustee may elect to receive distributions in a lump sum or over a period of five years. The Trust will not be liable for any other fund’s obligations to make distributions under the Deferred Compensation Plan.

The Funds have no employees. The officers of the Trust and the trustees of the Trust who are not independent trustees serve without any compensation from the Funds.

Share Ownership


	Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the Funds				Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in All Registered Investment Companies Overseen by Trustee in Family of Investment Companies
Name of Trustee	Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund		Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund
William Adams IV		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Robert P. Bremner		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Jack B. Evans		$0		$0		Over $100,000
William C. Hunter		$0		$0		Over $100,000
David J. Kundert		$0		$0		Over $100,000
John K. Nelson		$0		$0		Over $100,000
William J. Schneider		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Judith M. Stockdale		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Carole E. Stone		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Virginia L. Stringer		$0		$0		Over $100,000
Terence J. Toth		$0		$0		Over $100,000

As of October 2, 2014, the officers and trustees of the Trust, in the aggregate, owned less than 1% of the shares of each of the Funds.

Sales Loads

Trustees of the Trust and certain other Fund affiliates may purchase the Funds’ Class I shares. See the Funds’ Prospectus for details.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Investment Adviser

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On October 1, 2014, Nuveen Investments was acquired by TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization.

Each Fund has agreed to pay an annual fund-level management fee, payable monthly, based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as set forth in the Prospectus.


Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level*	Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level
$55 billion		0.2000	%
$56 billion		0.1996	%
$57 billion		0.1989	%
$60 billion		0.1961	%
$63 billion		0.1931	%
$66 billion		0.1900	%
$71 billion		0.1851	%
$76 billion		0.1806	%
$80 billion		0.1773	%
$91 billion		0.1691	%
$125 billion		0.1599	%
$200 billion		0.1505	%
$250 billion		0.1469	%
$300 billion		0.1445	%

The complex-level fee is calculated based upon the aggregate daily “eligible assets” of all Nuveen Funds. Except as described below, eligible assets include the net assets of all Nuveen-branded closed-end and open-end registered investment companies organized in the United States. Eligible assets do not include assets attributable to investments in other Nuveen Funds or assets in excess of a determined amount (originally $2 billion) added to the Nuveen Fund complex in connection with Nuveen Fund Advisors’ assumption of the management of the former First American Funds effective January 1, 2011. Eligible assets include closed-end fund assets managed by the Adviser that are attributable to financial leverage. For these purposes, financial leverage includes the closed-end funds’ use of preferred stock and borrowings and certain investments in the residual interest certificates (also called inverse floating rate securities) in tender option bond (TOB) trusts, including the portion of assets held by a TOB trust that has been effectively financed by the trust’s issuance of floating rate securities, subject to an agreement by the Adviser as to certain funds to limit the amount of such assets for determining eligible assets in certain circumstances. As of June 30, 2014, the complex-level fee rate was 0.1653%.

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The following tables set forth the management fees (net of fee waivers and expense reimbursements) paid by the Funds and the fees waived and expenses reimbursed by the Adviser for the specified periods.


	Management Fees Net of Expense Reimbursement Paid to the Adviser		Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements from the Adviser
Fund	April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014		April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	$	—	$21,614


	Amount of Management Fees (Net of Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements by the Adviser)						Amount of Fees Waived and Expenses Reimbursed by the Adviser
Fund	7/01/11- 6/30/12		7/01/12- 6/30/13		7/01/13- 6/30/14		7/01/11- 6/30/12		7/01/12- 6/30/13		7/01/13- 6/30/14
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	31,774	$	44,811	$	54,116

Sub-Adviser

The Adviser has selected its affiliate, NWQ, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of each Fund. The Adviser pays NWQ a portfolio management fee out of the advisory fee paid to the Adviser for its services to the Funds.

Portfolio Managers

Gregg S. Tenser, CFA, has primary responsibility for the day-to-day implementation of the investment strategies of Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund. James T. Stephenson, CFA, is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the investment strategies of Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund.

Compensation

NWQ’s portfolio managers participate in a highly competitive compensation structure with the purpose of attracting and retaining the most talented investment professionals and rewarding them through a total compensation program as determined by the firm’s executive committee. The total compensation program consists of both a base salary and an annual bonus that can be a multiple of the base salary. Each portfolio manager’s performance is formally evaluated annually and based on a variety of factors. Bonus compensation is primarily a function of the firm’s overall annual profitability and the individual portfolio manager’s contribution as measured by the overall investment performance of client portfolios in the strategy they manage relative to the strategy’s general benchmark for one, three and five year periods (as applicable), as well as an objective review of stock recommendations and the quality of primary research, and subjective review of the professional’s contributions to portfolio strategy, teamwork, collaboration and work ethic.

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Other Accounts Managed

In addition to the Funds, as of June 30, 2014, the portfolio managers were also primarily responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of the following accounts:


Portfolio Manager	Type of Account Managed	Number of Accounts		Assets		Number of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees		Assets of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees
Gregg S. Tenser	Registered Investment Companies		0	$	0		0	$	0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0		0		0
	Other Accounts		113		18.2 million		0		0
James T. Stephenson	Registered Investment Companies		2		325.2 million		0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0		0		0
	Other Accounts		1		1.13 million		0		0

Conflicts of Interest

Actual or perceived conflicts of interest may arise when a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities with respect to more than one account. More specifically, portfolio managers who manage multiple accounts are presented with the following potential conflicts, which are not intended to be an exhaustive list:

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The management of multiple accounts may result in a portfolio manager devoting unequal time and attention to the management of each account. NWQ seeks to manage such competing interests for the time and attention of the portfolio manager by utilizing investment models for the management of most investment strategies.

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Beneficial Ownership of Securities

The following table indicates as of June 30, 2014 the value, within the indicated range, of shares beneficially owned by the portfolio managers in the Fund they manage. For purposes of this table, the following letters indicate the range listed next to each letter:


A	-	$0
B	-	$1 - $10,000
C	-	$10,001 - $50,000
D	-	$50,001 - $100,000
E	-	$100,001 - $500,000
F	-	$500,001 - $1,000,000
G	-	More than $1 million


Name of Portfolio Manager	Fund	Dollar Range of Equity Securities Beneficially Owned in Fund Managed
Gregg S. Tenser	Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund		E
James T. Stephenson	Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund		E

Transfer Agent

The Funds’ transfer, shareholder services, and dividend paying agent is Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. ( “BFDS” ), P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530.

Custodian

Distributor

Nuveen Securities, LLC, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the distributor for the Funds’ shares pursuant to a “best efforts” arrangement as provided by a Distribution Agreement dated August 1, 1998 (the “Distribution Agreement” ). Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Funds appointed the Distributor to be their agent for the distribution of the Funds’ shares on a continuous offering basis.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ( “PwC” ), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, independent registered public accounting firm, has been selected as auditors for the Funds. In addition to audit services, PwC provides assistance on accounting, tax and related matters.

CODES OF ETHICS

The Funds, the Adviser, NWQ and the Distributor have adopted codes of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and with respect to the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser, Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Acts of 1940, as amended, addressing personal securities transactions and other conduct by investment personnel and access persons who may have access to information about the Funds’ securities transactions. The codes are intended to address potential conflicts of interest that can arise in connection with personal trading activities of such persons. Persons subject to the codes are generally permitted to engage in personal securities transactions, including investing in securities eligible for investment by the Funds, subject to certain prohibitions, which may include prohibitions on investing in certain types of securities, pre-clearance requirements, blackout periods, annual and quarterly reporting of personal securities holdings and limitations on personal trading of initial public offerings. Violations of the codes are subject to review by the Board of Trustees and could result in severe penalties.

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES

Each Fund has adopted a proxy voting policy that seeks to ensure that proxies for securities held by the Fund are voted consistently and solely in the best economic interests of the Fund.

A member of each Fund’s management team is responsible for oversight of the Fund’s proxy voting process. With regard to equity securities, NWQ has engaged the services of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. ( “ISS” ) to make recommendations on the voting of proxies relating to securities held by the Funds and managed by NWQ. ISS provides voting recommendations based upon established guidelines and practices. NWQ reviews and frequently follows ISS recommendations. However, on selected issues, NWQ may not vote in accordance with the ISS recommendations when it believes that specific ISS recommendations are not in the best economic interest of the applicable Fund. If NWQ manages the assets of a company or its pension plan and any of NWQ’s clients hold any securities of that company, NWQ will vote proxies relating to such company’s securities in accordance with the ISS recommendations to avoid any conflict of interest. Where a material conflict of interest has been identified by NWQ and ISS does not offer a recommendation on the matter, NWQ shall disclose the conflict and NWQ’s Proxy Voting Committee shall determine the manner in which to vote and notify the Fund’s Board of Trustees or its designated committee.

Although NWQ has affiliates that provide investment advisory, broker-dealer, insurance or other financial services, NWQ does not receive non-public information about the business arrangements of such affiliates (except with regard to major distribution partners of its investment products) or the directors, officers and employees of such affiliates. Therefore, NWQ is unable to consider such information when determining whether there are material conflicts of interests.

Information regarding how each Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period or life of the Fund, if shorter, ended June 30 is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787 or by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS

NWQ is responsible for decisions to buy and sell securities for the Funds and for the placement of the Funds’ securities business, the negotiation of the commissions to be paid on brokered transactions, the prices for principal trades in securities, and the allocation of portfolio brokerage and principal business. It is the policy of NWQ to seek the best execution at the best security price available with respect to each transaction, and with respect to brokered transactions, in light of the overall quality of brokerage and research services provided to the adviser and its advisees. The best price to the Funds means the best net price without regard to the mix between purchase or sale price and commission, if any. Purchases may be made from underwriters, dealers, and, on occasion, the issuers. Commissions will be paid on the Funds’ futures and options transactions, if any. The purchase price of portfolio securities purchased from an underwriter or dealer may include underwriting commissions and dealer spreads. The Funds may pay mark-ups on principal transactions. In selecting broker-dealers and in negotiating commissions, the portfolio manager considers, among other things, the firm’s reliability, the quality of its execution services on a continuing basis and its financial condition. Brokerage will not be allocated based on the sale of a Fund’s shares.

In light of the above, in selecting brokers, the portfolio manager considers investment and market information and other research, such as economic, securities and performance measurement research,

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provided by such brokers, and the quality and reliability of brokerage services, including execution capability, performance and financial responsibility. Accordingly, the commissions charged by any such broker may be greater than the amount another firm might charge if the portfolio manager determines in good faith that the amount of such commissions is reasonable in relation to the value of the research information and brokerage services provided by such broker to NWQ or a Fund. NWQ believes that the research information received in this manner provides a Fund with benefits by supplementing the research otherwise available to the Fund. The Investment Management Agreement and the Sub-Advisory Agreement provide that such higher commissions will not be paid by a Fund unless NWQ determines in good faith that the amount is reasonable in relation to the services provided. The investment advisory fees paid by a Fund to the Adviser under the Investment Management Agreement and the sub-advisory fees paid by the Adviser to NWQ under the Sub-Advisory Agreement are not reduced as a result of receipt by either the Adviser or NWQ of research services.

NWQ places portfolio transactions for other advisory accounts managed by it. Research services furnished by firms through which the Funds effect their securities transactions may be used by NWQ in servicing all of its accounts; not all of such services may be used by NWQ in connection with the Funds. NWQ believes it is not possible to measure separately the benefits from research services to each of the accounts (including the Funds) managed by it. Because the volume and nature of the trading activities of the accounts are not uniform, the amount of commissions in excess of those charged by another broker paid by each account for brokerage and research services will vary. However, NWQ believes such costs to the Funds will not be disproportionate to the benefits received by the Funds on a continuing basis. NWQ seeks to allocate portfolio transactions equitably whenever concurrent decisions are made to purchase or sell securities by the Funds and another advisory account. In some cases, this procedure could have an adverse effect on the price or the amount of securities available to the Funds. In making such allocations between the Funds and other advisory accounts, the main factors considered by NWQ are the respective investment objectives, the relative size of portfolio holdings of the same or comparable securities, the availability of cash for investment and the size of investment commitments generally held.

The following tables set forth the aggregate amount of brokerage commissions paid by the Funds for the specified periods.

Fund

Aggregate Brokerage Commissions Paid by the Fund

April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund

$1,095


	Aggregate Amount of Brokerage Commissions
Fund	7/01/11- 6/30/12		7/01/12- 6/30/13		7/01/13- 6/30/14
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	$	846	$	1,344	$	1,958

During the fiscal year/period ended June 30, 2014, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and NWQ Global Equity Income Fund paid to brokers as commissions in return for research services $1,081 and $1,437, respectively, and the aggregate amount of those transactions on which such commissions were paid were $1,118,030 and $1,017,188, respectively.

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Fund Name	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/ Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc.	$21,901
	JPMorgan Clearing Corporation	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	12,965
	Wells Fargo Securities LLC.	Wells Fargo & Company	11,826
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	—
	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc.	32,970
	JPMorgan Clearing Corporation	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	34,572
	JPMorgan Clearing Corporation	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.000%, 8/01/64	12,240

DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

The Nuveen Mutual Funds have adopted a portfolio holdings disclosure policy which governs the dissemination of the Funds’ portfolio holdings. In accordance with this policy, the Funds may provide portfolio holdings information to third parties no earlier than the time a report is filed with the SEC that is required to contain such information or one day after the information is posted on the Funds’ publicly accessible website, www.nuveen.com. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available on the Funds’ website ten business days after the end of the month. Additionally, the Funds publish on the website a list of their top ten holdings as of the end of each month, approximately two to five business days after the end of the month for which the information is current. This information will remain available on the website at least until the Funds file with the SEC their Forms N-CSR or Forms N-Q for the period that includes the date as of which the website information is current.

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Vestek’s systems and software programs. Vestek is also provided with non-public portfolio holdings information on a monthly basis approximately 2-3 business days after the end of each month so that Vestek may calculate and provide certain statistical information (but not the non-public holdings information itself) to its clients (including retirement plan sponsors or their consultants). The Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser may also provide certain portfolio holdings information to broker-dealers from time to time in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or requests for price quotations or bids on one or more securities. In providing this information, reasonable precautions are taken in an effort to avoid potential misuse of the disclosed information, including limitations on the scope of the portfolio holdings information disclosed, when appropriate.

Compliance officers of the Funds and the Adviser and Sub-Adviser periodically monitor overall compliance with the policy to ascertain whether portfolio holdings information is disclosed in a manner that is consistent with the Funds’ policy. Reports are made to the Funds’ Board of Trustees on an annual basis.

ADP Investor Communications Services

Barclays Capital, Inc.

Barra

Bloomberg

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Broadridge Systems

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Commerz Markets LLC

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Dresdner Kleinwort Securities, LLC

Ernst & Young LLP

FactSet Research Systems

Financial Graphic Services

First Clearing, LLC

Forbes

Glass, Lewis & Co.

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

ING Financial Markets, LLC

The Investment Company Institute

ISS

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.

J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.

KPMG LLP

Lipper Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

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Moody’s

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Morningstar, Inc.

MS Securities Services, Inc.

Newedge USA, LLC

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Pershing, LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

RBS Securities, Inc.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company

R.R. Donnelley Financial

Scotia Capital (USA), Inc.

SG Ameritas Securities, LLC

Societe Generale, New York Branch

Standard & Poor’s

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

Strategic Insight

TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.

ThomsonReuters LLC

UBS Securities, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC

U.S. Bank N.A.

Value Line

Vestek Systems, Inc.

Vickers

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Wilshire Associates Incorporated

NET ASSET VALUE

Each Fund’s net asset value is determined as set forth in the Prospectus under “General Information—Net Asset Value.”

SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

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obligations of the Trust and requires that notice of this disclaimer be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the trustees. The Trust’s Declaration of Trust further provides for indemnification out of the assets and property of the Trust for all losses and expenses of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Trust. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Trust or a Fund itself was unable to meet its obligations. The Trust believes the likelihood of the occurrence of these circumstances is remote.

The following table sets forth the percentage ownership of each person, who, as of October 2, 2014, owned of record, or is known by the Trust to have owned of record or beneficially, 5% or more of any class of a Fund’s shares. As of October 2, 2014, Nuveen Investments owned a substantial portion of each Fund and, accordingly, controlled the Funds. A party that controls a Fund may be able to significantly influence the outcome of any item presented to shareholders for approval.


Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund Class A Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn: Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		84.84%

	State Street Bank & Trust Cust Corrine F Kroeker IRA Rollover 21790B N Weather Edge Cir Lannon WI 53046-9623		8.58%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		6.57%

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund Class C Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn: Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		100.00%

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund Class I Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn: Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		100.00%

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund Class A Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		90.12%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		9.88%

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund Class C Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		92.00%

	U.S. Bancorp Investments Inc. 60 Livingston Ave Saint Paul MN 55107-2292		8.00%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund Class R3 Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		100.00%

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund Class I Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		52.37%

	James T Stephenson TTEE & Diana Kaufman Stephenson TTEE Stephenson Trust UA Dtd 12/10/2013 348 Hilgard Ave Los Angeles CA 90024-2519		39.88%

	Gregg R Dennis & Analisa C Dennis Jt Ten 3902 California Ave Long Beach CA 90807-3512		7.75%

TAX MATTERS

Federal Income Tax Matters

Fund Status

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company

As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (as that term is defined in the Code, but

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without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain ( i.e., the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss), if any, that it distributes to shareholders, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its net investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt interest income for the year (the “Distribution Requirement” ) and satisfies certain other requirements of the Code that are generally described below. Each Fund also intends to make such distributions as are necessary to avoid the otherwise applicable 4% non-deductible excise tax on certain undistributed earnings.

Distributions

Fund distributions are generally taxable. After the end of each year, you will receive a tax statement that separates your Fund’s distributions into three categories, ordinary income distributions, capital gains dividends and returns of capital. Ordinary income distributions are generally taxed at your ordinary tax rate, however, as further discussed below, certain ordinary income distributions received from the Fund may be taxed at the capital gains tax rates. Generally, you will treat all capital gains dividends as long-term capital gains regardless of how long you have owned your shares. To determine your actual tax liability for your capital gains dividends, you must calculate your total net capital gain or loss for the tax year after considering all of your other taxable transactions, as described below. In addition, a Fund may make distributions that represent a return of capital for tax purposes and thus will generally not be taxable to you unless the distribution exceeds your basis in your shares. The tax status of your distributions from your Fund is not affected by whether you reinvest your distributions in additional shares or receive them in cash. The income from your Fund that you must take into account for federal income tax purposes is not reduced by amounts used to pay a deferred sales fee, if any. The tax laws may require you to treat distributions made to you in January as if you had received them on December 31 of the previous year. Under the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,” income from the Funds may also be subject to a new 3.8 percent “Medicare tax” imposed for taxable years beginning after 2012. This tax will generally apply to your net investment income if your adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts, which are $250,000 in the case of married couples filing joint returns and $200,000 in the case of single individuals.

Dividends Received Deduction

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If You Sell or Redeem Shares

If you sell or redeem your shares, you will generally recognize a taxable gain or loss. To determine the amount of this gain or loss, you must subtract your tax basis in your shares from the amount you receive in the transaction. Your tax basis in your shares is generally equal to the cost of your shares, generally including sales charges. In some cases, however, you may have to adjust your tax basis after you purchase your shares.

Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses

If you are an individual, the maximum marginal stated federal tax rate for net capital gains is generally 20% for taxpayers in the 39.6% tax bracket, 15% for taxpayers in the 25%, 28%, 33% and 35% tax brackets and 0% for taxpayers in the 10% and 15% tax brackets. Some portion of your capital gains dividends might be attributable to a Fund’s interest in a master limited partnership which may be subject to a maximum marginal stated federal income tax rate of 28%, rather than the rates set forth above. In addition, capital gains received from assets held for more than one year that are considered “unrecaptured section 1250 gain” (which may be the case, for example, with some capital gains attributable to equity interests in real estate investment trusts that constitute interests in entities treated as real estate investment trusts for federal tax purposes) are taxed at a maximum stated rate of 25%. In the case of capital gains dividends, the determination of which portion of the capital gains dividends, if any, is subject to the 28% tax rate or the 25% tax rate, will be made based on the rules prescribed by the United States Treasury. Capital gains may also be subject to the “Medicare tax” described above.

Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends

Ordinary income dividends received by an individual shareholder from a regulated investment company such as a Fund are generally taxed at the same rates that apply to net capital gain (as discussed above), provided certain holding period requirements are satisfied and provided the dividends are attributable to qualifying dividends received by the Fund itself. Distributions with respect to shares in real estate investment trusts are qualifying dividends only in limited circumstances. A Fund will provide notice to its shareholders of the amount of any distribution which may be taken into account as a dividend which is eligible for the capital gains tax rates.

In-Kind Distributions

Exchanges

If you exchange shares of a Fund for shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund, the exchange would generally be considered a sale for federal income tax purposes.

Deductibility of Fund Expenses

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miscellaneous itemized deductions, such as investment expenses, may be deducted by individuals only to the extent that all of these deductions exceed 2% of the individual’s adjusted gross income. Some individuals may also be subject to further limitations on the amount of their itemized deductions, depending on their income.

Non-U.S. Tax Credit

Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations

If a Fund holds an equity interest in any “passive foreign investment companies” ( “PFICs” ), which are generally certain foreign corporations that receive at least 75% of their annual gross income from passive sources (such as interest, dividends, certain rents and royalties or capital gains) or that hold at least 50% of their assets in investments producing such passive income, the Fund could be subject to U.S. federal income tax and additional interest charges on gains and certain distributions with respect to those equity interests, even if all the income or gain is timely distributed to its shareholders. The Funds will not be able to pass through to its shareholders any credit or deduction for such taxes. The Funds may be able to make an election that could ameliorate these adverse tax consequences. In this case, the Funds would recognize as ordinary income any increase in the value of such PFIC shares, and as ordinary loss any decrease in such value to the extent it did not exceed prior increases included in income. Under this election, the Funds might be required to recognize in a year income in excess of its distributions from PFICs and its proceeds from dispositions of PFIC stock during that year, and such income would nevertheless be subject to the distribution requirement and would be taken into account for purposes of the 4% excise tax. Dividends paid by PFICs are not treated as qualified dividend income.

Non-U.S. Investors

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Capital Loss Carry-Forward

When a Fund has a capital loss carry-forward, it does not make capital gains distributions until the loss has been offset or expired. As of June 30, 2014, the following Fund had capital loss carry-forwards available for federal income tax purposes, expiring in the year indicated.


Fund	Expiration Year			Capital Loss Carry-Forwards (000’s omitted)
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund		—	*	$	2,018

Not subject to expiration

The foregoing relates only to federal income taxation and is a general summary of the federal tax law in effect as of the date of this SAI.

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF FUND SHARES

As described in the Prospectus, the Funds provide you with alternative ways of purchasing Fund shares based upon your individual investment needs and preferences.

Class A Shares

Class A shares may be purchased at a public offering price equal to the applicable net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge imposed at the time of purchase as set forth in the Prospectus. Shareholders may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived in its entirety, as described below. Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25%. See “Distribution and Service Plan.” Set forth below is an example of the method of computing the offering price of the Class A shares of a Fund. The example assumes a purchase on June 30, 2014 of Class A shares of Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund aggregating less than $50,000 subject to the schedule of sales charges set forth in the Prospectus at a price based upon the net asset value of the Class A shares.


Net asset value per share	$	20.67
Per share sales charge—5.75% of public offering price (6.10% of net asset value per share)		1.26

Per share offering price to the public	$	21.93

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Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares

Rights of Accumulation . You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of a Fund if the amount of your purchase, when added to the value that day of all of your shares of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, falls within the amounts stated in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Fund’s transfer agent of any cumulative discount whenever you plan to purchase Class A shares of a Fund that you wish to qualify for a reduced sales charge.

Letter of Intent . You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of a Fund if you plan to purchase Class A shares of Nuveen Mutual Funds over the next 13 months and the total amount of your purchases would, if purchased at one time, qualify you for one of the reduced sales charges shown in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. In order to take advantage of this option, you must complete the applicable section of the Application Form or sign and deliver to your financial advisor or other financial intermediary or to the Fund’s transfer agent a written Letter of Intent in a form acceptable to the Distributor. A Letter of Intent states that you intend, but are not obligated, to purchase over the next 13 months a stated total amount of Class A shares that would qualify you for a reduced sales charge shown above. You may count shares of all Nuveen Mutual Funds that you already own and any Class C and Class I shares of a Nuveen Mutual Fund that you purchase over the next 13 months towards completion of your investment program, but you will receive a reduced sales charge only on new Class A shares you purchase with a sales charge over the 13 months. You cannot count towards completion of your investment program Class A shares that you purchase without a sales charge through investment of distributions from a Nuveen Mutual Fund or a Nuveen Defined Portfolio, or otherwise.

You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Funds’ transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Fund shares that you wish to be covered under the Letter of Intent option.

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Elimination of Sales Charge on Class A Shares . Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge by the following categories of investors:

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investors purchasing $1,000,000 or more;

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current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, or their immediate family members;

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investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program;

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clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services;

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employer-sponsored retirement plans except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans; and

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Class C Shares

Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 will not be accepted. In addition, Class C purchase orders for a single purchaser that, when added to the value that day of all of such purchaser’s shares of any class of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, cause the purchaser’s cumulative total of shares in Nuveen Mutual Funds to equal or exceed $1,000,000 will not be accepted. Your financial intermediary may set a lower maximum for Class C shares. Shareholders purchasing Class C shares should consider whether they would qualify for a reduced or eliminated sales charge on Class A shares that would make purchasing Class A shares a better choice. Class A share sales charges can be reduced or eliminated based on the size of the purchase, or pursuant to a letter of intent or rights of accumulation. See “Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares” above.

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Redemption of Class C shares within 12 months of purchase may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge ( “CDSC” ) of 1.00% of the lower of the purchase price or redemption proceeds. Because Class C shares do not convert to Class A shares and continue to pay an annual distribution fee indefinitely, Class C shares should normally not be purchased by an investor who expects to hold shares for significantly longer than eight years.

Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

Class A shares are normally redeemed at net asset value, without any CDSC. However, in the case of Class A shares purchased at net asset value without a sales charge because the purchase amount exceeded $1 million, a CDSC is imposed on any redemption within 12 months of purchase. Class C shares are redeemed at net asset value, without any CDSC, except that a CDSC of 1.00% is imposed upon any redemption within 12 months of purchase (except in cases where a shareholder is eligible for a waiver).

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Section 72(t)(A)(iv) prior to age 59 ¹ / ₂ ; and (ii) for redemptions to satisfy required minimum distributions after age 70 ¹ / ₂ from an IRA account (with the maximum amount subject to this waiver being based only upon the shareholder’s Nuveen IRA accounts).

Class I Shares

Class I shares also are available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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employer-sponsored retirement plans, except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans;

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advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates, including other Nuveen Mutual Funds whose investment policies permit investments in other investment companies;

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any registered investment company that is not affiliated with the Nuveen Funds and which invests in securities of other investment companies;

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any plan organized under section 529 under the Code (i.e., a 529 plan);

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participants in the TIAA-CREF Investment Solutions IRA;

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officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, and their immediate family members.

Holders of Class I shares may purchase additional Class I shares using dividends and capital gains distributions on their shares.

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consequently, holders of Class I shares may not receive the same types or levels of services from financial intermediaries. In choosing between Class A shares and Class I shares, you should weigh the benefits of the services to be provided by financial intermediaries against the annual service fee imposed upon the Class A shares.

Shareholder Programs

Exchange Privilege

You may exchange Fund shares into an identically registered account for the same class of another Nuveen Mutual Fund available in your state. Your exchange must meet the minimum purchase requirements of the fund into which you are exchanging. You may also, under certain limited circumstances, exchange between certain classes of shares of the same Fund. An exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund may not be considered a taxable event; please consult your own tax advisor for further information.

Reinstatement Privilege

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Suspension of Right of Redemption

Each Fund may suspend the right of redemption of Fund shares or delay payment more than seven days (a) during any period when the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE” ) is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings), (b) when trading in the markets the Fund normally utilizes is restricted or an emergency exists as determined by the SEC so that trading of the Fund’s investments or determination of its net asset value is not reasonably practicable, or (c) for any other periods that the SEC by order may permit for protection of Fund shareholders.

Redemption In-Kind

Frequent Trading Policy

The Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy is as follows:

1. Definition of Round Trip

2. Round Trip Trade Limitations

3. Enforcement

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to prevent market timing that is detrimental to the Funds. Such policy may be more or less restrictive than the Funds’ Policy. The Funds cannot ensure that these financial intermediaries will in all cases apply the Funds’ policy or their own policies, as the case may be, to accounts under their control.

Exclusions from the Frequent Trading Policy

In addition, the following redemptions of shares by an employer-sponsored qualified defined contribution retirement plan are excluded from the Frequent Trading Policy: (i) partial or complete redemptions in connection with a distribution without penalty under Section 72(t) of the Code from a retirement plan: (a) upon attaining age 59 ¹ / ₂ ; (b) as part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments; or (c) upon separation from service and attaining age 55; (ii) partial or complete redemptions in connection with a qualifying loan or hardship withdrawal; (iii) complete redemptions in connection with termination of employment, plan termination, transfer to another employer’s plan or IRA or changes in a plan’s recordkeeper; and (iv) redemptions resulting from the return of an excess contribution. Also, the following redemptions of shares held in an IRA account are excluded from the application of the Frequent Trading Policy: (i) redemptions made pursuant to an IRA systematic withdrawal based on the shareholder’s life expectancy including, but not limited to, substantially equal periodic payments described in Code Section 72(t)(A)(iv) prior to age 59 ¹ / ₂ ; and (ii) redemptions to satisfy required minimum distributions after age 70 ¹ / ₂ from an IRA account.

Distribution and Service Plan

The Funds have adopted a plan (the “Plan” ) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Rule 12b-1 provides in substance that a mutual fund may not engage directly or indirectly in financing any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of shares, except pursuant to a plan adopted under the Rule. The Plan authorizes a Fund to pay the Distributor distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees on a Fund’s Class A and Class C shares as described below. The distribution fees under the Plan are used for the primary purpose of compensating participating intermediaries for their sales of the Funds. The shareholder servicing fees are used primarily for the purpose of providing compensation for the ongoing servicing and/or maintenance of shareholder accounts. Pursuant to the Plan, Class C shares are subject to an annual distribution fee and Class A and Class C shares are subject to the annual service fees (distribution and service fees collectively referred to herein as “12b-1 fees” ). The 12b-1 fees are based on the average daily net assets of the class of shares of a Fund and are as follows:


	Annual Distribution Fee			Annual Service Fee			Total 12b-1 Fee
Class A		—			0.25	%		0.25	%
Class C		0.75	%		0.25	%		1.00	%

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Class I shares are not subject to either distribution or service fees.

The distribution fee applicable to Class C shares under each Fund’s Plan compensates the Distributor for expenses incurred in connection with the distribution of Class C shares. These expenses include payments to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, who are brokers of record with respect to the Class C shares, as well as, without limitation, expenses of printing and distributing Prospectuses to persons other than shareholders of each Fund, expenses of preparing, printing and distributing advertising and sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of Class C shares, certain other expenses associated with the distribution of Class C shares, and any other distribution-related expenses that may be authorized from time to time by the Board of Trustees.

The service fee applicable to Class A and Class C shares under each Fund’s Plan is used to compensate financial intermediaries in connection with the provision of ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Funds incurred 12b-1 fees pursuant to their respective Plan in the amounts set forth in the table below. 12b-1 fees are calculated and accrued daily and paid quarterly or at such other intervals as the Board of Trustees may determine. As noted above, no 12b-1 fees are paid with respect to Class I shares. For this period, substantially all of the 12b-1 service fees on Class A shares were paid out as compensation to financial intermediaries for providing services to shareholders relating to their investments. To compensate for commissions advanced to financial intermediaries, all 12b-1 fees on Class C shares during the first year following a purchase are retained by the Distributor. After the first year following a purchase, 12b-1 fees on Class C shares are paid to financial intermediaries.


	12b-1 Fees Incurred by Each Fund for the Fiscal Year/Period Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund*
Class A	$	31
Class C		124
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund
Class A		835
Class C		3,334

For the period April 1, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014.

The Plan is a “compensation-type” plan under which the Distributor is entitled to receive the distribution and shareholder servicing fees regardless of whether its actual distribution and shareholder servicing expenses are more or less than the amount of the fees. It is therefore possible that the Distributor may realize a profit in a particular year as a result of these payments. The Plan recognizes that the Distributor and the Adviser, in their discretion, may from time to time use their own assets to pay for certain additional costs of distributing Class A and Class C shares. Any such arrangements to pay such additional costs may be commenced or discontinued by the Distributor or the Adviser at any time.

Under each Fund’s Plan, the Fund will report quarterly to the Board of Trustees for its review all amounts expended per class of shares under the Plan. The Plan may be terminated at any time with respect to any class of shares, without the payment of any penalty, by a vote of a majority of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such class. The Plan may be renewed from year to year if approved by a vote of the Board of Trustees and a vote of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Plan. The Plan may be continued only if the trustees who vote to approve such continuance conclude, in the exercise of reasonable business judgment and in light of their fiduciary duties under applicable law, that there is a reasonable likelihood that the Plan will benefit the Fund

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and its shareholders. The Plan may not be amended to increase materially the cost which a class of shares may bear under the Plan without the approval of the shareholders of the affected class, and any other material amendments of the Plan must be approved by the independent trustees by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments. During the continuance of the Plan, the selection and nomination of the independent trustees of the Trust will be committed to the discretion of the independent trustees then in office. With the exception of the Distributor and its affiliates, no “interested person” of the Funds, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act, and no trustee of the Funds has a direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or any related agreement.

General Matters

The Funds do not issue share certificates.

Distribution Arrangements

The Distributor sells shares to or through brokers, dealers, banks or other qualified financial intermediaries (collectively referred to as “Dealers” ), or others, in a manner consistent with the then effective registration statement of the Trust. Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Distributor, at its own expense, finances certain activities incident to the sale and distribution of the Funds’ shares, including printing and distributing of prospectuses and statements of additional information to other than existing shareholders, the printing and distributing of sales literature, advertising and payment of compensation and giving of concessions to Dealers.

The following tables set forth the aggregate amounts of underwriting commissions with respect to the sale of Fund shares, the amount thereof retained by the Distributor and the compensation on redemptions and repurchases received by the Distributor for each of the Funds for the fiscal years represented below. All figures are expressed in thousands and are to the nearest thousand.


	Amount of Underwriting Commissions
Fund	April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	$	—

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	Amount Retained by the Distributor
Fund	April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	$	—


	Amount of Compensation on Redemptions and Repurchases
Fund	April 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	$	—

Amount of Underwriting
Commissions

Fund

7/01/11-
6/30/12

7/01/12-
6/30/13

7/01/13-
6/30/14

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

—

Amount Retained
by the Distributor

Fund

7/01/11-
6/30/12

7/01/12-
6/30/13

7/01/13-
6/30/14

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

—

Amount of Compensation on
Redemptions and
Repurchases

Fund

7/01/11-
6/30/12

7/01/12-
6/30/13

7/01/13-
6/30/14

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund

—

Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments

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The categories of payments described below are not mutually exclusive, and a single Intermediary may receive payments under all categories.

Distribution-Related Payments

The Adviser and/or the Distributor compensate Intermediaries differently depending upon, among other factors, the number or value of Nuveen Mutual Fund shares that the Intermediary sells or may sell, the value of the assets invested in the Nuveen Mutual Funds by the Intermediary’s customers, redemption rates, ability to attract and retain assets, reputation in the industry and the level and/or type of marketing assistance and educational activities provided by the Intermediary. Such payments are generally asset-based but also may include the payment of a lump sum.

Servicing Payments

The Adviser and/or the Distributor may make payments to selected Intermediaries that are registered as holders or dealers of record for accounts invested in one or more of the Nuveen Mutual Funds or that make Nuveen Mutual Fund shares available through employee benefit plans or fee-based advisory programs to compensate them for the variety of services they provide.

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC (“ TIAA-CREF IIS ”), an affiliate of the Adviser, is one intermediary that receives servicing payments. The shareholder services agreement between TIAA-CREF IIS and the Distributor provides that in exchange for such services, TIAA-CREF IIS will receive payments of 0.25% of the average net assets of Fund shares on the TIAA-CREF IIS retirement platform on an annual basis. The Distributor has agreed to pay the portion of the fee that represents 0.05% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to TIAA-CREF IIS and the Funds will pay the remainder.

Distribution-Related and Servicing Payment Guidelines

In the case of any one Intermediary, marketing support and program servicing payments made by the Adviser and/or the Distributor are not expected, with certain limited exceptions, to exceed, in the aggregate, 0.35% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to that Intermediary on an annual basis. In connection with the sale of a business by U.S. Bank N.A. to Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (“ Great-West ”), the Adviser and/or the Distributor has a services agreement with GWFS Equities, Inc., an affiliate of Great-West, which provides for payments of up to 0.60% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to GWFS Equities, Inc. on an annual basis (which amount also includes payments by the Funds for sub-transfer agency services).

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Other Payments

The Adviser and/or the Distributor occasionally sponsor due diligence meetings for registered representatives during which the registered representatives receive updates on various Nuveen Mutual Funds and are afforded the opportunity to speak with portfolio managers. Although invitations to these meetings are not conditioned on selling a specific number of shares, those who have shown an interest in Nuveen Mutual Funds are more likely to be considered. To the extent permitted by their firm’s policies and procedures, all or a portion of registered representatives’ expenses in attending these meetings may be covered by the Adviser and/or the Distributor.

Investors may wish to take Intermediary payment arrangements into account when considering and evaluating any recommendations relating to Fund shares.

Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments

The following is a list of Intermediaries eligible to receive one or more of the types of payments discussed above as of October 24, 2014:

ADP Broker-Dealer, Inc.

American United Life Insurance Company

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Ascensus (formerly BISYS Retirement Services, Inc.)

BB&T

Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc.

Benefit Trust Company

Cetera

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

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Chase Investment Services

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Commonwealth Equity Services, LLP, DBA Commonwealth Financial Network

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Davenport & Co., LLC

Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Dyatech, LLC

Edward Jones

ExpertPlan, Inc.

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC/National Financial Services LLC

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC)/Fidelity Advisors Retirement

Financial Data Services, Inc.

First Clearing

Genesis Employee Benefits, Inc. DBA America’s VEBA Solution

Goldman Sachs

Great West Life and Annuity Insurance Co.

GWFS Equities, Inc.

Hartford Life Insurance Company

Hartford Securities Distribution Company, Inc.

Hewitt Associates LLC

ICMA Retirement Corporation

ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company/ING Institutional Plan Services LLC/ING Financial Advisors, LLC (formerly CitiStreet LLC/CitiStreet Advisors LLC)

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

LPL Financial Services

Lincoln Retirement Services Company LLC/AMG Service Corp.

Linsco/Private Ledger Corp.

Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, N.A.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mercer HR Outsourcing LLC

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation

Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC

MSCS Financial Services, LLC

National Financial Services, LLC

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.

Newport Retirement Services, Inc.

NFP Securities, Inc.

Northwestern Mutual

NYLife Distributors LLC

Oppenheimer & Co.

Pershing LLC

Principal Life Insurance Company

Prudential Insurance Company of America (The)

Prudential Investment Management Services, LLC/Prudential Investments LLC

Raymond James & Associates/Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Reliance Trust Company

Retirement Plan Company, LLC (The)

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.

SI Financial Advisors

Southwest Securities, Inc.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

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T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc./T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.

TD Ameritrade, Inc.

TD Ameritrade Trust Company (formerly Fiserv Trust Company/International Clearing Trust Company)

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

U.S. Bank N.A.

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Unified Trust Company, N.A.

VALIC Retirement Services Company (formerly AIG Retirement Services Company)

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Wedbush Morgan Securities

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement & Trust

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (formerly AST Capital Trust Company)

Any additions, modifications or deletions to the list of Intermediaries identified above that have occurred since October 24, 2014 are not reflected in the list.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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APPENDIX A

RATINGS OF INVESTMENTS

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group—A brief description of the applicable Standard & Poor’s ( “S&P” ) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by S&P) follows:

Issue Credit Ratings

A S&P issue credit rating is a forward-looking opinion about the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to a specific financial obligation, a specific class of financial obligations, or a specific financial program (including ratings on medium-term note programs and commercial paper programs). It takes into consideration the creditworthiness of guarantors, insurers, or other forms of credit enhancement on the obligation and takes into account the currency in which the obligation is denominated. The opinion reflects S&P’s view of the obligor’s capacity and willingness to meet its financial commitments as they come due, and may assess terms, such as collateral security and subordination, which could affect ultimate payment in the event of default.

Issue credit ratings can be either long-term or short-term. Short-term ratings are generally assigned to those obligations considered short-term in the relevant market. In the U.S., for example, that means obligations with an original maturity of no more than 365 days—including commercial paper. Short-term ratings are also used to indicate the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to put features on long-term obligations. The result is a dual rating, in which the short-term rating addresses the put feature, in addition to the usual long-term rating. Medium-term notes are assigned long-term ratings.

Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings

Issue credit ratings are based, in varying degrees, on S&P’s analysis of the following considerations:

1. Likelihood of payment—capacity and willingness of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on an obligation in accordance with the terms of the obligation;

2. Nature of and provisions of the obligation, and the promise S&P imputes;

3. Protection afforded by, and relative position of, the obligation in the event of bankruptcy, reorganization, or other arrangement under the laws of bankruptcy and other laws affecting creditors’ rights.

Issue ratings are an assessment of default risk, but may incorporate an assessment of relative seniority or ultimate recovery in the event of default. Junior obligations are typically rated lower than senior obligations, to reflect the lower priority in bankruptcy, as noted above. (Such differentiation may apply when an entity has both senior and subordinated obligations, secured and unsecured obligations, or operating company and holding company obligations.)



AAA		An obligation rated ‘AAA’ has the highest rating assigned by S&P. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.

AA		An obligation rated ‘AA’ differs from the highest-rated obligations only to a small degree. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.

A		An obligation rated ‘A’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.

BBB		An obligation rated ‘BBB’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

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will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.



BB		An obligation rated ‘BB’ is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

B		An obligation rated ‘B’ is more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated ‘BB’, but the obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely impair the obligor’s capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CCC		An obligation rated ‘CCC’ is currently vulnerable to nonpayment, and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CC		An obligation rated ‘CC’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.

C		An obligation rated ‘C’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment and the obligation is expected to have lower relative seniority or lower ultimate recovery compared to obligations that are rated higher.

D		An obligation rated ‘D’ is in default or in breach of an imputed promise. For non-hybrid capital instruments, the ‘D’ rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due unless S&P believes that such payments will be made within five business days in the absence of a stated grace period or within the earlier of the stated grace period or 30 calendar days. The ‘D’ rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of similar action and where default on an obligation is a virtual certainty, for example due to automatic stay provisions. An obligation’s rating is lowered to ‘D’ if it is subject to a distressed exchange offer.

Plus (+) or Minus (–): The ratings from ‘AA’ to ‘CCC’ may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.



NR		This indicates that no rating has been requested, that there is insufficient information on which to base a rating, or that S&P does not rate a particular obligation as a matter of policy.

Short-Term Issue Credit Ratings



A-1		A short-term obligation rated ‘A-1’ is rated in the highest category by S&P. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on these obligations is extremely strong.

A-2		A short-term obligation rated ‘A-2’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.

A-3		A short-term obligation rated ‘A-3’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

B		A short-term obligation rated ‘B’ is regarded as vulnerable and has significant speculative characteristics. The obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitments; however, it faces major ongoing uncertainties which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitments.

C		A short-term obligation rated ‘C’ is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

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D		A short-term obligation rated ‘D’ is in default or in breach of an imputed promise. For non-hybrid capital instruments, the ‘D’ rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due, unless S&P believes that such payments will be made within any stated grace period. However, any stated grace period longer than five business days will be treated as five business days. The ‘D’ rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action and where default on an obligation is a virtual certainty, for example due to automatic stay provisions. An obligation’s rating is lowered to ‘D’ if it is subject to a distressed exchange offer.

Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. —A brief description of the applicable Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by Moody’s) follows.

Ratings assigned on Moody’s global long-term and short-term rating scales are forward-looking opinions of the relative credit risks of financial obligations issued by non-financial corporates, financial institutions, structured finance vehicles, project finance vehicles, and public sector entities. Long-term ratings are assigned to issuers or obligations with an original maturity of one year or more and reflect both on the likelihood of a default on contractually promised payments and the expected financial loss suffered in the event of default. Short-term ratings are assigned to obligations with an original maturity of thirteen months or less and reflect the likelihood of a default on contractually promised payments.

Long-Term Obligation Ratings



Aaa		Obligations rated Aaa are judged to be of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level of credit risk.

Aa		Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.

A		Obligations rated A are judged to be upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.

Baa		Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics.

Ba		Obligations rated Ba are judged to be speculative and are subject to substantial credit risk.

B		Obligations rated B are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk.

Caa		Obligations rated Caa are judged to be speculative of poor standing and are subject to very high credit risk.

Ca		Obligations rated Ca are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some prospect of recovery of principal and interest.

C		Obligations rated C are the lowest rated and are typically in default, with little prospect for recovery of principal or interest.

Note: Moody’s appends numerical modifiers 1, 2, and 3 to each generic rating classification from Aa through Caa. The modifier 1 indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category; the modifier 2 indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier 3 indicates a ranking in the lower end of that generic rating category.

Short-Term Obligation Ratings



P-1		Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-1 have a superior ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-2		Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-2 have a strong ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-3		Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-3 have an acceptable ability to repay short-term obligations.

NP		Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Not Prime do not fall within any of the Prime rating categories.

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Medium-Term Note Program Ratings

Moody’s assigns provisional ratings to medium-term note (MTN) programs and definitive ratings to the individual debt securities issued from them (referred to as drawdowns or notes).

MTN program ratings are intended to reflect the ratings likely to be assigned to drawdowns issued from the program with the specified priority of claim (e.g., senior or subordinated). To capture the contingent nature of a program rating, Moody’s assigns provisional ratings to MTN programs. A provisional rating is denoted by a (P) in front of the rating.

The rating assigned to a drawdown from a rated MTN or bank/deposit note program is definitive in nature, and may differ from the program rating if the drawdown is exposed to additional credit risks besides the issuer’s default, such as links to the defaults of other issuers, or has other structural features that warrant a different rating. In some circumstances, no rating may be assigned to a drawdown.

Moody’s encourages market participants to contact Moody’s Ratings Desks or visit www.moodys.com directly if they have questions regarding ratings for specific notes issued under a medium-term note program. Unrated notes issued under an MTN program may be assigned an NR (not rated) symbol.

U.S. Municipal Short-Term Debt and Demand Obligation Ratings

Short-Term Obligation Ratings

The Municipal Investment Grade (MIG) scale is used to rate US municipal bond anticipation notes of up to three years maturity. Municipal notes rated on the MIG scale may be secured by either pledged revenues or proceeds of a take-out financing received prior to note maturity. MIG ratings expire at the maturity of the obligation, and the issuer’s long-term rating is only one consideration in assigning the MIG rating. MIG ratings are divided into three levels—MIG 1 through MIG 3—while speculative grade short-term obligations are designated SG.



MIG 1		This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by established cash flows, highly reliable liquidity support, or demonstrated broad-based access to the market for refinancing.

MIG 2		This designation denotes strong credit quality. Margins of protection are ample, although not as large as in the preceding group.

MIG 3		This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Liquidity and cash-flow protection may be narrow, and market access for refinancing is likely to be less well-established.

SG		This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Debt instruments in this category may lack sufficient margins of protection.

Demand Obligation Ratings

In the case of variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs), a two-component rating is assigned; a long- or short-term debt rating and a demand obligation rating. The first element represents Moody’s evaluation of risk associated with scheduled principal and interest payments. The second element represents Moody’s evaluation of risk associated with the ability to receive purchase price upon demand (“demand feature”). The second element uses a rating from a variation of the MIG scale called the Variable Municipal Investment Grade (VMIG) scale.



VMIG 1		This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by the superior short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

VMIG 2		This designation denotes strong credit quality. Good protection is afforded by the strong short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

VMIG 3		This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Adequate protection is afforded by the satisfactory short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

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SG		This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Demand features rated in this category may be supported by a liquidity provider that does not have an investment grade short-term rating or may lack the structural and/or legal protections necessary to ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

Fitch Ratings —A brief description of the applicable Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”) ratings symbols and meanings (as published by Fitch) follows:

Fitch’s credit ratings provide an opinion on the relative ability of an entity to meet financial commitments, such as interest, preferred dividends, repayment of principal, insurance claims or counterparty obligations. Credit ratings are used by investors as indications of the likelihood of receiving the money owed to them in accordance with the terms on which they invested. The agency’s credit ratings cover the global spectrum of corporate, sovereign (including supranational and sub-national), financial, bank, insurance, municipal and other public finance entities and the securities or other obligations they issue, as well as structured finance securities backed by receivables or other financial assets.

The terms “investment grade” and “speculative grade” have established themselves over time as shorthand to describe the categories ‘AAA’ to ‘BBB’ (investment grade) and ‘BB’ to ‘D’ (speculative grade). The terms “investment grade” and “speculative grade” are market conventions, and do not imply any recommendation or endorsement of a specific security for investment purposes. “Investment grade” categories indicate relatively low to moderate credit risk, while ratings in the “speculative” categories either signal a higher level of credit risk or that a default has already occurred.

A designation of “Not Rated” or “NR” is used to denote securities not rated by Fitch where Fitch has rated some, but not all, securities comprising an issuance capital structure.

Credit ratings express risk in relative rank order, which is to say they are ordinal measures of credit risk and are not predictive of a specific frequency of default or loss.

Fitch’s credit ratings do not directly address any risk other than credit risk. In particular, ratings do not deal with the risk of a market value loss on a rated security due to changes in interest rates, liquidity and other market considerations. However, in terms of payment obligation on the rated liability, market risk may be considered to the extent that it influences the ability of an issuer to pay upon a commitment. Ratings nonetheless do not reflect market risk to the extent that they influence the size or other conditionality of the obligation to pay upon a commitment (for example, in the case of index-linked bonds).

In the default components of ratings assigned to individual obligations or instruments, the agency typically rates to the likelihood of non-payment or default in accordance with the terms of that instrument’s documentation. In limited cases, Fitch may include additional considerations (i.e., rate to a higher or lower standard than that implied in the obligation’s documentation). In such cases, the agency will make clear the assumptions underlying the agency’s opinion in the accompanying rating commentary.

International Long-Term Ratings

Issuer Credit Rating Scales

Investment Grade



AAA		Highest credit quality. ‘AAA’ ratings denote the lowest expectation of default risk. They are assigned only in cases of exceptionally strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.

AA		Very high credit quality. ‘AA’ ratings denote expectations of very low default risk. They indicate very strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.

A		High credit quality. ‘A’ ratings denote expectations of low default risk. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic conditions than is the case for higher ratings.

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BBB		Good credit quality. ‘BBB’ ratings indicate that expectations of default risk are currently low. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered adequate but adverse business or economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity.

Speculative Grade



BB		Speculative. ‘BB’ ratings indicate an elevated vulnerability to default risk, particularly in the event of adverse changes in business or economic conditions over time; however, business or financial flexibility exists which supports the servicing of financial commitments.

B		Highly speculative. ‘B’ ratings indicate that material default risk is present, but a limited margin of safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met; however, capacity for continued payment is vulnerable to deterioration in the business and economic environment.

CCC		Substantial credit risk. Default is a real possibility.

CC		Very high levels of credit risk. Default of some kind appears probable.

C		Exceptionally high levels of credit risk. Default is imminent or inevitable, or the issuer is in standstill. Conditions that are indicative of a ‘C’ category rating for an issuer include: • the issuer has entered into a grace or cure period following non-payment of a material financial obligation; • the issuer has entered into a temporary negotiated waiver or standstill agreement following a payment default on a material financial obligation; or • Fitch otherwise believes a condition of ‘RD’ or ‘D’ to be imminent or inevitable, including through the formal announcement of a distressed debt exchange.

RD		Restricted default. ‘RD’ ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch’s opinion has experienced an uncured payment default on a bond, loan or other material financial obligation but which has not entered into bankruptcy filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding-up procedure, and which has not otherwise ceased operating. This would include: • the selective payment default on a specific class or currency of debt; • the uncured expiry of any applicable grace period, cure period or default forbearance period following a payment default on a bank loan, capital markets security or other material financial obligation; • the extension of multiple waivers or forbearance periods upon a payment default on one or more material financial obligations, either in series or in parallel; or • execution of a distressed debt exchange on one or more material financial obligations.

D		Default. ‘D’ ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch’s opinion has entered into bankruptcy filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding-up procedure, or which has otherwise ceased business. Default ratings are not assigned prospectively to entities or their obligations; within this context, non-payment on an instrument that contains a deferral feature or grace period will generally not be considered a default until after the expiration of the deferral or grace period, unless a default is otherwise driven by bankruptcy or other similar circumstance, or by a distressed debt exchange. “Imminent” default typically refers to the occasion where a payment default has been intimated by the issuer, and is all but inevitable. This may, for example, be where an issuer has missed a scheduled payment, but (as is typical) has a grace period during which it may cure the payment default. Another alternative would be where an issuer has formally announced a distressed debt exchange, but the date of the exchange still lies several days or weeks in the immediate future. In all cases, the assignment of a default rating reflects the agency’s opinion as to the most appropriate rating category consistent with the rest of its universe of ratings, and may differ from the definition of default under the terms of an issuer’s financial obligations or local commercial practice.

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International Short-Term Ratings

A short-term issuer or obligation rating is based in all cases on the short-term vulnerability to default of the rated entity or security stream and relates to the capacity to meet financial obligations in accordance with the documentation governing the relevant obligation. Short-Term Ratings are assigned to obligations whose initial maturity is viewed as “short term” based on market convention. Typically, this means up to 13 months for corporate, sovereign, and structured obligations, and up to 36 months for obligations in U.S. public finance markets.



F1		Highest short-term credit quality. Indicates the strongest intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments; may have an added “+” to denote any exceptionally strong credit feature.

F2		Good short-term credit quality. Good intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments.

F3		Fair short-term credit quality. The intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is adequate.

B		Speculative short-term credit quality. Minimal capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, plus heightened vulnerability to near term adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.

C		High short-term default risk. Default is a real possibility.

RD		Restricted default. Indicates an entity that has defaulted on one or more of its financial commitments, although it continues to meet other financial obligations. Applicable to entity ratings only.

D		Default. Indicates a broad-based default event for an entity, or the default of a short-term obligation.

Notes to Long-term and Short-term ratings:

The modifiers “+” or “-” may be appended to a rating to denote relative status within major rating categories. Such suffixes are not added to the ‘AAA’ Long-Term Rating category, or categories below ‘B’.

‘WD’ indicates that the rating has been withdrawn and the issue or issuer is no longer rated by Fitch.

Rating Watch: Rating Watches indicate that there is a heightened probability of a rating change and the likely direction of such a change. These are designated as “Positive”, indicating a potential upgrade, “Negative”, for a potential downgrade, or “Evolving”, if ratings may be raised, lowered or affirmed. However, ratings that are not on Rating Watch can be raised or lowered without being placed on Rating Watch first, if circumstances warrant such an action. A Rating Watch is typically event-driven and, as such, it is generally resolved over a relatively short period.

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MAI-NGEQ-1014D

October 31, 2014

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NGTAX, Class C—NGTCX, Class R3—NGTRX, Class I—NGTIX

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This Statement of Additional Information ( “SAI” ) is not a prospectus. This SAI relates to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus dated October 31, 2014 for Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund (the “Fund” ), a series of Nuveen Investment Trust. A Prospectus may be obtained without charge from certain securities representatives, banks and other financial institutions that have entered into sales agreements with Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “ Distributor ”), or from the Fund, by written request to Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, or by calling (800) 257-8787.

The audited financial statements for the Fund’s most recent fiscal year appear in the Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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General Information		S-3

Investment Restrictions		S-3

Investment Policies and Techniques		S-5

Asset-Backed Securities		S-6
Asset Coverage Requirements		S-6
Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments		S-7
Corporate Debt Securities		S-8
Derivatives		S-9
Dollar Rolls		S-17
Foreign Securities		S-18
Mortgage-Backed Securities		S-19
Non-Investment Grade Debt Securities (Junk Bonds)		S-22
Other Investment Companies		S-23
U.S. Government Securities		S-23
Variable, Floating, and Fixed Rate Debt Obligations		S-24
When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions		S-24

Management		S-25

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight		S-33
Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications		S-36
Board Compensation		S-40
Share Ownership		S-42
Sales Loads		S-42

Service Providers		S-43

Investment Adviser		S-43
Sub-Adviser		S-44
Portfolio Managers		S-44
Transfer Agent		S-46
Custodian		S-46
Distributor		S-46
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		S-46

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Codes of Ethics		S-47

Proxy Voting Policies		S-47

Portfolio Transactions		S-47

Portfolio Trading and Turnover		S-50

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings		S-50

Net Asset Value		S-52

Shares of Beneficial Interest		S-52

Tax Matters		S-54

Federal Income Tax Matters		S-54
Fund Status		S-54
Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company		S-55
Distributions		S-55
Dividends Received Deduction		S-55
If You Sell or Redeem Shares		S-56
Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses		S-56
Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends		S-56
In-Kind Distributions		S-56
Exchanges		S-56
Deductibility of Fund Expenses		S-56
Non-U.S. Tax Credit		S-57
Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations		S-57
Non-U.S. Investors		S-57
Capital Loss Carry-Forward		S-57

Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares		S-57

Class A Shares		S-58
Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares		S-58
Class C Shares		S-60
Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge		S-60
Class R3 Shares		S-61
Class I Shares		S-62
Shareholder Programs		S-63
Frequent Trading Policy		S-64
Distribution and Service Plan		S-66
General Matters		S-67
Distribution Arrangements		S-68
Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments		S-68
Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments		S-71

Financial Statements		S-72

Appendix A—Ratings of Investments		A-1

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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Fund is a diversified series of Nuveen Investment Trust (the “ Trust ”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust on May 6, 1996. Each series of the Trust represents shares of beneficial interest in a separate portfolio of securities and other assets, with its own objective and policies. Currently, 20 series of the Trust are authorized and outstanding. The Fund’s investment adviser is Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“ Nuveen Fund Advisors ” or the “ Adviser ”). The Fund’s sub-adviser is Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“ Nuveen Asset Management ” or the “ Sub-Adviser ”).

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

(1) Concentrate its investments in a particular industry. For purposes of this limitation, the U.S. government, and state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions are not considered members of any industry. Whether the Fund is concentrating in an industry shall be determined in accordance with the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(2) Borrow money or issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(3) With respect to 75% of its total assets, purchase securities of an issuer (other than (i) securities issued by other investment companies, (ii) securities issued by the U.S. government, its agencies, instrumentalities or authorities, or (iii) repurchase agreements fully collateralized by U.S. government securities) if (a) such purchase would, at the time, cause more than 5% of the Fund’s total assets taken at market value to be invested in the securities of such issuer; or (b) such purchase would, at the time, result in more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer being held by the Fund.

(4) Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments; but this restriction shall not prohibit the Fund from investing in options on commodity indices, commodity futures contracts and options thereon, commodity-related swap agreements, other commodity-related derivative instruments, and investment companies that provide exposure to commodities.

(5) Purchase or sell real estate unless as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments, but this shall not prevent the Fund from investing in securities or other instruments backed by real estate or interests therein or in securities of companies that deal in real estate or mortgages.

(6) Act as an underwriter of securities of other issuers, except to the extent that, in connection with the disposition of portfolio securities, it may be deemed an underwriter under applicable laws.

(7) Make loans, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

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With respect to the limitation in number (1) above, the 1940 Act does not define what constitutes “concentration” in an industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission ( “SEC” ) staff has taken the position that investment of 25% or more of a fund’s net assets in one or more issuers conducting their principal activities in the same industry or group of industries constitutes concentration. It is possible that interpretations of concentration could change. The limitation in number (1) will be interpreted to refer to concentration as that term may be interpreted from time to time. The limitation also will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (1) above, to the extent that the income from a municipal bond is derived from a specific project, the securities will be deemed to be from the industry of that project and subject to the concentration limitation.

For purposes of applying the limitations set forth in numbers (1) and (3) above, an issuer shall be deemed the sole issuer of a security when its assets and revenues are separate from other governmental entities and its securities are backed only by its assets and revenues. Similarly, in the case of a non-governmental user, such as an industrial corporation or a privately owned or operated hospital, if the security is backed only by the assets and revenues of the non-governmental user, then such non-governmental user would be deemed to be the sole issuer. Where a security is also backed by the enforceable obligation of a superior or unrelated governmental entity or other entity (other than a bond insurer), it shall also be included in the computation of securities owned that are issued by such governmental or other entity.

For purposes of applying the limitations set forth in number (2) above, under the 1940 Act as currently in effect, the Fund is not permitted to issue senior securities, except that the Fund may borrow from any bank if immediately after such borrowing the value of the Fund’s total assets is at least 300% of the principal amount of all of the Fund’s borrowings (i.e., the principal amount of the borrowings may not exceed 33 ¹ / ₃ % of the Fund’s total assets). In the event that such asset coverage shall at any time fall below 300%, the Fund shall, within three calendar days thereafter (not including Sundays and holidays), reduce the amount of its borrowings to an extent that the asset coverage of such borrowing shall be at least 300%.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (7) above, there are no limitations with respect to unsecured loans made by the Fund to an unaffiliated party. However, if the Fund loans its portfolio securities, the obligation on the part of the Fund to return collateral upon termination of the loan could be deemed to involve the issuance of a senior security within the meaning of Section 18(f) of the 1940 Act. In order to avoid violation of Section 18(f), the Fund may not make a loan of portfolio securities if, as a result, more than one-third of its total asset value (at market value computed at the time of making a loan) would be on loan.

In addition to the foregoing fundamental investment policies, the Fund is also subject to the following non-fundamental restrictions and policies, which may be changed by the Board of Trustees. The Fund may not:

(1) Invest more than 15% of its net assets in all forms of illiquid investments.

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(2) Borrow money in an amount exceeding 10% of the borrowing Fund’s total assets. The Fund will not borrow money for leverage purposes. For the purpose of this investment restriction, the use of options and futures transactions and the purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis shall not be deemed the borrowing of money. The Fund will not make additional investments while its borrowings exceed 5% of total assets.

(3) Make short sales of securities.

(4) Lend portfolio securities representing in excess of one-third of the value of its total assets.

(5) Pledge any assets, except in connection with any permitted borrowing and then in amounts not in excess of one-third of the Fund’s total assets, provided that for the purposes of this restriction, margin deposits, security interests, liens and collateral arrangements with respect to options, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, and other permitted investments and techniques are not deemed to be a pledge of assets for purposes of this limitation.

(6) Acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or subparagraph (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

With respect to the non-fundamental restriction set forth in number (1) above, the Fund will monitor portfolio liquidity on an ongoing basis and, in the event more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets are invested in illiquid investments, the Fund will reduce its holdings of illiquid securities in an orderly fashion in order to maintain adequate liquidity. The term “illiquid securities” will have the same meaning as given in guidance provided by the staff of the SEC.

The Board of Trustees has adopted guidelines and procedures under which the Fund’s investment adviser is to determine whether the following types of securities which may be held by the Fund are “liquid” and to report to the Board concerning its determinations: (i) securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); (ii) commercial paper issued in reliance on the “private placement” exemption from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act, whether or not it is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A; (iii) interest-only and principal-only, inverse floating and inverse interest-only securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities; and (iv) municipal leases and securities that represent interests in municipal leases.

The Fund has adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the 1940 Act (a “Name Policy” ) whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds from issuers around the world. As a result, the Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy. For purposes of the Name Policy, the Fund considers the term “investments” to include both direct investments and indirect investments (e.g., investments in an underlying fund, derivatives and synthetic instruments with economic characteristics similar to the underlying asset).

INVESTMENT POLICIES AND TECHNIQUES

The following information supplements the discussion of the Fund’s investment objective, principal investment strategies, policies and techniques that appears in the Prospectus for the Fund. Additional information concerning principal investment strategies of the Fund, and other investment strategies that may be used by the Fund, is set forth below in alphabetical order. Additional information concerning the Fund’s investment restrictions is set forth above under “Investment Restrictions.”

If a percentage limitation on investments by the Fund stated in this SAI or the Prospectus is adhered to at the time of an investment, a later increase or decrease in percentage resulting from changes in asset value will not be deemed to violate the limitation except in the case of the limitations on borrowing. The Fund, which is limited to investing in securities with specified ratings or of a certain credit quality, is not required to sell a security if its rating is reduced or its credit quality declines after purchase, but may consider doing so. Descriptions of the rating categories of Standard & Poor’s

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Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“ Standard & Poor’s ”), Fitch, Inc. (“ Fitch ”) and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”) are contained in Appendix A.

References in this section to the Adviser also apply, to the extent applicable, to the Sub-Adviser of the Fund.

Asset-Backed Securities

The Fund may invest in asset-backed securities. Asset-backed securities are securities that are secured or “backed” by pools of various types of assets on which cash payments are due at fixed intervals over set periods of time. Asset-backed securities are created in a process called securitization. In a securitization transaction, an originator of loans or an owner of accounts receivables of a certain type of asset class sells such underlying assets in a “true sale” to a special purpose entity, so that there is no recourse to such originator or owner. Payments of principal and interest on asset-backed securities typically are tied to payments made on the pool of underlying assets in the related securitization. Such payments on the underlying assets are effectively “passed through” to the asset-backed security holders on a monthly or other regular, periodic basis. The level of seniority of a particular asset-backed security will determine the priority in which the holder of such asset-backed security is paid, relative to other security holders and parties in such securitization. Examples of underlying assets include consumer loans or receivables, home equity loans, automobile loans or leases, and time shares, though other types of receivables or assets also may be used.

While asset-backed securities typically have a fixed, stated maturity date, low prevailing interest rates may lead to an increase in the prepayments made on the underlying assets. This may cause the outstanding balances due on the underlying assets to be paid down more rapidly. As a result, a decrease in the originally anticipated interest from such underlying securities may occur, causing the asset-backed securities to pay-down in whole or in part prior to their original stated maturity date. Prepayment proceeds would then have to be reinvested at the lower prevailing interest rates. Conversely, prepayments on the underlying assets may be less than anticipated, causing an extension in the duration of the asset-backed securities.

Delinquencies or losses that exceed the anticipated amounts for a given securitization could adversely impact the payments made on the related asset-backed securities. This is a reason why, as part of a securitization, asset-backed securities are often accompanied by some form of credit enhancement, such as a guaranty, insurance policy, or subordination. Credit protection in the form of derivative contracts may also be purchased. In certain securitization transactions, insurance, credit protection, or both may be purchased with respect to only the most senior classes of asset-backed securities, on the underlying collateral pool, or both. The extent and type of credit enhancement varies across securitization transactions.

The ratings and creditworthiness of asset-backed securities typically depend on the legal insulation of the issuer and transaction from the consequences of a sponsoring entity’s bankruptcy, as well as on the credit quality of the underlying receivables and the amount and credit quality of any third-party credit enhancement supporting the underlying receivables or the asset-backed securities. Asset-backed securities and their underlying receivables generally are not issued or guaranteed by any governmental entity.

Asset Coverage Requirements

To the extent required by SEC guidelines, the Fund will only engage in transactions that expose it to an obligation to another party if it owns either (a) an offsetting position for the same type of financial asset or (b) cash or liquid securities, designated on the Fund’s books or held in a segregated account, with a value sufficient at all times to cover its potential obligations not covered as provided in (a). Examples of transactions governed by these asset coverage requirements include, for example, options written by the Fund, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, forward currency contracts, swaps and when-issued and delayed delivery transactions. Assets used as offsetting positions, designated on the Fund’s books, or held in a segregated account cannot be sold while the positions requiring cover are open unless replaced with other appropriate assets. As a result, the commitment of a large portion of assets to be used as offsetting positions or to be designated or segregated in such a manner could impede portfolio management or the ability to meet redemption requests or other current obligations.

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In the case of futures contracts that are not contractually required to cash settle, the Fund must set aside liquid assets equal to such contracts’ full notional value (generally, the total numerical value of the asset underlying a future or forward contract at the time of valuation) while the positions are open. With respect to futures contracts that are contractually required to cash settle, however, the Fund is permitted to set aside liquid assets in an amount equal to the Fund’s daily mark-to-market net obligation (i.e., the Fund’s daily net liability) under the contracts, if any, rather than such contracts’ full notional value. By setting aside assets equal to only its net obligations under cash-settled futures, the Fund may employ leverage to a greater extent than if the Fund were required to segregate assets equal to the full notional value of such contracts.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

The Fund may invest in cash, cash equivalents, and a variety of short-term instruments in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and the Fund’s principal investment strategies. The Fund may temporarily invest without limit in such instruments for liquidity purposes, or in an attempt to respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. During such periods, the Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective.

The Fund will only invest in short-term instruments that are U.S. dollar-denominated. Short-term instruments include obligations of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities (see “U.S. Government Securities” below) and, without limitation, the following:

(1) Certificates of Deposit. The Fund may invest in certificates of deposit issued against funds deposited in a bank or savings and loan association. Such certificates are for a definite period of time, earn a specified rate of return, and are normally negotiable. If such certificates of deposit are non-negotiable, they will be considered illiquid securities and be subject to the Fund’s 15% restriction on investments in illiquid securities. Pursuant to the certificate of deposit, the issuer agrees to pay the amount deposited plus interest to the bearer of the certificate on the date specified thereon. Under current FDIC regulations, the maximum insurance payable as to any one certificate of deposit is $250,000; therefore, certificates of deposit purchased by the Fund may not be fully insured.

(2) Bankers’ Acceptances. The Fund may invest in bankers’ acceptances, which are short-term credit instruments used to finance commercial transactions. Generally, an acceptance is a time draft drawn on a bank by an exporter or an importer to obtain a stated amount of funds to pay for specific merchandise. The draft is then “accepted” by a bank that, in effect, unconditionally guarantees to pay the face value of the instrument on its maturity date. The acceptance may then be held by the accepting bank as an asset or it may be sold in the secondary market at the going rate of interest for a specific maturity.

(3) Repurchase Agreements. The Fund may invest in repurchase agreements which involve purchases of debt securities. In such an action, at the time the Fund purchases the security, it simultaneously agrees to resell and redeliver the security to the seller, who also simultaneously agrees to buy back the security at a fixed price and time. This assures a predetermined yield for the Fund during its holding period since the resale price is always greater than the purchase price and reflects an agreed-upon market rate. Such actions afford an opportunity for the Fund to invest temporarily available cash. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements only with respect to certain obligations. For the Fund, collateral may consist of any fixed income security which is an eligible investment for the Fund entering into the repurchase agreement. The Fund’s custodian will hold the securities underlying any repurchase agreement, or the securities will be part of the Federal Reserve/Treasury Book Entry System. The market value of the collateral underlying the repurchase agreement will be determined on each business day. If at any time the market value of the collateral falls below the repurchase price under the repurchase agreement (including any accrued interest), the Fund will promptly receive additional collateral (so the total collateral is an amount at least equal to the repurchase price plus accrued interest). Repurchase agreements may be considered loans to the seller, collateralized by the underlying securities. The risk to the Fund is limited to the ability of the seller to pay the agreed-upon sum on the repurchase date; in the event of default, the repurchase agreement provides that the Fund is entitled to sell the underlying collateral. If the value of the collateral declines after the agreement is entered into, however, and if the seller defaults under a repurchase agreement when the value of the underlying collateral is less than the repurchase price, the Fund could incur a loss of both principal and interest. The portfolio managers monitor the value of

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the collateral at the time the action is entered into and at all times during the term of the repurchase agreement. The portfolio managers do so in an effort to determine that the value of the collateral always equals or exceeds the agreed-upon repurchase price to be paid to the Fund. If the seller were to be subject to a federal bankruptcy proceeding, the ability of the Fund to liquidate the collateral could be delayed or impaired because of certain provisions of the bankruptcy laws.

(4) Bank Time Deposits . The Fund may invest in bank time deposits, which are monies kept on deposit with banks or savings and loan associations for a stated period of time at a fixed rate of interest. There may be penalties for the early withdrawal of such time deposits, in which case the yields of these investments will be reduced.

(5) Eurodollar and Yankee Instruments. The Fund may invest in Eurodollar certificates of deposit issued by foreign branches of U.S. or foreign banks; Eurodollar time deposits, which are U.S. dollar-denominated deposits in foreign branches of U.S. or foreign banks; and Yankee certificates of deposit, which are U.S. dollar-denominated certificates of deposit issued by U.S. branches of foreign banks and held in the United States. In each instance, the Fund may only invest in bank instruments issued by an institution which has capital, surplus and undivided profits of more than $100 million or the deposits of which are insured by the Bank Insurance Fund or the Savings Association Insurance Fund.

(6) Commercial Paper . The Fund may invest in commercial paper, which are short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by corporations to finance their current operations. The Fund may purchase commercial paper consisting of issues rated at the time of purchase within the two highest rating categories by Standard & Poor’s, Fitch or Moody’s, or which have been assigned an equivalent rating by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization. The Fund also may invest in commercial paper that is not rated but that is determined by the Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality to instruments that are so rated. For a description of the rating categories of Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s, see Appendix A.

(7) Money Market Funds and Short-Term Debt Funds . The Fund may invest in money market funds. The Fund will bear its proportionate share of the money market fund’s fees and expenses (see “Other Investment Companies” below). The Fund may hold securities of other mutual funds that invest primarily in debt obligations with remaining maturities of 13 months or less.

(8) Variable Amount Master Demand Notes. The Fund may invest in variable amount master demand notes, which are unsecured demand notes that permit the indebtedness thereunder to vary and provide for periodic adjustments in the interest rate according to the terms of the instrument. Because master demand notes are direct lending arrangements between the Fund and the issuer, they are not normally traded. Although there is no secondary market in the notes, the Fund may demand payment of principal and accrued interest at any time. While the notes are not typically rated by credit rating agencies, issuers of variable amount master demand notes (which are normally manufacturing, retail, financial, and other business concerns) must satisfy the same criteria as set forth above for commercial paper. The Sub-Adviser will consider the earning power, cash flow and other liquidity ratios of the issuers of such notes and will continuously monitor their financial status and ability to meet payment on demand.

(9) Variable Rate Demand Obligations . The Fund may invest in variable rate demand obligations (“ VRDOs” ), which are securities in which the interest rate is adjusted at pre-designated periodic intervals. VRDOs may include a demand feature which is a put that entitles the holder to receive the principal amount of the underlying security or securities and which may be exercised either at any time on no more than 30 days’ notice or at specified intervals not exceeding 397 calendar days on no more than 30 days’ notice.

Corporate Debt Securities

The Fund may invest in corporate debt securities. The broad category of corporate debt securities includes debt issued by companies of all kinds, including those with small-, mid- and large-capitalizations. Corporate debt may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry variable or floating rates of interest. Corporate debt securities are fixed-income securities usually issued by businesses to finance their operations, although corporate debt instruments may also include bank loans to companies. Notes, bonds, debentures and commercial paper are the most common types of corporate debt securities, with the primary difference being their maturities and secured or unsecured status. Commercial paper has the shortest term and is usually unsecured.

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Because of the wide range of types and maturities of corporate debt securities, as well as the range of creditworthiness of its issuers, corporate debt securities have widely varying potentials for return and risk profiles. Rates on corporate debt securities are set according to prevailing interest rates at the time of the issue, the credit rating of the issuer, the length of the maturity and other terms of the security. For example, commercial paper issued by a large established domestic corporation that is rated investment-grade may have a modest return on principal, but carries relatively limited risk. On the other hand, a long-term corporate note issued by a small non-U.S. corporation from an emerging market country that has not been rated by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization ( “NRSRO” ) may have the potential for relatively large returns on principal, but carries a relatively high degree of risk.

In addition, corporate restructurings, such as mergers, leveraged buyouts, takeovers or similar corporate transactions are often financed by an increase in a corporate issuer’s debt securities. As a result of the added debt burden, the credit quality and market value of an issuer’s existing debt securities may decline significantly.

Derivatives

The Fund may use derivative instruments as described below. Generally, a derivative is a financial contract the value of which depends upon, or is derived from, the value of an underlying asset, reference rate or index. Derivatives generally take the form of contracts under which the parties agree to payments between them based upon the performance of a wide variety of underlying references, such as stocks, bonds, loans, commodities, interest rates, currency exchange rates, and various domestic and foreign indices.

The Fund may use derivatives for a variety of reasons, including as a substitute for investing directly in securities and currencies, as an alternative to selling a security short, as part of a hedging strategy (that is, for the purpose of reducing risk to the Fund), to manage the effective duration of the Fund’s portfolio, or for other purposes related to the management of the Fund. Derivatives permit the Fund to increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the character of the risk, to which its portfolio is exposed in much the same way as the Fund can increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the character of the risk, of its portfolio by making investments in specific securities. However, derivatives may entail investment exposures that are greater than their cost would suggest. As a result, a small investment in derivatives could have a large impact on the Fund’s performance.

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The use of derivative instruments is subject to applicable regulations of the SEC, the CFTC, various state regulatory authorities and, with respect to exchange-traded derivatives, the several exchanges upon which they are traded. As discussed above under “Asset Coverage Requirements,” in order to engage in certain transactions in derivatives, the Fund may be required to hold offsetting positions or to hold cash or liquid securities in a segregated account or designated on the Fund’s books. In addition, the Fund’s ability to use derivative instruments may be limited by tax considerations.

The particular derivative instruments the Fund can use are described below. The Fund’s portfolio manager may decide not to employ some or all of these instruments, and there is no assurance that any derivatives strategy used by the Fund will succeed. The Fund may employ new derivative instruments and strategies when they are developed, if those investment methods are consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and are permissible under applicable regulations governing the Fund.

Options Transactions

To the extent set forth below, the Fund may purchase put and call options on specific securities (including groups or “baskets” of specific securities), interest rates, stock indices, bond indices, and/or foreign currencies. In addition,

Options on Securities . The Fund may purchase put and call options on securities it owns or has the right to acquire. A put option on a security gives the purchaser of the option the right (but not the obligation) to sell, and the writer of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying security at a stated price (the “exercise price”) at any time before the option expires. A call option on a security gives the purchaser the right (but not the obligation) to buy, and the writer the obligation to sell, the underlying security at the exercise price at any time before the option expires. The purchase price for a put or call option is the “premium” paid by the purchaser for the right to sell or buy.

The Fund may purchase put options to hedge against a decline in the value of its portfolio. By using put options in this way, the Fund would reduce any profit it might otherwise have realized in the underlying security by the amount of the premium paid for the put option and by transaction costs. In similar fashion, the Fund may purchase call options to protect against an increase in the price of securities that the Fund anticipates purchasing in the future, a practice sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.” The premium paid for the call option plus any transaction costs will reduce the benefit, if any, realized by the Fund upon exercise of the option, and, unless the price of the underlying security rises sufficiently, the option may expire unexercised.

Options on Interest Rates and Indices . The Fund may purchase put and call options on interest rates and on stock and bond indices. An option on interest rates or on an index gives the holder the right to receive, upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing value of the underlying interest rate or index is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the exercise-settlement value of the interest rate option or the closing price of the index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple (the “multiplier”). The writer of the option is obligated, for the premium received, to make delivery of this amount. Settlements for interest rate and index options are always in cash.

Options on Currencies. The Fund may purchase put and call options on foreign currencies. A foreign currency option provides the option buyer with the right to buy or sell a stated amount of foreign currency at the exercise price at a specified date or during the option period. A call option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy the currency, while a put option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the currency. The option seller (writer) is obligated to fulfill the terms of the option sold if it is exercised. However, either seller or buyer may close its position during the option period in the secondary market for such options at any time prior to expiration.

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currency, it would not have to exercise its put. In such an event, however, the amount of the Fund’s gain would be offset in part by the premium paid for the option. Similarly, if the Fund entered into a contract to purchase a security denominated in a foreign currency and purchased a foreign currency call to hedge against a rise in the value of the currency between the date of purchase and the settlement date, the Fund would not need to exercise its call if the currency instead depreciated in value. In such a case, the Fund could acquire the amount of foreign currency needed for settlement in the spot market at a lower price than the exercise price of the option.

Expiration or Exercise of Options. If an option purchased by the Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid. If an option written by the Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital gain equal to the premium received at the time the option was written. Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an exchange traded option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series (type, exchange, underlying security, or index, exercise price, and expiration). There can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be effected when the Fund desires.

The Fund may sell put or call options it has previously purchased, which could result in a net gain or loss depending on whether the amount realized on the sale is more or less than the premium and other transaction costs paid on the put or call option which is sold. Prior to exercise or expiration, an option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series. The Fund will realize a capital gain from a closing purchase transaction if the cost of the closing option is less than the premium received from writing the option, or, if it is more, the Fund will realize a capital loss. If the premium received from a closing sale transaction is more than the premium paid to purchase the option, the Fund will realize a capital gain or, if it is less, the Fund will realize a capital loss. The principal factors affecting the market value of a put or a call option include supply and demand, interest rates, the current market price of the underlying security or index in relation to the exercise price of the option, the volatility of the underlying security or index, and the time remaining until the expiration date.

Futures

The Fund may engage in futures transactions. The Fund may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1) interest rates, (2) debt securities (3) bond indices, (4) foreign currencies, (5) stock indices, and (6) individual stocks. The Fund may only enter into futures contracts which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign exchange, board of trade or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to buy and sell a security, index or interest rate (each a “ financial instrument ”) for a set price on a future date. Certain futures contracts, such as futures contracts relating to individual securities, call for making or taking delivery of the underlying financial instrument. However, these contracts generally are closed out before delivery by entering into an offsetting purchase or sale of a matching futures contract. Other futures contracts, such as futures contracts on indices, do not call for making or taking delivery of the underlying financial instrument, but rather are agreements pursuant to which two parties agree to take or make delivery of an amount of cash equal to the difference between the value of the financial instrument at the close of the last trading day of the contract and the price at which the contract was originally written. These contracts also may be settled by entering into an offsetting futures contract.

Unlike when the Fund purchases or sells a security, no price is paid or received by the Fund upon the purchase or sale of a futures contract. Initially, the Fund will be required to deposit with its futures broker (also known as a futures commission merchant (“ FCM ”)) an amount of cash or securities equal to a specified percentage of the contract amount. This amount is known as initial margin. The margin deposit is intended to ensure completion of the contract. Minimum initial margin requirements are established by the futures exchanges and may be revised. In addition, FCMs may establish margin deposit requirements that are higher than the exchange minimums. Cash held as margin is generally invested by the FCM in high-quality instruments permitted under CFTC regulations, with returns retained by the FCM and interest paid to the Fund on the cash at an agreed-upon rate. The Fund will also receive any interest paid from coupon-bearing securities, such as Treasury securities, held in margin accounts. Subsequent payments to and from the FCM, called variation margin, will be made on a daily basis as the price of the underlying financial instrument fluctuates, making the futures contract more or less valuable, a process known as marking the contract to market. Changes in

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variation margin are recorded by the Fund as unrealized gains or losses. At any time prior to expiration of the futures contract, the Fund may elect to close the position by taking an opposite position that will operate to terminate its position in the futures contract. A final determination of variation margin is then made, additional cash is required to be paid by or released to the Fund, and the Fund realizes a gain or loss. In the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of an FCM that holds margin on behalf of the Fund, the Fund may be entitled to the return of margin owed to it only in proportion to the amount received by the FCM’s other customers, potentially resulting in losses to the Fund. Futures transactions also involve brokerage costs.

Options on Futures

The Fund may also purchase or write put and call options on futures contracts in which it may invest and may write straddles, which consist of a call and put option on the same futures contract. A futures option gives the holder the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short position (put) in a futures contract at a specified exercise price prior to the expiration of the option. Upon exercise of a call option, the holder acquires a long position in the futures contract and the writer is assigned the opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true. Prior to exercise or expiration, a futures option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of a futures option of the same series.

The Fund may use options on futures contracts in connection with hedging strategies. The writing of a call option or the purchasing of a put option on a futures contract constitutes a partial hedge against declining prices of the securities which are deliverable upon exercise of the futures contract. If the futures price at expiration of a written call option is below the exercise price, the Fund will retain the full amount of the option premium which provides a partial hedge against any decline that may have occurred in the Fund’s holdings of securities. If the futures price when the option is exercised is above the exercise price, however, the Fund will incur a loss, which may be offset, in whole or in part, by the increase in the value of the securities held by the Fund that were being hedged. Writing a put option or purchasing a call option on a futures contract serves as a partial hedge against an increase in the value of the securities the Fund intends to acquire.

As with investments in futures contracts, the Fund is required to deposit and maintain margin with respect to put and call options on futures contracts written by it.

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Forward Currency Contracts and other Foreign Currency Transactions

The Fund may enter into forward currency contracts. A forward currency contract involves an obligation to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future date, which may be any fixed number of days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at the time of the contract. These contracts are traded directly between currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their customers. Unlike futures contracts, which are standardized contracts, forward contracts can be specifically drawn to meet the needs of the parties that enter into them. The parties to a forward currency contract may agree to offset or terminate the contract before its maturity, or may hold the contract to maturity and complete the contemplated exchange. Because forward contracts are not traded on an exchange, the Fund is subject to the credit and performance risk of the counterparties to such contracts.

The following summarizes the principal currency management strategies involving forward contracts that may be used by the Fund. The Fund also may use currency futures contracts and options thereon, put and call options on foreign currencies and currency swaps for the same purposes.

Transaction Hedges . When the Fund enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security denominated in a foreign currency, or when it anticipates receiving dividend payments in a foreign currency, the Fund might wish to lock in the U.S. dollar price of the security or the U.S. dollar equivalent of the dividend payments. To do so, the Fund could enter into a forward contract for the purchase or sale of the amount of foreign currency involved in the underlying transaction at a fixed amount of U.S. dollars per unit of the foreign currency. This is known as a “transaction hedge.” A transaction hedge will protect the Fund against a loss from an adverse change in the currency exchange rate during the period between the date on which the security is purchased or sold or on which the payment is declared, and the date on which the payment is made or received. Forward contracts to purchase or sell a foreign currency may also be used by the Fund in anticipation of future purchases or sales of securities denominated in a foreign currency, even if the specific investments have not yet been selected by the Sub-Adviser. This strategy is sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.”

Position Hedges . The Fund could also use forward contracts to lock in the U.S. dollar value of portfolio positions. This is known as a “position hedge.” When the Fund believes that a foreign currency might suffer a substantial decline against the U.S. dollar, it could enter into a forward contract to sell an amount of that foreign currency approximating the value of some or all of the Fund’s portfolio securities denominated in that foreign currency. When the Fund believes that the U.S. dollar might suffer a substantial decline against a foreign currency, it could enter into a forward contract to buy that foreign currency for a fixed dollar amount. Alternatively, the Fund could enter into a forward contract to sell a different foreign currency for a fixed U.S. dollar amount if the Fund’s portfolio manager believes that the U.S. dollar value of that foreign currency will fall whenever there is a decline in the U.S. dollar value of the currency in which portfolio securities of the Fund are denominated. This is referred to as a “cross hedge.”

Shifting Currency Exposure . The Fund may also enter into forward contracts to shift its investment exposure from one currency into another. This may include shifting exposure from U.S. dollars to foreign currency or from one foreign currency to another foreign currency. This strategy tends to limit exposure to the currency sold, and increase exposure to the currency that is purchased, much as if the Fund had sold a security denominated in one currency and purchased an equivalent security denominated in another currency.

Swap Transactions

The Fund may enter into interest rate, currency, total return and credit default swap agreements and interest rate caps, floors and collars. The Fund may also enter into options on the foregoing types of swap agreements (“ swap options ”) and in bonds issued by special purpose entities that are backed by a pool of swaps.

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technique, to protect against an increase in the price of securities the Fund anticipates purchasing at a later date, to reduce risk arising from the ownership of a particular instrument, or to gain exposure to certain securities, reference rates, sectors or markets.

Swap agreements are two party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for a specified period of time. In a standard swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on a particular predetermined asset, reference rate or index. The gross returns to be exchanged or swapped between the parties are generally calculated with respect to a notional amount, e.g., the return on or increase in value of a particular dollar amount invested at a particular interest rate or in a basket of securities representing a particular index. The notional amount of the swap agreement generally is only used as a basis upon which to calculate the obligations that the parties to the swap agreement have agreed to exchange. The Fund’s current obligations under a net swap agreement will be accrued daily (offset against any amounts owed to the Fund) and the Fund will segregate assets determined to be liquid by the Sub-Adviser for any accrued but unpaid net amounts owed to a swap counterparty. See “Asset Coverage Requirements” above.

Interest Rate Swaps. Interest rate swaps are financial instruments that involve the exchange of one type of interest rate for another type of interest rate cash flow on specified dates in the future. Some of the different types of interest rate swaps are “fixed-for floating rate swaps,” “termed basis swaps” and “index amortizing swaps.” Fixed-for floating rate swaps involve the exchange of fixed interest rate cash flows for floating rate cash flows. Termed basis swaps entail cash flows to both parties based on floating interest rates, where the interest rate indices are different. Index amortizing swaps are typically fixed-for floating swaps where the notional amount changes if certain conditions are met. Like a traditional investment in a debt security, the Fund could lose money by investing in an interest rate swap if interest rates change adversely.

Currency Swaps. A currency swap is an agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to make interest rate payments in one currency and the other promises to make interest rate payments in another currency. The Fund may enter into a currency swap when it has one currency and desires a different currency. Typically the interest rates that determine the currency swap payments are fixed, although occasionally one or both parties may pay a floating rate of interest. Unlike an interest rate swap, however, the principal amounts are exchanged at the beginning of the contract and returned at the end of the contract. Changes in non-U.S. exchange rates and changes in interest rates may negatively affect currency swaps.

Total Return Swaps . In a total return swap, one party agrees to pay the other the “total return” of a defined underlying asset during a specified period, in return for periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or the total return from other underlying assets. A total return swap may be applied to any underlying asset but is most commonly used with equity indices, single stocks, bonds and defined baskets of loans and mortgages. The Fund might enter into a total return swap involving an underlying index or basket of securities to create exposure to a potentially widely-diversified range of securities in a single trade. An index total return swap can be used by the portfolio managers to assume risk, without the complications of buying the component securities from what may not always be the most liquid of markets.

Credit Default Swaps . A credit default swap is a bilateral contract that enables an investor to buy or sell protection against a defined-issuer credit event. The Fund may enter into credit default swap agreements either as a buyer or a seller. The Fund may buy protection to attempt to mitigate the risk of default or credit quality deterioration in one or more of its individual holdings or in a segment of the fixed income securities market to which it has exposure, or to take a “short” position in individual bonds or market segments which it does not own. The Fund may sell protection in an attempt to gain exposure to the credit quality characteristics of particular bonds or market segments without investing directly in those bonds or market segments.

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would be the premium paid with respect to the agreement. If a credit event occurs, however, the Fund may elect to receive the full notional value of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable obligations of the reference entity that may have little or no value. The Fund bears the risk that the protection seller may fail to satisfy its payment obligations.

If the Fund is a seller of protection in a credit default swap and no credit event occurs, the Fund would generally receive an up-front payment or a periodic stream of payments over the term of the swap. If a credit event occurs, however, generally the Fund would have to pay the buyer the full notional value of the swap in exchange for an equal face amount of deliverable obligations of the reference entity that may have little or no value. As the protection seller, the Fund effectively adds economic leverage to its portfolio because, in addition to being subject to investment exposure on its total net assets, the Fund is subject to investment exposure on the notional amount of the swap. Thus, the Fund bears the same risk as it would by buying the reference obligations directly, plus the additional risks related to obtaining investment exposure through a derivative instrument discussed below under “Risks Associated with Swap Transactions.”

Caps, Collars and Floors . Caps and floors have an effect similar to buying or writing options. In a typical cap or floor agreement, one party agrees to make payments only under specified circumstances, usually in return for payment of a fee by the other party. For example, the buyer of an interest rate cap obtains the right to receive payments to the extent that a specified interest rate exceeds an agreed-upon level. The seller of an interest rate floor is obligated to make payments to the extent that a specified interest rate falls below an agreed-upon level. An interest rate collar involves selling a cap and purchasing a floor or vice versa to protect the Fund against interest rate movements exceeding given minimum or maximum levels.

Swap Options . A swap option is a contract that gives a counterparty the right (but not the obligation), in return for payment of a premium, to enter into a new swap agreement or to shorten, extend, cancel, or otherwise modify an existing swap agreement at some designated future time on specified terms. A cash-settled option on a swap gives the purchaser the right, in return for the premium paid, to receive an amount of cash equal to the value of the underlying swap as of the exercise date. The Fund may write (sell) and purchase put and call swap options. Depending on the terms of the particular option agreement, the Fund generally will incur a greater degree of risk when it writes a swap option than when it purchases a swap option. When the Fund purchases a swap option, it risks losing only the amount of the premium it has paid should it decide to let the option expire unexercised. However, when the Fund writes a swap option, upon exercise of the option the Fund will become obligated according to the terms of the underlying agreement.

Regulation of the Fund as a Commodity Pool

The Fund is subject to regulation as a commodity pool under the Commodity Exchange Act (“ CEA ”), and the Adviser has registered with the CFTC and the National Futures Association (“ NFA ”) as a commodity pool operator.

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The Sub-Adviser’s investment decisions may need to be modified, and commodity contract positions held by the Fund may have to be liquidated at disadvantageous times or prices, to avoid exceeding position limits established by the CFTC, potentially subjecting the Fund to substantial losses.

The regulation of commodity transactions in the United States is a rapidly changing area of law and is subject to ongoing modification by government, self-regulatory and judicial action. The effect of any future regulatory change on the Fund is impossible to predict, but could be substantial and adverse to the Fund.

Federal Income Tax Treatment of Futures Contracts and Options

The Fund’s transactions in futures contracts and options will be subject to special provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), that, among other things, may affect the character of gains and losses realized by the Fund (i.e., may affect whether gains or losses are ordinary or capital, or short-term or long-term), may accelerate recognition of income to the Fund and may defer Fund losses. These rules could, therefore, affect the character, amount and timing of distributions to shareholders. These provisions also (a) will require the Fund to mark-to-market certain types of the positions in its portfolio (i.e., treat them as if they were closed out) and (b) may cause the Fund to recognize income without receiving cash with which to make distributions in amounts necessary to satisfy the 90% distribution requirement for qualifying to be taxed as a regulated investment company and the distribution requirement for avoiding excise taxes.

Risks and Special Considerations Concerning Derivatives

The use of derivative instruments involves certain general risks and considerations as described below.

(1) Market Risk. Market risk is the risk that the value of the underlying assets may go up or down. Adverse movements in the value of an underlying asset can expose the Fund to losses. The successful use of derivative instruments depends upon a variety of factors, particularly the portfolio managers’ ability to predict movements in the relevant markets, which may require different skills than predicting changes in the prices of individual securities. There can be no assurance that any particular strategy adopted will succeed.

(2) Counterparty Risk. Counterparty risk is the risk that a loss may be sustained as a result of the failure of a counterparty to comply with the terms of a derivative instrument. The counterparty risk for exchange-traded derivatives is generally less than for OTC derivatives, since generally a clearing agency, which is the issuer or counterparty to each exchange-traded instrument, provides a guarantee of performance. For many OTC instruments, there is no similar clearing agency guarantee. In all transactions, the Fund will bear the risk that the counterparty will default, and this could result in a loss of the expected benefit of the derivative transactions and possibly other losses to the Fund. The Fund will enter into derivatives transactions only with counterparties that its portfolio manager reasonably believes are capable of performing under the contract.

(4) Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk is the risk that a derivative instrument cannot be sold, closed out or replaced quickly at or very close to its fundamental value. Generally, exchange contracts

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are very liquid because the exchange clearinghouse is the counterparty of every contract. OTC transactions are less liquid than exchange-traded derivatives since they often can only be closed out with the other party to the transaction. The Fund might be required by applicable regulatory requirements to maintain assets as “cover,” maintain segregated accounts, and/or make margin payments when it takes positions in derivative instruments involving obligations to third parties (i.e., instruments other than purchase options). If the Fund is unable to close out its positions in such instruments, it might be required to continue to maintain such assets or accounts or make such payments until the position expires, matures or is closed out. These requirements might impair the Fund’s ability to sell a security or make an investment at a time when it would otherwise be favorable to do so, or require that the Fund sell a portfolio security at a disadvantageous time. The Fund’s ability to sell or close out a position in an instrument prior to expiration or maturity depends upon the existence of a liquid secondary market or, in the absence of such a market, the ability and willingness of the counterparty to enter into a transaction closing out the position. There is no assurance that any derivatives position can be sold or closed out at a time and price that is favorable to the Fund.

(7) Leverage Risk. Leverage risk is the risk that the Fund may be more volatile than if it had not been leveraged due to leverage’s tendency to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of the Fund’s portfolio securities. The use of leverage may also cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations or to meet segregation requirements.

(8) Regulatory Risk. The Dodd-Frank Act Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “ Dodd-Frank Act ”) has initiated a dramatic revision of the U.S. financial regulatory framework and covers a broad range of topics, including (among many others) a reorganization of federal financial regulators; a process intended to improve financial systemic stability and the resolution of potentially insolvent financial firms; and new rules for derivatives trading. Instruments in which the Fund may invest, or the issuers of such instruments, may be affected by the new legislation and regulation in ways that are unforeseeable. Many of the implementing regulations have not yet been finalized. Accordingly, the ultimate impact of the Dodd-Frank Act, including on the derivative instruments in which the Fund may invest, is not yet certain.

Dollar Rolls

The Fund may enter into mortgage “ dollar rolls ” in which the Fund sells mortgage-backed securities and simultaneously contracts with the same counterparty to repurchase similar (same type, coupon and maturity) but not identical securities on a specified future date. During the period between the sale and repurchase (the “ roll period ”), the Fund forgoes principal and interest paid on the mortgage-backed securities. However, the Fund would benefit to the extent of any difference between the price received for the securities sold and the lower forward price for the future purchase (often referred to as the “ drop ”) plus any fee income received. Unless such benefits exceed the income, capital appreciation and gain or loss due to mortgage prepayments that would have been realized on the securities sold as part of the mortgage dollar roll, the investment performance of the Fund will be less than what the performance would have been without the use of the mortgage dollar

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roll. The Fund will segregate until the settlement date cash or liquid securities in an amount equal to the forward purchase price.

Foreign Securities

The Fund may invest in foreign securities payable in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. Investment in foreign securities is subject to special investment risks that differ in some respects from those related to investments in securities of U.S. domestic issuers. These risks include political, social or economic instability in the country of the issuer, the difficulty of predicting international trade patterns, the possibility of the imposition of exchange controls, expropriation, limits on removal of currency or other assets, nationalization of assets, foreign withholding and income taxation, and foreign trading practices (including higher trading commissions, custodial charges and delayed settlements). Foreign securities also may be subject to greater fluctuations in price than securities issued by U.S. corporations. The principal markets on which these securities trade may have less volume and liquidity, and may be more volatile, than securities markets in the United States.

In addition, there may be less publicly available information about a foreign company than about a U.S. domiciled company. Foreign companies generally are not subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards comparable to those applicable to U.S. domestic companies. There is also generally less government regulation of securities exchanges, brokers and listed companies abroad than in the United States. Confiscatory taxation or diplomatic developments could also affect investment in those countries. In addition, foreign branches of U.S. banks, foreign banks and foreign issuers may be subject to less stringent reserve requirements and to different accounting, auditing, reporting, and record keeping standards than those applicable to domestic branches of U.S. banks and U.S. domestic issuers. Securities transactions conducted outside the United States may not involve a clearing mechanism and related guarantees, and are subject to the risk of governmental actions affecting trading in, or the prices of, non-U.S. securities, currencies and other instruments. The value of such positions also could be adversely affected by (i) other complex non-U.S. political, legal and economic factors, (ii) delays in the Fund’s ability to act upon economic events occurring in non-U.S. markets during non-business hours in the United States, (iv) the imposition of different exercise and settlement terms and procedures and the margin requirements than in the United States, (v) currency exchange rate changes, and (vi) lower trading volume and liquidity.

Emerging Markets. The Fund’s investment in foreign securities may include securities issued by governmental and corporate issuers that are located in emerging market countries. Investments in securities of issuers in emerging market countries may be subject to potentially higher risks than investments in developed countries. These risks include (i) less social, political and economic stability; (ii) the small current size of the markets for such securities and the currently low or nonexistent volume of trading, which may result in a lack of liquidity and in greater price volatility; (iii) certain national policies which may restrict a Fund’s investment opportunities, including restrictions on investment in issuers or industries deemed sensitive to national interests; (iv) foreign taxation; (v) the absence of developed structures governing private or foreign investment or allowing for judicial redress for injury to private property; (vi) the limited development and recent emergence, in certain countries, of a capital market structure or market-oriented economy; and (vii) the possibility that recent favorable economic developments in certain countries may be slowed or reversed by unanticipated political or social events in such countries. All of the risks of investing in non-U.S. securities described above are heightened by investing in emerging markets countries.

Certain countries, which do not have market economies, are characterized by an absence of developed legal structures governing private and foreign investments and private property. Certain countries require governmental approval prior to investments by foreign persons, or limit the amount of investment by foreign persons in a particular company, or limit the investment of foreign persons to only a specific class of securities of a company that may have less advantageous terms than securities of the company available for purchase by nationals.

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Authoritarian governments in certain countries may require that a governmental or quasi- governmental authority act as custodian of a Fund’s assets invested in such country. To the extent such governmental or quasi-governmental authorities do not satisfy the requirements of the 1940 Act to act as foreign custodians of the Fund’s cash and securities, the Fund’s investment in such countries may be limited or may be required to be effected through intermediaries. The risk of loss through governmental confiscation may be increased in such countries.

Depositary Receipts. The Fund’s investments in foreign securities may include investment in depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts ( “ADRs” ), European Depositary Receipts ( “EDRs” ) and Global Depositary Receipts ( “GDRs” ). U.S. dollar-denominated ADRs, which are traded in the United States on exchanges or over-the-counter, are issued by domestic banks. ADRs represent the right to receive securities of foreign issuers deposited in a domestic bank or a correspondent bank. ADRs do not eliminate all the risk inherent in investing in the securities of foreign issuers. However, by investing in ADRs rather than directly in foreign issuers’ stock, a Fund can avoid currency risks during the settlement period for either purchases or sales. In general, there is a large, liquid market in the United States for many ADRs. The information available for ADRs is subject to the accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards of the domestic market or exchange on which they are traded, which standards are more uniform and more exacting than those to which many foreign issuers may be subject. The Funds may also invest in EDRs and GDRs and in other similar instruments representing securities of foreign companies. EDRs and GDRs are securities that are typically issued by foreign banks or foreign trust companies, although U.S. banks or U.S. trust companies may issue them. EDRs and GDRs are structured similarly to the arrangements of ADRs. EDRs, in bearer form, are designed for use in European securities markets and are not necessarily denominated in the currency of the underlying security.

Certain depositary receipts, typically those denominated as unsponsored, require the holders thereof to bear most of the costs of the facilities while issuers of sponsored facilities normally pay more of the costs thereof. The depository of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited securities or to pass through the voting rights to facility holders in respect to the deposited securities, whereas the depository of a sponsored facility typically distributes shareholder communications and passes through voting rights.

Mortgage-Backed Securities

A mortgage-backed security is a type of pass-through security, which is a security representing pooled debt obligations repackaged as interests that pass income through an intermediary to investors. In the case of mortgage-backed securities, the ownership interest is in a pool of mortgage loans. Residential mortgage-backed securities (“ RMBS ”) are backed by a pool of mortgages on residential property while commercial mortgage-backed securities (“ CMBS ”) are backed by a pool of mortgages on commercial property.

Mortgage-backed securities are most commonly issued or guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association (“ Ginnie Mae ” or “ GNMA ”), Federal National Mortgage Association (“ Fannie Mae ” or “ FNMA ”) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“ Freddie Mac ” or “ FHLMC ”), but may also be issued or guaranteed by other private issuers.

GNMA is a government-owned corporation that is an agency of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It guarantees, with the full faith and credit of the United States, full and timely payment of all monthly principal and interest on its mortgage-backed securities.

Government-related guarantors (i.e., not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government) include FNMA and FHLMC. FNMA is a government-sponsored corporation. FNMA purchases conventional (i.e., not insured or guaranteed by any government agency) residential mortgages from a list of approved seller/servicers which include state and federally chartered savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, commercial banks and credit unions and mortgage bankers. Pass-through securities issued by FNMA are guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by FNMA, but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. FHLMC was created by Congress in 1970 for the purpose of increasing the availability of mortgage credit for residential housing. It is a government-sponsored corporation that issues

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Participation Certificates (“ PCs ”), which are pass-through securities, each representing an undivided interest in a pool of residential mortgages. FHLMC guarantees the timely payment of interest and ultimate collection of principal, but PCs are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

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Collateralized mortgage obligations (“ CMOs ”) are debt obligations collateralized by mortgage loans or mortgage pass-through securities (collateral collectively referred to hereinafter as “ Mortgage Assets ”). Multi-class pass-through securities are interests in a trust composed of Mortgage Assets. All references in this section to CMOs include multi-class pass-through securities. Principal prepayments on the Mortgage Assets may cause the CMOs to be retired substantially earlier than their stated maturities or final distribution dates, resulting in a loss of all or part of the premium if any has been paid. Interest is paid or accrues on all classes of the CMOs on a monthly, quarterly or semi-annual basis. The principal and interest payments on the Mortgage Assets may be allocated among the various classes of CMOs in several ways. Typically, payments of principal, including any prepayments, on the underlying mortgages are applied to the classes in the order of their respective stated maturities or final distribution dates, so that no payment of principal is made on CMOs of a class until all CMOs of other classes having earlier stated maturities or final distribution dates have been paid in full.

Stripped mortgage-backed securities (“ SMBS ”) are derivative multi-class mortgage securities. SMBS are usually structured with two classes that receive different proportions of the interest and principal distributions from a pool of mortgage assets. The Fund will only invest in SMBS whose mortgage assets are U.S. government obligations. A common type of SMBS will be structured so that one class receives some of the interest and most of the principal from the mortgage assets, while the other class receives most of the interest and the remainder of the principal. If the underlying mortgage assets experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the Fund may fail to fully recoup its initial investment in these securities. The market value of any class which consists primarily or entirely of principal payments generally is unusually volatile in response to changes in interest rates.

Investment in mortgage-backed securities poses several risks, including, among others, prepayment, market and credit risk. Prepayment risk reflects the risk that borrowers may prepay their mortgages faster than expected, thereby affecting the investment’s average life and perhaps its yield. Whether or not a mortgage loan is prepaid is almost entirely controlled by the borrower. Borrowers are most likely to exercise prepayment options at the time when it is least advantageous to investors, generally prepaying mortgages as interest rates fall, and slowing payments as interest rates rise. Besides the effect of prevailing interest rates, the rate of prepayment and refinancing of mortgages may also be affected by home value appreciation, ease of the refinancing process and local economic conditions. Market risk reflects the risk that the price of a security may fluctuate over time. The price of mortgage-backed securities may be particularly sensitive to prevailing interest rates, the length of time the security is expected to be outstanding and the liquidity of the issue. In a period of unstable interest rates, there may be decreased demand for certain types of mortgage-backed securities, and the Fund invested in such securities wishing to sell them may find it difficult to find a buyer, which may in turn decrease the price at which they may be sold. Credit risk reflects the risk that the Fund may not receive all or part of its principal because the issuer or credit enhancer has defaulted on its obligations. Obligations issued by U.S. government-related entities are guaranteed as to the payment of principal and interest, but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. The performance of private label mortgage-backed securities, issued by private institutions, is based on the financial health of those institutions.

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real estate. Similarly, as many CMBS have a large exposure to retail properties, events that negatively impact the retail industry can also negatively impact the value of CMBS.

Non-Investment Grade Debt Securities (Junk Bonds)

The Fund may invest in non-investment grade debt securities. Non-investment grade debt securities are medium- to low-quality debt obligations. Debt obligations rated below investment grade (BB/Ba or lower) are commonly known as “high-yield,” “high risk” or “junk” bonds. To be consistent with the ratings methodology used by Barclays, the provider of the benchmarks of the Fund, a debt obligation is considered to be rated “investment grade” if two of Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch rate the security investment-grade (i.e., at least Baa, BBB and BBB, respectively). If ratings are provided by only two of those rating agencies, the more conservative rating is used to determine whether the security is investment-grade. If only one of those rating agencies provides a rating, that rating is used. The Fund may not invest in non-investment grade debt obligations rated by two of Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s lower than CCC, CCC or Caa, respectively, unless only one of those rating agencies rates the security, in which case that rating must be at least CCC or Caa, or in unrated securities determined to be of comparable quality by the Sub-Adviser.

Junk bonds, while generally offering higher yields than investment grade securities with similar maturities, involve greater risks, including the possibility of default or bankruptcy. They are regarded as predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal. The special risk considerations in connection with investments in these securities are discussed below. Refer to Appendix A of this Statement of Additional Information for a discussion of securities ratings.

(1) Effect of Interest Rates and Economic Changes. All interest-bearing securities typically experience appreciation when interest rates decline and depreciation when interest rates rise. In addition, the market values of junk bond securities tend to reflect individual issuer developments to a greater extent than do the market values of higher rated securities, which react primarily to fluctuations in the general level of interest rates. Junk bond securities also tend to be more sensitive to economic conditions than are higher rated securities. As a result, they generally involve more credit risk than securities in the higher rated categories. During an economic downturn or a sustained period of rising interest rates, highly leveraged issuers of junk bond securities may experience financial stress and may not have sufficient revenues to meet their payment obligations. The risk of loss due to default by an issuer of these securities is significantly greater than by an issuer of higher rated securities because such securities are generally unsecured and are often subordinated to other creditors. Further, if the issuer of a junk bond security defaults, the Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery. Periods of economic uncertainty and changes would also generally result in increased volatility in the market prices of these and thus in the Fund’s net asset value.

The value of a junk bond security will generally decrease in a rising interest rate market and, accordingly, so will the Fund’s net asset value. If the Fund experiences unexpected net redemptions in such a market, it may be forced to liquidate a portion of its portfolio securities without regard to their investment merits. Due to the limited liquidity of certain junk bond securities, the Fund may be forced to liquidate these securities at a substantial discount. Any such liquidation would reduce the Fund’s asset base over which expenses could be allocated and could result in a reduced rate of return for the Fund.

(2) Payment Expectations. Junk bond securities typically contain redemption, call, or prepayment provisions that permit the issuer of securities containing such provisions to redeem the securities at its discretion. During periods of falling interest rates, issuers of these securities are likely to redeem or prepay the securities and refinance them with debt securities with a lower interest rate. To the extent an issuer is able to refinance the securities, or otherwise redeem them, the Fund may have to replace the securities with lower yielding securities, which could result in a lower return for the Fund.

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security. Consequently, credit ratings are used only as a preliminary indicator of investment quality. Investments in junk bonds will depend more upon credit analysis by the Sub-Adviser than investments in investment grade debt securities. The Sub-Adviser employs its own credit research and analysis, which includes a study of the issuer’s existing debt, capital structure, ability to service debts and pay dividends, sensitivity to economic conditions, operating history, and current earnings trend. The Sub-Adviser continually monitors the Fund’s investments and carefully evaluates whether to dispose of or to retain junk bond securities whose credit ratings or credit quality may have changed.

(4) Liquidity and Valuation. The Fund may have difficulty disposing of certain junk bond securities because there may be a thin trading market for such securities. Not all dealers maintain markets in all junk bond securities. As a result, there is no established retail secondary market for many of these securities. To the extent a secondary trading market does exist, it is generally not as liquid as the secondary market for higher rated securities. The lack of a liquid secondary market may have an adverse impact on the market price of the security. The lack of a liquid secondary market for certain securities may also make it more difficult for the Fund to obtain accurate market quotations for purposes of valuing its securities. Market quotations are generally available on many junk bond issues only from a limited number of dealers and may not necessarily represent firm bids of such dealers or prices for actual sales. During periods of thin trading, the spread between bid and asked prices is likely to increase significantly. In addition, adverse publicity and investor perceptions, whether or not based on fundamental analysis, may decrease the value and liquidity of junk bond securities, especially in a thinly traded market.

Other Investment Companies

The Fund may invest in other investment companies, such as mutual funds, closed-end funds, and exchange-traded funds (“ ETFs ”). Under the 1940 Act, the Fund’s investment in such securities is generally limited to 3% of the total voting stock of any one investment company; 5% of the Fund’s total assets with respect to any one investment company; and 10% of the Fund’s total assets in the aggregate. The Fund will only invest in other investment companies that invest primarily in Fund-eligible investments. The Fund’s investments in other investment companies may include money market mutual funds. Investments in money market funds are not subject to the percentage limitations set forth above.

If the Fund invests in other investment companies, Fund shareholders will bear not only their proportionate share of the Fund’s expenses, but also, indirectly, the similar expenses of the underlying investment companies. Shareholders would also be exposed to the risks associated not only to the Fund, but also to the portfolio investments of the underlying investment companies. Shares of certain closed-end funds may at times be acquired only at market prices representing premiums to their net asset values. Shares acquired at a premium to their net asset value may be more likely to subsequently decline in price, resulting in a loss to the Fund and its shareholders. The underlying securities in an ETF may not follow the price movements of the industry or sector the ETF is designed to track. Trading in an ETF may be halted if the trading in one or more of the ETF’s underlying securities is halted, which could result in the ETF being more volatile.

U.S. Government Securities

The Fund may invest in U.S. government securities, including bills, notes and bonds differing as to maturity and rates of interest, which are either issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury or by U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities. U.S. government agency securities include securities issued by (a) the Federal Housing Administration, Farmers Home Administration, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Small Business Administration, and the Government National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States; (b) the Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, whose securities are supported by the right of the agency to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the Federal National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the agency or instrumentality; and (d) the Student Loan Marketing Association, whose securities are supported only by its credit. While the U.S. government provides financial support to such U.S. government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities, no assurance can be given that it always will do so since it is not so obligated by law. The U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate.

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U.S. Treasury obligations include separately traded interest and principal component parts of such obligations, known as Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal Securities ( “STRIPS” ), which are transferable through the Federal book-entry system. STRIPS are sold as zero coupon securities, which means that they are sold at a substantial discount and redeemed at face value at their maturity date without interim cash payments of interest or principal. This discount is accreted over the life of the security, and such accretion will constitute the income earned on the security for both accounting and tax purposes. Because of these features, such securities may be subject to greater interest rate volatility than interest paying U.S. Treasury obligations.

Variable, Floating, and Fixed Rate Debt Obligations

The debt obligations in which the Fund invests may have variable, floating, or fixed interest rates. Variable rate securities provide for periodic adjustments in the interest rate. Floating rate securities are generally offered at an initial interest rate which is at or above prevailing market rates. The interest rate paid on floating rate securities is then reset periodically (commonly every 90 days) to an increment over some predetermined interest rate index. Commonly utilized indices include the three-month Treasury bill rate, the 180-day Treasury bill rate, the one-month or three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the prime rate of a bank, the commercial paper rates, or the longer-term rates on U.S. Treasury securities. Variable and floating rate securities are relatively long-term instruments that often carry demand features permitting the holder to demand payment of principal at any time or at specified intervals prior to maturity plus accrued interest. In order to most effectively use these securities, the Adviser must correctly assess probable movements in interest rates. If the Sub-Adviser incorrectly forecasts such movements, the Fund could be adversely affected by use of variable and floating rate securities.

Fixed rate securities pay a fixed rate of interest and tend to exhibit more price volatility during times of rising or falling interest rates than securities with variable or floating rates of interest. The value of fixed rate securities will tend to fall when interest rates rise and rise when interest rates fall. The value of variable or floating rate securities, on the other hand, fluctuates much less in response to market interest rate movements than the value of fixed rate securities. This is because variable and floating rate securities behave like short-term instruments in that the rate of interest they pay is subject to periodic adjustments according to a specified formula, usually with reference to some interest rate index or market interest rate. Fixed rate securities with short-term characteristics are not subject to the same price volatility as fixed rate securities without such characteristics. Therefore, they behave more like variable or floating rate securities with respect to price volatility.

When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions

The Fund may purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis. When such a transaction is negotiated, the purchase price is fixed at the time the purchase commitment is entered, but delivery of and payment for the securities take place at a later date. The Fund will not accrue income with respect to securities purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis prior to their stated delivery date.

The purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis exposes the Fund to risk because the securities may decrease in value prior to delivery. In addition, the Fund’s purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis while remaining substantially fully invested could increase the amount of the Fund’s total assets that are subject to market risk, resulting in increased sensitivity of net asset value to changes in market prices. A seller’s failure to deliver securities to the Fund could prevent the Fund from realizing a price or yield considered to be advantageous.

When the Fund agrees to purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis, the Fund will segregate cash or liquid securities in an amount sufficient to meet the Fund’s purchase commitments. It may be expected that the Fund’s net assets will fluctuate to a greater degree when it sets aside securities to cover such purchase commitments than when it sets aside cash. In addition, because the Fund will set aside cash or liquid securities to satisfy its purchase commitments, its liquidity and the ability of the Adviser to manage it might be affected in the event its commitments to purchase when-issued or delayed delivery securities ever became significant. Under normal market conditions, however, the Fund’s commitments to purchase when-issued or delayed delivery securities will not exceed 25% of the value of its total assets.

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MANAGEMENT

The management of the Trust, including general supervision of the duties performed for the Fund by the Adviser under the Investment Management Agreement, is the responsibility of the Board of Trustees. The number of trustees of the Trust is twelve, two of whom are “ interested persons ” (as the term “interested person” is defined in the 1940 Act) and ten of whom are not interested persons (referred to herein as “ independent trustees ”). None of the independent trustees has ever been a trustee, director or employee of, or consultant to, the Adviser or its affiliates. The names, business addresses and years of birth of the trustees and officers of the Fund, their principal occupations and other affiliations during the past five years, the number of portfolios each oversees and other directorships they hold are set forth below. The trustees of the Trust are directors or trustees, as the case may be, of 106 Nuveen-sponsored open-end funds (the “ Nuveen Mutual Funds ”) and 96 Nuveen-sponsored closed-end funds (collectively with the Nuveen Mutual Funds, the “ Nuveen Funds ”).


Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Independent Trustees:

Robert P. Bremner 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1940	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2003	Private Investor and Management Consultant; Treasurer and Director, Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.; Board Member, Independent Directors Council affiliated with the Investment Company Institute.	202	None

Jack B. Evans 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 1999	President, The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation (since 1996); Director, Source Media Group; Life Trustee of Coe College and the Iowa College Foundation; formerly, Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; formerly, President and Chief Operating Officer, SCI Financial Group, Inc., a regional financial services firm; formerly, Member and President Pro Tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa University System.	202	Director and Chairman, United Fire Group, a publicly held company; formerly, Director, Alliant Energy.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

William C. Hunter 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1948	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2004	Dean Emeritus (since June 30, 2012), formerly, Dean (2006-2012), Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Director (since 2005) and President (since July 2012), Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Honor Society; Director of Wellmark, Inc. (since 2009); formerly, Director (1997-2007), Credit Research Center at Georgetown University; formerly, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Finance, School of Business at the University of Connecticut (2003-2006); previously, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1995-2003).	202	Director (since 2004) of Xerox Corporation.

David J. Kundert 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1942	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2005	Formerly, Director, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013); retired (since 2004) as Chairman, JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management, President and CEO, Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation, and President, One Group Mutual Funds; prior thereto, Executive Vice President, Bank One Corporation and Chairman and CEO, Banc One Investment Management Group; Regent Emeritus, Member of Investment Committee, Luther College; Member of the Wisconsin Bar Association; Member of Board of Directors, Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens; Member of Board of Directors and Chair of Investment Committee, Greater Milwaukee Foundation; Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

John K. Nelson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2013	Senior external advisor to the financial services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP (since 2012); Member of Board of Directors of Core12 LLC (since 2008), a private firm which develops branding, marketing and communications strategies for clients; Director of The Curran Center for Catholic American Studies (since 2009) and The President’s Council, Fordham University (since 2010); former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Marian University (since 2010-2014 as trustee, 2011-2014 as Chairman); formerly, Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO N.V. North America, and Global Head of its Financial Markets Division (2007-2008); prior senior positions held at ABN AMRO include Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Global Markets—the Americas (2006-2007), CEO of Wholesale Banking—North America and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Futures Markets (2001-2006), and Regional Commercial Treasurer and Senior Vice President Trading—North America (1996-2001); formerly, Trustee at St. Edmund Preparatory School in New York City.	202	None

William J. Schneider 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Chairman of the Board and Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2003	Chairman of Miller-Valentine Partners, a real estate investment company; Board Member of Med-America Health System, of Tech Town, Inc., a not-for-profit community development company, and of WDPR Public Radio station; formerly, Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer (retired, 2004) of Miller-Valentine Group; formerly, Director, Dayton Development Coalition; formerly, Board Member, Business Advisory Council, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and University of Dayton Business School Advisory Council.	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Judith M. Stockdale 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2003	Board Member of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (since 2013); Board Member of the Land Trust Alliance (since 2013); formerly, Executive Director (1994-2012), Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; prior thereto, Executive Director, Great Lakes Protection Fund (1990-1994).	202	None

Carole E. Stone 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1947	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2007	Director, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (since 2006); Director, C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated (since 2009); formerly, Commissioner, New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform (2005-2010); formerly, Chair, New York Racing Association Oversight Board (2005-2007).	202	Director, CBOE Holdings, Inc. (since 2010).

Virginia L. Stringer 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1944	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2011	Board Member, Mutual Fund Directors Forum; former Member, Governing Board, Investment Company Institute’s Independent Directors Council; Governance consultant and non-profit board member; former Owner and President, Strategic Management Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm; previously, held several executive positions in general management, marketing and human resources at IBM and The Pillsbury Company.	202	Previously, Independent Director (1987-2010) and Chair (1997-2010), First American Fund Complex.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Terence J. Toth 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1959	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2008	Managing Partner, Promus Capital (since 2008); Director, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012); formerly, Director, Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (2008-2013); formerly, CEO and President, Northern Trust Global Investments (2004-2007); Executive Vice President, Quantitative Management & Securities Lending (2000-2004); prior thereto, various positions with Northern Trust Company (since 1994); Member, Chicago Fellowship Board (since 2005), Catalyst Schools of Chicago Board (since 2008) and Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and a member of its investment committee; formerly, Member, Northern Trust Mutual Funds Board (2005-2007), Northern Trust Global Investments Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Japan Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Securities Inc. Board (2003-2007) and Northern Trust Hong Kong Board (1997-2004).	202	None

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee	Other Directorships Held by Trustee During Past Five Years

Interested Trustees:

William Adams IV** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1955	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Senior Executive Vice President, Global Structured Products of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2010); Co- President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011); President (since 2011), formerly, Managing Director (2010-2011), of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Board Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of Gilda’s Club Chicago; formerly, Executive Vice President, U.S. Structured Products, of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (1999-2010).	202	None

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.** 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1962	Trustee	Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2014	Vice Chairman, Wealth Management of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2011); Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chairman of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Member of the Board of Governors and Chairman’s Council of the Investment Company Institute; formerly, Chief Executive Officer (2000-2010) and Chief Investment Officer (2007-2010) of FAF Advisors, Inc.; formerly, President of First American Funds (2001-2010).	202	None

Each trustee serves an indefinite term until his or her successor is elected.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Officers of the Trust:

Gifford R. Zimmerman 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Chief Administrative Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1996	Managing Director (since 2002) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Managing Director (since 2002), Assistant Secretary (since 1997) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director (since 2004) and Assistant Secretary (since 1994) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (since 2002); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc. (since 2002); Managing Director, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Symphony Asset Management LLC (since 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC (since 2006) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since 2013), formerly, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Compliance Officer (2006-2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Margo L. Cook 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1964	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2009	Executive Vice President of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2008), Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011) and Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2013); Managing Director—Investment Services of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC (since August 2011); previously, Head of Institutional Asset Management (2007-2008) of Bear Stearns Asset Management; Head of Institutional Asset Management (1986-2007) of Bank of NY Mellon; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Lorna C. Ferguson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1945	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1998	Managing Director of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Stephen D. Foy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1954	Vice President and Controller	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 1998	Managing Director (since 2014), formerly, Senior Vice President (2013-2014) and Vice President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chief Financial Officer (since 2010) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Senior Vice President (2010-2011), formerly, Vice President (2005-2010) and Funds Controller of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Scott S. Grace 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Treasurer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2009	Managing Director and Treasurer (since 2009) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc., Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, Nuveen Securities, LLC and (since 2011) Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Vice President and Treasurer of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Treasurer (2006-2009), Senior Vice President (2008-2009), previously, Vice President (2006-2008) of Janus Capital Group, Inc.; formerly, Senior Associate in Morgan Stanley’s Global Financial Services Group (2000-2003); Chartered Accountant.	203

Walter M. Kelly 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2003	Senior Vice President (since 2008) of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Tina M. Lazar 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1961	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2002	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Kevin J. McCarthy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1966	Vice President and Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2007	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary (since 2008) of Nuveen Securities, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Managing Director (since 2008), Assistant Secretary (since 2007) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Managing Director (since 2008) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.; Vice President (since 2007) and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, NWQ Holdings, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President (since 2010) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Trust	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Trust	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Kathleen L. Prudhomme 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402 1953	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Deputy General Counsel, FAF Advisors, Inc. (2004-2010).	203

Joel T. Slager 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1978	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since August 2013	Fund Tax Director for Nuveen Funds (since May, 2013); previously, Vice President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., Assistant Treasurer of the Morgan Stanley Funds (from 2010 to 2013); Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (from 2008 to 2010).	203

Jeffery M. Wilson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); formerly, Senior Vice President of FAF Advisors, Inc. (2000-2010).	106

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight

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In addition, the Nominating and Governance Committee, among other things, makes recommendations concerning the continuing education of trustees; monitors performance of legal counsel and other service providers; establishes and monitors a process by which security holders are able to communicate in writing with members of the Board; and periodically reviews and makes recommendations about any appropriate changes to trustee compensation. In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the Nominating and Governance Committee receives suggestions from various sources, including shareholders, as to suitable candidates. Suggestions should be sent in writing to Lorna Ferguson, Manager of Fund Board Relations, Nuveen Investments, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606. The Nominating and Governance Committee sets appropriate standards and requirements for nominations for new trustees and reserves the right to interview any and all candidates and to make the final selection of any new trustees. In considering a candidate’s qualifications, each candidate must meet certain basic requirements, including relevant skills and experience, time availability (including the time requirements for due diligence site visits to sub-advisers and service providers) and, if qualifying as an independent trustee candidate, independence from the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser, the Distributor and other service providers, including any affiliates of these entities. These skill and experience requirements may vary depending on the current composition of the Board, since the goal is to ensure an appropriate range of skills, diversity and experience, in the aggregate. Accordingly, the particular factors considered and weight given to these factors will depend on the composition of the Board and the skills and backgrounds of the incumbent trustees at the time of consideration of the nominees. All candidates, however, must meet high expectations of personal integrity, independence, governance experience and professional competence. All candidates must be willing to be critical within the Board and with management and yet maintain a collegial and collaborative manner toward other Board members. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. This committee is composed of the independent trustees of the Nuveen Funds. Accordingly, the members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans, William C. Hunter, David J. Kundert, John K. Nelson, William J. Schneider, Chair, Judith M. Stockdale, Carole E. Stone, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Nominating and Governance Committee met seven times.

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The Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee (the “ Compliance Committee ”) is responsible for the oversight of compliance issues, risk management and other regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds that are not otherwise the jurisdiction of the other committees. The Board has adopted and periodically reviews policies and procedures designed to address the Nuveen Funds’ compliance and risk matters. As part of its duties, the Compliance Committee reviews the policies and procedures relating to compliance matters and recommends modifications thereto as necessary or appropriate to the full Board; develops new policies and procedures as new regulatory matters affecting the Nuveen Funds arise from time to time; evaluates or considers any comments or reports from examinations from regulatory authorities and responses thereto; and performs any special reviews, investigations or other oversight responsibilities relating to risk management, compliance and/or regulatory matters as requested by the Board.

The Open-End Funds Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in the oversight and monitoring of the Nuveen Funds that are registered as open-end management investment companies (“Open-End Funds”). The committee may review and evaluate matters related to the formation and the initial presentation to the Board of any new Open-End Fund and may review and evaluate any matters relating to any existing Open-End Fund. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Open-End Funds Committee are Robert P. Bremner, David J. Kundert, William J. Schneider, Judith M. Stockdale, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth, Chair. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Open-End Funds Committee met four times.

Board Diversification and Trustee Qualifications

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significant private or not-for-profit entities or other organizations; and/or other life experiences. Accordingly, set forth below is a summary of the experiences, qualifications, attributes, and skills that led to the conclusion, as of the date of this document, that each trustee should continue to serve in that capacity. References to the experiences, qualifications, attributes and skills of trustees are pursuant to requirements of the SEC, do not constitute holding out of the Board or any trustee as having any special expertise or experience and shall not impose any greater responsibility or liability on any such person or on the Board by reason thereof.

William Adams IV

Robert P. Bremner

Jack B. Evans

William C. Hunter

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Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Central America and South America. From 1990 to 1995, he was a U.S. Treasury Advisor to Central and Eastern Europe. He has been a Director of the Xerox Corporation since 2004 and Wellmark, Inc. since 2009. He is a Director and President of Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Business Honor Society.

David J. Kundert

John K. Nelson

William J. Schneider

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

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September 2007 and President of First American Funds from February 2001 to December 2010. From 1998 to November 2000, Mr. Schreier served as Senior Managing Director and Head of Equity Research for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Schreier is a member of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and is on its Chairman’s Council. He has also served as director, chairman of the finance committee, and member of the audit committee for Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Mr. Schreier is former chairman of the Saint Thomas Academy Board of Trustees, a founding investor of Granite Global Ventures, and a member of the Applied Investment Management Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame.

Judith M. Stockdale

Carole E. Stone

Virginia L. Stringer

Terence J. Toth

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Board of the Northern Trust Mutual Funds. He joined Northern Trust in 1994 after serving as Managing Director and Head of Global Securities Lending at Bankers Trust (1986 to 1994) and Head of Government Trading and Cash Collateral Investment at Northern Trust from 1982 to 1986. He currently serves on the Board of Chicago Fellowship, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012), and is Chairman of the Board of Catalyst Schools of Chicago. He is on the Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and is a member of its investment committee. Mr. Toth graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and received his MBA from New York University. In 2005, he graduated from the CEO Perspectives Program at Northwestern University.

Board Compensation

The following table shows, for each independent trustee, (1) the aggregate compensation paid by the Fund for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, (2) the amount of total compensation paid by the Fund that has been deferred, and (3) the total compensation paid to each trustee by the Nuveen Funds during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.


Name of Trustee	Aggregate Compensation From Fund ¹		Amount of Total Compensation that Has Been Deferred ²		Total Compensation From Nuveen Funds Paid to Trustee ³
Robert P. Bremner	$	50	$	—	$	298,602
Jack B. Evans		48		—		291,892
William C. Hunter		44		—		261,500
David J. Kundert		48		—		311,960
John K. Nelson ⁴		27		—		152,167
William J. Schneider		58		—		363,918
Judith M. Stockdale		48		—		285,359
Carole E. Stone		50		—		300,367
Virginia L. Stringer		45		—		270,500
Terence J. Toth		52		—		316,839

The compensation paid, including deferred amounts, to the independent trustees for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Fund.

Pursuant to a deferred compensation agreement with the Fund, deferred amounts are treated as though an equivalent dollar amount has been invested in shares of one or more eligible Nuveen Funds. The amounts provided are the total deferred fees (including the return from the assumed investment in the eligible Nuveen Funds) payable from the Fund.

Based on the compensation paid (including any amounts deferred) to the trustees for the one-year period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Nuveen Funds.

⁴

Mr. Nelson was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Nuveen Funds effective September 1, 2013.

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committee meetings (excluding shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance was not required, and $100 per meeting when the Executive Committee acted as pricing committee for IPOs, plus, in each case, expenses incurred in attending such meetings, provided that no fees were received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held; and (g) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Open-End Funds Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; provided that no fees were received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held. In addition to the payments described above, the Chairman of the Board received $75,000, the chairpersons of the Audit Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee received $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee received $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent trustees also received a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provided services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting was held. When ad hoc committees were organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee at the time of formation determined compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees were $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses were allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management might have, in its discretion, established a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

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allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management may, in its discretion, establish a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

The Fund has no employees. The officers of the Trust and the trustees of the Trust who are not independent trustees serve without any compensation from the Fund.

Share Ownership

The information in the table below discloses the dollar ranges of (i) each trustee’s beneficial ownership in the Fund, and (ii) each trustee’s aggregate beneficial ownership in all funds within the Nuveen Funds complex, including in each case the value of fund shares elected by the trustee in the trustees’ deferred compensation plan, based on the value of fund shares as of September 30, 2014:


Name of Trustee	Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the Fund	Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity Securities in All Registered Investment Companies Overseen by Trustee in Family of Investment Companies
William Adams IV	$0		Over $100,000
Robert P. Bremner	$0		Over $100,000
Jack B. Evans	$0		Over $100,000
William C. Hunter	$0		Over $100,000
David J. Kundert	$0		Over $100,000
John K. Nelson	$0		Over $100,000
William J. Schneider	$0		Over $100,000
Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.	$0		Over $100,000
Judith M. Stockdale	$0		Over $100,000
Carole E. Stone	$0		Over $100,000
Virginia L. Stringer	$0		Over $100,000
Terence J. Toth	$0		Over $100,000

As of October 2, 2014, the officers and trustees of the Trust, in the aggregate, owned less than 1% of the shares of the Fund.

As of October 2, 2014, none of the independent trustees or their immediate family members owned, beneficially, or of record, any securities in (i) an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Fund or (ii) a person (other than a registered investment company) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Fund.

Sales Loads

Trustees of the Trust and certain other Fund affiliates may purchase the Fund’s Class I shares. See the Fund’s Prospectus for details.

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SERVICE PROVIDERS

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the investment adviser of the Fund, with responsibility for the overall management of the Fund. The Adviser is also responsible for managing the Fund’s business affairs and providing day-to-day administrative services to the Fund. The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of the Fund. For additional information regarding the management services performed by the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser, see “Who Manages the Fund” in the Prospectus.

On October 1, 2014, Nuveen Investments was acquired by TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization.

For the management services and facilities furnished by the Adviser, the Fund has agreed to pay an annual management fee at a rate set forth in the Prospectus under “Who Manages the Fund.” In addition, the Adviser has agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee or reimburse certain expenses of the Fund. The Prospectus includes current fee waivers and expense reimbursements for the Fund.

The Fund’s management fee is divided into two components—a complex-level fee based on the aggregate amount of all eligible Nuveen Fund assets and a specific fund-level fee based only on the amount of assets within the Fund. This pricing structure enables Fund shareholders to benefit from growth in the assets within the Fund as well as from growth in the amount of complex-wide assets managed by the Adviser. Under no circumstances will this pricing structure result in the Fund paying management fees at a rate higher than would otherwise have been applicable had the complex-wide management fee structure not been implemented.

The Fund has agreed to pay an annual fund-level management fee, payable monthly, based upon the average daily net assets of the Fund as set forth in the Prospectus.

The annual complex-level management fee for the Fund, payable monthly, which is additive to the fund-level fee, is based on the aggregate amount of total eligible assets managed for all Nuveen Funds as stated in the table below:


Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level*	Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level
$55 billion		0.2000	%
$56 billion		0.1996	%
$57 billion		0.1989	%
$60 billion		0.1961	%
$63 billion		0.1931	%
$66 billion		0.1900	%
$71 billion		0.1851	%
$76 billion		0.1806	%
$80 billion		0.1773	%
$91 billion		0.1691	%
$125 billion		0.1599	%
$200 billion		0.1505	%
$250 billion		0.1469	%
$300 billion		0.1445	%

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States. Eligible assets do not include assets attributable to investments in other Nuveen Funds or assets in excess of a determined amount (originally $2 billion) added to the Nuveen Fund complex in connection with Nuveen Fund Advisors’ assumption of the management of the former First American Funds effective January 1, 2011. Eligible assets include closed-end fund assets managed by the Adviser that are attributable to financial leverage. For these purposes, financial leverage includes the closed-end funds’ use of preferred stock and borrowings and certain investments in the residual interest certificates (also called inverse floating rate securities) in tender option bond (TOB) trusts, including the portion of assets held by a TOB trust that has been effectively financed by the trust’s issuance of floating rate securities, subject to an agreement by the Adviser as to certain funds to limit the amount of such assets for determining eligible assets in certain circumstances. As of June 30, 2014, the Fund’s complex-level fee was 0.1653%.

The following table sets forth the management fees (net of fee waivers and expense reimbursements) paid by the Fund and the fees waived and expenses reimbursed by the Adviser for the specified periods.


Amount of Management Fees (Net of Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements by the Adviser)			Amount of Fees Waived and Expenses Reimbursed by the Adviser
12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14	12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14
$—	$—	$—	$86,963	$187,147	$203,274

In addition to the Adviser’s management fee, the Fund also pays a portion of the Trust’s general administrative expenses allocated in proportion to the net assets of the Fund. All fees and expenses are accrued daily and deducted before payment of dividends to investors.

Sub-Adviser

The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of the Fund. The Adviser pays Nuveen Asset Management a portfolio management fee out of the advisory fee paid to the Adviser for its services to the Fund.

Portfolio Managers

Timothy A. Palmer and Steve S. Lee have primary responsibility for the day-to-day implementation of the investment strategies of the Fund.

Compensation

Portfolio manager compensation consists primarily of base pay, an annual cash bonus and long-term incentive payments.

Base pay . Base pay is determined based upon an analysis of the portfolio manager’s general performance, experience, and market levels of base pay for such position.

Annual cash bonus . The Fund’s portfolio managers are eligible for an annual cash bonus based on investment performance, qualitative evaluation and financial performance of Nuveen Asset Management.

A portion of each portfolio manager’s annual cash bonus is based on the Fund’s pre-tax investment performance, generally measured over the past one- and three- or five-year periods unless the portfolio manager’s tenure is shorter. Investment performance for the Fund generally is determined by evaluating the Fund’s performance relative to its benchmark(s) and/or Lipper industry peer group.

A portion of the cash bonus is based on a qualitative evaluation made by each portfolio manager’s supervisor taking into consideration a number of factors, including the portfolio manager’s team collaboration, expense management, support of personnel responsible for asset growth, and his or her compliance with Nuveen Asset Management’s policies and procedures.

The final factor influencing a portfolio manager’s cash bonus is the financial performance of Nuveen Asset Management based on its operating earnings.

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Long-term incentive compensation . Certain key employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, including certain portfolio managers, have received equity interests in the parent company of Nuveen Investments. In addition, certain key employees of Nuveen Asset Management, including certain portfolio managers, have received profits interests in Nuveen Asset Management which entitle their holders to participate in the firm’s growth over time.

There are generally no differences between the methods used to determine compensation with respect to the Fund and the Other Accounts shown in the table below.

Other Accounts Managed

In addition to the Fund, as of June 30, 2014, the portfolio managers were also primarily responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of the following accounts:


Portfolio Manager	Type of Account Managed	Number of Accounts		Assets		Number of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees	Assets of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees
Timothy A. Palmer	Registered Investment Companies		5	$	2.2 billion	0		$0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		1		57.4 million	0		0
	Other Accounts		6		519.0 million	0		0
Steve S. Lee	Registered Investment Companies		2		758.2 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		0		0	0		0

Conflicts of Interest

Actual or apparent conflicts of interest may arise when a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities with respect to more than one account. More specifically, portfolio managers who manage multiple accounts are presented a number of potential conflicts, including, among others, those discussed below.

The management of multiple accounts may result in a portfolio manager devoting unequal time and attention to the management of each account. Nuveen Asset Management seeks to manage such competing interests for the time and attention of portfolio managers by having portfolio managers focus on a particular investment discipline. Most accounts managed by a portfolio manager in a particular investment strategy are managed using the same investment models.

If a portfolio manager identifies a limited investment opportunity which may be suitable for more than one account, an account may not be able to take full advantage of that opportunity due to an allocation of filled purchase or sale orders across all eligible accounts. To deal with these situations, Nuveen Asset Management has adopted procedures for allocating limited opportunities across multiple accounts.

With respect to many of its clients’ accounts, Nuveen Asset Management determines which broker to use to execute transaction orders, consistent with its duty to seek best execution of the transaction. However, with respect to certain other accounts, Nuveen Asset Management may be limited by the client with respect to the selection of brokers or may be instructed to direct trades through a particular broker. In these cases, Nuveen Asset Management may place separate, non-simultaneous, transactions for the Fund and other accounts which may temporarily affect the market price of the security or the execution of the transaction, or both, to the detriment of the Fund or the other accounts.

Some clients are subject to different regulations. As a consequence of this difference in regulatory requirements, some clients may not be permitted to engage in all the investment techniques or transactions or to engage in these transactions to the same extent as the other accounts managed by the portfolio manager. Finally, the appearance of a conflict of interest may arise where Nuveen Asset Management has an incentive, such as a performance-based management fee, which relates to the management of some accounts, with respect to which a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities.

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Nuveen Asset Management has adopted certain compliance procedures which are designed to address these types of conflicts common among investment managers. However, there is no guarantee that such procedures will detect each and every situation in which a conflict arises.

Beneficial Ownership of Securities


A	-	$0
B	-	$1 - $10,000
C	-	$10,001 - $50,000
D	-	$50,001 - $100,000
E	-	$100,001 - $500,000
F	-	$500,001 - $1,000,000
G	-	More than $1 million


Portfolio Manager		Dollar Range of Equity Securities Beneficially Owned in Fund Managed
Timothy A. Palmer		D
Steve S. Lee		D

Transfer Agent

The Fund’s transfer, shareholder services, and dividend paying agent is Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“ BFDS ”), 2000 Crown Colony Drive, Quincy, MA 02169.

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company, 2 Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111, acts as the custodian for the Fund (the “ Custodian ”). The Custodian takes no part in determining the investment policies of the Fund or in deciding which securities are purchased or sold by the Fund. All of the instruments representing the investments of the Fund and all cash are held by the Custodian. The Custodian delivers securities against payment upon sale and pays for securities against delivery upon purchase. The Custodian also remits Fund assets in payment of Fund expenses, pursuant to instructions of the Trust’s officers or resolutions of the Board of Trustees.

As compensation for its services as custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company is paid reasonable compensation as agreed upon from time to time. Sub-custodian fees with respect to the Fund are paid by State Street Bank and Trust Company out of its fees from the Fund. In addition, the Custodian is reimbursed for its out-of-pocket expenses incurred while providing services to the Fund. The Custodian continues to serve so long as its appointment is approved at least annually by the Board of Trustees including a majority of the trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act.

Distributor

Nuveen Securities, LLC, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the distributor for the Fund’s shares pursuant to a “best efforts” arrangement as provided by a Distribution Agreement dated August 1, 1998 (the “ Distribution Agreement ”). Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Fund appointed the Distributor to be its agent for the distribution of the Fund’s shares on a continuous offering basis.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“ PwC ”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, independent registered public accounting firm, has been selected as auditors for the Fund. In addition to audit services, PwC provides assistance on accounting, tax and related matters.

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CODES OF ETHICS

The Fund, the Adviser, Nuveen Asset Management and the Distributor have adopted codes of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and with respect to the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser, Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Acts of 1940, as amended, addressing personal securities transactions and other conduct by investment personnel and access persons who may have access to information about the Fund’s securities transactions. The codes are intended to address potential conflicts of interest that can arise in connection with personal trading activities of such persons. Persons subject to the codes are generally permitted to engage in personal securities transactions, including investing in securities eligible for investment by the Fund, subject to certain prohibitions, which may include prohibitions on investing in certain types of securities, pre-clearance requirements, blackout periods, annual and quarterly reporting of personal securities holdings and limitations on personal trading of initial public offerings. Violations of the codes are subject to review by the Board of Trustees and could result in severe penalties.

PROXY VOTING POLICIES

The Fund invests its assets primarily in debt securities, which generally do not issue proxies. However, the Fund may also invest in other types of securities that may issue proxies.

The Fund has adopted a proxy voting policy that seeks to ensure that proxies for securities held by the Fund are voted consistently and solely in the best economic interests of the Fund.

A member of the Fund’s management team is responsible for oversight of the Fund’s proxy voting process. With regard to equity securities, Nuveen Asset Management has engaged the services of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ ISS ”) to make recommendations on the voting of proxies relating to securities held by the Fund and managed by Nuveen Asset Management. ISS provides voting recommendations based upon established guidelines and practices. Nuveen Asset Management reviews and frequently follows ISS recommendations. However, on selected issues, Nuveen Asset Management may not vote in accordance with the ISS recommendations when it believes that specific ISS recommendations are not in the best economic interest of the Fund. If Nuveen Asset Management manages the assets of a company or its pension plan and any of Nuveen Asset Management’s clients hold any securities of that company, Nuveen Asset Management will vote proxies relating to such company’s securities in accordance with the ISS recommendations to avoid any conflict of interest. Where a material conflict of interest has been identified by Nuveen Asset Management and ISS does not offer a recommendation on the matter, Nuveen Asset Management shall disclose the conflict and Nuveen Asset Management’s Proxy Voting Committee shall determine the manner in which to vote and notify the Fund’s Board of Trustees or its designated committee.

Although Nuveen Asset Management has affiliates that provide investment advisory, broker-dealer, insurance or other financial services, Nuveen Asset Management does not receive non-public information about the business arrangements of such affiliates (except with regard to major distribution partners of its investment products) or the directors, officers and employees of such affiliates. Therefore, Nuveen Asset Management is unable to consider such information when determining whether there are material conflicts of interests.

Nuveen Asset Management has adopted the ISS Proxy Voting Guidelines. While these guidelines are not intended to be all-inclusive, they do provide guidance on the Sub-Adviser’s general voting policies.

Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787 or by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS

Nuveen Asset Management is responsible for decisions to buy and sell securities for the Fund, the negotiation of the prices to be paid or received for principal trades, and the allocation of its

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transactions among various dealer firms. Portfolio securities will normally be purchased directly from an underwriter in a new issue offering or in the over-the-counter secondary market from the principal dealers in such securities, unless it appears that a better price or execution may be obtained elsewhere. Portfolio securities will not be purchased from Nuveen or its affiliates except in compliance with the 1940 Act.

The Fund expects that substantially all portfolio transactions will be effected on a principal (as opposed to an agency) basis and, accordingly, does not expect to pay significant amounts of brokerage commissions. Brokerage will not be allocated based on the sale of the Fund’s shares. Purchases from underwriters will include a commission or concession paid by the issuer to the underwriter, and purchases from dealers will include the spread between the bid and asked price. It is the policy of Nuveen Asset Management to seek the best execution under the circumstances of each trade. Nuveen Asset Management evaluates price as the primary consideration, with the financial condition, reputation and responsiveness of the dealer considered secondarily in determining best execution. Given the best execution obtainable, it may be Nuveen Asset Management’s practice to select dealers that, in addition, furnish research information (primarily credit analyses of issuers and general economic reports) and statistical and other services to Nuveen Asset Management. It is not possible to place a dollar value on information and statistical and other services received from dealers. Since it is only supplementary to Nuveen Asset Management’s own research efforts, the receipt of research information is not expected to reduce significantly Nuveen Asset Management’s expenses. For certain secondary market transactions where the execution capability of two brokers is judged to be of substantially similar quality, Nuveen Asset Management may randomly select one of them. While Nuveen Asset Management will be primarily responsible for the placement of the portfolio transactions of the Fund, the policies and practices of Nuveen Asset Management in this regard must be consistent with the foregoing and will, at all times, be subject to review by the Board of Trustees.

Nuveen Asset Management may manage other investment companies and investment accounts for other clients that have investment objectives similar to the Fund. Subject to applicable laws and regulations, Nuveen Asset Management seeks to allocate portfolio transactions equitably whenever concurrent decisions are made to purchase or sell securities by the Fund and another advisory account. In making such allocations the main factors to be considered will be the respective investment objectives, the relative size of the portfolio holdings of the same or comparable securities, the availability of cash for investment or need to raise cash, and the size of investment commitments generally held. While this procedure could have a detrimental effect on the price or amount of the securities (or in the case of dispositions, the demand for securities) available to the Fund from time to time, it is the opinion of the Board of Trustees that the benefits available from the Nuveen Asset Management organization will outweigh any disadvantage that may arise from exposure to simultaneous transactions.

The following table sets forth the aggregate amount of brokerage commissions paid by the Fund for the specified periods:


Aggregate Amount of Brokerage Commissions
12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14
$214	$141	$988

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Fund did not pay commissions to brokers in return for research services.

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The Fund has acquired during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014 the securities of its regular brokers or dealers as defined in Rule 10b-1 under the 1940 Act or of the parents of the brokers or dealers. The following table sets forth those brokers or dealers and states the value of the Fund’s aggregate holdings of the securities of each issuer as of close of the fiscal period ended June 30, 2014:


Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)
Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 7.250%	$	87,525
Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 4.000%, 4/01/24		219,414
Bank of America Securities LLC	Bank of America Alternative Loan Trust, Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6, 6.000%, 7/25/46		60,094
Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays PLC, 8.250%		212,000
Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays Bank PLC, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(1,064	)*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc, 7.125%		51,842
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 4.500%, 1/14/22		103,265
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 6.125%, 8/25/36		34,356
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		188	*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(2,467	)*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(34	)*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		3,306	*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		284	*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		6,312	*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		4,150	*
Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(1,262	)*
Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		4,040	*
Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(9	)*
Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		5,097	*
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.375%, 5/01/23		39,261
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.400%, 5/15/38		57,120
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.750%, 1/29/49		166,819
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		8,557	*
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(17,288	)*
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(379	)*
JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		4,330	*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, 4.875%, 11/01/22		80,506
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 3.750%, 2/25/23		76,296
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(7,241	)*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(1,155	)*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(11,684	)*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		530	*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Forward Foreign Currency Contract		(1,697	)*
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Interest Rate Swap		22,607	*
Santander Global Advisors, Inc.	Santander UK PLC, 144A, 5.000%, 11/07/23		216,006
SG Securities	SG Securities		—
State Street Bank	Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Repurchase Agreement		1,328,478

Amounts represent unrealized appreciation/depreciation as of June 30, 2014.

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Under the 1940 Act, the Fund may not purchase portfolio securities from any underwriting syndicate of which the Distributor is a member except under certain limited conditions set forth in Rule 10f-3. The Rule sets forth requirements relating to, among other things, the terms of a security purchased by the Fund, the amount of securities that may be purchased in any one issue and the assets of the Fund that may be invested in a particular issue. In addition, purchases of securities made pursuant to the terms of the Rule must be approved at least quarterly by the Board of Trustees, including a majority of the independent trustees.

Portfolio Trading and Turnover

The Fund will make changes in its investment portfolio from time to time in order to seek to take advantage of opportunities in the market and to limit exposure to market risk. The Fund may also engage to a limited extent in short-term trading consistent with its investment objective. Changes in the Fund’s investments are known as “portfolio turnover.”

The decrease in portfolio turnover over the past fiscal year for the Fund was the result of changes in market conditions and investment opportunities during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.

DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

The Nuveen Mutual Funds have adopted a portfolio holdings disclosure policy which governs the dissemination of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. In accordance with this policy, the Fund may provide portfolio holdings information to third parties no earlier than the time a report is filed with the SEC that is required to contain such information or one day after the information is posted on the Fund’s publicly accessible website, www.nuveen.com. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available on the Fund’s website ten business days after the end of the month. Additionally, the Fund publishes on the website a list of its top ten holdings as of the end of each month, approximately two to five business days after the end of the month for which the information is current. This information will remain available on the website at least until the Fund files with the SEC its Form N-CSR or Form N-Q for the period that includes the date as of which the website information is current.

Additionally, the Fund may disclose portfolio holdings information that has not been included in a filing with the SEC or posted on the Fund’s website (i.e., non-public portfolio holdings information) only if there is a legitimate business purpose for doing so and if the recipient is required, either by explicit agreement or by virtue of the recipient’s duties to the Fund as an agent or service provider, to maintain the confidentiality of the information and to not use the information in an improper manner (e.g., personal trading). In this connection, the Fund may disclose on an ongoing basis non-public portfolio holdings information in the normal course of its investment and administrative operations to various service providers, including the Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser, independent registered public accounting firm, custodian, financial printer (R.R. Donnelley Financial and Financial Graphic Services), proxy voting service(s) (including ISS, ADP Investor Communication Services, and Glass, Lewis & Co.), and to the legal counsel for the Fund’s independent trustees (Chapman and Cutler LLP). Also, the Adviser may transmit to Vestek Systems, Inc. daily non-public portfolio holdings information on a next-day basis to enable the Adviser to perform portfolio attribution analysis using Vestek’s systems and software programs. Vestek is also provided with non-public portfolio holdings information on a monthly basis approximately 2-3 business days after the end of each month so that Vestek may calculate and provide certain statistical information (but not the non-public holdings information itself) to its clients (including retirement plan sponsors or their consultants). The Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser may also provide certain portfolio holdings information to broker-dealers from time to time in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or requests for price quotations or bids on one or more securities. In providing this information, reasonable precautions are taken in an effort to avoid potential misuse of the disclosed information, including limitations on the scope of the portfolio holdings information disclosed, when appropriate.

Non-public portfolio holdings information may be provided to other persons if approved by the Fund’s Chief Administrative Officer or Secretary upon a determination that there is a legitimate business purpose for doing so, the disclosure is consistent with the interests of the Fund, and the recipient is obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the information and not misuse it.

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Compliance officers of the Fund and the Adviser and Sub-Adviser periodically monitor overall compliance with the policy to ascertain whether portfolio holdings information is disclosed in a manner that is consistent with the Fund’s policy. Reports are made to the Fund’s Board of Trustees on an annual basis.

There is no assurance that the Fund’s policies on portfolio holdings information will protect the Fund from the potential misuse of portfolio holdings information by individuals or firms in possession of such information.

ADP Investor Communications Services

Barclays Capital, Inc.

Barra

Bloomberg

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Broadridge Systems

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Commerz Markets LLC

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Dresdner Kleinwort Securities, LLC

Ernst & Young LLP

FactSet Research Systems

Financial Graphic Services

First Clearing, LLC

Forbes

Glass, Lewis & Co.

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

ING Financial Markets, LLC

The Investment Company Institute

ISS

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.

J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.

KPMG LLP

Lipper Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Moody’s

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Morningstar, Inc.

MS Securities Services, Inc.

Newedge USA, LLC

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Pershing, LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

RBS Securities, Inc.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company

R.R. Donnelley Financial

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Scotia Capital (USA), Inc.

SG Ameritas Securities, LLC

Societe Generale, New York Branch

Standard & Poor’s

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

Strategic Insight

TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.

ThomsonReuters LLC

UBS Securities, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC

U.S. Bank N.A.

Value Line

Vestek Systems, Inc.

Vickers

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Wilshire Associates Incorporated

NET ASSET VALUE

The Fund’s net asset value is determined as set forth in the Prospectus under “General Information—Net Asset Value.”

SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

The Board of Trustees of the Trust is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares in one or more series, which may be divided into classes of shares. Currently, there are 20 series authorized and outstanding, each of which may be generally divided into different classes of shares designated as Class A shares, Class C shares, Class R3 shares, Class R6 shares and Class I shares. Each class of shares represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments of the Fund. Each class of shares has equal rights as to voting, redemption, dividends and liquidation, except that each bears different class expenses, including different distribution and service fees, and each has exclusive voting rights with respect to any distribution or service plan applicable to its shares. There are no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights. The Board of Trustees of the Trust has the right to establish additional series and classes of shares in the future, to change those series or classes and to determine the preferences, voting powers, rights and privileges thereof.

The Trust is not required and does not intend to hold annual meetings of shareholders. Shareholders owning more than 10% of the outstanding shares of the Fund have the right to call a special meeting to remove trustees or for any other purpose.

Under Massachusetts law applicable to Massachusetts business trusts, shareholders of such a trust may, under certain circumstances, be held personally liable as partners for its obligations. However, the Declaration of Trust of the Trust contains an express disclaimer of shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Trust and requires that notice of this disclaimer be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the trustees. The Trust’s Declaration of Trust further provides for indemnification out of the assets and property of the Trust for all losses and expenses of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Trust. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Trust or the Fund itself was unable to meet its obligations. The Trust believes the likelihood of the occurrence of these circumstances is remote.

The following table sets forth the percentage ownership of each person, who, as of October 2, 2014, owned of record, or is known by the Trust to have owned of record or beneficially, 5% or more of any class of the Fund’s shares. As of October 2, 2014, Nuveen Investments owned a substantial portion of the Fund and, accordingly, controlled the Fund. A party that controls the Fund may be able to significantly influence the outcome of any item presented to shareholders for approval.

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund Class A Shares	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		30.46%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		25.61%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		17.00%

	Edward D Jones & Co For the Benefit of Customers 12555 Manchester Rd Saint Louis MO 63131-3729		7.37%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc For the Benefit of their Customers 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		7.08%

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund Class C Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Fl 34 Chicago IL 60606-2204		24.52%

	LPL Financial FBO Customer Accounts Attn Mutual Fund Operations PO Box 509046 San Diego CA 92150-9046		22.79%

	Edward D Jones & Co For the Benefit of Customers 12555 Manchester Rd Saint Louis MO 63131-3729		14.24%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		10.25%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		8.18%

	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		6.70%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	State Street Bank & Trust Cust Randy Leroy IRA Rollover 19504 Josephine St Gretna NE 68028-4273		5.19%

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund Class R3 Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Fl 34 Chicago IL 60606-2204		93.49%

	Interactive Brokers LLC 2 Pickwick Plz Ste 202 Greenwich CT 06830-5576		6.51%

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund Class I Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Fl 34 Chicago IL 60606-2204		74.61%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		22.43%

TAX MATTERS

Federal Income Tax Matters

This section summarizes some of the main U.S. federal income tax consequences of owning shares of the Fund. This section is current as of the date of this SAI. Tax laws and interpretations change frequently, and this summary does not describe all of the tax consequences to all taxpayers. For example, this summary generally does not describe your situation if you are a corporation, a non-U.S. person, a broker-dealer or other investor with special circumstances, or if you are investing through a tax-deferred account, such as an IRA or 401(k) plan. In addition, this section does not describe your state, local or non-U.S. tax consequences. This federal income tax summary is based in part on the advice of counsel to the Fund. The Internal Revenue Service could disagree with any conclusions set forth in this section. In addition, Fund’s counsel was not asked to review, and has not reached a conclusion with respect to the federal income tax treatment of the assets to be deposited in the Fund. Consequently, this summary may not be sufficient for you to use for the purpose of avoiding penalties under federal tax law. As with any investment, you should seek advice based on your individual circumstances from your own tax professional.

Fund Status

The Fund intends to qualify as a “regulated investment company” under the federal tax laws. If the Fund qualifies as a regulated investment company and distributes its income as required by the tax law, the Fund generally will not pay federal income taxes. If the Fund fails for any taxable year to qualify as a regulated investment company for federal income tax purposes, the Fund itself will generally be subject to federal income taxation (which will reduce the amount of Fund income available for distribution) and your tax consequences will be different from those described in this section (for example, all distributions to you will generally be taxed as ordinary income, even if those distributions are derived from capital gains realized by the Fund).

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Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company

As a regulated investment company, the Fund generally will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (as that term is defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), but without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain (i.e., the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss), if any, that it distributes to shareholders, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its net investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt interest income for the year (the “Distribution Requirement”) and satisfies certain other requirements of the Code that are generally described below. The Fund also intends to make such distributions as are necessary to avoid the otherwise applicable 4% non-deductible excise tax on certain undistributed earnings.

In addition to satisfying the Distribution Requirement, the Fund must, among other things, derive in each taxable year at least 90% of its gross income from (1) dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or disposition of stock, securities or non-U.S. currencies and other income (including but not limited to gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies, and (2) net income derived from an interest in “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (as such term is defined in the Code). The Fund must also satisfy an asset diversification test in order to qualify as a regulated investment company. Under this test, at the close of each quarter of the Fund’s taxable year, (1) 50% or more of the value of the Fund’s assets must be represented by cash and cash items (including receivables), United States government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount not greater than 5% of the value of the Fund’s assets and not greater than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer and (2) not more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s assets may be invested in securities of (a) any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other regulated investment companies), or of two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same, similar or related trades or businesses or (b) in the securities of one or more “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (as such term is defined in the Code). There are certain exceptions for failure to qualify if the failure is for reasonable cause or is de minimis , and certain corrective action is taken and certain tax payments are made by the Fund.

Distributions

Fund distributions are generally taxable. After the end of each year, you will receive a tax statement that separates the Fund’s distributions into three categories, ordinary income distributions, capital gains dividends and returns of capital. Ordinary income distributions are generally taxed at your ordinary tax rate, however, as further discussed below, certain ordinary income distributions received from the Fund may be taxed at the capital gains tax rates. Generally, you will treat all capital gains dividends as long-term capital gains regardless of how long you have owned your shares. To determine your actual tax liability for your capital gains dividends, you must calculate your total net capital gain or loss for the tax year after considering all of your other taxable transactions, as described below. In addition, the Fund may make distributions that represent a return of capital for tax purposes and thus will generally not be taxable to you unless the distribution exceeds your basis in your shares. The tax status of your distributions from the Fund is not affected by whether you reinvest your distributions in additional shares or receive them in cash. The income from the Fund that you must take into account for federal income tax purposes is not reduced by amounts used to pay a deferred sales fee, if any. The tax laws may require you to treat distributions made to you in January as if you had received them on December 31 of the previous year. Under the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,” income from the Fund may also be subject to a new 3.8 percent “Medicare tax” imposed for taxable years beginning after 2012. This tax will generally apply to your net investment income if your adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts, which are $250,000 in the case of married couples filing joint returns and $200,000 in the case of single individuals.

Dividends Received Deduction

A corporation that owns shares generally will not be entitled to the dividends received deduction with respect to dividends received from the Fund because the dividends received deduction is generally not available for distributions from regulated investment companies. However, certain

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ordinary income dividends on shares that are attributable to qualifying dividends received by the Fund from certain corporations may be reported by the Fund as being eligible for the dividends received deduction.

If You Sell or Redeem Shares

Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses

Net capital gain equals net long-term capital gain minus net short-term capital loss for the taxable year. Capital gain or loss is long-term if the holding period for the asset is more than one year and is short-term if the holding period for the asset is one year or less. You must exclude the date you purchase your shares to determine your holding period. However, if you receive a capital gain dividend from the Fund and sell your share at a loss after holding it for six months or less, the loss will be recharacterized as long-term capital loss to the extent of the capital gain dividend received. The tax rates for capital gains realized from assets held for one year or less are generally the same as for ordinary income. The Code treats certain capital gains as ordinary income in special situations.

Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends

In-Kind Distributions

Under certain circumstances, as described in the Prospectus, you may receive an in-kind distribution of Fund securities when you redeem shares or when the Fund terminates. This distribution will be treated as a sale for federal income tax purposes and you will generally recognize gain or loss, generally based on the value at that time of the securities and the amount of cash received. The Internal Revenue Service could, however, assert that a loss may not be currently deducted.

Exchanges

If you exchange shares of the Fund for shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund, the exchange would generally be considered a sale for federal income tax purposes.

Deductibility of Fund Expenses

Expenses incurred and deducted by the Fund will generally not be treated as income taxable to you. In some cases, however, you may be required to treat your portion of the Fund expenses as income. In these cases you may be able to take a deduction for these expenses. However, certain miscellaneous itemized deductions, such as investment expenses, may be deducted by individuals only to the extent that all of these deductions exceed 2% of the individual’s adjusted gross income. Some individuals may also be subject to further limitations on the amount of their itemized deductions, depending on their income.

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Non-U.S. Tax Credit

If the Fund invests in any non-U.S. securities, the tax statement that you receive may include an item showing non-U.S. taxes the Fund paid to other countries. In this case, dividends taxed to you will include your share of the taxes the Fund paid to other countries. You may be able to deduct or receive a tax credit for your share of these taxes.

Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations

If the Fund holds an equity interest in any “passive foreign investment companies” (“ PFICs ”), which are generally certain foreign corporations that receive at least 75% of their annual gross income from passive sources (such as interest, dividends, certain rents and royalties or capital gains) or that hold at least 50% of their assets in investments producing such passive income, the Fund could be subject to U.S. federal income tax and additional interest charges on gains and certain distributions with respect to those equity interests, even if all the income or gain is timely distributed to its shareholders. The Fund will not be able to pass through to its shareholders any credit or deduction for such taxes. The Fund may be able to make an election that could ameliorate these adverse tax consequences. In this case, the Fund would recognize as ordinary income any increase in the value of such PFIC shares, and as ordinary loss any decrease in such value to the extent it did not exceed prior increases included in income. Under this election, the Fund might be required to recognize in a year income in excess of its distributions from PFICs and its proceeds from dispositions of PFIC stock during that year, and such income would nevertheless be subject to the distribution requirement and would be taken into account for purposes of the 4% excise tax. Dividends paid by PFICs are not treated as qualified dividend income.

Non-U.S. Investors

If you are a non-U.S. investor (i.e., an investor other than a U.S. citizen or resident or a U.S. corporation, partnership, estate or trust), you should be aware that, generally, subject to applicable tax treaties, distributions from the Fund will be characterized as dividends for federal income tax purposes (other than dividends which the Fund properly reports as capital gain dividends) and will be subject to U.S. income taxes, including withholding taxes, subject to certain exceptions described below. However, distributions received by a non-U.S. investor from the Fund that are properly reported by the Fund as capital gain dividends may not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes, including withholding taxes, provided that the Fund makes certain elections and certain other conditions are met. In the case of dividends with respect to taxable years of the Fund beginning prior to 2014, distributions from the Fund that are properly reported by the Fund as an interest-related dividend attributable to certain interest income received by the Fund or as a short-term capital gain dividend attributable to certain net short-term capital gain income received by the Fund may not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes, including withholding taxes when received by certain foreign investors, provided that the Fund makes certain elections and certain other conditions are met. In addition, distributions in respect of shares after June 30, 2014 may be subject to a U.S. withholding tax of 30% in the case of distributions to (i) certain non-U.S. financial institutions that have not entered into an agreement with the U.S. Treasury to collect and disclose certain information and are not resident in a jurisdiction that has entered into such an agreement with the U.S. Treasury and (ii) certain other non-U.S. entities that do not provide certain certifications and information about the entity’s U.S. owners. Dispositions of shares by such persons may be subject to such withholding after December 31, 2016.

Capital Loss Carry-Forward

When the Fund has a capital loss carry-forward, it does not make capital gains distributions until the loss has been offset or expired. As of June 30, 2014, the Fund did not have any capital loss carry-forwards available for federal income tax purposes.

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF FUND SHARES

As described in the Prospectus, the Fund provides you with alternative ways of purchasing Fund shares based upon your individual investment needs and preferences.

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Each class of shares of the Fund represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments. Each class of shares is identical in all respects except that each class bears its own class expenses, including distribution and administration expenses, and each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to any distribution or service plan applicable to its shares. As a result of the differences in the expenses borne by each class of shares, net income per share, dividends per share and net asset value per share will vary among the Fund’s classes of shares. There are no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights.

Class A Shares

Class A shares may be purchased at a public offering price equal to the applicable net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge imposed at the time of purchase as set forth in the Prospectus. Shareholders may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived in its entirety, as described below. Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25%. See “Distribution and Service Plan.” Set forth below is an example of the method of computing the offering price of the Class A shares of the Fund. The example assumes a purchase on June 30, 2014, of Class A shares of the Fund aggregating less than $50,000 subject to the schedule of sales charges set forth in the Prospectus at a price based upon the net asset value of the Class A shares.


Net asset value per share	$	20.97
Per share sales charge—4.75% of public offering price (5.01% of net asset value per share)		1.05

Per share offering price to the public	$	22.02

The Fund receives the entire net asset value of all Class A shares that are sold. The Distributor retains the full applicable sales charge from which it pays the uniform reallowances shown in the Prospectus to financial intermediaries.

Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares

Rights of Accumulation. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of the Fund if the amount of your purchase, when added to the value that day of all of your shares of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, falls within the amounts stated in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Fund’s transfer agent of any cumulative discount whenever you plan to purchase Class A shares of the Fund that you wish to qualify for a reduced sales charge.

Letter of Intent. You may qualify for a reduced sales charge on a purchase of Class A shares of the Fund if you plan to purchase Class A shares of Nuveen Mutual Funds over the next 13 months and the total amount of your purchases would, if purchased at one time, qualify you for one of the reduced sales charges shown in the Class A Sales Charges and Commissions table in “How You Can Buy and Sell Shares” in the Prospectus. In order to take advantage of this option, you must complete the applicable section of the Application Form or sign and deliver to your financial advisor or other

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financial intermediary or to the Fund’s transfer agent a written Letter of Intent in a form acceptable to the Distributor. A Letter of Intent states that you intend, but are not obligated, to purchase over the next 13 months a stated total amount of Class A shares that would qualify you for a reduced sales charge shown above. You may count shares of all Nuveen Mutual Funds that you already own and any Class C and Class I shares of a Nuveen Mutual Fund that you purchase over the next 13 months towards completion of your investment program, but you will receive a reduced sales charge only on new Class A shares you purchase with a sales charge over the 13 months. You cannot count towards completion of your investment program Class A shares that you purchase without a sales charge through investment of distributions from a Nuveen Mutual Fund or a Nuveen Defined Portfolio, or otherwise.

By establishing a Letter of Intent, you agree that your first purchase of Class A shares of the Fund following execution of the Letter of Intent will be at least 5% of the total amount of your intended purchases. You further agree that shares representing 5% of the total amount of your intended purchases will be held in escrow pending completion of these purchases. All dividends and capital gains distributions on Class A shares held in escrow will be credited to your account. If total purchases, less redemptions, prior to the expiration of the 13 month period equal or exceed the amount specified in your Letter of Intent, the Class A shares held in escrow will be transferred to your account. If the total purchases, less redemptions, are less than the amount specified, you must pay the Distributor an amount equal to the difference between the amounts paid for these purchases and the amounts which would have been paid if the higher sales charge had been applied. If you do not pay the additional amount within 20 days after written request by the Distributor or your financial advisor, the Distributor will redeem an appropriate number of your escrowed Class A shares to meet the required payment. By establishing a Letter of Intent, you irrevocably appoint the Distributor as attorney to give instructions to redeem any or all of your escrowed shares, with full power of substitution in the premises.

You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Fund’s transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Fund shares that you wish to be covered under the Letter of Intent option.

Elimination of Sales Charge on Class A Shares. Class A shares of the Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge by the following categories of investors:

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investors purchasing $1,000,000 or more;

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current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, or their immediate family members;

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investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program;

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clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services;

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employer-sponsored retirement plans except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans; and

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investors purchasing through a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with the Distributor to offer the Fund’s shares to self-directed investment brokerage accounts and that may or may not charge a transaction fee to its customers.

You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Fund’s transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Class A shares of the Fund that you wish to be covered under these special sales charge waivers.

Class A shares of the Fund may be issued at net asset value without a sales charge in connection with the acquisition by the Fund of another investment company. All purchases under the special sales charge waivers will be subject to minimum purchase requirements as established by the Fund.

The reduced sales charge programs may be modified or discontinued by the Fund at any time. For more information about the purchase of Class A shares or the reduced sales charge program, or to obtain the required application forms, call Nuveen Investor Services toll-free at (800) 257-8787.

Class C Shares

Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

In determining whether a CDSC is payable, the Fund will first redeem shares not subject to any charge and then will redeem shares held for the longest period, unless the shareholder specifies another order. No CDSC is charged on shares purchased as a result of automatic reinvestment of dividends or capital gains paid. In addition, no CDSC will be charged on exchanges of shares into another Nuveen Mutual Fund. The holding period is calculated on a monthly basis and begins on the

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first day of the month in which the purchase was made. The CDSC is assessed on an amount equal to the lower of the then current market value or the cost of the shares being redeemed. Accordingly, no sales charge is imposed on increases of net asset value above the initial purchase price. The Distributor receives the amount of any CDSC shareholders pay.

The CDSC may be waived or reduced under the following circumstances: (i) in the event of total disability (as evidenced by a determination by the federal Social Security Administration) of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner) occurring after the purchase of the shares being redeemed; (ii) in the event of the death of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner); (iii) for redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan, up to 1% monthly, 3% quarterly, 6% semiannually or 12% annually of an account’s net asset value depending on the frequency of the plan as designated by the shareholder; (iv) redemptions in connection with a payment of account or plan fees; (v) redemptions in connection with the exercise of the Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the Board of Trustees has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of the Fund; (vi) in whole or in part for redemptions of shares by shareholders with accounts in excess of specified breakpoints that correspond to the breakpoints under which the up-front sales charge on Class A shares is reduced pursuant to Rule 22d-1 under the Act; (vii) redemptions of shares purchased under circumstances or by a category of investors for which Class A shares could be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge; (viii) redemptions of Class C shares in cases where the Distributor did not advance the first year’s service and distribution fees when such shares were purchased; and (ix) redemptions of Class A shares where the Distributor did not pay a sales commission when such shares were purchased. If the Fund waives or reduces the CDSC, such waiver or reduction would be uniformly applied to all Fund shares in the particular category. In waiving or reducing a CDSC, the Fund will comply with the requirements of Rule 22d-1 under the 1940 Act.

Class R3 Shares

Class R3 shares are available for purchase at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge. Class R3 shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 0.50% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. The annual 0.25% service fee compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. The annual 0.25% distribution fee compensates the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission.

Class R3 shares are only available for purchase by eligible retirement plans. Eligible retirement plans include, but are not limited to, 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans, defined benefit plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and health care benefit funding plans. In addition, Class R3 shares are available only to retirement plans where Class R3 shares are held on the books of the Fund through omnibus accounts (either at the retirement plan level or at the level of the retirement plan’s financial intermediary). Class R3 shares are not available to traditional and Roth IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs or individual 403(b) plans.

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The administrator of a retirement plan or employee benefits office can provide plan participants with detailed information on how to participate in the retirement plan and how to elect the Fund as an investment option. Retirement plan participants may be permitted to elect different investment options, alter the amounts contributed to the retirement plan, or change how contributions are allocated among investment options in accordance with the retirement plan’s specific provisions. The retirement plan administrator or employee benefits office should be consulted for details. For questions about their accounts, participants should contact their employee benefits office, the retirement plan administrator, or the organization that provides recordkeeping services for the retirement plan.

Eligible retirement plans may open an account and purchase Class R3 shares directly from the Fund or by contacting any financial intermediary authorized to sell Class R3 shares of the Fund. Financial intermediaries may provide or arrange for the provision of some or all of the shareholder servicing and account maintenance services required by retirement plan accounts and their retirement plan participants, including, without limitation, transfers of registration and dividend payee changes. Financial intermediaries may also perform other functions, including generating confirmation statements, and may arrange with retirement plan administrators for other investment or administrative services.

Financial intermediaries and retirement plans may have omnibus accounts and similar arrangements with the Fund and may be paid for providing shareholder servicing and other services. A financial intermediary or retirement plan may be paid for its services directly or indirectly by the Fund or the Distributor. The Distributor may pay a financial intermediary an additional amount for sub-transfer agency or other administrative services. Such sub-transfer agency or other administrative services may include, but are not limited to, the following: processing and mailing trade confirmations, monthly statements, prospectuses, annual reports, semiannual reports and shareholder notices and other required communications; capturing and processing tax data; issuing and mailing dividend checks to shareholders who have selected cash distributions; preparing record date shareholder lists for proxy solicitations; collecting and posting distributions to shareholder accounts; and establishing and maintaining systematic withdrawals, automated investment plans and shareholder account registrations. Your retirement plan may establish various minimum investment requirements for Class R3 shares of the Fund and may also establish certain privileges with respect to purchases, redemptions and exchanges of Class R3 shares or the reinvestment of dividends. Retirement plan participants should contact their retirement plan administrator with respect to these issues. This SAI should be read in conjunction with the retirement plan’s and/or the financial intermediary’s materials regarding their fees and services.

Class I Shares

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Class I shares also are available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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employer-sponsored retirement plans, except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans;

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advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates, including other Nuveen Mutual Funds whose investment policies permit investments in other investment companies;

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any registered investment company that is not affiliated with the Nuveen Funds and which invests in securities of other investment companies;

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any plan organized under section 529 under the Code (i.e., a 529 plan);

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participants in the TIAA-CREF Investment Solutions IRA;

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current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members (“ immediate family members ” are defined as spouses or domestic partners, parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, siblings, a sibling’s spouse and a spouse’s siblings);

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officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, and their immediate family members.

Holders of Class I shares may purchase additional Class I shares using dividends and capital gains distributions on their shares.

Shareholder Programs

Exchange Privilege

You may exchange Fund shares into an identically registered account for the same class of another Nuveen Mutual Fund available in your state. Your exchange must meet the minimum purchase requirements of the fund into which you are exchanging. You may also, under certain limited circumstances, exchange between certain classes of shares of the same Fund. An exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund may not be considered a taxable event; please consult your own tax advisor for further information.

If you hold your shares directly with the Fund, you may exchange your shares by either sending a written request to the Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530 or by calling Nuveen Investor Services toll free at (800) 257-8787.

If you exchange shares between different Nuveen Mutual Funds and your shares are subject to a CDSC, no CDSC will be charged at the time of the exchange. However, if you subsequently redeem

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the shares acquired through the exchange, the redemption may be subject to a CDSC, depending on when you purchased your original shares and the CDSC schedule of the fund from which you exchanged your shares. If you exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund and your original shares are subject to a CDSC, the CDSC will be assessed at the time of the exchange.

The exchange privilege is not intended to permit the Fund to be used as a vehicle for short-term trading. Excessive exchange activity may interfere with portfolio management, raise expenses and otherwise have an adverse effect on all shareholders. In order to limit excessive exchange activity and in other circumstances where Fund management believes doing so would be in the best interest of the Fund, the Fund reserves the right to revise or terminate the exchange privilege, or limit the amount or number of exchanges or reject any exchange. Shareholders would be notified of any such action to the extent required by law. See “Frequent Trading Policy” below.

Reinstatement Privilege

Suspension of Right of Redemption

The Fund may suspend the right of redemption of Fund shares or delay payment more than seven days (a) during any period when the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”) is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings), (b) when trading in the markets the Fund normally utilizes is restricted or an emergency exists as determined by the SEC so that trading of the Fund’s investments or determination of its net asset value is not reasonably practicable, or (c) for any other periods that the SEC by order may permit for protection of Fund shareholders.

Redemption In-Kind

The Fund has reserved the right to redeem in-kind (that is, to pay redemption requests in cash and portfolio securities, or wholly in portfolio securities). Pursuant to a notice of election under Rule 18f-1, the Fund voluntarily has committed to pay in cash all requests for redemption by any shareholder, limited as to each shareholder during any 90-day period to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net asset value of the Fund at the beginning of the 90-day period.

Frequent Trading Policy

The Fund’s Frequent Trading Policy is as follows:

Nuveen Mutual Funds are intended as long-term investments and not as short-term trading vehicles. At the same time, the Fund recognizes the need of investors to periodically make purchases

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and redemptions of Fund shares when rebalancing their portfolios and as their financial needs or circumstances change. Nuveen Mutual Funds have adopted the following Frequent Trading Policy that seeks to balance these needs against the potential for higher operating costs, portfolio management disruption and other inefficiencies that can be caused by excessive trading of Fund shares.

1. Definition of Round Trip

2. Round Trip Trade Limitations

Nuveen Mutual Funds limit the frequency of Round Trip trades that may be placed in the Fund. Subject to certain exceptions noted below, the Fund limits an investor to two Round Trips per trailing 60-day period.

3. Enforcement

Trades placed in violation of the foregoing policies are subject to rejection or cancellation by Nuveen Mutual Funds. Nuveen Mutual Funds may also bar an investor (and/or the investor’s financial advisor) who has violated these policies from opening new accounts with the Fund and may restrict the investor’s existing account(s) to redemptions only. Nuveen Mutual Funds reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to (a) interpret the terms and application of these policies, (b) waive unintentional or minor violations (including transactions below certain dollar thresholds) if Nuveen Mutual Funds determine that doing so does not harm the interests of Fund shareholders, and (c) exclude certain classes of redemptions from the application of the trading restrictions set forth above.

Nuveen Mutual Funds reserve the right to impose restrictions on purchases or exchanges that are more restrictive than those stated above if they determine, in their sole discretion, that a proposed transaction or series of transactions involve market timing or excessive trading that is likely to be detrimental to the Fund. The Fund may also modify or suspend the Frequent Trading Policy without notice during periods of market stress or other unusual circumstances.

The ability of Nuveen Mutual Funds to implement the Frequent Trading Policy for omnibus accounts at certain financial intermediaries may be dependent on receiving from those intermediaries sufficient shareholder information to permit monitoring of trade activity and enforcement of the Fund’s Frequent Trading Policy. In addition, the Fund may rely on a financial intermediary’s policy to restrict market timing and excessive trading if the Fund believes that the policy is reasonably designed to prevent market timing that is detrimental to the Fund. Such policy may be more or less restrictive than the Fund’s Policy. The Fund cannot ensure that these financial intermediaries will in all cases apply the Fund’s policy or their own policies, as the case may be, to accounts under their control.

Exclusions from the Frequent Trading Policy

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(ix) redemptions or exchanges by any “fund of funds” advised by the Adviser; and (x) redemptions in connection with the exercise of the Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the board has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of the Fund.

Distribution and Service Plan

The Fund has adopted a plan (the “ Plan ”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Rule 12b-1 provides in substance that a mutual fund may not engage directly or indirectly in financing any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of shares, except pursuant to a plan adopted under the Rule. The Plan authorizes the Fund to pay the Distributor distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees on the Fund’s Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares as described below. The distribution fees under the Plan are used for the primary purpose of compensating participating intermediaries for their sales of the Fund. The shareholder servicing fees are used primarily for the purpose of providing compensation for the ongoing servicing and/or maintenance of shareholder accounts. Pursuant to the Plan, Class C shares are subject to an annual distribution fee and Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares are subject to the annual service fees (distribution and service fees collectively referred to herein as “12b-1 fees” ). The 12b-1 fees are based on the average daily net assets of the class of shares of the Fund and are as follows:


	Annual Distribution Fee			Annual Service Fee			Total 12b-1 Fee
Class A		—			0.25	%		0.25	%
Class C		0.75	%		0.25	%		1.00	%
Class R3		0.25	%		0.25	%		0.50	%

Class I shares are not subject to either distribution or service fees.

The distribution fee applicable to Class C and Class R3 shares under the Fund’s Plan compensates the Distributor for expenses incurred in connection with the distribution of Class C and Class R3 shares, respectively. These expenses include payments to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, who are brokers of record with respect to the Class C and Class R3 shares, as well as, without limitation, expenses of printing and distributing Prospectuses to persons other than shareholders of the Fund, expenses of preparing, printing and distributing advertising and sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of Class C and Class R3 shares, certain other expenses associated with the distribution of Class C and Class R3 shares, and any other distribution-related expenses that may be authorized from time to time by the Board of Trustees.

The service fee applicable to Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares under the Fund’s Plan is used to compensate financial intermediaries in connection with the provision of ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Fund incurred 12b-1 fees pursuant to its Plan in the amounts set forth in the table below. 12b-1 fees are calculated and accrued daily and paid quarterly or at such other intervals as the Board of Trustees may determine. As noted above, no 12b-1 fees are paid with respect to Class I shares. For this period, substantially all of the 12b-1 service fees

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on Class A shares were paid out as compensation to financial intermediaries for providing services to shareholders relating to their investments. To compensate for commissions advanced to financial intermediaries, all 12b-1 fees on Class C shares during the first year following a purchase are retained by the Distributor. After the first year following a purchase, 12b-1 fees on Class C shares are paid to financial intermediaries.


	12b-1 Fees Incurred by the Fund for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Class A	$	2,916
Class C		1,720
Class R3		248

Under the Fund’s Plan, the Fund will report quarterly to the Board of Trustees for its review of all amounts expended per class of shares under the Plan. The Plan may be terminated at any time with respect to any class of shares, without the payment of any penalty, by a vote of a majority of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such class. The Plan may be renewed from year to year if approved by a vote of the Board of Trustees and a vote of the independent trustees who have no direct or indirect financial interest in the Plan cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on the Plan. The Plan may be continued only if the trustees who vote to approve such continuance conclude, in the exercise of reasonable business judgment and in light of their fiduciary duties under applicable law, that there is a reasonable likelihood that the Plan will benefit the Fund and its shareholders. The Plan may not be amended to increase materially the cost which a class of shares may bear under the Plan without the approval of the shareholders of the affected class, and any other material amendments of the Plan must be approved by the independent trustees by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments. During the continuance of the Plan, the selection and nomination of the independent trustees of the Trust will be committed to the discretion of the independent trustees then in office. With the exception of the Distributor and its affiliates, no “interested person” of the Fund, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act, and no trustee of the Fund has a direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or any related agreement.

If the Fund closes to new investors, it may continue to make payments under the Plan. Such payments would be made for the various services provided to existing shareholders by the participating intermediaries receiving such payments.

General Matters

The Fund has authorized one or more brokers to accept on its behalf purchase and redemption orders. Such brokers are authorized to designate other intermediaries to accept purchase and redemption orders on the Fund’s behalf. The Fund will be deemed to have received a purchase or redemption order when an authorized broker or, if applicable, a broker’s authorized designee accepts the order. Customer orders received by such broker (or their designee) will be priced at the Fund’s net asset value next computed after they are accepted by an authorized broker (or their designee). Orders accepted by an authorized broker (or their designee) before the close of regular trading on the NYSE will receive that day’s share price; orders accepted after the close of trading will receive the next business day’s share price.

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If you choose to invest in the Fund, an account will be opened and maintained for you by BFDS, the Fund’s shareholder services agent. Shares will be registered in the name of the investor or the investor’s financial advisor. A change in registration or transfer of shares held in the name of a financial advisor may only be made by an order in good standing form from the financial advisor acting on the investor’s behalf. The Fund reserves the right to reject any purchase order and to waive or increase minimum investment requirements.

The Fund does not issue share certificates.

Distribution Arrangements

The Distributor sells shares to or through brokers, dealers, banks or other qualified financial intermediaries (collectively referred to as “ Dealers ”), or others, in a manner consistent with the then effective registration statement of the Trust. Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, the Distributor, at its own expense, finances certain activities incident to the sale and distribution of the Fund’s shares, including printing and distributing of prospectuses and statements of additional information to other than existing shareholders, the printing and distributing of sales literature, advertising and payment of compensation and giving of concessions to Dealers.

The Distributor receives for its services the excess, if any, of the sales price of the Fund’s shares less the net asset value of those shares, and reallows a majority or all of such amounts to the Dealers who sold the shares. The Distributor also receives distribution fees pursuant to a distribution plan adopted by the Trust pursuant to Rule 12b-1 and described herein under “Distribution and Service Plan.” The Distributor also receives any CDSCs imposed on redemptions of shares. The Distributor may also act as a Dealer.

The following table sets forth the aggregate amounts of underwriting commissions with respect to the sale of Fund shares, the amount thereof retained by the Distributor and the compensation on redemptions and repurchases received by the Distributor for the Fund for the specified periods. All figures are expressed in thousands and are to the nearest thousand.


Amount of Underwriting Commissions			Amount Retained by Nuveen			Amount of Compensation on Redemptions and Repurchases
12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14	12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14	12/02/11- 6/30/12	7/01/12- 6/30/13	7/01/13- 6/30/14
$—	$15	$8	$—	$2	$1	$—	$—	$—

To help financial advisors and investors better understand and more efficiently use the Fund to reach their investment goals, the Distributor may advertise and create specific investment programs and systems. For example, this may include information on how to use the Fund to accumulate assets for future education needs or periodic payments such as insurance premiums. The Distributor may produce software, electronic information sites or additional sales literature to promote the advantages of using the Fund to meet these and other specific investor needs. In addition, wholesale representatives of the Distributor may visit financial advisors on a regular basis to educate them about the Fund and to encourage the sale of Fund shares to their clients. The costs and expenses associated with these efforts may include travel, lodging, sponsorship at educational seminars and conferences, entertainment and meals to the extent permitted by law. Nuveen wholesalers may receive additional compensation if they meet certain targets for sales of one or more Nuveen Mutual Funds.

Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments

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The amounts of these payments could be significant and may create an incentive for an Intermediary or its representatives to recommend or offer shares of the Nuveen Mutual Funds to its customers. The Intermediary may elevate the prominence or profile of the Fund within the Intermediary’s organization by, for example, placing the Fund on a list of preferred or recommended funds and/or granting the Distributor preferential or enhanced opportunities to promote the Fund in various ways within the Intermediary’s organization.

These payments are made pursuant to negotiated agreements with Intermediaries. The payments do not change the price paid by investors for the purchase of a share or the amount the Fund will receive as proceeds from such sales. Furthermore, these payments are not reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fee table section of the Fund’s Prospectus and described above because they are not paid by the Fund.

The categories of payments described below are not mutually exclusive, and a single Intermediary may receive payments under all categories.

Distribution-Related Payments

The Distributor or the Adviser may from time to time make payments (sometimes referred to as “revenue sharing” payments) to selected Intermediaries as compensation for services such as providing the Fund with “shelf space” or a higher profile for the Intermediary’s personnel or their customers, placing the Fund on the Intermediary’s preferred or recommended fund list, granting access to sales meetings, sales representatives and management representatives of the Intermediary, providing assistance in training and educating the Intermediary’s personnel on the Fund, and furnishing marketing support and other services.

Servicing Payments

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Distribution-Related and Servicing Payment Guidelines

In the case of any one Intermediary, marketing support and program servicing payments made by the Adviser and/or the Distributor are not expected, with certain limited exceptions, to exceed, in the aggregate, 0.35% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to that Intermediary on an annual basis. In connection with the sale of a business by U.S. Bank N.A. to Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (“ Great-West ”), the Adviser and/or the Distributor has a services agreement with GWFS Equities, Inc., an affiliate of Great-West, which provides for payments of up to 0.60% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to GWFS Equities, Inc. on an annual basis (which amount also includes payments by the Fund for sub-transfer agency services).

Other Payments

From time to time, the Adviser and/or the Distributor, at their expense, may provide other compensation to Intermediaries that sell or arrange for the sale of shares of the Fund, which may be in addition to the distribution-related and servicing payments described above. For example, the Adviser and/or the Distributor may: (i) compensate Intermediaries for National Securities Clearing Corporation networking system services (e.g., shareholder communication, account statements, trade confirmations, and tax reporting) on an asset-based or per account basis; (ii) compensate Intermediaries for providing Fund shareholder trading information; (iii) make one-time or periodic payments to reimburse selected Intermediaries for items such as ticket charges (i.e., fees that an Intermediary charges its representatives for effecting transactions in Fund shares) of up to $25 per purchase or exchange order, operational charges (e.g., fees that an Intermediary charges for establishing the Fund on its trading system), and literature printing and/or distribution costs; (iv) at the direction of a retirement plan’s sponsor, reimburse or pay direct expenses of an employee benefit plan that would otherwise be payable by the plan; and (v) provide payments to broker-dealers to help defray their technology or infrastructure costs.

Investors may wish to take Intermediary payment arrangements into account when considering and evaluating any recommendations relating to Fund shares.

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Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments

The following is a list of Intermediaries eligible to receive one or more of the types of payments discussed above as of October 24, 2014:

ADP Broker-Dealer, Inc.

American United Life Insurance Company

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Ascensus (formerly BISYS Retirement Services, Inc.)

BB&T

Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc.

Benefit Trust Company

Cetera

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Chase Investment Services

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Commonwealth Equity Services, LLP, DBA Commonwealth Financial Network

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Davenport & Co., LLC

Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Dyatech, LLC

Edward Jones

ExpertPlan, Inc.

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC/National Financial Services LLC

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC)/Fidelity Advisors Retirement

Financial Data Services, Inc.

First Clearing

Genesis Employee Benefits, Inc. DBA America’s VEBA Solution

Goldman Sachs

Great West Life and Annuity Insurance Co.

GWFS Equities, Inc.

Hartford Life Insurance Company

Hartford Securities Distribution Company, Inc.

Hewitt Associates LLC

ICMA Retirement Corporation

ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company/ING Institutional Plan Services LLC/ING Financial Advisors, LLC (formerly CitiStreet LLC/CitiStreet Advisors LLC)

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

LPL Financial Services

Lincoln Retirement Services Company LLC/AMG Service Corp.

Linsco/Private Ledger Corp.

Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, N.A.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mercer HR Outsourcing LLC

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation

Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC

MSCS Financial Services, LLC

National Financial Services, LLC

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.

Newport Retirement Services, Inc.

NFP Securities, Inc.

Northwestern Mutual

NYLife Distributors LLC

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Oppenheimer & Co.

Pershing LLC

Principal Life Insurance Company

Prudential Insurance Company of America (The)

Prudential Investment Management Services, LLC/Prudential Investments LLC

Raymond James & Associates/Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Reliance Trust Company

Retirement Plan Company, LLC (The)

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.

SI Financial Advisors

Southwest Securities, Inc.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc./T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.

TD Ameritrade, Inc.

TD Ameritrade Trust Company (formerly Fiserv Trust Company/International Clearing Trust Company)

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

U.S. Bank N.A.

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Unified Trust Company, N.A.

VALIC Retirement Services Company (formerly AIG Retirement Services Company)

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Wedbush Morgan Securities

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement & Trust

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (formerly AST Capital Trust Company)

Any additions, modifications or deletions to the list of Intermediaries identified above that have occurred since October 24, 2014 are not reflected in the list.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The audited financial statements for the Fund’s most recent fiscal year appear in the Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014. The Fund’s Annual Report is incorporated by reference into this SAI and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

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APPENDIX A

RATINGS OF INVESTMENTS

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group —A brief description of the applicable Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by S&P) follows:

Issue Credit Ratings

Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings

Issue credit ratings are based, in varying degrees, on S&P’s analysis of the following considerations:

1. Likelihood of payment—capacity and willingness of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on an obligation in accordance with the terms of the obligation;

2. Nature of and provisions of the obligation, and the promise S&P imputes;

AAA	An obligation rated ‘AAA’ has the highest rating assigned by S&P. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.

AA	An obligation rated ‘AA’ differs from the highest-rated obligations only to a small degree. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.

A	An obligation rated ‘A’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.

BBB	An obligation rated ‘BBB’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

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obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.

An obligation rated ‘BB’ is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

An obligation rated ‘B’ is more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated ‘BB’, but the obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely impair the obligor’s capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CCC

An obligation rated ‘CCC’ is currently vulnerable to nonpayment, and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CC	An obligation rated ‘CC’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.

C	An obligation rated ‘C’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment and the obligation is expected to have lower relative seniority or lower ultimate recovery compared to obligations that are rated higher.

An obligation rated ‘D’ is in default or in breach of an imputed promise. For non-hybrid capital instruments, the ‘D’ rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due unless S&P believes that such payments will be made within five business days in the absence of a stated grace period or within the earlier of the stated grace period or 30 calendar days. The ‘D’ rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of similar action and where default on an obligation is a virtual certainty, for example due to automatic stay provisions. An obligation’s rating is lowered to ‘D’ if it is subject to a distressed exchange offer.

Plus (+) or Minus (–): The ratings from ‘AA’ to ‘CCC’ may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

NR	This indicates that no rating has been requested, that there is insufficient information on which to base a rating, or that S&P does not rate a particular obligation as a matter of policy.

Short-Term Issue Credit Ratings

A-1

A short-term obligation rated ‘A-1’ is rated in the highest category by S&P. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on these obligations is extremely strong.

A-2	A short-term obligation rated ‘A-2’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.

A-3	A short-term obligation rated ‘A-3’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

A short-term obligation rated ‘B’ is regarded as vulnerable and has significant speculative characteristics. The obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitments; however, it faces major ongoing uncertainties which could lead to the obligor’s inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitments.

C	A short-term obligation rated ‘C’ is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

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A short-term obligation rated ‘D’ is in in default or in breach of an imputed promise. For non-hybrid capital instruments, the ‘D’ rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due, unless S&P believes that such payments will be made within any stated grace period. However, any stated grace period longer than five business days will be treated as five business days. The ‘D’ rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action and where default on an obligation is a virtual certainty, for example due to automatic stay provisions. An obligation’s rating is lowered to ‘D’ if it is subject to a distressed exchange offer.

Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. —A brief description of the applicable Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by Moody’s) follows:

Long-Term Obligation Ratings

Aaa	Obligations rated Aaa are judged to be of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level of credit risk.

Aa	Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.

A	Obligations rated A are judged to be upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.

Baa	Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics.

Ba	Obligations rated Ba are judged to be speculative and are subject to substantial credit risk.

B	Obligations rated B are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk.

Caa	Obligations rated Caa are judged to be speculative of poor standing and are subject to very high credit risk.

Ca	Obligations rated Ca are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some prospect of recovery of principal and interest.

C	Obligations rated C are the lowest rated and are typically in default, with little prospect for recovery of principal or interest.

Short-Term Obligation Ratings

P-1	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-1 have a superior ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-2	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-2 have a strong ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-3	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-3 have an acceptable ability to repay short-term obligations.

NP	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Not Prime do not fall within any of the Prime rating categories.

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Medium-Term Note Program Ratings

Moody’s assigns provisional ratings to medium-term note (MTN) programs and definitive ratings to the individual debt securities issued from them (referred to as drawdowns or notes).

U.S. Municipal Short-Term Debt and Demand Obligation Ratings

Short-Term Obligation Ratings

MIG 1

This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by established cash flows, highly reliable liquidity support, or demonstrated broad-based access to the market for refinancing.

MIG 2

This designation denotes strong credit quality. Margins of protection are ample, although not as large as in the preceding group.

MIG 3

This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Liquidity and cash-flow protection may be narrow, and market access for refinancing is likely to be less well-established.

SG	This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Debt instruments in this category may lack sufficient margins of protection.

Demand Obligation Ratings

In the case of variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs), a two-component rating is assigned: a long or short-term debt rating and a demand obligation rating. The first element represents Moody’s evaluation of risk associated with scheduled principal and interest payments. The second element represents Moody’s evaluation of risk associated with the ability to receive purchase price upon demand ( “demand feature” ). The second element uses a rating from a variation of the MIG scale called the Variable Municipal Investment Grade (VMIG) scale.

VMIG 1

This designation denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by the superior short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

VMIG 2

This designation denotes strong credit quality. Good protection is afforded by the strong short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

VMIG 3

This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Adequate protection is afforded by the satisfactory short-term credit strength of the liquidity provider and structural and legal protections that ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

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This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Demand features rated in this category may be supported by a liquidity provider that does not have an investment grade short-term rating or may lack the structural and/or legal protections necessary to ensure the timely payment of purchase price upon demand.

Fitch Ratings —A brief description of the applicable Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”) ratings symbols and meanings (as published by Fitch) follows:

A designation of “Not Rated” or “NR” is used to denote securities not rated by Fitch where Fitch has rated some, but not all, securities comprising an issuance capital structure.

Credit ratings express risk in relative rank order, which is to say they are ordinal measures of credit risk and are not predictive of a specific frequency of default or loss.

In the default components of ratings assigned to individual obligations or instruments, the agency typically rates to the likelihood of non-payment or default in accordance with the terms of that instrument’s documentation. In limited cases, Fitch may include additional considerations (i.e. rate to a higher or lower standard than that implied in the obligation’s documentation). In such cases, the agency will make clear the assumptions underlying the agency’s opinion in the accompanying rating commentary.

International Long-Term Ratings

Issuer Credit Rating Scales

Investment Grade

AAA	Highest credit quality. ‘AAA’ ratings denote the lowest expectation of default risk. They are assigned only in cases of exceptionally strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.

AA	Very high credit quality. ‘AA’ ratings denote expectations of very low default risk. They indicate very strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.

A	High credit quality. ‘A’ ratings denote expectations of low default risk. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic conditions than is the case for higher ratings.

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BBB	Good credit quality. ‘BBB’ ratings indicate that expectations of default risk are currently low. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered adequate but adverse business or economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity.

Speculative Grade

BB	Speculative. ‘BB’ ratings indicate an elevated vulnerability to default risk, particularly in the event of adverse changes in business or economic conditions over time; however, business or financial flexibility exists which supports the servicing of financial commitments.

B	Highly speculative. ‘B’ ratings indicate that material default risk is present, but a limited margin of safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met; however, capacity for continued payment is vulnerable to deterioration in the business and economic environment.

CCC	Substantial credit risk. Default is a real possibility.

CC	Very high levels of credit risk. Default of some kind appears probable.

C	Exceptionally high levels of credit risk. Default is imminent or inevitable, or the issuer is in standstill. Conditions that are indicative of a ‘C’ category rating for an issuer include:

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the issuer has entered into a grace or cure period following non-payment of a material financial obligation;

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the issuer has entered into a temporary negotiated waiver or standstill agreement following a payment default on a material financial obligation; or

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Fitch otherwise believes a condition of ‘RD’ or ‘D’ to be imminent or inevitable, including through the formal announcement of a distressed debt exchange.

Restricted default. ‘RD’ ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch’s opinion has experienced an uncured payment default on a bond, loan or other material financial obligation but which has not entered into bankruptcy filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding-up procedure, and which has not otherwise ceased operating. This would include:

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the selective payment default on a specific class or currency of debt;

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the uncured expiry of any applicable grace period, cure period or default forbearance period following a payment default on a bank loan, capital markets security or other material financial obligation;

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the extension of multiple waivers or forbearance periods upon a payment default on one or more material financial obligations, either in series or in parallel; or

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execution of a distressed debt exchange on one or more material financial obligations.

D	Default. ‘D’ ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch’s opinion has entered into bankruptcy filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding-up procedure, or which has otherwise ceased business.

Default ratings are not assigned prospectively to entities or their obligations; within this context, non-payment on an instrument that contains a deferral feature or grace period will generally not be considered a default until after the expiration of the deferral or grace period, unless a default is otherwise driven by bankruptcy or other similar circumstance, or by a distressed debt exchange.

“Imminent” default typically refers to the occasion where a payment default has been intimated by the issuer, and is all but inevitable. This may, for example, be where an issuer has missed a scheduled payment, but (as is typical) has a grace period during which it may cure the payment default. Another alternative would be where an issuer has formally announced a distressed debt exchange, but the date of the exchange still lies several days or weeks in the immediate future.

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In all cases, the assignment of a default rating reflects the agency’s opinion as to the most appropriate rating category consistent with the rest of its universe of ratings, and may differ from the definition of default under the terms of an issuer’s financial obligations or local commercial practice.

International Short-Term Ratings

F1	Highest short-term credit quality. Indicates the strongest intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments; may have an added “+” to denote any exceptionally strong credit feature.

F2	Good short-term credit quality. Good intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments.

F3	Fair short-term credit quality. The intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is adequate.

B	Speculative short-term credit quality. Minimal capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, plus heightened vulnerability to near term adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.

C	High short-term default risk. Default is a real possibility.

RD	Restricted default. Indicates an entity that has defaulted on one or more of its financial commitments, although it continues to meet other financial obligations. Applicable to entity ratings only.

D	Default. Indicates a broad-based default event for an entity, or the default of a short-term obligation.

Notes to Long-term and Short-term ratings:

The modifiers “+” or “-“ may be appended to a rating to denote relative status within major rating categories. Such suffixes are not added to the ‘AAA’ Long-Term Rating category, or to categories below ‘B’.

‘WD’ indicates that the rating has been withdrawn and the issue or issuer is no longer rated by Fitch.

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MAI-GTRB-1014D

October 31, 2014

Nuveen Core Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FAIIX, Class C—NTIBX, Class I—FINIX

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FAFIX, Class C—FFAIX, Class R3—FFISX, Class I—FFIIX

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FJSIX, Class C—FCSIX, Class R3—FANSX, Class I—FJSYX

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FAIPX, Class C—FCIPX, Class R3—FRIPX, Class I—FYIPX

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FIGAX, Class C—FYGCX, Class R3—FYGRX, Class I—FYGYX

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FALTX, Class C—FBSCX, Class R3—NSSRX Class I—FLTIX

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—FCDDX, Class C—FCBCX, Class R3—FABSX, Class I—FCBYX

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

Ticker Symbols: Class A—NUSNX, Class C—NUSCX, Class I—NUSIX

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This Statement of Additional Information (“ SAI ”) is not a prospectus. This SAI relates to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Prospectus dated October 31, 2014 for Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund (each, a “ Fund ,” and collectively, the “ Funds ”). Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund are each a series of Nuveen Investment Funds, Inc. (“ NIF ”). Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund is a series of Nuveen Investment Trust (the “Trust,” and together with NIF, the “ Registrants ”). A Prospectus may be obtained without charge from certain securities representatives, banks and other financial institutions that have entered into sales agreements with Nuveen Securities, LLC (the “ Distributor ”), or from a Fund, by written request to the applicable Fund, c/o Nuveen Investor Services, P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, or by calling (800) 257-8787.

The audited financial statements for each Fund’s most recent fiscal year/period appear in the Fund’s Annual Report dated June 30, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference and is available without charge by calling (800) 257-8787.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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General Information		S-4

Investment Restrictions		S-4

Investment Policies and Techniques		S-9

Asset-Backed Securities		S-9
Asset Coverage Requirements		S-10
Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments		S-10
Collateralized Debt Obligations		S-13
Common Stock and Partnership Units		S-13
Convertible Securities		S-14
Corporate Debt Securities		S-15


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Derivatives		S-15
Dollar Rolls		S-25
Foreign Securities		S-25
Guaranteed Investment Contracts		S-27
Illiquid Securities		S-28
Inflation Protected Securities		S-28
Lending of Portfolio Securities		S-29
Loans		S-30
Mortgage-Backed Securities		S-33
Municipal Bonds and Other Municipal Obligations		S-36
Non-Investment Grade Debt Securities (Junk Bonds)		S-38
Other Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		S-40
Payment-In-Kind Debentures and Delayed Interest Securities		S-40
Preferred Stock and Trust Preferred Securities		S-41
Real Estate Investment Trust ( “REIT” ) Securities		S-42
Royalty Trusts		S-43
U.S. Government Securities		S-43
Variable, Floating, and Fixed Rate Debt Obligations		S-43
When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions		S-44
Zero Coupon and Step Coupon Securities		S-44

Management		S-45

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight		S-53
Board Diversification and Director Qualifications		S-56
Board Compensation		S-60
Share Ownership		S-62
Sales Loads		S-62

Service Providers		S-63

Investment Adviser		S-63
Sub-Adviser		S-65
Portfolio Managers		S-65
Transfer Agent		S-68
Custodians		S-68
Distributor		S-69
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		S-69

Codes of Ethics		S-69

Proxy Voting Policies		S-69

Portfolio Transactions		S-70

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings		S-82

Net Asset Value		S-84

Capital Stock/Shares of Beneficial Interest		S-84

Tax Matters		S-99

Federal Income Tax Matters		S-99
Fund Status		S-99
Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company		S-99
Distributions		S-100
Dividends Received Deduction		S-100
If You Sell or Redeem Shares		S-100
Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses		S-100
Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends		S-101

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In-Kind Distributions		S-101
Exchanges		S-101
Deductibility of Fund Expenses		S-101
Non-U.S. Tax Credit		S-101
Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations		S-101
Non-U.S. Investors		S-102
Capital Loss Carry-Forward		S-102

Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares		S-103

Class A Shares		S-103
Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares		S-103
Class C Shares		S-105
Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge		S-105
Class R3 Shares		S-106
Class I Shares		S-107
Shareholder Programs		S-108
Frequent Trading Policy		S-110
Distribution and Service Plan s		S-111
General Matters		S-113
Distribution Arrangements		S-113
Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments		S-115
Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments		S-117

Financial Statements		S-119

Appendix A—Ratings of Investments		A-1

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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Funds, except Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, are diversified series of NIF, which was incorporated in the State of Maryland on August 20, 1987 under the name “SECURAL Mutual Funds, Inc.” The Board of Directors and shareholders, at meetings held January 10, 1991, and April 2, 1991, respectively, approved amendments to the Articles of Incorporation providing that the name “SECURAL Mutual Funds, Inc.” be changed to “First American Investment Funds, Inc.” At a meeting held February 27, 2011, the Board of Directors approved the name “First American Investment Funds, Inc.” be changed to “Nuveen Investment Funds, Inc.” NIF is organized as a series fund and currently issues its shares in 27 series. Each series of shares represents a separate investment portfolio with its own investment objective and policies (in essence, a separate mutual fund). Nuveen Core Bond Fund was formerly named Nuveen Intermediate Term Bond Fund. Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund was formerly named Nuveen Core Bond Fund. Nuveen Strategic Income Fund was formerly named Nuveen Total Return Bond Fund. The Funds are open-end management investment companies.

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund is a diversified series of the Trust, an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust on May 6, 1996. Each series of the Trust represents shares of beneficial interest in a separate portfolio of securities and other assets, with its own objective and policies. Currently, 20 series of the Trust are authorized and outstanding.

The Funds’ investment adviser is Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“ Nuveen Fund Advisors ” or the “ Adviser ”). The Funds’ sub-adviser is Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“ Nuveen Asset Management ” or the “ Sub-Adviser ”).

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

In addition to the investment objectives and policies set forth in the Prospectus and under “Investment Policies and Techniques” below, each Fund is subject to the investment restrictions set forth below.

The investment restrictions set forth in numbers (1) through (7) below are fundamental and cannot be changed with respect to a Fund without approval by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of that Fund as defined in the 1940 Act, i.e., by the lesser of the vote of (a) 67% of the shares of the Fund present at a meeting where more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present in person or by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.

None of the Funds will:

(1) Concentrate its investments in a particular industry, except that any Fund with one or more industry concentrations implied by its name shall, in normal market conditions, concentrate in securities of issues within that industry or industries. For purposes of this limitation, the U.S. government, and state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions are not considered members of any industry. Whether a Fund is concentrating in an industry shall be determined in accordance with the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(2) Borrow money or issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

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(5) Purchase or sell real estate unless as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments, but this shall not prevent the Funds from investing in securities or other instruments backed by real estate or interests therein or in securities of companies that deal in real estate or mortgages.

(6) Act as an underwriter of securities of other issuers, except to the extent that, in connection with the disposition of portfolio securities, it may be deemed an underwriter under applicable laws.

(7) Make loans except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (1) above, according to the current interpretation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“ SEC ”), a Fund would be concentrated in an industry if 25% or more of its net assets, based on current market value at the time of purchase, were invested in that industry. The Funds will use industry classifications provided by Bloomberg, Barclays, or other similar sources to determine its compliance with this limitation.

The limitation in number (1) above will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (2) above, under the 1940 Act as currently in effect, a Fund is not permitted to issue senior securities, except that a Fund may borrow from any bank if immediately after such borrowing the value of the Fund’s total assets is at least 300%

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of the principal amount of all of the Fund’s borrowings (i.e., the principal amount of the borrowings may not exceed 33 ¹ / ₃ % of the Fund’s total assets). In the event that such asset coverage shall at any time fall below 300%, the Fund shall, within three calendar days thereafter (not including Sundays and holidays), reduce the amount of its borrowings to an extent that the asset coverage of such borrowing shall be at least 300%.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (7) above, there are no limitations with respect to unsecured loans made by a Fund to an unaffiliated party. However, if the Fund loans its portfolio securities, the obligation on the part of the Fund to return collateral upon termination of the loan could be deemed to involve the issuance of a senior security within the meaning of Section 18(f) of the 1940 Act. In order to avoid violation of Section 18(f), the Fund may not make a loan of portfolio securities if, as a result, more than one-third of its total asset value (at market value computed at the time of making a loan) would be on loan.

The following restrictions are non-fundamental and may be changed by NIF’s Board of Directors without a shareholder vote:

None of the Funds will:

(1) Invest more than 15% of its net assets in all forms of illiquid investments.

(2) Borrow money in an amount exceeding 10% of the borrowing Fund’s total assets except that Nuveen High Income Bond Fund may borrow up to one-third of its total assets and pledge up to 15% of its total assets to secure such borrowings. None of the Funds will borrow money for leverage purposes. For the purpose of this investment restriction, the use of options and futures transactions and the purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis shall not be deemed the borrowing of money. No Fund will make additional investments while its borrowings exceed 5% of total assets.

(3) Make short sales of securities.

(4) Lend portfolio securities representing in excess of one-third of the value of its total assets.

(6) Invest directly in futures, options on futures and swaps to the extent that the Adviser would be required to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“ CFTC ”) as a commodity pool operator. See “Investment Policies and Techniques—Derivatives—Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps.”

(7) Acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or subparagraph (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

With respect to the non-fundamental restriction set forth in number (1) above, each Fund will monitor portfolio liquidity on an ongoing basis and, in the event more than 15% of a Fund’s net assets are invested in illiquid investments, the Fund will reduce its holdings of illiquid securities in an orderly fashion in order to maintain adequate liquidity. The term ”illiquid securities” will have the same meaning as given in guidance provided by the staff of the SEC.

The Board of Directors has adopted guidelines and procedures under which the Funds’ investment adviser is to determine whether the following types of securities which may be held by certain Funds are “liquid” and to report to the Board concerning its determinations: (i) securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); (ii) commercial paper issued in reliance on the “private placement” exemption from

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registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act, whether or not it is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A; (iii) interest-only and principal-only, inverse floating and inverse interest-only securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities; and (iv) municipal leases and securities that represent interests in municipal leases.

Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund and Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund have adopted a non-fundamental investment policy pursuant to Rule 35d-1 under the 1940 Act (a “Name Policy” ) whereby each Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds. Nuveen High Income Bond Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in bonds rated lower than investment grade at the time of purchase or in unrated bonds of comparable quality. Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in inflation protected debt securities. Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in U.S. government bonds. As a result, each Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy. For purposes of each Name Policy, the Funds consider the term “investments” to include both direct investments and indirect investments (e.g., investments in an underlying fund, derivatives and synthetic instruments with economic characteristics similar to the underlying asset).

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

(1) Concentrate its investments in a particular industry, as the term “concentrate” is used in the 1940 Act.

(2) Borrow money, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(3) Issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(5) Make loans, except as permitted under the 1940 Act, as interpreted or modified from time to time by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction.

(8) Make any investment inconsistent with the Fund’s classification as a diversified company under the 1940 Act.

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be considered violated unless an excess or deficiency occurs or exists immediately after and as a result of an acquisition of securities, unless otherwise indicated.

With respect to the limitation in number (1) above, the 1940 Act does not define what constitutes “concentration” in an industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission staff has taken the position that investment of 25% or more of a fund’s net assets in one or more issuers conducting their principal activities in the same industry or group of industries constitutes concentration. It is possible that interpretations of concentration could change. The limitation in number (1) will be interpreted to refer to concentration as that term may be interpreted from time to time. The limitation also will be interpreted to permit investment without limit in the following: securities of the U.S. government and its agencies or instrumentalities; securities of state, territory, possession or municipal governments and their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions; securities of foreign governments; and repurchase agreements collateralized by any such obligations. Accordingly, issuers of the foregoing securities will not be considered to be members of any industry. This limitation also does not place a limit on investment in issuers domiciled in a single jurisdiction or country.

For purposes of applying the limitation set forth in number (1) above, industry classifications of the Fund’s investments in securities of corporate issuers are determined by reference to the classifications of industries set forth in the Morgan Stanley Capital International/Standard & Poor’s Global Industry Classification Standard (“ GICS ”) except that, with respect to the transportation infrastructure industry, GICS sub-industry classifications shall be used. To the extent that the income from municipal securities is derived from specific projects, the securities will be subject to the concentration limitation and the Sub-Adviser will determine equivalent GICS industry or sub-industry assignments for the securities.

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(1) Invest in illiquid securities if, as a result of such investment, more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets would be invested in illiquid securities.

(2) Invest directly in futures, options on futures and swaps to the extent that the Adviser would be required to register with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator. See “Investment Policies and Techniques—Derivatives—Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps.”

(3) Acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or subparagraph (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

For purposes of number (1) above, “illiquid securities” will have the same meaning as given in guidance provided by the staff of the SEC.

The Fund has adopted a Name Policy whereby the Fund, under normal market conditions, will invest at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in infrastructure related debt securities of U.S. issuers. As a result, the Fund must provide shareholders with a notice meeting the requirements of Rule 35d-1(c) at least 60 days prior to any change of the Fund’s Name Policy. For purposes of the Name Policy, the Fund considers the term “investments” to include both direct investments and indirect investments ( e.g., investments in an underlying fund, derivatives and synthetic instruments with economic characteristics similar to the underlying asset).

INVESTMENT POLICIES AND TECHNIQUES

If a percentage limitation on investments by a Fund stated in this SAI or the Prospectus is adhered to at the time of an investment, a later increase or decrease in percentage resulting from changes in asset value will not be deemed to violate the limitation except in the case of the limitations on borrowing. A Fund, which is limited to investing in securities with specified ratings or of a certain credit quality, is not required to sell a security if its rating is reduced or its credit quality declines after purchase, but may consider doing so. Descriptions of the rating categories of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“ Standard & Poor’s ”), Fitch, Inc. (“ Fitch ”) and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”) are contained in Appendix A.

References in this section to the Adviser also apply, to the extent applicable, to the Sub-Adviser of the Funds.

Asset-Backed Securities

The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in asset-backed securities. Asset-backed securities are securities that are secured or “backed” by pools of various types of assets on which cash payments are due at fixed intervals over set periods of time. Asset-backed securities are created in a process called securitization. In a securitization transaction, an originator of loans or an owner of accounts receivables of a certain type of asset class sells such underlying assets in a “true sale” to a special purpose entity, so that there is no recourse to such originator or owner. Payments of principal and interest on asset-backed securities typically are tied to payments made on the pool of underlying assets in the related securitization. Such payments on the underlying assets are effectively “passed through” to the asset-backed security holders on a monthly or other regular, periodic basis. The level of seniority of a particular asset-backed security will

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determine the priority in which the holder of such asset-backed security is paid, relative to other security holders and parties in such securitization. Examples of underlying assets include consumer loans or receivables, home equity loans, automobile loans or leases, and time shares, though other types of receivables or assets also may be used.

Asset Coverage Requirements

To the extent required by SEC guidelines, a Fund will only engage in transactions that expose it to an obligation to another party if it owns either (a) an offsetting position for the same type of financial asset or (b) cash or liquid securities, designated on the Fund’s books or held in a segregated account, with a value sufficient at all times to cover its potential obligations not covered as provided in (a). Examples of transactions governed by these asset coverage requirements include, for example, options written by the Funds, futures contracts and options on futures contracts, forward currency contracts, swaps, dollar rolls and when-issued and delayed delivery transactions. Assets used as offsetting positions, designated on a Fund’s books, or held in a segregated account cannot be sold while the positions requiring cover are open unless replaced with other appropriate assets. As a result, the commitment of a large portion of assets to be used as offsetting positions or to be designated or segregated in such a manner could impede portfolio management or the ability to meet redemption requests or other current obligations.

Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

The Funds may invest in cash, cash equivalents, and a variety of short-term instruments in such proportions as warranted by prevailing market conditions and a Fund’s principal investment strategies. The Funds may temporarily invest without limit in such instruments for liquidity purposes,

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or in an attempt to respond to adverse market, economic, political or other conditions. During such periods, a Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective.

Each Fund, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, will only invest in short-term instruments that are U.S. dollar-denominated. In addition, Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund will only invest in short-term taxable fixed income securities with a maturity of one year or less and whose issuers have a long-term rating of A- or higher by Standard & Poor’s, A3 or higher by Moody’s or A- or higher by Fitch.

Short-term instruments include obligations of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities (see “U.S. Government Securities” below) and, without limitation, the following:

(1) Certificates of Deposit. Each Fund may invest in certificates of deposit issued against funds deposited in a bank or savings and loan association. Such certificates are for a definite period of time, earn a specified rate of return, and are normally negotiable. If such certificates of deposit are non-negotiable, they will be considered illiquid securities and be subject to the Fund’s 15% restriction on investments in illiquid securities. Pursuant to the certificate of deposit, the issuer agrees to pay the amount deposited plus interest to the bearer of the certificate on the date specified thereon. Under current FDIC regulations, the maximum insurance payable as to any one certificate of deposit is $250,000; therefore, certificates of deposit purchased by the Fund may not be fully insured. Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may only invest in certificates of deposit issued by U.S. banks with at least $1 billion in assets.

(2) Bankers’ Acceptances. Each Fund may invest in bankers’ acceptances, which are short-term credit instruments used to finance commercial transactions. Generally, an acceptance is a time draft drawn on a bank by an exporter or an importer to obtain a stated amount of funds to pay for specific merchandise. The draft is then “accepted” by a bank that, in effect, unconditionally guarantees to pay the face value of the instrument on its maturity date. The acceptance may then be held by the accepting bank as an asset or it may be sold in the secondary market at the going rate of interest for a specific maturity.

(3) Repurchase Agreements. Each Fund may invest in repurchase agreements which involve purchases of debt securities. In such an action, at the time a Fund purchases the security, it simultaneously agrees to resell and redeliver the security to the seller, who also simultaneously agrees to buy back the security at a fixed price and time. This assures a predetermined yield for the Fund during its holding period since the resale price is always greater than the purchase price and reflects an agreed-upon market rate. Such actions afford an opportunity for a Fund to invest temporarily available cash. A Fund may enter into repurchase agreements only with respect to certain obligations. For each Fund, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, collateral may consist of any fixed income security which is an eligible investment for the Fund entering into the repurchase agreement. For Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, collateral may consist of obligations of the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities; certificates of deposit; or bankers’ acceptances in which the Fund may invest. The Funds’ custodian will hold the securities underlying any repurchase agreement, or the securities will be part of the Federal Reserve/Treasury Book Entry System. The market value of the collateral underlying the repurchase agreement will be determined on each business day. If at any time the market value of the collateral falls below the repurchase price under the repurchase agreement (including any accrued interest), the appropriate Fund will promptly receive additional collateral (so the total collateral is an amount at least equal to the repurchase price plus accrued interest). Repurchase agreements may be considered loans to the seller, collateralized by the underlying securities. The risk to the Fund is limited to the ability of the seller to pay the agreed-upon sum on the repurchase date; in the event of default, the repurchase agreement provides that the Fund is entitled to sell the underlying collateral. If the value of the collateral declines after the agreement is entered into, however, and if the seller defaults under a repurchase agreement when the value of the underlying collateral is less than the repurchase price, the Fund could incur a loss of both principal and interest. The portfolio managers monitor the value of the collateral at the time the action is entered into and at all times during the term of the repurchase agreement. The portfolio managers do so in an effort to determine that the value of the collateral always equals or exceeds the agreed-upon repurchase price to be paid to the Fund. If the seller were to be subject to a

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federal bankruptcy proceeding, the ability of the Fund to liquidate the collateral could be delayed or impaired because of certain provisions of the bankruptcy laws.

(4) Bank Time Deposits. The Fund may invest in bank time deposits, which are monies kept on deposit with banks or savings and loan associations for a stated period of time at a fixed rate of interest. There may be penalties for the early withdrawal of such time deposits, in which case the yields of these investments will be reduced.

(5) Eurodollar and Yankee Instruments. Each Fund may invest in Eurodollar certificates of deposit issued by foreign branches of U.S. or foreign banks; Eurodollar time deposits, which are U.S. dollar-denominated deposits in foreign branches of U.S. or foreign banks; and Yankee certificates of deposit, which are U.S. dollar-denominated certificates of deposit issued by U.S. branches of foreign banks and held in the United States. In each instance, the Funds may only invest in bank instruments issued by an institution which has capital, surplus and undivided profits of more than $100 million or the deposits of which are insured by the Bank Insurance Fund or the Savings Association Insurance Fund.

(6) Commercial Paper. Each Fund may invest in commercial paper, which are short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by corporations to finance their current operations. The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may purchase commercial paper consisting of issues rated at the time of purchase within the two highest rating categories by Standard & Poor’s, Fitch or Moody’s, or which have been assigned an equivalent rating by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization. Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may only invest in commercial paper rated A-2 or higher by Standard & Poor’s, Prime-2 or higher by Moody’s or F2 or higher by Fitch. The Funds also may invest in commercial paper that is not rated but that is determined by the Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality to instruments that are so rated. For a description of the rating categories of Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s, see Appendix A.

(7) Money Market Funds and Short-Term Debt Funds . Each Fund may invest in money market funds. The Funds will bear their proportionate share of the money market fund’s fees and expenses (see “Other Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles” below). The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may hold securities of other mutual funds that invest primarily in debt obligations with remaining maturities of 13 months or less.

(8) Variable Amount Master Demand Notes. Each Fund may invest in variable amount master demand notes, which are unsecured demand notes that permit the indebtedness thereunder to vary and provide for periodic adjustments in the interest rate according to the terms of the instrument. Because master demand notes are direct lending arrangements between a Fund and the issuer, they are not normally traded. Although there is no secondary market in the notes, a Fund may demand payment of principal and accrued interest at any time. While the notes are not typically rated by credit rating agencies, issuers of variable amount master demand notes (which are normally manufacturing, retail, financial, and other business concerns) must satisfy the same criteria as set forth above for commercial paper. The Sub-Adviser will consider the earning power, cash flow and other liquidity ratios of the issuers of such notes and will continuously monitor their financial status and ability to meet payment on demand.

(9) Variable Rate Demand Obligations. Each Fund, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in variable rate demand obligations (“ VRDOs ”), which are securities in which the interest rate is adjusted at pre-designated periodic intervals. VRDOs may include a demand feature which is a put that entitles the holder to receive the principal amount of the underlying security or securities and which may be exercised either at any time on no more than 30 days’ notice or at specified intervals not exceeding 397 calendar days on no more than 30 days’ notice.

(10) Non-U.S. Debt Obligations. Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in sovereign debt obligations of non-U.S. countries. A sovereign debtor’s willingness or ability to repay principal and interest in a timely manner may be affected by a number of factors, including its cash flow situation, the extent of its non-U.S. reserves, the availability of sufficient non-U.S.

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exchange on the date a payment is due, the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole, the sovereign debtor’s policy toward principal international lenders and the political constraints to which it may be subject.

Collateralized Debt Obligations

The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in Collateralized Debt Obligations (“ CDOs ”). Similar to CMOs described below under “Mortgage-Backed Securities,” CDOs are debt obligations typically issued by a private special-purpose entity and collateralized principally by debt securities (including, for example, high-yield, high-risk bonds, structured finance securities including asset-backed securities, CDOs, mortgage-backed securities and REITs) or corporate loans. The special purpose entity typically issues one or more classes (sometimes referred to as “tranches” ) of rated debt securities, one or more unrated classes of debt securities that are generally treated as equity interests, and a residual equity interest. The tranches of CDOs typically have different interest rates, projected weighted average lives and ratings, with the higher rated tranches paying lower interest rates. One or more forms of credit enhancement are almost always necessary in a CDO structure to obtain the desired credit ratings for the most highly rated debt securities issued by the CDO. The types of credit enhancement used include “internal” credit enhancement provided by the underlying assets themselves, such as subordination, excess spread and cash collateral accounts, hedges provided by interest rate swaps, and “external” credit enhancement provided by third parties, principally financial guaranty insurance issued by monoline insurers. Despite this credit enhancement, CDO tranches can experience substantial losses due to actual defaults, increased sensitivity to defaults due to collateral default and the disappearance of lower rated protecting tranches, market anticipation of defaults, as well as aversion to CDO securities as a class. CDOs can be less liquid than other publicly held debt issues, and require additional structural analysis.

Common Stock and Partnership Units

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund may invest in common stock and master limited partnership (“ MLP ”) and other partnership units. The Sub-Adviser anticipates that such investments will consist predominantly of income-oriented equity securities or partnership units. Common stock represents units of ownership in a corporation. Owners typically are entitled to vote on the selection of directors and other important matters as well as to receive dividends on their holdings. In the event that a corporation is liquidated, the claims of secured and unsecured creditors and owners of bonds and preferred stock take precedence over the claims of those who own common stock. The price of common stock is generally determined by corporate earnings, type of products or services offered, projected growth rates, experience of management, liquidity, and general market conditions for the markets on which the stock trades. Stocks may decline significantly in price over short or extended periods of time. Price changes may occur in the market as a whole, or they may occur in only a particular country, company, industry, or sector of the market. In addition, the types of stocks in which a particular Fund invests may underperform the market or may not pay dividends as anticipated.

A limited partnership is a partnership consisting of one or more general partners, jointly and severally responsible as ordinary partners, and by whom the business is conducted, and one or more limited partners who contribute cash as capital to the partnership and who generally are not liable for the debts of the partnership beyond the amounts contributed. Limited partners are not involved in the day-to-day management of the partnership. They receive income, capital gains and other tax benefits associated with the partnership project in accordance with terms established in the partnership agreement. Typical limited partnerships are in real estate, oil and gas and equipment leasing, but they also finance movies, research and development, and other projects. For an organization classified as a partnership under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), each item of income, gain, loss, deduction, and credit is not taxed at the partnership level but flows through to the holder of the partnership unit. This allows the partnership to avoid double taxation and to pass through income to the holder of the partnership unit at lower individual rates.

An MLP is a publicly traded limited partnership. The partnership units are registered with the SEC and are freely exchanged on a securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market. The risks of investing in a MLP are generally those involved in investing in a partnership as opposed to a

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corporation. For example, state law governing partnerships is often less restrictive than state law governing corporations. Accordingly, there may be fewer protections afforded investors in a MLP than investors in a corporation. Additional risks involved with investing in a MLP are risks associated with the specific industry or industries in which the partnership invests, such as the risks of investing in real estate, or oil and gas industries.

Convertible Securities

Each Fund may invest in debt securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for, or which carry warrants or other rights to acquire, common or preferred stocks. Such convertible securities are hybrid securities that combine the investment characteristics of bonds and common stocks. Convertible securities typically consist of debt securities or preferred securities that may be converted within a specified period of time (typically for the entire life of the security) into a certain amount of common stock or other equity security of the same or a different issuer at a predetermined price. They also include debt securities with warrants or common stock attached and derivatives combining the features of debt securities and equity securities. Convertible securities entitle the holder to receive interest paid or accrued on debt, or dividends paid or accrued on preferred securities, until the security matures or is redeemed, converted or exchanged.

The market value of a convertible security generally is a function of its “investment value” and its “conversion value.” A security’s “investment value” represents the value of the security without its conversion feature (i.e., a comparable non-convertible fixed-income security). The investment value is determined by, among other things, reference to its credit quality and the current value of its yield to maturity or probable call date. At any given time, investment value is dependent upon such factors as the general level of interest rates, the yield of similar non-convertible securities, the financial strength of the issuer and the seniority of the security in the issuer’s capital structure. A security’s “conversion value” is determined by multiplying the number of shares the holder is entitled to receive upon conversion or exchange by the current price of the underlying security. If the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly below its investment value, the convertible security will trade like nonconvertible debt or a preferred security in the sense that its market value will not be influenced greatly by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying security into which it can be converted. Instead, the convertible security’s price will tend to move in the opposite direction from interest rates. Conversely, if the conversion value of a convertible security is significantly above its investment value, the market value of the convertible security will be more heavily influenced by fluctuations in the market price of the underlying stock. In that case, the convertible security’s price may be as volatile as that of the common stock. Because both interest rate and market movements can influence its value, a convertible security is not generally as sensitive to interest rates as a similar fixed-income security, nor is it generally as sensitive to changes in share price as its underlying stock.

A Fund’s investments in convertible securities, particularly securities that are convertible into securities of an issuer other than the issuer of the convertible security, may be illiquid. A Fund’s investments in convertible securities may at times include securities that have a mandatory conversion feature, pursuant to which the securities convert automatically into common stock or other equity securities (of the same or a different issuer) at a specified date and a specified conversion ratio, or that are convertible at the option of the issuer. For issues where the conversion of the security is not at the option of the holder, a Fund may be required to convert the security into the underlying common stock even at times when the value of the underlying common stock or other equity security has declined substantially. Equity interests acquired through conversion, exchange or exercise of rights to acquire stock will be disposed of by each of the Funds as soon as practicable in an orderly manner (except that the Funds that may invest in common stocks and/or preferred stocks directly are not required to dispose of any stock so acquired).

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Corporate Debt Securities

The Funds may invest in corporate debt securities. The broad category of corporate debt securities includes debt issued by companies of all kinds, including those with small-, mid- and large-capitalizations. Corporate debt may be rated investment-grade or below investment-grade and may carry variable or floating rates of interest. Corporate debt securities are fixed-income securities usually issued by businesses to finance their operations, although corporate debt instruments may also include bank loans to companies. Notes, bonds, debentures and commercial paper are the most common types of corporate debt securities, with the primary difference being their maturities and secured or unsecured status. Commercial paper has the shortest term and is usually unsecured.

Because of the wide range of types and maturities of corporate debt securities, as well as the range of creditworthiness of its issuers, corporate debt securities have widely varying potentials for return and risk profiles. Rates on corporate debt securities are set according to prevailing interest rates at the time of the issue, the credit rating of the issuer, the length of the maturity and other terms of the security. For example, commercial paper issued by a large established domestic corporation that is rated investment-grade may have a modest return on principal, but carries relatively limited risk. On the other hand, a long-term corporate note issued by a small non-U.S. corporation from an emerging market country that has not been rated by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (“ NRSRO ”) may have the potential for relatively large returns on principal, but carries a relatively high degree of risk.

Corporate debt securities carry both credit risk and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the risk that a Fund could lose money if the issuer of a corporate debt security is unable to pay interest or repay principal when it’s due. Some corporate debt securities that are rated below investment-grade are generally considered speculative because they present a greater risk of loss, including default, than higher quality debt securities. The credit risk of a particular issuer’s debt security may vary based on its priority for repayment. For example, higher ranking (senior) debt securities have a higher priority than lower ranking (subordinated) securities. This means that the issuer might not make payments on subordinated securities while making payments on senior securities. In addition, in the event of bankruptcy, holders of higher-ranking senior securities may receive amounts otherwise payable to the holders of more junior securities. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of certain corporate debt securities will tend to fall when interest rates rise. In general, corporate debt securities with longer terms tend to fall more in value when interest rates rise than corporate debt securities with shorter terms. Additionally, corporate debt securities may also be subject to price volatility due to such factors as market interest rates, market perception of the creditworthiness of the issuer and general market liquidity.

Derivatives

The Funds may use derivatives for a variety of reasons, including as a substitute for investing directly in securities and currencies, as an alternative to selling a security short, as part of a hedging strategy (that is, for the purpose of reducing risk to the Fund), to manage the effective duration of a Fund’s portfolio, or for other purposes related to the management of the Funds. Derivatives permit a Fund to increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the character of the risk, to which its portfolio is exposed in much the same way as a Fund can increase or decrease the level of risk, or change the

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character of the risk, of its portfolio by making investments in specific securities. However, derivatives may entail investment exposures that are greater than their cost would suggest. As a result, a small investment in derivatives could have a large impact on a Fund’s performance.

Options Transactions

To the extent set forth below, the Funds may purchase put and call options on specific securities (including groups or “baskets” of specific securities), interest rates, stock indices, bond indices, commodity indices, and/or foreign currencies. In addition, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may write put and call options on such financial instruments.

Options on Securities. The Funds (other than Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund) may purchase put and call options on securities. A put option on a security gives the purchaser of the option the right (but not the obligation) to sell, and the writer of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying security at a stated price (the “exercise price”) at any time before the option expires. A call option on a security gives the purchaser the right (but not the obligation) to buy, and the writer the obligation to sell, the underlying security at the exercise price at any time before the option expires. The purchase price for a put or call option is the “premium” paid by the purchaser for the right to sell or buy.

Options on Interest Rates and Indices. The Funds (other than Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund) may purchase put and call options on interest rates and on stock and bond indices. An option on interest rates or on an index gives the holder the right to receive, upon exercise of the option, an amount of cash if the closing value of the underlying interest rate or index is greater than, in the case of a call, or less than, in the case of a put, the exercise price of the option. This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the exercise-settlement value of the interest rate option or the

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closing price of the index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple (the “multiplier”). The writer of the option is obligated, for the premium received, to make delivery of this amount. Settlements for interest rate and index options are always in cash.

Options on Currencies. Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Bond Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may purchase put and call options on foreign currencies. A foreign currency option provides the option buyer with the right to buy or sell a stated amount of foreign currency at the exercise price at a specified date or during the option period. A call option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy the currency, while a put option gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the currency. The option seller (writer) is obligated to fulfill the terms of the option sold if it is exercised. However, either seller or buyer may close its position during the option period in the secondary market for such options at any time prior to expiration.

Writing Options. Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may write (sell) covered put and call options. These transactions would be undertaken principally to produce additional income. A Fund receives a premium from writing options which it retains whether or not the option is exercised. The Funds may write covered straddles consisting of a combination of a call and a put written on the same underlying instrument.

A Fund will write a call option on a security only if (a) the Fund owns the security underlying the call, (b) the Fund has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that security without additional cash consideration (or, if additional cash consideration is required, cash or other liquid assets in such amount are segregated), or (c) the Fund holds a call on the same security where the exercise price of the call is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

A Fund will write a call option on an index or currency only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets in an amount equal to the contract value of the index or currency, or (b) the Fund holds a call on the same index or currency as the call written where the exercise price of the call held is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

A Fund will write a put option on a security, currency or index only if (a) the Fund segregates liquid assets equal to the exercise price or (b) the Fund holds a put on the same security, currency or index as the put written where the exercise price of the put held is (i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the put written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

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Expiration or Exercise of Options. If an option purchased by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital loss equal to the premium paid. If an option written by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a capital gain equal to the premium received at the time the option was written. Prior to the earlier of exercise or expiration, an exchange traded option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of an option of the same series (type, exchange, underlying security, or index, exercise price, and expiration). There can be no assurance, however, that a closing purchase or sale transaction can be effected when a Fund desires.

Futures

The Funds may engage in futures transactions. The Funds may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1) interest rates, (2) debt securities (3) bond indices, (4) commodities and commodities indices (but only with respect to Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund), (5) foreign currencies (but only with respect to Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund), (6) stock indices, and (7) individual stocks. The Funds may only enter into futures contracts which are standardized and traded on a U.S. or foreign exchange, board of trade or similar entity, or quoted on an automated quotation system.

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operate to terminate its position in the futures contract. A final determination of variation margin is then made, additional cash is required to be paid by or released to the Fund, and the Fund realizes a gain or loss. In the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of an FCM that holds margin on behalf of a Fund, the Fund may be entitled to the return of margin owed to it only in proportion to the amount received by the FCM’s other customers, potentially resulting in losses to the Fund. Futures transactions also involve brokerage costs.

Commodity Futures Contracts. Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund may invest in commodity futures contracts. Commodity futures contracts are generally based upon commodities within the six principal commodity groups: energy, industrial metals, agriculture, precious metals, foods and fibers, and livestock. The price of a commodity futures contract will reflect the storage costs of purchasing the physical commodity. These storage costs include the time value of money invested in the physical commodity plus the actual costs of storing the commodity less any benefits from ownership of the physical commodity that are not obtained by the holder of a futures contract (this is sometimes referred to as the “convenience yield”). To the extent that these storage costs change for an underlying commodity while the Fund is invested in futures contracts on that commodity, the value of the futures contract may change proportionately.

The commodities which underlie commodity futures contracts are subject to economic and non-economic variables, such as drought, floods, weather, livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs, and international economic, political and regulatory developments. These factors may have a larger impact on commodity prices and commodity-linked instruments, including futures contracts, than on traditional securities. Certain commodities are also subject to limited pricing flexibility because of supply and demand factors. Others are subject to broad price fluctuations as a result of the volatility of the prices for certain raw materials and the instability of supplies of other materials. These additional variables may create additional investment risks which subject the Fund’s investments to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities.

Options on Futures

The Funds may also purchase or write put and call options on the futures contracts in which they invest and may write straddles, which consist of a call and put option on the same futures contract. A futures option gives the holder the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short position (put) in a futures contract at a specified exercise price prior to the expiration of the option. Upon exercise of a call option, the holder acquires a long position in the futures contract and the writer is assigned the opposite short position. In the case of a put option, the opposite is true. Prior to exercise or expiration, a futures option may be closed out by an offsetting purchase or sale of a futures option of the same series.

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When writing a call option, a Fund must either segregate liquid assets with a value equal to the fluctuating value market value of the optioned futures contract, or the Fund must own an option to purchase the same futures contract having an exercise price that is (i) equal to or less than the exercise price of the call written, or (ii) greater than the exercise price of the call written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When writing a put option, a Fund must segregate liquid assets in an amount not less than the exercise price, or own a put option on the same futures contract where the exercise price of the put held is (i) equal to or greater than the exercise price of the put written, or (ii) less than the exercise price of the put written, provided the difference is maintained by the Fund in segregated liquid assets.

When a Fund writes a straddle, sufficient assets will be segregated to meet the Fund’s immediately obligations. A Fund may segregate the same liquid assets for both the call and put options in a straddle where the exercise price of the call and put are the same, or the exercise price of the call is higher than that of the put. In such cases, the Fund will also segregate liquid assets equivalent to the amount, if any, by which the put is “in the money.”

As with investments in futures contracts, each Fund is required to deposit and maintain margin with respect to put and call options on futures contracts written by it.

Forward Currency Contracts and other Foreign Currency Transactions

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may enter into forward currency contracts. A forward currency contract involves an obligation to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future date, which may be any fixed number of days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at the time of the contract. These contracts are traded directly between currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their customers. Unlike futures contracts, which are standardized contracts, forward contracts can be specifically drawn to meet the needs of the parties that enter into them. The parties to a forward currency contract may agree to offset or terminate the contract before its maturity, or may hold the contract to maturity and complete the contemplated exchange. Because forward contracts are not traded on an exchange, the Funds are subject to the credit and performance risk of the counterparties to such contracts.

The following summarizes the principal currency management strategies involving forward contracts that may be used by Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund. These Funds also may use currency futures contracts and options thereon, put and call options on foreign currencies and currency swaps for the same purposes.

Transaction Hedges. When a Fund enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security denominated in a foreign currency, or when it anticipates receiving dividend payments in a foreign currency, the Fund might wish to lock in the U.S. dollar price of the security or the U.S. dollar equivalent of the dividend payments. To do so, the Fund could enter into a forward contract for the purchase or sale of the amount of foreign currency involved in the underlying transaction at a fixed amount of U.S. dollars per unit of the foreign currency. This is known as a “transaction hedge.” A transaction hedge will protect a Fund against a loss from an adverse change in the currency exchange rate during the period between the date on which the security is purchased or sold or on which the payment is declared, and the date on which the payment is made or received. Forward contracts to purchase or sell a foreign currency may also be used by a Fund in anticipation of future purchases or sales of securities denominated in a foreign currency, even if the specific investments have not yet been selected by the Sub-Adviser. This strategy is sometimes referred to as “anticipatory hedging.”

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suffer a substantial decline against a foreign currency, it could enter into a forward contract to buy that foreign currency for a fixed dollar amount. Alternatively, a Fund could enter into a forward contract to sell a different foreign currency for a fixed U.S. dollar amount if the Fund’s portfolio manager believes that the U.S. dollar value of that foreign currency will fall whenever there is a decline in the U.S. dollar value of the currency in which portfolio securities of the Fund are denominated. This is referred to as a “cross hedge.”

Swap Transactions

The Funds may enter into interest rate, currency, total return, credit default swap agreements and interest rate caps, floors and collars, except that Nuveen Core Bond Fund and Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund may not enter into currency swap agreements and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may not enter into total return swaps. The Funds may also enter into options on the foregoing types of swap agreements (“ swap options ”) and in bonds issued by special purpose entities that are backed by a pool of swaps.

A Fund may enter into swap transactions for any purpose consistent with its investment objectives and strategies, such as for the purpose of attempting to obtain or preserve a particular return or spread at a lower cost than obtaining a return or spread through purchases and/or sales of instruments in other markets, to protect against currency fluctuations, as a duration management technique, to protect against an increase in the price of securities a Fund anticipates purchasing at a later date, to reduce risk arising from the ownership of a particular instrument, or to gain exposure to certain securities, reference rates, sectors or markets.

Interest Rate Swaps. Interest rate swaps are financial instruments that involve the exchange of one type of interest rate for another type of interest rate cash flow on specified dates in the future. Some of the different types of interest rate swaps are “fixed-for floating rate swaps,” “termed basis swaps” and “index amortizing swaps.” Fixed-for floating rate swaps involve the exchange of fixed interest rate cash flows for floating rate cash flows. Termed basis swaps entail cash flows to both parties based on floating interest rates, where the interest rate indices are different. Index amortizing swaps are typically fixed-for floating swaps where the notional amount changes if certain conditions are met. Like a traditional investment in a debt security, the Fund could lose money by investing in an interest rate swap if interest rates change adversely.

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and returned at the end of the contract. Changes in non-U.S. exchange rates and changes in interest rates may negatively affect currency swaps.

Total Return Swaps. In a total return swap, one party agrees to pay the other the “total return” of a defined underlying asset during a specified period, in return for periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or the total return from other underlying assets. A total return swap may be applied to any underlying asset but is most commonly used with equity indices, single stocks, bonds and defined baskets of loans and mortgages. A Fund might enter into a total return swap involving an underlying index or basket of securities to create exposure to a potentially widely-diversified range of securities in a single trade. An index total return swap can be used by the portfolio managers to assume risk, without the complications of buying the component securities from what may not always be the most liquid of markets.

Credit Default Swaps. A credit default swap is a bilateral contract that enables an investor to buy or sell protection against a defined-issuer credit event. A Fund may enter into credit default swap agreements either as a buyer or a seller. A Fund may buy protection to attempt to mitigate the risk of default or credit quality deterioration in one or more of its individual holdings or in a segment of the fixed income securities market to which it has exposure, or to take a “short” position in individual bonds or market segments which it does not own. A Fund may sell protection in an attempt to gain exposure to the credit quality characteristics of particular bonds or market segments without investing directly in those bonds or market segments.

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terms of the particular option agreement, a Fund generally will incur a greater degree of risk when it writes a swap option than when it purchases a swap option. When a Fund purchases a swap option, it risks losing only the amount of the premium it has paid should it decide to let the option expire unexercised. However, when a Fund writes a swap option, upon exercise of the option the Fund will become obligated according to the terms of the underlying agreement.

Risks Associated with Swap Transactions. The use of swap transactions is a highly specialized activity which involves strategies and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio security transactions. If the Sub-Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of default risks, market spreads or other applicable factors the investment performance of a Fund would diminish compared with what it would have been if these techniques were not used. As the protection seller in a credit default swap, a Fund effectively adds economic leverage to its portfolio because, in addition to being subject to investment exposure on its total net assets, the Fund is subject to investment exposure on the notional amount of the swap. A Fund may only close out a swap, cap, floor, collar or other two-party contract with its particular counterparty, and may only transfer a position with the consent of that counterparty. In addition, the price at which a Fund may close out such a two party contract may not correlate with the price change in the underlying reference asset. If the counterparty defaults, a Fund will have contractual remedies, but there can be no assurance that the counterparty will be able to meet its contractual obligations or that the Fund will succeed in enforcing its rights. It also is possible that developments in the derivatives market, including potential government regulation, could adversely affect a Fund’s ability to terminate existing swap or other agreements or to realize amounts to be received under such agreements.

Limitations on the Use of CFTC-Regulated Futures, Options on Futures and Swaps

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Federal Income Tax Treatment of Futures Contracts and Options

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Risks and Special Considerations Concerning Derivatives

The use of derivative instruments involves certain general risks and considerations as described below.

(4) Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk is the risk that a derivative instrument cannot be sold, closed out or replaced quickly at or very close to its fundamental value. Generally, exchange contracts are very liquid because the exchange clearinghouse is the counterparty of every contract. OTC transactions are less liquid than exchange-traded derivatives since they often can only be closed out with the other party to the transaction. A Fund might be required by applicable regulatory requirements to maintain assets as “cover,” maintain segregated accounts, and/or make margin payments when it takes positions in derivative instruments involving obligations to third parties (i.e., instruments other than purchase options). If a Fund is unable to close out its positions in such instruments, it might be required to continue to maintain such assets or accounts or make such payments until the position expires, matures or is closed out. These requirements might impair a Fund’s ability to sell a security or make an investment at a time when it would otherwise be favorable to do so, or require that the Fund sell a portfolio security at a disadvantageous time. A Fund’s ability to sell or close out a position in an instrument prior to expiration or maturity depends upon the existence of a liquid secondary market or, in the absence of such a market, the ability and willingness of the counterparty to enter into a transaction closing out the position. There is no assurance that any derivatives position can be sold or closed out at a time and price that is favorable to a Fund.

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positive payoff. Despite this voluntary assumption of risk, a counterparty that has lost money in a derivative transaction may try to avoid payment by exploiting various legal uncertainties about certain derivative products.

Dollar Rolls

The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may enter into mortgage “dollar rolls” in which a Fund sells mortgage-backed securities and simultaneously contracts with the same counterparty to repurchase similar (same type, coupon and maturity) but not identical securities on a specified future date. During the period between the sale and repurchase (the “roll period” ), a Fund forgoes principal and interest paid on the mortgage-backed securities. However, a Fund would benefit to the extent of any difference between the price received for the securities sold and the lower forward price for the future purchase (often referred to as the “drop” ) plus any fee income received. Unless such benefits exceed the income, capital appreciation and gain or loss due to mortgage prepayments that would have been realized on the securities sold as part of the mortgage dollar roll, the investment performance of a Fund will be less than what the performance would have been without the use of the mortgage dollar roll. A Fund will segregate until the settlement date cash or liquid securities in an amount equal to the forward purchase price.

Foreign Securities

Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in foreign securities.

Each of such Funds, other than Nuveen Core Bond Fund, may invest in foreign securities payable in either U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. Nuveen Core Bond Fund may only invest in U.S. dollar-denominated securities. These securities may include securities issued or guaranteed by (i) the Government of Canada, any Canadian Province or any instrumentality and political subdivision thereof; (ii) any other foreign government agency or instrumentality; (iii) foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations; and (iv) other foreign issuers (each Fund, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, will require that such issuers to have total capital and surplus at the time of investment of at least $1 billion).

Investment in foreign securities is subject to special investment risks that differ in some respects from those related to investments in securities of U.S. domestic issuers. These risks include political,

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social or economic instability in the country of the issuer, the difficulty of predicting international trade patterns, the possibility of the imposition of exchange controls, expropriation, limits on removal of currency or other assets, nationalization of assets, foreign withholding and income taxation, and foreign trading practices (including higher trading commissions, custodial charges and delayed settlements). Foreign securities also may be subject to greater fluctuations in price than securities issued by U.S. corporations. The principal markets on which these securities trade may have less volume and liquidity, and may be more volatile, than securities markets in the United States.

In addition, there may be less publicly available information about a foreign company than about a U.S. domiciled company. Foreign companies generally are not subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards comparable to those applicable to U.S. domestic companies. There is also generally less government regulation of securities exchanges, brokers and listed companies abroad than in the United States. Confiscatory taxation or diplomatic developments could also affect investment in those countries. In addition, foreign branches of U.S. banks, foreign banks and foreign issuers may be subject to less stringent reserve requirements and to different accounting, auditing, reporting, and record keeping standards than those applicable to domestic branches of U.S. banks and U.S. domestic issuers. Securities transactions conducted outside the United States may not involve a clearing mechanism and related guarantees, and are subject to the risk of governmental actions affecting trading in, or the prices of, non-U.S. securities, currencies and other instruments. The value of such positions also could be adversely affected by (i) other complex non-U.S. political, legal and economic factors, (ii) delays in a Fund’s ability to act upon economic events occurring in non-U.S. markets during non-business hours in the United States, (iv) the imposition of different exercise and settlement terms and procedures and the margin requirements than in the United States, (v) currency exchange rate changes, and (vi) lower trading volume and liquidity.

Emerging Markets. The Funds’ investments in foreign securities may include securities issued by governmental and corporate issuers that are located in emerging market countries. Investments in securities of issuers in emerging market countries may be subject to potentially higher risks than investments in developed countries. These risks include (i) less social, political and economic stability; (ii) the small current size of the markets for such securities and the currently low or nonexistent volume of trading, which may result in a lack of liquidity and in greater price volatility; (iii) certain national policies which may restrict a Fund’s investment opportunities, including restrictions on investment in issuers or industries deemed sensitive to national interests; (iv) foreign taxation; (v) the absence of developed structures governing private or foreign investment or allowing for judicial redress for injury to private property; (vi) the limited development and recent emergence, in certain countries, of a capital market structure or market-oriented economy; and (vii) the possibility that recent favorable economic developments in certain countries may be slowed or reversed by unanticipated political or social events in such countries. All of the risks of investing in non-U.S. securities described above are heightened by investing in emerging markets countries.

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Depositary Receipts. The Funds’ investments in foreign securities may include investment in depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts ( “ADRs” ), European Depositary Receipts ( “EDRs” ) and Global Depositary Receipts ( “GDRs” ). U.S. dollar-denominated ADRs, which are traded in the United States on exchanges or over-the-counter, are issued by domestic banks. ADRs represent the right to receive securities of foreign issuers deposited in a domestic bank or a correspondent bank. ADRs do not eliminate all the risk inherent in investing in the securities of foreign issuers. However, by investing in ADRs rather than directly in foreign issuers’ stock, a Fund can avoid currency risks during the settlement period for either purchases or sales. In general, there is a large, liquid market in the United States for many ADRs. The information available for ADRs is subject to the accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards of the domestic market or exchange on which they are traded, which standards are more uniform and more exacting than those to which many foreign issuers may be subject. The Funds may also invest in EDRs, GDRs and in other similar instruments representing securities of foreign companies. EDRs and GDRs are securities that are typically issued by foreign banks or foreign trust companies, although U.S. banks or U.S. trust companies may issue them. EDRs and GDRs are structured similarly to the arrangements of ADRs. EDRs, in bearer form, are designed for use in European securities markets and are not necessarily denominated in the currency of the underlying security.

Brady Bonds. Nuveen High Income Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund may invest in U.S. dollar-denominated “Brady Bonds.” Brady Bonds are created through the exchange of existing commercial bank loans to public and private entities in certain emerging markets for new obligations in connection with debt restructurings. These foreign debt obligations, which may be fixed rate par bonds or floating rate discount bonds, are generally collateralized in full as to repayment of principal at maturity by U.S. Treasury zero-coupon obligations that have the same maturity as the Brady Bonds. Brady Bonds can be viewed as having three or four valuation components: (i) the collateralized repayment of principal at final maturity; (ii) the collateralized interest payments; (iii) the uncollateralized interest payments; and (iv) any uncollateralized repayment of principal at maturity. Those uncollateralized amounts constitute what is called the “residual risk.” If there is a default on collateralized Brady Bonds resulting in acceleration of the payment obligations of the issuer, the zero- coupon U.S. Treasury securities held as collateral for the payment of principal will not be distributed to investors, nor will those obligations be sold to distribute the proceeds. The collateral will be held by the collateral agent to the scheduled maturity of the defaulted Brady Bonds. The defaulted bonds will continue to remain outstanding, and the face amount of the collateral will equal the principal payments which would have then been due on the Brady Bonds in the normal course. Because of the residual risk of Brady Bonds and the history of defaults with respect to commercial bank loans by public and private entities of countries issuing Brady Bonds, Brady Bonds are considered speculative investments and are subject to the same risks as emerging market securities.

Guaranteed Investment Contracts

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund may purchase investment-type insurance products such as Guaranteed Investment Contracts ( “GICs” ). A GIC is a deferred annuity under which the purchaser agrees to pay money to an insurer (either in a lump sum or in installments) and the insurer promises to pay interest at a guaranteed rate for the life of the contract. GICs may have fixed or variable interest rates. A GIC is a general obligation of the issuing insurance company. The purchase price paid for a GIC becomes part of the general assets of the insurer, and the contract is paid at maturity from the general assets of the insurer. In general, GICs are not assignable or transferable without the permission of the issuing insurance companies and can be redeemed before maturity only at a substantial discount or penalty. GICs, therefore, are usually considered to be illiquid investments. Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund will purchase only GICs which are obligations of insurance companies with a policyholder’s rating of A or better by A.M. Best Company.

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Illiquid Securities

Each Fund may invest in illiquid securities ( i.e. , securities that are not readily marketable). For purposes of this restriction, illiquid securities include, but are not limited to, restricted securities (securities the disposition of which is restricted under the federal securities laws) and repurchase agreements with maturities in excess of seven days. However, the Funds will not acquire illiquid securities if, as a result, such securities would comprise more than 15% of the value of the Fund’s net assets. The Board of Directors or its delegate has the ultimate authority to determine, to the extent permissible under the federal securities laws, which securities are liquid or illiquid for purposes of this 15% limitation. The Board of Directors has delegated to the Adviser the day-to-day determination of the illiquidity of any portfolio security, although it has retained oversight over and ultimate responsibility for such determinations. The Adviser works with and to a large extent relies on the expertise and advice of the Sub-Adviser in making these liquidity determinations. Although no definitive liquidity criteria are used, the Board of Directors has directed the Adviser to look to such factors as (i) the nature of the market for a security (including the institutional private resale market; the frequency of trades and quotes for the security; the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the security; and the amount of time normally needed to dispose of the security, the method of soliciting offers and the mechanics of transfer), (ii) the terms of certain securities or other instruments allowing for the disposition to a third party or the issuer thereof (e.g., certain repurchase obligations and demand instruments), and (iii) other permissible relevant facts.

Restricted securities may be sold only in privately negotiated transactions or in a public offering with respect to which a registration statement is in effect under the Securities Act. Where registration is required, a Fund may be obligated to pay all or part of the registration expenses and a considerable period may elapse between the time of the decision to sell and the time the Fund may be permitted to sell a security under an effective registration statement. If, during such a period, adverse market conditions were to develop, the Fund might obtain a less favorable price than that which prevailed when it decided to sell. Illiquid securities will be priced at fair value as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors or its delegate.

Inflation Protected Securities

The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in inflation protected securities. Inflation protected securities are fixed income securities designed to provide protection against the negative effects of inflation. Two structures are common. The U.S. Treasury and some other issuers use a structure that accrues inflation into the principal value of the bond. Most other issuers pay out the inflation accruals as part of a semiannual coupon.

Inflation protected securities issued by the U.S. Treasury have maturities of five, ten, twenty or thirty years, although it is possible that securities with other maturities will be issued in the future. The U.S. Treasury securities pay interest on a semi-annual basis, equal to a fixed percentage of the inflation-adjusted principal amount. For example, if a Fund purchased an inflation protected bond with a par value of $1,000 and a 3% real rate of return coupon (payable 1.5% semi-annually), and inflation over the first six months was 1%, the mid-year par value of the bond would be $1,010 and the first semi-annual interest payment would be $15.15 ($1,010 times 1.5%). If inflation during the second half of the year resulted in the whole years’ inflation equaling 3%, the end-of-year par value of the bond would be $1,030 and the second semi-annual interest payment would be $15.45 ($1,030 times 1.5%).

If the periodic adjustment rate measuring inflation falls, the principal value of U.S. Treasury inflation protected securities will be adjusted downward, and consequently the interest payable on these securities (calculated with respect to a smaller principal amount) will be reduced. Repayment of the original bond principal upon maturity (as adjusted for inflation) is guaranteed in the case of U.S. Treasury inflation protected bonds, even during a period of deflation. However, the current market value of the bonds is not guaranteed, and will fluctuate. Other inflation-protected securities that accrue inflation into their principal value may or may not provide a similar guarantee. If a guarantee of principal is not provided, the adjusted principal value of the bond repaid at maturity may be less than the original principal.

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The value of inflation-protected securities is expected to change in response to changes in real interest rates. Real interest rates in turn are tied to the relationship between nominal interest rates and the rate of inflation. Therefore, if inflation were to rise at a faster rate than nominal interest rates, real interest rates might decline, leading to an increase in value of inflation protected securities. In contrast, if nominal interest rates increased at a faster rate than inflation, real interest rates might rise, leading to a decrease in value of inflation-protected securities.

The periodic adjustment of U.S. inflation protected bonds is tied to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
( “CPI-U” ), which is calculated monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPI-U is a measurement of changes in the cost of living, made up of components such as housing, food, transportation and energy. Inflation protected securities issued by a foreign government are generally adjusted to reflect a comparable inflation index, calculated by that government. There can be no assurance that the CPI-U or any foreign inflation index will accurately measure the real rate of inflation in the prices of goods and services. Moreover, there can be no assurance that the rate of inflation in a foreign country will be correlated to the rate of inflation in the United States. If the market perceives that the adjustment mechanism of an inflation-protected security does not accurately adjust for inflation, the value of the security could be adversely affected.

While inflation protected securities are expected to be protected from long-term inflationary trends, short-term increases in inflation may lead to a decline in value. The calculation of the inflation index ratio for inflation protected securities issued by the U.S. Treasury incorporates an approximate three-month lag, which may have an effect on the trading price of the securities, particularly during periods of significant, rapid changes in the inflation index. To the extent that inflation has increased during the three months prior to an interest payment, that interest payment will not be protected from the inflation increase. Further, to the extent that inflation has increased during the final three months of a security’s maturity, the final value of the security will not be protected against that increase, which will negatively impact the value of the security. If interest rates rise due to reasons other than inflation (for example, due to changes in currency exchange rates), investors in inflation-protected securities may not be protected to the extent that the increase is not reflected in the bond’s inflation measure.

Any increase in the principal amount of an inflation-protected security will be considered taxable income to a Fund, even though the Fund does not receive its principal until maturity.

Lending of Portfolio Securities

In order to generate additional income, the Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may lend portfolio securities representing up to one-third of the value of its total assets to broker-dealers, banks or other institutional borrowers of securities. As with other extensions of credit, there may be risks of delay in recovery of the securities or even loss of rights in the collateral should the borrower of the securities fail financially. However, the Funds will only enter into domestic loan arrangements with broker-dealers, banks, or other institutions which the Sub-Adviser, in accordance with procedures established by the Board of Directors, has determined are creditworthy. The Funds pay a fee to the securities lending agent in connection with these loans.

In these loan arrangements, the Funds will receive collateral in the form of cash, U.S. government securities or other high-grade debt obligations equal to at least 102% of the value of the securities loaned as determined at the time of loan origination. This collateral must be valued daily by the Sub-Adviser or the applicable Fund’s lending agent and, if the market value of the loaned securities increases, the borrower must furnish additional collateral to the lending Fund. During the time portfolio securities are on loan, the borrower pays the lending Fund any dividends or interest paid on the securities. Loans are subject to termination at any time by the lending Fund or the borrower. While a Fund does not have the right to vote securities on loan, it would terminate the loan and regain the right to vote if that were considered important with respect to the investment.

When a Fund lends portfolio securities to a borrower, payments in lieu of dividends made by the borrower to the Fund will not constitute “qualified dividends” taxable at the same rate as long-term capital gains, even if the actual dividends would have constituted qualified dividends had the Fund held the securities. See “Taxation.”

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Loans

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in fixed and floating rate loans (“ Loans ”). Loans may include senior loans (“ Senior Loans ”) and secured and unsecured junior loans, including subordinated loans, second lien or more junior loans and bridge loans (“ Junior Loans ”). Loans are typically arranged through private negotiations between borrowers in the United States or in foreign or emerging markets which may be corporate issuers or issuers of sovereign debt obligations (“ Obligors ”) and one or more financial institutions and other lenders (“ Lenders ”). The Funds may invest in Loans by purchasing assignments of all or a portion of Loans (“ Assignments ”) or Loan participations (“ Participations ”) from third parties.

A Fund has direct rights against the Obligor on the Loan when it purchases an Assignment. Because Assignments are arranged through private negotiations between potential assignees and potential assignors, however, the rights and obligations acquired by a Fund as the purchaser of an Assignment may differ from, and be more limited than, those held by the assigning Lender. With respect to Participations, typically, a Fund will have a contractual relationship only with the Lender and not with the Obligor. The agreement governing Participations may limit the rights of the Fund to vote on certain changes which may be made to the Loan agreement, such as waiving a breach of a covenant. However, the holder of a Participation will generally have the right to vote on certain fundamental issues such as changes in principal amount, payment dates and interest rate. Participations may entail certain risks relating to the creditworthiness of the parties from which the participations are obtained.

A Loan is typically originated, negotiated and structured by a U.S. or foreign commercial bank, insurance company, finance company or other financial institution (the “ Agent ”) for a group of Loan investors. The Agent typically administers and enforces the Loan on behalf of the other Loan investors in the syndicate. The Agent’s duties may include responsibility for the collection of principal and interest payments from the Obligor and the apportionment of these payments to the credit of all Loan investors. The Agent is also typically responsible for monitoring compliance with the covenants contained in the Loan agreement based upon reports prepared by the Obligor. In addition, an institution, typically but not always the Agent, holds any collateral on behalf of the Loan investors. In the event of a default by the Obligor, it is possible, though unlikely, that the Funds could receive a portion of the borrower’s collateral. If the Funds receive collateral other than cash, any proceeds received from liquidation of such collateral will be available for investment as part of the Funds’ portfolios.

In the process of buying, selling and holding Loans, the Funds may receive and/or pay certain fees. These fees are in addition to interest payments received and may include facility fees, commitment fees, commissions and prepayment penalty fees. When a Fund buys or sells a Loan it may pay a fee. In certain circumstances, the Fund may receive a prepayment penalty fee upon prepayment of a Loan.

Additional Information Concerning Senior Loans

Senior Loans typically hold the most senior position in the capital structure of the Obligor, are typically secured with specific collateral and have a claim on the assets and/or stock of the Obligor that is senior to that held by subordinated debtholders and shareholders of the Obligor. Collateral for Senior Loans may include (i) working capital assets, such as accounts receivable and inventory; (ii) tangible fixed assets, such as real property, buildings and equipment; (iii) intangible assets, such as trademarks and patent rights; and/or (iv) security interests in shares of stock of subsidiaries or affiliates.

Additional Information Concerning Junior Loans

Junior Loans include secured and unsecured loans including subordinated loans, second lien and more junior loans, and bridge loans. Second lien and more junior loans (“ Junior Lien Loans ”) are generally second or further in line in terms of repayment priority. In addition, Junior Lien Loans may have a claim on the same collateral pool as the first lien or other more senior liens or may be secured by a separate set of assets. Junior Lien Loans generally give investors priority over general unsecured creditors in the event of an asset sale.

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Junior Loans that are bridge loans or bridge facilities (“ Bridge Loans ”) are short-term loan arrangements (e.g., 12 to 18 months) typically made by an Obligor in anticipation of intermediate-term or long-term permanent financing. Most Bridge Loans are structured as floating-rate debt with step-up provisions under which the interest rate on the Bridge Loan rises the longer the Loan remains outstanding. In addition, Bridge Loans commonly contain a conversion feature that allows the Bridge Loan investor to convert its Loan interest to senior exchange notes if the Loan has not been prepaid in full on or prior to its maturity date. Bridge Loans may be subordinate to other debt and may be secured or undersecured.

Additional Information Concerning Unfunded Commitments

Unfunded commitments are contractual obligations pursuant to which a Fund agrees to invest in a Loan at a future date. Typically, the Fund receives a commitment fee for entering into the Unfunded Commitment.

Additional Information Concerning Synthetic Letters of Credit

Loans include synthetic letters of credit. In a synthetic letter of credit transaction, the Lender typically creates a special purpose entity or a credit-linked deposit account for the purpose of funding a letter of credit to the borrower. When a Fund invests in a synthetic letter of credit, the Fund is typically paid a rate based on the Lender’s borrowing costs and the terms of the synthetic letter of credit. Synthetic letters of credit are typically structured as Assignments with the Fund acquiring direct rights against the Obligor.

Limitations on Investments in Loan Assignments and Participations

If a government entity is a borrower on a Loan, the Funds will consider the government to be the issuer of an Assignment or Participation for purposes of each Fund’s fundamental investment policy that it will not invest 25% or more of its total assets in securities of issuers conducting their principal business activities in the same industry (i.e., foreign government).

Risk Factors of Loan Assignments and Participations

Loans are subject to the risks associated with debt obligations in general including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. When a Loan is acquired from a Lender, the risk includes the credit risk associated with the Obligor of the underlying Loan. A Fund may incur additional credit risk when the Fund acquires a participation in a Loan from another lender because the Fund must assume the risk of insolvency or bankruptcy of the other lender from which the Loan was acquired. To the extent that Loans involve Obligors in foreign or emerging markets, such Loans are subject to the risks associated with foreign investments or investments in emerging markets in general. The following outlines some of the additional risks associated with Loan Assignments and Participations.

High Yield Securities Risk. The Loans that the Funds invest in may not be rated by an NRSRO, will not be registered with the SEC or any state securities commission and will not be listed on any national securities exchange. To the extent that such high yield Loans are rated, they typically will be rated below investment grade and are subject to an increased risk of default in the payment of principal and interest as well as the other risks described under “High Yield Debt Securities.” Loans are vulnerable to market sentiment such that economic conditions or other events may reduce the demand for Loans and cause their value to decline rapidly and unpredictably.

Liquidity Risk . Although the Funds limit their investments in illiquid securities to no more than 15% of a Fund’s net assets, Loans that are deemed to be liquid at the time of purchase may become illiquid or less liquid. No active trading market may exist for certain Loans and certain Loans may be subject to restrictions on resale or have a limited secondary market. Certain Loans may be subject to irregular trading activity, wide bid/ask spreads and extended trade settlement periods. The inability to dispose of certain Loans in an orderly and timely fashion or at a favorable price could result in losses to a Fund.

Collateral, Subordination and Litigation Risk. With respect to Loans that are secured, the Funds are subject to the risk that collateral securing the Loan will decline in value or have no value or that a Fund’s lien is or will become junior in payment to other liens. A decline in value, whether as a result of

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bankruptcy proceedings or otherwise, could cause the Loan to be undercollateralized or unsecured. There may be no formal requirement for the Obligor to pledge additional collateral. In addition, collateral may consist of assets that may not be readily liquidated, and there is no assurance that the liquidation of such assets would satisfy an Obligor’s obligation on a Loan.

If an Obligor becomes involved in bankruptcy proceedings, a court may invalidate the Loan or a Fund’s security interest in loan collateral or subordinate a Fund’s rights under a Senior Loan or Junior Loan to the interest of the Obligor’s other creditors, including unsecured creditors, or cause interest or principal previously paid to be refunded to the Obligor. If a court required interest or principal to be refunded, it could negatively affect Fund performance. Such action by a court could be based, for example, on a “fraudulent conveyance” claim to the effect that the Obligor did not receive fair consideration for granting the security interest in the Loan collateral to the Fund. For Senior Loans made in connection with a highly leveraged transaction, consideration for granting a security interest may be deemed inadequate if the proceeds of the Loan were not received or retained by the Obligor, but were instead paid to other persons (such as shareholders of the Obligor) in an amount which left the Obligor insolvent or without sufficient working capital. There are also other events, such as the failure to perfect a security interest due to faulty documentation or faulty official filings, which could lead to the invalidation of a Fund’s security interest in Loan collateral. If a Fund’s security interest in Loan collateral is invalidated or the Senior Loan is subordinated to other debt of an Obligor in bankruptcy or other proceedings, a Fund would have substantially lower recovery, and perhaps no recovery on the full amount of the principal and interest due on the Loan, or a Fund could have to refund interest.

Lenders and investors in Loans can be sued by other creditors and shareholders of the Obligors. Losses can be greater than the original Loan amount and occur years after the principal and interest on the Loan have been repaid.

Agent Risk. Selling Lenders, Agents and other entities who may be positioned between a Fund and the Obligor will likely conduct their principal business activities in the banking, finance and financial services industries. Investments in Loans may be more impacted by a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence affecting such industries than other types of investments. Entities engaged in such industries may be more susceptible to, among other things, fluctuations in interest rates, changes in the Federal Open Market Committee’s monetary policy, government regulations concerning such industries and concerning capital raising activities generally and fluctuations in the financial markets generally. An Agent, Lender or other entity positioned between a Fund and the Obligor may become insolvent or enter FDIC receivership or bankruptcy. A Fund might incur certain costs and delays in realizing payment on a Loan or suffer a loss of principal and/or interest if assets or interests held by the Agent, Lender or other party positioned between a Fund and the Obligor are determined to be subject to the claims of the Agent’s, Lender’s or such other party’s creditors.

Regulatory Changes. To the extent that legislation or state or federal regulators that regulate certain financial institutions impose additional requirements or restrictions with respect to the ability of such institutions to make Loans, particularly in connection with highly leveraged transactions, the availability of Loans for investment may be adversely affected. Furthermore, such legislation or regulation could depress the market value of Loans held by a Fund.

Inventory Risk. Affiliates of the adviser or sub-adviser may participate in the primary and secondary market for Loans. Because of limitations imposed by applicable law, the presence of the adviser’s or sub-adviser’s affiliates in the Loan market may restrict a Fund’s ability to acquire some Loans, affect the timing of such acquisition or affect the price at which the Loan is acquired.

Information Risk. There is typically less publicly available information concerning Loans than other types of fixed income investments. As a result, a Fund generally will be dependent on reports and other information provided by the Obligor, either directly or through an Agent, to evaluate the Obligor’s creditworthiness or to determine the Obligor’s compliance with the covenants and other terms of the Loan Agreement. Such reliance may make investments in Loans more susceptible to fraud than other types of investments. In addition, because the adviser or sub-adviser may wish to invest in the publicly traded securities of an Obligor, it may not have access to material non-public information regarding the Obligor to which other Loan investors have access.

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Junior Loan Risk. Junior Loans are subject to the same general risks inherent to any Loan investment. Due to their lower place in the Obligor’s capital structure and possible unsecured status, Junior Loans involve a higher degree of overall risk than Senior Loans of the same Obligor. Junior Loans that are Bridge Loans generally carry the expectation that the Obligor will be able to obtain permanent financing in the near future. Any delay in obtaining permanent financing subjects the Bridge Loan investor to increased risk. An Obligor’s use of Bridge Loans also involves the risk that the Obligor may be unable to locate permanent financing to replace the Bridge Loan, which may impair the Obligor’s perceived creditworthiness.

Mortgage-Backed Securities

The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in mortgage-backed securities. These investments include agency pass-through certificates, private mortgage pass-through securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and commercial mortgage-backed securities, as defined and described below.

A mortgage-backed security is a type of pass-through security, which is a security representing pooled debt obligations repackaged as interests that pass income through an intermediary to investors. In the case of mortgage-backed securities, the ownership interest is in a pool of mortgage loans. Residential mortgage-backed securities (“ RMBS ”) are backed by a pool of mortgages on residential property while commercial mortgage-backed securities ( “CMBS” ) are backed by a pool of mortgages on commercial property.

Government-related guarantors ( i.e. , not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government) include FNMA and FHLMC. FNMA is a government-sponsored corporation. FNMA purchases conventional ( i.e. , not insured or guaranteed by any government agency) residential mortgages from a list of approved seller/servicers which include state and federally chartered savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, commercial banks and credit unions and mortgage bankers. Pass-through securities issued by FNMA are guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by FNMA, but are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. FHLMC was created by Congress in 1970 for the purpose of increasing the availability of mortgage credit for residential housing. It is a government-sponsored corporation that issues Participation Certificates (“ PCs ”), which are pass-through securities, each representing an undivided interest in a pool of residential mortgages. FHLMC guarantees the timely payment of interest and ultimate collection of principal, but PCs are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

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and credit markets generally. Private issuers include commercial banks, savings associations, mortgage companies, investment banking firms, finance companies and special purpose finance entities (called special purpose vehicles or structured investment vehicles) and other entities that acquire and package mortgage loans for resale as mortgage-related securities. Unlike mortgage-related securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its sponsored entities, mortgage-related securities issued by private issuers do not have a government or government-sponsored entity guarantee, but may have credit enhancement provided by external entities such as banks or financial institutions or achieved through the structuring of the transaction itself. Examples of such credit support arising out of the structure of the transaction include: (1) the issuance of senior and subordinated securities (e.g., the issuance of securities by a special purpose vehicle in multiple classes or “tranches,” with one or more classes being senior to other subordinated classes as to the payment of principal and interest, with the result that defaults on the underlying mortgage loans are borne first by the holders of the subordinated class); (2) the creation of “reserve funds” (in which case cash or investments, sometimes funded from a portion of the payments on the underlying mortgage loans, are held in reserve against future losses); and (3) “overcollateralization” (in which case the scheduled payments on, or the principal amount of, the underlying mortgage loans exceeds that required to make payment of the securities and pay any servicing or other fees). However, there can be no guarantee that credit enhancements, if any, will be sufficient to prevent losses in the event of defaults on the underlying mortgage loans.

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and interest payments on the Mortgage Assets may be allocated among the various classes of CMOs in several ways. Typically, payments of principal, including any prepayments, on the underlying mortgages are applied to the classes in the order of their respective stated maturities or final distribution dates, so that no payment of principal is made on CMOs of a class until all CMOs of other classes having earlier stated maturities or final distribution dates have been paid in full.

The Funds may invest in Adjustable Rate Mortgage Securities (“ ARMS ”). ARMS are pass-through mortgage securities collateralized by mortgages with interest rates that are adjusted from time to time. ARMS also include adjustable rate tranches of CMOs. The adjustments usually are determined in accordance with a predetermined interest rate index and may be subject to certain limits. While the values of ARMS, like other debt securities, generally vary inversely with changes in market interest rates (increasing in value during periods of declining interest rates and decreasing in value during periods of increasing interest rates), the values of ARMS should generally be more resistant to price swings than other debt securities because the interest rates of ARMS move with market interest rates. The adjustable rate feature of ARMS will not, however, eliminate fluctuations in the prices of ARMS, particularly during periods of extreme fluctuations in interest rates. Moreover, rising interest rates may lead to borrowers on mortgages underlying ARMS not being able to afford the corresponding higher payments, which could negatively impact the credit and prices of non-agency ARMS.

ARMS typically have caps which limit the maximum amount by which the interest rate may be increased or decreased at periodic intervals or over the life of the loan. To the extent interest rates increase in excess of the caps, ARMS can be expected to behave more like traditional debt securities and to decline in value to a greater extent than would be the case in the absence of such caps. Also, since many adjustable rate mortgages only reset on an annual basis, it can be expected that the prices of ARMS will fluctuate to the extent changes in prevailing interest rates are not immediately reflected in the interest rates payable on the underlying adjustable rate mortgages. The extent to which the prices of ARMS fluctuate with changes in interest rates will also be affected by the indices underlying the ARMS.

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Municipal Bonds and Other Municipal Obligations

The Funds may invest in municipal bonds and other municipal obligations. These bonds and other obligations are issued by the states and by their local and special-purpose political subdivisions. The term “municipal bond” includes short-term municipal notes issued by the states and their political subdivisions, including, but not limited to, tax anticipation notes ( “TANs” ), bond anticipation notes ( “BANs” ), revenue anticipation notes ( “RANs” ), construction loan notes, tax free commercial paper, and tax free participation certificates. In general, municipal obligations include debt obligations issued by states, cities and local authorities to obtain funds for various public purposes, including construction of a wide range of public facilities such as airports, bridges, highways, hospitals, housing, mass transportation, schools, streets and water and sewer works. Industrial development bonds and pollution control bonds that are issued by or on behalf of public authorities to finance various privately-rated facilities are included within the term municipal obligations if the interest paid thereon is exempt from federal income tax.

Municipal Bonds

The two general classifications of municipal bonds are “general obligation” bonds and “revenue” bonds. General obligation bonds are secured by the governmental issuer’s pledge of its faith, credit and taxing power for the payment of principal and interest upon a default by the issuer of its principal and interest payment obligations. They are usually paid from general revenues of the issuing governmental entity. Revenue bonds, on the other hand, are usually payable only out of a specific revenue source rather than from general revenues. Revenue bonds ordinarily are not backed by the faith, credit or general taxing power of the issuing governmental entity. The principal and interest on revenue bonds for private facilities are typically paid out of rents or other specified payments made to the issuing governmental entity by a private company which uses or operates the facilities. Examples of these types of obligations are industrial revenue bond and pollution control revenue bonds. Industrial revenue bonds are issued by governmental entities to provide financing aid to community facilities such as hospitals, hotels, business or residential complexes, convention halls and sport complexes. Pollution control revenue bonds are issued to finance air, water and solids pollution control systems for privately operated industrial or commercial facilities.

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Refunded Bonds

The Funds may invest in refunded bonds. Refunded bonds may have originally been issued as general obligation or revenue bonds, but become refunded when they are secured by an escrow fund, usually consisting entirely of direct U.S. government obligations and/or U.S. government agency obligations sufficient for paying the bondholders. There are two types of refunded bonds: pre-refunded bonds and escrowed-to-maturity ( “ETM” ) bonds. The escrow fund for a pre-refunded municipal bond may be structured so that the refunded bonds are to be called at the first possible date or a subsequent call date established in the original bond debenture. The call price usually includes a premium from 1% to 3% above par. This type of structure usually is used for those refundings that either reduce the issuer’s interest payment expenses or change the debt maturity schedule. In escrow funds for ETM refunded municipal bonds, the maturity schedules of the securities in the escrow funds match the regular debt-service requirements on the bonds as originally stated in the bond indentures.

Municipal Leases and Certificates of Participation

The Funds also may purchase municipal lease obligations, primarily through certificates of participation. Certificates of participation in municipal leases are undivided interests in a lease, installment purchase contract or conditional sale contract entered into by a state or local governmental unit to acquire equipment or facilities. Municipal leases frequently have special risks which generally are not associated with general obligation bonds or revenue bonds.

Municipal leases and installment purchase or conditional sales contracts (which usually provide for title to the leased asset to pass to the governmental issuer upon payment of all amounts due under the contract) have evolved as a means for governmental issuers to acquire property and equipment without meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements for the issuance of municipal debt. The debt issuance limitations are deemed to be inapplicable because of the inclusion in many leases and contracts of “non-appropriation” clauses that provide that the governmental issuer has no obligation to make future payments under the lease or contract unless money is appropriated for this purpose by the appropriate legislative body on a yearly or other periodic basis. Although these kinds of obligations are secured by the leased equipment or facilities, the disposition of the pledged property in the event of non-appropriation or foreclosure might, in some cases, prove difficult and time-consuming. In addition, disposition upon non-appropriation or foreclosure might not result in recovery by a Fund of the full principal amount represented by an obligation.

In light of these concerns, the Funds have adopted and follow procedures for determining whether any municipal lease obligations purchased by the Funds are liquid and for monitoring the liquidity of municipal lease securities held in a Fund’s portfolio. These procedures require that a number of factors be used in evaluating the liquidity of a municipal lease security, including the frequency of trades and quotes for the security, the number of dealers willing to purchase or sell the security and the number of other potential purchasers, the willingness of dealers to undertake to make a market in security, the nature of the marketplace in which the security trades, and other factors which the Adviser may deem relevant. As set forth in “Investment Restrictions” above, each Fund is subject to limitations on the percentage of illiquid securities it can hold.

Derivative Municipal Securities

The Funds may also acquire derivative municipal securities, which are custodial receipts of certificates underwritten by securities dealers or banks that evidence ownership of future interest payments, principal payments or both on certain municipal securities. The underwriter of these certificates or receipts typically purchases municipal securities and deposits them in an irrevocable trust or custodial account with a custodian bank, which then issues receipts or certificates that evidence ownership of the periodic unmatured coupon payments and the final principal payment on the obligation.

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Variable Rate Demand Notes (“VRDNs”)

VRDNs are long-term municipal obligations that have variable or floating interest rates and provide a Fund with the right to tender the security for repurchase at its stated principal amount plus accrued interest. Such securities typically bear interest at a rate that is intended to cause the securities to trade at par. The interest rate may float or be adjusted at regular intervals (ranging from daily to annually), and is normally based on an applicable interest index or another published interest rate or interest rate index. Most VRDNs allow a Fund to demand the repurchase of the security on not more than seven days prior notice. Other notes only permit a Fund to tender the security at the time of each interest rate adjustment or at other fixed intervals. Variable interest rates generally reduce changes in the market value of municipal obligations from their original purchase prices. Accordingly, as interest rates decrease, the potential for capital appreciation is less for variable rate municipal obligations than for fixed income obligations.

Inverse Floating Rate Municipal Securities

The Funds may invest in inverse floating rate municipal securities or “inverse floaters,” whose rates vary inversely to interest rates on a specified short-term municipal bond index or on another instrument. Such securities involve special risks as compared to conventional fixed-rate bonds. Should short-term interest rates rise, a Fund’s investment in inverse floaters likely would adversely affect the Fund’s earnings and distributions to shareholders. Also, because changes in the interest rate on the other index or other instrument inversely affect the rate of interest received on an inverse floater, and because inverse floaters essentially represent a leveraged investment in a long-term bond, the value of an inverse floater is generally more volatile than that of a conventional fixed-rate bond having similar credit quality, redemption provisions and maturity. Although volatile in value, inverse floaters typically offer the potential for yields substantially exceeding the yields available on conventional fixed-rate bonds with comparable credit quality, coupon, call provisions and maturity. The markets for inverse floating rate securities may be less developed and have less liquidity than the markets for conventional securities. The Funds will only invest in inverse floating rate securities whose underlying bonds are rated A or higher.

Non-Investment Grade Debt Securities (Junk Bonds)

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in non-investment grade debt securities. Non-investment grade debt securities are medium- to low-quality debt obligations. Debt obligations rated below investment grade (BB/Ba or lower) are commonly known as “high-yield,” “high risk” or “junk” bonds. For Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund, to be consistent with the ratings methodology used by Barclays, a debt obligation is considered to be rated “investment grade” if two of Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch rate the security investment-grade (i.e., at least Baa, BBB and BBB, respectively). If ratings are provided by only two of those rating agencies, the more conservative rating is used to determine whether the security is investment-grade. If only one of those rating agencies provides a rating, that rating is used. Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund may invest in non-investment grade debt obligations rated at least B by two of Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch, unless only one of those rating agencies rates the security, in which case that rating must be at least B, or in unrated securities determined to be of comparable quality by the Sub-Adviser. Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund may not invest in non-investment grade debt obligations rated by two of Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s lower than CCC, CCC or Caa, respectively, unless only one of those rating agencies rates the security, in which case that rating must be at least CCC or Caa, or in unrated securities determined to be of comparable quality by the Sub-Adviser. There are no minimum rating requirements for Nuveen High Income Bond Fund (which means that the Fund may invest in bonds in default).

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The special risk considerations in connection with investments in these securities are discussed below. Refer to Appendix A of this Statement of Additional Information for a discussion of securities ratings.

(1) Effect of Interest Rates and Economic Changes. All interest-bearing securities typically experience appreciation when interest rates decline and depreciation when interest rates rise. In addition, the market values of junk bond securities tend to reflect individual issuer developments to a greater extent than do the market values of higher rated securities, which react primarily to fluctuations in the general level of interest rates. Junk bond securities also tend to be more sensitive to economic conditions than are higher rated securities. As a result, they generally involve more credit risk than securities in the higher rated categories. During an economic downturn or a sustained period of rising interest rates, highly leveraged issuers of junk bond securities may experience financial stress and may not have sufficient revenues to meet their payment obligations. The risk of loss due to default by an issuer of these securities is significantly greater than by an issuer of higher rated securities because such securities are generally unsecured and are often subordinated to other creditors. Further, if the issuer of a junk bond security defaults, a Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery. Periods of economic uncertainty and changes would also generally result in increased volatility in the market prices of these and thus in the Fund’s net asset value.

The value of a junk bond security will generally decrease in a rising interest rate market and, accordingly, so will a Fund’s net asset value. If a Fund experiences unexpected net redemptions in such a market, it may be forced to liquidate a portion of its portfolio securities without regard to their investment merits. Due to the limited liquidity of certain junk bond securities, a Fund may be forced to liquidate these securities at a substantial discount. Any such liquidation would reduce a Fund’s asset base over which expenses could be allocated and could result in a reduced rate of return for the Fund.

(2) Payment Expectations. Junk bond securities typically contain redemption, call, or prepayment provisions that permit the issuer of securities containing such provisions to redeem the securities at its discretion. During periods of falling interest rates, issuers of these securities are likely to redeem or prepay the securities and refinance them with debt securities with a lower interest rate. To the extent an issuer is able to refinance the securities, or otherwise redeem them, a Fund may have to replace the securities with lower yielding securities, which could result in a lower return for the Fund.

(3) Credit Ratings. Credit ratings are issued by credit rating agencies and are indicative of the rated securities’ safety of principal and interest payments. They do not, however, evaluate the market value risk of junk bond securities and, therefore, may not fully reflect the true risks of such an investment. In addition, credit rating agencies may not make timely changes in a rating to reflect changes in the economy or in the condition of the issuer that affect the value of the security. Consequently, credit ratings are used only as a preliminary indicator of investment quality. Investments in junk bonds will depend more upon credit analysis by the Sub-Adviser than investments in investment grade debt securities. The Sub-Adviser employs its own credit research and analysis, which includes a study of the issuer’s existing debt, capital structure, ability to service debts and pay dividends, sensitivity to economic conditions, operating history, and current earnings trend. The Sub-Adviser continually monitors the Funds’ investments and carefully evaluates whether to dispose of or to retain junk bond securities whose credit ratings or credit quality may have changed.

(4) Liquidity and Valuation. A Fund may have difficulty disposing of certain junk bond securities because there may be a thin trading market for such securities. Not all dealers maintain markets in all junk bond securities. As a result, there is no established retail secondary market for many of these securities. To the extent a secondary trading market does exist, it is generally not as liquid as the secondary market for higher rated securities. The lack of a liquid secondary market may have an adverse impact on the market price of the security. The lack of a liquid secondary market for certain securities may also make it more difficult for a Fund to obtain accurate market quotations for purposes of valuing its securities. Market quotations are generally available on many junk bond issues only from a limited number of dealers and may not necessarily represent firm bids of such dealers or prices for actual sales. During periods of thin

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trading, the spread between bid and asked prices is likely to increase significantly. In addition, adverse publicity and investor perceptions, whether or not based on fundamental analysis, may decrease the value and liquidity of junk bond securities, especially in a thinly traded market.

Other Investment Companies and Other Pooled Investment Vehicles

Each Fund may invest in other investment companies, including open-end funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, and exchange-traded funds ( “ETFs” ) registered under the 1940 Act ( “1940 Act ETFs” ). Under the 1940 Act, a Fund’s investment in such securities is generally limited to 3% of the total voting stock of any one investment company; 5% of the Fund’s total assets with respect to any one investment company; and 10% of the Fund’s total assets in the aggregate. The Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, will only invest in other investment companies that invest primarily in Fund eligible investments. Many 1940 Act ETFs, however, have obtained exemptive relief from the SEC to permit unaffiliated funds to invest in their shares beyond these statutory limits, subject to certain conditions and pursuant to contractual arrangements between the ETFs and the investing funds. A Fund may rely on these exemptive orders in investing in 1940 Act ETFs. A Fund’s investments in other investment companies may include money market mutual funds. Investments in money market funds are not subject to the percentage limitations set forth above.

ETFs in which a Fund may invest are a type of index fund bought and sold on a securities exchange. An ETF trades like common stock and represents a portfolio of securities designed to track a particular market index. ETFs can give exposure to all or a portion of the U.S. market, a foreign market, a region, a commodity, a currency, or to any other index that an ETF tracks. The risks of owning an ETF generally reflect the risks of owning the underlying securities they are designed to track, although lack of liquidity in an ETF could result in it being more volatile and ETFs have management fees that increase their costs. An ETF may fail to accurately track the returns of the market segment or index that it is designed to track, and the price of an ETF’s shares may fluctuate. In addition, because they, unlike traditional mutual funds, are traded on an exchange, ETFs are subject to the following risks: (i) the performance of the ETF may not replicate the performance of the underlying index that it is designed to track; (ii) the market price of the ETF’s shares may trade at a premium or discount to the ETF’s net asset value; (iii) an active trading market for an ETF may not develop or be maintained; and (iv) there is no assurance that the requirements of the exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the ETF will continue to be met or remain unchanged. Trading in an ETF may be halted if the trading in one or more of the ETF’s underlying securities is halted, which could result in the ETF being more volatile. In the event substantial market or other disruptions affecting ETFs should occur in the future, the liquidity and value of a Fund’s shares could also be substantially and adversely affected.

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may also invest in pooled investment vehicles other than registered investment companies. For example, some vehicles which are commonly referred to as “exchanged traded funds” may not be registered investment companies because of the nature of their underlying investments.

If a Fund invests in other investment companies or pooled investment vehicles, Fund shareholders will bear not only their proportionate share of the Fund’s expenses, but also, indirectly, the similar expenses of the underlying investment companies or pooled investment vehicles. Shareholders would also be exposed to the risks associated not only to a Fund, but also to the portfolio investments of the underlying investment companies or pooled investment vehicles. Shares of certain closed-end funds may at times be acquired at market prices representing premiums to their net asset values. Shares acquired at a premium to their net asset value may be more likely to subsequently decline in price, resulting in a loss to a Fund and its shareholders.

Payment-In-Kind Debentures and Delayed Interest Securities

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Strategic Income Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund may invest in debentures the interest on which may be paid in other securities rather than cash ( “PIKs” ) or may be delayed ( “delayed interest securities” ). Typically, during a specified term prior to the debenture’s maturity, the issuer of a PIK may provide for the option or the obligation to make interest payments in debentures, common stock or other instruments (i.e., “in kind” rather than in cash). The type of instrument in which interest may or will be paid would be known by a Fund at the

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time of investment. While PIKs generate income for purposes of generally accepted accounting standards, they do not generate cash flow and thus could cause a Fund to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by the Code.

Unlike PIKs, delayed interest securities do not pay interest for a specified period. Because values of securities of this type are subject to greater fluctuations than are the values of securities that distribute income regularly, they may be more speculative than such securities.

Preferred Stock and Trust Preferred Securities

Preferred Stock. The Funds, other than Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund and Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, may invest in preferred stock. Preferred stock, unlike common stock, offers a stated dividend rate payable from the issuer’s earnings. Preferred stock dividends may be cumulative or non-cumulative, participating, or auction rate. As with all equity securities, the price of preferred stock fluctuates based on changes in a company’s financial condition and on overall market and economic conditions. If interest rates rise, the fixed dividend on preferred stocks may be less attractive, causing the price of preferred stocks to decline. Preferred stock may have mandatory sinking fund provisions, as well as call/redemption provisions prior to maturity, a negative feature when interest rates decline.

Trust Preferred Securities. The Funds may invest in trust preferred securities. Trust preferred securities are preferred securities typically issued by a special purpose trust subsidiary and backed by subordinated debt of that subsidiary’s parent corporation. Trust preferred securities may have varying maturity dates, at times in excess of 30 years, or may have no specified maturity date with an onerous interest rate adjustment if not called on the first call date. Dividend payments of the trust preferred securities generally coincide with interest payments on the underlying subordinated debt. Trust preferred securities generally have a yield advantage over traditional preferred stocks, but unlike preferred stocks, distributions are treated as interest rather than dividends for federal income tax purposes and therefore, are not eligible for the dividends-received deduction. See “Taxation.” Trust preferred securities are subject to unique risks, which include the fact that dividend payments will only be paid if interest payments on the underlying obligations are made, which interest payments are dependent on the financial condition of the parent corporation and may be deferred for up to 20 consecutive quarters. There is also the risk that the underlying obligations, and thus the trust preferred securities, may be prepaid after a stated call date or as a result of certain tax or regulatory events, resulting in a lower yield to maturity.

Preferred stock and trust preferred securities are collectively referred to as “preferred securities.” Preferred securities are typically issued by corporations, generally in the form of interest-bearing notes or preferred securities, or by an affiliated business trust of a corporation, generally in the form of beneficial interests in subordinated debentures or similarly structured securities. The preferred securities market consists of both fixed and adjustable coupon rate securities that are either perpetual in nature or have stated maturity dates. The preferred securities market is divided into the “$25 par” and the “institutional” segments. The $25 par segment is typified by securities that are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), which trade and are quoted “flat”, i.e., without accrued dividend income, and which are typically callable at par value five years after their original issuance date. The institutional segment is typified by $1,000 par value securities that are not exchange-listed, which trade and are quoted on an “accrued income” basis, and which typically have a minimum of 10 years of call protection (at premium prices) from the date of their original issuance.

Preferred securities are typically junior and fully subordinated liabilities of an issuer or the beneficiary of a guarantee that is junior and fully subordinated to the other liabilities of the guarantor. In addition, preferred securities typically permit an issuer to defer the payment of income for eighteen months or more without triggering an event of default. Generally, the maximum allowable deferral period for an issuer is five years or more. Preferred securities have many of the key characteristics of equity due to their subordinated position in an issuer’s capital structure and because their quality and value are heavily dependent on the profitability of the issuer rather than on any legal claims to specific assets or cash flows.

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other trust preferred securities.

Preferred securities may be issued with either a final maturity date, or as a perpetual structure. In certain instances, a final maturity date may be extended and/or the final payment of principal may be deferred at the issuer’s option for a specified time without any adverse consequence to the issuer. No redemption can typically take place unless all cumulative payment obligations have been met, although issuers may be able to engage in open-market repurchases without regard to any cumulative dividends payable. A portion of the portfolio may include investments in non-cumulative preferred securities, whereby the issuer does not have an obligation to make up any arrearages to its shareholders. Should an issuer default on its obligations under such a security, the amount of dividends the Fund pays may be adversely affected.

Real Estate Investment Trust (“ REIT ”) Securities

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund may invest in common stock issued by real estate investment trusts (“ REITs ”). All of the Funds may invest in debt securities issued by REITs and all of the Funds, other than Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund and Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund, may invest in preferred stock issued by REITs. REITs are publicly traded corporations or trusts that specialize in acquiring, holding, and managing residential, commercial or industrial real estate. A REIT is not taxed at the entity level on income distributed to its shareholders or unitholders if it distributes to shareholders or unitholders at least 90% of its taxable income for each taxable year and complies with regulatory requirements relating to its organization, ownership, assets and income.

REITs generally can be classified as Equity REITs, Mortgage REITs and Hybrid REITs. An Equity REIT invests the majority of its assets directly in real property and derives its income primarily from rents and from capital gains on real estate appreciation which are realized through property sales. A Mortgage REIT invests the majority of its assets in real estate mortgage loans and services its income primarily from interest payments. A Hybrid REIT combines the characteristics of an Equity REIT and a Mortgage REIT.

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Royalty Trusts

Each Fund, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, may invest in publicly-traded royalty trusts. Royalty trusts are income-oriented equity investments that indirectly, through the ownership of trust units, provide investors (called “unit holders” ) with exposure to energy sector assets such as coal, oil and natural gas. Royalty trusts are structured similarly to REITs. A royalty trust generally acquires an interest in natural resource companies or chemical companies and distributes the income it receives to the investors of the royalty trust. A sustained decline in demand for crude oil, natural gas and refined petroleum products could adversely affect income and royalty trust revenues and cash flows. Factors that could lead to a decrease in market demand include a recession or other adverse economic conditions, an increase in the market price of the underlying commodity, higher taxes or other regulatory actions that increase costs, or a shift in consumer demand for such products. A rising interest rate environment could adversely impact the performance of royalty trusts. Rising interest rates could limit the capital appreciation of royalty trusts because of the increased availability of alternative investments at more competitive yields.

U.S. Government Securities

Each Fund may invest in U.S. government securities, including bills, notes and bonds differing as to maturity and rates of interest, which are either issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury or by U.S. government agencies or instrumentalities. U.S. government agency securities include securities issued by (a) the Federal Housing Administration, Farmers Home Administration, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Small Business Administration, and the Government National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States; (b) the Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, whose securities are supported by the right of the agency to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; (c) the Federal National Mortgage Association, whose securities are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. government to purchase certain obligations of the agency or instrumentality; and (d) the Student Loan Marketing Association, whose securities are supported only by its credit. While the U.S. government provides financial support to such U.S. government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities, no assurance can be given that it always will do so since it is not so obligated by law. The U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate.

U.S. Treasury obligations include separately traded interest and principal component parts of such obligations, known as Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal Securities (“STRIPS”), which are transferable through the Federal book-entry system. STRIPS are sold as zero coupon securities, which means that they are sold at a substantial discount and redeemed at face value at their maturity date without interim cash payments of interest or principal. This discount is accreted over the life of the security, and such accretion will constitute the income earned on the security for both accounting and tax purposes. Because of these features, such securities may be subject to greater interest rate volatility than interest paying U.S. Treasury obligations.

Variable, Floating, and Fixed Rate Debt Obligations

The debt obligations in which the Funds invest may have variable, floating, or fixed interest rates. Variable rate securities provide for periodic adjustments in the interest rate. Floating rate securities are generally offered at an initial interest rate which is at or above prevailing market rates. The interest rate paid on floating rate securities is then reset periodically (commonly every 90 days) to an increment over some predetermined interest rate index. Commonly utilized indices include the three-month Treasury bill rate, the 180-day Treasury bill rate, the one-month or three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the prime rate of a bank, the commercial paper rates, or the longer-term rates on U.S. Treasury securities. Variable and floating rate securities are relatively long-term instruments that often carry demand features permitting the holder to demand payment of principal at any time or at specified intervals prior to maturity plus accrued interest. In order to most effectively use these securities, the Sub-Adviser must correctly assess probable movements in interest rates. If the Sub-Adviser incorrectly forecasts such movements, a Fund could be adversely affected by use of variable and floating rate securities.

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When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions

Each Fund may purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis. When such a transaction is negotiated, the purchase price is fixed at the time the purchase commitment is entered, but delivery of and payment for the securities take place at a later date. A Fund will not accrue income with respect to securities purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis prior to their stated delivery date.

The purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis exposes a Fund to risk because the securities may decrease in value prior to delivery. In addition, a Fund’s purchase of securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis while remaining substantially fully invested could increase the amount of the Fund’s total assets that are subject to market risk, resulting in increased sensitivity of net asset value to changes in market prices. A seller’s failure to deliver securities to a Fund could prevent the Fund from realizing a price or yield considered to be advantageous.

When a Fund agrees to purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis, the Fund will segregate cash or liquid securities in an amount sufficient to meet the Fund’s purchase commitments. It may be expected that a Fund’s net assets will fluctuate to a greater degree when it sets aside securities to cover such purchase commitments than when it sets aside cash. In addition, because a Fund will set aside cash or liquid securities to satisfy its purchase commitments, its liquidity and the ability of the Adviser to manage it might be affected in the event its commitments to purchase when-issued or delayed delivery securities ever became significant. Under normal market conditions, however, a Fund’s commitments to purchase when-issued or delayed delivery securities will not exceed 25% of the value of its total assets.

Zero Coupon and Step Coupon Securities

The Funds may invest in zero coupon and step coupon securities. Zero coupon securities pay no cash income to their holders until they mature. When held to maturity, their entire return comes from the difference between their purchase price and their maturity value. Step coupon securities are debt securities that may not pay interest for a specified period of time and then, after the initial period, may pay interest at a series of different rates. Both zero coupon and step coupon securities are issued at substantial discounts from their value at maturity. Because interest on these securities is not paid on a current basis, the values of securities of this type are subject to greater fluctuations than are the value of securities that distribute income regularly and may be more speculative than such securities. Accordingly, the values of these securities may be highly volatile as interest rates rise or fall. In addition, while such securities generate income for purposes of generally accepted accounting standards, they do not generate cash flow and thus could cause a Fund to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by the Code.

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MANAGEMENT

The management of the Registrants, including general supervision of the duties performed for the Funds by the Adviser under the Management Agreement, is the responsibility of the Board of Directors of NIF and the Board of Trustees of the Trust (each is referred to hereafter as the “Board” or “ Board of Directors ” and the directors or trustees of the Nuveen Funds, as applicable, are each referred to herein as “directors” ). The number of directors of NIF and the Trust is twelve, two of whom are “ interested persons ” (as the term “interested person” is defined in the 1940 Act) and ten of whom are not interested persons (referred to herein as “independent directors” ). None of the independent directors has ever been a trustee, director or employee of, or consultant to, the Adviser or its affiliates. The names, business addresses and years of birth of the directors and officers of the Funds, their principal occupations and other affiliations during the past five years, the number of portfolios each oversees and other directorships they hold are set forth below. The directors of the Registrants are directors or trustees, as the case may be, of 106 Nuveen-sponsored open-end funds (the “Nuveen Mutual Funds” ) and 96 Nuveen-sponsored closed-end funds (collectively with the Nuveen Mutual Funds, the “Nuveen Funds” ).

Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

Independent Directors:

Robert P. Bremner

333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606

1940

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2003 for the Trust

Private Investor and Management Consultant; Treasurer and Director, Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.; Board Member, Independent Directors Council affiliated with the Investment Company Institute.

202

None

Jack B. Evans

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1948

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—
Since 2011 for NIF Since 1999 for the Trust

President, The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation (since 1996); Director, Source Media Group; Life Trustee of Coe College and the Iowa College Foundation; formerly, Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; formerly, President and Chief Operating Officer, SCI Financial Group, Inc., a regional financial services firm; formerly, Member and President Pro Tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa University System.

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Director and Chairman, United Fire Group, a publicly held company; formerly, Director, Alliant Energy.

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Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

William C. Hunter

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606
1948

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service— Since 2011 for NIF Since 2004 for the Trust

Dean Emeritus (since June 30, 2012), formerly, Dean (2006-2012), Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa; Director (since 2005) and President (since July 2012), Beta Gamma Sigma, Inc., The International Honor Society; Director of Wellmark, Inc. (since 2009); formerly, Director (1997-2007), Credit Research Center at Georgetown University; formerly, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Finance, School of Business at the University of Connecticut (2003-2006); previously, Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1995-2003).

202

Director (since 2004) of Xerox Corporation.

David J. Kundert

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606
1942

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2005 for the Trust

Formerly, Director, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (2006-2013); retired (since 2004) as Chairman, JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management, President and CEO, Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation, and President, One Group Mutual Funds; prior thereto, Executive Vice President, Bank One Corporation and Chairman and CEO, Banc One Investment Management Group; Regent Emeritus, Member of Investment Committee, Luther College; Member of the Wisconsin Bar Association; Member of Board of Directors, Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens; Member of Board of Directors and Chair of Investment Committee, Greater Milwaukee Foundation; Member of the Board of Directors (Milwaukee), College Possible.

202

None

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Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

John K. Nelson

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1962

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2013 for NIF Since 2013 for the Trust

Senior external advisor to the financial services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP (since 2012); Member of Board of Directors of Core12 LLC (since 2008), a private firm which develops branding, marketing and communications strategies for clients; Director of The Curran Center for Catholic American Studies (since 2009) and The President’s Council, Fordham University (since 2010); former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Marian University (2010-2014 as trustee, 2011-2014 as Chairman); formerly, Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO N.V. North America, and Global Head of its Financial Markets Division (2007-2008); prior senior positions held at ABN AMRO include Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Global Markets—the Americas (2006-2007), CEO of Wholesale Banking—North America and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Futures Markets (2001-2006), and Regional Commercial Treasurer and Senior Vice President Trading—North America (1996-2001); formerly, Trustee at St. Edmund Preparatory School in New York City.

202

None

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Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

William J. Schneider

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606
1944

Chairman of the Board and Director

Chairman of the Board and Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2003 for the Trust

Chairman of Miller-Valentine Partners, a real estate investment company; Board Member of Med-America Health System, of Tech Town, Inc., a not-for-profit community development company, and of WDPR Public Radio station; formerly, Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer (retired, 2004) of Miller-Valentine Group; formerly, Director, Dayton Development Coalition; formerly, Board Member, Business Advisory Council, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and University of Dayton Business School Advisory Council.

202

None

Judith M. Stockdale

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606
1947

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2003 for the Trust

Board Member of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (since 2013); Board Member of the Land Trust Alliance (since 2013); formerly, Executive Director (1994-2012), Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; prior thereto, Executive Director, Great Lakes Protection Fund (1990-1994).

202

None

Carole E. Stone

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606
1947

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2007 for the Trust

Director, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (since 2006); Director, C2 Options Exchange, Incorporated (since 2009); formerly, Commissioner, New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform (2005-2010); formerly, Chair, New York Racing Association Oversight Board (2005-2007).

202

Director,

CBOE Holdings, Inc.

(since 2010).

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Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

Virginia L. Stringer

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1944

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—Since 1987 for NIF Since 2011 for the Trust

Board Member, Mutual Fund Directors Forum; former Member, Governing Board, Investment Company Institute’s Independent Directors Council; Governance consultant and non-profit board member; former Owner and President, Strategic Management Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm; previously, held several executive positions in general management, marketing and human resources at IBM and The Pillsbury Company.

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Previously, Independent Director (1987-2010) and Chair (1997-2010), First American Fund Complex.

Terence J. Toth

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1959

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite*

Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2008 for the Trust

Managing Partner, Promus Capital (since 2008); Director, Fulcrum IT Service LLC (since 2010), Quality Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012); formerly, Director, Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (2008-2013); formerly, CEO and President, Northern Trust Global Investments (2004-2007); Executive Vice President, Quantitative Management & Securities Lending (2000-2004); prior thereto, various positions with Northern Trust Company (since 1994); Member, Chicago Fellowship Board (since 2005), Catalyst Schools of Chicago Board (since 2008) and Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and a member of its investment committee; formerly, Member, Northern Trust Mutual Funds Board (2005-2007), Northern Trust Global Investments Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Japan Board (2004-2007), Northern Trust Securities Inc. Board (2003-2007) and Northern Trust Hong Kong Board (1997-2004).

202

None

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Name, Business
Address
and Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held with

NIF

Position(s)
Held with
Trust

Term of Office
and Length of

Time Served with
Registrants

Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years

Number of
Portfolios
in Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Director

Other
Directorships
Held by
Director
During Past
Five Years

Interested Directors:

William Adams IV**

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1955

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite* Length of Service—

Since 2013 for NIF Since 2014 for the Trust

Senior Executive Vice President, Global Structured Products of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2010); Co- President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011); President (since 2011), formerly, Managing Director (2010-2011), of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Board Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of Gilda’s Club Chicago; formerly, Executive Vice President, U.S. Structured Products, of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (1999-2010).

202

None

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.**

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

1962

Director

Trustee

Term—Indefinite* Length of Service— Since 2013 for NIF Since 2014 for the Trust

Vice Chairman, Wealth Management of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2011); Co-President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chairman of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Member of the Board of Governors and Chairman’s Council of the Investment Company Institute; formerly, Chief Executive Officer (2000- 2010) and Chief Investment Officer (2007-2010) of FAF Advisors, Inc.; formerly, President of First American Funds (2001-2010).

202

None

Each director serves an indefinite term until his or her successor is elected.

Mr. Adams and Mr. Schreier are “interested persons” of the Registrants, as defined in the 1940 Act, by reason of their positions with Nuveen Investments, Inc. (“ Nuveen Investments ”) and certain of its subsidiaries.

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Registrants	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Registrants	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Officers of the Registrants:

Gifford R. Zimmerman 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Chief Administrative Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 1996 for the Trust	Managing Director (since 2002) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Managing Director (since 2002), Assistant Secretary (since 1997) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director (since 2004) and Assistant Secretary (since 1994) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (since 2002); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc. (since 2002); Managing Director, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Symphony Asset Management LLC (since 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC (since 2006) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since 2013), formerly, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Compliance Officer (2006-2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Margo L. Cook 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1964	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2009 for the Trust	Executive Vice President of Nuveen Investments, Inc. (since 2008), Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (since 2011) and Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2013); Managing Director—Investment Services of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC (since August 2011); previously, Head of Institutional Asset Management (2007-2008) of Bear Stearns Asset Management; Head of Institutional Asset Management (1986-2007) of Bank of NY Mellon; Chartered Financial Analyst.	203

Lorna C. Ferguson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1945	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 1998 for the Trust	Managing Director of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Stephen D. Foy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1954	Vice President and Controller	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 1998 for the Trust	Managing Director (since 2014), formerly, Senior Vice President (2013-2014) and Vice President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chief Financial Officer (since 2010) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Senior Vice President (2010-2011), formerly, Vice President (2005-2010) and Funds Controller of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Registrants	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Registrants	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Scott S. Grace 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Treasurer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2009 for the Trust	Managing Director and Treasurer (since 2009) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc., Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, Nuveen Securities, LLC and (since 2011) Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Vice President and Treasurer of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Treasurer (2006-2009), Senior Vice President (2008-2009), previously, Vice President (2006-2008) of Janus Capital Group, Inc.; formerly, Senior Associate in Morgan Stanley’s Global Financial Services Group (2000-2003); Chartered Accountant.	203

Walter M. Kelly 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1970	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2003 for the Trust	Senior Vice President (since 2008) of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Tina M. Lazar 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1961	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2002 for the Trust	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.	203

Kevin J. McCarthy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1966	Vice President and Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2007 for the Trust	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary (since 2008) of Nuveen Securities, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Managing Director (since 2008), Assistant Secretary (since 2007) and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Managing Director (since 2008) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.; Vice President (since 2007) and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, NWQ Holdings, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (since 2010); Vice President (since 2010) and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC.	203

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Name, Business Address and Year of Birth	Position(s) Held with Registrants	Term of Office and Length of Time Served with Registrants	Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years	Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen by Officer

Kathleen L. Prudhomme 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402 1953	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2011 for the Trust	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Co-General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Managing Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; formerly, Deputy General Counsel, FAF Advisors, Inc. (2004-2010).	203

Joel T. Slager 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1978	Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2013 for NIF Since 2013 for the Trust	Fund Tax Director for Nuveen Funds (since May, 2013); previously, Vice President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., Assistant Treasurer of the Morgan Stanley Funds (from 2010 to 2013); Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (from 2008 to 2010).	203

Jeffery M. Wilson 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 1956	Vice President	Term—Until August 2015 Length of Service—Since 2011 for NIF Since 2011 for the Trust	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Securities, LLC (since 2011); formerly, Senior Vice President of FAF Advisors, Inc. (2000-2010).	106

Board Leadership Structure and Risk Oversight

The Board oversees the operations and management of the Nuveen Funds, including the duties performed for the Nuveen Funds by the Adviser. The Board has adopted a unitary board structure. A unitary board consists of one group of directors who serve on the board of every fund in the Nuveen Fund complex. In adopting a unitary board structure, the directors seek to provide effective governance through establishing a board, the overall composition of which will, as a body, possess the appropriate skills, independence and experience to oversee the Nuveen Funds’ business. With this overall framework in mind, when the Board, through its Nominating and Governance Committee discussed below, seeks nominees for the Board, the directors consider, not only the candidate’s particular background, skills and experience, among other things, but also whether such background, skills and experience enhance the Board’s diversity and at the same time complement the Board given its current composition and the mix of skills and experiences of the incumbent directors. The Nominating and Governance Committee believes that the Board generally benefits from diversity of background, experience and views among its members, and considers this a factor in evaluating the composition of the Board, but has not adopted any specific policy on diversity or any particular definition of diversity.

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In an effort to enhance the independence of the Board, the Board also has a Chairman that is an independent director. The Board recognizes that a chairman can perform an important role in setting the agenda for the Board, establishing the boardroom culture, establishing a point person on behalf of the Board for fund management, and reinforcing the Board’s focus on the long-term interests of shareholders. The Board recognizes that a chairman may be able to better perform these functions without any conflicts of interests arising from a position with fund management. Accordingly, the directors have elected William J. Schneider to serve as the independent Chairman of the Board. Specific responsibilities of the Chairman include: (i) presiding at all meetings of the Board and of the shareholders; (ii) seeing that all orders and resolutions of the directors are carried into effect; and (iii) maintaining records of and, whenever necessary, certifying all proceedings of the directors and the shareholders.

Although the Board has direct responsibility over various matters (such as advisory contracts, underwriting contracts and fund performance), the Board also exercises certain of its oversight responsibilities through several committees that it has established and which report back to the full Board. The Board believes that a committee structure is an effective means to permit directors to focus on particular operations or issues affecting the Nuveen Funds, including risk oversight. More specifically, with respect to risk oversight, the Board has delegated matters relating to valuation and compliance to certain committees (as summarized below) as well as certain aspects of investment risk. In addition, the Board believes that the periodic rotation of directors among the different committees allows the directors to gain additional and different perspectives of a Nuveen Fund’s operations. The Board has established six standing committees: the Executive Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Audit Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee. The Board may also from time to time create ad hoc committees to focus on particular issues as the need arises. The membership and functions of the standing committees are summarized below.

To fulfill its oversight duties, the Audit Committee receives annual and semi-annual reports and has regular meetings with the external auditors for the Nuveen Funds and the Adviser’s internal audit group. The Audit Committee also may review in a general manner the processes the Board or other Board committees have in place with respect to risk assessment and risk management as well as compliance with legal and regulatory matters relating to the Nuveen Funds’ financial statements. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. Members of the Audit Committee shall be independent (as set forth in the charter) and free of any relationship that, in the opinion of the directors, would interfere with their exercise of independent judgment as an Audit Committee member. The members of the Audit Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans,

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Chair, David J. Kundert, Carole E. Stone and Terence J. Toth, each of whom is an independent director of the Nuveen Funds. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Audit Committee met four times.

In addition, the Nominating and Governance Committee, among other things, makes recommendations concerning the continuing education of directors; monitors performance of legal counsel and other service providers; establishes and monitors a process by which security holders are able to communicate in writing with members of the Board; and periodically reviews and makes recommendations about any appropriate changes to director compensation. In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the Nominating and Governance Committee receives suggestions from various sources, including shareholders, as to suitable candidates. Suggestions should be sent in writing to Lorna Ferguson, Manager of Fund Board Relations, Nuveen Investments, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606. The Nominating and Governance Committee sets appropriate standards and requirements for nominations for new directors and reserves the right to interview any and all candidates and to make the final selection of any new directors. In considering a candidate’s qualifications, each candidate must meet certain basic requirements, including relevant skills and experience, time availability (including the time requirements for due diligence site visits to sub-advisers and service providers) and, if qualifying as an independent director candidate, independence from the Adviser, the Sub-Adviser, the Distributor and other service providers, including any affiliates of these entities. These skill and experience requirements may vary depending on the current composition of the Board, since the goal is to ensure an appropriate range of skills, diversity and experience, in the aggregate. Accordingly, the particular factors considered and weight given to these factors will depend on the composition of the Board and the skills and backgrounds of the incumbent directors at the time of consideration of the nominees. All candidates, however, must meet high expectations of personal integrity, independence, governance experience and professional competence. All candidates must be willing to be critical within the Board and with management and yet maintain a collegial and collaborative manner toward other Board members. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. This committee is composed of the independent directors of the Nuveen Funds. Accordingly, the members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are Robert P. Bremner, Jack B. Evans, William C. Hunter, David J. Kundert, John K. Nelson, William J. Schneider, Chair, Judith M. Stockdale, Carole E. Stone, Virginia L. Stringer and Terence J. Toth. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Nominating and Governance Committee met seven times.

The Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee (the “Compliance Committee” ) is responsible for the oversight of compliance issues, risk management and other

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In addition, the Compliance Committee is responsible for risk oversight, including, but not limited to, the oversight of risks related to investments and operations. Such risks include, among other things, exposures to particular issuers, market sectors, or types of securities; risks related to product structure elements, such as leverage; and techniques that may be used to address those risks, such as hedging and swaps. In assessing issues brought to the committee’s attention or in reviewing a particular policy, procedure, investment technique or strategy, the Compliance Committee evaluates the risks to the Nuveen Funds in adopting a particular approach compared to the anticipated benefits to the Nuveen Funds and their shareholders. In fulfilling its obligations, the Compliance Committee meets on a quarterly basis, and at least once a year in person. The Compliance Committee receives written and oral reports from the Nuveen Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer ( “CCO” ) and meets privately with the CCO at each of its quarterly meetings. The CCO also provides an annual report to the full Board regarding the operations of the Nuveen Funds’ and other service providers’ compliance programs as well as any recommendations for modifications thereto. The Compliance Committee also receives reports from the Adviser’s investment services group regarding various investment risks. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the full Board also participates in discussions with management regarding certain matters relating to investment risk, such as the use of leverage and hedging. The investment services group therefore also reports to the full Board at its quarterly meetings regarding, among other things, fund performance and the various drivers of such performance. Accordingly, the Board directly and/or in conjunction with the Compliance Committee oversees matters relating to investment risks. Matters not addressed at the committee level are addressed directly by the full Board. The committee operates under a written charter adopted and approved by the Board. The members of the Compliance Committee are William C. Hunter, John K. Nelson, Judith M. Stockdale, Chair, and Virginia L. Stringer. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Compliance Committee met six times.

Board Diversification and Director Qualifications

In determining that a particular director was qualified to serve on the Board, the Board has considered each director’s background, skills, experience and other attributes in light of the composition of the Board with no particular factor controlling. The Board believes that directors need to have the ability to critically review, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, and to interact effectively with Fund management, service providers and counsel, in order to exercise effective business judgment in the performance of their duties, and the Board believes each director satisfies this standard. An effective director may achieve this ability through his or her educational background; business, professional training or practice; public service or academic positions; experience from service as a board member or executive of investment funds, public companies or significant private or not-for-profit entities or other organizations; and/or other life experiences. Accordingly, set forth below is a summary of the experiences, qualifications, attributes, and skills that led to the conclusion, as of the date of this document, that each director should continue to serve in

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that capacity. References to the experiences, qualifications, attributes and skills of directors are pursuant to requirements of the SEC, do not constitute holding out of the Board or any director as having any special expertise or experience and shall not impose any greater responsibility or liability on any such person or on the Board by reason thereof.

William Adams IV

Robert P. Bremner

Jack B. Evans

William C. Hunter

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David J. Kundert

John K. Nelson

William J. Schneider

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

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Investment Company Institute and is on its Chairman’s Council. He has also served as director, chairman of the finance committee, and member of the audit committee for Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Mr. Schreier is former chairman of the Saint Thomas Academy Board of Trustees, a founding investor of Granite Global Ventures, and a member of the Applied Investment Management Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame.

Judith M. Stockdale

Carole E. Stone

Virginia L. Stringer

Terence J. Toth

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Control Corporation (since 2012) and LogicMark LLC (since 2012), and is Chairman of the Board of Catalyst Schools of Chicago. He is on the Mather Foundation Board (since 2012) and is a member of its investment committee. Mr. Toth graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and received his MBA from New York University. In 2005, he graduated from the CEO Perspectives Program at Northwestern University.

Board Compensation

The following table shows, for each independent director, (1) the aggregate compensation paid by the Funds for the fiscal year/period ended June 30, 2014, (2) the amount of total compensation paid by the Funds that has been deferred, and (3) the total compensation paid to each director by the Nuveen Funds during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.


Name of Director	Aggregate Compensation From Funds ¹		Amount of Total Compensation that Has Been Deferred ²		Total Compensation From Nuveen Funds Paid to Director ³

Robert P. Bremner	$	10,492	$	1,640	$	298,602
Jack B. Evans		9,999		1,837		291,892
William C. Hunter		9,037		—		261,500
David J. Kundert		11,014		10,834		311,960
John K. Nelson ⁴		5,286		—		152,167
William J. Schneider		12,810		12,595		363,918
Judith M. Stockdale		9,848		747		285,359
Carole E. Stone		10,480		5,278		300,367
Virginia L. Stringer		10,152		—		270,500
Terence J. Toth		11,772		3,968		316,839

The compensation paid, including deferred amounts, to the independent directors for the fiscal year/period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Funds.

Based on the compensation paid (including any amounts deferred) to the directors for the one-year period ended June 30, 2014 for services to the Nuveen Funds.

⁴

Mr. Nelson was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Nuveen Funds effective September 1, 2013.

Prior to January 1, 2014, independent directors received a $140,000 annual retainer plus (a) a fee of $4,500 per day for attendance in person or by telephone at regularly scheduled meetings of the Board; (b) a fee of $3,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at special, non-regularly scheduled Board meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (c) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Audit Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (d) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; (e) a fee of $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Dividend Committee meetings; (f) a fee of $500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at all other committee meetings ($1,000 for shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance was required and $250 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such committee meetings (excluding shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance was not required, and $100 per meeting when the Executive Committee acted as pricing committee for IPOs, plus, in each case, expenses incurred in attending such meetings, provided that no fees were received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held; and (g) a fee of

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$2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Open-End Funds Committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required; provided that no fees were received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings were held. In addition to the payments described above, the Chairman of the Board received $75,000, the chairpersons of the Audit Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee received $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee received $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent directors also received a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provided services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting was held. When ad hoc committees were organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee at the time of formation determined compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees were $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance was required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance was not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses were allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management might have, in its discretion, established a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

Effective January 1, 2014, independent directors receive a $150,000 annual retainer, plus they receive (a) a fee of $5,000 per day for attendance in person or by telephone at regularly scheduled meetings of the Board; (b) a fee of $3,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at special, non-regularly scheduled Board meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (c) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Audit Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (d) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; (e) a fee of $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Dividend Committee meetings; (f) a fee of $500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at all other committee meetings ($1,000 for shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance is required and $250 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such committee meetings (excluding shareholder meetings) where in-person attendance is not required, and $100 per meeting when the Executive Committee acts as pricing committee for IPOs, plus, in each case, expenses incurred in attending such meetings, provided that no fees are received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings are held; and (g) a fee of $2,500 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at Open-End Funds Committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $2,000 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required; provided that no fees are received for meetings held on days on which regularly scheduled Board meetings are held. In addition to the payments described above, the Chairman of the Board receives $75,000, the chairpersons of the Audit Committee, the Dividend Committee, the Compliance, Risk Management and Regulatory Oversight Committee and the Open-End Funds Committee receive $12,500 each and the chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee receives $5,000 as additional retainers. Independent directors also receive a fee of $3,000 per day for site visits to entities that provide services to the Nuveen Funds on days on which no Board meeting is held. When ad hoc committees are organized, the Nominating and Governance Committee will at the time of formation determine compensation to be paid to the members of such committee; however, in general, such fees will be $1,000 per meeting for attendance in person or by telephone at ad hoc committee meetings where in-person attendance is required and $500 per meeting for attendance by telephone or in person at such meetings where in-person attendance is not required. The annual retainer, fees and expenses are allocated among the Nuveen Funds on the basis of relative net assets, although management may, in its discretion, establish a minimum amount to be allocated to each fund.

The Registrants do not have a retirement or pension plan. The Registrants have a deferred compensation plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan” ) that permits any independent director to

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elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of his or her compensation as an independent director. The deferred compensation of a participating director is credited to a book reserve account of the Registrants when the compensation would otherwise have been paid to the director. The value of the director’s deferral account at any time is equal to the value that the account would have had if contributions to the account had been invested and reinvested in shares of one or more of the eligible Nuveen Funds. At the time for commencing distributions from a director’s deferral account, the independent director may elect to receive distributions in a lump sum or over a period of five years. The Registrants will not be liable for any other fund’s obligations to make distributions under the Deferred Compensation Plan.

The Funds have no employees. The officers of the Registrants and the directors of the Registrants who are not independent directors serve without any compensation from the Funds.

Share Ownership

The information in the table below discloses the dollar ranges of (i) each director’s beneficial ownership in each Fund, and (ii) each director’s aggregate beneficial ownership in all funds within the Nuveen Funds complex, including in each case the value of fund shares elected by the director in the directors’ deferred compensation plan, based on the value of fund shares as of September 30, 2014:


		Directors
	Adams	Bremner	Evans	Hunter	Kundert	Nelson	Schneider	Schreier	Stockdale	Stone	Stringer	Toth
Aggregate Holdings—Fund Complex	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	Over $100,000
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund	Over $100,000	$0	$50,001- $100,000	$50,001- $100,000	$0	$0	$0	Over $100,000	Over $100,000	$0	$0	$0
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$50,001- $100,000
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

As of October 2, 2014, the officers and directors of the Registrants, in the aggregate, owned less than 1% of the shares of each of the Funds.

As of October 2, 2014, none of the independent directors or their immediate family members owned, beneficially, or of record, any securities in (i) an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds or (ii) a person (other than a registered investment company) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds.

Sales Loads

Directors of the Funds and certain other Fund affiliates may purchase the Funds’ Class I shares. See the Funds’ Prospectus for details.

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SERVICE PROVIDERS

Investment Adviser

Nuveen Fund Advisors, located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the investment adviser of each Fund, with responsibility for the overall management of each Fund. The Adviser is also responsible for managing the Funds’ business affairs and providing day-to-day administrative services to the Funds. The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, located at 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolios of the Funds. For additional information regarding the management services performed by the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser, see “Who Manages the Funds” in the Prospectus.

On October 1, 2014, Nuveen Investments was acquired by TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization.

Each Fund has agreed to pay an annual fund-level management fee, payable monthly, based upon the average daily net assets of each Fund as set forth in the Prospectus.

Each Fund’s complex-level fee is payable monthly and is additive to the fund-level fee. The overall complex-level fee rate is based on the schedule below. The complex-level fee for Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund is determined by taking the current overall complex-level fee rate, which is based on the aggregate amount of the “eligible assets” of all Nuveen Funds, and making, as appropriate, upward adjustments to that rate based upon the percentage of each Fund’s assets that are not “eligible assets.” Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund pays the overall complex-level fee rate. The current overall complex-level fee schedule is as follows:


Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level*	Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level
$55 billion		0.2000	%
$56 billion		0.1996	%
$57 billion		0.1989	%
$60 billion		0.1961	%
$63 billion		0.1931	%
$66 billion		0.1900	%
$71 billion		0.1851	%
$76 billion		0.1806	%
$80 billion		0.1773	%
$91 billion		0.1691	%
$125 billion		0.1599	%

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Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level*	Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level
$200 billion		0.1505	%
$250 billion		0.1469	%
$300 billion		0.1445	%


	Complex-Level Fee Rate
Nuveen Core Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		0.1803	%
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		0.1829	%
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		0.2000	%
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		0.1883	%
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		0.1916	%
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund		0.1653	%


	Management Fees Net of Expense Reimbursement Paid to the Adviser						Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements from the Adviser
Fund	Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	3,860,392	$	2,547,084	$	1,749,662	$	114,444	$	83,320	$	128,918
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		5,155,630		3,102,712		2,340,510		369,998		305,202		461,610
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		3,598,790		4,147,980		4,707,172		190,471		—		—
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		1,421,061		1,655,236		1,341,332		528,613		—		91,177
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		389,920		230,257		233,296		274,847		119,207		118,037
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		3,456,471		3,292,573		3,546,626		130,350		167,226		168,278
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		3,246,861		3,053,083		3,057,780		431,342		410,663		484,534

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	Management Fees Net of Expense Reimbursement Paid to the Adviser		Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements from the Adviser
Fund	May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014		May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	$	—	$	24,150

In addition to the Adviser’s management fee, each Fund also pays a portion of each Registrant’s general administrative expenses allocated in proportion to the net assets of each Fund. All fees and expenses are accrued daily and deducted before payment of dividends to investors.

Sub-Adviser

The Adviser has selected its affiliate, Nuveen Asset Management, to serve as sub-adviser to manage the investment portfolio of each Fund. The Adviser pays Nuveen Asset Management a portfolio management fee out of the advisory fee paid to the Adviser for its services to the Funds.

Portfolio Managers

The following individuals have primary responsibility for the day-to-day implementation of the investment strategies of the Funds:


Name		Fund
Peter L. Agrimson		Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund
Daniel J. Close		Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund
Jeffrey J. Ebert		Nuveen Core Bond Fund
		Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund
		Nuveen Strategic Income Fund
		Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund
John T. Fruit		Nuveen High Income Bond Fund
Chad W. Kemper		Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund
Wan-Chong Kung		Nuveen Core Bond Fund Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund
		Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund
		Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund
Chris J. Neuharth		Nuveen Core Bond Fund
		Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund
		Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund
		Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund
Marie A. Newcome		Nuveen Strategic Income Fund
Jason J. O’Brien		Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund
Timothy A. Palmer		Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund
		Nuveen Strategic Income Bond Fund
Jeffrey T. Schmitz		Nuveen High Income Bond Fund
		Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

Compensation

Portfolio manager compensation consists primarily of base pay, an annual cash bonus and long-term incentive payments.

Base pay. Base pay is determined based upon an analysis of the portfolio manager’s general performance, experience, and market levels of base pay for such position.

Annual cash bonus. The Funds’ portfolio managers are eligible for an annual cash bonus based on investment performance, qualitative evaluation and financial performance of Nuveen Asset Management.

A portion of each portfolio manager’s annual cash bonus is based on a Fund’s pre-tax investment performance, generally measured over the past one- and three- or five-year periods unless the portfolio manager’s tenure is shorter. Investment performance for the Fund generally is determined by evaluating the Fund’s performance relative to its benchmark(s) and/or Lipper industry peer group.

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The final factor influencing a portfolio manager’s cash bonus is the financial performance of Nuveen Asset Management based on its operating earnings.

Long-term incentive compensation. Certain key employees of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, including certain portfolio managers, have received equity interests in the parent company of Nuveen Investments. In addition, certain key employees of Nuveen Asset Management, including certain portfolio managers, have received profits interests in Nuveen Asset Management which entitle their holders to participate in the firm’s growth over time.

There are generally no differences between the methods used to determine compensation with respect to the Funds and the Other Accounts shown in the table below.

Other Accounts Managed

In addition to the Funds, as of June 30, 2014, the portfolio managers were also primarily responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of the following accounts:


Portfolio Manager	Type of Account Managed	Number of Accounts		Assets		Number of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees	Assets of Accounts with Performance- Based Fees
Peter L. Agrimson	Registered Investment Companies		0	$	0	0	$	0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		0		0	0		0
Daniel J. Close	Registered Investment Companies		17		5.5 billion	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		11		193.3 million	0		0
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Registered Investment Companies		1		6.8 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		26		1.4 billion	1		82.7 million
John T. Fruit	Registered Investment Companies		1		117.8 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		1		10.3 million	0		0
	Other Accounts		0		0	0		0
Chad W. Kemper	Registered Investment Companies		0		0	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		44		1.2 billion	0		0
Wan-Chong Kung	Registered Investment Companies		0		0	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		9		414.3 million	0		0
Chris J. Neuharth	Registered Investment Companies		1		117.8 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		2		290.8 million	0		0
	Other Accounts		10		871.0 million	0		0
Marie A. Newcome	Registered Investment Companies		1		6.6 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		14		218.0 million	0		0
Jason J. O’Brien	Registered Investment Companies		5		816.2 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		0		0	0		0
	Other Accounts		11		350.0 million	0		0
Timothy A. Palmer	Registered Investment Companies		4		786.9 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		1		57.4 million	0		0
	Other Accounts		6		519.0 million	0		0
Jeffrey T. Schmitz	Registered Investment Companies		2		591.9 million	0		0
	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles		1		10.3 million	0		0
	Other Accounts		0		0	0		0

Conflicts of Interest

Actual or apparent conflicts of interest may arise when a portfolio manager has day-to-day management responsibilities with respect to more than one account. More specifically, portfolio

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managers who manage multiple accounts are presented a number of potential conflicts, including, among others, those discussed below.

If a portfolio manager identifies a limited investment opportunity which may be suitable for more than one account, an account may not be able to take full advantage of that opportunity due to an allocation of filled purchase or sale orders across all eligible accounts. To deal with these situations, Nuveen Asset Management has adopted procedures for allocating limited opportunities across multiple accounts.

With respect to many of its clients’ accounts, Nuveen Asset Management determines which broker to use to execute transaction orders, consistent with its duty to seek best execution of the transaction. However, with respect to certain other accounts, Nuveen Asset Management may be limited by the client with respect to the selection of brokers or may be instructed to direct trades through a particular broker. In these cases, Nuveen Asset Management may place separate, non-simultaneous, transactions for a Fund and other accounts which may temporarily affect the market price of the security or the execution of the transaction, or both, to the detriment of the Fund or the other accounts.

Beneficial Ownership of Securities

A - $0

B - $1 - $10,000

C - $10,001 - $50,000

D - $50,001 - $100,000

E - $100,001 - $500,000

F - $500,001 - $1,000,000

G - More than $1 million


Portfolio Manager	Fund	Dollar Range of Equity Securities Beneficially Owned in Fund Managed
Peter L. Agrimson	Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund	B
Daniel J. Close	Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	A
Jeffrey J. Ebert	Nuveen Core Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Strategic Income Fund	C
	Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	A
John T. Fruit	Nuveen High Income Bond Fund	E

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Portfolio Manager	Fund	Dollar Range of Equity Securities Beneficially Owned in Fund Managed
Chad W. Kemper	Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund	A
Wan-Chong Kung	Nuveen Core Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund	B
	Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	B
Chris J. Neuharth	Nuveen Core Bond Fund	C
	Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund	D
Marie A. Newcome	Nuveen Strategic Income Fund	B
Jason J. O’Brien	Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	A
Timothy A. Palmer	Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	B
	Nuveen Strategic Income Bond Fund	D
Jeffrey T. Schmitz	Nuveen High Income Bond Fund	D
	Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	A

Transfer Agent

The Funds’ transfer, shareholder services, and dividend paying agent is Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“ BFDS ”), P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530.

Prior to May 14, 2012, USBFS served as the transfer agent to the Funds, other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund. The following table sets forth transfer agent fees, excluding out-of-pocket expenses, paid by the Funds to USBFS for the period July 1, 2011 through May 14, 2012:


Fund	July 1, 2011 through May 14, 2012 ¹
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	197,960
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		306,032
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		284,268
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		181,337
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		45,574
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		176,383
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		160,493

Transfer agent fees are reflective of one-time fees, due to transfer agent conversion, in the amount of $930, $3,938, $2,035, $950, $786, $3,219 and $1,743 for Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund, respectively.

Custodians

U.S. Bank and State Street Bank & Trust Company act as custodians for the Funds (the “Custodians” ). U.S. Bank, 1555 North RiverCenter Drive, Suite 302, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, acts as the custodian for Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund. U.S. Bank is a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp. State Street Bank & Trust Company, P.O. Box 5043, Boston, Massachusetts 02206-5043, acts as the custodian for Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund. State Street Bank & Trust Company performs custodial, fund accounting and portfolio accounting services.

The Custodians take no part in determining the investment policies of the Funds or in deciding which securities are purchased or sold by the Funds. All of the instruments representing the investments of the Funds and all cash are held by the Custodians. The Custodians deliver securities against payment upon sale and pays for securities against delivery upon purchase. The Custodians

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also remit Fund assets in payment of Fund expenses, pursuant to instructions of NIF’s officers or resolutions of the Board of Directors.

As compensation for its services as custodian, U.S. Bank is paid a monthly fee calculated on an annual basis equal to 0.005% of Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund’s average daily net assets. State Street Bank and Trust Company is paid reasonable compensation as agreed upon from time to time. Sub-custodian fees with respect to Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund are paid by State Street Bank and Trust Company out of its fees from Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund. In addition, the Custodians are reimbursed for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred while providing services to the Funds. Each Custodian continues to serve so long as its appointment is approved at least annually by the Board of Directors including a majority of the directors who are not “interested persons” of NIF, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act.

Distributor

Nuveen Securities, LLC, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the distributor for the Funds’ shares pursuant to a “best efforts” arrangement as provided by Distribution Agreements dated January 1, 2011 for NIF and August 1, 1998 for the Trust (the “ Distribution Agreement s”). Pursuant to the Distribution Agreements, the Funds appointed the Distributor to be their agent for the distribution of the Funds’ shares on a continuous offering basis.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“ PwC ”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, independent registered public accounting firm, has been selected as auditors for the Funds. In addition to audit services, PwC provides assistance on accounting, tax and related matters.

CODES OF ETHICS

The Funds, the Adviser, Nuveen Asset Management and the Distributor have adopted codes of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and with respect to the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser, Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Acts of 1940, as amended, addressing personal securities transactions and other conduct by investment personnel and access persons who may have access to information about the Funds’ securities transactions. The codes are intended to address potential conflicts of interest that can arise in connection with personal trading activities of such persons. Persons subject to the codes are generally permitted to engage in personal securities transactions, including investing in securities eligible for investment by the Funds, subject to certain prohibitions, which may include prohibitions on investing in certain types of securities, pre-clearance requirements, blackout periods, annual and quarterly reporting of personal securities holdings and limitations on personal trading of initial public offerings. Violations of the codes are subject to review by the Board of Directors and could result in severe penalties.

PROXY VOTING POLICIES

The Funds invest their assets primarily in debt securities, which generally do not issue proxies. However, the Funds may also invest in other types of securities that may issue proxies.

Each Fund has adopted a proxy voting policy that seeks to ensure that proxies for securities held by the Fund are voted consistently and solely in the best economic interests of the Fund.

A member of each Fund’s management team is responsible for oversight of the Fund’s proxy voting process. With regard to equity securities, Nuveen Asset Management has engaged the services of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. ( “ISS” ) to make recommendations on the voting of proxies relating to securities held by the Funds and managed by Nuveen Asset Management. ISS provides voting recommendations based upon established guidelines and practices. Nuveen Asset Management reviews and frequently follows ISS recommendations. However, on selected issues, Nuveen Asset Management may not vote in accordance with the ISS recommendations when it

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believes that specific ISS recommendations are not in the best economic interest of the applicable Fund. If Nuveen Asset Management manages the assets of a company or its pension plan and any of Nuveen Asset Management’s clients hold any securities of that company, Nuveen Asset Management will vote proxies relating to such company’s securities in accordance with the ISS recommendations to avoid any conflict of interest. Where a material conflict of interest has been identified by Nuveen Asset Management and ISS does not offer a recommendation on the matter, Nuveen Asset Management shall disclose the conflict and Nuveen Asset Management’s Proxy Voting Committee shall determine the manner in which to vote and notify the Fund’s Board of Trustees or its designated committee.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS

Nuveen Asset Management is responsible for decisions to buy and sell securities for the Funds, the negotiation of the prices to be paid or received for principal trades, and the allocation of its transactions among various dealer firms. Portfolio securities will normally be purchased directly from an underwriter in a new issue offering or in the over-the-counter secondary market from the principal dealers in such securities, unless it appears that a better price or execution may be obtained elsewhere. Portfolio securities will not be purchased from Nuveen or its affiliates except in compliance with the 1940 Act.

The Funds expect that substantially all portfolio transactions will be effected on a principal (as opposed to an agency) basis and, accordingly, do not expect to pay significant amounts of brokerage commissions. Brokerage will not be allocated based on the sale of a Fund’s shares. Purchases from underwriters will include a commission or concession paid by the issuer to the underwriter, and purchases from dealers will include the spread between the bid and asked price. It is the policy of Nuveen Asset Management to seek the best execution under the circumstances of each trade. Nuveen Asset Management evaluates price as the primary consideration, with the financial condition, reputation and responsiveness of the dealer considered secondarily in determining best execution. Given the best execution obtainable, it may be Nuveen Asset Management’s practice to select dealers that, in addition, furnish research information (primarily credit analyses of issuers and general economic reports) and statistical and other services to Nuveen Asset Management. It is not possible to place a dollar value on information and statistical and other services received from dealers. Since it is only supplementary to Nuveen Asset Management’s own research efforts, the receipt of research information is not expected to reduce significantly Nuveen Asset Management’s expenses. For certain secondary market transactions where the execution capability of two brokers is judged to be of substantially similar quality, Nuveen Asset Management may randomly select one of them. While Nuveen Asset Management will be primarily responsible for the placement of the portfolio transactions of the Funds, the policies and practices of Nuveen Asset Management in this regard must be consistent with the foregoing and will, at all times, be subject to review by the Board of Directors.

Nuveen Asset Management may manage other investment companies and investment accounts for other clients that have investment objectives similar to the Funds. Subject to applicable laws and regulations, Nuveen Asset Management seeks to allocate portfolio transactions equitably whenever

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concurrent decisions are made to purchase or sell securities by a Fund and another advisory account. In making such allocations the main factors to be considered will be the respective investment objectives, the relative size of the portfolio holdings of the same or comparable securities, the availability of cash for investment or need to raise cash, and the size of investment commitments generally held. While this procedure could have a detrimental effect on the price or amount of the securities (or, in the case of dispositions, the demand for securities) available to the Funds from time to time, it is the opinion of the Board of Directors that the benefits available from the Nuveen Asset Management organization will outweigh any disadvantage that may arise from exposure to simultaneous transactions.

The following tables set forth the aggregate brokerage commissions paid by the Funds during the fiscal years/period ended June 30, 2012, June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014:


	Aggregate Brokerage Commissions Paid by the Funds
Fund	Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	—	$	—	$	31,047
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		—		593		19,689
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		33,026		27,713		44,513
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		486		608		16,052
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		—		—		3,642
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		—		—		16,045
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		23,254		5,512		22,776

—

No commissions paid.

Fund

Aggregate Brokerage Commissions Paid by the Fund

May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

$26

Brokerage commissions paid by a Fund may vary significantly from year to year. During the last fiscal year, Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund experienced increases in brokerage commissions due to varying market conditions and portfolio holdings and/or fund inflows.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Funds did not pay commissions to brokers in return for research services.

The Funds, excluding Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, have acquired during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014 the securities of their regular brokers or dealers as defined in Rule 10b-1 under the 1940 Act or of the parents of the brokers or dealers. The following table sets forth those brokers or dealers and states the value of the Funds’ aggregate holdings of the securities of each issuer as of close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.


Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

Nuveen Core Bond Fund	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 5.750%, 12/01/17	$	2,819,800

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 4.000%, 4/01/24		3,464,703

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 4.500%, 1/14/22		2,174,004

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust Series 2012-GC8, 3.024%, 9/10/45		1,999,984

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.000%, 6/15/20	$	3,642,516

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 5.250%, 7/27/21		1,802,307

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.750%, 10/01/37		1,311,307

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Capital II, 4.000%		932,000

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation II, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-GG6, 5.506%, 4/10/38		17,988

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation II, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-GG10, 5.997%, 8/10/45		3,016,625

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 4.500%, 1/24/22		986,165

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.200%, 1/25/23		3,043,162

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.375%, 5/01/23		1,217,084

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.400%, 5/15/38		1,269,343

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		(101,180	)*

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, 4.875%, 11/01/22		1,250,532

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 6.625%, 4/01/18		2,630,189

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 3.750%, 2/25/23		340,788

	Wachovia Bank	Wachovia Capital Trust III, 5.570%		2,153,400

	Wachovia Bank	Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-WHI8, 0.232%, 11/15/20		459,541

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 4.000%, 4/01/24	$	3,015,669

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Funding Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-4, 5.500%, 6/25/37		305,507

	Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays, Credit Default Swap		(269,051	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 4.500%, 1/14/22		5,657,845

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 3.875%, 10/25/23		5,121,300

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		3,227	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		17,715	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		34,862	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		11,657	*

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-4, 6.051%, 9/15/39		1,094,021

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2014-ICE, 1.800%, 4/15/27		1,098,200

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corporation, Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-8, 6.189%, 4/25/33		2,612,568

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.000%, 6/15/20		745,987

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 5.250%, 7/27/21		2,801,718

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.750%, 10/01/37		4,433,180

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Capital II, 4.000%		1,932,000

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-RP2 1A2, 7.500%, 3/25/35	$	615,354

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-RP3 1A2, 7.500%, 9/25/35		685,700

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 4.500%, 1/24/22		3,495,407

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.200%, 1/25/23		2,646,012

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.375%, 5/01/23		1,648,952

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.400%, 5/15/38		2,767,168

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.750%, 8/01/64		3,718,444

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Alternative Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-S1, 0.430%, 4/25/47		1,715,383

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-C4, 4.106%, 7/15/46		6,033,864

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Credit Default Swap		259,804	*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Credit Default Swap		(343,111	)*

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 6.625%, 4/01/18		7,306,081

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 5.500%, 7/28/21		4,715,935

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Interest Rate Swap		(350,301	)*

	Wells Fargo Securities	Wells Fargo & Company, 5.850%		1,608,280

	Wells Fargo Securities	Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-2, 5.750%, 3/25/37		769,060

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Wells Fargo Securities	Wells Fargo Capital Trust X, 5.950%, 12/15/36	$	2,815,200

	Wells Fargo Securities	Wells Fargo & Company, 3.450%, 2/13/23		1,214,031

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund	Bank of America Capital Management, Inc.	Bank of America Corporation, 4.000%		1,771,734

	Bank of America Capital Management, Inc.	Bank of America, Interest Rate Swap		(269,555	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(209,221	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(159,721	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(13,724	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(7,614	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(8,812	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		412,464	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(7,876	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		3,961	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		1,720	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		15,019	*

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Capital II, 4.000%		2,272,000

	Jefferies & Company, Inc.	Jefferies Finance LLC, Corp., 144A, 7.375%, 4/1/20		3,150,000

	Jefferies & Company, Inc.	Jefferies Finance LLC, 144A, 6.875%, 4/15/22		2,323,000

	UBS Financial Services, Inc.	UBS Preferred Funding Trust IV, 0.852%		3,315,823

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund	Bank of America Capital Management, Inc.	Bank of America Corporation, 7.250%		233,400

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2014-ICE, 1.800%, 4/15/27		641,870

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.	Greenwich Capital Commercial Funding Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-GG11, 5.736%, 12/10/49	$	4,224,487

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2010-C1, 3.853%, 6/15/43		787,548

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		(70,939	)*

	Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.		—

	UBS Financial Services, Inc.	UBS Preferred Funding Trust IV, 0.852%		293,550

	UBS Financial Services, Inc.	UBS Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust 2012-C4, 2.850%, 12/10/45		1,964,088

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2014-GC19, 1.199%, 3/10/47		910,485

	Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust 2014-1, 0.512%, 12/16/19		500,531

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust 2013-C9, 0.825%, 5/15/46		746,124

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2010-C2 A1, 2.749%, 11/15/43		689,221

	Deutsche Bank Trust Co.	DBUBS Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-LC3A, 3.642%, 8/10/44		294,025

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 1.125%, 11/14/16		12,518,882

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Commercial Mortgage Inc., Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-4, 4.933%, 7/10/45		878,631

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays Bank PLC, 5.000%, 9/22/16	$	3,929,328

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 6.125%, 11/21/17		8,452,290

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 8.400%		5,702,500

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-4, 6.051%, 9/15/39		2,735,053

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2013-6, 2.500%, 7/25/28		6,418,226

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2014-ICE, 1.800%, 4/15/27		1,905,552

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corporation, Mortgage- Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-23, 5.750%, 9/25/33		616,903

	Deutsche Bank Trust Co.	Deutsche Bank AG London, 2.500%, 2/13/19		2,895,298

	Deutsche Bank Trust Co.	DBUBS Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-LC3A, 3.642%, 8/10/44		2,525,469

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.250%, 9/01/17		13,695,615

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation II, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-GC3, 3.645%, 3/10/44		4,921,507

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation II, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-GG10, 5.997%, 8/10/45		10,558,187

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation II, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2010-C1, 3.679%, 8/10/43		4,005,121

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Goldman Sachs & Co.	Goldman Sachs Mortgage Securities Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass- Through Certificates, Series 2011-GC5, 2.999%, 8/10/44	$	2,209,411

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.000%, 1/15/18		10,306,071

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2010-C1, 3.853%, 6/15/43		3,323,917

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corporation, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2010-C2 A1, 2.749%, 11/15/43		2,820,506

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corporation, Pass-Through Certificates Trust 2013-FL3, 0.851%, 4/15/28		2,829,491

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust Pass-Through Certificates Series 2013-JWRZ, 0.935%, 4/15/30		7,043,196

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-C4, 1.525%, 7/15/46		198,117

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust, Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2013-C12, 2.424%, 7/15/45		9,206,577

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		(201,985	)*

	Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 5.950%, 12/28/17		8,880,058

	Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc. Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-NC2, 0.330%, 2/25/36		399,871

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.	Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-C1, 2.602%, 9/15/47	$	2,916,655

	Wells Fargo Securities	Wells Fargo & Company, 3.676%, 6/15/16		3,962,663

		Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificate Series 2007-2, 5.750%, 3/25/37		564,793

		Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificate Series 2006-AR14, 2.621% 10/25/36		1,004,370

		Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities, 2005-AR16 Class 3A2, 2.683%, 3/25/35		26,233

		Wells Fargo-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust Series 2012-C9, 0.673%, 11/15/45		3,855,978

		Wells Fargo-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2011-C3, 1.988%, 3/15/44		1,612,275

		WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2011-C2, 2.501%, 2/15/44		1,537,690

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Corporation, 4.000%, 4/01/24		10,970,708

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Banc of America Alternative Loan Trust, Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6, 6.000%, 7/25/46		2,343,695

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Alternative Loan Trust, Series 2005-5 2 CB1, 6.000%, 6/25/35		44,865

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America Commercial Mortgage Inc., Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-4, 4.933%, 7/10/45		361,789

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Bank of America Securities LLC.	Bank of America, Interest Rate Swap	$	(138,587	)*

	Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays PLC, 8.250%		1,590,000

	Barclay Investments LTD.	Barclays PLC, 6.500%		3,904,183

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 3.875%, 10/25/23		5,121,300

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 3.750%, 6/16/24		5,013,960

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 6.125%, 8/25/36		2,101,440

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup Inc., 8.400%		2,281,000

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(63,286	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(49,790	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		3,980	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(9,992	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(17,410	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(82,743	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(18,290	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(2,937	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(32,105	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(69,190	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(114,095	)*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		20,602	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		216,795	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		177,473	*

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		90,641	*

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.	Citigroup, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract	$	15,428	*

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse Group AG, 7.500%		1,106,900

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corporation, Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-23, 5.750%, 9/25/33		231,955

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		28,928	*

	Credit Suisse	Credit Suisse, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		91,809	*

	Deutsche Bank Trust Co.	Deutsche Bank Trust Co.		—

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 4.500%, 1/24/22		4,947,262

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.200% 1/25/23		675,155

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 3.375%, 5/01/23		1,575,338

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.400%, 5/15/38		2,894,102

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Chase & Company, 6.750%, 1/29/49		4,972,275

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan Alternative Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-S1, 0.432%, 6/25/37		1,022,828

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(32,689	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(31,582	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(8,003	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(250,558	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(142,572	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		145,871	*

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Fund	Broker/Dealer	Issuer	Aggregate Fund Holdings of Broker/Dealer or Parent (as of June 30, 2014)

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract	$	43,230	*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		(336,014	)*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contract		2,865	*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		104,011	*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		233,823	*

	JPMorgan Chase	JPMorgan, Interest Rate Swap		(343,111	)*

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, 4.875%, 11/01/22		2,833,824

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, 3.750%, 2/25/23		4,455,682

	Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.	Morgan Stanley, Interest Rate Swap		(505,990	)*

Amounts represent unrealized appreciation/depreciation as of June 30, 2014.

Under the 1940 Act, a Fund may not purchase portfolio securities from any underwriting syndicate of which the Distributor is a member except under certain limited conditions set forth in Rule 10f-3. The Rule sets forth requirements relating to, among other things, the terms of a security purchased by a Fund, the amount of securities that may be purchased in any one issue and the assets of a Fund that may be invested in a particular issue. In addition, purchases of securities made pursuant to the terms of the Rule must be approved at least quarterly by the Board of Directors, including a majority of the independent directors.

DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

The Nuveen Mutual Funds have adopted a portfolio holdings disclosure policy which governs the dissemination of the Funds’ portfolio holdings. In accordance with this policy, the Funds may provide portfolio holdings information to third parties no earlier than the time a report is filed with the SEC that is required to contain such information or one day after the information is posted on the Funds’ publicly accessible website, www.nuveen.com. A complete list of portfolio holdings information is generally made available in the Funds’ website ten business days after the end of the month. Additionally, the Funds publish on the website a list of their top ten holdings as of the end of each month, approximately two to five business days after the end of the month for which the information is current. This information will remain available on the website at least until the Funds file with the SEC their Forms N-CSR or Forms N-Q for the period that includes the date as of which the website information is current.

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registered public accounting firm, custodian, financial printer (R.R. Donnelley Financial and Financial Graphic Services), proxy voting service(s) (including ISS, ADP Investor Communication Services, and Glass, Lewis & Co.), and to the legal counsel for the Funds’ independent directors (Chapman and Cutler LLP). Also, the Adviser may transmit to Vestek Systems, Inc. daily non-public portfolio holdings information on a next-day basis to enable the Adviser to perform portfolio attribution analysis using Vestek’s systems and software programs. Vestek is also provided with non-public portfolio holdings information on a monthly basis approximately 2-3 business days after the end of each month so that Vestek may calculate and provide certain statistical information (but not the non-public holdings information itself) to its clients (including retirement plan sponsors or their consultants). The Adviser and/or Sub-Adviser may also provide certain portfolio holdings information to broker-dealers from time to time in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or requests for price quotations or bids on one or more securities. In providing this information, reasonable precautions are taken in an effort to avoid potential misuse of the disclosed information, including limitations on the scope of the portfolio holdings information disclosed, when appropriate.

ADP Investor Communications Services

Barclays Capital, Inc.

Barra

Bloomberg

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Broadridge Systems

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Commerz Markets LLC

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Dresdner Kleinwort Securities, LLC

Ernst & Young LLP

FactSet Research Systems

Financial Graphic Services

First Clearing, LLC

Forbes

Glass, Lewis & Co.

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

ING Financial Markets, LLC

The Investment Company Institute

ISS

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

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J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.

J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.

KPMG LLP

Lipper Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Moody’s

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Morningstar, Inc.

MS Securities Services, Inc.

Newedge USA, LLC

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

Pershing, LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

RBS Securities, Inc.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company

R.R. Donnelley Financial

Scotia Capital (USA), Inc.

SG Ameritas Securities, LLC

Societe Generale, New York Branch

Standard & Poor’s

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

Strategic Insight

TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.

ThomsonReuters LLC

UBS Securities, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC

U.S. Bank N.A.

Value Line

Vestek Systems, Inc.

Vickers

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Wilshire Associates Incorporated

NET ASSET VALUE

Each Fund’s net asset value is determined as set forth in its Prospectus under “General Information—Net Asset Value.”

CAPITAL STOCK/SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

NIF

Each share of Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund’s $0.0001 par value common stock is fully paid, nonassessable, and transferable. Shares may be issued as either full or fractional shares. Fractional shares have pro rata the same rights and privileges as full shares. Shares of these Funds have no preemptive or conversion rights.

Each share of Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen High Income Bond Fund, Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund, Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund, Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund and Nuveen Strategic Income Fund has one vote. On some issues, such as the election of directors, all shares of all NIF funds vote together as one series. The shares do not have cumulative voting rights. On issues affecting only a particular Fund, the shares of

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that Fund will vote as a separate series. Examples of such issues would be proposals to alter a fundamental investment restriction pertaining to a Fund or to approve, disapprove or alter a distribution plan.

The Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of NIF provide that meetings of shareholders be held as determined by the Board of Directors and as required by the 1940 Act. Maryland corporation law requires a meeting of shareholders to be held upon the written request of shareholders holding 10% or more of the voting shares of NIF, with the cost of preparing and mailing the notice of such meeting payable by the requesting shareholders. The 1940 Act requires a shareholder vote for, among other things, all amendments to fundamental investment policies and restrictions, for approval of investment advisory contracts and amendments thereto, and for amendments to Rule 12b-1 distribution plans.

The following table sets forth the percentage ownership of each person, who, as of October 2, 2014, owned of record, or is known by NIF to have owned of record or beneficially, 5% or more of any class of a Fund’s shares.


Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen Core Bond Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		29.70%

	Great-West Trust Co LLC Trustee/C FBO Retirement Plans 8515 E Orchard Rd 2T2 Greenwood Vlg CO 80111-5002		8.20%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		6.88%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		5.54%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		5.53%

Nuveen Core Bond Fund Class C Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Fund Administration 4800 Dear Lake Dr East 3rd Fl Jacksonville FL 32246		28.25%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		26.79%

	First Clearing, LLC 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		8.92%

	First Clearing, LLC 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		7.94%

	RBC Capital Markets LLC Mutual Fund Omnibus Processing Omnibus Attn Mutual Fund Ops Manager 60 S 6th St Ste 700 # Street-P08 Minneapolis MN 55402-4413		7.08%

	First Clearing, LLC 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		6.39%

Nuveen Core Bond Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		49.12%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		34.33%

	Washington & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		9.97%

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		30.84%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		10.09%

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund Class C Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		42.92%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		20.21%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		10.92%

	Edward D Jones & Co For the Benefit of Customers 12555 Manchester Rd Saint Louis MO 63131-3729		5.30%

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund Class R3 Shares	State Street Bank 401K Plan FBO ADP Access 401(K) Product 1 Lincoln St Boston MA 02111-2901		40.83%

	Ascensus Trust Co FBOY FBO Sherry Meyerhoff Hanson & Crance LL PO Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		22.14%

	FIIOC FBO Cust Almon Associates 100 Magellan Way Covington KY 41015-1987		8.25%

	MG Trust Company Cust. FBO American Modular Power Solutions, I 717 17th Street Suite 1300 Denver CO 80202-3304		7.33%

	Mid Atlantic Trust Company FBO Internet Systems Corporation 401(K) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust 1251 Waterfront Place Suite 525 Pittsburgh PA 15222-4228		5.38%

Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		53.33%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		24.28%

	Washington & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		8.75%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Great-West Trust Co LLC Trustee/C FBO Retirement Plans 8515 E Orchard Rd 2T2 Greenwood Vlg CO 80111-5002		5.69%

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		13.31%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		13.11%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		9.96%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		9.64%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		9.61%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		7.97%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		7.51%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 23rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		5.90%

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund Class C Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		19.02%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		12.55%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		12.42%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		11.46%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		9.76%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		8.81%

	LPL Financial FBO Customer Accounts Attn Mutual Fund Operations PO Box 509046 San Diego CA 92150-9046		6.42%

	Raymond James Omnibus for Mutual Funds House Acct Attn: Courtney Waller 880 Carillon Parkway St Petersburg FL 33716-1102		5.33%

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund Class R3 Shares	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		24.08%

	State Street Bank 401K Plan FBO ADP Access 401(K) Product 1 Lincoln St Boston MA 02111-2901		14.42%

	Ascensus Trust Co FBOY FBO Make-A-Wish 401 K Plan PO Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		13.31%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		11.49%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Ascensus Trust Co FBOY FBO Golden West Construction 401K Pla PO Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		8.85%

	MG Trust Company Cust. FBO Waterstone Brands, Inc. 717 17th Street Suite 1300 Denver CO 80202-3304		8.56%

	MG Trust Company Cust. FBO Johnson-Quaid Ventures, LLC 717 17th Street Suite 1300 Denver CO 80202-3304		7.34%

Nuveen High Income Bond Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		65.61%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		8.87%

	Washington & Co PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		6.81%

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund Class A Shares	Lincoln Retirement Services Company FBO Shands Jacksonville Med Ctr 401 PO Box 7876 Fort Wayne IN 46801-7876		24.69%

	Great-West Trust Company LLC TTEE F Employee Benefits Clients 401K 8515 E Orchard Rd 2T2 Greenwood Vlg CO 80111-5002		10.76%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		9.50%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		9.09%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		6.98%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		5.53%

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund Class C Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		27.23%

	LPL Financial FBO Customer Accounts Attn Mutual Fund Operations PO Box 509046 San Diego CA 92150-9046		15.89%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		10.66%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		9.05%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		7.73%

	RBC Capital Markets LLC Mutual Fund Omnibus Processing Omnibus Attn Mutual Fund Ops Manager 60 S 6th St Ste 700 # Street-P08 Minneapolis MN 55402-4413		5.56%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		5.24%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		5.07%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund Class R3 Shares	Pershing LLC One Pershing Plaza Jersey City NJ 07399-0002		72.00%

	MLPF&S for the Sole Benefit Of its Customers Attn Fund Admin 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Fl 3 Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		7.32%

Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		75.89%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		5.20%

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		35.27%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		7.42%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		6.21%

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund Class C Shares	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		25.08%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		22.60%

	Raymond James Omnibus for Mutual Funds House Acct Attn: Courtney Waller 880 Carillon Parkway St Petersburg FL 33716-1102		9.89%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		7.01%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		6.39%

	Stifel Nicolaus & Co Inc Mary E Meacham Piper 501 North Broadway St Louis MO 63102-2188		5.60%

	TD Ameritrade FBO Catherine Whelan IRA TD Ameritrade Clearing, Custodian 1521 N Jantzen Ave Portland OR 97217-7830		5.16%

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund Class R3 Shares	Ascensus Trust Company FBO Hixson & Bumgarner 401(K) Plan P.O. Box 10758 Fargo ND 58106-0758		49.68%

	Mid Atlantic Trust Company FBO AAAW Guaranty Pest Elimination 1251 Waterfront Place Suite 525 Pittsburgh PA 15222-4228		15.37%

	Michael Kerschner/Michael J Gabovitch FBO Katz & Korin PC 401K PSP & Trust 334 N Senate Ave Indianapolis IN 46204-1708		12.22%

	Matrix Trust Company Cust. FBO Peoplefirst Bank 401(K) Profit Shar 717 17th Street Suite 1300 Denver CO 80202-3304		7.85%

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		90.11%

	Washington & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		5.52%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund Class A Shares	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		14.29%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		12.31%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		11.34%

	MLPF&S For the Sole Benefit Of its Customers Attn Fund Administration 4800 Deer Lake Drive East 3rd Fl Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		10.78%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		8.88%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		6.61%

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund Class C Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Safekeeping Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		28.95%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		20.34%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		10.03%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		9.00%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct For Benefit of Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		5.57%

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund Class R3 Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Safekeeping Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		100.00%

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		64.67%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Safekeeping Attn Physical Team 4800 Deer Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		11.23%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		9.93%

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund Class A Shares	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		19.41%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		15.85%

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Account For Benefit of Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		13.04%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		12.54%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Dear Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		6.37%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		6.07%

	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		5.31%

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund Class C Shares	First Clearing, LLC Special Custody Acct for the Exclusive Benefit of Customer 2801 Market St Saint Louis MO 63103-2523		16.96%

	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Dear Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		15.11%

	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Harborside Financial Center Plaza 2 3rd Floor Jersey City NJ 07311		12.09%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		8.10%

	American Enterprise Investment Serv 707 2nd Ave S Minneapolis MN 55402-2405		7.58%

	RBC Capital Markets LLC Mutual Fund Omnibus Processing Omnibus Attn Mutual Fund Ops Manager 60 S 6th St Ste 700 # Street-P08 Minneapolis MN 55402-4413		7.48%

	UBS WM USA Omni Account M/F Attn Department Manager 1000 Harbor Blvd Fl 5 Weehawken NJ 07086-6761		6.76%

	Raymond James Omnibus for Mutual Funds House Acct Attn: Courtney Waller 880 Carillon Parkway St Petersburg FL 33716-1102		5.54%

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Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

	Charles Schwab & Co Inc Special Custody Acct FBO Customers Attn Mutual Funds 211 Main St San Francisco CA 94105-1905		5.34%

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund Class R3 Shares	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Attn Physical Team 4800 Dear Lake Dr E Jacksonville FL 32246-6484		18.99%

	Counsel Trust DBA MATC FBO Empower Ret Plan Savings 1251 Waterfront Place Suite 525 Pittsburgh PA 15222-4228		10.82%

	TD Ameritrade Trust Company P.O. Box 17748 Denver CO 80217-0748		8.81%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		6.39%

	VRSCO FBO AIGFSB Cust TTEE FBO Rush Health Systems 403B Plan 2727-A Allen Parkway, 4-D1 Houston TX 77019-2107		5.55%

	Mid Atlantic Trust Company FBO Empower Retirement Savings Active-Growth with Income Fund 1251 Waterfront Place Suite 525 Pittsburgh PA 15222-4228		5.18%

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund Class I Shares	Band & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		56.21%

	Capinco C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		11.12%

	Washington & Co C/O US Bank PO Box 1787 Milwaukee WI 53201-1787		6.13%

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The Trust

The Board of Directors of the Trust is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares in one or more series, which may be divided into classes of shares. Currently, there are 20 series authorized and outstanding, each of which may be generally divided into different classes of shares designated as Class A shares, Class C shares, Class R3 shares, Class R6 shares and Class I shares. Each class of shares represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments of the Fund. Each class of shares has equal rights as to voting, redemption, dividends and liquidation, except that each bears different class expenses, including different distribution and service fees, and each has exclusive voting rights with respect to any distribution or service plan applicable to its shares. There are no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights. The Board of Directors of the Trust has the right to establish additional series and classes of shares in the future, to change those series or classes and to determine the preferences, voting powers, rights and privileges thereof.

Under Massachusetts law applicable to Massachusetts business trusts, shareholders of such a trust may, under certain circumstances, be held personally liable as partners for its obligations. However, the Declaration of Trust of the Trust contains an express disclaimer of shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Trust and requires that notice of this disclaimer be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the directors. The Trust’s Declaration of Trust further provides for indemnification out of the assets and property of the Trust for all losses and expenses of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Trust. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Trust or the Fund itself was unable to meet its obligations. The Trust believes the likelihood of the occurrence of these circumstances is remote.

The following table sets forth the percentage ownership of each person, who, as of October 2, 2014, owned of record, or is known by the Trust to have owned of record or beneficially, 5% or more of any class of Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund’s shares. As of October 2, 2014, Nuveen Investments owned a substantial portion of the Fund and, accordingly, controlled the Fund. A party that controls the Fund may be able to significantly influence the outcome of any item presented to shareholders for approval.


Name of Fund and Class	Name and Address of Owner	Percentage of Ownership

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund Class A Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		72.97%

	National Financial Services LLC For the Exclusive Benefit of our Customers Attn Mutual Fund Dept 4th Floor 499 Washington Blvd Jersey City NJ 07310-2010		21.68%

	Pershing LLC 1 Pershing Plz Jersey City NJ 07399-0001		5.35%

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund Class C Shares	Nuveen Investments Inc Attn Darlene Cramer 333 W Wacker Dr Chicago IL 60606-1220		100.00%

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TAX MATTERS

Federal Income Tax Matters

Fund Status

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company

As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (as that term is defined in the Code , but without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain ( i.e. , the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss), if any, that it distributes to shareholders, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt interest income for the year (the “Distribution Requirement” ) and satisfies certain other requirements of the Code that are generally described below. Each Fund also intends to make such distributions as are necessary to avoid the otherwise applicable 4% non-deductible excise tax on certain undistributed earnings.

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items (including receivables), United States government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount not greater than 5% of the value of the Fund’s assets and not greater than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer and (2) not more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s assets may be invested in securities of (a) any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other regulated investment companies), or of two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same, similar or related trades or businesses or (b) in the securities of one or more “qualified publicly traded partnerships” (as such term is defined in the Code). There are certain exceptions for failure to qualify if the failure is for reasonable cause or is de minimis and certain corrective action is taken and certain tax payments are made by a Fund.

Distributions

Fund distributions are generally taxable. After the end of each year, you will receive a tax statement that separates a Fund’s distributions into three categories, ordinary income distributions, capital gains dividends and returns of capital. Ordinary income distributions are generally taxed at your ordinary tax rate, however, as further discussed below, certain ordinary income distributions received from the Fund may be taxed at the capital gains tax rates. Generally, you will treat all capital gains dividends as long-term capital gains regardless of how long you have owned your shares. To determine your actual tax liability for your capital gains dividends, you must calculate your total net capital gain or loss for the tax year after considering all of your other taxable transactions, as described below. In addition, a Fund may make distributions that represent a return of capital for tax purposes and thus will generally not be taxable to you unless the distribution exceeds your basis in your shares. The tax status of your distributions from your Fund is not affected by whether you reinvest your distributions in additional shares or receive them in cash. The income from your Fund that you must take into account for federal income tax purposes is not reduced by amounts used to pay a deferred sales fee, if any. The tax laws may require you to treat distributions made to you in January as if you had received them on December 31 of the previous year. Under the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,” income from the Fund may also be subject to a new 3.8 percent “Medicare tax” imposed for taxable years beginning after 2012. This tax will generally apply to your net investment income if your adjusted gross income exceeds certain threshold amounts, which are $250,000 in the case of married couples filing joint returns and $200,000 in the case of single individuals.

Dividends Received Deduction

A corporation that owns shares generally will not be entitled to the dividends received deduction with respect to many dividends received from the Funds, because the dividends received deduction is generally not available for distributions from regulated investment companies. However, certain ordinary income dividends on shares that are attributable to qualifying dividends received by a Fund from certain corporations may be reported by the Fund as being eligible for the dividends received deduction.

If You Sell or Redeem Shares

Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses

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dividends, the determination of which portion of the capital gains dividend, if any, is subject to the 25% tax rate, will be made based on rules prescribed by the United States Treasury. Capital gains may also be subject to the “Medicare tax” described above.

Taxation of Certain Ordinary Income Dividends

Ordinary income dividends received by an individual shareholder from a regulated investment company such as the Fund are generally taxed at the same rates that apply to net capital gain (as discussed above), provided certain holding period requirements are satisfied and provided the dividends are attributable to qualifying dividends received by the Fund itself. Distributions with respect to shares in real estate investment trusts are qualifying dividends only in limited circumstances. The Fund will provide notice to its shareholders of the amount of any distribution which may be taken into account as a dividend which is eligible for the capital gains tax rates.

In-Kind Distributions

Under certain circumstances, as described in the Prospectus, you may receive an in-kind distribution of Fund securities when you redeem shares or when a Fund terminates. This distribution will be treated as a sale for federal income tax purposes and you will generally recognize gain or loss, generally based on the value at that time of the securities and the amount of cash received. The Internal Revenue Service could, however, assert that a loss may not be currently deducted.

Exchanges

If you exchange shares of a Fund for shares of another Nuveen Mutual Fund, the exchange would generally be considered a sale for federal income tax purposes.

Deductibility of Fund Expenses

Non-U.S. Tax Credit

Investments in Certain Non-U.S. Corporations

If your Fund holds an equity interest in any “passive foreign investment companies” ( “PFICs” ), which are generally certain foreign corporations that receive at least 75% of their annual gross income from passive sources (such as interest, dividends, certain rents and royalties or capital gains) or that hold at least 50% of their assets in investments producing such passive income, your Fund could be subject to U.S. federal income tax and additional interest charges on gains and certain distributions with respect to those equity interests, even if all the income or gain is timely distributed to its shareholders. Your Fund will not be able to pass through to its shareholders any credit or deduction

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for such taxes. Your Fund may be able to make an election that could ameliorate these adverse tax consequences. In this case, your Fund would recognize as ordinary income any increase in the value of such PFIC shares, and as ordinary loss any decrease in such value to the extent it did not exceed prior increases included in income. Under this election, your Fund might be required to recognize in a year income in excess of its distributions from PFICs and its proceeds from dispositions of PFIC stock during that year, and such income would nevertheless be subject to the distribution requirement and would be taken into account for purposes of the 4% excise tax. Dividends paid by PFICs are not treated as qualified dividend income.

Non-U.S. Investors

Capital Loss Carry-Forward


Fund	Expiration Year			Capital Loss Carry-Forwards (000’s omitted)
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		—	*	$	21,234

Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		2015			2,446,535
		2016			164,695
		2017			3,538,398
		—	*		318,828

Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		2015			7,432,482
		2016			48,855
		2017			1,188,199
		2018			4,103,631
		—	*		614,112

Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		2018			35,110,019

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund		—	*		14,741

Not subject to expiration.

The foregoing relates only to federal income taxation and is a general summary of the federal tax law in effect as of the date of this SAI.

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PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF FUND SHARES

As described in the Prospectus, the Funds provide you with alternative ways of purchasing Fund shares based upon your individual investment needs and preferences.

The expenses to be borne by specific classes of shares may include (i) transfer agency fees attributable to a specific class of shares, (ii) printing and postage expenses related to preparing and distributing materials such as shareholder reports, prospectuses and proxy statements to current shareholders of a specific class of shares, (iii) SEC and state securities registration fees incurred by a specific class of shares, (iv) the expense of administrative personnel and services required to support the shareholders of a specific class of shares, (v) litigation or other legal expenses relating to a specific class of shares, (vi) directors’ fees or expenses incurred as a result of issues relating to a specific class of shares, (vii) accounting expenses relating to a specific class of shares and (viii) any additional incremental expenses subsequently identified and determined to be properly allocated to one or more classes of shares.

Class A Shares

Class A shares may be purchased at a public offering price equal to the applicable net asset value per share plus an up-front sales charge imposed at the time of purchase as set forth in the Prospectus. Shareholders may qualify for a reduced sales charge, or the sales charge may be waived in its entirety, as described below. Class A shares are also subject to an annual service fee of 0.25%. See “Distribution and Service Plans.” Set forth below is an example of the method of computing the offering price of the Class A shares of a Fund. The example assumes a purchase on June 30, 2014 of Class A shares of Nuveen Core Bond Fund aggregating less than $50,000 subject to the schedule of sales charges set forth in the Prospectus at a price based upon the net asset value of the Class A shares.


Net asset value per share	$	10.36
Per share sales charge—3.00% of public offering price (3.09% of net asset value per share)		0.32

Per share offering price to the public	$	10.68

Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares

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You or your financial advisor must notify the Distributor or the Funds’ transfer agent whenever you make a purchase of Fund shares that you wish to be covered under the Letter of Intent option.

Elimination of Sales Charge on Class A Shares. Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge by the following categories of investors:

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investors purchasing $1,000,000 or more ($250,000 or more in the case of Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund);

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current and former trustees/directors of the Nuveen Funds;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, or their immediate family members;

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investors purchasing on a periodic fee, asset-based fee or no transaction fee basis through a broker-dealer sponsored mutual fund purchase program;

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clients of investment advisers, financial planners or other financial intermediaries that charge periodic or asset-based fees for their services;

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employer-sponsored retirement plans except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans; and

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Class C Shares

Class C share purchase orders equaling or exceeding $1,000,000 ($250,000 for Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund) will not be accepted. In addition, Class C share purchase orders for a single purchaser that, when added to the value that day of all of such purchaser’s shares of any class of any Nuveen Mutual Fund, cause the purchaser’s cumulative total of shares in Nuveen Mutual Funds to equal or exceed $1,000,000 will not be accepted. Your financial intermediary may set a lower maximum for Class C shares. Shareholders purchasing Class C shares should consider whether they would qualify for a reduced or eliminated sales charge on Class A shares that would make purchasing Class A shares a better choice. Class A share sales charges can be reduced or eliminated based on the size of the purchase, or pursuant to a letter of intent or rights of accumulation. See “Reduction or Elimination of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares” above.

Reduction or Elimination of Contingent Deferred Sales Charge

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The CDSC may be waived or reduced under the following circumstances: (i) in the event of total disability (as evidenced by a determination by the federal Social Security Administration) of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner) occurring after the purchase of the shares being redeemed; (ii) in the event of the death of the shareholder (including a registered joint owner); (iii) for redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan, up to 1% monthly, 3% quarterly, 6% semiannually or 12% annually of an account’s net asset value depending on the frequency of the plan as designated by the shareholder; (iv) redemptions in connection with a payment of account or plan fees; (v) redemptions in connection with the exercise of a Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the Board of Directors has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of a Fund; (vi) in whole or in part for redemptions of shares by shareholders with accounts in excess of specified breakpoints that correspond to the breakpoints under which the up-front sales charge on Class A shares is reduced pursuant to Rule 22d-1 under the Act; (vii) redemptions of shares purchased under circumstances or by a category of investors for which Class A shares could be purchased at net asset value without a sales charge; (viii) redemptions of Class C shares in cases where the Distributor did not advance the first year’s service and distribution fees when such shares were purchased; and (ix) redemptions of Class A shares where the Distributor did not pay a sales commission when such shares were purchased. If a Fund waives or reduces the CDSC, such waiver or reduction would be uniformly applied to all Fund shares in the particular category. In waiving or reducing a CDSC, the Funds will comply with the requirements of Rule 22d-1 under the 1940 Act.

Class R3 Shares

Class R3 shares are available for purchase at the offering price, which is the net asset value per share without any up-front sales charge, from the applicable Funds. Class R3 shares are subject to annual distribution and service fees of 0.50% of the Funds’ average daily net assets. The annual 0.25% service fee compensates your financial advisor or other financial intermediary for providing ongoing service to you. The annual 0.25% distribution fee compensates the Distributor for paying your financial advisor or other financial intermediary an ongoing sales commission.

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Financial intermediaries may also perform other functions, including generating confirmation statements, and may arrange with retirement plan administrators for other investment or administrative services. Financial intermediaries may independently establish and charge retirement plans and retirement plan participants transaction fees and/or other additional amounts for such services, which may change over time. Similarly, retirement plans may charge retirement plan participants for certain expenses. These fees and additional amounts could reduce investment returns in Class R3 shares of the Funds.

Class I Shares

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Class I shares also are available for purchase, with no minimum initial investment, by the following categories of investors:

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employer-sponsored retirement plans, except SEPs, SAR-SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs and KEOGH plans;

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advisory accounts of Nuveen Fund Advisors and its affiliates, including other Nuveen Mutual Funds whose investment policies permit investments in other investment companies;

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any registered investment company that is not affiliated with the Nuveen Funds and which invests in securities of other investment companies;

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any plan organized under section 529 under the Code (i.e., a 529 plan);

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participants in the TIAA-CREF Investment Solutions IRA;

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current and former trustees/directors of any Nuveen Fund, and their immediate family members ( “immediate family members” are defined as spouses or domestic partners, parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, siblings, a sibling’s spouse and a spouse’s siblings);

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officers, directors and former directors of Nuveen Investments and its affiliates, and their immediate family members;

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any person who, for at least the last 90 days, has been an officer, director or employee of any financial intermediary, and their immediate family members.

Holders of Class I shares may purchase additional Class I shares using dividends and capital gains distributions on their shares.

Shareholder Programs

Exchange Privilege

You may exchange Fund shares into an identically registered account for the same class of another Nuveen Mutual Fund available in your state. Your exchange must meet the minimum purchase requirements of the fund into which you are exchanging. You may also, under certain limited circumstances, exchange between certain classes of shares of the same Fund. An exchange between classes of shares of the same Fund may not be considered a taxable event; please consult your own tax advisor for further information.

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Reinstatement Privilege

Suspension of Right of Redemption

Each Fund may suspend the right of redemption of Fund shares or delay payment more than seven days (a) during any period when the New York Stock Exchange ( the “NYSE” ) is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings), (b) when trading in the markets the Fund normally utilizes is restricted or an emergency exists as determined by the SEC so that trading of the Fund’s investments or determination of its net asset value is not reasonably practicable, or (c) for any other periods that the SEC by order may permit for protection of Fund shareholders.

Redemption In-Kind

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Frequent Trading Policy

The Funds’ Frequent Trading Policy is as follows:

Definition of Round Trip

Round Trip Trade Limitations

Enforcement

Exclusions from the Frequent Trading Policy

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joint owner); (v) redemptions made pursuant to a systematic withdrawal plan, up to 1% monthly, 3% quarterly, 6% semiannually or 12% annually of an account’s net asset value depending on the frequency of the plan as designated by the shareholder; (vi) redemptions of shares that were purchased through a systematic investment program; (vii) involuntary redemptions caused by operation of law; (viii) redemptions in connection with a payment of account or plan fees; (ix) redemptions or exchanges by any “fund of funds” advised by the Adviser; and (x) redemptions in connection with the exercise of a Fund’s right to redeem all shares in an account that does not maintain a certain minimum balance or that the board has determined may have material adverse consequences to the shareholders of a Fund.

Distribution and Service Plans

Each Fund has adopted a plan (a “ Plan ”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Rule 12b-1 provides in substance that a mutual fund may not engage directly or indirectly in financing any activity which is primarily intended to result in the sale of shares, except pursuant to a plan adopted under the Rule. Each Fund’s Plan authorizes a Fund to pay the Distributor distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees on a Fund’s Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares as described below. The distribution fees under each Fund’s Plan are used for the primary purpose of compensating participating intermediaries for their sales of a Fund. The shareholder servicing fees are used primarily for the purpose of providing compensation for the ongoing servicing and/or maintenance of shareholder accounts. Pursuant to each Fund’s Plan, Class C and Class R3 shares are subject to an annual distribution fee and Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares are subject to the annual service fees (distribution and service fees collectively referred to herein as “ 12b-1 fees ”). The 12b-1 fees are based on the average daily net assets of the class of shares of a Fund and are as follows:


	Annual Distribution Fee			Annual Service Fee			Total 12b-1 Fee
Class A		—	%		0.25	%		0.25	%
Class C		0.75	%		0.25	%		1.00	%
Class R3		0.25	%		0.25	%		0.50	%

Class I shares are not subject to either distribution or service fees.

The distribution fee applicable to Class C and Class R3 shares under each Fund’s Plan compensates the Distributor for expenses incurred in connection with the distribution of Class C and Class R3 shares, respectively. These expenses include payments to financial intermediaries, including the Distributor, who are brokers of record with respect to the Class C and Class R3 shares, as well as, without limitation, expenses of printing and distributing Prospectuses to persons other than shareholders of each Fund, expenses of preparing, printing and distributing advertising and sales literature and reports to shareholders used in connection with the sale of Class C and Class R3 shares, certain other expenses associated with the distribution of Class C and Class R3 shares, and any other distribution-related expenses that may be authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors. For the Funds other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, the Distributor may use the distribution fee to provide compensation to participating intermediaries through which shareholders hold their shares beginning one year after purchase. For the Funds other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, this fee is calculated and paid each month based on average daily net assets of that class of shares of the Fund for that month.

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The service fee applicable to Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares under each Fund’s Plan is used to compensate financial intermediaries in connection with the provision of ongoing account services to shareholders. These services may include establishing and maintaining shareholder accounts, answering shareholder inquiries and providing other personal services to shareholders. For the Funds other than Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, this fee is calculated and paid each month based on average daily net assets of that class of shares of the Fund for that month.

For Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund, 12b-1 fees are calculated and accrued daily and paid quarterly or at such other intervals as the Board of Directors may determine. For this fiscal year, substantially all of the 12b-1 service fees on Class A shares were paid out as compensation to financial intermediaries for providing services to shareholders relating to their investments. To compensate for commissions advanced to financial intermediaries, all 12b-1 fees on Class C shares during the first year following a purchase are retained by the Distributor. After the first year following a purchase, 12b-1 fees on Class C shares are paid to financial intermediaries.

The Funds paid the following 12b-1 fees to the Distributor for the fiscal year/period ended June 30, 2014 with respect to the Class A, Class C and Class R3 shares of the Funds. As noted above, no 12b-1 fees are paid with respect to Class I shares.


Fund	12b-1 Fees Incurred by Each Fund for the Fiscal Year/ Period Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund
Class A	$	40,202
Class C		4,683
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund
Class A		179,790
Class C		45,904
Class R3		1,960
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund
Class A		431,707
Class C		698,426
Class R3		4,513
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund
Class A		45,867
Class C		76,621
Class R3		6,527
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund
Class A		26,245
Class C		8,322
Class R3		688
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund
Class A		309,733
Class C		449,592
Class R3		4,214
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund
Class A		215,733
Class C		375,776
Class R3		18,130
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund*
Class A		17
Class C		69

For the period May 12, 2014 (commencement of operations) through June 30, 2014.

Each Fund’s Plan is a “compensation-type” plan under which the Distributor is entitled to receive the distribution and shareholder servicing fees regardless of whether its actual distribution and shareholder servicing expenses are more or less than the amount of the fees. It is therefore possible that the Distributor may realize a profit in a particular year as a result of these payments. Each Fund’s

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Plan recognizes that the Distributor and the Adviser, in their discretion, may from time to time use their own assets to pay for certain additional costs of distributing Class C and Class R3 shares. Any such arrangements to pay such additional costs may be commenced or discontinued by the Distributor or the Adviser at any time.

Under each Fund’s Plan, a Fund will report quarterly to the Board of Directors for its review of all amounts expended per class of shares under that Fund’s Plan. Each Fund’s Plan may be terminated at any time with respect to any class of shares, without the payment of any penalty, by a vote of a majority of the independent directors who have no direct or indirect financial interest in that Fund’s Plan or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such class. Each Fund’s Plan may be renewed from year to year if approved by a vote of the Board of Directors and a vote of the independent directors who have no direct or indirect financial interest in that Fund’s Plan cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on that Fund’s Plan. Each Fund’s Plan may be continued only if the directors who vote to approve such continuance conclude, in the exercise of reasonable business judgment and in light of their fiduciary duties under applicable law, that there is a reasonable likelihood that a particular Fund’s Plan will benefit the Fund and its shareholders. Each Fund’s Plan may not be amended to increase materially the cost which a class of shares may bear under that Fund’s Plan without the approval of the shareholders of the affected class, and any other material amendments of that Fund’s Plan must be approved by the independent directors by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments. During the continuance of a Fund’s Plan, the selection and nomination of the independent directors of the Registrants will be committed to the discretion of the independent directors then in office. With the exception of the Distributor and its affiliates, no “interested person” of the Funds, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act, and no trustee of the Funds has a direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of a Fund’s Plan or any related agreement.

If a Fund closes to new investors, it may continue to make payments under its Plan. Such payments would be made for the various services provided to existing shareholders by the participating intermediaries receiving such payments.

General Matters

Distribution Arrangements

The Distributor sells shares to or through brokers, dealers, banks or other qualified financial intermediaries (collectively referred to as “ Dealers ”), or others, in a manner consistent with the then effective registration statement of the Registrants. Pursuant to the Distribution Agreements, the Distributor, at its own expense, finances certain activities incident to the sale and distribution of the Funds’ shares, including printing and distributing of prospectuses and statements of additional

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information to other than existing shareholders, the printing and distributing of sales literature, advertising and payment of compensation and giving of concessions to Dealers.

The Distributor receives for its services the excess, if any, of the sales price of a Fund’s shares less the net asset value of those shares, and reallows a majority or all of such amounts to the Dealers who sold the shares. The Distributor also receives distribution fees pursuant to a distribution plan adopted by each Registrant pursuant to Rule 12b-1 and described herein under “Distribution and Service Plans.” The Distributor also receives any CDSCs imposed on redemptions of shares. The Distributor may also act as a Dealer.

The following tables set forth the aggregate amounts of underwriting commissions with respect to the sale of Fund shares, the amount thereof retained by the Distributor and the compensation on redemptions and repurchases received by the Distributor for each of the Funds for the specified periods. All figures are expressed in thousands and are to the nearest thousand.


	Total Underwriting Commissions
Fund	Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	16,772	$	10,605	$	6,551
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		38,698		70,918		57,473
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		298,375		1,296,089		584,788
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		123,555		118,426		28,676
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		14,605		5,193		4,297
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		31,105		91,616		154,397
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		149,963		252,575		260,559


	Underwriting Commissions Retained by Distributor
Fund	Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	3,388	$	2,093	$	1,306
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		4,512		8,671		4,478
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		32,217		125,892		56,181
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		14,504		13,153		3,784
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		2,804		938		688
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		4,673		9,712		5,704
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		16,463		20,466		23,728


	Compensation on Redemptions and Repurchases
Fund	Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013		Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014
Nuveen Core Bond Fund	$	3,076	$	29	$	—
Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund		1,619		2,174		8,981
Nuveen High Income Bond Fund		10,949		22,237		21,632
Nuveen Inflation Protected Securities Fund		3,858		1,584		7,133
Nuveen Intermediate Government Bond Fund		2		21		47
Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund		13,840		44,732		33,259
Nuveen Strategic Income Fund		6,022		12,225		44,797


	Total Underwriting Commissions
Fund	May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	$	—


	Underwriting Commissions Retained by Distributor
Fund	May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	$	—

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	Compensation on Redemptions and Repurchases
Fund	May 12, 2014 through June 30, 2014
Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	$	—

Additional Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Other Payments

The categories of payments described below are not mutually exclusive, and a single Intermediary may receive payments under all categories.

Distribution-Related Payments

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level and/or type of marketing assistance and educational activities provided by the Intermediary. Such payments are generally asset-based but also may include the payment of a lump sum.

Servicing Payments

Distribution-Related and Servicing Payment Guidelines

In the case of any one Intermediary, marketing support and program servicing payments made by the Adviser and/or the Distributor are not expected, with certain limited exceptions, to exceed, in the aggregate, 0.35% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to that Intermediary on an annual basis. In connection with the sale of a business by U.S. Bank N.A. to Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (“ Great-West ”), the Adviser and/or the Distributor has a services agreement with GWFS Equities, Inc., an affiliate of Great-West, which provides for payments of up to 0.60% of the average net assets of Fund shares attributable to GWFS Equities, Inc. on an annual basis (which amount also includes payments by the Funds for sub-transfer agency services).

Other Payments

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travel expenses, including lodging incurred by registered representatives and other employees in connection with prospecting, asset retention and due diligence trips. These payments may vary depending upon the nature of the event. The Adviser and/or the Distributor make payments for such events as it deems appropriate, subject to its internal guidelines and applicable law.

Investors may wish to take Intermediary payment arrangements into account when considering and evaluating any recommendations relating to Fund shares.

Intermediaries Receiving Additional Payments

The following is a list of Intermediaries eligible to receive one or more of the types of payments discussed above as of October 24, 2014:

ADP Broker-Dealer, Inc.

American United Life Insurance Company

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Ascensus (formerly BISYS Retirement Services, Inc.)

BB&T

Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc.

Benefit Trust Company

Cetera

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Chase Investment Services

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Commonwealth Equity Services, LLP, DBA Commonwealth Financial Network

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Davenport & Co., LLC

Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Dyatech, LLC

Edward Jones

ExpertPlan, Inc.

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC/National Financial Services LLC

Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations Company, Inc. (FIIOC)/Fidelity Advisors Retirement

Financial Data Services, Inc.

First Clearing

Genesis Employee Benefits, Inc. DBA America’s VEBA Solution

Goldman Sachs

Great West Life and Annuity Insurance Co.

GWFS Equities, Inc.

Hartford Life Insurance Company

Hartford Securities Distribution Company, Inc.

Hewitt Associates LLC

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ICMA Retirement Corporation

ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company/ING Institutional Plan Services LLC/ING Financial Advisors, LLC (formerly CitiStreet LLC/CitiStreet Advisors LLC)

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

LPL Financial Services

Lincoln Retirement Services Company LLC/AMG Service Corp.

Linsco/Private Ledger Corp.

Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, N.A.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mercer HR Outsourcing LLC

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation

Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC

MSCS Financial Services, LLC

National Financial Services, LLC

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.

Newport Retirement Services, Inc.

NFP Securities, Inc.

Northwestern Mutual

NYLife Distributors LLC

Oppenheimer & Co.

Pershing LLC

Principal Life Insurance Company

Prudential Insurance Company of America (The)

Prudential Investment Management Services, LLC/Prudential Investments LLC

Raymond James & Associates/Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Reliance Trust Company

Retirement Plan Company, LLC (The)

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.

SI Financial Advisors

Southwest Securities, Inc.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc./T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.

TD Ameritrade, Inc.

TD Ameritrade Trust Company (formerly Fiserv Trust Company/International Clearing Trust Company)

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

U.S. Bank N.A.

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Unified Trust Company, N.A.

VALIC Retirement Services Company (formerly AIG Retirement Services Company)

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Wedbush Morgan Securities

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement & Trust

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (formerly AST Capital Trust Company)

Any additions, modifications or deletions to the list of Intermediaries identified above that have occurred since October 24, 2014 are not reflected in the list.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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APPENDIX A

RATINGS OF INVESTMENTS

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group —A brief description of the applicable Standard & Poor’s (“ S&P ”) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by S&P) follows:

Issue Credit Ratings

Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings

Issue credit ratings are based, in varying degrees, on S&P’s analysis of the following considerations:

Likelihood of payment—capacity and willingness of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on an obligation in accordance with the terms of the obligation;

Nature of and provisions of the obligation, and the promise S&P imputes;

Protection afforded by, and relative position of, the obligation in the event of bankruptcy, reorganization, or other arrangement under the laws of bankruptcy and other laws affecting creditors’ rights.

AAA	An obligation rated ‘AAA’ has the highest rating assigned by S&P. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.

AA	An obligation rated ‘AA’ differs from the highest-rated obligations only to a small degree. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.

A	An obligation rated ‘A’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.

BBB	An obligation rated ‘BBB’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

Obligations rated ‘BB’, ‘B’, ‘CCC’, ‘CC’, and ‘C’ are regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. ‘BB’ indicates the least degree of speculation and ‘C’ the highest. While such obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.

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CCC

CC	An obligation rated ‘CC’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.

C	An obligation rated ‘C’ is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment and the obligation is expected to have lower relative seniority or lower ultimate recovery compared to obligations that are rated higher.

Plus (+) or Minus (–): The ratings from ‘AA’ to ‘CCC’ may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

NR	This indicates that no rating has been requested, that there is insufficient information on which to base a rating, or that S&P does not rate a particular obligation as a matter of policy.

Short-Term Issue Credit Ratings

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A-2	A short-term obligation rated ‘A-2’ is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.

A-3	A short-term obligation rated ‘A-3’ exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

C	A short-term obligation rated ‘C’ is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

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Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. —A brief description of the applicable Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”) rating symbols and their meanings (as published by Moody’s) follows:

Long-Term Obligation Ratings

Aaa	Obligations rated Aaa are judged to be of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level of credit risk.

Aa	Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.

A	Obligations rated A are judged to be upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.

Baa	Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics.

Ba	Obligations rated Ba are judged to be speculative and are subject to substantial credit risk.

B	Obligations rated B are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk.

Caa	Obligations rated Caa are judged to be speculative of poor standing and are subject to very high credit risk.

Ca	Obligations rated Ca are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some prospect of recovery of principal and interest.

C	Obligations rated C are the lowest rated and are typically in default, with little prospect for recovery of principal or interest.

Short-Term Obligation Ratings

P-1	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-1 have a superior ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-2	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-2 have a strong ability to repay short-term debt obligations.

P-3	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-3 have an acceptable ability to repay short-term obligations.

NP	Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Not Prime do not fall within any of the Prime rating categories.

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Medium-Term Note Program Ratings

Moody’s assigns provisional ratings to medium-term note (MTN) programs and definitive ratings to the individual debt securities issued from them (referred to as drawdowns or notes).

U.S. Municipal Short-Term Debt and Demand Obligation Ratings

Short-Term Obligation Ratings

MIG 1

MIG 2

This designation denotes strong credit quality. Margins of protection are ample, although not as large as in the preceding group.

MIG 3

This designation denotes acceptable credit quality. Liquidity and cash-flow protection may be narrow, and market access for refinancing is likely to be less well-established.

SG	This designation denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Debt instruments in this category may lack sufficient margins of protection.

Demand Obligation Ratings

VMIG 1

VMIG 2

VMIG 3

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Fitch Ratings —A brief description of the applicable Fitch Ratings (“ Fitch ”) ratings symbols and meanings (as published by Fitch) follows:

A designation of “Not Rated” or “NR” is used to denote securities not rated by Fitch where Fitch has rated some, but not all, securities comprising an issuance capital structure.

Credit ratings express risk in relative rank order, which is to say they are ordinal measures of credit risk and are not predictive of a specific frequency of default or loss.

In the default components of ratings assigned to individual obligations or instruments, the agency typically rates to the likelihood of non-payment or default in accordance with the terms of that instrument’s documentation. In limited cases, Fitch may include additional considerations ( i.e., rate to a higher or lower standard than that implied in the obligation’s documentation). In such cases, the agency will make clear the assumptions underlying the agency’s opinion in the accompanying rating commentary.

International Long-Term Ratings

Issuer Credit Rating Scales

Investment Grade

AAA	Highest credit quality. ‘AAA’ ratings denote the lowest expectation of default risk. They are assigned only in cases of exceptionally strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.

AA	Very high credit quality. ‘AA’ ratings denote expectations of very low default risk. They indicate very strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.

A	High credit quality. ‘A’ ratings denote expectations of low default risk. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic conditions than is the case for higher ratings.

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BBB	Good credit quality. ‘BBB’ ratings indicate that expectations of default risk are currently low. The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered adequate but adverse business or economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity.

Speculative Grade

BB	Speculative. ‘BB’ ratings indicate an elevated vulnerability to default risk, particularly in the event of adverse changes in business or economic conditions over time; however, business or financial flexibility exists which supports the servicing of financial commitments.

B	Highly speculative. ‘B’ ratings indicate that material default risk is present, but a limited margin of safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met; however, capacity for continued payment is vulnerable to deterioration in the business and economic environment.

CCC	Substantial credit risk. Default is a real possibility.

CC	Very high levels of credit risk. Default of some kind appears probable.

C	Exceptionally high levels of credit risk. Default is imminent or inevitable, or the issuer is in standstill. Conditions that are indicative of a ‘C’ category rating for an issuer include:

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the issuer has entered into a grace or cure period following non-payment of a material financial obligation;

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the issuer has entered into a temporary negotiated waiver or standstill agreement following a payment default on a material financial obligation; or

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Fitch otherwise believes a condition of ‘RD’ or ‘D’ to be imminent or inevitable, including through the formal announcement of a distressed debt exchange.

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the selective payment default on a specific class or currency of debt;

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the extension of multiple waivers or forbearance periods upon a payment default on one or more material financial obligations, either in series or in parallel; or

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execution of a distressed debt exchange on one or more material financial obligations.

D	Default. ‘D’ ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch’s opinion has entered into bankruptcy filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding-up procedure, or which has otherwise ceased business.

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International Short-Term Ratings

F1	Highest short-term credit quality. Indicates the strongest intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments; may have an added “+” to denote any exceptionally strong credit feature.

F2	Good short-term credit quality. Good intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments.

F3	Fair short-term credit quality. The intrinsic capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is adequate.

B	Speculative short-term credit quality. Minimal capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, plus heightened vulnerability to near term adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.

C	High short-term default risk. Default is a real possibility.

RD	Restricted default. Indicates an entity that has defaulted on one or more of its financial commitments, although it continues to meet other financial obligations. Applicable to entity ratings only.

D	Default. Indicates a broad-based default event for an entity, or the default of a short-term obligation.

Notes to Long-Term and Short-Term Ratings

The modifiers “+” or “–“ may be appended to a rating to denote relative status within major rating categories. Such suffixes are not added to the ‘AAA’ Long-Term Rating category, or to categories below ‘B’.

‘WD’ indicates that the rating has been withdrawn and the issue or issuer is no longer rated by Fitch.

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MAI-FINC-1014D

PART C—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 28. Exhibits



	(a)(1)			Declaration of Trust of Registrant.(1)

	(a)(2)			Amended Establishment and Designation of Classes, dated November 14, 2012.(12)

	(a)(3)			Amended Designation of Series for Nuveen Investment Trust, dated February 25, 2014.(15)

	(b)			By-Laws of Registrant, amended and restated as of November 18, 2009.(9)

	(c)			Specimen Certificate of Shares of the Registrant.(2)

	(d)(1)			Management Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.(17)

	(d)(2)			Amended Schedules A and B of Management Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, dated October 15, 2014.(17)

	(d)(3)			Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.(17)

	(d)(4)			Amended Schedule A of Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, dated October 15, 2014.(17)

	(d)(5)			Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.(17)

	(d)(6)			Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.(17)

	(e)(1)			Distribution Agreement between Registrant and John Nuveen & Co. Incorporated, dated August 1, 1998.(5)

	(e)(2)			Dealer Management Agreement, dated October 22, 1996.(3)

	(e)(3)			Dealer Distribution, Shareholder Servicing and Fee-Based Program Agreement, dated June 23, 2004.(7)

	(e)(4)			Form of Nuveen Funds Rule 22c-2 Agreement.(8)

	(e)(5)			Renewal of Distribution Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Securities, LLC (f/k/a Nuveen Investments, LLC), dated August 6, 2014.(17)

	(f)			Not applicable.

	(g)(1)			Amended and Restated Master Custodian Agreement between the Nuveen Funds and State Street Bank and Trust Company.(6)

	(g)(2)			Appendix A to Custodian Agreement, dated May 12, 2014.(16)

	(h)(1)			Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between the Nuveen Mutual Funds and Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., dated May 11, 2012.(10)

	(h)(2)			Amendment and Schedule A to Transfer Agency and Service Agreement, effective May 12, 2014.(16)

	(i)			Not applicable.

	(j)			Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, dated October 24, 2014.(17)

	(k)			Not applicable.

	(l)			Subscription Agreement with Nuveen Institutional Advisory Corp.(4)

	(m)			Plan of Distribution and Service Pursuant to Rule 12b-1, dated February 28, 2013.(12)

	(n)			Multiple Class Plan Adopted Pursuant to Rule 18f-3, as amended November 14, 2012.(12)

	(o)			Not applicable.

	(p)(1)			Code of Ethics, as amended April 1, 2014.(16)

	(p)(2)			Code of Ethics for the Independent Trustees of the Nuveen Funds, effective January 1, 2013.(11)

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	(z)(1)			Original Power of Attorney of Mr. Nelson, dated September 1, 2013.(13)

	(z)(2)			Original Powers of Attorney of Messrs. Bremner, Evans, Hunter, Kundert, Schneider and Toth and Mss. Stockdale, Stone and Stringer, dated October 13, 2013.(14)

	(z)(3)			Original Powers of Attorney of Messrs. Adams and Schreier, dated August 15, 2014.(17)

(1)	Incorporated by reference to the initial registration statement filed on May 14, 1996 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(2)	Incorporated by reference to the pre-effective amendment no. 2 filed on July 31, 1996 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(3)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 1 filed on December 16, 1996 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(4)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 4 filed on October 8, 1997 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(5)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 13 filed on September 28, 1998 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(6)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 32 filed on March 7, 2005 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(7)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 35 filed on June 29, 2005 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(8)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 39 filed on October 30, 2006 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(9)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 65 filed on October 28, 2010 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(10)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 77 filed on October 29, 2012 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(11)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 82 filed on February 15, 2013 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(12)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 84 filed on March 15, 2013 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(13)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 92 filed on September 26, 2013 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(14)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 94 filed on October 28, 2013 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(15)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 99 filed on February 26, 2014 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(16)	Incorporated by reference to the post-effective amendment no. 104 filed on May 12, 2014 on Form N-1A for Registrant.

(17)	Filed herewith.

Item 29. Persons Controlled by or under Common Control with the Fund

Not applicable.

Item 30. Indemnification

Section 4 of Article XII of Registrant’s Declaration of Trust provides as follows:

Subject to the exceptions and limitations contained in this Section 4, every person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, including persons who serve at the request of the Trust as directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents of another organization in which the Trust has an interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise (hereinafter referred to as a “Covered Person”), shall be indemnified by the Trust to the fullest extent permitted by law against liability and against all expenses reasonably incurred or paid by him in connection with any claim, action, suit or proceeding in which he becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of his being or having been such a Trustee, director, officer, employee or agent and against amounts paid or incurred by him in settlement thereof.

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No indemnification shall be provided hereunder to a Covered Person:

(a) against any liability to the Trust or its Shareholders by reason of a final adjudication by the court or other body before which the proceeding was brought that he engaged in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office;

(b) with respect to any matter as to which he shall have been finally adjudicated not to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interests of the Trust; or

(c) in the event of a settlement or other disposition not involving a final adjudication (as provided in paragraph (a) or (b)) and resulting in a payment by a Covered Person, unless there has been either a determination that such Covered Person did not engage in willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office by the court or other body approving the settlement or other disposition or a reasonable determination, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that he did not engage in such conduct:

(i) by a vote of a majority of the Disinterested Trustees acting on the matter (provided that a majority of the Disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter); or

(ii) by written opinion of independent legal counsel.

The rights of indemnification herein provided may be insured against by policies maintained by the Trust, shall be severable, shall not affect any other rights to which any Covered Person may now or hereafter be entitled, shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be such a Covered Person and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. Nothing contained herein shall affect any rights to indemnification to which Trust personnel other than Covered Persons may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law.

Expenses of preparation and presentation of a defense to any claim, action, suit or proceeding subject to a claim for indemnification under this Section 4 shall be advanced by the Trust prior to final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the recipient to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification under this Section 4, provided that either:

(a) such undertaking is secured by a surety bond or some other appropriate security or the Trust shall be insured against losses arising out of any such advances; or

(b) a majority of the Disinterested Trustees acting on the matter (provided that a majority of the Disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter) or independent legal counsel in a written opinion shall determine, based upon a review of the readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that the recipient ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification.

As used in this Section 4, a “Disinterested Trustee” is one (x) who is not an Interested Person of the Trust (including, as such Disinterested Trustee, anyone who has been exempted from being an Interested Person by any rule, regulation or order of the Commission), and (y) against whom none of such actions, suits or other proceedings or another action, suit or other proceeding on the same or similar grounds is then or has been pending.

As used in this Section 4, the words “claim,” “action,” “suit” or “proceeding” shall apply to all claims, actions, suits, proceedings (civil, criminal, administrative or other, including appeals), actual or threatened; and the word “liability” and “expenses” shall include without limitation, attorneys’ fees, costs, judgments, amounts paid in settlement, fines, penalties and other liabilities.

The trustees and officers of the Registrant are covered by the Mutual Fund Professional Liability policy in the aggregate amount of $70,000,000 against liability and expenses of claims of wrongful

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acts arising out of their position with the Registrant and other Nuveen funds, except for matters that involve willful acts, bad faith, gross negligence and willful disregard of duty (i.e., where the insured did not act in good faith for a purpose he or she reasonably believed to be in the best interest of the Registrant or where he or she had reasonable cause to believe this conduct was unlawful). The policy has a $2,000,000 deductible for operational failures (after the deductible is satisfied, the insurer would cover 90% of any operational failure claims and the Fund would be liable for 10% of any such claims) and $1,000,000 deductible for all other claims.

Insofar as the indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “1933 Act”) may be permitted to the officers, trustees or controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of the Registrant or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by an officer or trustee or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such officer, trustee or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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Item 31. Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser

(a) Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC (“Nuveen Fund Advisors”) (formerly known as Nuveen Fund Advisors, Inc. and Nuveen Asset Management) manages the Registrant and serves as investment adviser or manager to other open-end and closed-end management investment companies. The principal business address for all of these investment companies and the persons named below is 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

A description of any business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature in which the directors and officers of Nuveen Fund Advisors who serve as officers or trustees of the Registrant have engaged during the last two years for his or her account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee appears under “Management” in the Statement of Additional Information. Such information for the remaining senior officers of Nuveen Fund Advisors appears below:


Name and Position with Nuveen Fund Advisors		Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
Robert D. Luse, Executive Vice President		Executive Vice President of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC and Nuveen Securities, LLC; Executive Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

John L. MacCarthy, Executive Vice President and Secretary		Executive Vice President (since 2008), Secretary and General Counsel (since 2006) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Secretary (since 2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Executive Vice President (since 2008) and Secretary (since 2006) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and (since 2011) of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC; Vice President and Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management LLC.

Joseph T. Castro, Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer		Managing Director (since 2011), Head of Compliance (since 2013) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.

Stuart J. Cohen, Managing Director and Assistant Secretary		Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC, Nuveen Investments, Inc. and Nuveen Securities, LLC; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

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Name and Position with Nuveen Fund Advisors		Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
Sherri A. Hlavacek, Managing Director and Controller		Managing Director and Corporate Controller of Nuveen Investments, Inc. and Nuveen Securities, LLC; Managing Director and Controller of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc., Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. and of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (since 2011); Vice President and Controller of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, NWQ Holdings, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.

Lucas A. Satre, Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary		Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Nuveen Securities LLC; Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Asset Management, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC, NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

(b) Nuveen Asset Management, LLC (“Nuveen Asset Management”) acts as sub-investment adviser to the Registrant and also serves as sub-investment adviser to other open-end and closed-end funds and investment adviser to separately managed accounts. The following is a list of the senior officers of Nuveen Asset Management. The principal business address of each person is 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

A description of any business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature in which the directors and officers of Nuveen Asset Management who serve as officers or trustees of the Registrant have engaged during the last two years for his or her account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee appears under “Management” in the Statement of Additional Information. Such information for the remaining senior officers of Nuveen Asset Management appears below:


Name	Position and Offices with Nuveen Asset Management	Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
William T. Huffman	President	CPA.

Robert D. Luse	Executive Vice President	Executive Vice President of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Nuveen Securities, LLC; Executive Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President of Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

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Name	Position and Offices with Nuveen Asset Management	Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
John L. MacCarthy	Executive Vice President and Secretary	Executive Vice President and Secretary of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Executive Vice President (since 2008), Secretary and General Counsel (since 2006) of Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Secretary (since 2013) of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC; Executive Vice President (since 2008) and Secretary (since 2006) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.; Vice President and Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management LLC.

Charles R. Manzoni, Jr.	Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel	Managing Director of Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc.

Lucas A. Satre	Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary	Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Nuveen Securities, LLC; Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Commodities Asset Management, LLC, NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

Mark Slevin	Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investment Holdings, Inc.

Stuart J. Cohen	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, Nuveen Investments, Inc. and Nuveen Securities, LLC; Vice President and Assistant Secretary of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC.

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Name	Position and Offices with Nuveen Asset Management	Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
Sherri A. Hlavacek	Managing Director and Controller	Managing Director and Corporate Controller of Nuveen Securities, LLC and Nuveen Investments, Inc.; Managing Director and Controller of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc. and Nuveen Investments Holdings, Inc. (since 2011); Vice President and Controller of NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, Santa Barbara Asset Management, LLC, Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, Symphony Asset Management LLC and Winslow Capital Management, LLC; Certified Public Accountant.

Diane S. Meggs	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Senior Vice President and Compliance Manager (since 2011) of Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC; Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President (since 2013) of Nuveen Investments Advisers Inc.

(c) NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (“NWQ”) acts as sub-investment adviser to the Registrant for Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund and Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund. In addition, NWQ serves as sub-investment adviser to other open-end funds and as investment adviser to separately managed accounts. The following is a list of the executive officers of NWQ. The principal business address of each person is 2049 Century Park East, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067.


Name	Positions and Offices with NWQ	Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
Jon D. Bosse, CFA	Chief Investment Officer, Co-President, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager	None

John E. Conlin	Co-President, Executive Committee Member, Chief Operating Officer	Board Member (since 2005), Pope Resources M.L.P.; Board Member, Victory Park Capital.; General Partner, Education Partners 1, LLP.

(d) Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC (“Tradewinds”) acts as sub-investment adviser to the Registrant for Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund and also serves as sub-investment adviser to other open-end funds and certain closed-end funds. In addition, Tradewinds serves as investment adviser to separately managed accounts. The following is a listing of the executive officers of Tradewinds. The principal address of each person is 2049 Century Park East, 20th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90067.


Name	Positions and Offices with Tradewinds	Other Business, Profession, Vocation or Employment During Past Two Years
Jeffrey P. Cusack	President and Executive Managing Director	Managing Director, RIA and Alternatives Distribution, Nuveen Investments

Emily Alejos, CFA	Co-Chief Investment Officer, Equity Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Executive Managing Director	None

Andrew Thelen, CFA	Co-Chief Investment Officer, Equity Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Executive Managing Director	None

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Item 32. Principal Underwriters

(a) Nuveen Securities, LLC (“Nuveen”) acts as principal underwriter to the following open-end management type investment companies: Nuveen Multistate Trust I, Nuveen Multistate Trust II, Nuveen Multistate Trust III, Nuveen Multistate Trust IV, Nuveen Municipal Trust, Nuveen Managed Accounts Portfolios Trust, Nuveen Investment Trust II, Nuveen Investment Trust III, Nuveen Investment Trust V, Nuveen Investment Funds, Inc., Nuveen Strategy Funds, Inc. and the Registrant.

(b)


Name and Principal Business Address	Positions and Offices with Nuveen Securities	Positions and Offices with Registrant
William Adams IV 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Executive Vice President	Trustee

Margo L. Cook 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Executive Vice President and Head of Institutional Sales and Product Strategy and Development	Vice President

Scott S. Grace 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Managing Director and Treasurer	Vice President and Treasurer

Sherri A. Hlavacek 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Managing Director and Corporate Controller	None

Carl M. Katerndahl 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Executive Vice President and Head of Distribution and Corporate Marketing	None

Robert D. Luse 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Executive Vice President	None

Kevin J. McCarthy 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary	Vice President and Secretary

Kathleen L. Prudhomme 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary	Vice President and Assistant Secretary

Glenn R. Richter 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer	None

Lucas A. Satre 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel	None

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr. 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Co-Chief Executive Officer	Trustee

Gifford R. Zimmerman 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606	Managing Director and Assistant Secretary	Chief Administrative Officer

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Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records

Nuveen Fund Advisors, 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, maintains the Declaration of Trust, By-Laws, minutes of trustees and shareholder meetings and contracts of the Registrant and all advisory material of the investment adviser.

State Street Bank and Trust Company, P.O. Box 5043, Boston, Massachusetts 02206-5043, currently maintains all general and subsidiary ledgers, journals, trial balances, records of all portfolio purchases and sales, and all other required records not maintained by Nuveen Fund Advisors.

Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., P.O. Box 8530, Boston, Massachusetts 02266-8530, maintains all the required records in its capacity as transfer, dividend paying, and shareholder service agent for the Registrant.

Item 34. Management Services

Not applicable.

Item 35. Undertakings

Not applicable.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this registration statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this post-effective amendment to its registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Chicago and State of Illinois, on the 28th day of October, 2014.


NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST

By:		/s/ K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY
		Kevin J. McCarthy
		Vice President and Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this post-effective amendment to the registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.


Signature	Title			Date
/ S / S TEPHEN D. F OY S TEPHEN D. F OY	Vice President and Controller (principal financial and accounting officer)			October 28, 2014

/ S / G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN	Chief Administrative Officer (principal executive officer)			October 28, 2014

W ILLIAM J. S CHNEIDER *	Chairman of the Board and Trustee	ü ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ý ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï þ	By:	/ S / K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY Attorney-in-Fact October 28, 2014
W ILLIAM A DAMS IV*	Trustee
R OBERT P. B REMNER *	Trustee
J ACK B. E VANS *	Trustee
W ILLIAM C. H UNTER *	Trustee
D AVID J. K UNDERT *	Trustee
J OHN K. N ELSON *	Trustee
T HOMAS S. S CHREIER *	Trustee
J UDITH M. S TOCKDALE *	Trustee
C AROLE E. S TONE *	Trustee
V IRGINIA L. S TRINGER *	Trustee
T ERENCE J. T OTH *	Trustee

An original power of attorney authorizing, among others, Kevin J. McCarthy and Gifford R. Zimmerman to execute this registration statement, and amendments thereto, for each of the trustees of the Registrant on whose behalf this registration statement is filed, has been executed and has previously been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is incorporated by reference herein or is filed herewith.

EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit Number		Exhibit

(d)(1)		Management Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Funds Advisors, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.

(d)(2)		Amended Schedules A and B of Management Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, dated October 15, 2014.

(d)(3)		Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.

(d)(4)		Amended Schedule A of Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, dated October 15, 2014.

(d)(5)		Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.

(d)(6)		Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC, dated October 1, 2014.

(e)(5)		Renewal of Distribution Agreement between Registrant and Nuveen Securities, LLC (f/k/a Nuveen Investments, LLC), dated August 6, 2014.

(j)		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, dated October 24, 2014.

(z)(3)		Original Powers of Attorney of Messrs. Adams and Schreier, dated August 15, 2014.

M ANAGEMENT A GREEMENT

B ETWEEN

N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST

AND

N UVEEN F UND A DVISORS , LLC

N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST , a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ( “1940 Act” ) as an open-end diversified management series investment company ( “Trust” ), hereby appoints N UVEEN F UND A DVISORS , LLC, a Delaware limited liability company registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 as an investment adviser, of Chicago, Illinois ( “Manager” ), to furnish investment advisory and management services and certain administrative services with respect to the portion of its assets represented by the shares of beneficial interest issued in the series listed in Schedule A hereto, as such schedule may be amended from time to time (each such series hereinafter referred to as “Fund” ). Trust and Manager hereby agree that:

1. Investment Management Services . Manager shall manage the investment operations of Trust and each Fund, subject to the terms of this Agreement and to the supervision and control of Trust’s Board of Trustees ( “Trustees” ). Manager agrees to perform, or arrange for the performance of, the following services with respect to each Fund:

(a) to obtain and evaluate such information relating to economies, industries, businesses, securities and commodities markets, and individual securities, commodities and indices as it may deem necessary or useful in discharging its responsibilities hereunder;

(b) to formulate and maintain a continuous investment program in a manner consistent with and subject to (i) Trust’s agreement and declaration of trust and by-laws; (ii) the Fund’s investment objectives, policies, and restrictions as set forth in written documents furnished by the Trust to Manager; (iii) all securities, commodities, and tax laws and regulations applicable to the Fund and Trust; and (iv) any other written limits or directions furnished by the Trustees to Manager;

(c) unless otherwise directed by the Trustees, to determine from time to time securities, commodities, interests or other investments to be purchased, sold, retained or lent by the Fund, and to implement those decisions, including the selection of entities with or through which such purchases, sales or loans are to be effected;

(d) to use reasonable efforts to manage the Fund so that it will qualify as a regulated investment company under subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

(e) to make recommendations as to the manner in which voting rights, rights to consent to Trust or Fund action, and any other rights pertaining to Trust or the Fund shall be exercised;

(f) to make available to Trust promptly upon request all of the Fund’s records and ledgers and any reports or information reasonably requested by the Trust; and

(g) to the extent required by law, to furnish to regulatory authorities any information or reports relating to the services provided pursuant to this Agreement.

Except as otherwise instructed from time to time by the Trustees, with respect to execution of transactions for Trust on behalf of a Fund, Manager shall place, or arrange for the placement of, all orders for purchases, sales, or loans with issuers, brokers, dealers or other counterparts or agents selected by Manager. In connection with the selection of all such parties for the placement of all such orders, Manager shall attempt to obtain most favorable execution and price, but may nevertheless in its sole discretion as a secondary factor, purchase and sell portfolio securities from and to brokers and dealers who provide Manager with statistical, research and other information, analysis, advice, and similar services. In recognition of such services or brokerage services provided by a broker or dealer, Manager is hereby authorized to pay such broker or dealer a commission or spread in excess of that which might be charged by another broker or dealer for the same transaction if the Manager determines in good faith that the commission or spread is reasonable in relation to the value of the services so provided.

Trust hereby authorizes any entity or person associated with Manager that is a member of a national securities exchange to effect any transaction on the exchange for the account of a Fund to the extent permitted by and in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Exchange Act or 1934 and Rule 11a2-2(T) thereunder. Trust hereby consents to the retention by such entity or person of compensation for such transactions in accordance with Rule 11a-2-2(T)(a)(iv).

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Manager may, where it deems to be advisable, aggregate orders for its other customers together with any securities of the same type to be sold or purchased for Trust or one or more Funds in order to obtain best execution or lower brokerage commissions. In such event, Manager shall allocate the shares so purchased or sold, as well as the expenses incurred in the transaction, in a manner it considers to be equitable and fair and consistent with its fiduciary obligations to Trust, the Funds, and Manager’s other customers.

Manager shall for all purposes be deemed to be an independent contractor and not an agent of Trust and shall, unless otherwise expressly provided or authorized, have no authority to act for or represent Trust in any way.

2. Administrative Services . Subject to the terms of this Agreement and to the supervision and control of the Trustees, Manager shall provide to the Trust facilities, equipment, statistical and research data, clerical, accounting and bookkeeping services, internal auditing and legal services, and personnel to carry out all management services required for operation of the business and affairs of the Funds other than those services to be performed by the Trust’s Distributor pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, those services to be performed by the Trust’s Custodian pursuant to the Custody Agreement, those services to be performed by the Trust’s Transfer Agent pursuant to the Transfer Agency Agreement, those services to be provided by the Trust’s Custodian pursuant to the Accounting Agreement and those services normally performed by the Trust’s counsel and auditors.

3. Use of Affiliated Companies and Subcontractors . In connection with the services to be provided by Manager under this Agreement, Manager may, to the extent it deems appropriate, and subject to compliance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations, make use of (i) its affiliated companies and their directors, trustees, officers, and employees and (ii) subcontractors selected by Manager, provided that Manager shall supervise and remain fully responsible for the services of all such third parties in accordance with and to the extent provided by this Agreement. All costs and expenses associated with services provided by any such third parties shall be borne by Manager or such parties.

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4. Expenses Borne by Trust . Except to the extent expressly assumed by Manager herein or under a separate agreement between Trust and Manager and except to the extent required by law to be paid by Manager, Manager shall not be obligated to pay any costs or expenses incidental to the organization, operations or business of the Trust. Without limitation, such costs and expenses shall include but not be limited to:

(a) all charges of depositories, custodians and other agencies for the safekeeping and servicing of its cash, securities, and other property;

(b) all charges for equipment or services used for obtaining price quotations or for communication between Manager or Trust and the custodian, transfer agent or any other agent selected by Trust;

(d) all charges for services of Trust’s independent auditors and for services to Trust by legal counsel;

(e) all compensation of Trustees, other than those affiliated with Manager, all expenses incurred in connection with their services to Trust, and all expenses of meetings of the Trustees or committees thereof;

(f) all expenses incidental to holding meetings of holders of units of interest in the Trust ( “Shareholders” ), including printing and of supplying each record-date Shareholder with notice and proxy solicitation material, and all other proxy solicitation expense;

(g) all expenses of printing of annual or more frequent revisions of Trust prospectus(es) and of supplying each then-existing Shareholder with a copy of a revised prospectus;

(h) all expenses related to preparing and transmitting certificates representing Trust shares;

(i) all expenses of bond and insurance coverage required by law or deemed advisable by the Board of Trustees;

(j) all brokers’ commissions and other normal charges incident to the purchase, sale, or lending of portfolio securities;

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(k) all taxes and governmental fees payable to Federal, state or other governmental agencies, domestic or foreign, including all stamp or other transfer taxes;

(l) all expenses of registering and maintaining the registration of Trust under the 1940 Act and, to the extent no exemption is available, expenses of registering Trust’s shares under the 1933 Act, of qualifying and maintaining qualification of Trust and of Trust’s shares for sale under securities laws of various states or other jurisdictions and of registration and qualification of Trust under all other laws applicable to Trust or its business activities;

(m) all interest on indebtedness, if any, incurred by Trust or a Fund; and

(n) all fees, dues and other expenses incurred by Trust in connection with membership of Trust in any trade association or other investment company organization.

5. Allocation of Expenses Borne by Trust . Any expenses borne by Trust that are attributable solely to the organization, operation or business of a Fund shall be paid solely out of Fund assets. Any expense borne by Trust which is not solely attributable to a Fund, nor solely to any other series of shares of Trust, shall be apportioned in such manner as Manager determines is fair and appropriate, or as otherwise specified by the Board of Trustees.

6. Expenses Borne by Manager . Manager at its own expense shall furnish all executive and other personnel, office space, and office facilities required to render the investment management and administrative services set forth in this Agreement.

In the event that Manager pays or assumes any expenses of Trust or a Fund not required to be paid or assumed by Manager under this Agreement, Manager shall not be obligated hereby to pay or assume the same or similar expense in the future; provided that nothing contained herein shall be deemed to relieve Manager of any obligation to Trust or a Fund under any separate agreement or arrangement between the parties.

7. Management Fee . For the services rendered, facilities provided, and charges assumed and paid by Manager hereunder, Trust shall pay to Manager out of the assets of each Fund fees at the annual rate for such Fund as set forth in Schedule B to this

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Agreement. For each Fund, the management fee shall accrue on each calendar day, and shall be payable monthly on the first business day of the next succeeding calendar month. The daily fee accrual shall be computed by multiplying the fraction of one divided by the number of days in the calendar year by the applicable annual rate of fee, and multiplying this product by the net assets of the Fund, determined in the manner established by the Board of Trustees, as of the close of business on the last preceding business day on which the Fund’s net asset value was determined.

8. State Expense Limitation . If for any fiscal year of a Fund, its aggregate operating expenses ( “Aggregate Operating Expenses” ) exceed the applicable percentage expense limit imposed under the securities law and regulations of any state in which Shares of the Fund are qualified for sale (the “State Expense Limit” ), the Manager shall pay such Fund the amount of such excess. For purposes of this State Expense Limit, Aggregate Operating Expenses shall (a) include (i) any fees or expenses reimbursements payable to Manager pursuant to this Agreement and (ii) to the extent the Fund invests all or a portion of its assets in another investment company registered under the 1940 Act, the pro rata portion of that company’s operating expenses allocated to the Fund, and (iii) any compensation payable to Manager pursuant to any separate agreement relating to the Fund’s administration, but (b) exclude any interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, and other normal charges incident to the purchase, sale or loan of securities, commodity interests or other investments held by the Fund, litigation and indemnification expense, and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business. Except as otherwise agreed to by the parties or unless otherwise required by the law or regulation of any state, any reimbursement by Manager to a Fund under this section shall not exceed the management fee payable to Manager by the Fund under this Agreement.

Any payment to a Fund by Manager hereunder shall be made monthly, by annualizing the Aggregate Operating Expenses for each month as of the last day of the month. An adjustment for payments made during any fiscal year of the Fund shall be made on or before the last day of the first month following such fiscal year of the Fund if the Annual Operating Expenses for such fiscal year (i) do not exceed the State Expense Limitation or (ii) for such fiscal year there is no applicable State Expense Limit.

9. Retention of Sub-Adviser . Subject to obtaining the initial and periodic approvals required under Section 15 of the 1940 Act, Manager may retain one or more sub-advisers at Manager’s own cost and expense for the purpose of furnishing one or more of the services described in Section 1 hereof with respect to Trust or one or more Funds. Retention of a sub-adviser shall in no way reduce the responsibilities or obligations of Manager under this Agreement, and Manager shall be responsible to Trust and its Funds for all acts or omissions of any sub-adviser in connection with the performance or Manager’s duties hereunder.

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10. Non-Exclusivity . The services of Manager to Trust hereunder are not to be deemed exclusive and Manager shall be free to render similar services to others.

11. Standard of Care . The Manager shall not be liable for any loss sustained by reason of the purchase, sale or retention of any security, whether or not such purchase, sale or retention shall have been based upon the investigation and research made by any other individual, firm or corporation, if such recommendation shall have been selected with due care and in good faith, except loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence on the part of the Manager in the performance of its obligations and duties, or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.

12. Amendment . This Agreement may not be amended as to the Trust or any Fund without the affirmative votes (a) of a majority of the Board of Trustees, including a majority of those Trustees who are not “interested persons” of Trust or of Manager, voting in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval, and (b) of a “majority of the outstanding shares” of Trust or, with respect to any amendment affecting an individual Fund, a “majority of the outstanding shares” of that Fund. The terms “interested persons” and “vote of a majority of the outstanding shares” shall be construed in accordance with their respective definitions in the 1940 Act and, with respect to the latter term, in accordance with Rule 18f-2 under the 1940 Act.

13. Effective Date and Termination . This Agreement shall become effective as to any Fund as of the effective date for that Fund specified in Schedule A hereto. This Agreement may be terminated at any time, without payment of any penalty, as to any Fund by the Board of Trustees of Trust, or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of that fund, upon at least sixty (60) days’ written notice to Manager. This Agreement may be terminated by Manager at any time upon at least sixty (60) days’ written notice to Trust. This Agreement shall terminate automatically in the event of its “assignment” (as defined in the 1940 Act). Unless terminated as hereinbefore provided, this Agreement shall continue in effect with respect to any Fund specified in Schedule A and thereafter from year to year only so long as such continuance is specifically approved with respect to that Fund at least annually (a) by a majority of those Trustees who are not interested persons of Trust or of Manager, voting in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval, and (b) by either the Board of Trustees of Trust or by a “vote of a majority of the outstanding shares” of the Fund.

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14. Ownership of Records; Interparty Reporting . All records required to be maintained and preserved by Trust pursuant to the provisions of rules or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 31(a) of the 1940 Act or other applicable laws or regulations which are maintained and preserved by Manager on behalf of Trust and any other records the parties mutually agree shall be maintained by Manager on behalf of Trust are the property of Trust and shall be surrendered by Manager promptly on request by Trust; provided that Manager may at its own expense make and retain copies of any such records.

Trust shall furnish or otherwise make available to Manager such copies of the financial statements, proxy statements, reports, and other information relating to the business and affairs of each Shareholder in a Fund as Manager may, at any time or from time to time, reasonably require in order to discharge its obligations under this Agreement.

Manager shall prepare and furnish to Trust as to each Fund statistical data and other information in such form and at such intervals as Trust may reasonably request.

15. Non-Liability of Trustees and Shareholders . Any obligation of Trust hereunder shall be binding only upon the assets of Trust (or the applicable Fund thereof) and shall not be binding upon any Trustee, officer, employee, agent or Shareholder of Trust. Neither the authorization of any action by the Trustees or Shareholders of Trust nor the execution of this Agreement on behalf of Trust shall impose any liability upon any Trustee or any Shareholder.

16. Use of Manager’s Name . Trust may use the name “Nuveen Investment Trust” and the Fund names listed in Schedule A or any other name derived from the name “Nuveen” only for so long as this Agreement or any extension, renewal, or amendment hereof remains in effect, including any similar agreement with any organization which shall have succeeded to the business of Manager as investment adviser. At such time as this Agreement or any extension, renewal or amendment hereof, or such other similar agreement shall no longer be in effect, Trust will cease to use any name derived from the name “Nuveen” or otherwise connected with Manager, or with any organization which shall have succeeded to Manager’s business as investment adviser.

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17. References and Headings . In this Agreement and in any such amendment, references to this Agreement and all expressions such as “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereunder’” shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement as amended or affected by any such amendments. Headings are placed herein for convenience of reference only and shall not be taken as a part hereof or control or affect the meaning, construction, or effect of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original.

Dated: October 1, 2014


NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST

by:		/s/ K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY
		Vice President

Attest: /s/ Virginia O’Neal


NUVEEN FUND ADVISORS, LLC

by:		/s/ G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN
		Managing Director

Attest: /s/ Virginia O’Neal

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N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST

M ANAGEMENT A GREEMENT

S CHEDULE A

A MENDED AS OF O CTOBER 15, 2014

The Funds of the Trust currently subject to this Agreement and the effective date of each are as follows:


FUND	EFFECTIVE DATE	INITIAL TERM

Nuveen Concentrated Core Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Core Dividend Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Equity Market Neutral Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Global Tactical Opportunities Plus Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Large Cap Core Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Large Cap Core Plus Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Large Cap Growth Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Large Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

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Nuveen NWQ Large -Cap Value Fund	October 15, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen NWQ Small -Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund	October 1, 2014	Until August 1, 2015

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

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Dated: October 15, 2014

	N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST

	BY:	/ S / K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY
		Vice President

A TTEST :

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

	N UVEEN F UND A DVISORS , LLC

	BY:	/ S / G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN
		Managing Director

A TTEST :

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

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N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST

M ANAGEMENT A GREEMENT

S CHEDULE B

A MENDED AS OF O CTOBER 15, 2014

a.	Compensation pursuant to Section 7 of this Agreement shall be calculated with respect to each Fund in accordance with the following schedule applicable to the average daily net assets of the Fund: Each Fund’s Management Fee will equal the sum of a Fund-Level Fee and a Complex-Level Fee.

b.	The Fund-Level Fee for each Fund shall be computed by applying the following annual rate to the average total daily net assets of the Fund:


Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Concentrated Core Fund			Nuveen Core Dividend Fund			Nuveen Equity Market Neutral Fund
For the first $125 million		0.6500	%		0.5500	%		1.1000	%
For the next $125 million		0.6375	%		0.5375	%		1.0875	%
For the next $250 million		0.6250	%		0.5250	%		1.0750	%
For the next $500 million		0.6125	%		0.5125	%		1.0625	%
For the next $1 billion		0.6000	%		0.5000	%		1.0500	%
Over $2 billion		0.5750	%		0.4750	%		1.0250	%


Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation Fund			Nuveen Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation Fund			Nuveen Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation Fund
For the first $125 million		0.6000	%		0.6000	%		0.6000	%
For the next $125 million		0.5875	%		0.5875	%		0.5875	%
For the next $250 million		0.5750	%		0.5750	%		0.5750	%
For the next $500 million		0.5625	%		0.5625	%		0.5625	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5500	%		0.5500	%		0.5500	%
Over $2 billion		0.5250	%		0.5250	%		0.5250	%

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Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Large Cap Core Fund			Nuveen Large Cap Core Plus Fund			Nuveen Large Cap Growth Fund
For the first $125 million		0.5500	%		1.0000	%		0.5500	%
For the next $125 million		0.5375	%		0.9875	%		0.5375	%
For the next $250 million		0.5250	%		0.9750	%		0.5250	%
For the next $500 million		0.5125	%		0.9625	%		0.5125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5000	%		0.9500	%		0.5000	%
Over $2 billion		0.4750	%		0.9250	%		0.4750	%


Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Large Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Multi- Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund
For the first $125 million		0.5500	%		0.6300	%		0.7500	%
For the next $125 million		0.5375	%		0.6175	%		0.7375	%
For the next $250 million		0.5250	%		0.6050	%		0.7250	%
For the next $500 million		0.5125	%		0.5925	%		0.7125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5000	%		0.5800	%		0.7000	%
Over $2 billion		0.4750	%		0.5550	%		0.6750	%


Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate			Rate			Rate
	Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund			Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund			Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund			Nuveen NWQ Large Cap Value Fund
For the first $125 million		0.6000	%		0.6500	%		0.6500	%		0.5500	%
For the next $125 million		0.5875	%		0.6375	%		0.6375	%		0.5375	%
For the next $250 million		0.5750	%		0.6250	%		0.6250	%		0.5250	%
For the next $500 million		0.5625	%		0.6125	%		0.6125	%		0.5125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5500	%		0.6000	%		0.6000	%		0.5000	%
Over $2 billion		0.5250	%		0.5750	%		0.5750	%		0.4750	%

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Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund			Nuveen Global Tactical Opportunities Plus Fund
For the first $125 million		0.4000	%		0.7500	%
For the next $125 million		0.3875	%		0.7375	%
For the next $250 million		0.3750	%		0.7250	%
For the next $500 million		0.3625	%		0.7125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.3500	%		0.7000	%
Over $2 billion		0.3250	%		0.6750	%


Average Total Daily Net Assets	Rate			Rate
	Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund			Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund
For the first $125 million		0.6300	%		0.4500	%
For the next $125 million		0.6175	%		0.4375	%
For the next $250 million		0.6050	%		0.4250	%
For the next $500 million		0.5925	%		0.4125	%
For the next $1 billion		0.5800	%		0.4000	%
Over $2 billion		0.5550	%		0.3875	%

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC will waive fees and reimburse expenses in order to prevent total annual fund operating expenses (excluding 12b-1 distribution and service fees, interest expenses, taxes, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities, dividend and enhanced custody expenses on securities sold short and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding the percentage of the average daily net assets of any class of fund shares of each Fund as shown on the table below, subject in all cases to possible further reductions as a result of reductions in the complex-level fee component of the management fee.


Fund	Permanent Expense Cap as a percentage of the average daily net assets of any class of the Fund
Nuveen Large Cap Value Fund		1.20	%
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund		1.50	%
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund		1.35	%
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund		1.50	%
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund		1.45	%

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The Complex-Level Fee for each Fund shall be calculated by applying the Complex-Level Fee Rate (as applied to a specific Fund, the “Fund-Specific Complex-Level Fee Rate”), expressed as a daily equivalent, to the daily net assets of the Fund. The Complex-Level Fee Rate shall be determined based upon the total daily net assets of all Eligible Funds, as defined below (with such daily net assets to include, in the case of Eligible Funds whose advisory fees are calculated by reference to net assets that include net assets attributable to preferred stock issued by or borrowings by such Eligible Funds, such leveraging net assets), pursuant to the annual fee schedule shown below in this section, with the following exclusions (as adjusted, “Complex-Level Assets”):

in the case of Eligible Funds that invest in other Eligible Funds (“Funds of Funds”), that portion of the net assets of such Funds of Funds attributable to investments in such other Eligible Funds;

ii)

that portion of the net assets of each Eligible Fund comprising the daily “Fund Asset Limit Amount” (as defined below).

The Complex-Level Fee Rate shall be calculated in such a manner that it results in the effective rate at the specified Complex-Level Asset amounts shown in the following annual fee schedule:


Complex-Level Asset Breakpoint Level ($ million)		Effective Rate at Breakpoint Level (%)
55,000		0.2000
56,000		0.1996
57,000		0.1989
60,000		0.1961
63,000		0.1931
66,000		0.1900
71,000		0.1851
76,000		0.1806
80,000		0.1773
91,000		0.1691
125,000		0.1599
200,000		0.1505
250,000		0.1469
300,000		0.1445

e.	“Eligible Funds”, for purposes of the Agreement, shall mean all Nuveen-branded closed-end and open-end registered investment companies organized in the United States. Any open-end or closed-end funds that subsequently

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become part of the Nuveen complex because either (a) Nuveen Investments, Inc. or its affiliates acquire the investment adviser to such funds (or the adviser’s parent), or (b) Nuveen Investments, Inc. or its affiliates acquire the fund’s adviser’s rights under the management agreement for such fund (in either case, such acquisition an “Acquisition” and such fund an “Acquired Fund”), will be evaluated by both Nuveen management and the Nuveen Funds’ Board, on a case-by-case basis, as to whether or not the assets of such Acquired Funds would be included in the Complex-Level Assets and, if so, whether there would be a basis for any adjustments to the complex-level breakpoint schedule and/or its application.

f.	The “Fund Asset Limit Amount” as of any calculation date shall for each Fund be equal to the lesser of (i) the Initial Fund Asset Limit Amount (defined below) and (ii) the Eligible Fund’s current net assets. The “Initial Fund Asset Limit Amount” for an Eligible Fund shall be determined as follows:

In the case of Nuveen-branded Funds that qualified as Eligible Funds on or prior to June 30, 2010, as well as Eligible Funds launched thereafter that are not Acquired Funds, the Initial Fund Asset Limit Amount shall be equal to zero, except to extent that such Fund may later participate in a subsequent Fund consolidation as described in (iii) below.

ii)

In the case of Acquired Funds, the Initial Fund Asset Limit Amount is equal to the product of (i) 1 minus the Aggregate Eligible Asset Percentage (defined below) and (ii) an Acquired Fund’s net assets as of the effective date of such Fund’s Acquisition.

iii)

In the event of a consolidation or merger of one or more Eligible Funds, the Initial Fund Asset Limit Amount of the combined fund will be equal to the sum of the Initial Fund Asset Limit Amounts of each individual Eligible Fund.

g.	Following are additional definitions of terms used above:

“Acquisition Assets”: With respect to an Acquisition, the aggregate net assets as of the effective date of such Acquisition of all Acquired Funds.

ii)

“Aggregate Eligible Asset Amount”: With respect to an Acquisition, that portion of the aggregate net assets of Acquired Funds as of the effective date of such Acquisition that is included in Complex-Level Assets. With respect to the series of First American Investment Funds, Inc. that became Acquired Funds as of January 1, 2011, the Aggregate Eligible Asset Amount is $2 billion.

iii)

“Aggregate Eligible Asset Percentage”: The ratio of the Aggregate Eligible Asset Amount to Acquisition Assets.

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iv)

“Fund-Specific Complex-Level Fee Rate”: The Complex-Level Fee Rate applicable to a specific Eligible Fund. In the case of Eligible Funds that are Funds of Funds, the Fund-Specific Complex-Level Fee Rate is zero percent (0%). For all other Eligible Funds, the Fund-Specific Complex-Level Fee Rate is the annual fee rate calculated as the sum of (i) the Complex-Level Fee Rate plus (ii) the product of (a) the difference between 0.20% and the Complex-Level Fee Rate and (b) the ratio of the Fund’s Fund Asset Limit Amount to such Fund’s net assets.

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Dated: October 15, 2014

	N UVEEN I NVESTMENT T RUST

	B Y :	/ S / K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY
		Vice President

A TTEST :

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

	N UVEEN F UND A DVISORS , LLC

	B Y :	/ S / G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN
		Managing Director

A TTEST :

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

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INVESTMENT SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT MADE THIS 1st day of October 2014, by and between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Manager”), and NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Sub-Adviser”).

WHEREAS, Manager is the investment manager for the Funds listed on Schedule A hereto (each a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”), each a series of Nuveen Investment Trust (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”); and

WHEREAS, Manager desires to retain Sub-Adviser as its agent to furnish investment advisory services for the Fund, upon the terms and conditions hereafter set forth;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows with respect to each Fund:

1. Appointment . Manager hereby appoints Sub-Adviser to provide certain sub-investment advisory services to the Fund for the period and on the terms set forth in this Agreement. Sub-Adviser accepts such appointment and agrees to furnish the services herein set forth for the compensation herein provided.

2. Services to be Performed . Subject always to the supervision of the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) and the Manager, Sub-Adviser will furnish an investment program in respect of, make investment decisions for, and place all orders for the purchase and sale of securities for the Fund, all on behalf of the Fund. In the performance of its duties, Sub-Adviser will satisfy its fiduciary duties to the Trust, will monitor the Fund’s investments, and will comply with the provisions of the Trust’s Declaration of Trust and By-laws, as amended from time to time, and the stated investment objectives, policies and restrictions of the Fund. Manager will provide Sub-Adviser with current copies of the Trust’s Declaration of Trust, By-laws, prospectus and any amendments thereto, and any objectives, policies or limitations not appearing therein as they may be relevant to Sub-Adviser’s performance under this Agreement. Sub-Adviser and Manager will each make its officers and employees available to the other from time to time at reasonable times to review investment policies of the Fund and to consult with each other regarding the investment affairs of the Fund. Sub-Adviser will report to the Board and to Manager with respect to the implementation of its investment program.

Sub-Adviser is authorized to select the brokers or dealers that will execute the purchases and sales of portfolio securities for the Fund, and is directed to use its best efforts to obtain best execution, which includes most favorable net results and execution of the Trust’s orders, taking into account all appropriate factors, including price, dealer spread or commission, size and difficulty of the transaction and research or other services provided. It is understood that the Sub-Adviser will not be deemed to have acted unlawfully, or to have breached a fiduciary duty to the Trust or the Fund, or be in breach of any obligation owing to the Trust or the Fund under this Agreement, or otherwise, solely by reason of its having caused the Fund to pay a member of a securities exchange, a broker or a dealer a commission for effecting a securities transaction for the Fund in excess of the amount of commission another member of an exchange, broker or dealer would have charged if the Sub-Adviser determined in good faith that the commission paid was reasonable in relation to the brokerage or research services provided by such member, broker or dealer, viewed in terms of that particular transaction or the Sub-Adviser’s overall responsibilities with respect to its accounts, including the Fund, as to which it exercises investment discretion. In addition, if, in the judgment of the Sub-Adviser, the Fund would be benefited by supplemental services, the Sub-Adviser is authorized to pay spreads or commissions to brokers or dealers

furnishing such services in excess of spreads or commissions which another broker or dealer may charge for the same transaction, provided that the Sub-Adviser determined in good faith that the commission or spread paid was reasonable in relation to the services provided. The Sub-Adviser will properly communicate to the officers and trustees of the Trust such information relating to transactions for the Fund as they may reasonably request. In no instance will portfolio securities be purchased from or sold to the Manager, Sub-Adviser or any affiliated person of either the Trust, Manager or Sub-Adviser, except as may be permitted under the 1940 Act and under no circumstances will Sub-Adviser select brokers or dealers for Fund transactions on the basis of Fund share sales by such brokers or dealers.

Sub-Adviser further agrees that it:

(a)

will use the same degree of skill and care in providing such services as it uses in providing services to fiduciary accounts for which it has investment responsibilities;

(b)

will conform to all applicable Rules and Regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission in all material respects and in addition will conduct its activities under this Agreement in accordance with any applicable regulations of any governmental authority pertaining to its investment advisory activities;

(c)

will report regularly to Manager and to the Board of the Trust and will make appropriate persons available for the purpose of reviewing with representatives of Manager and the Board on a regular basis at reasonable times the management of the Fund, including, without limitation, review of the general investment strategies of the Fund, the performance of the Fund in relation to standard industry indices and general conditions affecting the marketplace and will provide various other reports from time to time as reasonably requested by Manager;

(d)

will prepare such books and records with respect to the Fund’s securities transactions as requested by the Manager and will furnish Manager and Trust’s Board such periodic and special reports as the Board or Manager may reasonably request; and

3. Expenses . During the term of this Agreement, Sub-Adviser will pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities under this Agreement other than the cost of securities (including brokerage commission, if any) purchased for the Trust.

4. Compensation . For the services provided and the expenses assumed pursuant to this Agreement, Manager will pay the Sub-Adviser, and the Sub-Adviser agrees to accept as full compensation therefor, a portfolio management fee for the Fund equal to a percentage (as set forth on Schedule A) of the remainder of (a) the investment management fee payable by the Fund to the Manager based on average daily net assets pursuant to the Management Agreement, less (b) any management fee waivers, expense reimbursement payments, supermarket fees and alliance fees waived, reimbursed or paid by the Manager in respect of the Fund.

The management fee shall accrue on each calendar day, and shall be payable monthly on the first business day of the next succeeding calendar month. The daily fee accrual shall be computed by multiplying the fraction of one divided by the number of days in the calendar year by the applicable annual rate of fee, and multiplying this product by the net assets of the Trust, determined in the manner established by the Board, as of the close of business on the last preceding business day on which the Trust’s net asset value was determined.

For the month and year in which this Agreement becomes effective or terminates, there shall be an appropriate proration on the basis of the number of days that the Agreement is in effect during the month and year, respectively.

5. Services to Others . Manager understands, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that Sub-Adviser now acts, or may in the future act, as an investment adviser to fiduciary and other managed accounts, and as investment adviser or sub-investment adviser to other investment companies that are not series of the Trust, provided that whenever the Fund and one or more other investment advisory clients of Sub-Adviser have available funds for investment, investments suitable and appropriate for each will be allocated in a manner believed by Sub-Adviser to be equitable to each. Manager recognizes, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that in some cases this procedure may adversely affect the size of the position that the Fund may obtain in a particular security. It is further agreed that, on occasions when the Sub-Adviser deems the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of the Fund as well as other accounts, it may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, but will not be obligated to, aggregate the securities to be so sold or purchased for the Fund with those to be sold or purchased for other accounts in order to obtain favorable execution and lower brokerage commissions. In addition, Manager understands, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that the persons employed by Sub-Adviser to assist in Sub-Adviser’s duties under this Agreement will not devote their full such efforts and service to the Fund. It is also agreed that the Sub-Adviser may use any supplemental research obtained for the benefit of the Fund in providing investment advice to its other investment advisory accounts or for managing its own accounts.

6. Limitation of Liability . Manager will not take any action against Sub-Adviser to hold Sub-Adviser liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection with the performance of Sub-Adviser’s duties under this Agreement, except for a loss resulting from Sub-Adviser’s willful misfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.

7. Term; Termination; Amendment . This Agreement shall become effective and shall run for an initial period as specified for each Fund in Schedule A hereto. This Agreement shall continue in force from year to year after the initial period with respect to each Fund, but only as long as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually in the manner required by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; provided, however, that, if the continuation of this Agreement is not approved for each Fund, the Sub-Adviser may continue to serve in such capacity for each Fund in the manner and to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

This Agreement shall automatically terminate in the event of its assignment and may be terminated at any time without the payment of any penalty by either party on sixty (60) days’ written notice to the other. This Agreement may also be terminated by the Trust with respect to the Fund by action of the Board or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund on sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Sub-Adviser by the Trust.

This Agreement may be terminated at any time without the payment of any penalty by the Manager, the Board or by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund in the event that it shall have been established by a court of competent jurisdiction that the Sub-Adviser or any officer or director of the Sub-Adviser has taken any action which results in a breach of the covenants of the Sub-Adviser set forth herein.

The terms “assignment” and “vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities” shall have the meanings set forth in the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

Termination of this Agreement shall not affect the right of the Sub-Adviser to receive payments on any unpaid balance of the compensation described in Section 4 earned prior to such termination. This Agreement shall automatically terminate in the event the Investment Management Agreement between the Manager and the Trust is terminated, assigned or not renewed.

8. Notice . Any notice under this Agreement shall be in writing, addressed and delivered or mailed, postage prepaid, to the other party as set forth below:

If to Manager:

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

If to Sub-Adviser:

NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC

2049 Century Park East, Suite 1600

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Attention: John E. Conlin

or at such other address as such party may designate for the receipt of such notice.

9. Limitations on Liability . All parties hereto are expressly put on notice of the Trust’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust and all amendments thereto, a copy of which is on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the limitation of shareholder and trustee liability contained therein. The obligations of the Trust entered in the name or on behalf thereof by any of the Trustees, representatives or agents are made not individually but only in such capacities and are not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers, or shareholders of the Trust individually but are binding upon only the assets and property of the Trust, and persons dealing with the Trust must look solely to the assets of the Trust and those assets belonging to the Fund, for the enforcement of any claims.

10. Miscellaneous . The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect. If any provision of this Agreement is held or made invalid by a court decision, statute, rule or otherwise, the remainder of this Agreement will not be affected thereby. This Agreement will be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors.

11. Applicable Law . This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with applicable federal law and (except as to Section 9 hereof which shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Massachusetts) the laws of the State of Illinois.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manager and Sub-Adviser have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the day and year first above written.


NUVEEN FUND ADVISORS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company		NWQ INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By:	/ S / K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY	By:	/s/ Avi Mizrachi
Title:	Managing Director	Title:	Managing Director

I NVESTMENT S UB -A DVISORY A GREEMENT

Schedule A


Fund Name	Effective Date	Period End	Compensation Percentage
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%

I NVESTMENT S UB -A DVISORY A GREEMENT

BETWEEN N UVEEN F UND A DVISORS , LLC AND

NWQ I NVESTMENT M ANAGEMENT C OMPANY , LLC

Schedule A

Amended as of October 15, 2014


Fund Name	Effective Date	Period End	Compensation Percentage
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value Fund	October 15, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%
Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%

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Dated: October 15, 2014
	NUVEEN FUND ADVISORS, LLC

	B Y :	/s/ K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY
		Managing Director

A TTEST :

/ S / V IRGINIA O’N EAL

	NWQ INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC

	B Y :	/s/ A VI M IZRACHI
		Managing Director

A TTEST :

/ S / C RISTAL M. G ARCIA

INVESTMENT SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT MADE THIS 1st day of October, 2014, by and between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Manager”), and Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Sub-Adviser”).

WHEREAS, Manager desires to retain Sub-Adviser as its agent to furnish investment advisory services for the Fund, upon the terms and conditions hereafter set forth;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows with respect to each Fund:

2. Services to be Performed . Subject always to the supervision of the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) and the Manager, Sub-Adviser will furnish an investment program in respect of, make investment decisions for, and place all orders for the purchase and sale of securities for the Fund, all on behalf of the Fund. In the performance of its duties, Sub-Adviser will satisfy its fiduciary duties to the Trust, will monitor the Fund’s investments, and will comply with the provisions of the Trust’s Declaration of Trust and By-laws, as amended from time to time, and the stated investment objectives, policies and restrictions of the Fund. Manager will provide Sub-Adviser with current copies of the Trust’s Declaration of Trust, By-laws, prospectus and Statement of Additional Information and any amendments thereto, and any objectives, policies or limitations not appearing therein as they may be relevant to Sub-Adviser’s performance under this Agreement. Sub-Adviser and Manager will each make its officers and employees available to the other from time to time at reasonable times to review investment policies of the Fund and to consult with each other regarding the investment affairs of the Fund. Sub-Adviser will report to the Board and to Manager with respect to the implementation of its investment program.

supplemental services, the Sub-Adviser is authorized to pay spreads or commissions to brokers or dealers furnishing such services in excess of spreads or commissions which another broker or dealer may charge for the same transaction, provided that the Sub-Adviser determined in good faith that the commission or spread paid was reasonable in relation to the services provided. The Sub-Adviser will properly communicate to the officers and trustees of the Trust such information relating to transactions for the Fund as they may reasonably request. In no instance will portfolio securities be purchased from or sold to the Manager, Sub-Adviser or any affiliated person of either the Trust, Manager or Sub-Adviser, except as may be permitted under the 1940 Act and under no circumstances will Sub-Adviser select brokers or dealers for Fund transactions on the basis of Fund share sales by such brokers or dealers.

Sub-Adviser further agrees that it:

(a)

will use the same degree of skill and care in providing such services as it uses in providing services to fiduciary accounts for which it has investment responsibilities;

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

will monitor the pricing of portfolio securities, and events relating to the issuers of those securities and the markets in which the securities trade in the ordinary course of managing the portfolio securities of each Fund, and will notify Manager promptly of any issuer-specific or market events or other situations that occur (particularly those that may occur after the close of a foreign market in which the securities may primarily trade but before the time at which each Fund’s securities are priced on a given day) that may materially impact the pricing of one or more securities in Sub-Adviser’s portion of the portfolio. In addition, Sub-Adviser will assist Manager in evaluating the impact that such an event may have on the net asset value of each Fund and in determining a recommended fair value of the affected security or securities.

7. Term; Termination; Amendment . This Agreement shall become effective and shall run for an initial period as specified for each Fund in Schedule A hereto. This Agreement shall continue in force from year to year after the initial period, but only as long as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually in the manner required by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; provided, however, that, if the continuation of this Agreement is not approved, the Sub-Adviser may continue to serve in such capacity for the Fund in the manner and to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

The terms “assignment” and “vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities” shall have the meanings set forth in the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

8. Notice . Any notice under this Agreement shall be in writing, addressed and delivered or mailed, postage prepaid, to the other party as set forth below:

If to Manager:

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

If to Sub-Adviser:

Tradewinds Global Investors, LLC

2049 Century Park East, Suite 2000

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Attention: Daniel Carey

or at such other address as such party may designate for the receipt of such notice.

9. Limitations on Liability . All parties hereto are expressly put on notice of the Trust’s Declaration of Trust and all amendments thereto, a copy of which is on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the limitation of shareholder and trustee liability contained therein. The obligations of the Trust entered in the name or on behalf thereof by any of the Trustees, representatives or agents are made not individually but only in such capacities and are not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers, or shareholders of the Trust individually but are binding upon only the assets and property of the Trust, and persons dealing with the Trust must look solely to the assets of the Trust and those assets belonging to the Fund, for the enforcement of any claims.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manager and Sub-Adviser have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the day and year first above written.


NUVEEN FUND ADVISORS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company		TRADEWINDS GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By:	/s/ Kevin J. McCarthy	By:	/s/ Daniel Carey
Title:	Managing Director	Title:	Vice President

I NVESTMENT S UB -A DVISORY A GREEMENT

Schedule A


Fund Name	Effective Date	Period End	Compensation Percentage
Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund	October 1, 2014	August 1, 2015		50.0000	%

INVESTMENT SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT MADE THIS 1st day of October, 2014, by and between Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Manager”), and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a registered investment adviser (“Sub-Adviser”).

WHEREAS, Manager desires to retain Sub-Adviser as its agent to furnish investment advisory services for the Fund, upon the terms and conditions hereafter set forth;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows with respect to each Fund:

Sub-Adviser further agrees that it:

(a)

will use the same degree of skill and care in providing such services as it uses in providing services to fiduciary accounts for which it has investment responsibilities;

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

will monitor the pricing of portfolio securities, and events relating to the issuers of those securities and the markets in which the securities trade in the ordinary course of managing the portfolio securities of the Fund, and will notify Manager promptly of any issuer-specific or market events or other situations that occur (particularly those that may occur after the close of a foreign market in which the securities may primarily trade but before the time at which the Fund’s securities are priced on a given day) that may materially impact the pricing of one or more securities in Sub-Adviser’s portion of the portfolio. In addition, Sub-Adviser will assist Manager in evaluating the impact that such an event may have on the net asset value of the Fund and in determining a recommended fair value of the affected security or securities.

5. Services to Others . Manager understands, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that Sub-Adviser now acts, or may in the future act, as an investment adviser to fiduciary and other managed accounts, and as investment adviser or sub-investment adviser to other investment companies, provided that whenever the Fund and one or more other investment advisory clients of Sub-Adviser have available funds for investment, investments suitable and appropriate for each will be allocated in a manner believed by Sub-Adviser to be equitable to each. Manager recognizes, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that in some cases this procedure may adversely affect the size of the position that the Fund may obtain in a particular security. It is further agreed that, on occasions when the Sub-Adviser deems the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of the Fund as well as other accounts, it may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, but will not be obligated to, aggregate the securities to be so sold or purchased for the Fund with those to be sold or purchased for other accounts in order to obtain favorable execution and lower brokerage commissions. In addition, Manager understands, and has advised the Trust’s Board, that the persons employed by Sub-Adviser to assist in Sub-Adviser’s duties under this Agreement will not devote their full such efforts and service to the Fund. It is also agreed that the Sub-Adviser may use any supplemental research obtained for the benefit of the Fund in providing investment advice to its other investment advisory accounts or for managing its own accounts.

7. Term; Termination; Amendment . This Agreement shall become effective and shall run for an initial period as specified for each Fund in Schedule A hereto. This Agreement shall continue in force from year to year after the initial period, but only as long as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually in the manner required by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; provided, however, that, if the continuation of this Agreement is not approved, the Sub-Adviser may continue to serve in such capacity for the Fund in the manner and to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

The terms “assignment” and “vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities” shall have the meanings set forth in the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

8. Notice . Any notice under this Agreement shall be in writing, addressed and delivered or mailed, postage prepaid, to the other party as set forth below:

If to Manager:

Nuveen Fund Advisors, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: Mr. Gifford R. Zimmerman

If to Sub-Adviser:

Nuveen Asset Management, LLC

333 West Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: Mr. William Huffman

or at such other address as such party may designate for the receipt of such notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manager and Sub-Adviser have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the day and year first above written.


NUVEEN FUND ADVISORS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company		NUVEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

By:	/ S / K EVIN J. M C C ARTHY	By:	/ S / G IFFORD R. Z IMMERMAN
Title:	Managing Director	Title:	Managing Director

I NVESTMENT S UB -A DVISORY A GREEMENT

Schedule A

Fund Name

Effective Date

Period End

Compensation
Percentage

Nuveen Concentrated Core Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Core Dividend Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Equity Market Neutral Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Global Tactical Opportunities Plus Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Conservative Allocation Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Growth Allocation Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Intelligent Risk Moderate Allocation Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Large Cap Core Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Large Cap Core Plus Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Large Cap Growth Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen Large Cap Value Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund

October 1, 2014

August 1, 2015

50.0000

Renewal of Distribution Agreement

Agreement made this 6th day of August, 2014 by and between Nuveen Investment Trust, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Fund”), and NUVEEN SECURITIES, LLC (formerly, Nuveen Investments, LLC), a Delaware limited liability company (the “Underwriter”);

WHEREAS, the parties hereto are the contracting parties under that certain Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”) pursuant to which the Underwriter acts as agent for the distribution of shares of the Fund; and

WHEREAS, the Agreement terminates August 8, 2014 unless continued in the manner required by the Investment Company Act of 1940;

WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Fund, at a meeting called for the purpose of reviewing the Agreement has approved the Agreement and its continuance until August 8, 2015 in the manner required by the Investment Company Act of 1940;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained in the Agreement the parties hereto do hereby continue the Agreement in effect until August 8, 2015 and ratify and confirm the Agreement in all respects.


	NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST

	By:	/s/ Kevin J. McCarthy
		Vice President
ATTEST:

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

	NUVEEN SECURITIES, LLC

	By:	/s/ Gifford R. Zimmerman
		Managing Director

ATTEST:

/s/ Virginia O’Neal

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form N-1A of our reports dated August 27, 2014, relating to the financial statements and financial highlights which appears in the June 30, 2014 Annual Report to Shareholders of the Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Fund, Nuveen NWQ Global Equity Income Fund, Nuveen NWQ Multi-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Large-Cap Value, Nuveen NWQ Small/Mid-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen NWQ Small-Cap Value Fund, Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities Fund, Nuveen Global Total Return Bond Fund and Nuveen U.S. Infrastructure Income Fund (each a series of Nuveen Investment Trust) which is also incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. We also consent to the references to us under the headings “Financial Highlights” and “Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chicago, Illinois

October 24, 2014

N UVEEN O PEN -E ND F UNDS

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, a director/trustee of the above-referenced organizations listed on Appendix A, hereby constitutes and appoints MARK CZARNIECKI, KEVIN J. McCARTHY, KATHLEEN L. PRUDHOMME, CHRISTOPHER M. ROHRBACHER, MARK L. WINGET, GIFFORD R. ZIMMERMAN and ERIC F. FESS, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone) his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him on his behalf and in Registration Statements on Form N-1A under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, including any amendment or amendments thereto, with all exhibits, and any and all other documents required to be filed with any regulatory authority, federal or state, relating to the registration thereof, or the issuance of shares thereof, without limitation, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director/trustee of the above-referenced organizations has hereunto set his hand this 15th day of August 2014.

/s/ William Adams IV

William Adams IV

N UVEEN O PEN -E ND F UNDS

POWER OF ATTORNEY

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director/trustee of the above-referenced organizations has hereunto set his hand this 15th day of August 2014.

/s/ Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

APPENDIX A

NUVEEN INVESTMENT FUNDS, INC.

NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST

NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST II

NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST III

NUVEEN INVESTMENT TRUST V

NUVEEN MANAGED ACCOUNTS PORTFOLIOS TRUST

NUVEEN MUNICIPAL TRUST

NUVEEN MULTISTATE TRUST I

NUVEEN MULTISTATE TRUST II

NUVEEN MULTISTATE TRUST III

NUVEEN MULTISTATE TRUST IV

NUVEEN STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.