M1 Finance and Nuveen Work Together to Simplify Responsible Investing

Online brokerage M1 Finance is pleased to announce it has teamed up with Nuveen to offer complete and diversified portfolios of its recently launched NuShares ETFs. Retail investors will now be able to invest in a curated socially responsible portfolio in one step. The new relationship combines the decades-long responsible investment expertise of Nuveen with M1’s easy to use, customizable, and automated brokerage platform.

Commenting on the new offering, M1 Finance CEO Brian Barnes said, “M1 believes people should always have their money working for them in a way that aligns with their objectives and values. By teaming up in this way, the average investor can now easily invest with the comfort of knowing that Nuveen has been involved in helping to ethically screen their portfolio.”

"M1 has built a powerful and intuitive platform, ideal for the next generation of retail investors, many of whom also want to align their individual values with the values of the companies they invest in," said Kevin DiSano, senior managing director and head of ETF Sales at Nuveen. "Combining M1 and our suite of ESG ETFs offers these investors a terrific solution."

Inside the NuShares Responsible Investing Portfolio, investors can access pre-defined allocations of Nuveen’s NuShares environmental, social and governance (ESG) ETFs for large-, mid- and small-cap equities. These ETFs include:

• NuShares ESG Large-Cap Growth (BATS: NULG);
• NuShares ESG Large-Cap Value (BATS: NULV);
• NuShares ESG Mid-Cap Growth (BATS: NUMG);
• NuShares ESG Mid-Cap Value (BATS: NUMV); and
• NuShares ESG Small-Cap (BATS: NUSC).

M1 Finance portfolios are easily customizable, whether investors solely invest in the NuShares Responsible Investing portfolio or include it alongside other portfolios, individual stocks, or ETFs.

To learn more or to open an M1 brokerage account, go to www.m1finance.com/nuveen.

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Risk Considerations

Investing involves risk; principal loss is possible. There is no guarantee the Fund’s investment objectives will be achieved. These ETFs seek to generally track the investment results of an index; however the Funds may underperform, outperform or be more volatile than the referenced index. In addition, because the Index selects securities for inclusion based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, the Funds may forgo some market opportunities available to funds that don’t use these criteria.

The value of equity securities may decline significantly over short or extended periods of time. Growth stocks tend to be more volatile and can experience sharp price declines. Value stocks may not be fully recognized by the market and be undervalued. Depending on the capitalization and characteristics of the companies in the underlying securities, the Funds may underperform or be subject to increased volatility. These and other risk considerations are described in detail in the Fund’s prospectus.

Shares of ETFs are bought and sold at market price as opposed to net asset value. As a result, an investor may pay more than net asset value when buying and receive less than net asset value when selling. In addition, brokerage commissions will reduce returns. Fund shares are not individually redeemable directly with the Fund, but blocks of shares may be acquired from the Fund and tendered for redemption to the Fund by certain institutional investors in Creation Units.

Because a fund 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. Mid-capitalization may be subject to greater volatility than those that invest in larger companies, but may be less volatile than investments in smaller companies. Smaller companies are subject to greater volatility than those of larger companies.

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