485BPOS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 21, 2012

1933 Act Registration No. 333-140967

1940 Act Registration No. 811-22023

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. 13	x
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	¨
Amendment No. 14	x

Nuveen Managed Accounts Portfolios Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

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

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable after effectiveness.

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

x	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)	¨	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
¨	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)	¨	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
¨	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)	¨	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

¨ This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This filing relates solely to the following Portfolios, each a series of the Registrant:

Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio

Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio

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 21st day of December, 2012.

	NUVEEN MANAGED ACCOUNTS PORTFOLIOS TRUST
By:	/S/    KEVIN J. MCCARTHY
	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/    STEPHEN D. FOY         STEPHEN D. FOY	Vice President and Controller (principal financial and accounting officer)			December 21, 2012
/S/    GIFFORD R. ZIMMERMAN GIFFORD R. ZIMMERMAN	Chief Administrative Officer (principal executive officer)			December 21, 2012
ROBERT P. BREMNER*	Chairman of the Board and Trustee	ý ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï þ ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï ï þ	By	/S/    KEVIN J. MCCARTHY KEVIN J. MCCARTHY Attorney-in-Fact December 21, 2012
JOHN P. AMBOIAN*	Trustee
JACK B. EVANS*	Trustee
WILLIAM C. HUNTER*	Trustee
DAVID J. KUNDERT*	Trustee
WILLIAM J. SCHNEIDER*	Trustee
JUDITH M. STOCKDALE*	Trustee
CAROLE E. STONE*	Trustee
VIRGINIA L. STRINGER*	Trustee
TERENCE J. TOTH*	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.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number		Exhibit
	101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
	101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
	101.CAL	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
	101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
	101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
	101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase

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Label	Element	Value
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Registrant Name	dei_EntityRegistrantName	Nuveen Managed Accounts Portfolios Trust
Prospectus Date	rr_ProspectusDate	Nov. 30, 2012
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Risk/Return [Heading]	rr_RiskReturnHeading	Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Objective [Heading]	rr_ObjectiveHeading	Investment Objectives
Objective, Primary [Text Block]	rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock	The primary investment objective of the Portfolio is to seek attractive total return. The Portfolio also seeks to provide high current income exempt from regular federal income taxes.
Expense [Heading]	rr_ExpenseHeading	Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio
Expense Narrative [Text Block]	rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock	This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio.
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]	rr_ShareholderFeesCaption	Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text]	rr_OperatingExpensesCaption	Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Portfolio Turnover [Heading]	rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading	Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]	rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock	The Portfolio 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 shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 29% of the average value of its portfolio.
Portfolio Turnover, Rate	rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate	29.00%
Expense Example [Heading]	rr_ExpenseExampleHeading	Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]	rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock	The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example by, Year, Caption [Text]	rr_ExpenseExampleByYearCaption	Redemption
Expense Example, No Redemption, By Year, Caption [Text]	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionByYearCaption	No Redemption
Strategy [Heading]	rr_StrategyHeading	Principal Investment Strategies
Strategy Narrative [Text Block]	rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock	The Portfolio’s portfolio managers use a value-oriented strategy and looks for higher-yielding and undervalued municipal bonds that offer the potential for above-average total return. The Portfolio invests in various types of municipal securities, including investment grade (rated BBB/Baa or better), below investment grade (rated BB/Ba or lower), and unrated municipal securities. The Portfolio may invest up to 50% of its net assets in below investment grade municipal bonds, but will normally invest 10-30% of its net assets in such bonds. Such securities are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or junk bonds. The Portfolio may invest up to 5% of its net assets in defaulted bonds. The Portfolio may invest without limit in securities that generate income subject to the alternative minimum tax. The Portfolio will focus on securities with intermediate to longer term maturities and, as such, will generally maintain, under normal market conditions, an investment portfolio with an overall weighted average maturity of approximately 12 to 25 years. The Portfolio may invest in all types of municipal bonds, including general obligation bonds, revenue bonds and participation interests in municipal leases. The Portfolio 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 Portfolio may invest up to 50% of its net assets in municipal securities whose interest payments vary inversely with changes in short-term tax-exempt interest rates (“inverse floaters”). The credit quality of the bonds underlying all leveraged municipal securities will be rated AA/Aa or higher, or, if unrated, judged to be of comparable quality by the Portfolio’s portfolio managers. Inverse floaters are derivative securities that provide leveraged exposure to underlying municipal bonds. The Portfolio’s investments in inverse floaters are designed to increase the Portfolio’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. The Portfolio may also make forward commitments in which the Portfolio agrees to buy a security for settlement in the future at a price agreed upon today. Developed exclusively for use within Nuveen-sponsored separately managed accounts, the Portfolio is a specialized municipal bond portfolio to be used in combination with selected individual securities to effectively model institutional-level investment strategies. The Portfolio enables certain Nuveen municipal separately managed account investors to achieve greater diversification and return potential than smaller managed accounts might otherwise achieve by using lower quality, higher yielding securities and to gain access to special investment opportunities normally available only to institutional investors. This prospectus should be read in conjunction with the Form ADV of the separately managed account in which you are investing.
Risk [Heading]	rr_RiskHeading	Principal Risks
Risk Narrative [Text Block]	rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock	The price and yield of this Portfolio will change daily, which means you could lose money. An investment in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio include: Alternative Minimum Tax Risk—The Portfolio has no limit as to the amount that can be invested in alternative minimum tax bonds. Therefore, all or a portion of the Portfolio’s otherwise exempt-interest dividends may be taxable to those shareholders subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. Call Risk—If an issuer calls higher-yielding debt instruments held by the Portfolio, performance could be adversely impacted. 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. In addition, parties to other financial contracts with the Portfolio could default on their obligations. Also, the Portfolio’s investments in inverse floaters will increase the Portfolio’s credit risk. High Yield Securities Risk—High yield securities are high risk investments that may cause income and principal losses for the Portfolio. They generally have greater credit risk, are less liquid, and have more volatile prices than investment grade securities. Income Risk—The Portfolio’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates. Also, if the Portfolio invests in inverse floaters, the Portfolio’s income may decrease if short-term interest rates rise. Interest Rate Risk—Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the Portfolio’s portfolio will decline because of rising interest rates. 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 Portfolio’s investment in inverse floaters because of the leveraged nature of these investments. Inverse Floaters Risk—The use of inverse floaters by the Portfolio 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 municipal bonds underlying the inverse floaters. An investment in certain inverse floaters will involve the risk that the Portfolio could 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 Portfolio 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. Inverse floaters generally will underperform the market for fixed rate municipal bonds in a rising interest rate environment. Liquidity Risk—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 Portfolio 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 Portfolio needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices. The Portfolio may invest a significant portion of its assets in unrated bonds. The market for these bonds may be less liquid than the market for rated bonds of comparable quality. Market Risk—The market values of the Portfolio’s investments may decline, at times sharply and unpredictably. 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. Non-Diversification Risk—As a non-diversified portfolio, the Portfolio may invest a larger portion of its assets in the securities of a limited number of issuers and may be more sensitive to any single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a diversified portfolio. Political and Economic Risks—The values of municipal securities held by the Portfolio 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. Tax Risk—Income from municipal bonds held by the Portfolio could be declared taxable because of, among other things, unfavorable changes in tax laws, adverse interpretations by the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities, or noncompliant conduct of a bond issuer. 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 Portfolio to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by tax laws.
Risk Lose Money [Text]	rr_RiskLoseMoney	The price and yield of this Portfolio will change daily, which means you could lose money.
Risk Nondiversified Status [Text]	rr_RiskNondiversifiedStatus	Non-Diversification Risk—As a non-diversified portfolio, the Portfolio may invest a larger portion of its assets in the securities of a limited number of issuers and may be more sensitive to any single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a diversified portfolio.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]	rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution	An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]	rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading	Portfolio Performance
Performance Narrative [Text Block]	rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock	The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Portfolio. The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future. The bar chart below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s performance from year to year.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]	rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns	The bar chart below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s performance from year to year.
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]	rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture	The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.
Bar Chart [Heading]	rr_BarChartHeading	Annual Total Return
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]	rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock	During the four-year period ended December 31, 2011, the Portfolio’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 8.02% and -5.23%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2010.
Performance Table Heading	rr_PerformanceTableHeading	Average Annual Total Returns       for the Periods Ended        December 31, 2011
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate	rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate	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.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred	rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred	After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold Portfolio shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employer-sponsored retirement plans.
Performance Table Narrative	rr_PerformanceTableNarrativeTextBlock	The table below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance. 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. 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 Portfolio shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employer-sponsored retirement plans. Performance reflects fee waivers, if any, in effect during the periods presented. If any such waivers were not in place, returns would be reduced.
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio | Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of net asset value)	rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther	none
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends	rr_MaximumSalesChargeOnReinvestedDividendsAndDistributionsOverOther	none
Exchange Fee	rr_ExchangeFeeOverRedemption	none
Management Fees	rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets	none	[1]
Other Expenses	rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets	0.12%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses	rr_ExpensesOverAssets	0.12%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements	rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets	(0.12%)	[2]
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements	rr_NetExpensesOverAssets	none
1 Year	rr_ExpenseExampleYear01	none
3 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear03	none
5 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear05	none
10 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear10	none
1 Year	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01	none
3 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03	none
5 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05	none
10 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10	none
2008	rr_AnnualReturn2008	(4.90%)	[3]
2009	rr_AnnualReturn2009	17.30%	[3]
2010	rr_AnnualReturn2010	3.39%	[3]
2011	rr_AnnualReturn2011	13.43%	[3]
Year to Date Return, Label	rr_YearToDateReturnLabel	Year-to-date total return
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date	rr_BarChartYearToDateReturnDate	Sep. 30, 2012
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return	rr_BarChartYearToDateReturn	9.13%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label	rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel	highest
Highest Quarterly Return, Date	rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate	Sep. 30, 2009
Highest Quarterly Return	rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn	8.02%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label	rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel	lowest
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date	rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate	Dec. 31, 2010
Lowest Quarterly Return	rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn	(5.23%)
1 Year	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	13.43%
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	6.49%
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio | Return After Taxes on Distributions | Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
1 Year	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	13.36%
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	6.43%
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio | Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares | Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
1 Year	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	10.76%
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	6.23%
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio | Barclays 7-Year Municipal Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
1 Year	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	10.14%
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	6.84%

[1] The Portfolio itself pays no management fees. You will, however, continue to incur the management fee for the amount invested in the Portfolio through the separately managed account associated with such investment.

[2] The investment adviser has agreed irrevocably during the existence of the Portfolio to waive all fees and pay or reimburse all expenses of the Portfolio, except for interest expense, taxes, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses.

[3] Year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2012 was 9.13%.

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Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio

Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio

Investment Objectives

The primary investment objective of the Portfolio is to seek attractive total return. The Portfolio also seeks to provide high current income exempt from regular federal income taxes.

Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio.

Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees	Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of net asset value)	none
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends	none
Exchange Fee	none

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
Management Fees	[1]	none
Other Expenses		0.12%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses		0.12%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements	[2]	(0.12%)
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements		none

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Redemption

Expense Example (USD $)	Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
1 Year	none
3 Years	none
5 Years	none
10 Years	none

No Redemption

Expense Example, No Redemption (USD $)	Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio
1 Year	none
3 Years	none
5 Years	none
10 Years	none

Portfolio Turnover

The Portfolio 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 shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 29% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Portfolio’s portfolio managers use a value-oriented strategy and looks for higher-yielding and undervalued municipal bonds that offer the potential for above-average total return. The Portfolio invests in various types of municipal securities, including investment grade (rated BBB/Baa or better), below investment grade (rated BB/Ba or lower), and unrated municipal securities. The Portfolio may invest up to 50% of its net assets in below investment grade municipal bonds, but will normally invest 10-30% of its net assets in such bonds. Such securities are commonly referred to as “high yield” securities or junk bonds. The Portfolio may invest up to 5% of its net assets in defaulted bonds.

The Portfolio may invest without limit in securities that generate income subject to the alternative minimum tax.

The Portfolio will focus on securities with intermediate to longer term maturities and, as such, will generally maintain, under normal market conditions, an investment portfolio with an overall weighted average maturity of approximately 12 to 25 years.

The Portfolio may invest in all types of municipal bonds, including general obligation bonds, revenue bonds and participation interests in municipal leases. The Portfolio 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 Portfolio may invest up to 50% of its net assets in municipal securities whose interest payments vary inversely with changes in short-term tax-exempt interest rates (“inverse floaters”). The credit quality of the bonds underlying all leveraged municipal securities will be rated AA/Aa or higher, or, if unrated, judged to be of comparable quality by the Portfolio’s portfolio managers. Inverse floaters are derivative securities that provide leveraged exposure to underlying municipal bonds. The Portfolio’s investments in inverse floaters are designed to increase the Portfolio’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.

The Portfolio may also make forward commitments in which the Portfolio agrees to buy a security for settlement in the future at a price agreed upon today.

Developed exclusively for use within Nuveen-sponsored separately managed accounts, the Portfolio is a specialized municipal bond portfolio to be used in combination with selected individual securities to effectively model institutional-level investment strategies. The Portfolio enables certain Nuveen municipal separately managed account investors to achieve greater diversification and return potential than smaller managed accounts might otherwise achieve by using lower quality, higher yielding securities and to gain access to special investment opportunities normally available only to institutional investors. This prospectus should be read in conjunction with the Form ADV of the separately managed account in which you are investing.

Principal Risks

The price and yield of this Portfolio will change daily, which means you could lose money. An investment in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio include:

Alternative Minimum Tax Risk—The Portfolio has no limit as to the amount that can be invested in alternative minimum tax bonds. Therefore, all or a portion of the Portfolio’s otherwise exempt-interest dividends may be taxable to those shareholders subject to the federal alternative minimum tax.

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

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. In addition, parties to other financial contracts with the Portfolio could default on their obligations. Also, the Portfolio’s investments in inverse floaters will increase the Portfolio’s credit risk.

High Yield Securities Risk—High yield securities are high risk investments that may cause income and principal losses for the Portfolio. They generally have greater credit risk, are less liquid, and have more volatile prices than investment grade securities.

Income Risk—The Portfolio’s income could decline during periods of falling interest rates. Also, if the Portfolio invests in inverse floaters, the Portfolio’s income may decrease if short-term interest rates rise.

Interest Rate Risk—Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the Portfolio’s portfolio will decline because of rising interest rates. 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 Portfolio’s investment in inverse floaters because of the leveraged nature of these investments.

Inverse Floaters Risk—The use of inverse floaters by the Portfolio 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 municipal bonds underlying the inverse floaters. An investment in certain inverse floaters will involve the risk that the Portfolio could 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 Portfolio 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. Inverse floaters generally will underperform the market for fixed rate municipal bonds in a rising interest rate environment.

Liquidity Risk—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 Portfolio 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 Portfolio needed to sell large blocks of bonds to meet shareholder redemption requests or to raise cash, those sales could further reduce the bonds’ prices. The Portfolio may invest a significant portion of its assets in unrated bonds. The market for these bonds may be less liquid than the market for rated bonds of comparable quality.

Market Risk—The market values of the Portfolio’s investments may decline, at times sharply and unpredictably.

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.

Non-Diversification Risk—As a non-diversified portfolio, the Portfolio may invest a larger portion of its assets in the securities of a limited number of issuers and may be more sensitive to any single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a diversified portfolio.

Political and Economic Risks—The values of municipal securities held by the Portfolio 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.

Tax Risk—Income from municipal bonds held by the Portfolio could be declared taxable because of, among other things, unfavorable changes in tax laws, adverse interpretations by the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities, or noncompliant conduct of a bond issuer.

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 Portfolio to be forced to liquidate securities at an inopportune time in order to distribute cash, as required by tax laws.

Portfolio Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Portfolio. The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.

The bar chart below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s performance from year to year.

Annual Total Return

During the four-year period ended December 31, 2011, the Portfolio’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 8.02% and -5.23%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2010.

The table below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance. 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. 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 Portfolio shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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, 2011

Average Annual Total Returns	1 Year	Since Inception	Inception Date
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio	13.43%	6.49%	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio Return After Taxes on Distributions	13.36%	6.43%	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares	10.76%	6.23%	May 31, 2007
Municipal Total Return Managed Accounts Portfolio Barclays 7-Year Municipal Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)	10.14%	6.84%

[1] The Portfolio itself pays no management fees. You will, however, continue to incur the management fee for the amount invested in the Portfolio through the separately managed account associated with such investment.

[2] The investment adviser has agreed irrevocably during the existence of the Portfolio to waive all fees and pay or reimburse all expenses of the Portfolio, except for interest expense, taxes, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses.

[1] Year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2012 was 9.13%.

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Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
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Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio | Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
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Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio | Return After Taxes on Distributions | Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
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1 Year	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	7.14%
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[1] The Portfolio itself pays no management fees. You will, however, continue to incur the management fee for the amount invested in the Portfolio through the separately managed account associated with such investment.

[2] The investment adviser has agreed irrevocably during the existence of the Portfolio to waive all fees and pay or reimburse all expenses of the Portfolio, except for interest expense, taxes, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses.

[3] Year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2012 was 11.71%.

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Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio

Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio

Investment Objectives

The primary investment objective of the Portfolio is total return,

with current income as a secondary objective.

Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio.

Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees	Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of net asset value)	none
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends	none
Exchange Fee	none

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
Management Fees	[1]	none
Other Expenses		2.63%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses		2.63%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements	[2]	(2.63%)
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursements		none

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Redemption

Expense Example (USD $)	Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
1 Year	none
3 Years	none
5 Years	none
10 Years	none

No Redemption

Expense Example, No Redemption (USD $)	Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio
1 Year	none
3 Years	none
5 Years	none
10 Years	none

Portfolio Turnover

The Portfolio 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 shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 55% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal conditions, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities. The Portfolio will invest in various types of debt securities, including U.S. Treasury and U.S. agency bonds, U.S. investment grade corporate debt securities, U.S. high yield corporate debt securities, U.S. dollar-denominated non-U.S. government bonds, non-U.S. dollar non-U.S. government bonds, emerging market debt, and other short-term securities. In addition, the Portfolio may invest a substantial portion of its assets in mortgage-backed securities, including U.S. agency mortgage backed securities and commercial mortgage backed securities, and asset-backed securities. The Portfolio may also engage in repurchase, reverse repurchase, dollar rolls and forward purchase agreements (these investments will generally be short-term in nature and are primarily used to seek to enhance total return and manage liquidity).

The Portfolio may invest up to 50% of its net assets in securities that are rated below investment grade or securities that are unrated but deemed by the portfolio managers to be of equivalent quality. Such securities are commonly referred to as “high-yield” securities or “junk bonds”, which includes U.S. and non-U.S. high yield corporate bonds and securities. The Portfolio may invest up to 25% of its net assets in the debt of non-U.S. issuers, including up to 25% of its net assets in obligations of non-U.S. entities that are located in emerging markets. These limits apply only at the time of any specific new investments.

Under normal market conditions, the portfolio managers expect the Portfolio to maintain an intermediate term average duration, which will generally fall within four to seven years.

The Portfolio 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 interest rate swaps, currency swaps, total return swaps, and credit default swaps; and options on swap agreements. The Portfolio 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 Portfolio or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Portfolio’s yield or to enhance returns. The Portfolio 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 Portfolio is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions.

Developed exclusively for use within Nuveen-sponsored separately managed accounts, the Portfolio is a specialized portfolio to be used in combination with selected individual securities to effectively model institutional-level investment strategies. The Portfolio enables certain Nuveen separately managed account investors to achieve greater diversification and return potential than smaller managed accounts might otherwise achieve by using lower quality, higher yielding securities and to gain access to special investment opportunities normally available only to institutional investors. This prospectus should be read in conjunction with the Form ADV of the separately managed account in which you are investing.

Principal Risks

The price and yield of this Portfolio will change daily, which means you could lose money. An investment in the Portfolio 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 Portfolio include:

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

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. In addition, parties to other financial contracts with the Portfolio could default on their obligations.

Derivatives Risk—The use of derivatives involves additional risks and transaction costs which could leave the Portfolio in a worse position than if it had not used these instruments. 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 performance. Recent legislation requires the development of a new regulatory framework for the derivatives market. The impact of the new regulations is still unknown, but has the potential to increase the costs of using derivatives, may limit the availability of some forms of derivatives or the Portfolio’s ability to use derivatives, and may adversely affect the performance of some derivative instruments used by the Portfolio as well as the Portfolio’s ability to pursue its investment objective through the use of such instruments.

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

High Yield Securities Risk—High yield securities are high risk investments that may cause income and principal losses for the Portfolio. They generally have greater credit risk, are less liquid and have more volatile prices than investment grade securities.

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

Interest Rate Risk—Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the Portfolio’s portfolio will decline because of rising interest rates. When interest rates change, the values of longer-duration debt securities usually change more than the values of shorter-duration debt securities.

Market Risk—The market values of the Portfolio’s investments may decline, at times sharply and unpredictably.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk—These securities generally can be prepaid at any time. 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, resulting in slower prepayments of the securities.

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. The downturn in the housing market and the resulting recession in the United States have negatively affected, and may continue to negatively affect, both the price and liquidity of certain mortgage-backed securities.

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. Also, changes in currency exchange rates may affect the Portfolio’s net asset value, the value of dividends and interest earned, and gains and losses realized on the sale of securities.

Portfolio Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the Portfolio. The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.

The bar chart below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s performance from year to year.

Annual Total Return

During the four-year period ended December 31, 2011, the Portfolio’s highest and lowest quarterly returns were 10.51% and -2.75%, respectively, for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and June 30, 2008.

The table below shows the variability of the Portfolio’s average annual returns and how they compare over the time periods indicated with those of a broad measure of market performance. 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. 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 Portfolio shares in tax-deferred accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employer-sponsored retirement plans.

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, 2011

Average Annual Total Returns	1 Year	Since Inception	Inception Date
Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio	5.05%	12.14%	Dec. 27, 2007
Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio Return After Taxes on Distributions	1.50%	8.30%	Dec. 27, 2007
Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares	3.97%	8.34%	Dec. 27, 2007
Enhanced Multi-Strategy Income Managed Accounts Portfolio Barclays Credit/Mortgage Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	7.14%	7.02%

[1] The Portfolio itself pays no management fees. You will, however, continue to incur the management fee for the amount invested in the Portfolio through the separately managed account associated with such investment.

[2] The investment adviser has agreed irrevocably during the existence of the Portfolio to waive all fees and pay or reimburse all expenses of the Portfolio, except for interest expense, taxes, fees incurred in acquiring and disposing of portfolio securities and extraordinary expenses.

[1] Year-to-date total return as of September 30, 2012 was 11.71%.