aid: tiaa-cref name: TIAA-CREF description: >- TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, formerly TIAA-CREF) is a Fortune 100 leading provider of financial services for people in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. With $1.5 trillion in assets under management, TIAA serves over 4.7 million individual customers and more than 12,000 institutional clients. Founded in 1918, TIAA invented the variable annuity in 1952 via the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and is known for its TIAA Traditional fixed annuity and lifetime income solutions. TIAA wholly owns Nuveen Investments, a major institutional asset management firm. TIAA serves primarily non-profit organizations, universities, hospitals, and government entities with retirement plans including 403(b), 457(b), and 401(k) plans. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - 403b - Annuities - Asset Management - Fortune 100 - Higher Education - Institutional - Insurance - Investments - Non Profit - Nuveen - Retirement - TIAA url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-03-24' modified: '2026-05-03' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-retirement-plans name: TIAA Retirement Plans description: >- TIAA's retirement plan services for individual participants, covering 403(b), 457(b), 401(k), and IRA accounts. Products include TIAA Traditional fixed annuity, CREF variable annuities (stock, bond, money market, social choice, global equities, inflation-linked bond, equity index accounts), mutual funds, and the Brokerage Window for self-directed investing. TIAA RetirePlus provides custom target-date strategies with embedded lifetime income for institutional clients. humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public baseURL: https://www.tiaa.org/ tags: - 403b - 457b - Annuities - CREF - IRA - Mutual Funds - Retirement - TIAA properties: - type: Website url: https://www.tiaa.org/public - type: Login url: https://auth.tiaa.org/public/authentication/login - type: Plan Sponsors url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors - type: Investment Products url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management/investment-products - type: Lifetime Income url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors/lifetime-income-leader contact: - FN: TIAA Customer Support url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/contact - aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-annuities name: TIAA Annuities description: >- TIAA's flagship annuity products for retirement income, including TIAA Traditional (a participating fixed annuity with guaranteed minimum plus historical above-floor credits), CREF variable annuities across multiple investment accounts, and the new TIAA MyChoice MYGA (a flexible-premium multi-year guaranteed annuity). TIAA is rated A++ by AM Best. Portfolios with TIAA Traditional have outperformed in over 90% of retirement scenarios per major studies. humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public tags: - Annuities - Fixed Annuity - Insurance - Lifetime Income - Retirement Income - Variable Annuity properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/pdf/t/tiaa-retirement-product-primer.pdf - aid: tiaa-cref:nuveen-investments name: Nuveen Investments description: >- Nuveen is TIAA's wholly owned institutional asset management subsidiary with $1.5 trillion AUM (as of March 2026). Nuveen provides mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, target-date series with embedded lifetime income (Nuveen Lifecycle Income), responsible investing ESG strategies, fixed income, real assets, and alternatives. Nuveen collaborates with Morningstar Retirement, Transamerica, and other partners to distribute TIAA Secure Income Account solutions. humanURL: https://www.nuveen.com/ baseURL: https://www.nuveen.com/ tags: - Asset Management - ETFs - Fixed Income - Institutional - Mutual Funds - Nuveen - Target Date properties: - type: Website url: https://www.nuveen.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.nuveen.com/en-us - aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-wealth-management name: TIAA Wealth Management description: >- TIAA's wealth management services for individuals, including managed accounts, brokerage services, financial advisory services, life insurance, educational savings (529 plans), and banking products. humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management tags: - Banking - Brokerage - Financial Advice - Insurance - Investments - Wealth Management properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management common: - type: Website url: https://www.tiaa.org/public - type: About url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa - type: Plan Sponsors url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors - type: Individual Investors url: https://www.tiaa.org/public - type: Login url: https://auth.tiaa.org/public/authentication/login - type: Nuveen url: https://www.nuveen.com/ - type: Annual Report url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/corporate-governance - type: Wikipedia url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIAA - type: JSONSchema url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-schema/tiaa-cref-retirement-account-schema.json - type: JSONStructure url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-structure/tiaa-cref-retirement-account-structure.json - type: JSONLDContext url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-ld/tiaa-cref-context.jsonld - type: Vocabulary url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/tiaa-cref-vocabulary.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com