Sponsor Profiles 2022

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TIAA is a Fortune 100 financial services organization dedicated to helping our clients pursue financial well-being. We were founded more than a century ago as the vision of one of history’s great philanthropists, Andrew Carnegie, to make a difference in the lives of teachers. Since then, we have helped millions at academic, medical, research and cultural organizations — the people whose work makes the world a better place — retire with financial confidence.

With approximately 15,400 employees in 237 offices and 26 countries, our philosophy and long-term approach seeks to benefit the five million people and more than 15,000 institutions we serve. Today, we are a global asset manager with $1.2 trillion in assets under management.1 Our offerings include:

A long-term investment strategy: Our plan and product offering is focused on delivering on the retirement continuum. Our active investment approach seeks to protect principal and deliver a competitive rate of return over the long term. We offer a mix of products –including fixed and variable annuities, mutual funds and target-date funds.
Broad product and service offering: TIAA delivers a range of investment choices, products and services that our clients and participants have demanded.
Exceptional value: We leverage our knowledge and experience to provide retirement solutions that can lead to guaranteed income for life in retirement.2 And we keep our fees low. In fact, our fees are among the lowest cost in the industry.3

As we pursue performance that can help drive better outcomes for our clients, we are committed to growing, innovating, continually improving and building on our proud history of diversity and inclusion. TIAA is recognized as one of DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies4and one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.5 Please visit TIAA.org for addition details.

As of June 30, 2022, assets under management across Nuveen Investments affiliates and TIAA investment management teams are $1,222 billion.
Any guarantees under annuities issued by TIAA are subject to TIAA’s claims-paying ability.
Based on Morningstar Direct (as of June 30, 2022) expense comparisons by category, excluding Money Market products. Actual percentage is 88.4%. TIAA-CREF mutual fund and CREF variable annuity products are subject to various fees and expenses, including but not limited to management, administrative, and distribution fees; our variable annuity products have an additional mortality and expense risk charge. Excludes the class W shares, which are not available for purchase by retail investors.
One of DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for the tenth year in a row, 2013-2022.
2015 -2022. The World’s Most Ethical Company assessment is based upon the Ethisphere Institute’s Ethics Quotient® (EQ) framework which offers a quantitative way to assess a company’s performance in an objective, consistent and standardized way. The information collected provides a comprehensive sampling of definitive criteria of core competencies, rather than all aspects of corporate governance, risk, sustainability, compliance and ethics. Scores are generated in five key categories: ethics and compliance program (35%), corporate citizenship and responsibility (20%), culture of ethics (20%), governance (15%) and leadership, innovation and reputation (10%) and provided to all companies who participate in the process. The full list of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies can be found at: https://www.worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees

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