Enhanced Returns: Timing TIAA Real Estate
TIAA Real Estate is a unique account which provides direct ownership interest in commercial real estate. It offers an asset class not widely available to individual investors. The returns of…
The Value of a TIAA Wealth Management Advisor
TIAA and Fidelity offer Wealth Management Advisors (WMAs) to university employees with $500,000 or more in investible assets with their company. Wealth Management Advisors provide a very basic financial plan…
TIAA-CREF’s New Ticker Symbols!
TIAA-CREF invented the first variable annuity with the CREF Stock Account in 1952. They subsequently offered nine additional variable annuities along with TIAA Traditional to form ten core investment options…
Big Changes in CREF: Higher Fees and More Decisions
TIAA-CREF recently announced a change to the expense structure of the CREF variable annuities. Since the inception of CREF Stock in 1952, TIAA-CREF has had a single class low-cost structure…
Financial Planning: It’s Academic
Financial Planning for employees who work at a university (or hospitals associated with a university) can be complex not only to the employees, but also to financial advisors not used…