TIAA-CREF, a pension fund for American academics, is also run on a co-op basis.
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But Rhim says he started contemplating a change because TIAA-CREF's corporate culture was changing.
Most state plans run by TIAA-CREF offer guaranteed options currently paying 3% to 4%.
TIAA-CREF's new savings account pays 1.24% a year, the highest of those tracked by DepositAccounts.com.
Brett Hammond, chief investment strategist for TIAA-CREF Asset Management, sees things from a slightly different perspective.
Yet they are available at Charles Schwab, E-Trade, Scottrade, TD Ameritrade and TIAA-CREF.
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In my case, as a portfolio manager of municipal bonds at TIAA-CREF, I get asked about investing.
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We want everyone who engages with TIAA-CREF to read the document first, and then talk with us.
"Think of it as a giant hand holding down the economy, " said Tim Hopper, chief economist at TIAA-CREF.
Earlier this year, I noticed that Vanda Pharmaceuticals ( NASDAQ:VNDA) was in a number of portfolios at TIAA-CREF.
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Please call 877-518-9161, or go to www.tiaa-cref.org for a current prospectus that contains this and other information.
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Barnet Sherman is a director and the portfolio manager of the TIAA-CREF Tax-Exempt Bond Fund at TIAA-CREF.
And 30 plans, run by the likes of TIAA-CREF and Fidelity, are now open to residents of any state.
He says he was a regional vice president at TIAA-CREF, a company that provides retirement plans for nonprofit groups.
The views expressed in this article are those of Barnet Sherman, Director, TIAA-CREF.
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This information does not reflect performance of any TIAA-CREF product or investment strategy.
About half of new account holders are buying into low-cost plans available directly from such operators as TIAA-CREF , Vanguard and Fidelity.
TIAA-CREF is a national financial services organization and the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields.
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To make matters worse, the password I select at TIAA-CREF can only have 8-12 characters and it cannot have any special characters.
If you'd rather try to earn higher returns yourself, consider 529 plans in the five states with Vanguard funds or the 13 with TIAA-CREF funds.
The red list includes virtually every big brokerage and money-management firm including AIG Asset Management, AllianceBernstein, Blackrock, Charles Schwab, Fidelity and even TIAA-CREF.
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TIAA-CREF on the other-hand was placing VNDA in their global equities fund, in their large cap value fund and in their life large cap value fund.
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One of the most active investors in the quarter was TIAA-CREF, which bought a 70% stake in the residential potion of the MiMA at 460 West 42nd Street.
Did TIAA-CREF sell VNDA from some of the questionable portfolios?
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However, unlike TIAA-CREF, Fidelity had placed VNDA in appropriate portfolios.
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It seems no coincidence that sell-offs of Talisman stock were also taken during the past sixty days by the world's largest pension fund, TIAA-CREF, and Texas Teacher's Retirement System.
Or, if you think the market is overvalued now and want a place to park money for a time, consider the Guaranteed Option offered in plans run by TIAA-CREF.
Or she could make a portfolio sale to a large scale institution like TIAA-Cref or an endowment like Harvard, which are known to have a modest preference for farmland.
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Some large institutional shareholders, such as the U.S. pension fund managers Calpers and TIAA-CREF together with Hermes of London, are asking companies to justify their pay policies or risk censure.
Take New York State, where the 529 plan is run by TIAA-CREF, whose bread and butter is annuities for professors and which has a strong institutional interest in supporting higher education.
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