TIAA

TIAA

Headquarters at 730 Third Avenue
Company type	Non-profit corporation owning subsidiaries for-profit
Founded	1918; 106 years ago (1918)
Founder	Andrew Carnegie
Headquarters	730 Third Avenue, New York City, New York , United States
Key people	Thasunda Duckett (CEO)[1] Roger W. Ferguson Jr. (former CEO)
Products	Financial services
Revenue	US$40.454 billion (2020)[2]
Net income	US$1.492 billion (FY 2016)
AUM	US$1.3 trillion (2020)[3]
Total assets	US$615.042 billion (2020)[4]
Total equity	US$ 38.871 billion (2020)[5]
Number of employees	16,533 (2020)[6]
Subsidiaries	Nuveen, TIAA Bank, Westchester Group
Website	tiaa.org

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) is an American financial services organization that is a private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and governmental fields. TIAA is listed on the Fortune 100 and serves over 5 million active and retired employees participating at more than 15,000 institutions and has $1 trillion in combined assets under management with holdings in more than 50 countries (as of December 31, 2017^[update]).^[3]

Profile

Long organized as a tax-exempt non-profit organization, a 1997 tax bill removed TIAA's tax exemption.^[7] It is now organized as a non-profit organization, the TIAA Board of Governors,^[8] with taxable subsidiaries; all profits are returned to policyholders.^{[citation needed]}

TIAA bought its Manhattan headquarters building, 730 Third Avenue, in 1955.^[9][10] It has major offices in Denver, Colorado; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Dallas, Texas; as well as 70 local offices throughout the U.S. In 2018, TIAA ranked 84th on Fortune's list of the 500 largest corporations in America.^[11] As of 2017^[update], TIAA is the largest global investor in agriculture, the second-largest grower of wine grapes in the United States (by acreage), and the third-largest commercial real estate manager in the world.^[3]

History

In 1918, Andrew Carnegie and his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, under the leadership of Henry S. Pritchett, created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors. Funding was provided by a combination of grants from the foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York, as well as ongoing contributions from participating institutions and individuals.^{[12][unreliable source]} The policyholders voted in 1921 to implement policyholder representation on the TIAA board so that educators would have a role in running the organization.^[13][14]

TIAA's namesake and signature investment/insurance product is the TIAA Traditional, which offers a contractually guaranteed return on principal and, at the discretion of the board of trustees on a periodic basis, additional profit/dividend interest over and above the guaranteed return. From the relatively illiquid and stable, long-term investments of its general account, TIAA has been able to consistently add some dividends to TIAA Traditional contributions since 1948.^[15]

Annuities and Real-Estate

In 1952, TIAA created the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) a variable annuity, in order to diversity its retirement funds.^[16]

In 1995, TIAA introduced the TIAA Real Estate account, also a variable annuity, but more stable than equity investments and more flexible than TIAA Traditional.^[15]

21st century

On June 15, 2007, TIAA became one of the first U.S. companies to voluntarily adopt, and the first to implement, a policyholder advisory vote on executive compensation policy.^{[citation needed]}

On February 22, 2016, TIAA-CREF rebranded as simply TIAA as part of a new marketing and imaging campaign. CMO Connie Weaver explained that the old name was perceived by customers as being complicated, and that the new branding scheme was meant to portray a simpler and friendlier image of the organization.^[17][18]

As of February 2018^[update], TIAA was providing parental leave irrespective of the parent's gender.^[19]

Investments and diversification

• 2012: bought Festival Place, a shopping center in Basingstoke, England for £280 million.^[20]
• 2013: purchased a 50% stake in the Grand Canal Shoppes, including the Shoppes at the Palazzo, in Las Vegas, Nevada, for net proceeds of US$410 million as part of a new joint venture with General Growth Properties. GGP will continue to oversee the asset management of the project.^[21]
• 2014: announced that it would acquire Nuveen Investments in a deal valued at $6.25 billion.^[22]
• 2016: announced deal to buy EverBank Financial Corp. for $2.5 billion in cash;^[23] completed June 12, 2017. The combined bank's legal entity name is TIAA, FSB.^[24]

Nearly a year after the acquisition of EverBank, TIAA began rebranding all of its banking activities under the TIAA Bank name on June 4, 2018.^[25] In November 2022, TIAA announced plans to sell TIAA Bank to private investors. TIAA Bank changed its name back to EverBank when the transaction was completed.^[26]

References

External links

• tiaa.org, company's official website
• TIAA General Account, TIAA General Account as of June 30, 2023