With TIAA, you get a promise.

A promise you’ll never run out of money. A promise of a retirement paycheck for as long as you live. A promise that honors your work, your life, and your promises. 

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Our promise

So, what is a retirement promise?

Certainty.

For 100 years TIAA been helping people retire, knowing they’ll have income for the rest of their life.

Guaranteed income for life

22%

TIAA Traditional* protects a portion of your money now so your income never runs out later. People who consistently contributed to TIAA Traditional throughout their careers got an average of 22% higher payments.

Growth – no matter the market

15

TIAA Traditional acts like insurance against market swings so your money will gradually increase every year, no matter what. And TIAA can even increase your payments – we’ve done it 15 times in the past 25 years, including a 3% increase for 2023 payments.

Over 100 years of service

125

Founded in 1918 as a not-for-profit helping to improve teachers lives’, today we’ve helped generations of Americans retire with security. Together, TIAA and Nuveen have spent 125 years helping people build towards retirement. 

Sharing profits with our participants

$3B

In just the last three years, TIAA has shared $3 billion annually with more than 2 million fixed annuity customers.

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