TIAA
Current brand and corporate-family context; may identify the issuer in a specific source.
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TIAA Name and Relationship Map
A classification view of organizations, legal entities, brands, historical names, products and structural labels found in public materials.
01Registry 01 · Relationship map
Read the Category Before the Name
Two labels can appear side by side while describing different things. The map therefore begins with category tags: organization, legal entity, current brand, historical name, product name, plan-level term, account-level term and contract label.
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Core Records
TIAA-CREF
Public-facing brand until 2016; wording remains in some current legal names.
Open record →CREF
College Retirement Equities Fund, identified by TIAA as its companion organization.
Open record →Nuveen
Asset-management company and brand whose parent company is TIAA.
Open record →TIAA Traditional
A fixed-annuity product name, not a separate organization.
Open record →Plan · Account · Contract
Related terms whose exact use depends on the governing source.
Open record →RA · GRA · SRA · GSRA · RC · RCP
Six published abbreviations expanded in the label library.
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Structural Records
Plan, account and contract are working labels used at different levels and in different source contexts. The map shows their usual roles without claiming that one rigid diagram governs every plan document or product.
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What the Map Cannot Tell You
PRESET CLASSIFIER
REG/01What Kind of Name Is This?
Organization and brand context
Classifies a public term. It does not identify a visitor's plan, account, or contract.
TIAA
TIAA may refer to the current brand and family of companies or, in a specific legal context, to Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. The surrounding document determines which meaning is intended.
TIAA Privacy NoticeThe map classifies public terminology. It cannot identify a visitor’s contract, interpret personal documents or confirm which record appears in an account.