Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) aims to offer financial services pertaining to investment advice and portfolio management to a wide range of investors including individual investors, intermediaries and institutional clients. This New York-based company, which was founded in 1918 by Andrew Carnegie, has a major portion of its assets allocated to stocks and fixed-income securities.

TIAA Global Asset Management had $954 billion assets under management invested in a wide array of securities. The issuer has investments in more than 50 countries and several mutual funds including both equity and fixed-income funds, and U.S. and non-U.S. funds. In 2017, the fund family received Lipper’s Best Overall Large Fund Company award for five consecutive years.

Below we share with you three top-ranked TIAA Mutual Funds. Each has earned a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and is expected to outperform its peers in the future. Investors can click here to see the complete list of TIAA Mutual Funds.

TIAA-CREF Bond Plus Retail (TCBPX – Free Report) invests the majority of its assets in bonds including different types of fixed-income securities. The fund’s portfolio is divided into two segments. The first segment holds more than 70% of fund’s assets which are invested in a wide variety of fixed-income securities and investment-grade bonds. The second segment has around 30% of its assets invested in fixed-income debt securities with special qualities. TIAA-CREF Bond Plus Retail has three-year annualized returns of 3%.

TCBPX has an expense ratio of 0.63% compared with the category average of 0.75%. 

TIAA-CREF Real Estate Securities Fund Premier (TRRPX – Free Report) heavily invests in equity securities issued by companies engaged in the real estate industry. TRRPX may also invest almost 15% of its assets in real estate securities of non-U.S. issuers and almost one-fifth of its assets in equity and debt securities of issuers that are not related to the real estate industry. TIAA-CREF Real Estate Securities Fund Premier has three-year annualized returns of 7.8%.

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