Equity

Active equity management at TIAA-CREF emphasizes rigorous bottom-up analysis. Our portfolio managers focus on delivering competitive, risk-adjusted performance. The investment teams strengthen their deep understanding of the fundamental factors behind potential investments through in-person meetings with business leaders and government officials. All of our active equity portfolios draw from the expertise of our centralized equity research group, which comprises nearly 50 global, style-agnostic career analysts. These industry experts utilize proprietary models and other sophisticated tools to assess potential investments and provide high-conviction recommendations to the investment teams. Portfolio managers are responsible for imposing investment style discipline (growth, value or core).

Our index strategies seek to optimize a given index by creating a portfolio that closely matches the overall investment characteristics of that index while providing desired market exposure and minimizing trading costs.  The portfolio managers use proprietary quantitative models that supports disciplined portfolio construction and consistent monitoring.

Our enhanced index strategies offer greater ability to seek higher returns than the benchmark with similar risk exposure. The team uses multi-factor models to identify attractive investment opportunities, considering such factors as fundamental valuation, profitability, earnings quality and financial momentum.

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