# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001084380
**File Stem:** 0000930413-25-003003
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
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**Document Hash:** 3b48431e5dc1acff506a862bd22a9e1c
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## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000930413-25-003003

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250925

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** TIAA-CREF FUNDS
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001084380

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 134055167
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 730 THIRD AVE.
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 2129166746

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 730 THIRD AVE.
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** TIAA CREF INSTITUTIONAL MUTUAL FUNDS
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19990415

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***<u>VIA EDGAR</u>***

September 25, 2025

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission<br> 100 F Street, N.E.<br> Washington, D.C. 20549

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| **Re:** | **TIAA-CREF Funds Post-Effective Amendment No. 153 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A <br> (File Nos. 333-76651 and 811-09301)** |

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the TIAA-CREF Funds (the "Registrant") on behalf of two of its series, Nuveen Lifecycle 2070 Fund and Nuveen Lifecycle Index 2070 Fund (each a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds"), hereby requests that the effective date of Post-Effective Amendment No. 153 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A ("Registration Statement") be accelerated so that the Registration Statement may become effective at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

In connection with this request, the Registrant hereby acknowledges that (i) should the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") or its staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the Registration Statement effective, such action will not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Registration Statement; (ii) the action of the Commission or its staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the Registration Statement effective, will not relieve the Registrant from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Registration Statement; and (iii) the Registrant may not assert such action as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission under the federal securities laws of the United States.

In connection with this request, Nuveen Securities, LLC, the underwriter for the Funds, has also signed this letter requesting acceleration.

The Registrant requests that notification of such effectiveness be made by telephone call to Jeremy D. Franklin, Nuveen, at 704-988-4101 or by email at Jeremy.Franklin@nuveen.com.

Very truly yours,

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| **TIAA-CREF Funds** | **TIAA-CREF Funds** | **Nuveen Securities, LLC** | **Nuveen Securities, LLC** |
| By: | <u>/s/ Jeremy D. Franklin</u> | By: | <u>/s/ Mark J. Czarniecki</u> |
| Name: | Jeremy D. Franklin | Name: | Mark J. Czarniecki |
| Title: | Vice President and Assistant Secretary | Title: | Managing Director, Assistant Secretary |

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