The Institute is a resource for those who influence institutional and individual financial decisions, including leaders in education, financial advisors, researchers, and policymakers. The overarching goal of the TIAA-CREF Institute is to advance knowledge and foster understanding, decision making, and innovation in a variety of areas.
Issues are available online.
The Institute also sponsored the CUPA-HR Audio Conference Series, which uses teleconference technology to explore timely higher education issues pertaining to human resources management strategies and public policy. The Institute's Financial Advisor Advisory Board shapes research and educational resources for financial advisors. With input from this group, the Institute has nearly completed research on evaluating payment streams from a life annuity in conjunction with systematic withdrawals. Other research completed in 2000 focused on specific financial products and investment issues, and appeared in publications, such as The Journal of Financial Planning . Public Policies and Private Pensions , a conference jointly convened last year by the Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, examined the foundations and future of the nation's private pension system.