TIAA-CREF

TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, formerly TIAA-CREF) is a Fortune 100 leading provider of financial services for people in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. With $1.5 trillion in assets under management, TIAA serves over 4.7 million individual customers and more than 12,000 institutional clients. Founded in 1918, TIAA invented the variable annuity in 1952 via the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and is known for its TIAA Traditional fixed annuity and lifetime income solutions. TIAA wholly owns Nuveen Investments, a major institutional asset management firm. TIAA serves primarily non-profit organizations, universities, hospitals, and government entities with retirement plans including 403(b), 457(b), and 401(k) plans.

TIAA-CREF publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include 403b, Annuities, Asset Management, Fortune 100, and Higher Education.

The TIAA-CREF catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessEnterprise

4 APIs

403bAnnuities Asset Management Fortune 100 Higher Education Institutional Insurance Investments Non-ProfitNuveenRetirementTIAA

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

TIAA Retirement Plans

TIAA's retirement plan services for individual participants, covering 403(b), 457(b), 401(k), and IRA accounts. Products include TIAA Traditional fixed annuity, CREF variable an...

TIAA Annuities

TIAA's flagship annuity products for retirement income, including TIAA Traditional (a participating fixed annuity with guaranteed minimum plus historical above-floor credits), C...

Nuveen Investments

Nuveen is TIAA's wholly owned institutional asset management subsidiary with $1.5 trillion AUM (as of March 2026). Nuveen provides mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, target-d...

TIAA Wealth Management

TIAA's wealth management services for individuals, including managed accounts, brokerage services, financial advisory services, life insurance, educational savings (529 plans), ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tiaa Cref Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tiaa Cref Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tiaa Cref Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tiaa Cref Context

21 classes · 22 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

TIAA-CREF API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

TIAA Retirement Account

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tiaa Cref Retirement Account Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tiaa Cref Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

TIAA Teams Up with Google Cloud to Enhance Client ...

2026-05-25

TIAA Launches TIAA gAIt to Delight Clients and Deliver ...

2026-05-25

SEC Announces $97 Million Enforcement Action Against ...

2026-05-25

TIAA's Digital, Data, And AI Transformation

2026-05-25

Participation in TIAA's Lifetime Income Solutions ...

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plan Sponsors

Plan Sponsors

Company 4

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

About

About

Individual Investors

Individual Investors

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Nuveen

Nuveen

Annual Report

Annual Report

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tiaa-cref
name: TIAA-CREF
description: TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, formerly TIAA-CREF) is a Fortune 100 leading provider
  of financial services for people in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. With $1.5 trillion
  in assets under management, TIAA serves over 4.7 million individual customers and more than 12,000 institutional clients.
  Founded in 1918, TIAA invented the variable annuity in 1952 via the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and is known
  for its TIAA Traditional fixed annuity and lifetime income solutions. TIAA wholly owns Nuveen Investments, a major institutional
  asset management firm. TIAA serves primarily non-profit organizations, universities, hospitals, and government entities
  with retirement plans including 403(b), 457(b), and 401(k) plans.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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tags:
- 403b
- Annuities
- Asset Management
- Fortune 100
- Higher Education
- Institutional
- Insurance
- Investments
- Non-Profit
- Nuveen
- Retirement
- TIAA
tags_raw:
- 403b
- Annuities
- Asset Management
- Fortune 100
- Higher Education
- Institutional
- Insurance
- Investments
- Non Profit
- Nuveen
- Retirement
- TIAA
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created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-05-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-retirement-plans
  name: TIAA Retirement Plans
  description: TIAA's retirement plan services for individual participants, covering 403(b), 457(b), 401(k), and IRA accounts.
    Products include TIAA Traditional fixed annuity, CREF variable annuities (stock, bond, money market, social choice, global
    equities, inflation-linked bond, equity index accounts), mutual funds, and the Brokerage Window for self-directed investing.
    TIAA RetirePlus provides custom target-date strategies with embedded lifetime income for institutional clients.
  humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public
  baseURL: https://www.tiaa.org/
  tags:
  - 403b
  - 457b
  - Annuities
  - CREF
  - IRA
  - Mutual Funds
  - Retirement
  - TIAA
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public
  - type: Login
    url: https://auth.tiaa.org/public/authentication/login
  - type: Plan Sponsors
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors
  - type: Investment Products
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management/investment-products
  - type: Lifetime Income
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors/lifetime-income-leader
  contact:
  - FN: TIAA Customer Support
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/contact
- aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-annuities
  name: TIAA Annuities
  description: TIAA's flagship annuity products for retirement income, including TIAA Traditional (a participating fixed annuity
    with guaranteed minimum plus historical above-floor credits), CREF variable annuities across multiple investment accounts,
    and the new TIAA MyChoice MYGA (a flexible-premium multi-year guaranteed annuity). TIAA is rated A++ by AM Best. Portfolios
    with TIAA Traditional have outperformed in over 90% of retirement scenarios per major studies.
  humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public
  tags:
  - Annuities
  - Fixed Annuity
  - Insurance
  - Lifetime Income
  - Retirement Income
  - Variable Annuity
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/pdf/t/tiaa-retirement-product-primer.pdf
- aid: tiaa-cref:nuveen-investments
  name: Nuveen Investments
  description: Nuveen is TIAA's wholly owned institutional asset management subsidiary with $1.5 trillion AUM (as of March
    2026). Nuveen provides mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, target-date series with embedded lifetime income (Nuveen
    Lifecycle Income), responsible investing ESG strategies, fixed income, real assets, and alternatives. Nuveen collaborates
    with Morningstar Retirement, Transamerica, and other partners to distribute TIAA Secure Income Account solutions.
  humanURL: https://www.nuveen.com/
  baseURL: https://www.nuveen.com/
  tags:
  - Asset Management
  - ETFs
  - Fixed Income
  - Institutional
  - Mutual Funds
  - Nuveen
  - Target Date
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.nuveen.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.nuveen.com/en-us
- aid: tiaa-cref:tiaa-wealth-management
  name: TIAA Wealth Management
  description: TIAA's wealth management services for individuals, including managed accounts, brokerage services, financial
    advisory services, life insurance, educational savings (529 plans), and banking products.
  humanURL: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management
  tags:
  - Banking
  - Brokerage
  - Financial Advice
  - Insurance
  - Investments
  - Wealth Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/invest/services/wealth-management
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tiaa-cref-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tiaa
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tiaa.org/public
- type: About
  url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa
- type: Plan Sponsors
  url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/plansponsors
- type: Individual Investors
  url: https://www.tiaa.org/public
- type: Login
  url: https://auth.tiaa.org/public/authentication/login
- type: Nuveen
  url: https://www.nuveen.com/
- type: Annual Report
  url: https://www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/corporate-governance
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIAA
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-schema/tiaa-cref-retirement-account-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-structure/tiaa-cref-retirement-account-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/json-ld/tiaa-cref-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tiaa-cref/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/tiaa-cref-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: tiaa
x-relationship: product

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