Traditional
CREF
Real Estate
Risks in Retirement
Miscellaneous
100

TIAA Traditional receives the highest rating available from this many of the four independent ratings agencies.

What is three.

100

The firm that created the first variable annuity, and the year it was established.

What is TIAA, CREF Stock in 1952?

100

The largest income producing real estate "property type" in TIAA Real Estate (Industrial, Retail, Apartment, Office).

What is office?

100

The fear of outliving one's savings.

What is Longevity Risk?

100

The total amount of income paid by TIAA in 2018.

What is 5 Billion?

200

Number of pay increases Traditional income recipients experienced over the last 25 years.

What is 15.

200

In additional to Longevity and Cognitive, the risk that CREF primarily hedges against.

What is Inflation Risk?

200

Percentage of the account invested directly into physical real estate.

What is 85%?

200

Diminished mental capacity in managing one's finances.

What is Cognitive Risk?

200

Total number of annuitants over age 90 receiving lifetime income.

What is 33,000?

300

The three portions that make up a Lifetime Income payment from TIAA Traditional.

What are guaranteed, additional amounts and loyalty bonus?

300

The geographic allocation of equity holdings in CREF Stock.

What is 70% domestic, 30% international?

300

How participant returns are derived within the TIAA Real Estate account.

What are rental income and property value changes?

300

Reduction in purchasing power over time.

What is Inflation Risk?

300

Percentage of retirement plans nationally that provide options for lifetime income in retirement.

What is 25%?

400

The percentage of the General Account that is invested in Treasuries.

What is 8%?

400

The five CREF equity accounts.

What are Stock, Global Equities, Equity Index, Growth, and Social Choice?

400

The frequency with which operating income and property values are calculated.

What are daily for operating income and quarterly for property values?

400

Returns insufficient to maintain a drawdown strategy.

What is Market Risk?

400

TIAA is has paid more than the guaranteed minimum since this year.

What is 1949?

500

The minimum guarantee made by Traditional in the income phase.

What is the guaranteed minimum payout rate, declared monthly in the interest rate memos?

500

The CREF fund not offered in the ATRA.

What is Inflation Linked Bond?

500

Liquidity is guaranteed for all contract owners, backed by this.

What is the TIAA General Account?

500

Experiencing negative returns early in retirement that may jeopardize long term retirement success.

What is Sequence of Returns Risk?

500

Average Loyalty Bonus on lifetime income payments in terms of a percentage.

What is 22%?