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TIAA-CREF has a long-standing reputation for providing cost effective financial services to those in the academic, medical, cultural and research fields. They do this by creating and providing a broad menu of financial products and services that are focused on saving for and providing income during retirement. As a non-profit, TIAA-CREF is able to offer relatively low fee products.  TIAA-CREF also provides its products and services through financial consultants who do not receive commissions. TIAA-CREF also happens to be a pioneer in the annuity industry having created and offered the first variable annuity.

TIAA-CREF Product Reviews
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General Information
Websitewww.tiaa-cref.org
TypeInsurance Company
Founded
Ownership
CountryUSA
Contact Information
Address
Charlotte, NC 28201
Phone800 842-2252
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Mark Warshawsky on the Retirement Income Market

Mark J. Warshawsky is Director of Retirement Research at Towers Watson.

Dr. Warshawsky served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2004-2006 and he has held senior level economic research positions at the Federal Reserve Board, the Internal Revenue Service and TIAA-CREF.

Low Fee Annuities

I get questions periodically about low or no fee annuities.

There are, in fact, annuity products (including variable annuities) that are being developed for fee only financial advisors (advisors who do not accept commissions on product sales).

Some of the companies that have recently developed or are developing these low fee based products include:

Variable Annuity Sales Total $34 Billion During Third Quarter of 2010

Variable annuity sales in the United States increased 9.7 percent to total $34 billion during the third quarter of 2010.

Variable annuity revenue figures continue to be concentrated among a handful of leading companies:

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