Corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility and responsible investing at TIAA are built on four core pillars that demonstrate the power of our actions to improve the lives of our stakeholders. More details can be found in the Responsible Business Report .
Community
Driven by our nonprofit heritage, we are committed to having a positive impact on society and those who make a difference in the lives of others.
On almost any given day, TIAA employees can be found across the country serving to improve education, eliminate hunger, protect the environment, and build our communities.
Diversity & inclusion
The power of our diverse team of professionals to help meet the needs of a wide range of people.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to who we are as a company. For us, it’s not just a nice to have. It’s a must.
Employees
A diverse workforce helps us better understand and address the needs of our customers.
Clients
By building a diverse culture, we’re able to provide our clients with distinct perspectives to help them achieve their goals.
Suppliers
Our supplier diversity program builds relationships with minority and women-owned suppliers to provide the highest quality of service, while encouraging competition among diverse and diversity-conscious suppliers.
Sustainability
Committed to sustainability where we live and work.
Through TIAA’s Energy and Environmental Impact Performance Plan, we use performance metrics to hold ourselves accountable for meeting and exceeding environmental industry standards at our properties.
Governance
The power of stewardship to enhance and protect value
We believe that good governance and effective management of environmental and social risks, not only add value for our participants’ investments, but also help the broader market over the long-term. We hold our portfolio companies accountable for ESG risk management policies and practices in three ways:
Putting participants at the center
TIAA is managed for the benefit of participants without profit to the corporation or its stockholders.
Promoting greater transparency
In 2007, we were one of the first U.S. companies to voluntarily adopt and implement an advisory vote on executive compensation.
A history of board diversity and inclusion
We appointed the first woman to our board in 1940 and the first African-American in 1957. Today, 40 percent of our board members are women—more than twice the national average4.
RESPONSIBLE INVESTing
Seeking competitive returns while making a positive impact.
TIAA and Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA, have a long history of investing by example. We believe that responsible investing principles can help provide enduring benefits for our clients and our communities. Our investment-led approach and scale enables us to apply RI principles to our work across asset classes:
Promoting Responsible Business and Sound Governance Practices
The principles articulated in our Policy Statement on Corporate Governance are recognized as an essential means to protect shareholder rights, encourage management and board accountability, and promote maximum performance.
Diversity & Inclusion
We believe corporate cultures that value D&I can improve long-term resilience and support competitive performance.
Community Investment
Our impact framework across asset classes aims to produce direct and measurable positive outcomes in affordable housing, financial services, healthcare, education, and community development.
Sustainability
Sustainability is integral to our investment process, essential for long-term investment success, and aligned with our corporate commitment to reduce the impact of climate change.
If a fund's investment strategy uses social criteria, it can exclude securities of certain issuers for non-financial reasons and may forgo some opportunities available to funds that do not use such criteria.
Responsible Business Report
Making an impact
For over a century, TIAA has been making a difference and we continue to keep that legacy alive today in everything we do. We demonstrate that we are created to serve and built to perform through our products and services and also in how we contribute to our communities and the world. From volunteer efforts in local schools to responsible investing around the globe, TIAA makes an impact every day in countless ways. At TIAA, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about doing what’s right for our colleagues, our clients and our communities.
Please see below for more information on how TIAA is making an impact.
1,2,3 As of 12/31/2017
4 As of 9/30/2018
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