TPILX
Nuveen Lifecycle Retirement Income Fund
TIAA-CREF Funds
Fund of funds
Expense ratio1
0.52%
Net assets2
$402.61M
Holdings2
24
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
11.04%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Sept. 26, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The Fund seeks high total return over time primarily through income, with a secondary emphasis on capital appreciation.

Strategy. The Fund is a fund of funds that invests in Class W, Class R6 or Class I shares of other Nuveen mutual funds and in other investment pools or investment products, including other funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) advised by the Funds investment adviser, Teachers Advisors, LLC (Advisors), or its affiliates (collectively, the Underlying Funds). The Fund invests in Underlying Funds according to a relatively stable asset allocation strategy that will not gradually adjust over time and is designed for investors who are already in retirement (i.e., have already passed their retirement year) and may have begun taking systematic withdrawals upon retirement. Advisors currently expects to allocate approximately 35.00% of the Funds assets to equity Underlying Funds, 60.00% of its … The Fund is a fund of funds that invests in Class W, Class R6 or Class I shares of other Nuveen mutual funds and in other investment pools or investment products, including other funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) advised by the Funds investment adviser, Teachers Advisors, LLC (Advisors), or its affiliates (collectively, the Underlying Funds). The Fund invests in Underlying Funds according to a relatively stable asset allocation strategy that will not gradually adjust over time and is designed for investors who are already in retirement (i.e., have already passed their retirement year) and may have begun taking systematic withdrawals upon retirement. Advisors currently expects to allocate approximately 35.00% of the Funds assets to equity Underlying Funds, 60.00% of its assets to fixed-income Underlying Funds and 5.00% of its assets to direct real estate Underlying Funds. These allocations represent targets for equity, fixed-income and direct real estate asset classes. Target allocations may be changed and actual allocations may vary up to ten percentage points from the targets. Within the equity, fixed-income and direct real estate asset classes, Advisors allocates the Funds investments to particular market sectors (U.S. equity, international equity, fixed-income, non-USD fixed-income, short-term fixed-income, inflation-protected assets and direct real estate) represented by various Underlying Funds. These market sector allocations may vary by up to 10% from the Funds target market sector allocations. The Funds current target market sector allocations for June 30, 2026 which may change, are approximately as follows: U.S. Equity: 22.75%; International Equity: 12.25%; Fixed-Income: 34.51%; Non-USD Fixed-Income: 5.50%; Short-Term Fixed-Income: 10.00%; Inflation-Protected Assets: 10.00%; and Direct Real Estate: 5.00%. The asset class and market sector names used herein are intended to reflect the primary type of investment of the Underlying Funds within each of these categories. The Funds target market sector allocations to Underlying Funds may include the Nuveen Core Equity Fund, Nuveen Large Cap Growth Fund, Nuveen Large Cap Value Fund, Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund, Nuveen Quant Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund, Nuveen Dividend Growth Fund, Nuveen Dividend Value Fund, Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF and Nuveen Small Cap Select Fund (U.S. Equity); Nuveen Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Nuveen International Equity Fund, Nuveen International Opportunities Fund, Nuveen International Value Fund and Nuveen Quant International Small Cap Equity Fund (International Equity); Nuveen Core Bond Fund, Nuveen Core Plus Bond Fund, Nuveen Floating Rate Income Fund and Nuveen High Yield Fund (Fixed-Income); Nuveen Emerging Markets Debt Fund and Nuveen International Bond Fund (Non-USD Fixed-Income); Nuveen Money Market Fund and Nuveen Short Term Bond Fund (Short-Term Fixed-Income); Nuveen Inflation Linked Bond Fund (Inflation-Protected Assets); and Nuveen Real Property Fund LP (Direct Real Estate). Nuveen Real Property Fund LP is a private fund, which is not available for investment by the general public; it is currently offered exclusively to investment pools or investment products managed by Advisors or its affiliates. As a result of its investments in the Underlying Funds, the Funds returns will reflect investments in a mix of domestic and foreign equities of companies of various sizes and market capitalizations, a variety of domestic and foreign fixed-income instruments of private and governmental issuers of varying maturities and credit qualities and direct real estate. Additional or replacement Underlying Funds for each market sector, as well as additional or replacement market sectors, may be included when making future allocations if Advisors believes that such Underlying Funds and/or market sectors are appropriate in light of the Funds desired levels of risk and potential return at the particular time. The Funds portfolio management team may also add a new market sector if it believes that will help to achieve the Funds investment objective. The relative allocations among Underlying Funds within a market sector may be changed at any time without notice to shareholders, and the portfolio management team may use tactical allocation to take advantage of short to intermediate term opportunities through a combination of positions in Underlying Funds. If 10% or more of the Funds assets are expected to be invested in any Underlying Fund or market sector not listed above, shareholders will receive prior notice of such change. Investors should note that the Fund has a significant level of equity exposure and this exposure could cause fluctuation in the value of the Fund depending on the performance of the equity markets generally. As part of the Funds ability to invest in other investment pools or investment products noted above, the Fund may invest in ETFs and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) to gain exposure to various market sectors or securities in order to effect its asset allocation strategy. Additionally, the Fund may use ETFs or ETNs for cash management, hedging or defensive purposes. ETFs or ETNs will be subject to the risks associated with the types of securities or sectors that they track, while ETNs, which are structured as fixed-income obligations, will also be subject to the general risks of fixed-income securities, including credit risk. The Funds asset class allocations, market sector allocations within each asset class, and Underlying Fund allocations within each market sector, as of June 30, 2025, are listed in the chart below. The Fund has relatively fixed asset allocations that will not gradually adjust over time. Underlying Fund allocations may change from year to year. However, as of the date of this Prospectus, Advisors expects that the allocations among the market sectors and Underlying Funds set forth below will be adjusted over time as Advisors implements: (i) the addition of Nuveen Small Cap Select Fund and Nuveen International Value Fund as new Underlying Funds in the U.S. Equity and International Equity market sectors, respectively, and corresponding reductions in allocations to other Underlying Funds in those market sectors; (ii) the addition of Nuveen Floating Rate Income Fund as a new Underlying Fund in the Fixed-Income market sector and corresponding reductions in allocations to other Underlying Funds in that market sector; (iii) the redesignation of Nuveen Emerging Markets Debt Fund and Nuveen International Bond Fund from the Fixed-Income market sector to the new Non-USD Fixed-Income market sector; and (iv) strategic reallocations among certain Underlying Funds. Asset Class Allocation Market Sector Allocation Underlying Funds Allocation Equity 36.02% U.S. Equity 23.48% ? Nuveen Large Cap Growth 3.98% ? Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF 3.98% ? Nuveen Large Cap Value 3.53% ? Nuveen Dividend Value 3.52% ? Nuveen Core Equity 3.50% ? Nuveen Dividend Growth 3.47% ? Nuveen Quant Small/Mid Cap Equity 0.84% ? Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity 0.66% International Equity 12.54% ? Nuveen International Equity 5.32% ? Nuveen International Opportunities 3.23% ? Nuveen Emerging Markets Equity 2.20% ? Nuveen Quant International Small Cap Equity 1.79% Fixed-Income 59.59% Fixed-Income 39.83% ? Nuveen Core Bond 20.92% ? Nuveen Core Plus Bond 12.96% ? Nuveen International Bond 2.08% ? Nuveen High Yield 1.99% ? Nuveen Emerging Markets Debt 1.88% Short-Term Fixed-Income 9.89% ? Nuveen Short Term Bond 9.89% Inflation- Protected Assets 9.87% ? Nuveen Inflation Linked Bond 9.87% Real Estate 4.39% Direct Real Estate 4.39% ? Nuveen Real Property Fund LP 4.39% Total 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

Top holdings

As of Feb. 28, 2026 · N-PORT

Allocation by sector

As of February 28, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Nov 30, 2025 → Feb 28, 2026
Opened
1
Exited
1
Increased
11
Decreased
12
Unchanged
0

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of May 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Teachers Advisors, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of September 26, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of February 28, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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