Nuveen Lifecycle Income Series for Defined Contribution Plans Provides Income for Life
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA, introduced the Nuveen Lifecycle Income Series, a target date solution for defined contribution plans that offers plan participants guaranteed savings growth during their working years and the ability to set aside a portion of savings for guaranteed monthly payments that last for life in retirement.
- An extension of the Nuveen Lifecycle target date fund platform, the new series – structured as collective investment trusts available only to qualified retirement plans – embed the TIAA Secure Income Account (SIA), a deferred fixed annuity within a familiar target date fund (TDF) series.
- The series include three TDF strategies: Nuveen Lifecycle Income Index (all passive investments), Nuveen Lifecycle Income Blend (a blend of active and passive investments) and Nuveen Lifecycle Income Active (all active investments).
- "The Nuveen Lifecycle Income Series with TIAA's solution inside address one of today's most critical retirement planning challenges: the increasing need for guaranteed, predictable lifetime income, especially as more Americans approach retirement and are living longer."
- In recent decades, lifetime income has largely disappeared from corporate retirement plans, as private sector employers have shifted away from providing traditional defined benefit pension plans in favor of defined contribution plans such as the 401(k).