Nuveen International Equity Fund
TIAA-CREF Funds · 6 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Nuveen International Equity Fund is an actively managed developed international equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- Developed international
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The Fund seeks a favorable long-term total return, mainly through capital appreciation, primarily from equity securities of foreign issuers.
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of foreign issuers across at least three countries, selecting individual stocks based on management's assessment of free cash flow generation, market share strength, and valuation relative to earnings and long-term growth prospects. The adviser actively manages the portfolio while regularly reviewing sector and country exposure against the MSCI EAFE Index to control risk. Because country and regional allocations emerge from individual stock selection rather than being set in advance, the fund's exposure may diverge meaningfully from its benchmark.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| TIIEX | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| TRERX | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| TIERX | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| TREPX | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| TIEHX | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| TIEWX | 0.45% | 0.00% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 25.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 98.91% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.74% |
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| International | 73.6% |
| Financials | 17.8% |
| Materials | 4.6% |
| Consumer Discretionary | 1.9% |
| 3 smaller | 2.1% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
New: Roche Holding AG, L'Oreal SA, Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Exited: Roche Holding AG, SBI Holdings Inc, Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, Iberdrola SA
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +25.47% | +50.65% | +44.69% | 14.51% | -9.35% | |
| +25.17% | +49.50% | +42.86% | 14.47% | -9.34% | |
| +25.16% | +49.12% | +42.42% | 14.48% | -9.40% | |
| +25.39% | +49.97% | +43.72% | 14.50% | -9.35% | |
| +25.38% | +50.22% | +43.99% | 14.51% | -9.38% | |
| +26.13% | +52.71% | +48.12% | 14.45% | -9.27% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.70pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.14pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBFJF | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group IncMBFJF | 3.34% | $17.96 | $183.43M | 10.2M |
| ADTTF | Advantest CorpADTTF | 3.06% | $186.72 | $167.97M | 899.6K |
| HTHIF | Hitachi LtdHTHIF | 3.05% | $31.80 | $167.66M | 5.3M |
| RYDAF | Shell PLCRYDAF | 2.94% | $45.47 | $161.67M | 3.6M |
| BBVXF | Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SABBVXF | 2.93% | $22.08 | $161.05M | 7.3M |
| BCDRF | Banco Santander SABCDRF | 2.64% | $12.20 | $144.82M | 11.9M |
| EADSF | Airbus SEEADSF | 2.59% | $206.16 | $142.13M | 689.4K |
| SMAWF | Siemens AGSMAWF | 2.58% | $297.16 | $141.52M | 476.2K |
| MIELF | Mitsubishi Electric CorpMIELF | 2.42% | $40.13 | $132.98M | 3.3M |
| RHHVF | Roche Holding AGRHHVF | 2.41% | $407.50 | $132.63M | 325.5K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 27.95% of net assets, top 25 57.52%, across 72 issuers.
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