Nuveen Lifecycle 2025 Fund
TIAA-CREF Funds · 4 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Nuveen Lifecycle 2025 Fund is a target-date 2025 fund.
- Asset class
- Target-date
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Target year
- 2025
- Features
- Fund of funds
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3
The Fund seeks high total return over time through a combination of capital appreciation and income.
The fund is a fund of funds that invests in shares of other Nuveen mutual funds and ETFs to build a diversified portfolio of equities, fixed-income securities, real estate, and inflation-protected assets. The asset allocation shifts gradually from more aggressive to more conservative as the fund's target retirement year of 2025 approaches and continues to become more conservative over approximately 30 years thereafter, eventually reaching a final allocation heavily weighted toward fixed-income and away from equities and real estate. The fund's returns will reflect the performance of its underlying funds across domestic and foreign markets, varying maturities and credit qualities, and direct real estate holdings.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| TCLFX | 0.83% | 0.64% |
| TCYIX | 0.58% | 0.39% |
| TCQPX | 0.73% | 0.54% |
| TCQHX | 0.66% | 0.47% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 12.00% · as of 2025 Q3
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 50.06% |
| Bonds | 34.56% |
| Securitized | 10.24% |
| Loans | 3.72% |
| 3 smaller | 2.82% |
Look-through blends 22 underlying funds; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
New: STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +15.13% | +34.95% | +26.69% | 6.97% | -6.38% | |
| +15.45% | +36.13% | +28.30% | 6.90% | -6.28% | |
| +15.23% | +35.40% | +27.38% | 6.98% | -6.32% | |
| +15.47% | +35.93% | +28.02% | 7.02% | -6.39% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 1.61pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.32pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
May 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBBWX | Nuveen Core Bond FundTBBWX | 11.71% | $9.17 | $383.43M | 41.8M |
| TCBWX | Nuveen Core Plus Bond FundTCBWX | 8.84% | $9.20 | $289.57M | 31.5M |
| TCTWX | Nuveen Short Term Bond FundTCTWX | 6.20% | $10.14 | $202.97M | 20.0M |
| TIIWX | Nuveen Inflation Linked Bond FundTIIWX | 6.18% | $10.97 | $202.51M | 18.5M |
| TIBUX | Nuveen International Bond FundTIBUX | 5.16% | $8.96 | $169.13M | 18.9M |
| TILWX | Nuveen Large Cap Growth FundTILWX | 5.03% | $31.39 | $164.86M | 5.3M |
| NSBFX | Nuveen Dividend Growth FundNSBFX | 4.80% | $62.78 | $157.15M | 2.5M |
| TRLWX | Nuveen Large Cap Value FundTRLWX | 4.77% | $26.33 | $156.35M | 5.9M |
| — | Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF | 4.76% | $43.85 | $156.03M | 3.6M |
| TIOVX | Nuveen International Opportunities FundTIOVX | 4.74% | $17.90 | $155.15M | 8.7M |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 62.19% of net assets, top 25 99.88%, across 24 issuers.
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