Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund
TIAA-CREF Funds · 6 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 33% of TISEX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 93% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- 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 smaller domestic companies.
The fund uses proprietary quantitative models to select small-cap stocks from the Russell 2000 Index universe, scoring securities on valuation, earnings prospects, price trends, and other factors to build a portfolio expected to outperform the benchmark while managing relative risk. Because the fund's returns depend on the quality of its stock-picking models and market conditions may affect securities in ways those models do not anticipate, performance relative to the index is not assured.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| TISEX | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| TCSEX | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| TRSEX | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| TSRPX | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| TSCHX | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| TSCWX | 0.40% | 0.00% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 76.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 98.94% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.81% |
| Derivatives | 1.01% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Industrials | 19.9% |
| Financials | 15.1% |
| Health Care | 15.0% |
| Information Technology | 14.9% |
| 9 smaller | 35.1% |
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).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +45.64% | +79.42% | +59.76% | 14.53% | -16.99% | |
| +45.27% | +77.77% | +57.46% | 14.53% | -17.10% | |
| +45.35% | +78.16% | +57.88% | 14.52% | -17.08% | |
| +45.43% | +78.55% | +58.58% | 14.54% | -17.03% | |
| +45.64% | +79.15% | +59.33% | 14.53% | -16.98% | |
| +46.36% | +81.73% | +63.15% | 14.57% | -16.88% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.69pp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE | Bloom Energy CorpBE | 2.90% | $283.36 | $112.87M | 398.3K |
| SANM | Sanmina CorpSANM | 1.20% | $217.82 | $46.63M | 214.1K |
| NXT | NEXTracker IncNXT | 1.16% | $119.13 | $45.22M | 379.6K |
| TTMI | TTM Technologies IncTTMI | 1.09% | $158.22 | $42.63M | 269.4K |
| — | CME E-mini Russell 2000 Index Futures | 1.01% | — | $39.31M | — |
| FN | FabrinetFN | 0.99% | $683.47 | $38.70M | 56.6K |
| STRL | Sterling Infrastructure IncSTRL | 0.98% | $515.62 | $38.10M | 73.9K |
| RMBS | Rambus IncRMBS | 0.88% | $115.11 | $34.33M | 298.2K |
| FORM | FormFactor IncFORM | 0.82% | $135.93 | $32.08M | 236.0K |
| — | STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY | 0.81% | — | $31.48M | — |
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 11.85% of net assets, top 25 21.40%, across 385 issuers.
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