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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><generator>NFE/1.0</generator><title>"tiaa-cref" - Google News</title><link>http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;hl=en&amp;q=%22tiaa-cref%22</link><language>en</language><webMaster>news-feedback@google.com</webMaster><copyright>&amp;copy;2012 Google</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:16:44 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:16:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>"tiaa-cref" - Google News</title><url>http://www.gstatic.com/news/img/logo/en_us/news.gif</url><link>http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;hl=en&amp;q=%22tiaa-cref%22</link></image><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/google/tiaa-cref" /><feedburner:info uri="google/tiaa-cref" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><title>Treasurer Nappier Announces 2012 CHET Dream Big! Competition Winners - MarketWatch (press release)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/Ddl0LPif3b8/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/treasurer-nappier-announces-2012-chet-dream-big-competition-winners-2012-05-31</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 12:31:38 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGYoi4GsoI7SA6vf5sxzbYJJbw25w&amp;amp;url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/treasurer-nappier-announces-2012-chet-dream-big-competition-winners-2012-05-31"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Treasurer Nappier Announces 2012 CHET Dream Big! Competition Winners&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;MarketWatch (press release)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;A panel of judges, including volunteers from the State Treasurer&amp;#39;s Office, &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Tuition Financing, Inc. and local professionals, selected the competition winners. The CHET Dream Big! Competition ran from January 30 through March 30, 2012.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dGJXQt-4rPyQZrM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/Ddl0LPif3b8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYoi4GsoI7SA6vf5sxzbYJJbw25w&amp;url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/treasurer-nappier-announces-2012-chet-dream-big-competition-winners-2012-05-31</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>TIAA-CREF Raises $2 Billion for Agriculture Investments - Wall Street Journal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/MhyYIBUpNj4/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577404453866115604.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:01:19 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEP1CvLynfRPqRdKySbFCCXI-ORag&amp;amp;url=http://www.benefitscanada.com/investments/alternative-investments/institutional-investors-team-up-on-agriculture-28812"&gt;&lt;img src="//nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/H1nHS43-srbn2M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Benefits Canada&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEQV0lljAmmI7FlDi_Cg29tYpCF8g&amp;amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577404453866115604.html?mod%3Dgooglenews_wsj"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Raises $2 Billion for Agriculture Investments&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;By AMY OR NEW YORK—&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; has finished reaping funds for its agricultural investment company, raising $2 billion, including commitments from pension funds of Sweden and Canada&amp;#39;s British Columbia and Quebec. &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Global Agriculture LLC, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHuB1ccssEML3J4yGQ7nU-0DhT0RQ&amp;amp;url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/14/agriculture-investing-idUSL1E8GEDAA20120514"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; forms global farmland investing company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEQngdAACEn_qnXX2NGjYzayEMG6w&amp;amp;url=http://www.pionline.com/article/20120514/DAILYREG/120519953/tiaacref-institutional-investors-in-2-billion-farmland-venture"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt;, institutional investors in $2 billion farmland venture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Pensions &amp; Investments&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHWfrgkQP3J2116N0AZDq5pnGtCsg&amp;amp;url=http://www.ai-cio.com/channel/ASSET_ALLOCATION/Seeking_Diversification,_Inflation_Hedge,_TIAA-CREF_Expands_Into_Agriculture.html"&gt;Seeking Diversification, Inflation Hedge, &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Expands Into Agriculture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;aiCIO&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF4qeBBcoAdFft0P630cEoZrOYi-w&amp;amp;url=http://www.mfwire.com/article.asp?template%3Darticle%26storyID%3D40016%26wire%3DMFWire%26wireID%3D2"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;MutualFundWire.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dSZXpGydpoaMmxMMtKhd4XPsDWm3M"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 24 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/MhyYIBUpNj4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQV0lljAmmI7FlDi_Cg29tYpCF8g&amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577404453866115604.html?mod%3Dgooglenews_wsj</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>Before the crash: Ambling through the 'archives' - Reuters Blogs (blog)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/6CQXhGu7CO8/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2012/05/31/before-the-crash-ambling-through-the-archives/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:02:45 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGCGJGEXY8MsFEdr3KWYtnCD6TZRQ&amp;amp;url=http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2012/05/31/before-the-crash-ambling-through-the-archives/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Before the crash: Ambling through the &amp;#39;archives&amp;#39;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Reuters Blogs (blog)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;So herewith are excerpts from two side-by-side columns published in the Summer 2005 edition of &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&amp;#39;s&lt;/b&gt; “advance,” two years before the financial crisis sent the global economy into its worst downturn since the Great Depression.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dkIxr8gh8MALDgM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/6CQXhGu7CO8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNGCGJGEXY8MsFEdr3KWYtnCD6TZRQ&amp;url=http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2012/05/31/before-the-crash-ambling-through-the-archives/</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>TIAA-CREF raises $2bn for farmland - Financial Times</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/3mruWYB8F-o/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdaa1e84-9ddd-11e1-9456-00144feabdc0.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:49:31 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEo2vYsy5PDuyxkdFhdKbusuZ4Kww&amp;amp;url=http://www.ipe.com/news/commitments-to-ap2-agriculture-venture-boosts-assets-to-2bn_45489.php"&gt;&lt;img src="//nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/2e38aakZ6yVnOM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;IPE.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFQW_Jm4A543PzynKBSemgKmP-fig&amp;amp;url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdaa1e84-9ddd-11e1-9456-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; raises $2bn for farmland&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Financial Times&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;By Dan McCrum in New York &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt;, which manages $487bn of assets for university professors and non-profit workers in the US, has raised $2bn from fellow institutional investors to invest in global farmland as it aims to develop a new agricultural &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGEj1bdRg7GQ3gnqZVkx03QpNfPPg&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/morning-edition/2012/05/tiaa-cref-invests-in-2-billion.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; invests in $2 billion farmland venture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Charlotte Business Journal (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEo2vYsy5PDuyxkdFhdKbusuZ4Kww&amp;amp;url=http://www.ipe.com/news/commitments-to-ap2-agriculture-venture-boosts-assets-to-2bn_45489.php"&gt;Commitments to AP2 agriculture venture boosts assets to $2bn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;IPE.com (registration)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dq2WQ_3uF16-XMM40BjPdmm-e-gtM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 4 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/3mruWYB8F-o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQW_Jm4A543PzynKBSemgKmP-fig&amp;url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdaa1e84-9ddd-11e1-9456-00144feabdc0.html</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>Oregon College Savings Plan earns top ratings from Savingforcollege.com - OregonLive.com</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/PHb8x5MOo2M/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.oregonlive.com/finance/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_college_savings_plan_ea.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 14:06:08 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHP9RSCTevRQEhX-wZdnABF5dQILQ&amp;amp;url=http://www.oregonlive.com/finance/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_college_savings_plan_ea.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oregon College Savings Plan earns top ratings from Savingforcollege.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;OregonLive.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Oregon&amp;#39;s direct-sold plan and its manager, &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt;, have reduced plan fees and improved investment offerings as its assets have grown -- improvements reflected in the new ratings, Hurley said. But ratings had suffered somewhat because of its limited &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dSSNfBo8hW97CWM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/PHb8x5MOo2M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNHP9RSCTevRQEhX-wZdnABF5dQILQ&amp;url=http://www.oregonlive.com/finance/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_college_savings_plan_ea.html</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>Apartment Upturn Lifts Post Properties - Wall Street Journal</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/pjeNBnuT5EQ/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303395604577434142480426900.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 23:59:58 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEvRsnd04CaiXj05una6L-Zv2Nc4Q&amp;amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303395604577434142480426900.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Apartment Upturn Lifts Post Properties&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&amp;quot;We expect they&amp;#39;re going to have their properties out of the ground faster and be able to capitalize on this upswing,&amp;quot; said Brendan Lee, a portfolio manager with &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&amp;#39;s&lt;/b&gt; Real Estate Securities Fund. According to FactSet, &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; owned more than &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=drDrt0zxDNjpLEM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/pjeNBnuT5EQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvRsnd04CaiXj05una6L-Zv2Nc4Q&amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303395604577434142480426900.html</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>Farmland is Focus of New Partnership - Farm Futures</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/hqSBGiT19CU/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx/farmland-focus-new-partnership-17/59941</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFNd0vD2mPFIz4oGlmFyOZ4Ks9ueQ&amp;amp;url=http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx/farmland-focus-new-partnership-17/59941"&gt;&lt;img src="//nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/rywOrEBW64cK0M/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Farm Futures&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFNd0vD2mPFIz4oGlmFyOZ4Ks9ueQ&amp;amp;url=http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx/farmland-focus-new-partnership-17/59941"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Farmland is Focus of New Partnership&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Farm Futures&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt;, more commonly associated with teacher pension investments, has announced the creation of &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Global Agriculture LLC. The announcement - which came early last week - creates a new company that includes several international &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdHFyeczGCDJnn2j6UtdU125Hynw&amp;amp;url=http://seekingalpha.com/article/610461-wheat-price-skyrockets-and-wheat-farmland-investments-stand-to-benefit"&gt;Wheat Price Skyrockets And Wheat Farmland Investments Stand To Benefit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Seeking Alpha&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHNsaBxFrz0ZqXPbIXGTqAZO-RHYw&amp;amp;url=http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/blogarticle/3034187/Blog/Did-TIAA-CREF-Just-Launch-The-Future-of-Institutional-Investment.html"&gt;Did &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; Just Launch The Future of Institutional Investment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-1" color="#6f6f6f"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Institutional Investor (subscription) (blog)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=d5hBo1aQex97thMT37fTPyVqlzGeM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;all 3 news articles&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/hqSBGiT19CU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNFNd0vD2mPFIz4oGlmFyOZ4Ks9ueQ&amp;url=http://farmfutures.com/story.aspx/farmland-focus-new-partnership-17/59941</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>20-Story Office Building Fetches $55M - GlobeSt.com</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/S58Mh4IO1rM/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.globest.com/news/12_362/seattle/office/20-Story-Office-Building-Fetches-55M-322001.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:35:22 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGBk3cTaTt9W7I5KcIe2GIauoxDJA&amp;amp;url=http://www.globest.com/news/12_362/seattle/office/20-Story-Office-Building-Fetches-55M-322001.html"&gt;&lt;img src="//nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/ycEYhgJVIwjwmM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;GlobeSt.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGBk3cTaTt9W7I5KcIe2GIauoxDJA&amp;amp;url=http://www.globest.com/news/12_362/seattle/office/20-Story-Office-Building-Fetches-55M-322001.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;20-Story Office Building Fetches $55M&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;GlobeSt.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;As GlobeSt.com previously reported, in September 2011 the firm was appointed management and leasing roles for the Westlake Center Office Tower, located in the heart of downtown. The 25-story high rise building had recently been purchased by &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dKFEZvysjocK7jM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/S58Mh4IO1rM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNGBk3cTaTt9W7I5KcIe2GIauoxDJA&amp;url=http://www.globest.com/news/12_362/seattle/office/20-Story-Office-Building-Fetches-55M-322001.html</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>Data reveal ups, downs of alternatives world - Pensions &amp; Investments</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/eU-4-GdNI3Q/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.pionline.com/article/20120528/PRINTSUB/305289996/data-reveal-ups-downs-of-alternatives-world</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 16:07:43 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHSNdC5LDwxbFdcWhpj_K9Oxa1_OA&amp;amp;url=http://www.pionline.com/article/20120528/PRINTSUB/305289996/data-reveal-ups-downs-of-alternatives-world"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Data reveal ups, downs of alternatives world&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Pensions &amp; Investments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Third-ranked &lt;b&gt;TIAA-CREF&lt;/b&gt; had an increase of 31%, to $19.16 billion. “The increase in our real estate assets was two-fold — growth in assets and appreciation of the underlying assets we own as well as new capital commitments from new investors, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1" class="p"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font class="p" size="-1"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=dMR3jbiXWI3rUXM"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;&lt;b&gt;and more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~4/eU-4-GdNI3Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSNdC5LDwxbFdcWhpj_K9Oxa1_OA&amp;url=http://www.pionline.com/article/20120528/PRINTSUB/305289996/data-reveal-ups-downs-of-alternatives-world</feedburner:origLink></item> <item><title>PrimeAg lands $37m farm sale - Farm Weekly</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/google/tiaa-cref/~3/CvWa32qSS8M/url</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/property/general/primeag-lands-37m-farm-sale/2572292.aspx</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:26:12 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" class="j"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHCLWQonCkrGN42LrxFG2MAvoEwUw&amp;amp;url=http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/property/general/primeag-lands-37m-farm-sale/2572292.aspx"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PrimeAg lands $37m farm sale&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#6f6f6f"&gt;Farm Weekly&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;As revealed on the Financial Review website yesterday, &lt;b&gt;TIAA CREF&lt;/b&gt; 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