TIAA-CREF Offers New TIPS Mutual Fund to the Public
A subpage of
The U.S. Real Term Structure
by J. Huston McCulloch
Department of Economics, Ohio State University
TIAA-CREF has announced
the opening of a new
Inflation-Linked Bond Mutual Fund , which unlike
CREF's Inflation-Linked Bond Variable Annuity Account (see separate subpage), is
open to the general public rather than just to TIAA-CREF members.
The new fund has an annual expense ratio of 0.30 percentage points, which is
significantly lower than the 0.39% charged by the Variable Annuity Account,
and almost as low as Vanguard's 0.22% (see below).
As of 3/31/03 it had grown to only $36.2 million in assets, as compared with some
$2.6 billion in the CREF Variable Annuity Account, and $3.6 billion in the
Vanguard fund.