The TIAA Institute hosted a Fellows Symposium on Retirement Benefits for a 21st Century Workforce. This unique event brought together academic researchers, TIAA business leaders and other financial security experts to discuss innovative research on retirement plan design and lifetime income. Studies presented include:

• Retirement Account Asset Allocations and Portfolio Holdings: A Cross Sectional Analysis with Traditional and Lifecycle Funds
  Robert McDonald, Thomas Rietz, David Richardson and Tai Kam
• Retiree Health Insurance and the Retirement Plans of College and University Faculty
  Robert Clark
• Determinants and Consequences of the Aging of the US Scientific Workforce
  David Blau, John Ham and Bruce Weinberg
• The Performance of TIAA’s Traditional Retirement Annuity for Selected Investment Cohorts, 1970 – 2005 Through 2013
  David Babbel, Mark Myer and Miguel Herce
• Trends in Distribution Choices of TIAA-CREF Participants: 2002-2014
  Jeffrey Brown, James Poterba and David Richardson
• Understanding the Distribution Choices of TIAA-CREF Participants
  Paul Yakoboski