Single-Fund Investment Options

You may want to consider this investment option if you’re looking to take a more focused approach to investing.

Sometimes, you might want investment options that are highly focused. Perhaps you want to make your choice based on the investment type of a single underlying fund.

Single-fund investment options may offer a range of investment types suitable for a variety of risk profiles. Some investment options include index and actively managed choices. Index funds are designed to track a benchmark index. Active management, by contrast, is managed by a person using research, forecasts, and their own experience to make investment decisions.

Whatever your choice, the Single-Fund Investment Options might be an investment path you wish to explore.

Changing Your Investments

Once you invest in a particular investment option, you can transfer contributions and any earnings to another investment option up to twice per calendar year or upon a transfer of funds to a Minnesota College Savings Plan account for a different beneficiary.

Periodically Review Your Investments

It’s a good idea to periodically re-evaluate your investment strategy as your goals, investment horizon, and personal situation change — for example, annually at tax time, on a yearly basis if your income changes, or upon the birth of another child.


How Single-Fund Investment Options Work

These investment options are each invested solely in shares of a single underlying fund. Since their performance is entirely reliant on the performance of that underlying fund, they may be more volatile than the Enrollment Year Investment Option or the multi-fund investment options. You should be aware that participants do not own shares of the underlying funds directly. Each of the single-fund investment options is described in more detail below.

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Single-Fund Investment Options
Single-Fund Investment Options
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U.S. LARGE CAP EQUITY

(Risk Level — Aggressive)

Investment Objective. This Investment Option seeks to provide a favorable long-term total return, mainly from capital appreciation.

Investment Strategy. This investment Option invests 100% of its assets in an “index fund,” meaning that the mutual fund attempts to track a benchmark index. The mutual fund in which this Investment Option is invested is TIAA-CREF S&P 500 Index Fund.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF S&P 500
Index Fund (TISPX)
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SOCIAL CHOICE EQUITY ALLOCATION

(Risk Level — Aggressive)

Investment Objective. This Investment Portfolio seeks to provide a favorable long-term total return that reflects the investment performance of the overall U.S. stock market while giving special consideration to certain social criteria.

Investment Strategy. This Investment Portfolio invests 100% of its assets in one actively managed mutual fund. The mutual fund in which this Investment Portfolio is invested is TIAA-CREF Social Choice Equity Fund (TISCX), which mainly invests in equity securities of companies (primarily U.S. companies) across all capitalization ranges whose activities are consistent with certain environmental, social, and governance criteria.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF Social
Choice Equity Fund (TISCX)
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MONEY MARKET

(Risk Level — Conservative)

Investment Objective. This Investment Option seeks to provide current income consistent with preservation of capital.

Investment Strategy. This Investment Option invests in a single government money market mutual fund, which mainly invests in cash, U.S. government securities and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully by cash or U.S. government securities. The mutual fund in which this Investment Option is invested is TIAA-CREF Money Market Fund.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF Money
Market Fund (TCIXX)
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Single-Fund Investment Options


Single-Fund Investment Options
INVESTMENT OPTION NAME ALLOCATION INVESTMENT OPTION OBJECTIVE
U.S. LARGE
CAP EQUITY
(Risk Level — Aggressive)

Investment Objective. This Investment Option seeks to provide a favorable long-term total return, mainly from capital appreciation.

Investment Strategy. This investment Option invests 100% of its assets in an “index fund,” meaning that the mutual fund attempts to track a benchmark index. The mutual fund in which this Investment Option is invested is TIAA-CREF S&P 500 Index Fund.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF S&P 500
Index Fund (TISPX)
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SOCIAL CHOICE
EQUITY ALLOCATION
(Risk Level — Aggressive)

Investment Objective. This Investment Portfolio seeks to provide a favorable long-term total return that reflects the investment performance of the overall U.S. stock market while giving special consideration to certain social criteria.

Investment Strategy. This Investment Portfolio invests 100% of its assets in one actively managed mutual fund. The mutual fund in which this Investment Portfolio is invested is TIAA-CREF Social Choice Equity Fund (TISCX), which mainly invests in equity securities of companies (primarily U.S. companies) across all capitalization ranges whose activities are consistent with certain environmental, social, and governance criteria.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF Social
Choice Equity Fund (TISCX)
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MONEY MARKET
(Risk Level — Conservative)

Investment Objective. This Investment Option seeks to provide current income consistent with preservation of capital.

Investment Strategy. This Investment Option invests in a single government money market mutual fund, which mainly invests in cash, U.S. government securities and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully by cash or U.S. government securities. The mutual fund in which this Investment Option is invested is TIAA-CREF Money Market Fund.

 100.00%TIAA-CREF Money
Market Fund (TCIXX)
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The investment portfolios are subject to the risks of the underlying funds including the loss of principal.

Responsible investing incorporates Environmental Social Governance (ESG) factors that may affect exposure to issuers, sectors, industries, limiting the type and number of investment opportunities available, which could result in excluding investments that perform well.

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