485BPOS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2013
File Nos. 333-76651, 811-09301

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	x
Pre-Effective Amendment No.	o
Post-Effective Amendment No. 69	x
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	x
Amendment No. 72	x
(Check appropriate box or boxes)

TIAA-CREF Funds

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

730 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10017-3206

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (800) 842-2733

Stewart P. Greene, Esq.

TIAA-CREF Funds

730 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10017-3206

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Jeffrey S. Puretz, Esq.

Dechert LLP

1900 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:

As soon as practicable after effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

x Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

o On ________________ pursuant to paragraph (b)

o 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

o 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

o On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

o On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485

If appropriate, check the following box:

o This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

Explanatory Note

This post-effective amendment on Form 485BPOS is being submitted for the sole purpose of furnishing, in Exhibit 101, XBRL Interactive Data for the related official 485BPOS filing which was submitted to the Commission on April 12, 2013.

No other changes have been made to the Form 485BPOS. This Form 485BPOS does not reflect events that may have occurred subsequent to the original filing date, and does not modify or update any related disclosures made in the related official Form 485BPOS.

Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, the Interactive Data Files on Exhibit 101 hereto are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.

SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, TIAA-CREF Funds certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of New York, and State of New York on the 26 day of April, 2013.

TIAA-CREF FUNDS
By:	/s/ Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Name:	Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Title:	Principal Executive Officer and President

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.	Principal Executive Officer and President	April 26, 2013
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.	(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Phillip G. Goff	Principal Financial Officer,	April 26, 2013
Phillip G. Goff	Principal Accounting Officer and Treasurer
	(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

SIGNATURE OF TRUSTEE	DATE	SIGNATURE OF TRUSTEE	DATE
*	April 26, 2013	*	April 26, 2013
Forrest Berkley		Thomas J. Kenny
*	April 26, 2013	*	April 26, 2013
Nancy Eckl		Bridget A. Macaskill
*	April 26, 2013	*	April 26, 2013
Michael A. Forrester		James M. Poterba
*	April 26, 2013	*	April 26, 2013
Howell E. Jackson		Maceo K. Sloan
*	April 26, 2013	*	April 26, 2013
Nancy L. Jacobs		Laura T. Starks
	April 26, 2013
/s/ Stewart P. Greene
Stewart P. Greene
as attorney-in-fact

* Signed by Stewart P. Greene pursuant to powers of attorney previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EXHIBIT LIST

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TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund | TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund

TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The Fund seeks a favorable long-term total return, mainly through capital appreciation, primarily from equity securities of foreign issuers.

FEES AND EXPENSES

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund:

SHAREHOLDER FEES (deducted directly from gross amount of transaction)

Shareholder Fees TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund (USD $)	Retail Class	Retirement Class	Premier Class	Institutional Class
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (percentage of offering price)	none	none	none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge	none	none	none	none
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and Other Distributions	none	none	none	none
Redemption or Exchange Fee (on shares held less than 60 days)	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%
Account Maintenance Fee (annual fee on accounts under $2,000)	15.00	none	none	none

ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund		Retail Class	Retirement Class	Premier Class	Institutional Class
Management Fees		0.60%	0.60%	0.60%	0.60%
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees		0.25%	none	0.15%
Other Expenses	[1]	0.29%	0.40%	0.15%	0.15%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.14%	1.00%	0.90%	0.75%
Waivers and Expense Reimbursements	[2]	(0.05%)	(0.05%)	(0.05%)	(0.05%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement		1.09%	0.95%	0.85%	0.70%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses, before expense reimbursements, remain the same. The example assumes that the Fund’s expense reimbursement agreement will remain in place through April 11, 2014, but that there will be no waiver or expense reimbursement agreement in effect thereafter. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example TIAA-CREF International Opportunities Fund (USD $)	Retail Class	Retirement Class	Premier Class	Institutional Class
1 Year	111	97	87	72
3 Years	357	313	282	235

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund has no annual portfolio turnover rate because the Fund is newly operational.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

The Fund primarily invests in equity securities of issuers in developed and emerging markets located around the world but outside the United States. The Fund anticipates investing in a number of foreign markets, but at a minimum it will invest in at least three countries outside the United States. The Fund’s investment manager, Teachers Advisors, Inc. (“Advisors”), selects individual stocks, and lets the Fund’s country and regional asset allocations evolve from this stock selection. The Fund may invest in companies of all sizes.

Advisors typically invests in companies that it believes can demonstrate positive and sustainable structural change. In addition, Advisors looks for companies in the early stages of a structural growth opportunity driven by differentiated products and/or services that maintain strong barriers to entry, continue to outgrow peers and demonstrate accelerating top-line growth with margin expansion. Advisors will typically invest in these types of companies when Advisors believes that their stock prices do not fully reflect the stock’s potential value, based on current earnings, assets and long-term growth prospects.

The Fund is actively-managed; however, Advisors regularly reviews the Fund’s sector and country exposure against the Fund’s benchmark index, the Morgan Stanley Capital International ACWI (All Country World Index) ex-USA Index (the “MSCI ACWI ex-USA^® Index”), to seek to control risk.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

You could lose money over short or long periods by investing in this Fund. An investment in the Fund, due to the nature of the Fund’s portfolio holdings, typically is subject to the following principal investment risks:

· Market Risk—The risk that market prices of portfolio investments held by the Fund may fall rapidly or unpredictably due to a variety of factors, including changing economic, political or market conditions. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or sector of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole.

· Issuer Risk (often called Financial Risk)—The risk that an issuer’s earnings prospects and overall financial position will deteriorate, causing a decline in the value of the issuer’s financial instruments over short or extended periods of time.

· Active Management Risk—The risk that Advisors’ strategy, investment selection or trading execution may cause the Fund to underperform relative to the benchmark index or mutual funds with similar investment objectives.

· Foreign Investment Risk—Foreign markets can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, currency, market or economic developments and can result in greater price volatility and perform differently from financial instruments of U.S. issuers. This risk may be heightened in emerging or developing markets. Foreign investments may also be less liquid and more difficult to value than investments in U.S. issuers.

· Emerging Markets Risk—The risk of foreign investment often increases in countries with emerging markets. For example, these countries may have more unstable governments than developed countries, and their economies may be based on only a few industries. Because their financial markets may be very small, share prices of financial instruments in emerging markets countries may be volatile and difficult to determine. Financial instruments of issuers in these countries may be less liquid than those of issuers in more developed countries. In addition, foreign investors such as the Fund are subject to a variety of special restrictions in many emerging markets countries.

Please see the non-summary portion of the prospectus for more detailed information about the risks described above.

PAST PERFORMANCE

Performance information is not available for the Fund for the most recently-completed calendar year because the Fund is newly operational.

For current performance information of each share class, including performance to the most recent month-end, please visit www.tiaa-cref.org.

[1] Other Expenses (and, accordingly, Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement) are estimates for the current fiscal year because the Fund is newly operational.

[2] Under the Fund's expense reimbursement arrangements, the Fund's investment adviser, Teachers Advisors, Inc., has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund for any Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions or other transactional expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and extraordinary expenses) that exceed: (i) 1.09% of average daily net assets for Retail Class shares; (ii) 0.95% of average daily net assets for Retirement Class shares; (iii) 0.85% of average daily net assets for Premier Class shares; and (iv) 0.70% of average daily net assets for Institutional Class shares of the Fund. These expense reimbursement arrangements will continue through at least April 11, 2014, unless changed with approval of the Board of Trustees.

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PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

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This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses, before expense reimbursements, remain the same. The example assumes that the Fund’s expense reimbursement agreement will remain in place through April 11, 2014, but that there will be no waiver or expense reimbursement agreement in effect thereafter. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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The Fund primarily invests in equity securities of issuers in developed and emerging markets located around the world but outside the United States. The Fund anticipates investing in a number of foreign markets, but at a minimum it will invest in at least three countries outside the United States. The Fund’s investment manager, Teachers Advisors, Inc. (“Advisors”), selects individual stocks, and lets the Fund’s country and regional asset allocations evolve from this stock selection. The Fund may invest in companies of all sizes.

Advisors typically invests in companies that it believes can demonstrate positive and sustainable structural change. In addition, Advisors looks for companies in the early stages of a structural growth opportunity driven by differentiated products and/or services that maintain strong barriers to entry, continue to outgrow peers and demonstrate accelerating top-line growth with margin expansion. Advisors will typically invest in these types of companies when Advisors believes that their stock prices do not fully reflect the stock’s potential value, based on current earnings, assets and long-term growth prospects.

The Fund is actively-managed; however, Advisors regularly reviews the Fund’s sector and country exposure against the Fund’s benchmark index, the Morgan Stanley Capital International ACWI (All Country World Index) ex-USA Index (the “MSCI ACWI ex-USA^® Index”), to seek to control risk.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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You could lose money over short or long periods by investing in this Fund. An investment in the Fund, due to the nature of the Fund’s portfolio holdings, typically is subject to the following principal investment risks:

· Market Risk—The risk that market prices of portfolio investments held by the Fund may fall rapidly or unpredictably due to a variety of factors, including changing economic, political or market conditions. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry or sector of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole.

· Issuer Risk (often called Financial Risk)—The risk that an issuer’s earnings prospects and overall financial position will deteriorate, causing a decline in the value of the issuer’s financial instruments over short or extended periods of time.

· Active Management Risk—The risk that Advisors’ strategy, investment selection or trading execution may cause the Fund to underperform relative to the benchmark index or mutual funds with similar investment objectives.

· Foreign Investment Risk—Foreign markets can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, currency, market or economic developments and can result in greater price volatility and perform differently from financial instruments of U.S. issuers. This risk may be heightened in emerging or developing markets. Foreign investments may also be less liquid and more difficult to value than investments in U.S. issuers.

· Emerging Markets Risk—The risk of foreign investment often increases in countries with emerging markets. For example, these countries may have more unstable governments than developed countries, and their economies may be based on only a few industries. Because their financial markets may be very small, share prices of financial instruments in emerging markets countries may be volatile and difficult to determine. Financial instruments of issuers in these countries may be less liquid than those of issuers in more developed countries. In addition, foreign investors such as the Fund are subject to a variety of special restrictions in many emerging markets countries.

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Please see the non-summary portion of the prospectus for more detailed information about the risks described above.

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You could lose money over short or long periods by investing in this Fund.

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PAST PERFORMANCE

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Performance information is not available for the Fund for the most recently-completed calendar year because the Fund is newly operational.

For current performance information of each share class, including performance to the most recent month-end, please visit www.tiaa-cref.org.

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Institutional Class

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Maximum Deferred Sales Charge

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Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and Other Distributions

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none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Account Maintenance Fee (annual fee on accounts under $2,000)

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none

Management Fees

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0.60%

Other Expenses

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0.15%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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0.75%

Waivers and Expense Reimbursements

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(0.05%)

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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0.70%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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72

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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235

Premier Class

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge

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none

Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and Other Distributions

rr_MaximumSalesChargeOnReinvestedDividendsAndDistributionsOverOther

none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Account Maintenance Fee (annual fee on accounts under $2,000)

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none

Management Fees

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0.60%

Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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0.15%

Other Expenses

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0.15%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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0.90%

Waivers and Expense Reimbursements

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(0.05%)

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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0.85%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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87

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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282

Retail Class

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge

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none

Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and Other Distributions

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none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Account Maintenance Fee (annual fee on accounts under $2,000)

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15.00

Management Fees

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0.60%

Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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0.25%

Other Expenses

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0.29%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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1.14%

Waivers and Expense Reimbursements

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(0.05%)

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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1.09%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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111

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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357

Retirement Class

Risk/Return:

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Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (percentage of offering price)

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none

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge

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none

Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and Other Distributions

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none

Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(2.00%)

Account Maintenance Fee (annual fee on accounts under $2,000)

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none

Management Fees

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0.60%

Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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none

Other Expenses

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0.40%

^[1]

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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1.00%

Waivers and Expense Reimbursements

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(0.05%)

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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0.95%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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97

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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313

[1] Other Expenses (and, accordingly, Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement) are estimates for the current fiscal year because the Fund is newly operational.

[2] Under the Fund's expense reimbursement arrangements, the Fund's investment adviser, Teachers Advisors, Inc., has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund for any Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions or other transactional expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and extraordinary expenses) that exceed: (i) 1.09% of average daily net assets for Retail Class shares; (ii) 0.95% of average daily net assets for Retirement Class shares; (iii) 0.85% of average daily net assets for Premier Class shares; and (iv) 0.70% of average daily net assets for Institutional Class shares of the Fund. These expense reimbursement arrangements will continue through at least April 11, 2014, unless changed with approval of the Board of Trustees.

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Document Creation Date	Apr. 12, 2013
Document Effective Date	Apr. 12, 2013
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