WASHINGTON – Pensions & Investments, a publication for pension, portfolio and investment management executives, recently named TIAA and Howard University winners of the 2021 Eddy Awards for campaigns that excelled at providing investment and financial education to retirement plan participants.

“Winning the first place Eddy Award against great competition is the result of hard work to increase our participants contributions to the Howard Savings Plan,” said Associate Vice President of Human Resources Larry A. Callahan. “It is a team award and I want to provide special recognition to Ms. Faleasha Moss, director of Retirement Programs at Howard University and Mr. Terry Lawrence, senior manager, Retirement & Pension at Howard University Hospital, for their outstanding and tireless efforts culminating with this prestigious award. Lastly, thank you as well to the TIAA team under the leadership of Mr. Timothy Rodgers, managing director of Institutional Financial Services, his team’s expertise in conversions and consolidations and their partnership with Howard.”

In the conversions and consolidations category, Howard University won first place for its sole record-keeping transition in which nearly $300 million in assets were transferred to TIAA. The category recognizes campaigns devoted to explaining the move to a new record-keeper and the consolidations of record-keepers by 403(b) plans.

​“Collaborating with our clients to develop creative strategies to support employee financial well-being is why TIAA exists, and it’s what we’ve done for more than 100 years,” said Paul DiCesare, of TIAA’s Workplace Retirement Enrollment and Education team. “It’s great that our clients’ commitment to building participant financial wellness has been recognized in this way.” 

The full list of winners will be published in print and online on March 22.

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