Why It’s Hard to Invest Your Retirement Sustainably — and How You Can Overcome the Obstacles

This story was originally published by The Revelator under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. Subscribe to their newsletter. July 29, 2026 – by Caroline Levine By the time Virginia Casper reached her 75th birthday, she’d almost given up trying to move her retirement savings out of fossil fuels. She had been shocked to learn that TIAA …

Do the research: A simple and powerful tool allows you to understand the funds in your retirement account

If you’ve ever looked at your TIAA account statement and felt like you needed a finance degree to make sense of it, you’re not alone — and you’re not wrong. These documents are genuinely complex. But here’s the good news: understanding what’s in your retirement account, and taking steps to align it with your values, …