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Each time there is an economic bump in the road, and this one is more like a sink hole, some people panic. Which is where the super-safe, never-has-a-bad-day G fund comes in.
Despite tremendous interest (and some dread) over the coming investment expansion for six million federal Thrift Savings Plan investors, fewer than 30 took the opportunity to make formal comments, suggestions or to criticize the proposed changes.
FRTIB will update its platform interface, add new services and introduce a mobile app, requiring a pause in investment changes for TSP participants.
Performance among the Thrift Savings Plan's stock funds was mostly down last month and the Lifecycle funds dropped, too, following slight gains in February.
Thanks to the it-had-to-happen-sometime downturn in the stock market, the number of Thrift Savings Plan millionaires dropped to 100,364 in March.
Many investors know the conventional thing to do, when times are good. But when things go south, which they do regularly, the fight-or-flight instinct kicks in. Times like now.
By later this year, TSP investors could have as many as 5,000 new investment options. So what next?
House lawmakers passed the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, which will raise the age for starting required minimum distributions from TSP accounts.
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Sometime this summer, the number of investment choices in the federal Thrift Savings Plan will jump to include roughly 5,000 mutual funds.
The age requirement for starting TSP retirement distribution would increase under the Securing a Strong Retirement Act
Financial planner Arthur Stein, who has a large number of federal-retiree clients, says there is another option for them — or anyone else — who may want to invest some of their emergency funds or excess cash in a super-safe option.