Yet seasoned investors know that stock market declines are inevitable. Only two questions come to mind when a decline begins: How deep will it be? How long will it last?
March has been a game-changer for billions of people. The pandemic has produced a variety of mid-life crises for just about every thinking person.
The Thrift Savings Plan is scheduled to implement a series of new lifecycle funds later this summer, if the coronavirus pandemic doesn't derail the scheduled rollout.
How you can mitigate the sequence of returns risk from minimum required distributions
The president has signed the $2 trillion stimulus and emergency supplemental appropriations package into law. It will have implications for federal employees and their agencies, retirees and contractors.
In the real world the real heroes, i.e. the people who will literally save our bacon right now, are mostly unknown, faceless bureaucrats.
The virus-driven stock market crash has hammered the TSP accounts of hundreds of thousands of feds, many of whom had planned to retire this year.
Over the past 11 years just about everybody and his brother has predicted that the record-long bull market couldn’t last forever.
Participants in the Thrift Savings Plan are reacting to the coronavirus and recent stock market volatility with more withdrawals and more transfers from the C, S, I and L funds to the G fund, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board said.
The one sure thing about stock market predictions, whether and when it will boom or bust, is that eventually you will be right.
Managed to finish two horror novels last Thursday. The bad news is they were both true, as near as we can tell.
While there are still probably lots of self-made civil servant millionaires, the ranks of those who invested or saved their way into the 7-figure 401k club have definitely been thinned by the stock market's reaction to the coronavirus problem.
It feels instinctual to want to sell securities now, but it's an instinct you should ignore.
For a few reminders on the basics, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with ProFeds founder Chris Kowalik.
Well, it finally happened. After 10-plus years, the longest bull market in history, the stock market had an historic correction.