investing
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Are you a fed who needs more realistic investing guidance? Look at your own Thrift Savings Plan account and those or your 5,690,000 fellow account holders.
August 20, 2019 -
The current bull market is more than a decade old and is long overdue for a major correction. Financial planner Arthur Stein has plenty of federal clients and offered his thoughts.
July 17, 2019 -
Many of the nation’s smartest rank-and-file retirement investors may not be on Wall Street but rather in the cubicle next to yours, in your carpool or even in the mirror.
June 17, 2019 -
Tony Surak, chief marketing officer and partner at DataTribe, discusses the swings and pitfalls of successfully growing a small business, and why revenue isn't the most important thing to shoot for early on.
June 14, 2019 -
Almost everybody knows the buy-low-sell-high "rule" of investing. But many people don’t follow it.
June 12, 2019 -
Despite a decade of mostly good-to-excellent returns in the stock-indexed C, S and I funds, most of the money feds have invested in their in-house 401(k) plan is in the fund which typically had the lowest returns.
June 11, 2019 -
Despite the TSP's money-saving low administrative fees many retirees want more investment options and also more freedom to get at their money.
June 04, 2019 -
Between March 2018 and March 2019 the self-made millionaires club of the Thrift Savings Plan added 9,540 new members.
May 30, 2019 -
May 13, 2019, was the day we learned, after a 10-year bull market, that the stock market had a paper loss for the day of approximately $800 billion.
May 16, 2019 -
Despite the red hot stock market and longest-ever bull market in history, federal workers have just over 40% of their money in treasury securities.
May 02, 2019 -
Explanations vary as to why the bull market continues. Many who predicted the market would tank, from Trump or Brexit, have yet to be proven correct.
April 26, 2019 -
Whether it's down to strong job growth or low inflation, financial planner Art Stein says Thrift Savings Plan investors should like first quarter 2019 results.
April 10, 2019 -
The treasury securities G Fund continues to be the favorite of feds investing for retirement, while the Trump administration wants to lower its payout.
March 28, 2019 -
Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic and a nationally syndicated financial columnist, said that when it comes to investing, his motto is "Dare to be dull," as in boring.
March 19, 2019 -
A decade ago today, the US stock market was hitting rock bottom. The Great Recession, which had been in effect for almost two years, showed no signs of getting better — ever.
March 08, 2019