Thrift Savings Plan
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“The perils of timing the market," financial adviser Arthur Stein said. “ It’s just extremely hard to do.”
April 22, 2020 -
How you can mitigate the sequence of returns risk from minimum required distributions
March 27, 2020 -
If federal workers and retirees found themselves sleepwalking through the last 11 years of Wall Street’s bull market, retirement benefits specialist Tammy Flanagan, says the pandemic-driven stock-market volatility has been “a wake-up call.”
March 25, 2020 -
If you had $105,000 in your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) on Valentine’s Day 2020, by St. Patrick’s Day it had dropped some $20,000, to about $85,000.
March 18, 2020 -
It feels instinctual to want to sell securities now, but it's an instinct you should ignore.
March 06, 2020 -
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has launched a social science program over the past year, with the goal of sending messages and reminders to targeted groups of participants to prompt them to contribute and save more with the TSP.
February 04, 2020 -
Many people decided to ride out the Great Recession so they could miss the downside and return to the TSP's C, S and I stock funds when things got better. Eleven years later, some still haven’t returned.
January 13, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Health and Human Services releases 25 ways the agency can improve how it spends taxpayer money.
July 23, 2019 -
A lot of people are now wondering if it's a good time to get out of government and do something else. Jeff Neal reminds feds that an ill-informed move could land you somewhere that is worse than where you are now.
July 10, 2019 -
A growing number of people have moved into the TSP millionaires club. But, should all your retirement nest egg money be in the TSP?
July 10, 2019 -
Things are looking good. but the possibility of yet another government shutdown remains, as today's guest columnist Abraham Grungold points out.
July 09, 2019 -
Thrift Savings Plan participants will soon have access to additional lifecycle funds that will more closely align to their specific retirement dates.
June 26, 2019 -
Most TSP investors know the stock market is long overdue for a major correction. The question is when will that happen, how long will it last, and what if anything you should be doing about it?
June 07, 2019 -
When it comes to saving and investing for retirement, federal and military personnel are way ahead of their private sector counterparts.
June 03, 2019 -
New withdrawal options and a strategy to help participants with catch-up contributions are among the new features coming to the Thrift Savings Plan within the next year so.
May 30, 2019