Financial planner Arthur Stein says that many feds don’t understand that their TSP retirement nest egg is not really an investment.
What do you think you would have done had your crystal ball been working a year ago? Better yet, what will you do the next time?
In today's Federal Newscast, the Thrift Savings Plan crosses the $700-billion threshold for the first time ever.
In today's Federal Newscast: Thousands of participants, embracing the CARES Act, have taken money out of their TSPs. Furloughs at USCIS have been canceled or, perhaps, just postponed. And Chad Wolf might finally get a permanent job, after serving as acting DHS secretary since November.
“The perils of timing the market," financial adviser Arthur Stein said. “ It’s just extremely hard to do.”
How you can mitigate the sequence of returns risk from minimum required distributions
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.”
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.
It feels instinctual to want to sell securities now, but it's an instinct you should ignore.
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.
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.
In today's Federal Newscast, Health and Human Services releases 25 ways the agency can improve how it spends taxpayer money.
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.
A growing number of people have moved into the TSP millionaires club. But, should all your retirement nest egg money be in the TSP?
Things are looking good. but the possibility of yet another government shutdown remains, as today's guest columnist Abraham Grungold points out.