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Money, Congress and Your TSP: Watch Out for Your Retirement Money

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:58:37 CST

Our elected representatives are political animals--always looking out for the best interests of their constituents and trying to work the political process to those with whom they are trying to curry favor. When someone says he wants to improve your TSP returns by changing the system, hang on to your wallet. Someone may benefit from the change but it may not be the TSP investors.

TSP Stock Funds Nosedive in June

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:41:54 CST

TSP stock funds across the board went down significantly in June. Here are the results and a perspective that long term investors should keep in mind before deciding to bail out of the market based on the latest TSP returns.

Calculating TSP Returns

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:04:23 CST

What is the best way to display the returns for your TSP funds? Reasonable people can differ and we provide the information in two ways for the convenience of our readers. Unfortunately, in a down market, the results may not look good either way.

S Fund Leads May Returns as Most Thrift Savings Plan Funds Go Up

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:23:51 CST

The stock market continues to go back up and the recent returns from the TSP funds reflect this change of direction. All but one of the TSP funds are up again in May. Check out the returns for your TSP funds with our charts that display the monthly, year-to-date and 12-month returns for each fund.

TSP Trends: Fund Returns Up, Fund Transfers Down, More L Fund Investors

Tue, 20 May 2008 08:22:53 CST

Here are the trends in the TSP universe. The TSP funds have been kind to TSP investors so far in May and the number of investors in the lifecycle funds continues to go up. Active trading in the funds is down.