Stock Market Spooking TSP Investors
Stocks are down again in September as TSP investors head for the safety of the G and F funds.
Stocks are down again in September as TSP investors head for the safety of the G and F funds.
The TSP stock fund returns are now final for August and, for those who follow the market closely, it is not a big surprise that the underlying TSP stock funds are down for the fourth month in a row.
Federal employees often work in obscure locations providing a service that many Americans do not think of as being part of the federal government. Here is one example.
The stock market has been experiencing wild gyrations in the past few weeks as the political tension has been increasing over America’s debt and how to pay it. The tension and turmoil is reflected in the actions taken by TSP investors.
Which agencies rank best and worst for innovation? Here are the results of a recent survey.
FERS is now the retirement plan for most federal employees. It is now 25 years old and the plan significantly changed the federal retirement system. Here are the changes it wrought and how the plan looks after having been in operation since 1987.
The TSP stock funds fall for the third month in a row but still ahead for the year.
It is unusual for a political rally to be organized and carried out with the sole purpose of expressing frustration with one federal agency, but a group of citizens in Florida held a rally this week to protest the TSA’s policies.
TSP investors are putting their money where they see safety in a time of political and economic turmoil: the TSP’s G fund.
With federal employees in the eye of a political storm, recommendations to increase the cost of federal benefits may be closer to reality. Here are some of the proposals any current or retired federal employee should read.