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Best TSP Fund for the Long Haul?
What is the best investment strategy in the Thrift Savings Plan for your retirement future? A recent report from the Thrift Investment Board provides useful guidance you can use to shape your financial future.

Posted: July 22, 2008 8:10 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

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

Posted: July 11, 2008 8:58 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

TSP Stock Funds Nosedive in June
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.

Posted: July 2, 2008 7:41 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Calculating TSP Returns
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.

Posted: June 26, 2008 8:04 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

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

Posted: June 3, 2008 8:23 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

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

Posted: May 20, 2008 8:22 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

TSP Funds Turn Up in April
A few billion dollars were moved out of the TSP stock funds during the first quarter of this year. If you are a contrary investor, that may be a signal that stocks are headed up. And, for April at least, that is the case as all of the TSP funds are up for the month--with one exception.

Posted: May 2, 2008 8:18 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Federal Register Notice on TSP Restrictions
This is the Federal Register notice finalizing the proposed restrictions on TSP trades.

Posted: April 24, 2008 8:36 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

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About the TSP Corner

Preparing for your retirement involves a number of personal decisions you have to make about your investments to ensure you will have enough money to retire when you are ready. The federal Thrift Savings Plan is a crucial part of your future retirement income. FedSmith.com is providing its readers with a variety of daily, monthly and annual TSP rate information to help you make more informed investment decisions.

Fund Data Snapshot

  52 Week    
  High Low 6/2008 YTD*
G $12.5412 $12.0300 +0.32% +1.79%
F $12.2400 $11.3000 -0.08% +1.26%
C $17.5700 $13.8650 -8.41% -11.90%
S $21.2900 $17.0500 -7.63% -7.68%
I $26.3100 $20.6684 -8.15% -10.78%
L 2040 $19.0300 $15.9584 -6.70% -8.39%
L 2030 $18.0500 $15.5288 -5.88% -7.18%
L 2020 $17.1400 $15.1738 -4.97% -5.83%
L 2010 $15.6700 $14.8200 -2.65% -2.59%
L Income $13.6100 $13.1000 -1.47% -0.67%
* YTD returns as compiled by the TSP each month

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