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Your TSP: Roll it or Leave It?
When you retire, you will be faced with many choices as to what to do with your Thrift Savings Plan investments. If a financial advisor is suggesting that you roll your money into an IRA, ask why. Is it because the IRA is really a better investment, or is it that he/she will earn a fee from the transaction?

Posted: August 12, 2010 6:20 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

TSP Funds Up Across the Board in July: How Do Your Investments Compare to the Rest of the Federal Workforce?
After two months of declining stock prices, the underlying Thrift Savings Plan stock funds had a good month. How are CSRS and FERS employees investing their TSP funds? There are differences and you can compare your diversification to the rest of the federal workforce. Here are the July and year-to-date results.

Posted: August 4, 2010 8:48 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Asset Allocation and Your TSP
What does it mean to "time" the stock market? It depends on your definition. In its simplest form Asset Allocation is diversification. The author says that diversification and trending may help some people improve their investment return in the TSP.

Posted: July 28, 2010 9:49 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Automatic TSP Enrollment Begins
The automatic enrollment provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan begin with the first full pay period in August. Here is how this new provision will work.

Posted: July 27, 2010 7:17 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Unlocking A Winning Combination For Your Thrift Savings Plan
A split income strategy is built by diversifying your assets over time. Since you do not need access to your entire TSP account balance immediately upon retirement, the account balance is divided into segments based on when you plan to use them (i.e., immediately, 5 years, 10 years, or 15 years down the road). This provides the opportunity to take advantage of higher returns over time.

Posted: July 26, 2010 6:46 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Managing Your TSP: A Simple, Effective Strategy
Each time the market takes a dive, many TSP participants transfer money to the G fund. Then, after the market has made the majority of the recovery, those same participants head back into the C, S, and I funds again. Dollar-Cost Averaging may help with your future retirement.

Posted: July 16, 2010 7:31 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Stocks Drop in June and for the Year
The stock market is off to its worst start since the first half of 2002 as all of the stock funds in the Thrift Savings Plan dropped in June.

Posted: July 2, 2010 8:22 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Timing the Market With Your TSP? We Wish You Luck
Investors in the Thrift Savings Plan often move money into or out of the G fund and the TSP stock funds depending on how the market has been reacting. Here is what happened in the past two months.

Posted: June 28, 2010 7:56 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 8/2010 YTD*
G $13.3906 $12.9878 +0.22% +2.06%
F $14.3865 $13.1612 +1.28% +7.89%
C $14.5120 $11.7142 -4.51% -4.62%
S $19.5443 $14.4507 -5.59% +0.21%
I $19.3309 $15.5546 -3.14% -7.80%
L 2040 $16.8517 $14.2390 -3.33% -2.43%
L 2030 $16.5252 $14.2206 -2.88% -1.80%
L 2020 $16.1967 $14.2698 -2.29% -1.10%
L 2010 $15.6566 $14.6684 -0.62% +1.18%
L Income $14.2544 $13.4523 -0.63% +1.26%
* YTD returns as compiled by the TSP each month

Stock Fund Prices

S&P 500 (C Fund) 1086.03 +5.74 +0.53%
Wilshire 4500 (S Fund) 540.44 +4.21 +0.79%
iShares MSCI EAFE (I Fund) 51.73 +0.01 +0.02%
iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond (F Fund) 108.20 -0.21 -0.19%

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