Risk Tolerance and Retirement Planning
The author points out that when planning for retirement, you must factor risk into potential returns in order to gain a full understanding when planning your investment portfolio.
Federal employee retirement news: news about retirement-related topics as it pertains to employees of the federal government. Topics include FERS, CSRS, the latest TSP performance, annual COLA updates, and more.
The author points out that when planning for retirement, you must factor risk into potential returns in order to gain a full understanding when planning your investment portfolio.
OPM plans to segregate “healthy” retirement cases from those that need more information to speed up retirement processing.
According to recent data from the EBRI’s annual Retirement Confidence Survey, many workers do not have the confidence that they will have enough money to retire. When you consider the average savings rate being reported, it’s easy to see why.
FedSmith.com recently polled our users to see how long it took recent retirees to receive their full annuity payments. Here are the results.
The author says that the debate over funding Social Security is focused on the wrong problem and that the real problem is that the government has spent all of the trust fund holdings, starving the program of all its surplus monies.
A financial planner said one of his new clients was a federal employee. It became clear he was not familiar with important benefits his client had as a federal employee.
OPM has released its latest monthly report showing the status of how the agency is progressing with processing retirement applications.
How useful is a TSP calculator? One writer says it may be “dangerous.” This writer disagrees and says they may be useful for planning purposes.
Are you thinking about leaving federal service before you are eligible for an immediate FERS retirement? You need to know the difference between a postponed and deferred retirement.
How much of an increase will federal retirees get in their retirement annuity in January 2013? Probably not much.