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.
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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.
Widespread use of privately owned vehicle commitments would mean a dramatic reduction in motor pools and a net savings for the taxpayer.
An Administrative Law Judge with SSA lost his job after being removed for using government computers to store photos of a personal nature.
A Postal Service supervisor found his 15-year career abruptly ended when the agency caught him “padding” his time and attendance records.
How have the administration and BP performed in handling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? What are the political implications for the November elections? Readers voiced their strong opinions on the topic in last week’s survey. Here are the results.
Here are a few examples of how, with almost no effort on your part, you can make many situations easier for your colleagues–and earn a reputation as a diligent and thoughtful professional.
Where will you live when you retire and can choose anyplace you want to go? One federal employee couple opted for a different lifestyle spending their summers in a small town in Maine–away from the hustle and crowds in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
How does a federal supervisor know when to approve a leave request from an employee when the request is based on the needs of a “family member?” If the answer used to be easy, knowing who is a qualified family member has gotten more difficult.
What will happen to the TSP’s lifecycle fund labeled the “L2010 Fund” as 2010 comes to an end? It will roll down into the L Income Fund in December 2010, and the L 2050 Fund will begin in January 2011.
Investing for your future retirement can be daunting. Congress is taking an interest in the performance of target date funds which are similar to the TSP’s lifecycle funds. Here is why and how your TSP compares to the rest of the industry.