Since the late 1980s, federal retirement has consisted of three basic components. Feds who qualify for full retirement can expect their pension, known as their annuity or Basic Benefit, calculated by ...

After a mixed showing to start 2024, nearly all of the portfolios in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program posted positive returns last month. In February, only the Thrift ...

Lifecycle Funds were introduced into the Thrift Savings Plan last year as a way to encourage participants to diversify their holdings and look to the long haul. But the experience of the past five ...

Following two months of growth, the vast majority of the portfolios in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program finished April in the red. The Thrift Savings Plan’s G Fund, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As part of the TSP Modernization Act of 2017, the federal government's Thrift Savings Plan ...

The US federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan ended April 2024 with $872 billion in assets serving more than 7 million participants—or one in every 25 workers in the United States. Our series of ...

The number of active duty and reserve component members enrolled in the federal Thrift Savings Plan will hit a half million this month. Recent improvements could encourage many more to join, say plan ...

The $895 billion of retirement assets in the nation’s largest defined contribution plan is off limits to private market investments—for now. Private market investments may soon take a greater stake in ...

With almost $900 billion and more than 7 million participants, the US Federal Government’s Thrift Savings Plan is the largest retirement plan in the world. This series of articles answers some of the ...

From Social Security, 401(k) and 403(b) plans to traditional or Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs), there’s no shortage of retirement plans available today that can help diversify your ...

Barclays Global Investors, one of the world's largest money managers, has been selected for the fifth time to manage the four primary stock and bond index funds at the Thrift Savings Plan, the ...