Prudence, did you make the change cause if you did you caught the market in an up swing. I'd cash out about now or at least do some profit taking. I sure am. I've been spread about like you proposed...
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Prudence, did you make the change cause if you did you caught the market in an up swing. I'd cash out about now or at least do some profit taking. I sure am. I've been spread about like you proposed...
I retired in Oct of 08 as a Fed with a part CSRS and Part FERs retirement check. I did this (switched in 1989)to create a large pile of cash in my TSP fund and when I pushed about everything into G...
Part of my investment has always had a conservative component. Now that is all there is in my TSP except for 10% crazy money in C,S, and I. In the mid 90's I was buying I Bonds and still have a few...
It looks like to me that the G fund will provide only about 3% return this year but with oil likely to spike again close to $100 driving inflation out of sight, are you moving more and more into gold...
thanks for the explanation. So if my math is right, that means a penny every 10.41 days.
Wow. I just retired and my estimates were all based on something like 3.75% annual rate of return in the G...
Hello,
When you say the current loan rate is "4.875%".To what loan rate are you referring?
Pardon my ignorance. I have watched the G rate slide down in the last while and didn't know what it was...
I just retired at 60 because I didn't want to take a hit withdrawing before 59.5 years.
Note also that retiring at 56 you will have to wait till you are 62 for a COLA on your FERS annuity and your...
One of the things we have been so ignorant of as retail investors are the bubbles that other are creating as we go merrily on our way. Who really knew of the Credit-Swap-Default problem with bogus...
Can you tell me what the name of this Forum means. Are you retiring in May 08?
The market still has a lot of flux in it for a while but if we are close to the temporary bottom, as I think we are, I am buying a small portion of the next up tick now. Note that I am close to...
Thanks for this post, with less than5 mo till retirement I have been fortunate to jump into the G in October of 07 and have avoided the slaughter of the past 4 months but haven't figured what to do...
This rate is pretty horrible, and I have to wonder what happens when inflation takes off and the fed raises rates maybe at the end of this year. Personally I was hoping to see the G fund putting on...
So I am wondering if anyone's crystal ball is operating at all. I recall the 70's (stagflation)and in the end of that decade inflation and interest rates were in double digits. I recall getting a...
Predictions are tough but look back at the F fund during the period of 2000-2002, and then again 1990-1993 during recessions and when the Fed was cutting interest rates and the F fund did very well,...
I didn't know that the Gov't was tapping out the G fund as well as the Social Security Fund. Holy #%@^*&^%?^!B!!!X!!@.
I had hoped to put about 50% of my pile of money into the G fund. So my nice...
The French generate 78% of all their electricity from nuclear power and recycle their nuclear fuel and reuse it....though the byproduct of those recycling processes is plutonium which they convert...
I don't know anything about kudzu, but it would have to yield ethanol with more horsepower per gallon than sugar cane to be useful. We'd be importing sugar cane from Brazil but there is a 15% import...
I became eligible to retire last July. So that is why I have been so defensive for so long. That said, being in the G or F fund at this point with the possibility of inflation pounding on our doors...
I have been in a defensive mode since September/October and was 85% G and 15% I which when things got dicey and skitish I was doing a few IFT with the I fund but gave up trying to time the I fund...
Europe and Hong Kong appear to be tanking. Time to capitulate.
Heading for the G on Tuesday
That is not exactly true. The 1/1/07 listing of EAFE had Australia a 5.6%
Europe was 69%; Australasia/Far east 31%
So the question remains, will the global market tank too?
Unless one thinks that this will be a world wide recession, why wouldn't a person keep a percentage in the I fund. It has been down but the rest of the world will keep moving forward. The US will get...
I am not a big conspiracy theorist but when the president signs an EO that allows former presidents and their families to prevent the release of public documents, as Bush League II did, one has to...
Anyone recall the malaise of the 1970's. We had just ended a not very popular war, we had a president just short of impeached, we had an oil embargo, we ended up with a president that was not elected...
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I have a little experience with American Century funds. Generally no load but you have to pick and choose what fund in that family you want to invest with. Some are dogs and some...
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