Thread: TSP Highlights - No Mention of Limits

Originally Posted by tsptalk

The January / February Issue of TSP Highlights is out and there is no mention of transfer limts.

http://www.tsp.gov/forms/highlights/high08a.pdf

Yep - interesting, isn't it? I said a while back that their April target date for implementing the 2-IFT per month limit was overly optimistic.....particularly after the screwed up the first Fed. Register Notice. I'm betting that they realize now that they will have to go back and re-do that Notice, which sets the whole timeline back a couple months, if not longer. Keep up the faith, folks, this is a long, long ways from being a done deal.

FACTOID:


10 largest mutual funds as of March 2006:

Fund Assets
American Funds Growth Fund of America A (AGTHX) $136.75 billion
Vanguard 500 Index (VFINX) $109.42 billion
Pimco Total Return A (PTTAX) $92.23 billion
American Funds Invest Co of Amer A (AIVSX) $81.14 billion
American Funds Euro Pacific Grade A (AEPGX) $77.89 billion
American Funds Washington Mutual A (AWSHX) $77.83 billion
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Index (VTSMX) $68.95 billion
American Funds Income Fund of Amer A (AMECX) $64.29 billion
Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX) $63.83 billion
American Funds Capital Inc Builder A (CAIBX) $61.73 billion

Notes: As of 3/31/2006. Excludes money-market funds. Source: Morningstar.



COMPARE:


Assets in the TSP (as of October 2007):

G fund: $76.7 billion
F fund: $10.6 billion
C fund: $ 77.4 billion
S fund: $ 17 billion
I fund: $ 25.3 billion
L Income: $1.2 billion
L2010: $5.6 billion
L2020: $8.7 billion
L2030: $4.9 billion
L2040: $ 3.4 billion



IF TSP were a mutal fund (which it is not), it would contain two of the largest amounts in the world. Combined, TSP tops all except one fund family- American.

Combined, TSP tops all except one fund family- American.

Hmmm... I think you need to rethink your math. VFINX is only *one* fund in the Vanguard family. Vanguard manages more than 1 *trillion* dollars in assets across many different mutual funds. By the figures you list, the total dollar amount invested in the TSP is around $231 billion, a fraction of the total that American, Vanguard, or Fidelity manage overall. The plan's size is closer to the scale of T. Rowe Price, by comparison.