Originally Posted by
bmneveu
Do you happen to know the fees on funds that your Roth IRA was invested in? I'd be curious to compare it to the TSP, which has extremely low fees. For example, if your money was in a mutual fund, it could have been charged between 0.2 and 1% a year. Something like that. Meanwhile TSP charges 42 cents per $1,000, so a 0.042% fee. Doesn't sound like much of a difference, but when you compound that over 30 years, it ends up being tens of thousand of dollars and even hundreds of thousands in some cases. Crazy!