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Thanks Tom. All is well here. I haven't been to the site in ages. Looks great and many many more members. Keep up the good work. Goo luck with the allocation you went with today.

I agree with prevois posters. G fund will close at 11.40 on Monday up 1 cent.

AB

This is the last fund I want 2 invest in when Mr. B is still raising rates. You are not getting a good risk reward situation here IMHO.

AB

Hi Tom...took a little break from all of this but I am back. Glad to see the site has grown and you are still doing your thing. I see you have some "competition" with the TSP Pilot plan coming on...

bklyngal, you have a very nice TSP balance:^. Some things you may want to consider when trying to come up with a TSP asset allocation. They include...how much risk am I comfortable taking on a day to...

Tom,

I'm not sure how it happened but the convo is getting interesting so let's keep it rolling.

wheels -

1. Look at the time period of 1966-1990, a 25 year period. One month CD's returned...

wheels - what type of data mining are you using? You show me a time period when international stocks didn't add to your portfolio precentage gain and I will show you a time period when they did. It...

wheels - you may have put it to bed, but me and several of my friends (Bogle, Bernstein, Swedroe, Fama and French, Ferri and Smith and Wesson) have proven that international diversification makes...

Seems like this would be a great strategy in a stable or decreasing interest rate environment. But we have beat that to death in another series of posts.

Anyways, you may want to do some research...

eukrate - nice post. I submit we agree to disagree (just like I told my ex-wife).

AB:cool:

Wheels - where has that poster been? I haven't seen a post in awhile. zbwmy -what's the skinny? AB:cool:

zbwmy - past returnsmay not be indicative of future returns. Remember what happened in Japan...spread your risk around, you will most likely have a higher percentage return with less volatility....

If anyone would be interested I could pull a couple of titles from my bookshelf about asset allocation and post some good ones here. If interested let me know...AB:cool:

eukrate - I disagree with you on several points. I guess it really depends on why you would want to hold any allocation in the F fund.

1. Just because in the past the F fund has been a good...

zbwmy - welcome aboard. Use the I fund as a diversifier away from the C and S. You da man. Let's keep it real. AB:cool:

flannelpants,

I will humbly disagree with eukrate. Interest rates are at 50 year lows and will increase sometime in the future. Will that be next month or next year? No one knows. Therefore why...

The current TSP funds are inadequate. Now I just received word that the TSP Board is seriously considering adding a Lifecycle series of funds to the mix incorporating the current five exisiting...

zbwmy - a couple of points...

1. I like your catch phrase...but mine is better

2. my allocations are top notch in my book...take that Mr. 20% in the S fund.

3. I swear Tom's username was...

Hey Tom,

Why is your username colored green and everyone else is black. Can we change our colors? BTW, Keep up the great work...awesome site. AB :cool:

Tom, I love the term geopolitical. Heard it on the news alot lately and also here. Keep up the great work. AB. :cool:

zbwmy - your cystal ball must be busted. I will give you an "atta boy" just for being able to spell that dude's name. Did you do that all by yourself or did you have help (Wheels maybe?)...come on...

zbwmy - thanks for asking for the sage. You spent the day watching the "talking heads". You better not mean CNBC. Instead of that, do something useful. Like diversifing into the I fund (even 5% would...

NB,

Holy cow, where do I start with this one...

Some of the many questions you should be asking yourself to make this all important decision:

1. Am I an active trader or and I the buy and...

Wheels - point taken. :cool:

raecarr - the cutoff time for same day transfers is noon eastern time. The $ is tranferred after the close and you will see the change in allocatioin in your account the next morning. Make sense?...