Well, the results are in from the GubMints household experiment with Rooftop Solar. You might recall my original Rooftop Solar Post series discussing the plusses and minuses of Rooftop Solar.
Category Archives: Investing
TSP to add Fidelity, Schwab Mutual Fund Choices?
While congress was hemming and hawing this past week about forcing TSP Investors to defer salary in to ‘Age Appropriate’ TSP Lifecycle funds (in lieu of the G Fund) as their automatic investment, a piece of key TSP news slipped past the radar of the Beltway Bloggers…
Recently the TSP publicized a study sanctioned by its Board of Directors to investigate the feasibility of a ‘Mutual Fund Window’ option within the TSP. This would let participants buy and sell 3rd party mutual funds in a ‘Mutual Fund Supermarket’ from agencies such as Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, etc.
Why? Roughly one third of TSP participants- Yours truly included- Have become a ‘very vocal minority’ and are clamoring for a few more flavors of TSP ice cream beyond Vanilla.
Who Wants to be a TSP Millionaire?
Recently the TSP announced that of the 4.6 million TSP participants, that there are a whopping 1,600 TSP Millionaires- up from over 500 TSP Millionaires from last year.
How is this possible? The math is not that hard- It’s just continuous compounding.
Say you start out at : Continue reading
The New MyRA Account means Everyone can buy the TSP G Fund
Recently POTUS signed an executive order creating the MyRA Retirement Account.
It acts like a Roth Account, with a maximum value of $15,000, and a maximum income eligibility limit of $191,000 per household.
It makes sense to create another option for individuals saving for retirement. We don’t have enough retirement options for individuals/small business owners right now: Continue reading