Tag: thrift savings plan

Art of a thumbs up and heart

People born smack in the middle of the baby boom wave, including many of this blog’s readers, are now in their mid-60s and have retired – or, at least, they were planning to retire before the stock market crashed. Some of your favorite articles in the first quarter, based on the blog’s traffic, were about…

Art of Dice that spell out the word

It’s smart to invest retirement savings in mutual funds that charge very low fees for one simple reason: the worker keeps more of his money and hands over less to Wall Street. But in a study of people in their 50s and 60s who have retired or otherwise left federal employment, the people with t…