LeatherneckPA
Recycles dryer sheets
I hope this is the right area, still pretty new to this board.
Nope, HS is not off-topic for ER. What I'm talking about is learning to take responsibility for investing my own 401k when I leave the Feds. I really don't want to leave it invested in their TSP. After all, they've done such a "marvelous" job managing the SS system.
So I'm looking for some BASIC online enducation. Like, for instance, the difference between no-load, front-load, end-load; or managed, life-cycle, and a whole slew of other terms thrown around here and Kiplinger's and Motley Fool with wild abandon as if they were terms embedded in the genetic memory of all and we just need to dig deep enough to find the meaning.
Up to this point I've been LUCKY! I got a good government job and kept it. I maxxed out my TSP savings and contributions. But in 20 months I have to find something else to do with that money. I would prefer to have SOME clue what the heck I am doing and why.
I've always been good at reading and retention. My family has always said, "If Mike can read it, he can do it." So I'm looking for recommended sites with good introductory level info, preferably not from self-serving, commissioned individual who wants me to invest in his kid's college education or his Maui beach house.
Nope, HS is not off-topic for ER. What I'm talking about is learning to take responsibility for investing my own 401k when I leave the Feds. I really don't want to leave it invested in their TSP. After all, they've done such a "marvelous" job managing the SS system.
So I'm looking for some BASIC online enducation. Like, for instance, the difference between no-load, front-load, end-load; or managed, life-cycle, and a whole slew of other terms thrown around here and Kiplinger's and Motley Fool with wild abandon as if they were terms embedded in the genetic memory of all and we just need to dig deep enough to find the meaning.
Up to this point I've been LUCKY! I got a good government job and kept it. I maxxed out my TSP savings and contributions. But in 20 months I have to find something else to do with that money. I would prefer to have SOME clue what the heck I am doing and why.
I've always been good at reading and retention. My family has always said, "If Mike can read it, he can do it." So I'm looking for recommended sites with good introductory level info, preferably not from self-serving, commissioned individual who wants me to invest in his kid's college education or his Maui beach house.