Well it's official. The G Fund is now the biggest amongst the five core TSP funds. That’s not a small feat as the C Fund – the next biggest fund – has more than $200 billion invested in it.

TSP G Fund has delivered a reliable stream of positive gains year in and year out. This pattern held in 2022, when TSP G Fund gained 3.0% even as rising interest rates caused TSP F Fund to lose 12.8%.

That performance affirmed their status as a safe investment, in real terms, but it paled next to G Fund’s gains. Intermediate-term Treasuries posted higher returns yet, but with much greater ...

Across 2024, the G Fund gained 4.40%. The small- and mid-size businesses of the S Fund saw the worst performance, falling 7.05% in December. Still, the S Fund finished 2024 up 16.93% from a year ago.

She said the change would drop the fund’s monthly rate of return to 0.01 percent, which “would make the G Fund virtually worthless for TSP investors, as account growth would not keep pace with ...

There's been plenty of news headlines indicating that hedge fund performance has weakened over the last 10 to 15 years, but now a new study takes those headlines beyond anecdote.