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Trading can help, hurt your TSP

Fiddling around with your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) account too much could hurt your wallet. Federal News Radio spoke with Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, about problems that could arise.

Tags: Tom Trabucco , Francis Rose , In Depth , pay and benefits , TSP , pay , FRTIB

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Symantec investor pushing for split

An activist investor is reportedly pushing for Symantec to split into a security business AND a data storage business.

Tags: cybersecurity , Federal Drive , Symantec , Wall Street Journal , San Jose Business Journal , investor , McAfee , Veritas , Cybersecurity Update

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Warning: Retirement disaster ahead

The Wall Street Journal reports that a study by Research Affiliates found that returns on stocks and bonds fall short of what big pension funds are expecting.

Tags: Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , Wall Street Journal , pay and benefits , bonds , Research Affiliates , retirement

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What conflict of interest? How power blinds us to our flaws

The Wall Street Journals reports on Congressional staffers' trades begs the question: Why do people in power risk losing so much for a little more gain?

Tags: Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , Wall Street Journal , Congress , trading , conflict of interest , transparency

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Congressional staffers gain from trading in stocks

Tags: Congress , insider trading , Wall Street Journal , Stephen Bainbridge , Alan Ziobrowski , transparency , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider

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