Performance Characteristics of the TSP Investment Funds

When we set out to create the TSP Folio strategy, we first analyzed the individual TSP investment funds:

Asset Class	TSP Fund	Description
U.S. Stocks	C Fund	Common Stock Index Investment Fund
	S Fund	Small Cap Stock Index Investment Fund
International Stocks	I Fund	International Stock Index Investment Fund
U.S. Bonds	G Fund	Government Securities Investment Fund
	F Fund	Fixed Income Index Investment Fund

For each fund, we analyzed its performance history. First, we'll look at the TSP Common Stock Index Investment Fund (C Fund):

The C Fund is an index fund that invests in the stocks of the largest 500 publicly traded U.S. companies: the S&P 500 Index. It became available for investment in 1988. We extended the available TSP fund price history with...