Investments and Debt Ceiling

[Anonymous]

Novice investor here. Is it prudent to guard one’s retirement investments against the possibility of a debt ceiling downturn? I have only a TSP retirement account and it’s mostly in a far-enough future lifecycle account that it’s basically a stock index fund. If the debt ceiling isn’t resolved, this may drop significantly in value. Or could I reallocate it to G fund (potentially losing some gains) now and wait to see how things turn out, and once the issue is resolved, reallocate back to lifecycle?

[Anonymous]

It will be resolved. Don’t try to time the market especially with retirement funds you won’t be using for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be resolved. Don’t try to time the market especially with retirement funds you won’t be using for decades.

OP. This feels less like timing the market since the date is well known. Except it just moved from June 1 to June 5. And it's not about trying to switch between a downturn and an upswing, it's about trying not to be in the equities market for a only brief period when there's a lot more negative risk than positive expectation.

[Anonymous]

the debt ceiling is not a serious long-term market event. Markets are at near all-time-highs and the debt ceiling has been a thing a handful of times in the past

[Anonymous]

Let it be. It will get resolved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be resolved. Don’t try to time the market especially with retirement funds you won’t be using for decades.

OP. This feels less like timing the market since the date is well known. Except it just moved from June 1 to June 5. And it's not about trying to switch between a downturn and an upswing, it's about trying not to be in the equities market for a only brief period when there's a lot more negative risk than positive expectation.

trying to not be in when there is short term negative risk....then getting back in when there isn't that risk.. is trying to time the markets