Thrift Savings Plan Figures Monthly Returns for the L Funds

December 3, 2011

Numbers in ( ) are negative percents

Time Period	L 2040	L 2030	L 2020	L 2010	L Income

Last 12 months	(1.02)	(0.40)	0.30	n/a	2.03

2011	%	%	%	%	%
November	(0.62)	(0.49)	0.34)	n/a	0.02
October	8.83	7.68	6.18	n/a	2.31
September	(6.85)	(5.92)	(4.73)	n/a	(1.51)
August	(5.37)	(4.63)	(3.69)	n/a	(1.10)
July	(1.49)	(1.25)	(0.94)	n/a	(0.14)
June	(1.30)	(1.10)	(0.84)	n/a	(0.18)
May	(1.15)	(0.97)	(0.74)	n/a	(0.05)
April	3.20	2.83	2.37	n/a	1.01
March	(0.08)	(0.03)	(0.03)	n/a	0.17
February	2.95	2.60	2.15	n/a	0.90
January	1.75	1.57	1.35	n/a	0.63
2010	%	%	%	%	%
December	5.67	4.96	4.08	n/a	1.49
November	(0.64)	(0.56)	(0.49)	n/a	(0.05)
October	3.16	2.78	2.29	0.92	0.92
September	7.76	6.77	5.54	2.00	2.00
August	(3.33)	(2.88)	(2.29)	(.62)	(.63)
July	6.60	5.80	4.82	1.81	1.81
June	(3.47)	(2.98)	(2.34)	(0.68)	(0.61)
May	(6.97)	(6.07)	(4.98)	(1.64)	(1.50)
April	1.05	0.94	0.76	0.51	0.50
March	5.15	4.52	3.75	1.61	1.43
February	2.18	1.94	1.61	0.81	0.74
January	(2.88)	(2.49)	(2.03)	(0.58)	(0.45)
2009	%	%	%	%	%
December	2.12	1.85	1.50	0.70	0.59
November	3.98	3.55	3.00	1.47	1.27
October	(2.15)	(1.81)	(1.39)	(.38)	(.26)
September	3.56	3.14	2.63	1.32	1.08
August	3.41	3.02	2.57	1.30	1.07
July	7.01	6.16	5.16	2.44	1.94
June	.09	.12	.14	.24	.26
May	6.19	5.45	4.66	2.28	1.70
April	9.38	8.20	6.79	3.20	2.37
March	7.08	6.30	5.35	2.82	2.06
February	(8.52)	(7.47)	(6.22)	(2.95)	(1.98)
January	(7.67)	(6.69)	(5.58)	(2.61)	(1.74)
2008	%	%	%	%	%
December	3.63	3.24	2.82	1.66	1.21
November	(5.85)	(4.96)	(3.91)	(1.58)	(0.84)
October	(15.40)	(13.40)	(11.1)	(5.41)	(3.44)
September	(8.24)	(7.24)	(6.01)	(3.00)	(1.75)
August	.11	.17	.16	.29	.35
July	(1.31)	(1.07)	(.82)	(.23)	0.00
June	(6.70)	(5.88)	<4.97)	(2.65)	(1.47)
May	1.65	1.48	1.23	.78	.59
April	4.26	3.74	3.23	1.93	1.20
March	(0.29)	(0.18)	(0.06)	0.07	(0.23)
Feb.	(1.80)	(1.51)	(1.25)	(0.59)	(0.22)
Jan.	(5.37)	(4.71)	(3.90)	(2.07)	(.97)
2007	%	%	%	%	%
Dec.	(.82)	(.63)	(.54)	(.13)	(.07)
Nov.	(3.36)	(2.94)	(2.33)	(1.21)	(.44)
Oct.	2.37	2.09	1.84	1.29	0.82
Sept.	3.45	3.09	2.68	1.78	1.13
Aug.	0.90	0.88	0.80	0.73	0.61
July	(2.52)	(2.13)	(1.75)	(0.92)	(0.23)
June	(0.92)	(0.80)	(0.54)	(0.20)	0.08
May	2.79	2.52	2.15	1.53	0.92
April	3.28	2.95	2.58	1.76	1.08
March	1.34	1.16	1.08	0.89	0.62
February	(0.64)	(0.49)	(0.38)	(0.14)	.16
January	1.53	1.42	1.22	.89	.63
2006	%	%	%	%	%
December	1.31	1.18	1.17	.90	.63
November	2.32	2.03	1.78	1.34	0.79
October	3.28	2.94	2.51	1.79	1.04
September	1.41	1.33	1.17	1.01	.73
August	2.22	1.96	1.81	1.39	.90
July	.13	.20	.35	.37	.49
June	.26	.27	.28	.37	.33
May	(2.87)	(2.45)	(2.06)	(1.31)	(0.33)
April	1.75	1.62	1.47	1.18	.74
March	1.98	1.71	1.56	1.19	.67
February	(0.07)	0.00	0.07	0.15	0.25
January	3.84	3.40	2.92	2.22	1.10

2005	%	%	%	%	%
December	1.32	1.22	1.11	0.93	0.59
November	3.08	2.80	2.42	1.89	1.03
October	(1.90)	(1.67)	(1.34)	(.93)	(.17)
September	1.35	1.17	1.06	.94	.52
August *	.07	.07	.15	.16	.17

* Returns for August are from inception on August 1, 2005.

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