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There are substantial problems with automatic enrollment. In most plans companies choose a low-yielding money-market fund as the default investment and 2% or 3% of pay as the default contribution rate. If you're not paying attention--and that fairly describes anyone who must be forced into a 401(k) plan--you might assume that the company fathers have made wise decisions for you. They haven...
WHAT COLLAPSE? The Russian economy might not seem the safest bet--and it isn't. But for those with strong stomachs and extra cash, emerging-market debt funds brought a return on their rubles. Despite the '94 Mexican crisis, '97 Asian collapse, '98 Russian default and '99 Brazilian crash, these funds have returned more than 9.5% annually since 1994. Not great, but as emerging economies stabilize, their prospects for better-than-average returns improve...
Google doesn't need them. In the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby (the online version of the Oscar) for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages, and got tapped by industry giant Yahoo to become its default search engine (the one you're sent to automatically if Yahoo can't come up with the goods...
...federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back...
Many graduates, moving often in the first years of their post-college life, simply forget to update their addresses with Harvard, and so bills go unanswered and uncollected. This is called a "technical default...