Word: fee
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...Abby L. Fee ’05, president of Students for Choice, opened the debate arguing that it is not a question of when life begins but of limits on government intervention...
...their services. Fund managers need to eat too. But many investors don't fully grasp what they're paying for and why. In a poll by MONEY magazine and the Vanguard fund group, only a quarter of those in the survey realized that the "expense ratio" is an annual fee deducted from a fund's earnings--and that it lowers shareholders' returns...
...invest through a broker instead of directly through the fund company, you probably pay a load. To buy Class A shares, you often pay as much as 5% of your money up front before the fund company buys any stocks for you. Class B shares skip the up-front fee, but add an extra average fee of 1% annually and hit you with hefty fines if you cash out early, which proves more costly in the long run. "The whole idea of B shares," says Max Rottersman, founder of FundExpenses.com which tracks mutual-fund fees and costs...
...proposing tuition fees, Europe is taking a page from the American textbook on how to fund universities. In the U.S., students have a range of options, from state schools that charge only about $3,000 per semester to high-profile universities like Stanford, Yale and Harvard, where a year can cost over $30,000. But many schools offer financial assistance, study grants or work-study programs, and most students end up taking out low-interest loans to pay part of the cost. England already has the highest public-university tuition costs in Europe - €1,600 per year...
...services that we give at what they’re actually costing us. I like to say that the students pay for it either way, it’s just a question of whether they pay for it through their term bill or they pay for it through the fee for the service...