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...report's recommendations calls for the University to "stop paying the MIT fee" for Harvard students to participate in the program...
...Nutri/System. Heavy debt forced the diet center to close its headquarters and 283 company-owned weight-loss clinics. As Nutri/System struggled to find a buyer, its competitors ran ads to lure the company's customers. Jenny Craig offered to sign up abandoned calorie counters at "no additional service fee," while stressing that it is "a debt-free, $500 million company." Weight Watchers told Nutri/System customers, "Don't worry." At week's end Heico Acquisitions of Chicago tentatively agreed to manage the firm while seeking to buy it. The deal must be approved by a bankruptcy judge...
...amateur. We're pros. Why should you worry your little head trying to manage your investments? For just 3% a year, we'll take care of < that for you! And we won't nickel-and-dime you on commissions: we'll wrap all commissions into that one 3% annual fee...
...share of the return you might expect from bonds. (Some brokers even apply the 3% charge to money held out on the side lines in money- market funds.) Worse still, all the income from a wrap account is taxable, but in most cases only a portion of the wrap fee will be deductible. So you could actually lose money, after taxes, by breaking even...
...problem with throwing money into stock-market mutual funds -- everybody's doing it -- is just that: everybody's doing it. Maybe buying into the market at an all-time high will become the new way to get rich. But something tells me that even without the 3% wrap fee, people who've never invested in the market before shouldn't start now, at least not in any big way. But if you do start now, remember two things: 1) you can get professional management and diversification through mutual funds; 2) buy no-load funds, the ones that charge no sales...