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Loads can be particularly baffling. If you 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...
Washington may require fund companies to disclose fees and expenses to investors more clearly. But investors can take action on their own by carefully reading a fund's prospectus before they invest or by checking out the expenses through research services like Morningstar.com The simplest solution, however, is to avoid commissions altogether by choosing from the 5,500 or so no-load funds of such firms as Vanguard, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price. No-load funds levy no sales commissions and charge only modest 12b-1 fees. But no-load funds have costs too, so look for those that impose...
...realize that after the invasion, we would need to restore order and create a sense of legitimacy. The problem is that we couldn’t turn to the very allies that we did not consult on the path to war. And the U.N. was unwilling to invest in Iraq’s future without having a greater say in that future...
England's cash-strapped universities strongly support the measure, arguing that the extra money will allow them to invest in infrastructure and attract more well-qualified professors. "It has become very difficult to recruit top academics, especially in fields with a lot of private-sector competition, like law and IT," says Ivor Crewe, of the representative body Universities U.K. But Tim Yeo, the opposition Conservative Party's spokesman for education, says the debts students accrue "will become so large that they will deter some students from attending university." Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats want to use taxes...
...Huntingdon had been forced to close, says Cass, Britain would have lost vital pharmaceutical, biochemical and agrochemical research work - "and who's going to invest in the U.K. if a few demonstrators can drive a company out of business?" Once the government understood that, says Cass, it was "tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing...