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...freshman proctors? According to the Freshman Dean's Offices (FDO) handout, the freshman proctor provides guidance for first-year students in all aspects of their exploration of Harvard and Radcliffe. Furthermore, the mutual confidence, respect and responsibility in the relationship between proctors and their students can do much to teach first-years that members of the Faculty and administration are approachable, and to encourage them to use more fully the advising and counseling resources of the College. How many students learned those things from their proctors...
...VANGUARD GROUP, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; 800-433-5514. The long-standing No. 2 of the mutual-fund business and the leading practitioner of no-load investing, Vanguard is led by iconoclastic John Bogle. It is the Wal-Mart of mutual funds, dedicated to winning customers by driving costs lower and lower. Because of that strategy, Vanguard has grown like, well, Wal-Mart. The annual cost of keeping your money at Vanguard is 31' per $100 invested, vs. an average $1.11 for the industry overall. When it comes to money-market and bond funds, where every penny counts, Vanguard...
MERRILL LYNCH, New York; 800-637-3863. Yes, the big bull sells mutual funds as well as stocks--118 proprietary funds, including closed-end and offshore. Of course, the old caveat applies: you buy from a broker, you pay a broker a commission--or, since it's a fund, a load...
CHARLES SCHWAB, San Francisco; 800-435-4000. While Schwab offers 26 of its own stock, bond and money-market funds, it also sells hundreds and hundreds of other companies' mutual funds through its ONESource Service, which offers no-load funds with no transaction fees. Schwab's Mutual Fund Marketplace sells load and no-load funds with transaction fees. Look for Schwab to become an increasingly potent force in the mutual-fund business...
...Templeton, Dreyfus and broker Smith Barney. Always check out a fund's long-term record before you buy. Ask friends about their experiences with specific funds. Pay closer attention to those who have stuck with a fund for at least a few years. The biggest mistakes people make in mutual-fund investing? "Focusing on the short term rather than the long term is one," says Vanguard's Bogle, "and not giving adequate thought to an overall balanced investment program as distinct from randomly picking funds is another...