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SOCIAL POINTS Investing in socially responsible funds can make you feel good about getting richer--but the trade-off can be a fairly stiff fee. This spring two new socially responsible index funds will debut with lower-than-average management fees. The Vanguard Calvert Social Index Fund will have a .25% expense ratio, and TIAA-CREF's Social Choice Equity's fee will fall in the same range as those of its other funds, between...
...sure a few people showed interest, but it did not seem to me that there was stiff competition," Ransom says. "I was recruited by the professor to be head...
...Lindner, whose company has dominated the global trade in bananas for a century, was in 1993 frustrated because European countries limited imports of his bananas. He complained to the U.S. government, which complained to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which authorized the U.S. government to retaliate by imposing a stiff tariff--in effect, a tax--on select European goods shipped to this country...
...beats working for Goldman--if you don't like stiff suits and you're up for months of exotica on a shoestring budget...
...this is Capitol Hill, and nothing is ever as simple as "too many people are using the present laws to stiff MasterCard - let's be fair and do something about it." Instead, the final bill was chock-full of politically charged amendments, the most notable of which were a Democrat-sponsored $1 minimum wage hike over three years and a provision to prevent abortion clinic protesters from hiding behind bankruptcy filings after losing civil suits. An attempt by the Democrats to strip gun manufacturers of bankruptcy protection failed...