Vanguard Makes College More Affordable
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Turbocharge your savings thanks to lowered fund fees.
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Two decades ago, a young accountant pioneered the now-$17 billion-a-year private student loan industry through a tiny nonprofit company with a noble goal: helping students pay for college.
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Richard Gibbons offers a simple strategy to ensure that your child can go to college.
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Tips on getting your money's worth while on campus.
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iPods and cell phones top the gadget list for penny-pinching students, and few hit campus without a PC.
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A growing number of endowments at the nationâs independent schools have become so big that trustees have hired full-time money managers.
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Costs for elite prep schools are staggering, but parents say they're worth it.
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A third Primecap fund joins Vanguard's lineup.
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Harvard University announced yesterday a series of breaks for middle-income students, increasing financial aid enough to effectively slash costs by as much as 50 percent and eliminating required student loans.
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A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they step into the classroom, a move aimed at saving the uninsured from huge bills and college hospitals from getting stuck with the cost.
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Recent college grads face an important financial decision.
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Endowments might be surging, but don't rely on colleges to give your kid a free ride.
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Q. Vanguard recently started a new fund class, Target Retirement funds. Each fund is pegged at a person's expected year of retirement. The funds automatically balance their holdings among US stocks, foreign stocks, and bonds in a mix appropriate to the retirement year. The expense ratio is 0.2 percent, which compares very well to its other index funds.
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Every parent knows that college costs are painfully high, and yet so many people fail to save anything, even an amount that will get their child through one semester. Instead, they wait until their child is ready to go to college, panic and then turn to loans.
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If you are going to face college expenses, is your portfolio keeping pace with higher-education inflation?
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Leon Harris pays for his education at the University of Alabama on his own. He's drowning in student loans, he's between jobs and his dorm room just got more expensive.
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College students are getting a raw deal, a recent New York report asserted. The problem is they're taking too many classes from part-time, or adjunct, professors.