June 5, 2025

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Funds

Beware High-Fee, Low-Return Funds – Rediff.com Get Ahead

‘Switch out of an active fund if there is consistent underperformance.’ Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff   The expense ratios of several equity mutual funds have increased between September 2024 and March 2025, according to media reports. Investors should avoid knee-jerk reactions and respond to changes after proper thought. Why are fees increasing Total expense ratio (TER)

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Loans

What’s in House Republicans’ Risk-Sharing Plan?

Under a new accountability measure recently proposed as part of a larger House budget bill, colleges would have to pay millions of dollars each year to reimburse the government for their students’ unpaid loans. The plan builds on an idea—known as risk-sharing—that lawmakers and policy analysts have been toying with since at least 2015. As

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Finance

Is Germany’s powerful finance minister in over his head? – POLITICO

“When somebody concentrates all power into their hands, then of course that person will be held responsible for their mistakes,” said one SPD politician, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party matters. In the past, Klingbeil could always blame the party’s failures on others — including Olaf Scholz’s unpopularity — said the parliamentarian.

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Finance

From Big Tech to Wall Street, Here’s What Brought Me Back to Banking

As Wall Street has poured money into technology budgets and become major players in patents and research, it’s also become a destination for technologists to work — rivaling even Silicon Valley. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Melissa Goldman, a partner and tech leader at Goldman Sachs. She started her career 30

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Finance

Want to Land a Career in Finance? Our Interactive Guide Shows You How.

A career in finance offers many benefits: It tends to pay well, is prestigious, and can lead to a jet-setting lifestyle. Breaking in, however, can require years of toil, planning, and determination. Say you want to be an investment banker who advises tech giants on corporate acquisitions: You will probably want to start applying for

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Loans

Student Loan Overhaul Clears House Committee

Over strong objections from Democrats, House Republicans on the Education and the Workforce Committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would make dramatic changes to the federal student aid system. The sweeping 103-page bill, known as the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, passed on a party-line vote after more than five hours of debate. The legislation

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Loans

Debt Collection on Defaulted Student Loans to Restart in May

Borrowers in default could see their tax refunds or other federal benefits withheld once collections resume. J. David Ake/Getty Images The Education Department will resume collecting on defaulted student loans early next month, restarting a system that’s been on hold since spring 2020, the agency announced Monday. Starting May 5, the department will withhold tax refunds

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Loans

Small Business Administration to Take Over Student Loans

A day after White House officials said the Education Department would administer the student loan program, President Donald Trump announced that the Small Business Administration would be taking over the $1.7 trillion portfolio. He told White House reporters that the move would happen “immediately,” though he didn’t say how that process would work. Currently, federal law

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