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...value from $25 to $500 and can be personalized with pictures of puppies or wedding rings or embossed with messages like Feliz Navidad or Just Because, can be used at any of MasterCard's 32.8 million merchant locations as well as online and for catalog orders. With no up-front fees and nearly universal acceptance, it sounds like the ultimate gift certificate, right? But there is a catch. Like other bank-issued gift cards, Charter One's latest product expires six months from the time of purchase. After that, the company starts charging a $10-a-month expired-card...
...wrote, "Coupling is the Milli Vanilli of network television: the sitcom equivalent of lip-synching someone else's song." Yet BBC America is capitalizing. Thanks to the notoriety of Coupling, and hits like The Office, Lee says, BBCA "more than doubled" its revenues from last year in the latest up-front market for ad sales for the season. It's also getting higher-quality advertisers than the direct-to-consumer firms that have typically hawked their wares during its shows...
...that constantly feeds them information online. They estimate that they have 20,000 contacts, with the number expanding 500 to 1,000 a month. "It was all grown organically," says Gordon proudly, as if she were surveying a vast hemp farm. "We spent a great deal of money and up-front time handpicking these people based on peer-to-peer recruitment. It's a very different methodology from the way that most people gather bodies. We kind of modeled it after an MLM [multilevel marketing plan]--like an Herbalife or a Mary Kay or an Avon." The Look-Look kids...
Most mutual-fund companies that sell through brokers give clients a discount on up-front commissions once they invest $25,000. But because of complex rules and carelessness, brokers often fail to award breakpoint discounts to their customers. The National Association of Securities Dealers is cracking down, telling brokerages to send out refunds possibly worth tens of millions of dollars. Although your broker should determine if you qualify, it doesn't hurt to ask or to read your fund prospectus and statement of additional information, both of which list breakpoint rules. All money invested with one fund firm--say, American...
...long-term investor, the up-front A shares are cheapest. Wake Forest economist Edward O'Neal has proved that over a period of more than seven years, no other load structure can outperform A shares. And if you invest $25,000 or more, most load funds will give you a discount on the up-front sales charge--making A shares the best choice even in the short run. Those discounts, which are not available on B or C shares, are called breakpoints...