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Why I finally took my business from Vanguard to Charles Schwab

It’s a slippery slope when a customer-oriented operation like Vanguard Group has been since it was founded almost 50 years ago begins to get greedy by imposing a whole bunch of changes and chintzy fees on its customers. What’s more, getting greedy can not only damage the firm’s reputation but can also cost it money. That’s what will happen in …

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Are your phone apps collecting data on how you brake or speed?

Data about drivers’ habits are being downloaded from certain smartphone apps — sometimes without the driver’s knowledge or consent — and forwarded to auto insurers as a device to set rates. According to a recent report in The New York Times — which in March reported that data agency LexisNexis sold similar data from internet-connected cars to General Motors — …

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