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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesLOANSGetting an F In Finance
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- Any business student knows that bad loans come in waves. The
- largest U.S. guarantor of student loans is learning that lesson
- the hard way. The Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a
- nonprofit group that has guaranteed $9.6 billion in student
- debt, acknowledged last week that a rising tide of defaults is
- threatening to push the agency into insolvency. HEAF's trouble
- was caused primarily by its heavy commitment to trade-school
- students, the group with the highest default rate. More than
- one-third of HEAF's loans were made to students attending
- for-profit institutions that promised careers in fields from
- hairdressing to truck driving.
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- The Education Department reimburses guarantors for most of
- their losses. Ted Sanders, Under Secretary of Education, said
- the government hopes to bail out HEAF without using any
- taxpayer money, but in any case the rescue will cost no more
- than $100 million.
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